When Jared Lee Loughner went to the Sportsman's Warehouse outlet on Nov. 30, he faced few obstacles to walking away with a Glock 19 semiautomatic handgun. Loughner was making the purchase in Arizona, a state with an Old West culture where gun laws are among the most lenient in the United States. The 22-year-old passed an instant background check required under federal law for all gun buyers, said Reese Widmer, manager of the Tucson store. A law enacted last year allowed Loughner to conceal and carry the pistol without a permit.
Newly minted Republican lawmakers who stormed state legislatures with vows of fixing the economy and controlling spending also are tackling social issues, such as gun laws and immigration, with minimal Democratic resistance. This is the Republican high-water mark in terms of state legislatures since before the New Deal, in both the number of Republicans and the number of chambers they've taken over," said John Fortier, a political specialist with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative-leaning Washington think tank.
Illinois has the worst gun laws of any state. Only police officers and the taxpayer-funded bodyguards for ex-Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley have the right to carry a handgun outside their homes. Everyone else is out of luck - unless a pair of federal lawsuits filed last week succeed in arguing that the Second Amendment right to "keep and bear Arms" means that people can actually bear arms in the land of Lincoln. Last year, the Supreme Court struck down Chicago's ban on private handgun ownership, upholding the "keeping" of arms. The National Rifle Association (NRA) and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) are looking to build on that victory by overturning the country's most sweeping anti-carry statute to ensure the "bearing" of arms is equally protected.
A nonprofit group that favors stronger gun control wants a local U.S. district judge to throw out a case to overturn gun laws in Charleston, South Charleston and Dunbar. Lawyers for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence plan to file an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court's southern West Virginia district today asking that judges dismiss a case filed by the West Virginia Citizens Defense League against the cities of Charleston, South Charleston and Dunbar. Those cities have gun laws that ban carrying guns on city property, and Charleston additionally limits gun purchases to one per month and requires a three-day waiting period.
What you need to know about how variations in state gun laws affect the availability of guns to gun traffickers, criminals, the mentally ill, drug abusers and other dangerous persons Firearms Policy Experts Available for Interview
After reading about rampant gun violence in New Haven and surrounding areas, most people have good intentions, but limited knowledge of what gun control laws are and how they work. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol and Firearms' fatally flawed "Operation Fast and Furious" was an attempt at gun control in states that border Mexico by the government, which failed miserably. People have the right to know both sides of a story.
The General Assembly is in session in Richmond, so it should go without saying that new legislation is being considered to relax gun control laws. While it's doubtful that the tragedy in Arizona will blunt enthusiasm among some for loosening restrictions on firearms, we hope the General Assembly will take a more cautious approach.
DAYTON -- Surrounded in her store by several robbers, Teressa Sturgill felt she had little choice. She loaded the gun and she used it. I was trapped," said Sturgill, owner of Gem City Auto Restyling, on Monday. "I couldn't exit and I wasn't taking any chances.
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