Local news reports
Two people were hurt in an accidental shooting early Saturday morning at a south Wichita bar.
It happened around 1:30 a.m. at Shot Time II in the 32000 block of South Exposition, near 31st Street South and Seneca.
Sgt. Ron Hunt said officers were originally called to the report of two walk-in shooting victims at Via Christi-St. Joseph hospital. One man said he accidentally discharged his handgun while at the bar. The bullet went through his right thigh and into the left thigh of the other man seated beside him.
Their injuries are not considered life-threatening.
Sgt. Hunt said the man who had the gun has a concealed carry handgun (CCH) license and admitted to having several drinks while in possession of the firearm.
He also refused to cooperate with law enforcement, Hunt said. He was arrested for aggravated battery.
Monday, February 17, 2014
Guns in America: Gun Sales are Plunging
Sales of guns and ammo are losing steam after a frenzied run-up sparked by fears of greater restrictions in the wake of the Newtown shooting and other massacres.
Background checks by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, considered to be the most accurate means of tracking gun sales, plunged by a third in January compared to the year before. There were about 1.66 million background checks last month, and nearly 2.5 million in January the year before.
In the past two years, gun shop owners and consumers have complained of ammunition shortages and a dearth in fast-selling semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines, even as manufacturing ramped up.
But the shortage appears to be over. "Retail inventories, which had been in short supply last spring, have largely returned to normal now," wrote Rommel Dionisio, a gun industry analyst for Wedbush, in a recent report.
"Monthly comparisons have recently turned sharply negative, a trend we expect to last through at least May or June 2014," Dionisio wrote.
Dionisio said the "feared tightening of gun control legislation," which was the initial motivation for buying up guns and ammo at such a frenetic pace, has subsided.
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Functional Human Being: A Moment of Silence
A 12 year old girl gets it about the "get away with murder laws"--why can't some adults?
Functional Human Being: A Moment of Silence: I shouldn't even know their names. They should be hanging out with their friends or having dinner with their families. They should be a...
Functional Human Being: A Moment of Silence: I shouldn't even know their names. They should be hanging out with their friends or having dinner with their families. They should be a...
Play Bango with gun loon cliches
Or, a Campy comment generator--no need to think necessary. In fact, use one of these cliches and then add your own ignorant statement to be like just like Campy.
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