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There Are 15,000 More Gun Stores In America Than Grocery Stores
In case you are worried that guns haven't sufficiently permeated American culture, here are some startling facts compiled by Jack Date, Pierre Thomas and Jason Ryan of ABC News.There are ~14,869 more...
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Tennessee Is Considering A Plan To Secretly Arm Teachers
Tennessee has emerged this week as a center of the “the answer is more guns in schools” sentiment following the Newtown, Conn. elementary school shooting.A member of the Republican-controlled...
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There's A Gaping Loophole In US Gun Laws
President Clinton signed in 1993 a sweeping gun control act named for James Brady, a Reagan official who was seriously wounded by John Hinckley Jr.The law required criminal background checks for people...
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Gun Stocks Are Surging (RGR, SWHC, CAB)
President Obama just announced a panel to study new gun violence prevention measures.The market is not worries — gun stocks are way up.Sturm, Ruger is up 5 percent. Swith & Wesson is up 8...
View ArticlePiers Morgan Calls Pro-Gun Advocate 'Unbelievably Stupid'
On last night's "Piers Morgan Tonight", CNN host Morgan argued angrily with Larry Pratt, the Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, about the role of guns in America following last week's tragic...
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Democrats Used To Like Guns Too [CHART]
This Great Graphic comes from an interesting blog Explore, that is edited by Maria Popova of Brain Pickings. It shows gun ownership by political affiliation.In the previous post, we argued that...
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Here's Who Gets The Most Campaign Money From The NRA
The Sunlight Foundation has identified the members of Congress who have received the most money from the NRA's PAC in the 2012 election. All told, 205 members of the House and 42 members of the Senate...
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Gun Stores Are Selling Out Of The Rifle Used To Kill 27 People In Connecticut
Americans are apparently so eager to get their hands on the type of gun used in Friday's elementary school massacre that stores can't stock them fast enough.ABC News talked to gun store owners in...
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Guns Are Being Sold Out At Lots Of Walmart Stores
Semi-automatic rifles are sold out at many Walmart locations, Matt Townsend at Bloomberg Businessweek reports."Searches of five kinds of semi-automatic rifles on Wal-Mart’s website showed them to be...
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Here's Who The NRA REALLY Represents
In its early days, the National Rifle Association was a grassroots social club that prided itself on independence from corporate influence.While that is still part of the organization's core function,...
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Why Americans Flock To Gun Stores After Mass Shootings
After a shooting Friday that left 20 first-graders dead, Americans flocked to gun stores to buy the exact same semiautomatic weapon used in the massacre.Apparently, big spikes in gun sales are quite...
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CHARTS: See Which States Have The Most Of Gun Crimes
How bad is gun crime in the US? The latest data from the FBI's uniform crime reports provides a fascinating picture of the use of firearms in crimes across America.Barack Obama is under pressure to...
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REPORT: Deaths From Guns To Exceed Deaths By Traffic Accidents In 2015
By 2015 more people will be killed by guns than by traffic accidents, according to a startling chart compiled by Bloomberg Government's Alex Tribou.Motor vehicle deaths have declined 22 percent since...
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America's Weapons-Obsessed Survivalists
Adam Lanza, the killer of 26 people at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, was raised by a woman, Nancy Lanza, who, her sister-in-law told reporters, was obsessed with guns and "prepared for...
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Meet Some Of America's Proud Gun Owners [PHOTOS]
Documentary photographer Kyle Cassidy traveled over 20,000 miles around the country to find out what gun owners look like and why they have chosen to buy guns and keep them in their homes.His riveting...
View ArticleThe NRA Has A Major 'Competitor' That Won Huge Fights Against Gun Control
The National Rifle Association has become synonymous with the pro-gun rights lobby, but it's definitely not the only game in town,NPR reported today.After the Gun Control Act of 1968 passed, new groups...
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Here's How Much It Would Cost To Put Cops In Every School In America
NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre made the serious suggestion that instead of pursuing gun control on a national scale Congress should instead pay for police officers to patrol every school...
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Why The US Supreme Court Struck Down The Original Gun-Free Schools Law
The NRA's Wayne LaPierre on Friday called on the U.S. to put cops in every school, and suggested killers were drawn to schools because they're "gun-free zones."In fact, gun rights advocates fought the...
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Here's What An Official NRA Shooting Video Game Looks Like
Today NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre lambasted video games, pornography, and the media during a strange press conference on the Newtown, Conn. shootings that left 20 children and seven adults dead. "Another...
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12 Charts On Firearms In GUN NATION
After last week's horrific mass shooting left 20 first-graders and seven adults dead, everyone is taking a hard look at guns in America.Obama has called for a gun control task force. Many have called...
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