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weapon stories: 32 news summaries

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School Suspends 1st-Grader for Cub Scout Eating Utensils

Zero-tolerance weapons policies sometimes ridiculous, say critics

Oct 12, 09 1:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - A first grader was suspended for 45 days from school for bringing a Cub Scout combined knife-fork-spoon utensil to class, triggering an uproar among parents. Zachary Christie, 6, was booted because his Newark school has a zero-tolerance policy on knives. Horrifying episodes like the Columbine and Virginia Tech shootings have... More »

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Virginia Tech • discrimination • weapon • elementary school • Columbine school massacre • knife • Boy Scouts of America • policy

 Iran Test Launches Its 
 Longest-Range Missiles 

Weapon with 1,200-mile range could strike Israel, US military bases

Sep 28, 09 6:03 AM CDT
(AP) - Iran claimed to have test-fired the longest-range missiles in its arsenal today—weapons capable of carrying a warhead and striking Israel or US military bases in the Middle East. It was the third round of missile tests in two days of drills by the power Revolutionary Guard, which controls Iran's... More »

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Iran • nuclear weapons • Revolutionary Guards • weapon • missile • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • Shahab-3

Girlfriend Owned Gun at McNair Crime Scene

Weapon sold less than 48 hours before shooting deaths: cops

Jul 6, 09 7:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Steve McNair's girlfriend bought a gun on Thursday, less than 2 days before she and the retired NFL quarterback were shot to death with the weapon, Nashville police say. A spokesman refused to say who sold Sahel Kazemi the gun but did say it fired five shots, the Tennessean reports.... More »

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NFL • crime • Tennessee Titans • murder • murder-suicide • football • weapon • Steve McNair • Nashville • firearms • guns • Sahel Kazemi

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

US-Issued Ammo Found on Afghan Insurgents

Experts fear Pentagon-procured munitions finding their way to Taliban

May 20, 09 1:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - The resilience of Afghanistan's Taliban insurgency may be partly due to supplies from the US, according to a New York Times investigation. The majority of 30 rifle magazines recently found on dead insurgents were the same as those issued to the Afghan military by the US, strongly suggesting that Pentagon-supplied... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • US military • weapon • Afghan Army • Afghanistan war • ammunition

Runway Finalist Charged With Hurling Cat at Ex-Beau

Way to have a hissy fit

Mar 19, 09 9:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Way to have a hissy fit. Quirky Project Runway finalist Kenley Collins was arrested last night after hurling her cat at an ex-boyfriend in her Brooklyn apartment, reports the New York Daily News. The catty season-five contestant also lobbed a laptap, apples, and a glass of water, police said. She... More »

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Brooklyn • domestic violence • weapon • assault • Project Runway • cat • Kenley Collins

(Newser) - Barack Obama's transition team is studying the Pentagon's first test of a plane firing a laser weapon, and may nix the $4.3 billion project—but the US military is still nearing its dream of laser warfare, New Scientist Tech reports. The Airborne Laser, once touted as defensive, could easily... More »

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Pentagon • US military • weapon • laser

Giants' Burress Turns Himself In

Wide receiver to
plead not guilty to weapons charge after shooting himself

Dec 1, 08 10:00 AM CST
(AP) - Plaxico Burress arrived at a police station this morning where he was expected to be charged after accidentally shooting himself in the right thigh at a Manhattan nightclub. The New York Giants' star wide receiver plans to plead not guilty to a weapon possession charge during an afternoon court appearance,... More »

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NFL • football • weapon • New York Giants • Plaxico Burress • shooting • court appearance

Mexican Drug Lords' Guns Traced to US

Smuggling's a cinch
as officials look to immigration, drugs

Aug 10, 08 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of powerful automatic weapons used by drug cartels in Mexico have been traced back to US shops, and little is being done to curb the guns’ flow southward, the Los Angeles Times reports. More than 90% of guns taken at the border and picked up after clashes come from... More »

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Mexico • border control • weapon • Mexican drug war • smuggler • drug cartel

Son Charged
in Parents'
Hoe Deaths, Cesspool Burial

No motive revealed
in 'horrid' attack

Jul 28, 08 4:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 24-year-old Rhode Island man has been charged with bludgeoning his parents with a grub hoe in the home they shared and dumping their bodies in the backyard cesspool. Suspicious authorities recovered the corpses of the missing couple with a backhoe last week, reports the East Bay Rhode Island newspaper.... More »

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crime • weapon • Rhode Island

'Open Carriers' Aim to Make Guns an Accessory

Gun owners want to educate the public by having their weapons on display

Jun 7, 08 6:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - A growing number of gun owners are tired of concealing their weapons when they're out and about, reports the Los Angeles Times. In most states, it's perfectly legal to walk around with a gun in plain view. Backers of the "open carry" movement think it's time to start doing... More »

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gun control • concealed weapon • weapon • firearms • handgun • concealed-weapons laws • guns

US Probes Hemorrhage of  Yank Arms in Iraq 'Bazaar'

190,000 guns gone as arms sold 'by truckload'

Nov 11, 07 9:09 AM CST
(Newser) - An Iraqi businessman charged with distributing American guns to Iraqi policemen turned the cache into a personal arms bazaar in 2004-2005, selling massive amounts of weapons to foreign security guards, Iraqi militias and US contractors, reports the New York Times. “This was the craziest thing in the world,”... More »

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Iraq • weapon • militant • John Tisdale • Kassim al Saffar

Iraq To Buy Arms From China

Deal disturbs US officials

Oct 4, 07 10:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Iraqi government has ordered $100 million worth of weaponry from China, saying that US shipments have been too slow to supply Iraqi army and police forces, the Washington Post reports. Given that Iraq has already “lost” over 190,000 weapons, US officials aren’t happy about the deal,... More »

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Iraq • China • weapon • Iraq government

Blackwater May Have Smuggled Weapons in Iraq

Prosecutors think
the company gave equipment to terrorists

Sep 22, 07 1:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Controversy-magnet Blackwater USA may have smuggled weapons into Iraq, the BBC reports. Federal prosecutors are investigating charges that employees of the private security firm shipped unlicensed weapons to terrorist groups. Blackwater, blamed for  civilian deaths in a Baghdad gunfight last week, confirmed that it fired two employees  for stealing company... More »

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Turkey • terrorism • Blackwater • North Carolina • weapon

Arrested Iranian Trained Iraq Terrorists: US

Tehran's trade delegate also accused of smuggling weapons

Sep 20, 07 1:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US military said today it arrested an Iranian who allegedly smuggled bombs for use against US and Iraqi forces, the Los Angeles Times reports. Aghawi Farhadi is also accused of training terrorists for Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Soldiers captured Farhadi in a pre-dawn raid in the northern city of Sulaymaniyah,... More »

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Iraq • Iran • US military • Revolutionary Guards • weapon • terrorist • arrest • tanks • Aghawi Farhadi

Russia Tests ‘Father of
All Bombs’

Boasts its newly tested weapon beats US ‘Mother of All Bombs’

Sep 12, 07 9:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia has tested a vacuum bomb as powerful as a nuclear weapon, christening it after an American nuke while insisting it's “not unleashing a new arms race.” Trumpeting the “father of all bombs” in a report on State TV, an army higher-up said that, unlike a nuclear... More »

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Afghanistan • Russia • Vladimir Putin • weapon • bomb • vacuum bomb

Americans Own 30%
of World's Guns

The world's largest arsenal works out to 90 firearms per 100 people

Aug 28, 07 9:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Americans form the biggest gun-toting posse on Earth, Reuters reports, boasting a high 90 firearms per 100 noncombatants. Other countries lag behind on a per capita basis: Yemen takes second with 61 per 100 and Finland places a surprising third with 56 for every 100 civilians. Many poor countries, like... More »

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Nigeria • America • weapon • Yemen • Small Arms Survey • gun violence • guns

DMX Hounded by Dog Abuse Claims

Officials seize 12 pit bulls, weapons from rapper’s AZ home

Aug 25, 07 3:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities seized 12 distressed pit bulls and a large cache of weapons from the Arizona home of rapper DMX yesterday, MTV says, after receiving a tip that the dogs were housed in inhumane conditions. The hip-hop star, whose real name is Earl Simmons, wasn’t home at the time of... More »

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Arizona • New Jersey • Michael Vick • animal cruelty • abuse • weapon • dogfighting • DMX • Earl Simmons • Cave Creek • dog

Italian Cops Bust Secret Iraqi Arms Deal

US kept in the dark as ministry ordered guns that might have outfitted militias

Aug 12, 07 11:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - A secret transaction providing the Iraqi government with over $40 million worth of weapons was uncovered by Italian police investigating local Mafiosi, the Guardian reports. Without the knowledge of American military commanders, the Iraqi interior ministry had ordered 105,000 rifles from arms traffickers, ostensibly to supply police. Italian police... More »

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Italy • Shia • weapon • militia • arms deal • Mafia • Iraq government • arms trafficking • guns

US Loses 30% of Iraq Weapons

That's 110,000 AK-47s, 80,000 pistols

Aug 6, 07 11:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nearly a third of US weapons doled out to Iraqi security forces over the past three years are unaccounted for, a GAO report says, and insiders are worried they've fallen into the hands of insurgents. The weapons that the Pentagon can no longer track include 110,000 AK-47 assault rifles... More »

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Iraq • Pentagon • insurgents • State Department • weapon • AK 47

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