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NEWS ABOUT: gun safety

gun safety stories: 2 news summaries

Florida Mayor's Dad Threatens Her at Gunpoint

She'd endorsed his opponent in another mayoral race

Oct 8, 09 12:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Local politics took a bizarre turn in Florida’s Broward County Tuesday night, when Mayor Stacy Ritter’s father—an 84-year-old World War II veteran—showed up at her home with a gun and threatened her. After a brief struggle, Ritter convinced her dad, Edward Portner, to let her go... More »

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Florida • local politics • Broward County • gun safety

(Newser) - A Phoenix gun-safety advocate accidentally shot himself in the head yesterday while demonstrating gun safety, the Arizona Daily Star reports. The man was explaining to two others the necessity of keeping guns unloaded in the house. To demonstrate, he placed his own gun—which he thought was unloaded—to... More »

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Arizona • Phoenix • firearms • handgun • gunshot wounds • head trauma • gun safety • loaded gun • pistol

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