SAN FRANCISCO — A recent Supreme Court decision could alter what public transit riders here see in advertisements on city buses and trains and in transit shelters. Despite a San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Agency policy prohibiting advertisements that "appear to promote the use of firearms," a gun rights group's posters have been placed in city bus shelters. Images promoting guns, which are banned under an advertising policy of the San Francisco... [New York Times, via GunPolicy.org]

A gunman police shot dead after he took hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters said he hated the company's shows such as Kate Plus 8 because they promoted population growth. Three hostages - two Discovery employees and a security guard - escaped unhurt after the four-hour standoff in Silver Spring, outside Washington DC. After several hours of negotiations tactical officers moved in when authorities monitoring the man on security cameras saw him pull out a gun... [Scotsman (Edinburgh), via GunPolicy.org]

The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene had some discouraging words this week for XY-chromosome New Yorkers. Not only do men in this city, on average, live shorter lives than women do — that's true almost everywhere in the world — but the gender gap in life expectancy is also wider here than in the United States as a whole. Based on 2008 figures, the most recent, newborn American girls can expect to live to 81, boys to 76. The comparable numbers in the... [New York Times, via GunPolicy.org]

SACRAMENTO, California — California lawmakers have rejected a bill that would have made it illegal to carry unloaded guns in public. The Senate narrowly approved the measure Tuesday, the last day of the regular legislative session, on a 21-16 vote. But it failed in the Assembly. The bill would have made it a misdemeanor to openly carry a handgun in a public place. Current California law permits carrying a rifle or a handgun in a holster if it is not... [Associated Press, via GunPolicy.org]

The South Korean government, in an effort to raise money for its military, wants to sell nearly a million antique M1 rifles that were used by U.S. soldiers in the Korean War to gun collectors in America. The Obama administration approved the sale of the American-made rifles last year. But it reversed course and banned the sale in March – a decision that went largely unnoticed at the time but that is now sparking opposition from gun rights advocates. A State... [Fox News (USA), via GunPolicy.org]