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Police errors see two gang cases unravel
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Police have been left embarrassed by two judges in separate cases throwing out charges against up to 28 Red Devil bikie gang members.
A judge yesterday halted drugs and firearms charges against 21 people because the police staged a fake arrest of an undercover cop. Justice Simon France ruled that the police's actions were "a fundamental and serious abuse of the court's processes".
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Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers want to re-introduce a bill on gun control
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Milwaukee Representative Jon Richards is already working on a law to stop private gun sales to anyone with a restraining order against them.
"We need to close the loopholes that allow domestic abusers like Radcliffe Haughton to get guns, to commit horrific acts of violence. Whenever you have a domestic abuser and guns together, that's a lethal combination and we need to make sure we're protecting victims," he tells TODAY'S TMJ4's Jesse Ritka.
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NRA Steps Up Attacks On Obama After Gun Control Comment
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It didn't go unnoticed by the National Rifle Association that, during last week's presidential debate, President Barack Obama expressed support for renewing the assault weapons ban.
"I believe in the Second Amendment," Obama said in response to a question about gun violence. "Part of [the solution] is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced, but part of it is also looking at other sources of the violence."
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Dealer jailed after police seize meth, loaded shotgun
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A drug dealer with a tragic background was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for offences stemming from a high-profile raid in Kitchener.
Nicholas Schmidt, 21, was one of seven people arrested after police found guns and crystal methamphetamine in a Louisa Street house in July.
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Gun Control Ignored by Candidates
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Through three presidential debates and one vice-presidential sparring match, the candidates have talked about issues ranging from North Mali to Big Bird and other assorted “malarkey.” Yet, we at The Ram feel that one very serious issue has been neglected by both tickets: gun control. Gun control has only come up once in this campaign, notably at the Oct. 16 town-hall debate at Hofstra in which the audience asked the questions. |
Engineers have a blast with new shotguns
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. – More than 30 combat engineers from 14th Engineer Battalion, 555th Engineer Brigade, took part in New Equipment Training Oct. 17 to familiarize themselves with a new weapons system they received.
Pfc. Jesus Hafen was fumbling a little with the magazine, until he figured out he was trying to put it into the weapon backwards. It was a weapon that would take some getting used to, but that was exactly the point of the day’s training – weapons familiarization.
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Hundreds of guns to be melted into rebar
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SANTA ANA – Hundreds of guns seized by the Orange County Sheriff's Department will be melted into rebar.
Most of the weapons that are slated for destruction were turned over to the Sheriff's Department, but the weapons also include guns that were seized in suicides, crimes or from people prohibited from owning them.
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Top cop talking up new approach to gun control
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CHICAGO (WLS) - At City Hall, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy is making news on the kind of gun control the city should seek in Springfield.
Here at City Hall in city budget hearings, McCarthy was talking up a new approach to gun control, "We keep trying to pass comprehensive gun legislation and my recommendation is to really start small. The fact is, if there was a requirement to report the loss, transfer of a firearm in the state of Illinois, that would significantly limit the number of firearms in the city of Chicago."
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Grant Helps Counties Enforce Surrender-of-Firearms Law
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Four Wisconsin counties have been the recipient of a special grant that provides a total $250,000 to enforce surrender-of-firearms laws, such as in domestic violence cases.
This includes Winnebago, Outagamie, and Waushara counties in Northeast Wisconsin, and Sauk county in southcentral Wisconsin.
Many guns are being kept in storage at the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department using money from the special grant from the Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance.
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An Open Letter To Hunters And Sportsmen Regarding Barack Obama
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The following is the text of an open letter to hunters and sportsmen from ISRA-FEDPac Chairman, Richard Pearson:
Fellow Sportsman:
About this time four years ago, I penned an open letter to you that spoke of the Barack Obama I grew to know while I was a lobbyist in the Illinois State Capitol. At that time, I described Obama as a stony-faced liar who will do whatever it takes to force his extremist agenda on the American people. I warned you that electing Barack Obama would be something that hunters, sportsmen, target shooters and gun collectors would live to regret.
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Asking the Question, “Do You Allow Guns on Campus?”
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It is hard to believe but in a few short years my first born, my “baby,” will be heading off to college. The browsing has begun and next year we will begin making visits. Truly shocking to this GenX’er dad – not only is the college decision looming before me, but like so many other things that are different than “when I was young,” because my daughter is smarter and more gifted that I was at her age, distilling down the possibilities will be difficult. But try as we might to avoid it, we have to deal with the reality . . . our daughter will soon be going to college and we will have to help. |
Family Research Council shooting suspect charged with terrorism
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The man charged with shooting a security guard at the Washington office of the Family Research Council in August now faces a terrorism charge, federal officials announced Wednesday.
Floyd Lee Corkins, II, 28, of Herndon, Va. was indicted Wednesday on ten charges, including violating District of Columbia law by committing an act of terrorism while armed. A Justice Department statement said it was the first time anyone has been charged under the District's 2002 anti-terrorism law, which defines terrorism as illegal acts undertaken to “intimidate or coerce a significant portion of the civilian population of the District of Columbia or the United States.” The offense carries a possible sentence of 30 years in prison.
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Gun control: Crackdown on fake arms licence makers delayed
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The city government has decided to delay a crackdown on makers of fake arms licences till it can gather more evidence on which weapons dealers are involved, The Express Tribune has learnt.
City government officials said that after Eid, they would invite holders of weapons licences made after July 2010 to get their licences verified at the district coordination officer’s (DCO) office. In July 2010, the government started issuing computerised weapons licences with watermarks and other security features.
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Montana's Castle Doctrine and the Case of Brice Harper
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Critics of "castle doctrine" laws are blaming Montana's for the decision not to prosecute Brice Harper, who shot and killed Dan Fredenberg last month during a confrontation over Harper's affair with Fredenberg's wife. But as with the Trayvon Martin case in Florida, it is not clear why the legal provisions cited by the law's detractors are relevant. According to Harper, an enraged (but unarmed) Fredenburg charged into the garage at Harper's home in Kalispell on the night of September 22 "like he was on a mission." |
Rapid-fire answers to gun control, but quickly off-target
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Let’s give a cheer for Nina Gonzalez, the woman who asked Mitt Romney and Barack Obama about gun control at last week’s presidential debate.
People, have you noticed how regularly this topic fails to come up? We have been having this campaign since the dawn of the ice age. Why wasn’t there a gun control moment before now?
True, the candidates were asked about it after the horrific blood baths last summer in Colorado and Wisconsin. But there have been 43 American mass shootings in the last year. Wouldn’t you think that would qualify guns for a more regular mention?
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Appeals court considers key provision of Maryland’s gun-control law
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With a key provision of Maryland’s gun-control laws hanging in the balance, a federal appeals court on Wednesday wrestled with the broad question of whether the individual right to keep a firearm in one’s home for self-defense extends beyond the front door.
The lawsuit, one of many challenging gun restrictions throughout the country, seeks to make it easier for residents to carry handguns in public places.
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Fast and Furious whistleblower John Dodson sues Time, alleges Fortune libeled him
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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives special agent John Dodson is suing Time, Inc., The Daily Caller has learned, alleging that its Fortune Magazine libeled him in an article it ran this summer. Dodson is the ATF agent who blew the whistle on Fast and Furious, exposing the failures of the operation to the American people. |
Jailed wife says she was playing with dead husband’s shotgun
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Manslaughter charges have been filed against a Houston woman in the fatal shooting of her husband early Wednesday.
Sonia Whitford, 47, was arrested and charged in the death of her husband, Troy Whitford, 43, at the couple’s home in the 6500 block of Jackwood. The shooting occurred at about 2:25 a.m., authorities said.
According to Houston homicide investigators, Sonia Whitford said she and her husband had been drinking when he began playing with his shotgun.
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D.C. Sniper Court Victory Helps Reform Gun Industry and Save Lives
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(Long Island, N.Y.) Ten years ago this month, on the evening of October 14, 2002, a 47-year-old woman was loading her car after shopping at Home Depot in Falls Church, Virginia, when gunfire came out of nowhere, and she was shot dead, in front of her husband. Her name was Linda Franklin. She was an FBI analyst, and a mother of two. |
Unarmed and Gunned Down by Homeowner in His ‘Castle’
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It was Sept. 22, and Mr. Fredenberg, 40, was upset. He strode up the driveway of a quiet subdivision here to confront Brice Harper, a 24-year-old romantically involved with Mr. Fredenberg’s young wife. But as he walked through Mr. Harper’s open garage door, Mr. Fredenberg was doing more than stepping uninvited onto someone else’s property. He was unwittingly walking onto a legal landscape reshaped by laws that have given homeowners new leeway to use force inside their own homes. |
What President Obama Says He'll Do To Your Gun Rights
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During the second presidential debate a participant, Nina Gonzalez, asked President Barack Obama, “President Obama, during the Democratic National Convention in 2008, you stated you wanted to keep AK-47s out of the hands of criminals. What has your administration done or planned to do to limit the availability of assault weapons?” |
What President Obama Says He'll Do To Your Gun Rights
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During the second presidential debate a participant, Nina Gonzalez, asked President Barack Obama, “President Obama, during the Democratic National Convention in 2008, you stated you wanted to keep AK-47s out of the hands of criminals. What has your administration done or planned to do to limit the availability of assault weapons?” |
Fired ATF Whistleblower Gets Job Back
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The Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives whistleblower who was fired after speaking out about the U.S. Justice Department’s failed Fast and Furious gun-running operation and the breakdown between ATF and U.S. attorneys in Reno is back on the payroll.
The U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, which oversees federal employment issues, granted a request by the Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal investigator, on Tuesday to put ATF special agent Vince Cefalu’s firing on hold for 45 days while it looks into his case.
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Modesto man pleads guilty in Stockton gun sales case
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A 37-year-old Modesto man on Monday pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to sell guns — including a fully automatic assault weapon — without a license, and one count of trafficking firearms.
Dennis William Estes faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine, according to the U.S. attorney's office. The defendant is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 7.
Estes initially was charged with six counts of dealing firearms without a license, six counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, two counts of illegally possessing a machine gun and silencer, and conspiracy to commit a federal crime, according to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Chinese police seize over 6,000 guns in major case
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Nanjing (China) : Police in the city of Huai'an in east China's Jiangsu Province announced Tuesday that they have arrested seven people and seized more than 6,000 weapons in a major case involving the illegal manufacture and sale of firearms, reported Xinhua.
The arrests resulted from a tip received from an Internet user on March 19 alleging that a netizen using the screenname "dahaimoxing" had been selling firearms online by passing them off as replicas of actual weapons.
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Firearms Home Businesses Banned in Ames
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Ames City Council Tuesday unanimously approved adding firearms sales to the list of prohibited home businesses for the third time making it law.
George Seaton, who applied for a permit to sell firearms in his home in April, was given a one year permit which will be valid until April 2013, despite the new prohibition, WOI reported.
Seaton has a Federal Firearms License, which allows him to sell firearms as a business so long as zoning laws allow it.
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Orleans Parish DA takes aim at proposed state gun amendment
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Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro plans to come out firing Thursday against a proposed constitutional amendment that would strengthen gun owners' rights by making it tougher for lawmakers to enact anti-gun laws. Known as "Proposed Amendment No. 2," the gun measure is just 42 words long, but both sides in the debate say it could have wide-ranging implications. |
Grant Helps Counties Enforce Surrender-of-Firearms Law
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Four Wisconsin counties have been the recipient of a special grant that provides a total $250,000 to enforce surrender-of-firearms laws, such as in domestic violence cases.
This includes Winnebago, Outagamie, and Waushara counties in Northeast Wisconsin, and Sauk county in southcentral Wisconsin.
Many guns are being kept in storage at the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department using money from the special grant from the Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance.
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AAFP, Other Physician Organizations Call for Ending Laws That Infringe on Patient-Physician Relationship
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In an Oct. 18 article in the New England Journal of Medicine, the executive leadership of five key physician organizations -- the AAFP, the American College of Physicians, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Surgeons -- call for an end to legislation that crosses traditional boundaries and intrudes into the realm of medical professionalism, saying that "legislators should abide by principles that put patients' best interest first."
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Johnson column: Take your base: Getting the facts straight
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The NRA is at it again! The National Rifle Association has bought ads in Wisconsin telling voters that President Barack Obama is “chipping away at our Second Amendment rights.” This could not be further from the truth. ... So if the gun lobby doesn’t like the president, then gun control advocates must love him, right?
Wrong. Jeri Bonavia, executive director of Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, says, “At a minimum, he should have gotten a national discussion going on what we can do to prevent gun violence. The president has an obligation to take up this issue, which has devastated so many communities. Years of silence are not serving the people well.”
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Another tragic Excse to Argue Gun Control
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After a Nassau County police officer was shot and killed by a Queens man yesterday, the Daily News calls for action to stop the flow of illegal guns into New York.
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy of Long Island, a gun-control advocate whose husband was killed in a shooting spree on the Long Island Railroad, contributes an op-ed piece calling, again, for better enforcement of existing laws.
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