The World This Week: Perestroika reaches USSR's farming sector (Aired in March 1989)
May 24, 2013
World's first 3D-printed gun fires real bullets
May 7, 2013
Barack Obama unveils biggest gun-control push in decades
Jan 17, 2013
'How can seven-year-olds be shot?' Connecticut remembers its children
Dec 17, 2012
Los Angeles college evacuated, schools locked down after threat
Reuters | Friday May 17, 2013
An East Los Angeles college campus was evacuated on Thursday and about 10 nearby public schools were placed on a security lockdown after police received an anonymous call from a person claiming he had a gun and was en route to a school campus in the ...
Panel recommends rebuilding US school massacre site
Associated Press | Saturday May 11, 2013
Newtown parents Steven Uhde and Peter Barresi didn't want the town to abandon the elementary school property where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in December and build a new school elsewhere, saying that would be like letting the gunm...
World's first 3D-printed gun fires real bullets
Associated Press | Tuesday May 7, 2013
A non-profit group from Texas claims to have successfully fired a plastic gun that was made using a 3D printer.
Fight over US gun control law far from over, say rights panel
Associated Press | Sunday May 5, 2013
The National Rifle Association convention comes as debate over gun control legislation in the US has reached a fever pitch in the wake of December's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20 young children and...
Connecticut town mulls fate of Sandy Hook school months after massacre
Reuters | Saturday May 4, 2013
After a gut-wrenching and tearful meeting, officials expressed doubt that the Connecticut elementary school where 20 children and six adults were shot to death last December could ever be reopened.
Student shoots self in US classroom: authorities
Associated Press | Monday April 29, 2013
Authorities say a high school student pulled out a gun and shot himself in a classroom at a Cincinnati area high school.
In blow to Barack Obama, US Senate blocks gun-control plan
Reuters | Thursday April 18, 2013
President Barack Obama's campaign to curb gun violence after the Newtown school massacre was dealt a crippling blow on Wednesday when the US Senate rejected a plan to expand background checks for gun buyers.
Mom of 6-year-old victim pleads for gun control at White House
Agence France-Presse | Saturday April 13, 2013
Choking back tears almost from the start, the mother of a Newtown, Connecticut, shooting victim made a deeply personal plea from the White House for Americans and their leaders to embrace her call to act on gun violence.
Newtown school shooting victim's mother to deliver weekly address for Barack Obama
Press Trust of India | Saturday April 13, 2013
In the rarest of the rare move, US President Barack Obama has asked the mother of a six-year-old killed in last December's Newtown massacre to stand in for him to address the nation this weekend.
Gun control bill clears first hurdle in US Senate
Associated Press | Friday April 12, 2013
Gun control supporters in the U.S. Senate won the first showdown over how to respond to the December school shootings in Connecticut, defeating an effort by conservatives to derail firearms restrictions before debate could even start.
Man charged with harassing families of Aurora theatre shooting victims
Reuters | Thursday April 11, 2013
An Oregon man with a history of mental distress was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of harassing family members of some of the 12 people slain by a gunman who opened fire on moviegoers inside a Colorado, theater last summer, police said.
Newtown killer's obsession, in chilling detail
N.R. Kleinfield, Ray Rivera and Serge F. Kovaleski, The New York Times | Friday March 29, 2013
Inside the rambling, pale-yellow Colonial-style home in a Connecticut suburb, Adam Lanza lived amid a stockpile of disparate weaponry and macabre keepsakes: a pair of rifles, 11 knives, a starter pistol, a bayonet, three samurai swords. He saved phot...
South Dakota allows guns in classrooms
John Eligon, The New York Times | Saturday March 9, 2013
South Dakota became the first state in the nation to enact a law explicitly authorizing school employees to carry guns on the job, under a measure signed into law on Friday by Governor Dennis Daugaard.
One wounded in shooting on South Carolina college campus
Associated Press | Wednesday February 27, 2013
A South Carolina college spokeswoman says one person has been wounded in a shooting at a school apartment complex near campus, and a lockdown of campus buildings has been ordered.
12-year-old US student arrested for plot to kill classmates
Press Trust of India | Monday February 11, 2013
A 12-year-old middle school student in California has been detained for plotting to shoot 23 classmates and a teacher as officials seized a cache of rifles and handguns from his home.
