Showing posts with label guns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label guns. Show all posts
Friday, September 13, 2024

Guns for everyone, from 3-D printers

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 Unregulated guns made on 3-D printers are now becoming more available.   The NYT has the story: He’s Known as ‘Ivan the Troll.’ His 3D-Prin...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Mexico’s Law Suit Against US Gun Dealers

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U.S. gun dealers are protected against lawsuits stemming from crimes committed by their customers. by the  Protection of Lawful Commerce in ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

American guns fuel Haiti's gangs

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The U.S. is an importer of illegal drugs, and an exporter of illegal firearms (i.e. firearms whose sale is legal, even protected in the U.S....
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Guns and drugs on the U.S. Mexico border

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 Here are two stories about some of the illegal traffic on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. First, the war on drugs is fought with A...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

US halts export of most civilian firearms and ammunition for 90 days.

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One of many things that makes the U.S. unusual is the Constitutionally protected status of gun ownership and gun sales here.  Guns being gun...
Monday, May 8, 2023

Guns and gun control

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  In the U.S., gun sales are both a protected transaction and a repugnant one. The right to bear arms is protected by the 2nd Amendment to t...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

The (American) market for assault rifles

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There was a time when Americans thought that rifles were for hunting game, and assault weapons were banned.  That has changed. The Washingto...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Arms for children but not women in Missouri

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 The Washington Post has the story: Missouri Republicans block proposed ban on kids carrying guns in public By Timothy Bella "The Repub...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Domestic abusers have the right to bear arms--5th Circuit Court of Appeals

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 In the U.S., the right to bear arms is a protected transaction. That can lead to some controversial decisions.  Here's the story from B...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

The trade in guns and drugs on the Mexico-US border

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 It's well known that a lot of illegal drugs enter the U.S. over the border with Mexico.  Less well known in the U.S. is that a lot of g...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Towards greater gun safety in San Jose

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 The mayor of San Jose, CA, has some thoughts on making guns and gun ownership less dangerous, in a  NY Times opinion column: 400 Million Gu...
Sunday, March 27, 2022

Guns (concealed carry) and marijuana (recreational): two US maps

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  In both maps, brown is the color of permissiveness.  E.g. on the northern border, only Maine and Montana don't require permits/prescri...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Doctors and guns

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  Americans are divided about  guns, and so are American doctors. While the American Medical Association regards guns as a public health cri...
Thursday, August 12, 2021

Guns and public health: research funds available again

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  Here's the story, from the Journal of the American Medical Association: Gun Violence Researchers Are Making Up for 20 Years of Lost Ti...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Bikes and guns while sheltering in place in Santa Clara County (bikes are essential, guns are not)

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From the Santa Clara County Department of Public Health, a new shelter in place order that defines, among other things, "essential bus...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Gun sales in America: both repugnant and protected transactions

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Two stories remind me of the special status of gun sales in the U.S., and the corresponding political divisions between those who would lik...
Friday, January 5, 2018

Black markets in guns without serial numbers

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The WSJ has the story: The Rise of Untraceable ‘Ghost Guns’ An emerging black-market gun-making industry lets buyers bypass background c...
Monday, November 6, 2017

The American market for machine guns

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Here's an extensive excerpt from a long article on thefirearmblog.com on the (complicated) legal status of machine gun sales in the U.S...
Sunday, November 5, 2017

The market for hunting exotic animals without traveling to exotic places

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The NY Times has a story about the Ox Ranch , which describes itself as offering  "18,000 acres of the best Texas Hill Country Hunting...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Cocks Not Glocks at the University of Texas: Repugnant and protected transactions

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The law allowing students to bring their guns to campus (if they are licensed and at least 21 years old) has now gone into effect, and has...