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...keep local knowledge in stock, which allows it to compete with hometown shops. It hires local guides and gear experts to staff the stores. "See that guy over there? He's the best gunsmith in the area," says employee Dan Kardash, pointing to a man hunched over a firearm. Kardash himself is a fishing guide who runs the store's fishing department...
...virtual urban plague that ends young lives, sunders families and turns schools into maximum-security prisons. Andrew Niccol's Lord of War imagines that a Ukrainian-American named Yuri (Nicolas Cage) could rise through the arms-dealing underworld, Scarface-style, spreading the virulence around the globe. There's "one firearm for every 12 people on the planet," Yuri says. "The only question is, How do we arm the other...
...Returning power to the states meant sticking it to Congress, which Rehnquist was able to do after another antifederal conservative, Clarence Thomas, joined the court in 1991. In a seminal 1995 decision, the Chief Justice wrote for the majority that Congress had no right to outlaw firearm possession near schools, since law enforcement and education were state matters. Five years later, the court also struck down part of the Violence Against Women Act; Rehnquist wrote in the decision that "we can think of no better example of the police power, which the Founders denied the National Government and reposed...
...state turf. The argument rests on how one reads the Constitution's Commerce Clause, an omnibus notion that allows Congress to regulate interstate commerce but has frequently been used as an all-purpose regulatory vehicle. The high court has overturned a federal law that barred possession of a firearm within 1,000 ft. of a school and parts of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, deciding these laws had nothing to do with interstate activities...
...police officers who pursued him after the killing that his aim indeed was to kill and be killed, some of them found it difficult to hide their tears. In a culture where a policeman, as one testifying officer put it, can be proud he has not used his firearm for 28 years, such dedication to violence is unheard of. Court spokesperson Marjoke van Kamp said: "He is making it very difficult for the court to be mild." The verdict is due on July 26 and is widely expected to deliver a life sentence without parole. One question remains: How could...