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JPFO: Another Way to Register Gun Owners?
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"Recent revelations of the NSA's policy of domestic spying on American citizens have resulted in a class-action lawsuit targeting one of the telecommunication companies that handed over call records to the federal government. The Electronic Freedom Frontier filed suit agains the US AT&T for handing over call record data, including telephone and internet records and communications, to the NSA."
"EFF, however, is discovering just how duplicitous the Department of Justice can be. The government has sent in a legal brief and two affidavits from senior intelligence officials in an effort to get the lawsuit dismissed. Outrageously, they are claiming these documents are classified, preventing even EFF and AT&T from seeing them!" ...
"And gun owners? The BATFE could locate potential 'gun criminals' (or identify targets for later seizure) simply by matching call records to and from dealers of firearms or firearm accessories...and you'd never have a clue until they broke down your door in a midnight raid." |
Gun Shop Owners Feel Blindsided by Bloomberg Lawsuit
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While Mayor Bloomberg is in Washington to lobby for more gun control, gun shop owners are reacting with surprise and anger at the federal lawsuit the city filed against them.
REPORTER: Larry Mickalis owns a pawn shop in Sommersville, South Carolina that city officials say is responsible for 49 guns used in the city by criminals in the last eight years. He says the Bloomberg administration should have tried working with him before blindsiding him with a lawsuit.
MICKALIS: Information should have been shared with me over that 8 or ten year period so that we could have maybe been on the lookout.
REPORTER: Mickalis says those guns were probably purchased legally by South Carolina residents, who later gave them to relatives in New York. |
WTP Forcing Numerous High Courts to Grapple With The Meaning of The Petition Clause
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"In the coming weeks, the Justices of the United States Supreme Court and the Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the DC, Second and Ninth Circuits will, for the first time in history, address these truths as they relate to the Petition Clause of the First Amendment."
"How the Judiciary officially confronts these crucial questions of constitutional law, Fundamental Rights and popular sovereignty will speak volumes about the condition of Freedom and ultimately, whether government of, by, and for the People exists or is merely a quaint anachronism."
"These We The People cases specifically challenge very dangerous, but widely accepted judicial doctrines that have evolved over the course of our nation’s history, and which in totality, have (at least according to the Government’s attorneys) removed the government beyond the accountability of the People who created it." |
Keep that gun; you might need it (Letter)
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"All you have to do is toss in the word 'war' and, suddenly, our rights (except to bear arms, of course) begin to fly out the window."
"Today, we're engaged in the never-ending wars on terror and drugs, so the ends somehow justify the means. Unpatriotic speech aids and comforts the enemy. Suspicion equates to guilt with no requirement of proof. And imagined safety trumps true liberty and the freedom from unreasonable search and seizure."
"Thank goodness we still have our guns, though. At the rate we're going, we'll soon need them to regain the rest of our rights we were so quick to give up." |
Gun violence kills 1,000 every day - report
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"Gun violence is a global epidemic that kills an estimated 1,000 people a day and stronger international controls on the sale and movement of arms are needed, a report released on Tuesday said."
" 'If 1,000 people a day were dying of avian flu, the world would sit up and take notice,' said the report, published by IANSA, a group of agencies including Amnesty International and Oxfam."
"The report was released ahead of the United Nations Small Arms Review Conference, a summit of world leaders to discuss arms legislation that is held every five years and meets in New York next month."
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Statement of Sarah Brady on the Need to Crack Down on Rogue Gun Dealers
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"We commend Senator Schumer for his legislation to ensure that law enforcement, and the public, have access to the crime gun trace information that exposes the gun dealers who contribute to the flood of illegal guns. We also commend Mayor Bloomberg for his courageous lawsuit to hold accountable fifteen gun dealers who were caught red-handed making sales to buyers they thought were acting as 'straw buyers' for criminals and gun traffickers."
"There is no doubt that the illegal gun market is continuously supplied by a small number of reckless gun dealers who aid and abet trafficking into the illegal market. The Brady Center's new report, Without A Trace, exposes the concerted effort by the gun lobby, the Bush Administration and the gun lobby's congressional allies to hide from the public, and law enforcement, the crime gun trace data that reveals the close connection between licensed gun dealers and the criminal market." |
FL: Shoot down gun bill
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"A bill to prevent the public from finding out who has a permit to carry a concealed firearm deserves a quick veto from Gov. Jeb Bush."
"Lawmakers should have rejected that bill during their recently completed session. Instead, they bowed to pressure from the National Rifle Association."
"Mr. Bush's veto is needed because there's no valid reason to exempt concealed-weapons license records from the state's open-records law." |
NY: Sue the bastards
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"The easy availability of illegal guns on the streets of America's big cities is a scandal of long standing, and Mayor Bloomberg's continuing efforts to do something about them are to be applauded."
"Yesterday, Hizzoner announced an interesting escalation of that initiative - city-backed lawsuits against 15 gun dealers in five states. The mayor alleges that these sellers are a significant source of high-quality weaponry taken all too regularly from punks arrested in New York."
"Whether the city has standing to pursue such litigation is unclear and, in any event, it will be years before the suits bear fruit. If they ever do."
"That's not the point."
"The fact is that something must be done about illegal guns - emphasis on illegal - and right now the only action on that front is in City Hall." |
PA: Unleash city on gun laws (Letter)
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PERHAPS NOW, after the murder of police officer Gary Skerski, the state legislature will make a move to allow Philadelphia to draft its own gun laws.
Where are their priorities? Doesn't human life mean anything to them? They were quick to pull the trigger on their pay raises.
Last year, 380 Philadelphians were murdered. At the current pace, we will surpass that appalling amount by year's end.
Come on, Gov. Rendell, a Philadelphian, get their butts moving. The elections are coming in November. |
AZ: New self-defense law won't apply in Fish trial
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"A county judge has ruled a new law that makes it easier for people to claim self defense will not be applied in the case of Harold Fish, accused of shooting Grant Kuenzli at a trailhead in Pine on May 11, 2004."
"In response, the defense has requested Fish's trial be put on hold until the matter can be appealed to a higher court. The judge denied that request."
"Coconino County Superior Court Judge Mark Moran ruled Tuesday that the new law, which changes the burden of proof from the defense to the prosecution, does not apply in Fish's case, currently in trial." |
PA: Homeowner May Be In Trouble For Shooting At Suspected Thieves
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"A homeowner turned the tables on suspected thieves, but now he might be in trouble."
"Police said Serge Tancrede chased two men through his Doylestown Township neighborhood and fired shots at them." ...
"On Sunday morning around 4 a.m., Tancrede told police he left his house to go to work and saw two men in a pickup truck in front of his house. Tancrede told police he believed they were there to harm him or his family, so he chased them away and fired his gun several times." ...
"Police said Tancrede does have permit to carry a weapon, but not necessarily a right to shoot." |
Australia: Mum stared down gun barrel
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"POLICE arrested a gun-toting elderly Port Macquarie man yesterday after he allegedly threatened his neighbour and her toddler son."
"The 85-year-old man was being questioned by police late yesterday following the neighbourhood dispute in which he allegedly pulled a handgun on the pair."
"Cedar Close mother Kim Bennett and her three-year-old son had been talking to the man on the porch of his Oxley Highway home just before 2pm when an argument began." |
House Debates, Amendments, July 21, 1789 (Blog)
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"In considering the following debate, it occurred to me that the representatives were much more cognizant to the will of the People, than their contemporaries today. They appeared to hold their duty to look after the best interests of their constituents as of paramount importance. This was a prevalent spirit throughout the debate. In view of how the will of the people is treated, by our supposed representatives, in the present day. It causes me more than just a little envy of our forebears. It should be obvious to all Americans, that our current representatives no longer have the true Constitutional Republican spirit of service to the People. Rather it appears for more evident that they feel they know what is best for us." |
CA: East Bay Group Rallies Against Guns, Targets Shops
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"East Bay gun control advocates have joined a nationwide movement, to help keep illegal firearms out of the hands of violent teens and criminals." ...
"A major source of the illegal gun problem, according to State Attorney General Bill Lockyer, are irresponsible firearm dealers." ...
"He said that last year in California, guns were used in 44,000 crimes. 'They're murders, they're rapes, they're armed robberies, they're assaults, they're domestic violence incidents,' he said. 'About fifty-seven per cent of the weapons used in commissions of crime, come from one per cent of the gun dealers.'" |
VA: Two teens arrested for having a gun at a Newport News Middle School
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Newport News police have arrested two teens for having a handgun at Huntington Middle School. The pair was arrested around 2:30pm.
Police say a boy brought the semi-automatic handgun to school and gave it to a girl. The girl put the gun in a trash can.
After some time, the girl went back to get the gun, and a faculty member noticed her fishing through the trash. The faculty member found the gun and called police.
The teens did not have bullets for the gun. Police have not said why the weapon was brought to school. |
NE: Council turns down gun club check
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"After a lengthy discussion, the McCook City Council decided to decline a $27,666.68 check from the McCook Gun Club by 3 to 2, with two council members contending the donation was legitimate.
Mayor Dennis Berry opened up the discussion and said although he appreciated the offer, it was not the responsibility of the Gun Club to pick up the salary portion of the severance package of former City Manger John Bingham."
"Councilman Kenny agreed, saying it would be a conflict of interest."
"But Councilman Aaron Kircher disagreed, and said that he trusted that the Gun Club and the City Council would be able to keep the issues separate." |
Canada: Gun owners shoot back
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"The country's largest airline, which charges for pillows, blankets and on-board snacks, will begin charging a $50, one-way handling fee in June if a passenger wishes to transport an unloaded firearm with checked baggage."
"But while Air Canada said the new fee for such firearms as shotguns and rifles is similar to that charged to passengers flying with other pieces of sports equipment -- such as bicycles or surfboards -- gun enthusiasts say they are being unfairly targeted since unloaded firearms and their cases are no bigger than a standard piece of luggage." |
Trinidad & Tobago: No bail for cop charged with gun theft
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"LEGAL COUNSEL for a police constable charged with stealing a gun and ammunition will go to a judge in chambers on Friday to try and get his client bail."
"PC Garvin Peterson, of Malabar, Arima, appeared before Magistrate Avason Quinlan in her Port of Spain Fourth B Court yesterday after first facing Justice of the Peace Evelyn Williams on Friday."
"Peterson is charged with larceny of a 9mm pistol and 13 rounds of 9mm ammunition." |
WI: Dreary weather brings sunshine to annual gun show
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"Cold, damp conditions translated into a sizeable crowd Saturday at the 26th annual Green County Conservation League (GCCL) gun show at the Green County Fairgrounds." ...
"Sutherland expected more than 800 people to come to the show, which was open for nine hours Saturday and another seven Sunday." |
FL: New Gun Buyback Program
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"A group on the First Coast is taking a big step in getting guns off the streets."
"The 'Project C.R.I.M.E.' group will announce a new initiative later this week called 'Jobs for Guns.'"
"Here's how it works:"
"Anyone who brings a gun will get $50, no questions asked. The job placement agency Manpower, Inc. will also be on hand to help people, especially felons, find work. Potential employees will be required to have mentors." |
CT: Prosecutor recommends arrest of Hartford cop in fatal shooting
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"The Waterbury state's attorney on Tuesday recommended that an arrest warrant be sought for a Hartford police officer who shot a city man to death last year."
"Officer Robert Lawlor should be charged with manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jashon Bryant, prosecutor John Connelly said. He made his recommendation to Chief State's Attorney Christopher Morano."
"Lawlor also should be charged with assault in the wounding of 20-year-old Brandon Henry in the same incident, Connelly said."
"An arrest warrant was not issued by late Tuesday and Lawlor remained on administrative duty, police said." |
PA: As city and state pols play the blame game, the killing goes on
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"A bill that would restrict handgun purchases to one a month was introduced in the House of Representatives more than a year ago and has never made it out of the Judiciary Committee for a general vote."
"Mayor Street and others have placed the blame on committee chairman Rep. Dennis O'Brien, a Republican from the Northeast who does not favor gun control. But O'Brien said he is not personally holding the bill back."
" 'I don't have the votes,' he explained. 'John Street keeps telling everyone I won't move it. I'll move it; it will get voted down. It's a bogus issue. The votes aren't here.' " |
PA: When even cops in the city aren't safe, nobody is
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"The Daily News decided to look at one week in the life of a city that seems on the verge of collapse from the weight of the growing arsenal. What we found is that alarming incidents are easy to find, but easy solutions are not."
"To quantify the problem, police said yesterday that 135 guns had been confiscated throughout the city last week. Thirty-five of those weapons were found on people just walking around the city." |
Gun Control in the United States, Part 3 of 3
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"The history of the Second Amendment was constructed and serves the means 'necessary to the security of a free State.' With this in mind, the Second Amendment was issued for the militias of the free states, whose ample supply of able-bodied, part-time members, to be armed with their own weapons. The idea was for the states to have the freedom to defend themselves against enemies foreign and domestic. Today's militia is known as the National Guard and is by all means government funded and government regulated." |
MS: Melton's really an anti-gun politician
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"During his campaign, 'candidate' Melton said he was against any new gun control laws. However, 'Mayor' Melton attended an anti-gun summit as the guest of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the darling of Sarah Brady's Handgun Control Inc."
"Finally, Mayor Melton recently stated he would sign an executive order banning all gun shows on The Mississippi State Fairgrounds. This has long been a pet project of anti-gun City Councilman Kenneth Stokes." |
TX: Middle school student brings gun to school
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"A student at Connally Junior High School could be facing felony charges after bringing a gun to the school in Lacy Lakeview on Monday. Administrators say the student was showing it off to friends."
"...Superintendent Bruce Shores says Junior High staff members were told by students that the boy had been showing off the gun to classmates."
"There were never any threats made. The boy told administrators he found the gun at home, and wanted to show it to his buddies. They say when asked about it, he handed it over to teachers without arguing, but he was taken off campus and arrested by ISD officers." |
Canada: Contentious gun registry spawned hate mail, distrust between East and West
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"Having been told that he and the people of Miramichi, N.B., would be better off shovelling cow manure than registering long guns, John McKay has a clear idea of just how contentious the gun registry issue is in Canada."
"The main processing office for the Canadian Firearms Centre is located in Miramichi and McKay, the city's mayor, is more worried than ever about the centre's future following the latest revelations of mismanagement by Auditor General Sheila Fraser."
"McKay said Tuesday he has received dozens of letters in recent weeks from Western Canadians who feel he has no business defending the roughly 200 jobs created by the gun registry in the economically depressed region." |
Canada: Auditor: Gun registry ran up 'significant costs'
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"Auditor-General Sheila Fraser is reporting that Parliament was in the dark about “significant costs” at the Canadian Firearms Centre from 2002 to 2004, while the Liberal government was in the midst of regime change."
"In a special, separate section of her latest report, released officially today, Fraser chides the previous government for not reporting some $60 million in costs associated with obtaining a new information system for the controversial gun registry." |
UK: Salon shooting gun man is jailed
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"A 25-year-old gunman who fired into a packed barber's shop out of fear for his brother's life has been jailed for 11 years."
"Simeon Jones, from Aston, Birmingham, unleashed a volley of 'reckless' shots into a crowd killing one and wounding another. He admitted manslaughter."
"Police believe he used a 9mm Beretta pistol, Birmingham Crown Court heard." |
Canada: Federal gun registry is working, police say
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"Any criticisms found in the Auditor-General's report on the federal gun registry shouldn't overshadow the program's contribution to stopping gun violence, two of Canada's top police chiefs said yesterday." ...
"What has been lost on the public, Chief La Barge said, is that police officers across the country search the registry about 5,000 times per day."
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MD: Spat over ad spotlights Ehrlich's gun position
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"The campaign manager for Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. is demanding that Baltimore television stations stop airing an ad by a prospective rival, a call that is focusing discussion in the race on the Republican governor's stand on assault weapons."
"Over the weekend, Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan, a Democrat, got some free publicity when at least one local television news program ran a story about Ehrlich campaign manager Bo Harmon's protests concerning Duncan's latest commercial."
"In the 15-second spot, Duncan claims the governor 'thinks we need more assault weapons on the street.'" |
NY: Local corrections officer gets removed from bus for carrying gun
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"Town of Newburgh police were called to the bus depot on Route 17K this morning after a man was found with a gun on Short Line bus. He initially told the bus driver he was an FBI agent, said Newburgh Sgt. Lief Spencer. But it turned out he was only a New York City corrections officer."
"He had a permit and was allowed to keep the gun and he was not arrested, Spencer said. But he had to find another way down to Manhattan. Short Line didn't want him on the bus any more." |
UK: Cops hold seven in gun gang raids
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"ARMED police today arrested seven suspected gun-gang members during raids in Liverpool."
"Officers from the Matrix team swooped on the group, some as young as 15, at their homes in Croxteth and Norris Green this morning."
"The raids follow a series of shootings which have left homes in the two areas riddled with bullets and residents terrified." |
PA: Gun plan hurts only the good guys
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"DEAR MAYOR Street,"
"Can you please explain what your plan is going to be to present to Harrisburg to stop the gun violence in our city?"
"Your brilliant plan will more than likely be to stop issuing gun permits to law-abiding citizens who feel compelled to get these permits to protect themselves from the miscreants who roam our great city's streets looking to mug someone."
"The bad guys will have nothing to worry about, Mr. Great and Wonderful Mayor, because they will have a gun, but the poor citizen who is paying taxes - and more than likely has a job and a family - won't be able to protect himself." |
PA: Gun Shop Owner Reacts to Charges
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"The owner of a gun shop in Berks County says his store is not selling guns illegally. 69 News spoke with Jay Fisher, owner of The Gun Gallery in Saint Lawrence. Fisher, seen here in video from 1997, chose not to speak on camera with us today. He says the federal lawsuit New York City filed against his store and 14 other gun dealers yesterday is 'politically motivated.'" |
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