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God, Guns and the Constituation: A Town Hall Meeting

Lori Crofford — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:06:22 +0000

If you have been looking for answers on what is going on in our government and with gun laws then you will want to attend this Town Hall Meeting. God, Guns and the Constitution: Town Hall Meeting will take place on Friday, March 22nd at the Amarillo Botanical Gardens Audiotorium, 1400 Streit Drive, at 7pm. [...]

Dog With Itchy Trigger Paw Shoots Owner in the Leg

Drew Weisholtz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:35:17 +0000

A dog’s bark may be worse than its bite, but the same can’t be said for its aim. A dog in Sebring, Florida somehow shot its owner in the leg with the owner’s gun last weekend. Man’s best friend? Sure doesn’t sound like it. It seems the victim, identified as 35-year-old Gregory Lanier, was driving [...]

Armed San Diego Theater Suspect Shot by Police

Joe Student — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:49:01 +0000

Police stormed a movie theater in San Diego on Saturday and shot and wounded an armed domestic-violence suspect who was pretending to be a patron.Authorities said they pursued Tom Billodeaux, 20, of Escondido, Calif. into the Reading Cinemas Carmel Mountain in San Diego following reports of him allegedly fighting with his girlfriend near the cinemas. [...]

Latest Gun Statistics Show Americans Want More Firepower

Mike Adams — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:01:45 +0000

Sometimes it seems like the philosophy behind the right to bear arms was not thoroughly workshopped by our forefathers before they included it as the Second Amendment to the Constitution. While the sign of the times is currently decorated in bulletproof vests and fear, more and more law-biding Second Amendment conservatives are doing everything they [...]

Man Shoots Himself in the Butt During a 'Bourne Legacy' Screening

ScreenCrush Staff — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:07:45 +0000

Gun control, and specifically guns at the movies, have been a hot issue since the tragic theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado yet people still find it necessary to bring their gun to a movie. That plan backfired – literally – on a Nevada man who shot himself in the butt during a screening of ‘The Bourne Legacy.’

Does the Colorado Theater Shooting Affect Your View on Gun Control? – Survey of the Day

Nick Romano — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:14:58 +0000

Gun control has always been a major issue of debate in America — right up alongside the more recently heated topics of abortion, same-sex marriage and health care — but the tragic shooting of 71 people during a Colorado theater’s showing of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ has given this controversy a brand new spotlight.

City to Allow Gun Range Near School — Is It Right?

Shauna Wright — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:20:24 +0000

Most city ordinances prevent liquor stores and strip joints from being too close to schools. But what about a gun range? Some residents of Waterbury, CT, are literally up in arms after the city approved zoning for a gun range and accompanying firearms store just hundreds of feet from an elementary school. Proponents of the [...]

SWAT Team Seizes Working Weapons on Set of Brad Pitt's Film, 'World War Z'

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:30:33 +0000

In a bit of unscripted drama, a Hungerain SWAT team raided a warehouse on the set of the Brad Pitt zombie flick ‘World War Z’ and seized 85-fully functional weapons that were to be used as props in the film.

It seems that the assault rifles had been flown into Budapest — where ‘World War Z’ is being shot — along with paperwork falsely claiming that they weren’t functional.