Crime and Punishment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouUbWUlHS6A&feature=player_embedded Troubling news from CO. On Tuesday, a gunman wounded two students at the Deer Creek Middle School. Thankfully, the mentally unstable attacker---32-year-old Deer Park grad Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood---wasn't a trained shooter using an...

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Chron.com reports that thieves removed some 500 deadly weapons from the Cleveland, Texas police evidence room. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recovered just 112 of the missing firearms from...

"Travis, the 14-year-old, 200-pound pet of Sandra Herold, 71, mauled a family friend in Ms. Herold’s driveway," the New York Times recounts. "Officer Chiafari and another officer were the first to respond to Ms....

Here's a rule worth following: don't keep a bullet in the chamber when transporting a weapon. "Combat ready" means ready for combat, not a strenuous hike over hill and dale. And here's another piece...

The Seattle Times reports that "U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Port of Tacoma seized a shipment of 30 toy M-4 automatic rifles that had arrived on Oct. 20 in a 40-foot...

And so we launch a new series, highlighting careless gun owners who bring disgrace to those who understand that responsibilities and rights must be joined at the proverbial hip. That total commitment to gun...

The Yorkshire Evening Post reports that taxi driver Anthony Scott was sent down for six years for "keeping machine gun under bed." Scott was caught stashing a loaded shotgun with two (count 'em two)...

There are two amendments to the Constitution that rarely, if ever, appear on the Supreme Court's docket. One is the Third Amendment, which prohibits the quartering of troops in private homes. Since the end...

The Open Carry movement---which lobbies for citizens' right to carry licensed firearms in plain view---may have a champion in Duncan Dohmen. The 68-year-old Washingtonian was arrested last June for openly carrying a Smith &...

The Salisbury (SC) Post reports local police recently arrested one Jessie Lee Sexton for Possession of a Firearm by a Felon. In 1982, Sexton was convicted of second-degree murder in Mobile, Alabama. After serving...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm5PC7z79-8 According to ABC news, U.S. Inspector General Richard Skinner reports that the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lost 289 guns from fiscal year 2006 through 2008. D'oh! It gets worse (of course). Some...