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Aborn Enters Gun Control Fray
Capital Tonight - 3 days ago
Richard Aborn, former President of the Brady Campaign and the current President of the Citizens Crime Commission of NYC, is engaging in a little pushback of this morning’s Times story that suggested there is little chance of movement in Wash…
Read more >>On Maddow, McCarthy Talks High-Capacity Magazine Ban [VIDEO]
The New York Observer - 3 days agoLong Island Democratic Rep. Carolyn McCarthy appeared on "The Rachel Maddow Show" yesterday to talk up her bill to ban high-capacity magazines. According to Politico, the bill goes further than the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 and wo…
Read more >>The madness of cross hairs, shots in the foot and the civility of blame
Examiner.com - 3 days agoDoes Sarah Palin have blood on her hands? Does she? Answer the question! Or the Tea Party for that matter? Care to blame someone not already mentioned? If, God forbid, Sarah Palin is ever put in the cross hairs of some perverted assassin’s w…
Read more >>McCarthy bill tougher than Clinton-era law
Politico - 4 days agoThe fiercest gun-control advocate in Congress released the text of a bill she plans to introduce next week that would outlaw high-capacity magazines like the one a gunman used to shoot 20 people in a matter of seconds in Arizona this weekend. Re…
Read more >>NY Congressman seeks to ban carrying a weapon near members of Congress
Examiner.com - 5 days ago
In the wake of last week’s tragic shooting in Tuscon last week Rep. Peter King (R - New York) says he plans to introduce Legislation to make carrying a weapon near a federal official a serious crime. King, the new chairman of the House…
Read more >>Peter King: Both Sides to Blame for Inflamed Rhetoric
The New York Observer - 6 days agoIn a brief interview after his Gun Control Press Conference with Mayor Michael Bloomberg today, Long Island Congressman Peter King weighed in on the big question that has been dominating the blogosphere: How much is the violent Rhetoric, of the …
Read more >>Mayor Mike Bloomberg Asks What Could Have Prevented Arizona Shooting, Talks Gun Control
Mediaite - 6 days ago
New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg called lawmakers on the Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition together for a City Hall meeting to discuss the Arizona shooting that left six dead and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords recovering from a bullet to t…
Read more >>King to introduce gun law
Politico - 6 days agoOne of the very few gun-control Republicans, Long Island's Peter King, tries this:
Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York, is planning to… Read more >>
