Category: Guns
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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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After Sandy Hook shootings, NRA campaign clout still formidable
By Joe Eaton
The Center for Public Integrity
The National Rifle Association is keeping silent in response to calls for gun control measures in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Yet the massive trail of political money spent by the group shows the potent force any proposals for new restrictions will likely face when the anger and dismay over Sandy Hook recedes. -
Broward may finally get the lead out at Markham Park; environmental clean up nears at gun range
By Tom Lassiter and Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
After years of delay, Broward officials are finally poised to tackle the hazard posed by hundreds of tons of lead that’s been accumulating at the Markham Park Target Range since it opened in the 1980s.
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