Guns

PLAIN DEALING, La. (AP) — The Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office is offering concealed handgun training March 22 for Bossier residents who want obtain or renew their state permit.

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Haughton State Representative Henry Burns has pre-filed a bill for the upcoming legislative session that would allow law enforcement officers to carry a gun into a restaurant that sells alcohol.

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The Senate is ready to renew an expiring ban on plastic firearms, the kind that can pass through metal detectors and X-ray machines unnoticed.

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The NFL has drawn criticism from gun rights advocacy groups and second amendment-supporting US citizens after banning a commercial from Georgia's Daniel Defense that was submitted by the company to play during Super Bowl 48.

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A college student on New York's Long Island was killed in front of her twin sister by friendly fire from a suburban New York police officer after an ex-convict attempted to burglarize a group of college students.

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The Louisiana legislature is debating a bill that would allow any concealed carry permit holder to carry their weapon in a restaurant that serves alcohol.

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Though he employs a fake Russian accent for the popular guns and explosives videos he uploads to YouTube, Kyle Myers (AKA FPSRussia) was on the receiving end of some very real and especially unwanted attention this week.

Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives carried out a raid on properties owned by Myers and his family on Tuesday.

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On Wednesday morning, authorities found the body of a University of Central Florida student inside a dorm room, dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. A campus spokeswoman said that there were also improvised explosive devices and additional weapons in the room.

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Lots of talk about guns these days. Some even suggest that teachers should be allowed to have guns in their classrooms. This prompted Steve Monaghan, President of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, to say that's a bad idea.

But he went one step further, envisioning a scenario where a teacher having a rough day could use a gun as a disciplinary tool, or worse.

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Video games, movies, mental ailments, guns.  A flurry of finger-pointing as to why there is an influx of mass killings happening in the country.  President Barack Obama set out his plan to reduce the number of assault weapons and ammunition magazine reductions, plus funding for mental health treatment and an investigation into violent movies and video games

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