Broward may finally get the lead out at Markham Park; environmental clean up...
By Tom Lassiter and Dan Christensen BrowardBulldog.org After years of delay, Broward officials are finally poised to tackle the hazard posed by hundreds of tons of lead that’s been accumulating at the...
View ArticleAfter Sandy Hook shootings, NRA campaign clout still formidable
By Joe Eaton The Center for Public Integrity The National Rifle Association is keeping silent in response to calls for gun control measures in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School...
View ArticleStates have subsidized makers of assault weapons to tune of $19 million
By John Christie, Naomi Schalit, Theresa Sullivan Barger and Nathaniel Herz Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting Taxpayers across the country are subsidizing the manufacturers of assault rifles...
View ArticleInternet ammunition sales draw scrutiny
By Fred Schulte Center for Public Integrity Proposed legislation to regulate online purchases of ammunition and high-capacity magazines is bringing new attention to a growing cyberspace ammo market...
View ArticleATF’s weak enforcement; crippled oversight means troubled guns dealers can...
By Fred Schulte Center for Public Integrity The federal agents who visited Scott Taylor’s rural Pennsylvania gun shop in early January 2010 — to conduct the store’s first inspection in more than three...
View ArticleFort Lauderdale police don’t enforce law requiring checks on buyers at gun shows
By William Hladky BrowardBulldog.org An apparent misreading of state law by the Fort Lauderdale Police has kept officers from enforcing a Broward County ordinance that requires criminal background...
View ArticleNullification: How states are making it a felony to enforce federal gun laws
By Lois Beckett ProPublica In mid-April, Kansas passed a law asserting that federal gun regulations do not apply to guns made and owned in Kansas. Under the law, Kansans could manufacture and sell...
View ArticleFt. Lauderdale police start enforcing background checks for buyers at gun shows
By William Hladky BrowardBulldog.org Fresh efforts to enforce two county ordinances should prevent cash-and-carry gun sales at guns shows in Broward County for buyers who have not already passed a...
View ArticleNow, you can’t ban guns at the public pool
By Lois Beckett ProPublica If you feel unsafe at a public pool in Charleston, W.Va., you may soon have the right to lie there on a towel with a handgun at your side. For 20 years, Charleston has been...
View ArticleAmerica remains top arms seller to the world
By Julia Harte Center for Public Integrity The United States remains the largest exporter of weaponry to the world, with Russia hanging onto second place and China grabbing ahold of third, according to...
View ArticleDespite U.S. sanctions on Russia, Gov. Scott offered tax breaks to...
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Gov. Rick Scott’s administration offered $162,000 in state tax breaks to bring to South Florida the manufacturer of the Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle, even...
View ArticleBroward, Pompano OK’d tax breaks for maker of Russian AK-47 assault rifles
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org At the first regular meeting of the Broward County Commission after the Valentine's Day shooting slaughter in Parkland, Mayor Beam Furr talked of anguish and...
View ArticleFederal grand jury subpoenas state, city records in probe of maker of Russian...
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org A Miami federal grand jury has subpoenaed records from Gov. Rick Scott’s administration and Pompano Beach about an aborted economic incentives deal with the...
View ArticleState knew Pompano gun maker in business with banned Russian firm when tax...
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s administration knew in 2015 when it offered $162,000 in tax-refund incentives to Pompano Beach assault rifle maker Kalashnikov USA that...
View ArticleCongressman Deutch wants answers about Kalashnikov USA and Russia sanctions
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch asked the Treasury Department Wednesday if it has investigated Pompano Beach-based Kalashnikov USA to determine whether federal sanctions were...
View Article‘Stand Your Ground on steroids’ before Florida Supremes; Flood of cases could...
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org The Florida Supreme Court is reviewing a souped-up version of the controversial “Stand Your Ground’’ law, and the court may use it to reopen thousands of criminal...
View ArticleGun murders remain higher 13 years after Stand Your Ground – especially in...
By Christopher Persaud FloridaBulldog.org Florida’s gun murder rate reached record lows in 2005. But ever since state lawmakers passed the nation’s first “Stand Your Ground’’ law in October that year,...
View ArticleNRA pays lobbyist Marion Hammer big bucks, but you won’t find that disclosed...
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org The National Rifle Association paid powerhouse Tallahassee lobbyist Marion Hammer more than a quarter million dollars last year in the wake of the Parkland school...
View ArticleState knew Pompano gun maker in business with banned Russian firm when tax...
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s administration knew in 2015 when it offered $162,000 in tax-refund incentives to Pompano Beach assault rifle maker Kalashnikov USA that...
View ArticleCongressman Deutch wants answers about Kalashnikov USA and Russia sanctions
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch asked the Treasury Department Wednesday if it has investigated Pompano Beach-based Kalashnikov USA to determine whether federal sanctions were...
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