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  • July 2008

    • AK-47s Flooding US Cities

      newser  |  Mother Jones  |  Jul 17, 08 3:03 PM CDT

      AK-47s Flooding US Cities

      At least one of America’s borders is wide open: Gun manufacturers are selling imported semiautomatic weapons with ease ever since the Bush administration allowed 1994's assault weapons ban to lapse, writes Bruce Falconer for Mother Jones . “We’re being flooded with these AK-47s,” said Miami’s police chief, who has seen semiautomatic usage account for 20% of his city’s homicides. More »

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      Bush administration  • gun  • gun ban  • ATF  • AK-47  • assault weapons

  • June 2008
  • April 2008
  • February 2008

    • Gun Lobby Holds Up Bush ATF Nominee

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Feb 25, 08 2:15 PM CST

      Gun Lobby Holds Up Bush ATF Nominee

      Michael Sullivan has spent a long time waiting to become head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, but his appointment has run into a roadblock in the Senate. Not with Democrats—with his fellow Republicans. Gun-rights supporters have blocked the appointment of Sullivan, also a US Attorney who can't be replaced while the ATF job is in limbo, the LA Times reports. More »

  • June 2007
  • May 2007

    • Student Bomber Foiled at Falwell Funeral

      newser  |  ABC News  |  May 23, 07 5:49 AM CDT

      Student Bomber Foiled at Falwell Funeral

      A student at Jerry Falwell's university is under arrest for a bomb plot against protesters at the late evangelist's funeral. A relative of Mark Uhl tipped off authorities, who found five bombs in the 19-year-old Liberty University student's trunk. Uhl admitted he planned to use the bombs to disrupt a picket at Falwell's campus funeral yesterday. More »

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      FBI  • bombing  • funeral  • Jerry Falwell  • ATF  • Liberty University

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