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Clemmons has a history of getting out of jail, despite an alarming criminal record. As a 17-year-old living in Arkansas, he was sentenced to consecutive prison terms totaling nearly 100 years for five different felony charges, including robbery and illegal possession of a handgun. During his courtroom appearances, he frequently exhibited unruly and violent behavior, throwing things and even lunging for a guard's handgun. Yet in 2000, citing the young age at which he had been sentenced and his newfound devotion to God, Clemmons, then 27, wrote a letter pleading for clemency from then governor Mike Huckabee...
...affection, caressing its cool curves. The recipient of the devout Buddhist's ardor? A .38-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol Jiranan carries wherever she goes in Thailand's troubled deep south, where a Muslim insurgency has resulted in roughly 4,000 deaths since it gained momentum in 2004. The handgun, though, isn't Jiranan's only trusted companion. As a volunteer in the Iron Ladies, an all-female civilian militia designed to protect Buddhists from Islamic extremists, she received military training on how to wield rifles and machine guns. Jiranan is such a sure shot that she was chosen to show...
...Arrested Oct. 7 in Jerusalem while distributing leaflets that praised an August shooting at a gay community center in Tel Aviv that killed two young people. He was armed with a loaded handgun when he was arrested. He confessed to the killings, though police say they're certain he wasn't involved...
...then allegedly “displayed a handgun and demanded the faculty member’s wallet,” before taking it and fleeing down Oxford St., leaving the victim uninjured...
...pair of cases challenge Chicago's 27-year-old ban on handgun sales within the city limits. Originally designed to curb violence in the city, the ban has long irked Second Amendment advocates, who take an expansive view of the amendment's wording that the "right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." But the Supreme Court had long held that the Second Amendment pertained only to federal laws, until a 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller struck down a ban on handguns in Washington, D.C. The ruling marked the first time...