Firearms Owners Against Crime

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The guns and grenades of gangland Britain :: 09/22/2012

Down the years the 57-year-old made numerous trips to Germany, buying replica pistols for £40 a time before smuggling them into the UK.

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The Mission :: 09/02/2012

The Firearms Owners Against Crime (FOAC) is non-partisan, non-connected

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Cass Sunstein to Leave WH 'Regulatory Czar' Post & Return to Harvard Law School :: 08/05/2012

Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama's "regulatory czar," will leave his administration post and head back to Harvard Law School later this month, Politico reported Friday morning:

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Deputy Director William Hoover resigns from ATF in wake of critical report :: 08/05/2012

Washington (CNN) -- ATF Deputy Director William Hoover has resigned, just days after a congressional report on Operation Fast and Furious sharply criticized him and four other ATF officials for the botched gun-trafficking operation.

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Kathleen Kane: Independence Makes Me Better Choice for PA AG :: 07/27/2012

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kathleen Kane, the Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania attorney general, said Thursday her independence from party politics makes her the better choice for voters and suggested that technology could be put to better use in fighting certain types of crime.

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Aurora Gunmans Lethal Arsenal :: 07/23/2012

The three types of weapons used by the man accused of killing 12 people in a Colorado movie theater — a semiautomatic variation of the military’s M-16 rifle, a pump-action 12-gauge shotgun and at least one .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol — are among the most popular guns available in the multibillion-dollar American firearms market.

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Are PA Police Above The Law? :: 07/22/2012

I wanted to bring an issue to your attention: Requests to investigate anti-gun Philly top cop's 'gun crimes' ignored . I live in Monroe Township, so I have copied my own representatives as well as trying to send it to all representatives of Philadelphia.

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Mass shooting prompts calls from Capitol Hill and beyond for tighter gun laws :: 07/22/2012

The call for federal lawmakers to tighten gun laws has intensified following the mass shooting in Colorado, with New Jersey Democratic Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg urging Congress on Saturday to swiftly address a ban on certain weapons.

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Off-duty cop shoots, kills son after mistaking him for intruder :: 07/22/2012

OLD FORGE, NY - State troopers say a police officer in New York shot and killed his son, mistaking him for an intruder.

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'Gun-free zones' never gun free :: 07/21/2012

In the very early morning hours on July 20, I was in Aurora preparing to fly out of Denver International Airport when, standing at the gate, I pulled up the terrible news on my mobile telephone. As a Colorado resident since 1989, I was reminded of the day in 1999 when I rushed to pick up my sons from their Jefferson County public schools after gunmen invaded Columbine High School.

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UN gun control treaty will reveal gun laws Obama really supports :: 07/20/2012

Sometime later this week, the UN will finally unveil its Arms Trade Treaty. The exact date the treaty will be released is a secret.

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Requests to investigate anti-gun Philly top cop's 'gun crimes' ignored :: 07/17/2012

Commonwealth and municipal legal authorities have punted and ignored requests to investigate Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey for misdemeanor and felony violations of Pennsylvania's Uniform Firearms Act, attorney Joshua Prince informed Gun Rights Examiner over the weekend.

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Bank of America Assaults Second Amendment :: 07/16/2012

Banking giant refuses to maintain, open accounts for gun makers

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More Records Released in Trayvon Martin Case :: 07/16/2012

MIAMI - A wide-ranging investigation of George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin , found a man not prone to violence or prejudice and who moved easily between racial and ethnic groups - a "decent guy," "a good human being." The assessments, made public on Thursday, came from interviews with friends, co-workers and neighbors who were interviewed by the F.B.I. and state and local law-enforcement authorities. They are part of a pretrial cache of documents in the case that have been released periodically by Angela B. Corey, the special prosecutor. The F.B.I. was brought in to conduct a federal civil rights investigation, which is focused on whether there was racial bias involved in the shooting and in the handling of the case.

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Officer shouted racial slur before 2nd cop killed black man :: 07/16/2012

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - An officer named in a police-brutality lawsuit shouted a racial slur at a black man before another officer killed him, a lawyer for the dead man's family said.

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Rifle-Toting Teen Found Not Guilty; Jury Says: 'We Upheld the Law' :: 07/16/2012

A seven-member jury found Troy's Sean Combs not guilty of disturbing the peace and brandishing a firearm after the 18-year-old was discovered carrying a firearm in downtown Birmingham in April.

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Fast & Furious Links :: 07/15/2012

Operation Fast and Furious: 7/3/2012, Tuesday

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Obama expected to sign global gun control treaty :: 07/15/2012

While most of the news outlets in the United States have engulfed Americans in news coverage regarding the economy and the 2012 presidential elections, little if any news coverage exists about major actions being considered by President Barack Obama and progressive lawmakers, including the signing of a United Nations gun control treaty on July 27, according to Dick Morris , a former Bill Clinton political advisor.

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2012-06-23 Unplugged metal detector triggers JFK chaos: sources :: 06/25/2012

These fools are keeping us safe?!?

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Fast And Furious Did Not Begin Under President Bush :: 06/25/2012

Scandal: The president's spokesman confuses a "controlled delivery" operation known as Wide Receiver with the quite different Fast and Furious and couldn't even remember the name of the Border Patrol agent killed by it.

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