The US government's Department of Defense Trade Controls have demanded that 3D-printing innovators Defense Distributed remove a controversial blueprint for a printable gun from their website.
The National Rifle Association released new recommendations as part of its controversial School Shield program on April 2nd, most notably including a suggestion to hire armed guards to serve in every public school.
The state of Connecticut has enacted some of the toughest gun laws in the US as of April 1st, legislative leaders announced after coming to a consensus on the measures — a legislative breakthrough linked to the tragic Newtown shootings in December.
A nine-year-old boy was killed and two women were wounded after a single shooter began firing a handgun in bursts at passing cars in Oakdale, Minnesota, a suburb of St Paul.
Jonathan Schwartz, a salesman at the National Armory gun store, helps Reese Magnant as he looks to buy a National Armory AR-15 Battle Entry Assault Rifle on January 16, 2013 in Pompano Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
The National Rifle Association attended White House task force talks on gun laws Thursday — and they weren't impressed.
In a statement released on the gun advocacy group's website, the NRA stated that it was "disappointed with how little this meeting had to do with keeping our children safe and how much it had to do with an agenda to attack the Second Amendment."
"In the end, after he has felt the full force of our justice system, what will be remembered are the good people who were impacted by this tragedy," President Barack Obama told Aurora last night.
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