Category: Guns
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Now, you can’t ban guns at the public pool
By Lois Beckett
ProPublica
If you feel unsafe at a public pool in Charleston, W.Va., you may soon have the right to lie there on a towel with a handgun at your side. For 20 years, Charleston has been an island of modest gun restrictions in a very pro-gun rights state. But its gun laws are now likely to be rolled back… -
Ft. Lauderdale police start enforcing background checks for buyers at gun shows
By William Hladky
BrowardBulldog.org
Fresh efforts to enforce two county ordinances should prevent cash-and-carry gun sales at guns shows in Broward County for buyers who have not already passed a state background check. -
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Nullification: How states are making it a felony to enforce federal gun laws
By Lois Beckett
ProPublica
In mid-April, Kansas passed a law asserting that federal gun regulations do not apply to guns made and owned in Kansas. Under the law, Kansans could manufacture and sell semi-automatic weapons in-state without a federal license or any federal oversight. Kansas’ “Second Amendment Protection Act” backs up its states’ rights claims with a penalty aimed at federal agents: when dealing with “Made in Kansas” guns, any attempt to enforce federal law is now a felony. -
Fort Lauderdale police don’t enforce law requiring checks on buyers at gun shows
By William Hladky
BrowardBulldog.org
An apparent misreading of state law by the Fort Lauderdale Police has kept officers from enforcing a Broward County ordinance that requires criminal background checks on gun buyers at gun shows. -
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ATF’s weak enforcement; crippled oversight means troubled guns dealers can stay open years
By Fred Schulte
Center for Public Integrity
The federal agents who visited Scott Taylor’s rural Pennsylvania gun shop in early January 2010 — to conduct the store’s first inspection in more than three decades — found thousands of violations of firearm sales laws. But that wasn’t the end of the story. -
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Internet ammunition sales draw scrutiny
By Fred Schulte
Center for Public Integrity
Proposed legislation to regulate online purchases of ammunition and high-capacity magazines is bringing new attention to a growing cyberspace ammo market that has operated with little government oversight.
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