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NRA Credits Sarah Palin for Boost in Female Membership
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe National Rifle Association says it has Sarah Palin to thank for a 20 percent jump in female membership. Calling it the "Palin effect," the NRA's Diane Danielson told the Daily Mail that the former Alaska governor's vocal advocacy of gun rights is helping the group teach "10,000 new women a year to shoot, and making more girls want to take up hunting." Palin, the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2008, has bragged about her ability to field dress a moose and was often seen hunting on her reality television show. "Firearm manufacturers are gearing their products towards women. ...
Guns and Death: A Love Story
By Alison Fairbrother - Politics DailyThe first reporting I did after my dad died Christmas weekend involved shooting a semi-automatic handgun at close range near Fort Meade, Maryland. My friend and Politics Daily colleague James Grady e-mailed me: "Would you be averse to appearing [along with James, his son Nate, and weaponry expert Steve Hunter] in a video of you firing a powerful handgun at an indoor range as part of a story about the history of the 1911 .45?" I was having trouble writing. My dad had been my muse and confidant and I thought about missing him every day. So when I had a chance to do a story that had nothing to ...
Happy 100th Birthday to the 1911 .45 Pistol, Our Gun of Choice
By James Grady - Politics DailyThis year marks the 100th "birthday" of one of America's most successful and culturally impactive political tools: the 1911 .45 semi-automatic pistol. Yet this is not just a story about a gun. Though, of course, this story stars and starts with that gun. Or rather, our need for it that emerged when U.S. armed forces fought Muslim insurgents on Asian turf that most Americans have trouble finding on a map. As most of us remember -- especially fans of Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling -- from 1899-1913, the United States fought the Philippine-American War for control of those Pacific islands. In ...
Colt Celebrates Centennial of Browning's .45
By Karen Schwartz - AOL News"God made man, but Samuel Colt made them equal." So goes the saying about the man who with a mixture of ingenuity and business savvy changed the course of modern firearms 175 years ago. On Feb. 25, 1836, Colt was granted a patent for a firearm equipped with a revolving cylinder -- "an invention that did for handguns what the Wright brothers did for aircraft," firearms historian and author Dean K. Boorman said in an interview with AOL News. Colt was not the first to envision such a weapon, but he developed the first practical repeating revolver and combined his invention with new mass ...
South Dakota Lawmakers Push Bill for Mandatory Gun Ownership
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyAmericans feel strongly about protecting the right to own a gun, and many feel equally strongly about their right to forgo health insurance. One doesn't necessarily follow the other, but there's enough of a correlation that in South Dakota five legislators have introduced legislation that would make it mandatory for anyone who reaches the age of 21 to purchase a firearm that they would then use for their self-defense. It's known as the "Act to provide for an individual mandate to adult citizens to provide for the self-defense of themselves and others." In political terms, it's a smackdown to ...
Opinion: Why Not Mandate Gun Purchases, Too?
By Bernie Goldberg - AOL NewsWith everything else going on in the world, you may have missed a piece of news coming out of South Dakota. It seems that a few legislators in that state have introduced a bill that would require every one of South Dakota's citizens over 21 years of age to own a gun. Can you imagine? Lawmakers insisting that citizens own a gun or buy one if they don't already own one -- under penalty of law, no less! Government can't force people to buy something they don't want, can it? OK, you get it. So do the South Dakota lawmakers. According to State Rep. Hal Wick, one of the bill's five sponsors, "Do I ...
Bloomberg's New York Investigators Allege Illegal Sales at Arizona Gun Show
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyUndercover investigators from New York City say they observed gun dealers at a gun show in Arizona who sold semi-automatic weapons to buyers who said they probably could not pass a background check. The sting was ordered by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in the days after the Jan. 8 shooting rampage in Tucson that left six dead and 13 injured, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). Results of the probe were announced via press release and at a news conference Monday at New York's City Hall. In its report, city officials concluded the investigation exposed "a dangerous gap in our ...
34 in Arizona Charged With Running Guns to Mexican Cartel
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsA grand jury has indicted 34 people for allegedly buying hundreds of guns in Arizona with the intent of selling them to one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels. In a massive sweep, federal agents arrested 20 of the suspects Tuesday. They are accused of purchasing an estimated 700 weapons, including AK-47 assault rifles, and conspiring to sell them to the brutal Sinaola cartel in Mexico. Federal authorities in both countries say so-called "straw buyers" add more deadly firepower to Mexico's devastating and bloody drug war by buying large stockpiles of weapons legally in the United States ...
Reactions to the State of the Union: Missing Gun Control Message
By EBurgin - AOL NewsIn his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama paused to honor Rep. Gabrielle Giffords with wishes for her recovery, and recognize those in attendance who were affected by the shooting in Tucson, including family members of nine year old Christina Taylor Green. At that point it would have been appropriate to propose tightening the lax gun control laws in this country that allowed a deranged individual, as Jared Loughner is said to be by those who have had contact with him, to allegedly purchase the weapons and ammunition used in the shooting. The media has been disappointingly ...
Ex-US Marine Suspected of Smuggling Guns to UK Gangs
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- British and American authorities are conducting a joint criminal investigation into charges that a former U.S. Marine smuggled at least 66 guns into the U.K. Police now fear that many of the weapons, which include Glock and Ruger 9 mm pistols, are in the hands of gangsters in northwest England, the Press Association reports. Steven Greenoe -- who was born in New Orleans but holds British citizenship -- was questioned in May by TSA agents at Raleigh-Durham Airport in North Carolina after scanners spotted gun parts scattered throughout his luggage, according to court documents ...
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