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There aren’t a lot of details at this writing.

You might want to grab a tissue first.

Reuters has an initial report: Multiple people, including law enforcement officers, were shot on Monday when a gunman opened fire near Texas A&M University, police in College Station, Texas, said. “We have multiple people who have been shot,” police spokeswoman Rhonda Seaton told CNN, adding that law enforcement officers were among those. Police had the shooting suspect in custody, according …

CBS News reports that the Wisconsin shooter has been identified. No photo has yet been released [SEE UPDATE BELOW] and web detectives are already scouring social media sites for his profiles. The suspect in a shooting that left six people dead at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee on Sunday has been identified as Wade Michael Page, who served in …

Seven people are dead including a suspected gunman after a mass shooting a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. A police officer was also shot and was in surgery at Froedtert Hospital, according to police spokesman Bradley Wentlandt. At least two adult men were also being treated at Froedtert for shooting wounds. They were in critical condition, according to initial …

An inevitable development for 3D printers. Get ready. It’s now possible to print weapons at home. An amateur gunsmith, operating under the handle of “HaveBlue” (incidentally, “Have Blue” is the codename that was used for the prototype stealth fighter that became the Lockheed F-117), announced recently in online forums that he had successfully printed a serviceable .22 caliber pistol. Despite …

Yesterday after President Obama called for stricter gun laws and hinted at reinstating the long-expired ban on assault weapons. “I, like most Americans, believe that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual the right to bear arms,” Obama said. “But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in …

Details.

Honestly, officer! I wasn’t going to shoot up the theater! I was actually just on my way to kill my boss! Pay no attention to those Colorado newspaper clippings you found in my car! Details. (Tipped by JMG reader Tee Jay)

In the wake of yesterday’s mass murder in Colorado, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) plans to reintroduce a federal ban on weapons that allow a high number of shots before reloading. “If reports are correct and a high-capacity gun magazine was used to commit these awful murders, Senator Lautenberg will absolutely renew his effort to limit the availability of this dangerous …

In the hard-left and hard-right world of this city’s newspapers, the New York Daily News is relatively moderate. Which makes today’s editorial a bit surprising, although certainly welcome. Blood on hands of Obama, Mitt and NRA! Obama postures as supporting a new assault weapons ban but has done exactly nothing to restore the prohibition. Nor has he moved to close …

“Instead of the two people – President Obama and Governor Romney – talking in broad things about (how) they want to make the world a better place, okay, tell us how. And this is a real problem. No matter where you stand on the Second Amendment, no matter where you stand on guns, we have a right to hear from …

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in Washington to launch a national campaign to repeal the “Stand Your Ground” laws which the National Rifle Association has paid to implement in dozens of states. The campaign will be very challenging. The National Rifle Association, which supported” the “Stand Your Ground” law in Florida, is one of the most powerful and …

UPDATE: Zimmerman is in police custody.

The St. Gabriel Possenti Society has named GOP Sen. Mike Johanns (NE) as its “gun saint” of self-defense for his work to thwart gun control laws. In other news, there is a Patron Saint of Handgunners. Or will be, rather, if the Vatican approves the request of the Society. The Society’s patron, St. Gabriel Possenti, a seminarian, rescued villagers of …

Across the nation the Republican Party is relentlessly working to stifle the voting power of immigrants, the elderly, and the poor, pushing new laws that force them to acquire often prohibitively expensive state-issued identification cards. But in an entirely different wrinkle, the GOP has just pushed through a Virginia bill that allows the holders of concealed weapon permits to use …

Virginia used to restrict residents to buying one handgun per month. But not anymore, because a busy family needs a different gun every day of the week. Gov. Bob McDonnell signed a bill Tuesday to overturn Virginia’s landmark one-handgun-a-month law, a restriction put on the books in the early 1990s when gun trafficking was seen as a problem along the …

Earlier this week I mentioned the campaign to allowed loaded concealed firearms on Virginia’s campuses. Unbelievably (or not) the group behind the effort will stage a rally at Virginia Tech. Supporters of concealed carry on college campuses have scheduled an all-day demonstration for Nov. 17 at Virginia Tech, the university where in 2007, 33 students and faculty were killed in …

A Virginia militia group will stage a protest rally next week because they want to be able to carry concealed firearms on college campuses. Members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League will visit ODU’s Kaufman Mall on the afternoon of Nov. 1 to lobby for weapons policies that leave “the decision to carry or not to carry and how to …