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...Imagine if someone didn't use the sense that these two boys did," Pasquarello said. "After all, the first instinct for young kids is to pick up the firearm and pull the trigger...
...Three years ago, after buying a weekend home in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania, Guzman decided to take up hunting. But before he bought his 12-gauge Remington shotgun, he enrolled in a National Rifle Association safety course. "I didn't want to be a hypocrite as a firearm owner who doesn't practice firearm safety," he said. But now Guzman, 41, a sign-shop owner, is thinking of quitting the organization. While he supports the N.R.A.'s education programs, he is disturbed that in the midst of public anxiety about antigovernment violence, the N.R.A. is plowing ahead with...
Keith A. Leahy and Brendon F. Smith, both from the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, now face federal charges of interference with commerce by means of robbery and use of a firearm during a violent crime...
...Warin, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, "Since the Second Amendment...applies only to the right of the State to maintain a militia and not to the individual's right to bear arms, there can be no serious claim to any express constitutional right to possess a firearm...
House Republicans who swore to repeal President Clinton'sban on assault weaponslast summer introduced their bill today. Members of House Firearms Legislation Task Force, backed by several conservative Democrats, threw in mandatory minimum sentences forusing a gun in any serious state or federal crime: five years for possessing a firearm, 10 years for brandishing one and 20 years for firing one. The House plans a May vote...