Record sales of guns in America

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:41:00 +0000

As the spotlight turns to gun control following the Connecticut mass shooting, the focus is also on gun sales, which are at record levels.

ABC News reported that during the Black Friday sales last month, Americans bought a record number of guns, with the FBI conducting background checks on 154,000 purchases of firearms.

For the month of November, the number surged to 2 million inquiries.

Lawrence Keane, vice president of gun industry group National Shooting Sports Foundation, told CNN Money in November that modern sporting rifles, a term that he prefers to assault weapons, are "the most popular type of rifles being bought today by Americans."

He said they are used by hunters, target shooters, veterans returning from warzones such as Afghanistan, and citizens who want to protect their property from looters in the wake of recent storms.

John McAfee arrives in Miami

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:57:00 +0000

Software tycoon John McAfee has been deported from Guatemala, six days after he was arrested for entering the country illegally.

The Associated Press reported the 67-year-old, who is wanted for questioning over the murder of his neighbor in Belize, arrived in the US on a commercial flight on Wednesday night.

Upon landing at Miami International Airport, he was escorted by federal officials through customs and then took a taxi to a hotel in the trendy South Beach area, McAfee wrote on his blog.

"I have no phone, no money, no contact information," the post read.

McAfee told ABC News that Guatemalan authorities "took me out of my cell and put me on a freaking airplane."

"I had no choice in the matter."

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Record sales of guns in America

John McAfee arrives in Miami