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“Two young people with toy guns were mistakenly shot dead by police this year – one just 12 years old,” nj.com reminds us. “In both cases, cops thought a fake gun was real. Watch the videos of these incidents to see how easily this happens. A 22-year-old took a fake air rifle off the shelf in Walmart, while yakking on his cell phone. He pointed it at no one. Yet thanks to a false 911 call, police rushed in. He had just enough time to cry out, ‘It’s not real!’ before they shot him dead. In the other incident, also caught on video . . .

“What it basically means is that we have a shrinking number of guns we are allowed to sell in California. There is nothing that makes these guns anymore dangerous to their users or in a defensive situation. It really comes down to will the manufacturers put down the money to have their firearms approved for sale in California.” – Steven Rubert in Stricter state gun laws start January 1st [at fox5sandiego.com]

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If super villain Joerg Sprave didn’t exist, Ian Fleming would have to invent him. Oh wait. He already did. Rumor has it that Sprave will play the bad guy in the next James Bond film, deploying a drill-powered gun that takes out U.S. and U.K. spy satellites (that officially don’t exist). That said, the Sony hacking attack may have altered that plan. So don’t blame me if it doesn’t happen.

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“During my 35 years in the Army, it became clear to me that from Gettysburg to Hamburger Hill to the streets of Baghdad, the American penchant for arming troops with lousy rifles has been responsible for a staggering number of unnecessary deaths. Over the next few decades, the Department of Defense will spend more than $1 trillion on F-35 stealth fighter jets that after nearly 10 years of testing have yet to be deployed to a single combat zone. But bad rifles are in soldiers’ hands in every combat zone.” – Major General (ret.) Robert H. Scales in Gun Trouble [at atlantic.com]

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