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"The best thing avid outdoorsmen can do for the sport of hunting is to attack the stereotype that guns are only used for evil purposes, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told the National Wild Turkey Federation's annual convention yesterday."
"Scalia, an enthusiastic hunter, delivered the keynote address at a banquet last night at Gaylord Opryland Hotel & Convention Center."
"'The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed,' Scalia told a group of about 2,000 at the convention's awards banquet."
"'I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms …' Scalia said. He told the group that ... he was part of a rifle team at the military school he attended." ... |
DE: Right-to-carry a feminist issue
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"In the debate over Delaware's concealed-carry gun permits, don't forget the difference between men and women."
"The average man can physically overpower the average woman; this is a biological fact. The vast majority of violent crimes are committed by men. We women should not have to depend on the men in our lives for protection, nor can we expect police to be in all places at all times."
"My ability to have a gun for self-defense is central to my concept of freedom and safety in a hostile world. Anyone who tries to take that right is trying to take the only tool that makes me the physical equal of a man." ... |
MI: Gunman Kills Woman in Detroit Church
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"A man opened fire during a church service Sunday, killing an 18-year-old woman and wounding her child before shooting another man outside, according to police."
"Investigators believe a domestic dispute led to the shooting at Zion Hope Missionary Baptist Church about 11 a.m., said Second Deputy Police Chief James Tate."
"Many of the hundreds of people in the church screamed as they ducked under the pews for protection, said Ann Armstrong, 30, who was attending the service."
"'I seen him come in through the balcony door, and he pulled the gun from under his coat,' Armstrong said. 'He just started shooting her, then he shot at the pulpit.'" ...
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CA: Homeowner opens fire on intruder
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"An Alamo homeowner could face criminal charges after he fired six shots at a would-be intruder while chasing him down a residential street, Contra Costa Sheriff's Office investigators said Friday."
"'The law is very clear about when peace officers can use deadly force and when the public can use deadly force,' said Capt. Jon Cox, sheriff's patrol commander. '(Both) have to demonstrate that there is a threat to personal safety in order to use lethal force.'"
"The resident ... startled an intruder trying to open his front door about 4 a.m Thursday. He then shot at him as he ran to a get-away car down the block, deputies said."
"'It would appear, just based on the information we have that this person was not a threat,' Cox said. 'He was running away.'" ... |
WA: Victim doesn't buy account
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"Brendan 'Dan' McKown, the most seriously injured of the Tacoma Mall shooting victims, disputed Dominick Sergio Maldonado’s claim that he shot McKown in self-defense."
"'My gun was out of sight, and he had a gun out,' said McKown, a stand-up comic who worked as a store manager at the mall. 'When he brought his weapon up on me, that’s when I drew. Admittedly, I had my hand on my gun.'"
"Besides, he said, it’s 'kind of hard to claim self-defense when you’re shooting up the mall.'"
"Indeed, prosecutors say Maldonado would have no self-defense claim, even if his version of events were true. Legally, if someone is the first aggressor, self-defense isn’t an issue." ... |
TX: Officials investigate discharge gun in Odessa principal's office
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"Crockett Junior High School Principal Van Grady has been placed on paid administrative leave pending further investigation into an incident Friday in which a .44-caliber automatic pistol was fired in his office."
"The incident took place at 11 a.m. Friday and no one was injured, said Alma Guerrero, Ector County ISD assistant superintendent for secondary and nontraditional administration. She said as far as she knows, no one else was in the office when the gun went off."
"Guerrero said it is not known for sure if the gun belongs to Grady. She said there is now a bullet hole in the south wall of his office about three feet off the floor." ... |
IL: Lifetime of speaking her mind
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"At a recent fundraiser for a drug-treatment center in Addison, state Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka publicly confessed to a few addictions of her own."
"Coffee and nicotine top the list, she told the crowd. And, added the unnaturally red redhead, 'My hair is chemically dependent.'" ...
"... Now, Topinka has an additional, higher-profile role, as the standard-bearer for the party's establishment in the March 21 primary for governor." ...
"On gun rights, she earned an 'A' grade from the National Rifle Association. She still opposes a ban on assault weapons and limits on the number of handguns a person can buy in a month, saying laws on the books are sufficient." ...
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IN: Proposals advance to widen gun rights
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"Hoosiers could obtain lifetime gun permits and new protections when using deadly force under legislation being considered by the General Assembly."
"A third, and more controversial, firearms measure prohibiting employers from banning guns from their parking lots was taken out of a bill last week and appears dead."
"Several of the proposals are being pushed by the National Rifle Association in other states as well, including Kentucky, Michigan and Florida."
"The language is contained in a number of bills that could receive key votes this week in the legislature." ... |
IL: Sights set on local gun manufacturers
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"Henry County is known by many as the Gun Valley of Illinois."
"However, that could change if a bill making its way through the Illinois House of Representatives becomes law."
"HB2414, sponsored by Rep. Edward Acevedo, D-Chicago, would make it illegal to manufacture, possess or deliver semi-automatic assault weapons, assault-weapon attachments, .50-caliber rifles and .50-caliber cartridges." ...
"If this one passes, it could affect five Quad-Cities area firearms manufacturers, three of them in Henry County -- Springfield Armory and ArmaLite Inc., both of Geneseo; Rock River Arms, Colona; Les Baer Custom, Hillsdale; and Lewis Machine and Tool Co., Milan." ... |
OH: Bob Taft Threatens to Veto HB347.... Ho Hum... (OFCC)
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"The Columbus Dispatch had this interesting story over the weekend: Governor threatens to veto gun bill"
"Unless two major provisions being pushed by gun advocates are taken out of a bill that would revise Ohio’s conceal carry law, Gov. Bob Taft won’t sign it."
"Supporters say the bill will close loopholes and clean up the state’s nearly 2-year-old gun law, and it should pass out of a House committee by the end of March, said Rep. Robert E. Latta, R-Bowling Green, the committee chairman."
"But something big has happened between the time when Ohioans were cringing at the idea that Bob Taft might threaten another concealed carry veto and today -- two years after the law has been overwhelmingly successful." ... |
NY: "Shoot to Wound" Bill Offered in NY (follow-up)
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"A push by Eliot Spitzer's gubernatorial running mate, David Paterson, to restrict police officers from using deadly physical force in the line of fire has opened a rift between the Harlem state senator and the state attorney general."
"Yesterday, Mr. Spitzer, the leading Democratic candidate for governor, disavowed a bill introduced by Mr. Paterson that would prohibit police officers from shooting suspects with the intent to kill and would hold the officers liable for second-degree manslaughter, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 15 years." ... |
LA: Louisiana law permissive on deadly force
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"The bystander who killed a businessman embroiled in a brawl with a Baton Rouge police officer may be aided by one of the nation’s most permissive justifiable homicide laws, legal scholars and others say."
"Louisiana allows the use of deadly force in self-defense or defense of others to 'prevent a violent or forcible felony involving danger to life or great bodily harm.' People also can shoot intruders inside a home, business or car even if there is no such threat — and need not make any effort to retreat."
"That’s different from most states, which sanction physical force to prevent imminent physical danger and deadly force only when there is reasonable fear of 'serious physical injury or death' — and the person in danger is otherwise unable to first safely retreat." ... |
WY: Silencers in the woods?
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"It was called Senate File 79, a proposed law that would have allowed hunters to carry automatic weapons such as machine guns into the woods. And to equip those guns with Godfather-style silencers."
"Which conjured up some negative images. People using the silenced guns for poaching of wildlife, for example. And, of course, the image of the Soprano family vacationing in Wyoming, being insulted by an elk and having it whacked."
"However, the proposal went on to say that while hunters - who make up more than half the population in this wildlife-rich state of just more than 500,000 people - would be allowed to have the automatic weapons and silencers, it would remain illegal to actually use them for hunting." ... |
SD: South Dakota More Free (OFCC)
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"The state of South Dakota just became a little more free as their governor signed into law two bills restoring rights to law-abiding gun owners."
"HB 1134 removes the duty to retreat when the victim of a violent attack. HB 1173 limits the authority of state agencies to restrict concealed carry by pistol permit holders."
"Ohio lawmakers would do well to heed the example set by the myriad of states, including South Dakota, who are realizing that restricting the right to self-defense does nothing to deter lawlessness by those who have no inclination to follow the law in the first place." ... |
FL: Bring your guns to work?
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"The opening of the 2006 session of the Legislature is more than a week away, but there's already a clear frontrunner for the worst bill of the year -- a proposal to charge businesses with a felony if they forbid employees to store firearms in their cars while at work."
"Many workplaces in Florida, including Walt Disney World and Publix grocery stores, prohibit employees from bringing guns onto company grounds, including parking lots."
"These policies rankle officials at the National Rifle Association, who regard parking-lot bans as violations of the Second Amendment. They're pushing lawmakers in Florida and other states to block businesses from establishing no-gun policies." ... |
SD: Bill to seal hidden handgun data goes to governor
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"A bill that would block the release of the names of people who apply for concealed pistol permits won final approval Thursday in the South Dakota Legislature."
"The House agreed to changes made by the Senate in the bill."
"The bill seeks to close a loophole in a 2005 law that prohibits the secretary of state from releasing lists of people who have permits to carry concealed weapons. However, the list of applicants has remained available, and bill that would make it illegal to reveal the names of people who have applied for those permits."
"Gun-rights advocates have argued that nobody has a right to know who has applied for the permits or has received them." ... |
MI: Bill would bar employee gun discrimination
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"Michigan employers would face civil suits if they discriminate against gun-owning workers or job applicants under a new proposal intended to restrict bosses' power over employees' off-the-job activities."
"The proposal reflects a concern among some lawmakers that employers are interfering with legal lifestyle and personal choices of their workers, such as smoking, obesity and gun ownership."
"The bill would prohibit employers from using legal firearm ownership or possession of a weapons license as the basis for negative decisions on recruitment, hiring, firing or compensation." ... |
FL: NRA reaching too far -- Owners have right to control gun use on their property
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"We generally support gun rights, but we also support the right of private property owners, including employers, to keep firearms off that property if they so desire."
"The National Rifle Association thinks that when employers tell employees they can't bring guns to work, even if they leave them in the car in the parking lots, that violates employees' constitutional right to bear arms. The powerful lobbying group is pushing bills in the Florida Legislature (HB 129 and SB 206) that would allow employees to keep guns locked in their cars during working hours, whether employers like it or not. Similar laws have passed in five states and been rejected in five. They are under consideration in seven more." ...
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FL: Torturing Kids Now Out of Bounds In Florida
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"In the wake of the beating death of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson, the state of Florida has decided that it will no longer physically abuse defenseless, non-threatening children inside their boot camps."
"Believe it or not, this actually represents a change in policy for the Sunshine State."
"Up until now, guards at boot camps could use what the state lovingly referred to as pain compliance techniques to punish children who didn't immediately comply with a guard's order." ...
"Twisting a child's wrist and arm behind their backs is a pain compliance technique."
"Driving a thumb into a pressure point, shooting pepper spray into their eyes, or jolting them with a stun gun is a pain compliance technique." ... |
MD: Gun shop loses its license
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"Federal agents revoked the firearms license yesterday of a prominent Baltimore County gun shop owned by a National Rifle Association board member, pointing to his repeated failure to account for hundreds of guns listed in his inventory since 1997." ...
"The Parkville store was one of 41 licensed firearm dealers -- out of 80,000 nationwide -- ordered by the ATF to provide detailed reports on all gun purchases and sales for the previous three years, and to continue providing such reports monthly. The idea, bureau officials said, was to prod 'uncooperative' gun shops into compliance. Abrams saw it as an improper power play and sued the bureau." ... |
IL: Lawyer wants state trooper's statements tossed
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"An attorney for suspended Illinois State Police trooper James Vest, accused in federal court of illegally possessing an automatic rifle, wants his client's statements to an investigator thrown out."
"According to a motion to suppress ... 'a series of oral statements allegedly made by, and at times, erroneously attributed to,' his client should not be used as evidence." ...
"In February, 10 metro-east police chiefs endorsed a letter written by Belleville Police Chief Dave Ruebhausen urging that the charges against the three troopers be handled administratively."
"Ruebhausen has said he does not think that the troopers are above the law, but that their lack of intent to violate the law should discourage a criminal prosecution." ... |
India: Constable shoots mother, self in HP
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"A Himachal Pradesh police constable shot his 48-year old widowed mother and later committed suicide by shooting himself at his house in Thodo ground locality of Solan town last night, police today said."
"Their bodies were recovered from their house this morning after a neighbour called in the police after he noticed no movement from the adjoining house."
"The police found the body of the constable, Honey Sood, and his mother Kiran Sood, 48, in the house after breaking open the door."
"Police said no suicide note was found at the site of the murder."
"A self loading rifle, three empty cartridges and 17 live cartridges were also recovered from the house." ... |
Australia: Policewoman shot in station
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"A NSW policewoman was shot in the abdomen with her service revolver by a man who jumped a police-station counter."
"Constable Elizabeth Roth, 34, was on lone desk duty at Wetherill Park police station, in south-western Sydney, when the man jumped the counter about 6.30am, snatched her pistol and shot her once."
"The man, who is known to police, escaped with the gun and is now being hunted by police." ...
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UK: Cleared Pc may still lose his job
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"A POLICEMAN cleared by a judge of attacking an off-duty squaddie with his baton while making an arrest faces an internal misconduct tribunal next week and could lose his job."
"Pc Lee Woolley ... walked free ... after Judge Michael Murphy threw out the case last year."
"He said there insufficient evidence for the officer to stand accused of assault occasioning actual bodily harm ..."
"The judge added the baton use the case hinged on was not indiscriminate and that Pc Woolley's liberty should not be jeopardised."
"Now, 13 months later, the officer has been called before a misconduct tribunal where his action on the night will be assessed to determine whether it was in breach of the code of conduct officers agree to." ... |
OH: Lima SABRES to host gun training programs
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"A variety of training programs — ranging from instructor training, pistol and personal protection to woman beginners who have never fired a gun — will be held over the next few months at the Lima SABRES Shooting Association."
"All programs are National Rifle Association (NRA) courses. The SABRES range is located at 5090 Hanthorn Road."
"Instructor guide and pistol courses designed to train experienced shooters to teach NRA basic firearm training courses as NRA certified instructors will be held April 28 and 29."
"Not just anyone can show up for the course."
"Applicants’ scores on a pre-course questionnaire, assessment and shooting skills evaluation will determine acceptance into the program. ..." ... |
OR: My boyhood of revolvers and rifles
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"Wilson basketballs and sweat-darkened baseball gloves are essential artifacts of many boyhoods; Winchester rifles and frontier Colt revolvers are mine."
"Dad gave me a rifle the morning I was born. I was pumping innocent targets full of hot lead about the time I learned to walk. Afternoons at the shooting range with Daddy, learning to squeeze off careful shots in the thin Wyoming air, are among my earliest treasured memories."
"My two brothers and I shot countless tens of thousands of rounds. In an era when real men never heard of hearing protection, we discharged clips of .45 automatic ammo from Dad’s service pistol as fast as we could reload them." ... |
AZ: Phoenix picked by NRA
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"Phoenix has landed the largest convention in its history, mostly due to a $600 million expansion of the Phoenix Convention Center, a new downtown hotel and a long-standing relationship with the National Rifle Association."
NRA officials on Friday said Phoenix will host their May 2009 annual conference, an event expected to draw as many as 65,000 people. The delegates will collectively spend as much as $94.3 million during their stay for rental cars, hotel accommodations and meals." ... |
GA: Plan seeks P&Z approval for new Bibb firing range
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"A firing range with gun rental and sales may be built on Hawkinsville Road if the property is rezoned."
"An application to rezone a 23-acre site ... is scheduled to be heard Monday by the Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission." ...
"'The applicant has stated that the gun club and firing range will be a state-of-the-art facility that will meet all the safety standards according to federal requirements,' the commission's staff report said." ...
"'The proposed gun club facility raises concerns about the safety of the development,' according to the staff report. 'However, the applicant has stated that the proposal will meet all specification requirements for firing ranges according to the National Rifle Association ...'" ... |
PA: Firing range gets new look
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"Shippensburg’s police firing range has a well manicured look after a lengthy cleanup by three Borough of Shippensburg employees."
"In a memo read by Mayor Bruce Hockersmith Tuesday, Police Chief Fred Scott applauded the men’s efforts to bring the range into compliance with a recent National Rifle Association inspection."
"'The results are fantastic,' Scott’s letter said. 'They changed the area from an eyesore to a very functional and clean area.'"
"The department’s range lies in a 50- by 200-foot area enclosed by a seven-foot-tall chain link fence on property at the borough’s waste water treatment center. Tall earthen berms at one end of the range create a safe shooting backdrop at the end of blacktopped shooting lanes." ... |
Olympics: Hakkinen seeks first U.S. biathlon medal
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"So what would it take for biathlon to catch on in the United States? 'Money,' according to U.S. national development coach James Upham. 'Media,' insisted Alaskan Rachel Steer, who is retiring from the sport next month. 'Medals,' suggested Jay Hakkinen, America's top biathlete."
"Hakkinen will try to do his part Saturday by giving the U.S. its first Olympic medal in Europe's most popular winter sport, which combines the rigor of cross-country skiing with the calm precision of rifle marksmanship." ... |
MS: Ole Miss Rifle Finishes Day One At GARC Championships
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"Shooting on its home range, the Ole Miss rifle team turned in a smallbore score of 2313 on day one at the Great America Rifle Conference (GARC) Championships. The Rebels currently sit in fourth place, with the air rifle competition to conclude on Sunday."
"'We have improved our shooting, but we are not quite where we want to be,' said Ole Miss head coach Valerie Boothe. 'We left some point out there today. We can't do that tomorrow.'" ... |
NH: Despite Cheney, hunting’s still a safe sport
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"Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent hunting ordeal brought hunting into the forefront of many people’s minds, and not necessarily in a good way. It made people realize how dangerous hunting can be. ..."
"But in the wake of the Cheney incident ... we can turn our attention to some of the questions that stem from such an incident. Do people get shot often? Are there specific rules of the sport one should abide by? Do all hunters squirt deer urine on themselves to attract such animals for the hunt?"
"We need answers."
"The reality is that hunting is dangerous only if a hunter is irresponsible, which based on the flood of reports ... Cheney definitely was. But accidents happen and any sport can be dangerous. ..." ... |
AK: Shooting accident may be as Cheney claims -- or not
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"Down in Texas two weeks ago, poor old Harry Whittington learned the hard way why you don't sneak up on your companions when bird hunting. Then again, maybe not."
"Who can tell?"
"The comments of the people involved in the now infamous "Deadeye Dick" shooting -- as one tabloid labeled this affair -- are so vague, the investigation so shoddy, it's hard to figure out much of anything other than that Vice President Dick Cheney swung his shotgun on a quail, then shot a 78-year-old attorney in the upper body." ...
"Most [journalists] appear unable to distinguish a rifle from a shotgun or grasp the idea that the weapon used for wing shooting emits a single burst of many small pellets that disperse in the shape of a circle ..." ... |
UK: Police appeal for return of stolen antique gun
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BURGLARS who stole an antique gun during a break-in are being sought by police.
The 1860s breech-loading single-barrel rifle was stolen from a house in Barry.
A police spokeswoman described the gun as a possible Schneider conversion and added, "This firearm is in poor condition, however, it is unknown if it is capable of firing live rounds and therefore police are appealing for the firearm to be handed into a local police station."
The burglars struck sometime between 11.45am and 3pm on Tuesday at Merthyr Dyfan Road. |
UK: Man held over city guns released
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Police investigating the seizure of weapons in south Belfast, believed to be linked to loyalists, have released a man.
Twelve handguns, a rifle, a detonator and explosives were discovered in the house on Burmah Street off the Ormeau Road, on Friday night.
A number of other items were also seized. Two men and a woman are still being questioned.
Police have said paramilitary involvement is a line of inquiry. |
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