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FBI: Guns Involved in More Than 75% of Justifiable Homicides in U.S. in 2011

allan12 years ago12 years ago01 mins

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  Three out of four justifiable homicides involved firearms, CNN reports, citing the FBI’s unified crime report.  Of the 260 justified homicides in 2011, 201 involved a gun. The rate is much higher among police, CNN reported. Guns were involved in 99.2% of justifiable homicides, or 390 out of 393. The statistics will…

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Judge Upholds ATF Requirements on Gun Reporting in Southwest States

allan13 years ago13 years ago01 mins

By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com ATF hasn’t had it easy these day. But at least it can count on one small victory. On Friday, a US Judge in Washington upheld new, controversial federal rules requiring four border-states to report sales of multiple semi-automatic rifles, reports Reuters. The gun industry had challenged the new rules on privacy…

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Retiring Houston ATF Chief Offers His Views on Agency and Guns to Mexico

allan13 years ago02 mins

By Dane Schiller Houston Chronicle Dewey Webb, head of the Houston division for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is retiring this month after a career that began in 1976. T he Oklahoma native, who can trace his family to full-blooded Choctaw and Cherokee Native Americans, has gone against moonshiners, weapons traffickers, drug…

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