weaponsystems:

Philadelphia could be facing a class action lawsuit on behalf of gun owners who say the city violated their privacy by publishing their personal information and launching an interactive Web map that included clickable icons of revolvers over their homes.

WHOA FUCK THAT NOISE.

Seriously? One of the most common reasons people seek CHL’s in restrictive states is because they carry large sums of money or transport expensive goods, and they just published their home addresses? Man fuck that.

weaponsystems:

Two venerable American gun manufacturers — Remington and Colt — could head for the West their weapons helped win if New York and Connecticut force them to implement microstamping technology.

Because you would totally use a legal gun with this microstamping technology in place in it, with this ammo if you wanted to shoot some place up and not get caught. 

weaponsystems:

These are high times for gun makers and firearms retailers.
While many sectors have been slogging through the recession and an anemic recovery, the firearms business has seen growth both nationally and locally.

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Call them what you will: “Stand Your Ground” or “Castle Doctrine” laws. Mayor Bloomberg and members of Congress, speaking on the House floor, go so far as to label them “shoot first” laws.
This is a gross exaggeration — a slander, in fact, against legislation designed to reform a flaw in our treatment of self-defense. Earlier statutes affirmatively required potential victims to retreat as much as possible before using deadly force to protect themselves, sometimes putting their lives in jeopardy.

weaponsystems:

California’s gun laws are the toughest of any state in the nation, but they could not prevent this week’s East Oakland shooting that left seven people dead. And short of banning semi automatic weapons, it’s unlikely that any new laws could prevent someone from going on a shooting spree with the weapon that authorities say One L. Goh used to kill students at Oikos University. Even some of the most ardent gun control advocates believe that’s the case. “It wasn’t a failure of laws,” said Amanda Wilcox, who along with her husband, Nick, lobbies for the California chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. “I just don’t see how our gun laws could have stopped something like that.”

“10-round clip”

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weaponsystems:

In an attempt to shift blame for drug war-fueled violence, Mexican President Felipe Calderon recently unveiled a 3-ton “No More Weapons!” billboard along Mexico’s border with the U.S.  Reports do not indicate whether a similar sign will be placed at Mexico’s border with Guatemala, which some have estimated 90 percent of the drug cartels’ “heavy armament” passes through.

That’s totally going to work.

Edit: Wait wait wait 

The violence from the Mexican drug cartel is caused by Americans?

weaponsystems:

The federal government has approved for importation some 86,000 M1 rifles from South Korea. The move comes after hard work by the NRA-ILA and its allies in Congress, Sen. John Tester (D-Mont.) and Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.).

THIS WILL BE A GOOD YEAR FOR ME

weaponsystems:

A federal judge in Lubbock today threw out the National Rifle Association’s move to overturn a Texas law prohibiting 18-20 year-olds from carrying concealed weapons.

In dismissing the case that had drawn national interest, U.S. District Judge Sam Cummings ruled that “Texas has identified a legitimate state interest — public safety — and passed legislation that is rationally related to addressing that issue.”

Leave it to the people from fucking Austin.