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REDWOOD CITY — Gun rights supporters want to shoot down two proposed ordinances that would require gun owners in unincorporated San Mateo County to report lost or missing guns and further restrict firearms dealers.
NEW YORK | A police officer is gunned down in his patrol car in Penn Hills, Pa., while waiting for backup. Near Seattle, four officers starting their day at a coffee shop are ambushed by an ex-con with a handgun. Another four officers are shot to death in Oakland, Calif., after a traffic stop gone awry. Across the nation, 2009 was a particularly perilous year for officers involved in gun ...
Across the nation, 2009 was a particularly perilous year for officers involved in gun disputes, with the number of officers killed in the line of duty by gunfire up 24 percent from 2008. In the past decade, small spikes in gunfire deaths have been common, but experts say they are surprised by the number of officers this year who have been specifically targeted by gunmen.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A police officer is gunned down in his patrol car in Penn Hills, Pa., while waiting for backup.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It’s been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars.
MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY: The hard-fought contest to succeed Robert Morgenthau, the 34-year incumbent, as chief prosecutor in Manhattan features three highly credentialed criminal justice professionals.
[ EDITOR'S NOTE: On the morning of October 31, less than 24 hours after this story was published, Republican Dede Scozzafava posted a statement on her campaign website that read, in part: "It is increasingly clear that pressure is mounting on many of my supporters to shift their support.
NEW YORK - A police officer is gunned down in his patrol car in Penn Hills, Pa., while waiting for backup. Near Seattle, four officers starting their day at a coffee shop are ambushed by an ex-convict with a handgun.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - It's been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, ha ...
Concerned citizens from across Ohio gathered yesterday on the Statehouse lawn to support the rally for common sense gun laws which was sponsored by the Ohio chapters of the Million Mom March and the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence.
HUNTINGTON -- One local business prepares not only to teach the community how to protect themselves in dangerous situations, but use firearms properly. Zach and Jeff Adkins will be opening Tristate Academy in January 2010.
A Pierce County Sheriff deputy runs to the site where four police officers were killed in an ambush at the Forza Coffee Co. near Parkland, Wash., on Nov. 29, 2009.
A police officer is gunned down in his patrol car in Penn Hills, Pa., while waiting for backup. Near Seattle, four officers starting their day at a coffee shop are ambushed by an ex-con with a handgun. Another four officers are shot to death in Oakland, Calif., after a traffic stop gone awry. Across the nation, 2009 was a particularly perilous year for officers involved in gun disputes.
A Moore County man is taking his case over his constitutional right to bear arms to the state's highest court after a split opinion by the N.C. Court of Appeals last week. A Moore County jury convicted Douglas Dwayne Whitaker on 11 counts of possession of a firearm by a felon after a sheriff's deputy saw some guns at his house and a subsequent search found "11 rifles and shotguns in the gun ...
47 officers have died due to gunshot wounds this year.
Perilous Year for Police in Gun Disputes, With 47 U.S. Officers Killed on Duty
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