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gun rights stories: 9 news summaries

Pistol-Packin' Soccer Mom Shot Dead

Meleanie Hain and husband killed in apparent murder-suicide

Oct 8, 09 2:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Pennsylvania mom who hit the headlines last year for carrying a loaded handgun to her 5-year-old daughter's soccer games has been found shot dead with her husband in an apparent murder-suicide. The couple’s three children were home during the shootings but were unharmed, police told the Patriot-News. The... More »

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murder-suicide • soccer • gun rights • Meleanie Hain

Senate OKs Passenger
Guns on Amtrak

Refusal to allow firearms would cost system fed funds under bill

Sep 17, 09 4:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amtrak passengers would be allowed to carry unloaded guns in locked containers in their checked baggage under a measure passed by the Senate yesterday, reports the New York Times. The rail corporation banned guns from checked baggage after the 9/11 attacks. The measure won the backing of all Senate Republicans... More »

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Senate • train • Amtrak • Second Amendment • guns • gun rights

(Newser) - Some 200 pistol-packing parishioners filled a church in Louisville, Ky., yesterday to celebrate the somewhat unlikely combination of freedom of religion and the right to bear arms, reports the Courier-Journal. Church members checked to ensure the weapons were unloaded and holstered before pastor Ken Pagano led the congregation in patriotic... More »

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religion • Kentucky • church • Second Amendment • freedom of speech • guns • gun rights

Sotomayor's Nunchuks Ruling Worries Gun Groups

Gun rights advocates fear nominee may seek to undermine Second Amendment

Jun 4, 09 1:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ninjas aren't the only people concerned about Sonia Sotomayor's decision earlier this year to uphold New York's ban on nunchuks, or nunchakus, CQPolitics reports. The Supreme Court nominee was on a panel that rejected a man's claim that the ban on the martial arts weapon violated his Second Amendment right... More »

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weapon • Second Amendment • US Supreme Court • gun rights • Sonia Sotomayor

 Fla. Gun Requests 
 Spike in Recession 

Jump attributed to burglary fears

Feb 18, 09 3:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Floridians are arming themselves, literally, against the recession and fears of being burgled. There's been a 42% jump in concealed weapons permit requests in the past 45 days, and the state office that issues them is buried under a 95,000-application backlog. It's seeking a $4 million budget transfer to... More »

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Florida • recession • guns • gun rights • state budgets • recession depression

Gillibrand Moves Twin Rifles From Under Her Bed

'Security' prompts senator to relocate guns after reports

Feb 17, 09 7:30 AM CST
(Newser) - After admitting in an interview that she and her husband kept a pair of rifles under her bed—to protect their upstate home—New York's new senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, has moved the weapons, Newsday reports. “Given that the location of the guns has been disclosed, they have been moved... More »

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gun control • New York • senator • guns • gun rights • Kirsten Gillibrand • Bill Maher Grid

Obama Gun Question Has NRA Crowd Up in Arms

Transition questionnaire item enrages NRA crowd

Nov 21, 08 9:28 AM CST
(Newser) - In its questionnaire for job seekers, the Obama transition team is asking applicants if they own guns, and to provide detailed registration information on any that they do or did, Politico reports. The team says the question is just aimed at ferreting out any potential gun law violations, but gun... More »

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Barack Obama • transition • gun lobby • gun rights • President Obama

 Guess What's Still 
 Selling Strong?

Obama's anti-gun stance and fears of economic chaos fuel record gun sales

Oct 27, 08 7:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fears of an anti-gun presidency and the threat of civil unrest in a worsening economic climate are fueling record sales of firearms and ammunition, the Washington Post reports. Sales have been climbing since 2006 and this year have shot past the average annual 5% increase to reach 10%, as gun... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • housing bubble • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • guns • gun rights • financial crisis

 Palin Resurrects 
 the Culture Wars 

Watchers agree they never left, but require an event, like Palin's candidacy, to reemerge

Sep 3, 08 10:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The culture wars are heating up again, thanks to Sarah Palin’s staunch opposition to abortion and demonstrated fondness for firearms, Politico reports. Social issues have been largely absent from the campaign so far, with both candidates preferring to focus on the war and the economy. But Palin’s own... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • abortion rights • creationism • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • culture wars • gun rights

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