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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.
Sarah Palin must have thought she was back on the campaign trail with Sen. John McCain's "handlers" when she reached the Fort Bragg Post Exchange Monday. News accounts report that the former vice-presidential candidate's "to do" list was shorter than her "do not do" list. She could not make a speech, write personal notes, pose for photographs or sign anything other than autographing her book.
Three people declare their candidacy in the races for House Districts 92, 93 and 96.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and her former ardent foe, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-Mineola), announced they were teaming up to sponsor legislation to combat gun trafficking.
"These Judges deserve to be killed," declared Harold "Hal" Turner on his Web site in June, attacking three 7th Circuit judges who had upheld Chicago-area bans on handguns. On Dec. 1, Turner is due to go to trial in a federal case that will turn on whether his Web postings are protected as an exercise of free speech or constitute a "true threat" that posed imminent danger to the targets. Also ...
In a post-election confession session Monday night at a Belltown bar, the chief strategists from Joe Mallahan's failed mayoral campaign portrayed their candidate as overly altruistic and so unable to stay on message that they hid him from the public.
It may come as a surprise to many of his Democratic supporters, but Attorney General and gubernatorial hopeful Jerry Brown has gone to bat for the National Rifle Association. The NRA's cause: urging the U.S. Supreme Court to guarantee the ability of gun...
The government of the United States was well balanced when President Reagan took office in 1981. The unions were strong enough to represent the common ...
In the Republican primary for Florida agriculture commissioner, U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam of Bartow seems like a natural.But state Sen. Carey Baker of Eustis intends to put up a fight against Putnam in the primary. Claiming the role of the true conservative in the race, he hopes to turn the race into the kind of ideological battle that's becoming common in the Republican Party.
In recent days, more than a half-dozen callers to Lowcountry Outfitters have inquired about South Ca
When Alyce Sue Mikel says her all-around outdoorsman husband Jack Mikel could fix anything, she isn't kidding."We live in a forest and he'd chop down all the dead trees into kindling for the wood stove in the garage, where he'd pull the cars, truck, tractor and bulldozer and work on them," Alyce Sue, of Wilmington, said. "He graded the driveways for the neighbors and plowed their snow for them ...
Two days into Mississippi's gun season for deer hunters, a man was killed and two others hospitalized Sunday in two shootings.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina shoppers will get a second chance to buy tax-free guns. The state Revenue Department sent out a reminder Wednesday of the upcoming "Second Amendment Weekend." The 48-hour tax break begins just after midnight the...
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a known gun control advocate, and has built a national platform to stem the flow of illegal guns into cities and towns. The group he co-founded in 2006, Mayors Against Ille....
Night on the ice: Mike Crum with the DeSoto chapter of Friends of the National Rifle Association (FNRA) is appealing to "all hunters, shooters and sports men/women" to support the chapter's tie-in when the Mississippi RiverKings host the Shreveport Mud Bugs on Dec. 12 at 7:05 at the DeSoto Civic Center. Tickets are $15 and if purchased from a FNRA committee comes with a raffle ticket attached ...
As Fox Valley gun-deer hunters hit the woods this weekend, some types of ammunition are in short supply.