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...mask A gun or firearm Neither Not sure...
...Newark International with an impossibly large pile of stuff. Multiple pairs of skis, poles, clothing, waxes and a portable ski bench only rounded out half the load. The other half included various shooting accessories including, of course, my rifle. During my years of working summers in Alaska I transported firearms regularly during travels to the last frontier. However, no matter how many times you do it, there is nothing like walking through a crowded airport with a fully functional firearm and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in your bags. It never ceases to amaze me that you can just casually...
...When it comes to the issues of guns themselves, of course, there is significant divergence. In an interview on Monday with TIME.com, the National Rifle Association's Trish Gregory contended that regulating guns will not lower the incidence of firearm deaths in schools. There is much more to gun violence than guns, she says. Gregory uses catchphrases like "moral decline" and "parental responsibility" to emphasize the vast range of factors she says contribute to teenage gun violence...
Just 15 years later, my parents and my school must seem spectacularly negligent. In the past few years, 17 states have made it a crime to leave a loaded firearm within reach of a minor. And you don't have to bring a gun to school to get suspended. In the post-Columbine era, a fingernail clipper will do, or a pair of scissors, according to a Harvard report released last year on zero-tolerance policies against "weapons...
...brief from the official California Justice Department web site reads: "In most cases, if you keep any loaded firearm within any premise which is under your custody or control and know or reasonably should know that a child (person under 16 years of age) is likely to gain access to the firearm, you may be guilty of a felony if a child gains access to that firearm and thereby causes death or injury to any person unless the firearm was in a secure locked container or locked with a locking device that rendered it inoperable...