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Certifiable gun ‘experts’

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:01:03 MDT

Certifiable gun ‘experts’

Updated Jun 14, 2013 01:01AM MDT

Let’s see now: • A police chief shoots himself during a gun-safety training event overseen by two firearms instructors (“N. Ogden police chief recovering from accidental self-inflicted gunshot,” Tribune, June 7). • A court orders Utah’s premiere concealed weapons instructor to surrender his weapons due to a stalking injunction and other related spousal harassment charges (“Gun lobbyist Aposhian ordered to give up firearms,” Tribune, June 4). • My gun-nut file includes several other gun-related...

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An Aposhian defense

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 01:01:05 MDT

An Aposhian defense

Updated Jun 8, 2013 01:01AM MDT

Re “Aposhian, Utah’s top gun spokesman, to lose firearms based on civil stalking injunction” (Tribune, June 4): A great opportunity for poetic justice was missed recently in the situation of Utah’s “top gun spokesman”: When, according to allegations contained in news reports, Clark Aposhian “invaded” his former wife’s property and threatened “to bury” her and her current husband, she should have drawn her pistol from concealment and in defense shot at Aposhian instead of calling the police. Who...