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Illegal Guns

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

NJ Mayors Group: Enough Is Enough on Illegal Guns

Mayors Against Illegal Guns wants stricter federal laws to rein in gun violence and access to certain weapons.

Mayors from across the Garden State converged on a North Jersey town today to rebuke federal politicians for their inaction on gun control measures. New Jersey's contingent of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, an 800-strong coalition nationwide, voiced their frustration with Congress for not acting to ban assault weapons, make gun trafficking a federal crime or increase background checks on potential gun owners. The group met in Cranford, just as counterparts from Vermont to New Mexico held their own local meetings. "It has nothing to do with the Second Amendment; it's about gun violence," said former New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio, who joined the group of local legislative leaders and law enforcement officials. Florio took much of the credit for …

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WDNeedsHelp

4:42 pm on Thursday, January 17, 2013

This "Limit" should also go for womens shoes....would save thousands of marriages a year. How ridiculous do you want to get? If I want 1 gun or 100 it's my business not the governments.   more ›

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Alleged ‘Anti-Government Extremist’ Charged for Illegal Guns

Gregory Gawrysiak, of Haddon Township, previously threatened to kill law enforcement officers and then amassed several illegal guns, officials say.

A Haddon Township man was arrested Thursday on a slew of gun charges, and authorities say he’s also a member of a federally recognized anti-government extremist group. Gregory Gawrysiak, 46, of the first block of Emerald Avenue in Haddon Township, was arrested Thursday morning at his home for illegally possessing several firearms. Gawrysiak was ineligible to buy new firearms after a 2010 incident in which he allegedly threatened to kill law enforcement officers, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office reported. Police confiscated a firearm from him at that time. While Gawrysiak wasn’t charged, he relinquished his firearms identification card and his eligibility to purchase new guns. After the 2010 investigation, officials learned Gawrysiak …

Joe

8:12 am on Friday, January 11, 2013

Good for his relatives to turn him in. Some people do have a brain.   more ›

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