Only in America... 5-year-old gets a rifle as birthday present... then...

[baybizz]

Only in America...  5-year-old shoots his 2-year-old baby sister with his new birthday present - a rifle...

"In this part of the country, it's not uncommon for a 5-year-old to have a gun...

"It's just tragic... It's something that you can't prepare for...."

                     
                        
http://forums.ebay.com/db1/topic/The-Ebay-Town/5-Year-Old/5200151793

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/01/us/kentucky-accidential-shooting/

[bookhunter2007]

At Least 71 Kids Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/gun-deaths-children-newtown-caroline-sparks-crickett-firearms

[lhasa.two]

:_| appalling

Why aren't these guns kept locked up in a cabinet and the ammunition kept separately... No mention in that article about parents and their responsibility to make sure their children don't get hold of these guns unless under adult supervision. No child should be allowed near a gun.  This is all in the name and the consequence of the right to bare arms... madness.

[baybizz]

Blueprints for 3D-plastic gun downloaded 100,000 times in 2 days...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2322150

[baybizz]

Woman survives harpoon gun shooting by husband...

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/09/world/americas/brazil-harpoon-wife/

[cee-dee]

A crucial line about the creator of that weapon can be found near the end of tis news item:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22478310

"Mr Wilson, who describes himself as a crypto-anarchist, said the project to create a printed gun and make it widely available was all "about liberty"."

All revolutions have ended up with wide-spread murder and anarchists of all descriptions are "revolutionaries" of one sort or another.

[baybizz]

A fascinating series of opinion polls on guns in the US:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/1645/Guns.aspx

[bookhunter2007]

A crucial line about the creator of that weapon can be found near the end of tis news item:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22478310

"Mr Wilson, who describes himself as a crypto-anarchist, said the project to create a printed gun and make it widely available was all "about liberty"."

All revolutions have ended up with wide-spread murder and anarchists of all descriptions are "revolutionaries" of one sort or another.

Orange Revolution was bloodless. And some of these groups are perhaps more inclined towards ultra-nationalist ideologies (esp based around the 2nd amendment), rather than specifically "anarchism":

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/06/fbi-arrests-minnesota-militia-type-for-plotting-localized-terror-attack/

Although in some cases, the definition of a "terrorist", doesn't seem to apply to a "patriot exercising his 2nd amendment rights" - Despite "patriots" being responsible for more terrorist attacks and murders than Jihadists:

[bankhaunter]

Blueprints for 3D-plastic gun downloaded 100,000 times in 2 days...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2322150

That's a great article.

However whilst it shows a dramatic picture, it fails to point out the gun has only been fired with the aid of 20' of string tied to the trigger in case it exploded.

Still want one? :^O

[baybizz]

A group of Idaho high school students have created a 15-foot-long grill modeled after a Smith & Wesson Magnum 500 revolver...
        
The students created the gun-shaped grill as part of a project in their welding class and donated the final product to a local gun store...

news.yahoo.com/barbecue-revolver-171050053.html