May 6, 2015
By Lauren Etter Bloomberg Politics May 6, 2015 Expanding the battle over the right to bear arms, U.S. legislatures that relaxed laws after the gun lobby’s decades-long push are now loosening restrictions on switchblades, dirks, daggers and poignards. The charge is being led by a group whose leadership includes a …
October 28, 2014
by Mark Pertschuk Like 45 other states in the US, Pennsylvania has already preempted local authority over firearms and ammunition. They did this on behalf of the gun lobby, and it means that local communities in Pennsylvania are very limited in what they can do to reduce gun deaths and …
November 13, 2013
KQED News – By Don Clyde Sunnyvale is a town outsiders know for its many corporate headquarters (including Yahoo!), the approximate location of the Blue Cube (a former military satellite tracking station) and, well, for being sunny. Read the article
July 19, 2013
By Mark Pertschuk, Grassroots Change None of us should know the names of Trayvon Martin or George Zimmerman. If we had the kind of sane gun laws that every other nation has, Zimmerman would never have been allowed, let alone encouraged, to carry a gun. Without his gun, the worst …