No Shooter Ever Acts Alone: Gunrunning 101
David Lewisbey was a star football player at Thornton High School in Harvey, Illinois, south of Chicago. His nickname was "Big Man." He was reportedly well liked and doing very well with his business...
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NOT Breaking News: SCOTUS Continues to Deliberate the Straw Purchase Gun Case
Abramski v. US is the only gun case still pending as the Supreme Court finishes its current term the end of June.Twenty-five of this term's 70 cases have been fully argued and await decisions. Abramski...
View ArticlePaying an Intolerable Price is inflicting intolerable damage.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this weekend that Hamas would "pay an intolerable price" for its assaults on Israel.It is the people of Gaza who are paying the price, whether they are...
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The Sandy Hook Lawsuit: Is There Gun Justice in America?
The Sandy Hook massacre was the deadliest mass shooting at an elementary school in American history.On December 13, 2014, relatives and guardians of several children and adults filed a Wrongful Death...
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The Sandy Hook Lawsuit: A Microcosm of Gun Law
The gun industry usually gets what it wants from legislatures, like getting Congress to bestow immunity on it from deaths and injuries by use of its products. A lawsuit filed last month confronts that...
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The Sandy Hook Lawsuit: Skeptics Have Doubts
There is some skepticism about the prospects for Soto v Bushmaster Firearms, the lawsuit filed last month on behalf of nine of the children and adults killed and a survivor wounded in the massacre at...
View Article"This is Wide Open on Both Sides"
That was Joe Biden, in an interview this morning on ABC.George Stephanopoulos : Our latest polls show [Hillary Clinton] is the overwhelming choice of Democrats. Is there any chance you'd challenge her?...
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The Sandy Hook Lawsuit: Going to Federal Court
Bushmaster Firearms doesn't like to be sued. That's the bottom line. But dismissing it was not the first move for Bushmaster and the Remington Outdoor Company, its colleague in the lawsuit filed on...
View Article"You don't have to have a reason to die no more."
Last night, Wednesday, May 13th about 8pm., three young men got in a car to go shopping on the south side of Chicago. A vehicle pulled up next to them and gunned the three down.Twenty year old Shamari...
View ArticleEVERYone for President!
It's time, people, for you to join the presidential race for the White House in 2016.This is not an original idea. Two dozen candidates - and counting! - have made themselves available, many declared...
View ArticleHate Crime or Terrorism? Let Us Count the Ways
Much is being made whether the massacre of nine black worshippers in the venerable Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston is properly considered a "hate crime" or "domestic...
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Do Lax Gun Laws Violate a Community's Civil Rights?
Three villages neighboring the City of Chicago are being sued by Chicago residents for having gun laws that are too lax.Nearly 20 percent of guns recovered at crime scenes in Chicago come from gun...
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In Gun Violence, It's Never the Gun!
Look there. Or, look farther --- way over there. But don't look here. It's never the gun. It's the shooter, who is deranged, so we should address mental illness and cure it. It's a protest against...
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Federal Judge Returns Newtown Lawsuit to State Court. Where It Belongs.
Shortly after Soto v. Bushmaster was filed, pro-gun interests sidetracked it. Now, nine months after the case was filed, it is back in state court where it began."All my clients seek is an opportunity...
View ArticleBREAKING GUN NEWS: Lyons, IL, Agrees to Major Gun Shop Reform Proposals
In a unique approach to gun reform, a community coalition of Chicago residents affected by gun violence sued three municipalities on the edge of the City of Chicago earlier this year.The lawsuit was...
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SCOTUS Makes the Gun Guys Wait, Defers Hearing Bans on Assault Weapons and...
Faced with astonishing arguments from pro-gun advocates, SCOTUS continues to defer taking an appeal in a Second Amendment gun rights case.A city's ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines is...
View ArticleNOT Breaking News: SCOTUS, pressed to review assault weapons ban, says ... To...
Friedman v. City of Highland Park has been scheduled for discussion at four successive SCOTUS conferences. The case is a challenge to a ban of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines by a northern...
View ArticleWhere Guns Come From ... and Where They Go
How Gun Traffickers Get Around State Gun Laws… is the headline in this morning’s New York Times. Where guns used in crimes come from.The graphics below those headlines are maps of the United States and...
View ArticleHomeless Domestic Abuse Victim Convicted of Carrying Stun Gun. Second...
This is not a hypothetical case. Caetano v. Massachusetts is on the US Supreme Court’s doorstep. It offers constitutional questions for resolution — several of them — presenting issues SCOTUS has been...
View ArticleSCOTUS Refuses to Hear Assault Weapons Appeal. Thomas says 2nd Amendment now...
Does the Second Amendment forbid bans of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines?Not now. Until at least the next Court term next year, pro-gun-rights advocates will be sulking.The case was...
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