Gun owners say they don't know what the government's five-year amnesty on the Swiss Arms Classic Greens means. The guns are semi-automatic rifles called Classic Greens and they've been available in Canada for about a dozen years. Last week the RCMP changed the guns' classification from "non-restricted" to "prohibited" on its The bronze replica of a calibre revolver, a gift from Luxembourg to the United Nations, was sculpted in memory of the Swedish artist's longtime friend John Lennon.
Though not created from recycled munitions, the sculpture has been cited as one of the inspirations behind the arms-to-art movement. Cabo Verde Cape Verde Launches Firearms Amnesty [PT] 25 January Portugal Digital [Translated summary: Cape Verde authorities have launched a national campaign for the voluntary surrender of illegal firearms, estimated by police to be around 6, In the last two years, firearms and homemade guns were seized.
Authorities said firearms were involved in 44 homicides, injuries and assaults. A new law was signed in to create systems to improve security and prevent the proliferation of illegal firearms. The Ukip leader criticised the "kneejerk" restrictions on handguns imposed after the Dunblane massacre in which Thomas Hamilton killed 16 schoolchildren and a teacher before shooting himself.
The laws were brought in by Sir John Major, the then Tory prime minister, and extended to a total ban by Tony Blair's Labour government in Asked about gun Two couples were among patrons at a matinee of "Lone Survivor" at the Grove 16 movie theater in Wesley Chapel, about 20 miles northeast of Tampa, when one of the men, a retired Tampa police officer, got angry because the man in front of him was using his phone Khaled Akkawi, founder of the Apopka-based chain, made the decision last month after the latest suicides at one his gun ranges.
The man did not have a licence for the weapons. Admis aux urgences Tout As the force was unable to find the Howa Type 89 assault rifle after a two-month intensive search, it has concluded that the rifle was taken by somebody.
The force's police unit has began an investigation on suspicion of theft. The rifle, which was issued to a GSDF member, was not Russo, who was off his medication for paranoid schizophrenia, also talked about the recent elementary school massacre in Newtown and told a nurse that he "could take a chair and kill you or bash your head in between the eyes," Last Saturday the Commissioner picked up 24 Glocks, which are 9-millimeter handguns which were purchased through the Criminal Justice Planning Agency, with the C'est ainsi que le Karl Haus, 53, now faces 17 charges in relation to the haul from a Prospect Point home in the Hart Highlands where police uncovered nine rifles — a fully-automatic M and a fully-automatic AK among them — as well as three handguns, two of which were loaded, and two For more than a decade, diplomatic activity to contain arms and ammunition transfers has been animated by a concern with instability and contagion generated by the continent's many wars.
Leading think tanks, research groups, and advocacy organizations have repeatedly drawn attention to the way the burden of armed violence in Africa is a product of low-tech assault Officials have called on women leaders to be involved in the efforts, as victims of many of the crimes the disarmament is trying to prevent. Toward the back, next to a pawnshop and White Trash Matt's tattoo parlor, is the global headquarters of Dukes Defense World, a mom-and-pop firearms instruction shop certified by the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification to teach nonresidents firearm safety as a prerequisite for obtaining a concealed-carry permit.
Defenseless, distracted by music, Alex sat in the passenger seat of the rental as I made my way to the trunk. I remembered Frankie's words: "It's loaded, cocked, and the safety is off.
All you have to do is pull the trigger. We were out on bail for separate gun charges. A few years before, Alex had been acquitted of murder He looked straight out of a Bollywood film - stocky, confident, with a shaven head and a pink open-necked shirt. Dev is a salesman at a shop on Thailand's gun row, Wang Burapha road, which features a string of shops selling a range of guns and accessories.
The guns are two to three times more expensive than those in the United States. Rich people, and The Royal Thai Police. In what has long been a Mexico, United States Trade in Iron and Blood: Impact of American Guns on Mexican Violence 30 July Action on Armed Violence For all the news and emotion surrounding the debate over mass-shootings and gun-control within the United States, another related tragedy has been unfolding simultaneously just across the border.
But, unlike in the US, this tragedy has much greater bloodshed and much less media attention. Since , tens of thousands of people have been killed in Mexico in drug-related violence. The numbers dead are similar to a conventional war.
But, in contrast to other conflicts During the drive, dozens of Hondurans are seen making their way home, wary of the time to ensure they get there before dark. The SUV crosses a bridge and parks on the sidewalk, just two blocks away from the capital Tegucigalpa's red-light district. It is here where Urban Parents were outraged, and behavioral experts warned of real-world carnage. It'll be pretty gory. The store let him take the pistol anyway.
Dealers are required to wait seven days before RCMP Insp. Brad Haugli said officers often encounter cases in which tragedy could have been averted if guns were not involved. The legislation had been a modest bipartisan compromise, supported by 90 percent of the public and lobbied for hard by the president.
Preliminary evidence shows she was killed while her husband, a career soldier in the Israeli army, who possesses a registered weapon as part of his duties, was cleaning his weapon. The loaded firearm apparently discharged a bullet by accident, hitting the woman.
This incident raises — yet again — the question of whether there is a need for all members of the Israeli armed But his presence there made the organizers nervous. As such, he has published dozens of Former Met officer Mike Pannett said he was concerned how the crime reduction would continue to improve. He said The final deletion of millions of registry records last October 31 could be seen as a crowning achievement for a Conservative government that had campaigned against the registry for more than a Special Forces eliminated five terrorists during the operation.
Wakt El Djazair quoted a security source as saying that a counter-terrorism military unit, supported by two helicopters, was able For starters, sociologist Arthur Farnsley writes in his new book "Flea Market Jesus," it is a political mistake of biblical proportions to write off all Christian fundamentalists as red-state, moral values Republicans. In in-depth interviews, Farnsley found among this fiercely independent group on the fringes of evangelical Protestantism an adherence to rugged Although ostensibly independent of the NRA, the examination of school safety issues, released Tuesday, provides the organization with an alternative narrative to the various gun-control Hoffman wanted the gun for personal protection.
But soon the gun was stolen, changed hands, then changed hands again, spiraling beyond the bounds of Both are English-speaking democracies of multicultural immigrants.
The 2 nations have been allies for nearly a century. Australians and Americans consume similar diets of movies, video games, popular music, recreational drugs, and alcohol. Both have vast interiors, early histories of armed European settlers mistreating native populations, plenty of feral pests to shoot, and many firearm enthusiasts.
Yet the Gabrielle Giffords and others in Arizona, of the slaughter of movie-goers in Aurora, Colo. The debate on gun control itself has largely been subsumed in recent weeks by concern over The degree of difficulty in purchasing the bread or the bullet is relatively the same: zero. A special Sunday Gleaner probe has confirmed that one does not have to work up a sweat to buy bullets on the streets of Jamaica.
It is literally no problem, as we found out when we purchased 25 of these 9mm bullets last week. Anyone interested in The object he was holding appeared to have a silver tip and was dark in colour," according to Cliff Purvis, the Switzerland Switzerland Guns: Living with Firearms the Swiss Way 11 February BBC News Switzerland has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, but little gun-related street crime - so some opponents of gun control hail it as a place where firearms play a positive role in society.
However, Swiss gun culture is unique, and guns are more tightly regulated than many assume. Throughout the attack, Anne Ithen kept her eyes shut. I didn't want those images in my head for the rest of my life… but I remember Shawn Hartnell, 29, appeared in federal court in Grand Forks on Wednesday. According to Assistant U. Attorney Nick Chase, Hartnell faces two charges.
One count alleges that, as a Canadian citizen in the United States on a "non-immigrant," visa, Hartnell was illegally possessing firearms. Inside plastic bags hidden in a trash collection room, officers uncovered two archaic flintlock pistols, retrofitted flare guns and a Jesse James-style revolver.
These days, that kind of antiquated firepower is about the baddest a British gang member Pasadena Pawn and Gun, a gun retailer and pawnshop 15 miles south of Baltimore, is pretty much sold out of America's most wanted gun, the ARstyle semiautomatic rifle.
Since the massacre in Newtown, Conn. A thin stick of chocolate, wrapped in edible paper and designed to impersonate a roll-up, it debuted in and soon became the accessory of choice for children keen to play grown-up. Hollywood star, GI Joe, team captain: the sweet gave kids the chance try out one of the vogue props of adulthood.
Within 20 years it was so popular that cigarette companies began to take United States Gun Lobby Funds Recruitment Drive for Kids Using Games, Peers 26 January New York Times, Series Threatened by long-term declining participation in shooting sports, the firearms industry has poured millions of dollars into a broad campaign to ensure its future by getting guns into the hands of more, and younger, children.
The industry's strategies include giving firearms, ammunition and cash to youth groups; weakening state restrictions on hunting by young children; marketing an affordable military-style rifle for "junior shooters" and sponsoring But it's hard to enforce that law when as many as 40 percent of all gun purchases are conducted without a background check.
But there is little talk of another problem: the large number of light weapons in the hands of civilians. The Mexican Constitution establishes the people's right to "own guns in their homes for their safety and self-defence", with the exception of high caliber weapons, while the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives stipulates the The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary — where most of the 26 victims were killed with an assault rifle similar to the M rifle issued to U.
There are now calls to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons; the weeks ahead may see a heated Even fewer as in we are the only one have gun control legislation as a hot button political issue. The U.
It is also the leader in gun violence at school campuses. Yet, the U. Countries where gangs and drugs are a problem top the list, even where there is strict gun Crime experts who attribute the drop in killings to better policing or an aging population fail to square the image of a more tranquil nation with this statistic: The reported number of people treated for gunshot attacks from to has grown by nearly half.
No," said Jim Pasco, executive Once the pistols' magazines were loaded with shiny golden bullets, they began emptying round after round into paper targets at a distance of 25 meters, or 82 feet. According to Orlando Mudumane, spokesperson for the Maputo City Police Command, cited in Wednesday's issue of the daily paper "Noticias", the men, named as 29 year old A.
Francisco, M. Also arrested was 28 year old F, Joao, who purchased one of the stolen United States US Airport Officials Report Rise in 'Forgotten' Guns in Carry-On Bags 28 September New York Times The list of potentially lethal weapons was certainly eye-opening: 47 guns 38 of them loaded, including six with rounds in their chambers , three inert hand grenades, supplies of black powder, hunting knives, timing fuses and a sword.
Then, consider that the list was compiled by the Transportation Security Administration, of weapons found in airline travelers' carry-on bags in the seven days that ended on Sept.
In fact, the T. Assistant Chief Constable Andy Ward of Merseyside police, who chairs the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit, says the punishments for those caught cultivating and dealing in cannabis are not a deterrent and the drug is now causing greater problems for police than class As.
According to From a distance of less than 10 feet, the officers, Craig Matthews and Robert Sinishtaj, answered in unison; one shot nine times and the other seven. Investigators believe at least 7 of those 16 bullets struck the gunman, said Paul J.
Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman. Is that a sensible step or a dangerous one? Condemned by some as a bloodthirsty move to impose a violent culture on children, authorities in Australia's most populous state are considering a plan to allow unders to hunt feral animals on their own with knives, dogs and bows and arrows. The hunting lobby in New South Wales says the proposal will encourage more families to An unfortunate coincidence, this, given that I've come here not to write about gun crime but to meet some typical — that is to say, non-deranged — gun owners.
In a clubhouse which has silver trophies in display cabinets and sepia photographs of According to police, the jammed weapon was capable of firing rounds a minute. Police say Holmes also had two Glock pistols, a shotgun and rounds of ammunition. Shock, dismay and surprise are always expressed after such killings - and questioning of the During the same period, an estimated , weapons have entered the country.
Venezuela, Colombia Colombia Police Allege Gang Guns Come from Venezuela Military 18 July InSight Crime Bogota Colombia police have seized weapons from criminal gang the Rastrojos which include guns reportedly traced to the Venezuelan military, hinting at a connection between the neo-paramilitary group and elements of Venezuela's army.
According to a report by El Hamed leads a battalion near Aleppo. The demand for weapons on his turf is so After he beat a murder charge under Florida's controversial self-defense law, Miami's Greyston Garcia took an anonymous job as a cashier in a cramped all-night convenience store in Liberty City. Tuesday night, he asked to go home early. Canada Canadian Provinces Concerned about 'Back-door' Long-gun Registries 23 May Winnipeg Sun Manitoba Confusion on firearms rules has some Manitoba dealers feeling like they're under the gun to abide by a so-called "back-door" registry.
Though Ottawa and the provincial government insist there's no new long-gun registry replacing a federal firearm database that was scrapped this spring, retailers say RCMP are sending mixed signals. To firearms vendor Travis VanDaele's Brandon business, it doesn't appear that the federal Conservative government's scrapping of the gun After years of frustration, one organization has shaken up the debate with a controversial proposal: arming women and training them to defend themselves.
Looking back, Yagmur Askin thinks perhaps she should have paid more attention on her wedding day, when her husband's family welcomed her by saying, "You enter Attorney's Office said. Police in Laredo, Texas, discovered the ammunition after they stopped a Dodge Ram pickup truck that failed to stop at a stop sign in March, U.
Attorney Kenneth Magidson said in a statement. Weapons traffickers along the While the bikie war rages, there there have been outbreaks of gun violence in other parts of the country as well.
On the eve of the 16th anniversary of the Port Arthur massacre, the Government has announced plans to amend Australia's gun laws. National figures are An official report by the The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says that during this period, the Mexican authorities submitted more than 99, arms for tracing. United States, Australia Surge in Gun Violence in Australia as Criminals 'Tool Up' 22 April Age Melbourne He affects the face of a tough guy, but the gun this twitchy young man keeps for protection looks like a novelty cigarette lighter.
The speed that he deals keeps him highly strung. But it's mainly the gun that makes him edgy. I don't hold enough and I haven't been caught before," he says. Machine Guns Vegas — an upscale indoor shooting range complete with skimpily dressed gun-toting hostesses — opened last week a half-mile from the Strip with an armory of weapons and a promise to fulfill the desires of anyone wanting to And sales haven't just risen in Texas.
The alleged shooter, identified as year-old TJ Lane, opened fire Monday with a handgun on a group of fellow students in the cafeteria of Chardon High School shortly after the start of the school day. Gary Ortiz, 28, who was an active-duty officer in the 71st Precinct in Brooklyn, Al finalizar New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control.
But while federal firearms data shows that the number of registered gun owners in Canada is dropping, the arsenal of each is getting bigger and bigger. But many gun owners — and a Tory MP — say the government's estimates are off the mark, and that there may be twice as many firearms, and firearms owners, in United States Gun Sales Up? CNN, for example, declared, "December holiday shoppers were not just interested in buying the hottest electronics and toys--they also were purchasing record numbers of guns.
In , 10, deaths by suicide were recorded. To have a gun at home reduces the reflection period if one plans to end his life. Her murder was just one of the more than , homicides a year that occur worldwide, 42 percent of which are committed with firearms. But as they browsed the records of Carter's Country gun shop in Houston, investigators picked up on a series of big sales. For cash. Federal agents were alerted not only by the number of guns involved — sometimes a dozen at a time — but the type.
Time and again buyers walked out of Carter's Country clutching assault rifles, semi-automatic pistols with armour-piercing bullets and powerful sniper The officers reportedly shot and killed only eight people and injured 16 the whole year, in what the Police Department say marked record lows. Of course the social and economic realities of Nairobi and New York are totally different but there On a third is a Remington Woodsmaster, a popular hunting rifle.
The variety of rifles and shotguns on sale here at Cabela's, the national The hundreds of thousands of guns destroyed in buybacks since Port Arthur have been more than replaced by new ones. But guns are highly political and the national system for monitoring gun ownership is a mess. Reporter, Ian Townsend. Ian Townsend: There may be more guns in Australia today than there have ever been.
In the past 16 months in Queensland alone, nearly 50, guns — Around 17, other arms, voluntarily surrendered or from various warehouses, will also be destroyed. This bill, known as the Ending the Long-gun Registry Act, seeks to abolish the current long-gun registry.
If passed, gun owners will no longer be required by law to register rifles and shotguns. The state also prohibits any person from distributing, transporting, importing into the state, keeping, offering or exposing for sale, or giving an assault weapon to any person.
Connecticut bans the following semiautomatic centerfire rifles, or copies or duplicates of such rifles with their capability, that were in production before or on June 18, Connecticut also bans the following specified semiautomatic pistols, or copies or duplicates of such pistols with their capability, that were in production prior to or on June 18, Connecticut bans a part or combination of parts designed or intended to convert a firearm into an assault weapon as defined under Connecticut law and any combination of parts from which such an assault weapon may be assembled if possessed by, or under the control of, the same person.
Any firearm that has been permanently rendered inoperable is not an assault weapon. A person who lawfully possessed an assault weapon prior to October 1, may continue to possess the weapon if he or she obtained a certificate of possession. Connecticut prohibits any person with a certificate of possession for any of the assault weapons added on April 4, , from: 1 Selling or transferring the weapon in Connecticut to anyone except a licensed gun dealer; or 2 Otherwise transferring the weapon except by bequest or intestate succession.
However, due to financial difficulties probably related to manufacturing machine guns in California , they made one of the poorest business decision in history, and sold the design to Colt in , as well as the rights to the names AR, and AR Nowadays, the AR is the most popular rifle in America. With so many variations available now from the Pistol to SBR , or a service rifle to SPR or hunting variety, the AR has developed into a platform suitable for the every man, and all of their needs.
So how exactly does the M differ? A soldier in Vietnam with the XM16E1, firing fully-automatic, while puffing a cigarette. You will never be this cool. While it got off to a rocky start due to magazine issues that were largely blamed on the rifle although the rifle did have some issues related to an un-chromed chamber at first as well , it has since become one of the most iconic military weapons of all time.
WIth four variations in service with the United States Military yes, there are still rear-echelon units with the M16A1 , the rifle has developed over time to suit the constantly advancing and adapting needs of our warfighters overseas.
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