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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) People were paid with cash or cocaine to legally buy firearms in Virginia that were then peddled illegally on the streets of New York City, according to an indictment naming 11 suspects. The ring purchased dozens of firearms at Norfolk and Portsmouth gun shops and dumped them in New York in 2004 and 2005, the indictment unsealed this week in U.S. District Court said. Under the so-called straw gun purchases, convicted felons used friends and relatives with clean records to buy guns legally. The felons then sold the weapons for a high profit, federal prosecutors said. Seven...

Expressing concern that the United Nations' efforts to stem international gun running could impede the rights of U.S. gun owners, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., is proposing legislation to bar financing for the world organization should it infringe on Americans' Second Amendment rights. Critics of Vitter's bill, including Eric Howard of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, accuse the freshman senator of placating voters who oppose gun control and are cynical about the United Nations. Howard said the bill could torpedo international efforts to stem the flow of arms to brutal militias in Africa and elsewhere that target civilians, particularly...

On the surface there would seem to be little to unite the Aryan racialists of the neo-Nazi movement with the terrorists of radical Islam. To the neo-Nazis, Muslims are almost all members of ``inferior`` races; and to the Islamic terrorists, the neo-Nazis are almost without exception either atheists or members of fringe quasi-Christian sects. But the reality is that there has been close cooperation between Muslim extremists and Fascists ever since the founding of the Nazi movement in the 1920`s. For all of their differences, Muslim extremists and Nazis have always been united by a common group of beliefs and...

Posted at 2:35 PM, Pacific The May 8, 2000 article from U.S. News & World report reproduced below begins by stating that John Kerry conducted clandestine forays into Cambodia during the Vietnam War to deliver weapons to anticommunist forces. Because that statement isn't a direct quote of Kerry, I contacted the reporter, Kevin Whitelaw, this afternoon. Whitelaw still works at U.S. News & World report where he covers foreign affairs and intelligence matters. Hugh: "Did John Kerry tell you that he ran guns into Cambodia?" Kevin Whitelaw: "That's exactly what he told me." Mr. Whitelaw declined my invitation to appear...

August 17, 2004 Posted at 2:35 PM, Pacific The May 8, 2000 article from U.S. News & World report reproduced below begins by stating that John Kerry conducted clandestine forays into Cambodia during the Vietnam War to deliver weapons to anticommunist forces. Because that statement isn't a direct quote of Kerry, I contacted the reporter, Kevin Whitelaw, this afternoon. Whitelaw still works at U.S. News & World report where he covers foreign affairs and intelligence matters. Hugh: "Did John Kerry tell you that he ran guns into Cambodia?" Kevin Whitelaw: "That's exactly what he told me." Mr. Whitelaw declined my...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico complained on Saturday that U.S. authorities allow Mexican drug gangs to buy arms in the United States "as if they were candy" due to lax controls of gun sales in border states. The Mexican attorney general's office said Mexican gangs make drug runs into the United States in light aircraft and return loaded up with weapons. "Unfortunately, the United States does not have adequate control of guns shops in the border area and they sell arms as if they were candy," senior prosecutor Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos told a news conference. He said the attorney...

<p>Three Virginia men, two of them licensed gun dealers, were arrested yesterday on charges of illegal firearms trafficking, said U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty.</p> <p>James E. Rice III, 41, of Manassas, Philip J. Bailey, 32, of Cross Junction and Charles S. Hyink, 47, of Falls Church, were named on separate criminal complaints filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria.</p>

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - A Second Amendment rights group said Thursday that information publicized by a gun control group proves the pro-gun argument that regulating the behavior of law-abiding citizens does little or nothing to prevent crimes committed by outlaws using firearms. Americans for Gun Safety (AGS), a pro-gun control group that promotes itself as the voice of moderation in the Second Amendment debate, issued several press releases in mid-August decrying the "Nation's Leading Gun Trafficking States" and listing the 10 worst offenders. "Illegal gun traffickers have figured out that the feds simply don't enforce the gun laws on the...

Jul 28, 2003 http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/vametro/MGBXJ60SNID.html Misleading, ATF says of findings BY MARK BOWES TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Federal officials have called misleading a report by a national gun-control group that lists 10 gun dealers, including one in Chesterfield County, among the nation's worst in selling guns linked to crimes. Using government statistics, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence this month released a list of licensed gun sellers it regards as "the worst players in the gun industry - gun sellers that recklessly operate their businesses and allow criminals to get guns." The group cited Southern Police Equipment at 7609 Midlothian Turnpike...

<p>Federal officials have called misleading a report by a national gun-control group that lists 10 gun dealers, including one in Chesterfield County, among the nation's worst in selling guns linked to crimes.</p> <p>Using government statistics, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence this month released a list of licensed gun sellers it regards as "the worst players in the gun industry - gun sellers that recklessly operate their businesses and allow criminals to get guns."</p>

The IDF Spokesman issued a terse "no comment" on an exclusive report in yesterday's New York Post suggesting that the army sunk a fishing boat bound for Gaza with a cargo of weapons from the Hizbullah. The report was written by Uri Dan, considered a close confidant of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and apparently caught Israeli military censors by surprise. According to the New York Post, the Palestinians were unaware of the fate of the boat, which sank "just days ago before it could reach the shores of Gaza." But an extensive report in Yediot Aharonot, published only after the...