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...The campaign was co-ordinated with a high degree of operational security and almost exclusively through encrypted communications, Austrian officials said....
...The public outcry resulted in a strict new firearms law that banned most private ownership of guns. That was the UK’s last mass school shooting....
...Chart of the day While the damage done by a semi-automatic is diabolical, rifles account for just 5 per cent of US firearm homicides — a figure that has not changed in two decades....
...Sturm, Ruger & Co has declined by a similar amount. The sheer ordinariness of US trading in military-style firearms is underlined by buy-now-pay-later financing....
...“Initially, Ukrainian officials maintained registers of firearms handed out to civilians, but this practice was abandoned as the war progressed and firearms have been distributed without records since then...
...Republicans offer impotent “thoughts and prayers” while heading to the National Rifle Association’s next convention....
...That law protects gun companies from harm “caused by the criminal or unlawful misuse of firearm products”, dictating that they cannot be sued in federal or state court....
...Reznikov conceded it was not “absolutely impossible” that firearms could be smuggled across Ukraine’s borders into the EU....
...Kyiv estimates Ukrainian households have 1mn firearms, many of them hunting rifles but also semi-automatic weapons....
...In all the hours of motoring we didn’t see a human soul, save a line of soldiers with heavy packs and rifles, trudging along a remote beach....
...Many of the great American gun-making names, such as Remington, Winchester, Colt and Marlin, have had at least one trip to bankruptcy courts....
...Sujeet Indap The National Rifle Association filed for Chapter 11 protection last month in a move that surprised observers both of the firearms advocacy group and the bankruptcy world....
...That work this year has also included her role as co-chair for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign; in fact, she was even considered as a vice-presidential pick....
...“There are many banks that don’t want to work with firearms companies,” he said, adding: “The insurance market has tightened up with regard to firearms.”...
...“The impact on the firearms industry of even a few courts following the Connecticut Supreme Court would be profound,” the gunmaker said in its appeal to the US Supreme Court in August....
...Dick’s had already stopped selling assault-style rifles and ended gun sales to under-21s after the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, last year....
...of common rifles and shotguns without an official record of those guns being kept anywhere....
...Sturm, Ruger & Co. was up 2 per cent....
...His office in Brasília is adorned with framed rifle rounds, bobblehead figurines of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump and a sports cap that reads “Trump 2020”....
...It has also argued that investing in such gun safety initiatives would be “irresponsible” due to low interest among firearm consumers for smart gun products....
...advocate groups such as the National Rifle Association....
...So, given that an AK-47 is unlikely to be acceptable, how about an air rifle?...
...Lockton said: “As part of our settlement, we will continue to co-operate with the New York regulators to remediate any issues or concerns.”...
...Walmart stopped stocking AR-15s and other assault-style firearms in 2015....
...Last week big US companies, including airlines and car rental companies, cut ties with the National Rifle Association on the back of a social media campaign by student survivors of the school attack....
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