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Group uses Bible to justify destroying assault rifles to make garden tools
A Colorado group promoting social justice and sustainability is using the Bible as justification for recycling assault rifles to create garden tools. The Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission on Monday announced that it was partnering with Mike Martin of RAWtools — which is “war” spelled backwards — to launch…
New York passes tough new gun control laws
New York on Tuesday passed what supporters called the toughest gun ownership law in the country and became the first US state to impose new restrictions in the wake of last month’s elementary school massacre in Connecticut. Lawmakers in the lower house of the State Assembly voted 104-43 in favor…
Rahm Emanuel pushes to end investments in gun manufacturers
Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago who acted as White House chief of staff until 2010, is hoping to initiate a nationwide campaign of disinvestment from companies that make and sell military-style assault rifles along the lines of the 1980s disinvestment from apartheid South Africa. Emanuel has instructed the fund…
Walmart sells out of assault rifles in five states: report
In the wake of the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, mega-retailer Walmart has sold out of its stock of assault rifles in five states, according to Bloomberg News. The company said Wednesday it had no plans to stop selling semi-automatic assault rifles like the Bushmaster .223, which…
Bill Kristol: People don’t have a right to assault rifles
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol on Sunday broke with fellow conservatives and backed restrictions the sales of “assault weapons” like the AR-15 that was allegedly used to kill at least 12 people and wound 58 others in Aurora, Colorado last week. “People have a right to handguns and hunting rifles,”…
11 killed in attack on Mexican drug rehab center
Gunmen using assault rifles have shot their way through a drug rehabilitation center in northwestern Mexico, killing 11 people and wounding at least nine others , police said. Dead bodies were strewn across blood-soaked beds, armchairs and floor at the church-operated rehabilitation center in the city of Torreon after the…
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