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...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...
Plaxico Burress couldn't wriggle out of jail time for accidentally shooting himself in the leg with an unlicensed handgun in a New York City nightclub last November. But the former New York Giants wide receiver's personal fortune will help him on one score. Burress has retained the services of a "prisoner consultant" to advise him on "what to expect while incarcerated, and how to use his period of confinement as productively as possible," as his attorney, Benjamin Brafman, told the New York Post. To get a sense of what Burress's counseling sessions might be like, TIME caught...