Responding to the “tragic” death (Is there any other type of death? Never trust a reporter who repeats TV ‘news’ clichés! Where's the editing?) of an 8-year-old Connecticut boy at a Massachusetts gun club, a Massachusetts legislative committee voted on March 31 on a measure designed to keep machine guns out of the hands of anyone under 16.

You've heard this shocking "fact" before -- on TV and radio, in newspapers, on the Internet and from the highest politicians in the land: 90 percent of the weapons used to commit crimes in Mexico come from the United States.

Tennessee House Joint Resolution 149 passed out of the Conservation and Environment Committee this week, and continues its journey to the House floor. The constitutional amendment, which gives Tennesseans the right to hunt and fish, will now face the Budget Subcommittee. If it passes this General Assembly with a 2/3 majority vote, it will appear on the ballot in 2010 in a voter referendum.

A Pennsylvania man will face reckless endangerment charges in a trial after a Lancaster County judge upheld an ordinance against discharging firearms in Lancaster city.