Archive: Assault Weapons

CBS News
April 21, 2011
CBS News has learned that the Mexican Government has retained an American law firm to explore filing civil charges against U.S. gun manufacturers and distributors over the flood of guns crossing the border into...

CBS News
January, 2011

McCarthy, who is regarded as one of the toughest gun-control proponents on Capitol Hill, has dedicated her congressional service to reducing gun violence after a tragic incident in 1993 in which gunman Colin...

From the Journal Gazette, February 4,2011

Paul Helmke doesn’t blame partisan political rhetoric for last month’s shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz.
He blames politicians.

“The refusal of our elected officials to treat gun...