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A gun company CEO turns his quarterly earnings report into an attack on Hillary Clinton
Michael Fifer, the chief executive officer of Sturm, Ruger & Co., had excellent news to impart to his shareholders this week. Sales at the Southport, Conn., gun manufacturer were up a handsome 19% in the quarter ended July 2, compared from a year earlier, and profit per share was up 34%.
But a cloud is darkening the company’s destiny, Fifer cautioned during a conference call about the earnings report: politics. Put simply, the 2nd Amendment guaranteeing gun rights is under...
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A gun company CEO turns his quarterly earnings report into an attack on Hillary Clinton
Michael Fifer, the chief executive officer of Sturm, Ruger & Co., had excellent news to impart to his shareholders this week. Sales at the Southport, Conn., gun manufacturer were up a handsome 19% in the quarter ended July 2, compared from a...
Charities for Orlando victims have raised $15 million, but many lack direction and accountability
In the two weeks since the massacre at Pulse nightclub, more than $15 million in donations have poured into nearly 450 charitable campaigns related to the tragedy, many of them individual efforts that have been hastily created and with little to no...
It's time to revise or do away with the 2nd Amendment
To the editor: We can debate concealed carry, preventing people on the no-fly list from buying guns or the National Rifle Assn. But it seems more important for us to revisit the 2nd Amendment in light of recent American experience. (“Senate votes down...
Essential Politics: Democratic gun control filibuster stretches into second day
I’m Christina Bellantoni. This is Essential Politics, and Senate Democrats in Washington held the floor with a filibuster into the morning in hopes of passing gun control legislation.
After nearly 15 hours, the filibuster ended at 2:12 a.m.
Back in...
2nd Amendment talk is nonsense — until we control the weapons and the killing stops
Call that killer a radical Islamic terrorist. Call him a hateful homophobic. Or a homicidal wacko. It doesn’t matter much.
Words don’t kill. Weapons do.
What mattered most Sunday morning in the deadliest mass shooting in American history was that...
Democrat mounts gun-control filibuster on U.S. Senate floor
Orlando terror attack updates: Obama meets with victims' families in Orlando
June 16, 2016, 6:43 p.m.
Forty-nine people are dead and at least 53 injured in the deadliest shooting in American history after Omar Mateen, a...
Charter groups bridle at LAUSD's order to 'wand' students to detect weapons
The box of hand-held metal detectors arrived out of the blue and without an explanation in December. Principal Kristin Botello shoved them in a closet and carried on with her work at her South Los Angeles charter school.
Botello later learned...
Today’s UCLA murder-suicide was the 186th U.S. school shooting since Sandy Hook in 2012
UCLA shooting updates: Woman who was married to UCLA shooter lived at Minnesota crime scene
June 3, 2016, 10:56 a.m.
What we know:
Mainak Sarkar shot William S. Klug, his former professor, and then committed suicide in...
As Clinton and Sanders spar over gun control, Newtown, Conn., is drawn into an unwanted spotlight
East Coast primaries: Trump and Clinton have strong nights while Sanders edges away from White House bid
April 26 2016, 9:09 PM
Front-runners Donald Trump and...
Trump campaign to Republican officials: He'll soften his tone for the general election
Trump campaign to Republican officials: He'll soften his tone for the general election
April 21 2016, 5:05 PM
The Republican National Committee's rules committee...
Clinton campaigns at somber gun roundtable in Connecticut
Trump campaign to Republican officials: He'll soften his tone for the general election
April 21 2016, 5:05 PM
The Republican National Committee's rules committee...
Judge rules Newtown lawsuit against gun maker can go forward
A lawsuit can go forward against the maker of the rifle used in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Conn., a judge ruled Thursday.
Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis said that a 2005 federal law protecting gun makers from...
With emotions high, Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic reopens after gunman's attack
Nearly three months after a gunman killed three people and injured nine others during an attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic here, the battered facility quietly reopened Monday with little but a steely sense of resolve to mark the occasion.
“We are...
Sundance 2016: A film festival tackles gun violence, from many angles
There were more than 40 mass shootings in the United States last year, prompting many politicians to hold forth and a large number of Americans to simply shake their heads. What needed to happen, they asked, for these tragedies to stop?Now a new group is...
How things change when there is a mass shooting in your legislative district
When news broke of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) knew he’d call Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Redlands), stepping into an uncomfortably familiar role of counseling a member of Congress whose district just went through a tragedy....
The day Obama went off-script and switched gears on gun control policy
On the afternoon that he decided to launch perhaps the most controversial effort of his second term – gun control by executive order – President Obama took one look at remarks written for him to address a mass shooting in Oregon and warned his team he...
At memorial services for San Bernardino victims, 'a different kind of grief in people's faces'
As he stood next to the casket Friday, and then near another Saturday, Bob Kirk studied faces in the crowd.
The 74-year-old funeral service director has worked memorials for a decade, but the ceremonies he assisted at last week for two of the men...
Published in Los Angeles Times on December 14, 2015 — Print headline: "`A different kind of grief' - For one funeral director, San Bernardino memorial services felt distinct"
Aiming to bring smart guns to U.S. market
Tim Oh, 19, is an Anaheim-born and -raised engineering student with a promising idea: It's a sturdy metal gun safe keyed to the owner's fingerprint, so it can't be opened by strangers or children. He also has a $10,000 grant from the San Francisco-based...
Published in Los Angeles Times on December 13, 2015 — Print headline: "Smart guns need their niche"
Connecticut wants its own gun sale ban based on terrorism watch lists
After last week's mass shooting in San Bernardino, the state of Connecticut will seek to ban gun sales to prospective buyers who are on the nation's "no-fly" list and other terrorism watch lists, its governor announced Thursday.
The move...
Published in Los Angeles Times on December 11, 2015 — Print headline: "New focus on background checks - Connecticut wants its own ban on gun sales to those on watchlists."
Customers rush to gun stores to ease fears after San Bernardino shooting
After Gun Boss Armory opened for business Monday morning in a Redlands strip mall, Matt Nicholson was among those who walked through the door.
"I've never owned a gun before," Nicholson told an employee behind the counter who handed him a...
Published in Los Angeles Times on December 09, 2015 — Print headline: "To allay fears, a rush to buy guns - Area stores report brisk sales to people seeking protection."