"I would like the viewers to know that officers of Wilson County do not make a habit of leaving loaded guns simply lying around, " he wrote.

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The Department of the Interior declined to appeal against a judge's reversal of a policy that allowed people to carry loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges.

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O'Ryan, who had trespassed onto the set of the ABC show, was arrested by police, who found loaded guns, a wooden club and handwritten poetry addressed to Johnson in his car.

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Yet, when I left my abusive ex-husband -- an Ivy League Wall Street trader who kept three loaded guns in our house -- I had no one to accompany me to family court to get my temporary restraining order made permanent, and no one to help me begin divorce proceedings.

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Former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, a Tea Party favorite who is campaigning for candidates nationwide, favors the vocabulary of hunting and "loaded" guns.

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Finally, guns should be designed to broadcast their location when they are loaded.

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Nearly 90% are in favour of designing handguns so that they cannot be fired by a small child, and 73% would like such guns equipped with an indicator which shows whether or not they are loaded.

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