WI: Man Opens Fire Inside Busy Grocery Store: "A grocery store shootout: surveillance cameras captured the whole thing on tape. It happened inside the Village Food and Liquor in Milwaukee. The shooting happened in the afternoon inside Village Food and Liquor. The store was busy at the time the gunfire was exchanged. The entire shooting was caught on surveillance tape. Workers say it all started when the suspect tried to steal something. The suspect and clerk started fighting. The clerk grabbed a baseball bat trying to fend off the suspect. The clerk says the suspect left and came back with a gun. The suspect approached the clerk at the counter with that gun. That's when the clerk got his gun. As the suspect left he started shooting at the clerk. The clerk stuck his arm out a doorway with his gun and started shooting back. The clerk says he fired 12 shots in self defense. According to the clerk, the man came was dropped off by a group of people. After the shooting they left him and he took off on foot. The suspect is still out there and police are trying to track him down. Amazingly, no workers or customers were hurt. The clerk says he wasn't given arrested or cited because he was shot in self defense. Looking at the video, the real story is with so many people around no one was hurt".


Wal-Mart toughens gun policies: "The nation's largest seller of firearms says it will toughen rules for gun sales, from storing video of purchases to creating an internal log of which guns they sell that are later used in crimes. The chief compliance officer for Wal-Mart today appeared with gun control advocate Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York to announce the changes at a gathering of Bloomberg's group Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Changes at the stores that sell guns will include the creation of a record and alert system to record when a gun sold at Wal-Mart is later used in a crime. It will also include expanding background checks of employees who handle guns and expanding inventory controls. Bloomberg is urging other companies to join Wal-Mart in the initiative called the Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership.


Canada: Long-gun amnesty may be extended: "The federal Conservatives have served notice that they intend to continue providing amnesty to long-gun owners whose rifles and shotguns are not registered. The reprieve hinges on a review of the current amnesty program, which expires May 16. Canadian firearm officers -- the administrators responsible for licences and authorizations in the provinces -- and RCMP are currently conducting the review. They are expected to report their findings to the government prior to the end of the amnesty period. Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day announced in 2006 that government would waive application fees for licences until 2008 and provide amnesty for one year to owners of unregistered long-guns."


"If only we were armed before": "Back in the 1920s and 1930s, the forward-thinking German 'Weimar' republic effectively banned firearms possession by just about anyone but the military, the government police, and the ruling 'Junker' class, members of whom were allowed to keep their fancy hunting rifles. The ban was particularly effective among the ethnic minorities, such as the Jews. Was this effective in keeping the Jews from killing each other with handguns? Yes! Later, when millions of Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps including Auschwitz and Buchenwald to be exterminated -- despite the fact that on some mornings the other prisoners were each given water and a piece of bread, while the Jewish prisoners were not allowed to either eat or drink -- did the Jews kill anyone with a handgun in order to get some food or water to keep themselves or their loved ones from starving. No! They couldn't, because they had no handguns! You see how well that works?"