See Stoneham's Active Firearms Licenses
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden unveiled a number of efforts last week aimed at curbing gun violence in the United States. Massachusetts is home to some of the toughest gun control laws in the country, with local members of Congress urging the federal government do more to prevent tragedies like that in Newtown, CT. That got us thinking. How many Stoneham residents have a gun license? The answer: 861, if you're talking about the most common type of gun license, according to figures provided to Stoneham Patch by the state Executive Office of Public Safety and Security of active firearms licenses in Stoneham from 2008 through 2012. In bureaucratic-speak, those 861 licenses are "Resident Class A Large Capacity License to …
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Karl Ian Sagal
7:48 am on Wednesday, April 10, 2013
I got my first fire arms training in the Army. Anyone who is paying attention to this gun control debate should do some research on the net results of extreme gun control laws. All they do is make it harder for regular law abiding citizens to get guns to protect themselves. All they do is make it more likely that the criminal, who doesn't care about the laws, is the only one in the room with a … more ›