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BREAKING: NSSF, Gun owners react to threatened Mexico industry lawsuit

American gun rights activists, and the National Shooting Sports Foundation have “taken off the gloves” following yesterday’s disclosure by CBS News and confirmed by the Associated Press that Mexico has retained a high-profile United States legal firm to possibly sue U.S. gun makers for the violence in that country, as shown by two popular gun rights forums, The High Road and Gun Rights Media…

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The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today said Kenneth E. Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, should resign or be fired for continued stonewalling on “Project Gunrunner,” the controversial operation that allegedly allowed thousands of guns to be funneled across the border into Mexico.

Indonesia is under a state of high alert after police say they foiled a plot to blow up a church as worshippers gathered for Good Friday services.

On Friday, the police said they had arrested 19 suspects and a day earlier defused five bombs around the Christ Cathedral in the Jakarta suburb of Tangerang. The bombs had been set to go off at 9 a.m. on Friday, when the church would have been filled with worshippers on one of Christianity's holiest days.

Pakistani officicals say suspected U.S. drones fired at least five missiles at a house in a tribal region near the Afghan border, killing 25 people.

Authorities say the attack Friday targeted a house believed to be a militant hideout in northwest Pakistan, about 35 kilometers from Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region.

At least two women and three children are believed to be among the casualties, but there was no way to independently confirm the report.

Mexican authorities have pulled about 30 more bodies from an unmarked mass grave in the northern part of the country.

Officials say the bodies were found near the city of Durango, capital of the state with the same name.

The discovery comes after authorities recently unearthed mass graves holding as many as 126 bodies in the northwestern state of Tamaulipas near the U.S. border.

Authorities have arrested at least 17 members of the Zetas drug gang for the killings, as well as 16 municipal police officers accused of protecting those who carried out the killings.

Thai and Cambodian soldiers have exchanged fire near a disputed border area, breaking an informal ceasefire. The skirmish killed at least six soldiers and forced thousands of villagers to flee to safety.

Thai and Cambodian soldiers fought a brief battle Friday morning, with casualties on both sides.

No civilians were reported injured after the two militaries exchanged heavy gunfire and artillery along their disputed border.

The Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) and a coalition of Laotian and Hmong non-governmental organizations have joined the Minnesota families of three Hmong-Americans in issuing an appeal for the release of their relatives being held in Laos for over three years by military and communist party officials. The appeal was issued from Washington, D.C., and the Twin Cities of Minnesota, to the Lao government and U.S.

President Barack Obama has approved the use of U.S. armed predator strikes in Libya, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said April 22.

"The president has said that where we have some unique capabilities, he is willing to use those," Secretary Gates said. "In fact, he has approved the use of armed Predators (in Libya)."

Armed Predators have been used in Libya "purely as (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems) until today," said Marine Gen. James E. Cartwright, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs said.