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In the wake of a rash of rampage-style mass shootings, several states are considering tightening up their gun laws, making it more difficult to purchase firearms and limiting what kinds of guns are available. California, New York and Illinois are all considering measures that would strengthen what are already among the most restrictive gun climates in the nation. This summer alone gave us the Aurora theater massacre in Colorado and the Sikh temple rampage in Wisconsin, along with ongoing chronic …

In July a 29-year-old man was taken into custody in Brunswick, Maine, after police found him in the bottom of a portable toilet on a golf course. Police did not release his name, but he is not the same man who was charged in Portland, Maine, in 2009 after being found inside a pit toilet. That man was much older (49 at the time) and admitted to having an “outhouse problem.” Coincidentally, in August, Luke Chrisco, 31, who was arrested …

A man was arrested on the subway in Philadelphia last week carrying a bag full of drugs and weapons, including a partially disassembled AK-47. Jermal Ponds, 28, is being held for bail in what is one of the more high-profile events in the city’s ongoing struggle to control gun violence. Under City Hall, on a packed rush hour train, a passenger alerted police that a man with a gun was on the subway. Two stops later, law enforcement officers boarded …