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Arizona Has an Official State Gun
Jeff Neumann · 04/29/11 06:28AMIf there's one thing in the world that Arizona needs right now, it's an official state gun. Another totally normal state, Utah has one, so it's only fitting that Arizona followed suit. Governor Jan Brewer yesterday signed the important bill into law making the classic Colt Single Action Army Revolver the state gun. That's cool and everything, but we want to know which state will be the first to choose an official taser/stun gun/mace?
Wal-Mart Will Save Itself With Guns
Hamilton Nolan · 04/28/11 12:39PMThe Only Thing You Can Do Legally If You're on the Terror Watch List Is Buy a Gun
John Cook · 04/28/11 10:41AMIf you're on the FBI's terrorist watch list, you can't get on a plane. You can't get 9/11 responder health benefits. But you can buy all the fucking guns your little jihadi heart desires—247 of you did last year, according to the FBI—because the NRA is out there protecting the Allah-given right of suspected terrorists to buy guns.
Why We Should Arm Police With Lollipops
Max Read · 04/23/11 04:00PMConfronted with a 6'4", 350-pound "agitated mentally disturbed" man wielding a razor and, apparently, a broom, police in Macon, Ga. used a handful of lollipops to subdue the subject, offering them as bargaining chips in exchange for the man relinquishing the razor and allowing himself to be handcuffed. We therefore support arming police officers everywhere with lollipops, attached to their utility belts in small lollipop-bags, for use in violent confrontation. As the saying goes, "you subdue more huge violent men with lollipops than with vinegar, or guns." [Macon Telegraph; image via Shutterstock]
Six-Year-Old Brings Gun to School, Injuring Three
Seth Abramovitch · 04/20/11 01:34AMA Sane Moment in Texas Politics?
Jeff Neumann · 04/12/11 05:35AMYou know what's a really bad idea? Allowing college kids to carry concealed handguns on public university campuses. For the second time, a Texas Republican state senator, Jeff Wentworth is trying to get a bill passed that would allow this to happen. But as of last night, according to The Austin American-Statesman, the bill appeared to be almost dead. Wentworth told the paper, "I didn't have the votes" to get the bill on trigger happy Governor Rick Perry's desk. Good.
Why Booze and Gun Shows Don't Mix
Jeff Neumann · 04/11/11 05:11AMWhat's dumber than a gun show? A gun show that allows people to bring their own weapons. Especially when someone decides they're going to bring a .45 caliber handgun after they've been drinking, load said handgun, and then accidentally shoot an old man and a teenager. According to the AP, 30-year-old Joshua Wilkinson went to the Tri-State Gun and Knife Show on Saturday in Evansville, Indiana, where:
Arizona Votes to Allow Firearms on Campus
Seth Abramovitch · 04/08/11 12:49AMComment of the Day: Gun Crazy
Richard Lawson · 03/24/11 06:15PMBeauty Queen Killer Poses in Panties with Gun: 'I Want to Make Some Money'
Maureen O'Connor · 03/24/11 02:45PMTwo weeks after shooting a home invader dead with a pink .38-caliber gun, Florida beauty queen Meghan Brown is ready to cash in. The Daily reports that, in the days immediately after the shooting, Meghan "modeled thigh-high stockings and a black corset laced up with a hot pink ribbon—all while aiming a shiny pistol." Why, you ask?
Horny Granny Shoots at Not Horny Neighbor
Jeff Neumann · 03/23/11 07:19AMGuns Easier to Get Than Abortions in South Dakota
Jeff Neumann · 03/23/11 04:29AMMayor of New Mexico Border Town Indicted for Gun Smuggling
John Cook · 03/15/11 12:47PMNRA Blows Off White House Invitation
Jim Newell · 03/15/11 11:30AMJust when you thought he was too busy to deal with anything else, especially something with annoying culture-war implications, Barack Obama went and published an op-ed in this past Sunday's Arizona Daily Star to start a conversation on gun reforms. That does not mean, as he anxiously rushed to note in his column, that he wants to take everyone's guns and repeal the Second Amendment. He just wants "commonsense" reforms, of some sort. Unfortunately, this political process starts by reaching out to the NRA, and guess what? The NRA does not give a fuck about Barack Obama.
New Mexico City Officials in Evil, Dumb Gun-Running Ring
Hamilton Nolan · 03/14/11 08:43AMFrom the "You think your local politicians are bad..." department: the mayor, police chief, and a town councilman in the border town of Columbus, New Mexico have been arrested and charged with running an illegal gun-smuggling ring. The mayor allegedly bought dozens of pistols and stored them, and the police chief allegedly bought body armor. The Feds say that much of the material was destined for violent Mexican drug gangs that operate just across the border. Nice.
Iowa Lawmaker Jokes About Party's 'Give a Handgun to a Schizophrenic' Bill
Jim Newell · 03/11/11 05:23PMRepublican Iowa State Rep. Jeff Kaufmann, speaker pro tem of the Iowa State House, was caught joking on a hot mic that a proposal which would allow state residents to carry weapons in public without permission from a sheriff and without any training or a background check might better be called the "give-a-handgun-to-a-schizophrenic-bill."