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"Federal officials said today that they were investigating whether the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services had kept a gun in her office without authorization and whether she violated personnel rules by ousting career employees."
"The examination of gun safety was requested by other federal law enforcement officials, who said the weapon of the official, Janet Rehnquist, had no trigger lock and was not stored in a gun safe, as required by her agency's rules." ... |
AZ: AJ police were warned of unstable officer before killing
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To Protect and to Serve????
Another good reason to not listen to the extremists that claim only the police should have guns.
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"Four months before an Apache Junction police sergeant shot a suicidal 16-year-old boy to death, his fellow SWAT team members warned that the officer's erratic behavior posed a threat to the public and fellow officers."
"Sgt. Robert 'Woody' Haywood was removed from the team in January 2001 in response to the warnings by SWAT team Sgt. Rick Salmon but remained on patrol until he shot Ali Altug in April 2001..." ... |
Cops-Only National Concealed-carry proposal divides Congress, gun groups
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"Many police officers want to be allowed to carry concealed weapons anywhere in the country."
"Many police chiefs stand opposed."
"Congress, of course, is split -- but not in the ways you might expect."
"The unlikely political duo of Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Rep. James Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican, recently managed to derail efforts on Capitol Hill to let off-duty and retired police officers carry weapons outside their jurisdictions." ...
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And numerous gun rights groups and leaders stand opposed, too.
KeepAndBearArms.com faxed Rep. Sensenbrenner a letter of support Wednesday evening -- urging his staff to investigate the coalition of gun rights groups and leaders that oppose this bill, and to steal our arguments as to why we oppose it. We called to confirm they had our letter and that it would receive the Representative's attention. |
Sen. John Warner Wants to Boost Military's Domestic Role
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"The senator likely to head the Armed Services Committee says Congress may need to break down some legal barriers that prevent soldiers from helping local officials during terrorist attacks and other national emergencies."
"Sen. John Warner, R-Va., said he would hold hearings to review the 19th century Posse Comitatus law that restricts the military's involvement in domestic law enforcement."
" 'If local law enforcement is totally overwhelmed, would not the military be perhaps the best to help for that interim period until the local law enforcement can reconstitute itself?' Warner said in an interview Tuesday." ... |
Australia: Violence and vandalism report
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** Vandals kicked and jumped on a police car last Friday night, causing at least $10,000 worth of damage.
** A male brandishing a large carving knife held up a Glenfield liquor store on Sunday afternoon.
** The two Macquarie Fields males, both 19, allegedly punched a man in the back at Harold Street before grabbing a watch and keys.
** A pistol-bearing bandit tried to rob Camden King Chinese restaurant on Argyle Street last week.
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Woman who supervises Statue of Liberty "viciously beaten by federal cops"
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"The U.S. parks honcho who supervises the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island charged last night that she and her husband were viciously beaten by federal cops she oversees after a racially motivated traffic stop."
"National Parks Service Superintendent Diane Dayson said the assault came as her husband's arrest turned into a brawl that spread to their home in Staten Island's Fort Wadsworth on Monday morning."
"Dayson - who made history seven years ago as the first black woman to land the prestigious job of overseeing New York's most famous tourist sites - told The Post the attack resulted from long-simmering disputes over everything from bigoted police officers to government turf battles."
"She said the incident left her husband, Kevin, 50, with severe bruises and swollen eyes and herself badly shaken, with injured hands and wrists." ... |
CA: Santa Cruz asks feds to rescind part of Patriot Act
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"The Santa Cruz City Council doesn't like the USA Patriot Act -- and it wants parts of it rescinded."
"Yesterday -- the council voted unanimously to become the 14th U.S. city to formally complain the act is an unwarranted assault on civil rights."
"Congress passed the measure after the September eleventh terror attacks. Provisions make is easier for police to eavesdrop on telephone conversations, seize voice messages, track e-mail and obtain confidential records." ...
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$5 million reward set to crack terror funding
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"...the State Department offers rewards of as much as $5 million for information that prevents any acts of international terrorism against the United States as well as any information that helps lead to the arrests or convictions of terrorists involved in acts against the country."
"In addition, under the USA Patriot Act of 2001, the secretary of state can offer rewards larger than $5 million if he determines a greater amount is necessary to combat terrorism or help defend the United States." ... |
Another group to watch - HandgunFreeAmerica.org
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At least this group states it's end goal up front. Unlike the Brady Campaign or Million Mom March who hide what they want (no guns).
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"Handgun-Free America is taking a new approach to the handgun epidemic in America. While the gun control community focuses on efforts to increase registrations, permits, background checks and gun safety, these actions all reaffirm (and encourage) the right of the individual to possess these lethal weapons. We have decided that it's time to take a stand - let's ban handguns now!" ... |
OH: Woman who refused airport search ordered by judge to humiliate herself at airport
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"Wednesday won't be an average day for saleswoman Adrienne Bundy of Indianapolis."
"Instead, the 28-year-old Bundy will stand in Cleveland Hopkins International Airport with a sign saying, 'I am appearing here because I refused to comply with airport security.' "
"Bundy refused to be searched at the airport in July."
"Police reported that she rejected being scanned by a metal-detecting wand and yelled and swore at an officer."
"After Bundy fulfills her two hours of humiliation, Municipal Judge Emanuella Groves will dismiss a misdemeanor charge of aggravated disorderly conduct."
"City Law Director Subodh Chandra said Bundy's sentence will be a friendly warning to other travelers."
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GA: Police raided wrong home, opened fire
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"DeKalb County police internal affairs is investigating an incident in which a Cumming man was shot at by a DeKalb officer when police entered his home looking for another suspect."
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TX: Officer not charged in shooting
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"A veteran police officer with the Galveston Police Department was no-billed by a Galveston County grand jury after he fired two shotgun rounds at Texas City High School band members participating in an annual tradition."
The students were TP'ing houses.
The cop fired at the truck in which the students were riding.
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UK: Queen's speech backs "crackdown on airguns"
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"Proposals to curb the problem of people misusing the deadly firearms, which can kill, blind and paralyse, are included in a package of plans to tackle anti-social behaviour."
"Ministers said the Home Office would publish a Bill aimed at stamping out nuisance behaviour which blights communities."
"A Government spokesman said the Bill would include 'measures to combat anti-social behaviour by young people including vandalism, dangerous use of airguns and fireworks.' " ... |
Canada: Sask. Justice Minister says he "won't enforce the new federal [gun registration] law"
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"Saskatchewan's justice minister says he has major concerns about the federal government's plan to control the use of guns."
"Bill C-68 requires all firearms to be registered by this coming January 1st."
"Chris Axworthy says he's concerned law abiding citizens could become criminals through no fault of their own."
"He says there are still 'large numbers' of gun owners in Saskatchewan who have not registered their weapons." ...
"Axworthy maintains Saskatchewan won't enforce the new federal law."
"He says provincial conservation officers will not be checking for gun registration in the new year."
"Axworthy says the legislation does nothing to cut down on the use of guns by criminals." |
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"The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to decide whether the federal government can withhold access to information on about 200,000 firearm traces per year, conducted when officers confiscate a weapon 'at a crime scene' (the weapon need not actually have been used in the crime) and proceed to backtrack who made it, sold it and bought it."
"The conflict, as generally reported, pits those who believe the information should be available to various watchdog groups, against the Bush administration (backed by the NRA and the Fraternal Order of Police), arguing such records must be kept confidential to safeguard investigations and protect gun-owners' privacy."
"Unfortunately, the entire debate revolves around the wrong question." ... |
WA: Gun-show complaint sparks Spokane County policy check
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"Spokane County commissioners are reviewing policy on fairgrounds events after a resident complained about militia literature handed out at a gun show."
"Ronald Springel, who attended the recent show at the Spokane County Fairgrounds with his 17-year-old son, said he found the Militia of Montana literature to be offensive." ...
"The literature was a copy of the Militia of Montana's monthly newsletter called 'Taking Aim,' which contained a three-part series attacking Israel." |
PA: More applying to carry concealed handguns
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"More Pennsylvanians are applying to carry concealed handguns today than at any point over the last 20 years, according to a Trib analysis. While the number of people applying to carry concealed firearms continues to increase, the opposite holds true for the number of people buying handguns. Pennsylvanians are buying fewer guns today than they did in 1994 when firearm dealers sold a record 220,000 handguns." ... |
NV: Unit credited with gun crackdown
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"Fewer criminals with guns are on Las Vegas streets today than seven months ago, thanks to a national program called Project Safe Neighborhoods, federal and state prosecutors say."
"In April the Clark County District Attorney's Office, with the help of a federal grant, created a five-member gun crimes unit dedicated to prosecuting crimes in which a weapon was used." ... |
Greece: Police license to kill revised
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"Members of the police force will only be allowed to use their firearms to kill if in mortal danger or trying to save hostages, under a new bill presented by the government yesterday following a number of fatal shootings by officers in recent years."
"In two salient cases — last October’s western Athens killing of a Gypsy car driver and the October 1998 fatal shooting of a Serbian schoolboy in Thessaloniki — the policemen involved claimed their guns went off accidentally." ... |
SC: Brothers find gun that fell from Dorchester County deputy's car
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"A Dorchester County Sheriff's deputy was chastised over the weekend after two boys found the officer's .40-caliber pistol, which had fallen off the bumper of his car, officials said."
"Police commended the boys, saying the pair knew enough to contact authorities and not to touch the Glock, said Dorchester County Sheriff's Maj. Tim Stephenson."
"Deputy Sean Napoli lost the gun Saturday morning as he prepared for a training session." ... |
TX: Friendswood ISD cans teacher accused of firing gun
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"Thomas recommended that the school district reinstate Gibson because the district had failed to conduct its own investigation and relied on 'hearsay which was arbitrarily provided' by police."
"No one was hurt the day of the shooting, and police did not recover a gun from Gibson." ... |
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CBS News is: Gunning Down The 2nd Amendment
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10! yes, I said 10! Anti gun articles on CBS News Website! Even an interactive part of one of the 10 articles. Too Much to list!!!!!!! OK, some examples:
"So the time for pussy footing around is over. It’s time to repeal the Second Amendment. Bag it."
"What the founders intended is unknowable."
"Tinkering with the Constitution is no big deal"
"There is only a collective right to bear arms"
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IL: Teen suspended for inadvertently carrying play prop (fake gun) outside auditorium
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"A Lincoln-Way High School senior took a five-day suspension for walking in the hallway with a handgun he was using as a prop in a play and is now worried his dreams of working as a federal agent may be dashed."
"The teen, Mark Ott, was rehearsing for the play the night of Nov. 5 when he walked out of the auditorium to use the restroom."
"He said he had forgotten he had stuck the prop, a pellet gun bearing a strong resemblance to an actual firearm, in his pants."
"Ott realized he had the prop while in the restroom, he said, and carried the gun at his side as he returned to the auditorium to place it on a table." ...
"A report of a man with a gun was passed to school administration, police were called in to search the building and area, and after about two hours authorities determined Ott was the man and the gun was the prop found on a table in the auditorium." ...
"Cast members of the play Mrs. McThing, in which Ott was to play a police officer, had been instructed not to take props out of the auditorium, but Ott forgot."
"Ott cannot be on school grounds during his suspension and will be unable to attend the play he was to appear in." ... |
MO: In St. Louis, Criminals Who Once Ran Now Use Their Guns
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"Chief orders use of bulletproof vests after a series of attacks on officers in routine stops."
ST. LOUIS -- "On the streets, word is, it's open season on the cops."
"In the last eight weeks, four St. Louis police officers have been shot at -- not in violent struggles with wanted criminals, but in everyday stops. The kind of work that used to be called routine." ...
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Ashcroft's Law West -- and East -- of the Pecos
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"If there is one legal principle that seems to guide Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft, it is this: Possession is nine-tenths of the law."
"In holding citizens and noncitizens, Ashcroft has claimed unilateral authority to dictate how and where they will be tried and, most important, executed."
"In the last few weeks, he has taken this control to a new level, defying states and judges who do not conform to his demands for speedy justice." ... |
Bill to Allow Pilots to Carry Guns -- tacked on to "Homeland Security" bill
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"Pilots could carry weapons in cockpits and airports would get a year's reprieve from screening all air travelers' baggage under the compromise homeland security bill."
"Passenger advocates praised the decision to extend the Dec. 31 deadline to screen all checked luggage. They said there was not enough time to finish the construction needed to install bomb-detection machines at hundreds of airports. Also, temporary measures would have caused long delays and crowding, they said." ...
"Meanwhile, many pilots welcomed the requirement that a training program for carrying weapons in the cockpit would begin within three months of the bill's passage. Any pilot of a commercial passenger plane could sign up for the training. After completing it, the pilot would be allowed to take a gun into the cockpit." ... |
UK: Anti-crime plans 'fuelling crisis'
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"Probation chief warns service is in danger of overloading"
"A leading figure in the criminal justice system has warned Tony Blair and the home secretary, David Blunkett, that the new anti-crime strategy at the heart of today's Queen's Speech is in danger of fuelling the ever more punitive trend in the courts and failing to provide an alternative to the prisons crisis."
"The chief inspector of probation, Professor Rod Morgan, says in an interview with the Guardian that the government strategy is unsustainable and warns that 'something will have to give'. He says the probation service is facing the same overloading crisis as the prisons."
"The introduction of ever tougher-sounding community penalties, which were designed to provide an alternative to custody, has not led to fewer non-violent offenders being sent to prison. Instead it has become an alternative to fines."
"The sentencing 'menu' has been 'ratcheted up' and tens of thousands of low-level, low-risk offenders, including motorists - who in the past would have been fined - have been placed under probation supervision." ... |
Australia: Call to ban toy guns because they "promote violence"
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"Just weeks before Christmas, a child protection group has called for the removal of all toy guns from Australian stores."
"Kidsafe Victorian president Robert Caulfield today urged federal and state governments to support a national program banning the sale of toy guns, including cap guns and air rifles, from toy shops."
"Mr Caulfield said imitation guns sent the wrong message to children."
" 'Giving toy guns and other toys which promote violence and fire projectiles is a recipe for disaster and injury,' he said." ... |
Respect for the "law"
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Can a state make any regulation concerning firearms? Nope. Each agreed to abide by the Constitution and Article VI assures this. They have no more authority to break the supreme law of the land and the regulations meant to govern all artificial entities than we do to break the law of not interfering with the rights of others (the only crime we can actually commit is to harm another natural person or his property). |
GA: Store Owner Fights Back, shoots two robbers, one dies
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"Armed robbers targeted a Columbus store and lost Tuesday night, according to police, who say the store owner fought back."
"Robert Ezekiel said he did what he had to do to survive. Police say the owner of Plaza Grocery on Cusseta Avenue shot two men trying to rob his store. Now, one of the alleged suspects is dead." ... |
Judge sets bail for Canadian who crossed border to buy gas
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"A federal magistrate set bail for a Quebec hunter accused of illegally crossing the border to buy gas, but it was unclear Wednesday evening when the man would be allowed to return home...The border is a tricky issue in Estcourt Station, where it cuts right through some homes. That means a resident could have dinner in Canada and then retire to a bedroom in the United States." ... |
Australia: Robberies and attacks are up
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"FORTY West Australians are bashed each day, a car is stolen every hour and a house is burgled every 14 minutes."
"The latest snapshot of crime in WA indicates more people are being robbed and attacked, despite a record police budget, extra officers graduating from the academy and the toughest crime legislation in Australia."
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Armed citizen's rifle handles business while he's away
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"Jimmy Batten returned home from the Bayport Inn early Monday and saw a strange car in his driveway."
"He later told sheriff's deputies that he walked to his porch, looked inside and saw a man, shirtless and shoeless, sitting in his living room, a Winchester rifle nearby. The man rocked and then slumped over." ...
"Paramedics arrived and took Sean Todd Duval, 26, 26456 Popiel Road, to Brooksville Regional Hospital. Authorities said he would remain in the hospital for several days. He faces burglary and grand theft charges, authorities said."
"At the hospital, Duval told Deputy Thomas Valdez III that he was unemployed and needed rent money. He said he knew Batten had a lot of guns and planned to steal and sell some of them. He knows Batten's son."
"Duval told authorities that the first rifle he saw rested in a sling on a saddle in the living room. He said he took the gun, pointed at the floor and it misfired, taking off his toe." ...
" 'I told them they ain't going to find a toe,' Batten said. 'When you shoot with one of my rifles, you're not going to find too much left.' " ... |
Canadian gun regulators blast anti-gun filmmaker Michael Moore
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EDMONTON -- "Officials at the Canadian Firearms Centre are taking issue with a scene in the anti-gun documentary Bowling for Columbine."
"In the movie, in which American filmmaker Michael Moore examines the United States' obsession with guns, he walks into what he says is an Ontario Wal-Mart store and buys ammunition."
"The clerk hands it over without question."
"But under Canadian law, anyone buying ammunition must show identification, said David Austin, a spokesman for the firearms centre, a division of the federal Department of Justice."
"Austin wants to know whether Moore was asked who he was when he bought the bullets or if that part was edited out of the movie. He said the scene misrepresents the process of buying ammunition in Canada." ... |
Proposed "Homeland Security" bill could jail hackers for life
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"A last-minute addition to a proposal for a Department of Homeland Security bill would punish malicious computer hackers with life in prison."
"The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday evening voted 299 to 121 to approve the bill, which would reshape large portions of the federal bureaucracy into a new department combining parts of 22 existing federal agencies, including the Secret Service, the Coast Guard, and the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center."
"During closed-door negotiations before the debate began, the House Republican leadership inserted the 16-page Cyber Security Enhancement Act (CSEA) into the Homeland Security bill. CSEA expands the ability of police to conduct Internet or telephone eavesdropping without first obtaining a court order, and offers Internet providers more latitude to disclose information to police." ... |
TX: Mother Finds 8-year-old Autistic Son Face-down in Handcuffs At School
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"A Houston-area mother who went to pick up her 8-year-old son at school said that she found him handcuffed and lying face down in his classroom in northwest Harris County."
"The incident happened Monday at Haude Elementary School in Spring, Texas."
"Lisa Calvin told Houston's KPRC-TV that she is upset after seeing her son, Adam, who is autistic and functions at a 5-year-old level, in handcuffs."
" "It felt like some kind of freak show," Calvin said. "I could hear him begging. He was saying, 'please take these off' and he was crying. When I saw him on the floor, he was soaked in sweat." "
"Calvin said that her son was handcuffed by a Klein Independent School District police officer after having a tantrum."
"I heard the cop tell him, 'Boy, when you calm down, I'll take these off of you.' (It was) what he was saying when I was coming down the hall,' Calvin said." ... |
National sales tax gains momentum
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"Lawmakers and experts who support fundamental tax reform are eyeing a consumption-tax plan being worked out by the Bush administration that they believe if implemented would make the U.S. tax code much simpler to follow and be a boon to economic growth." ... |
UK: Hate crime police raid 150 homes
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"Police investigating allegations of racism, homophobia and domestic violence have raided about 150 addresses across London."
"At least 83 people have been arrested after officers from the Metropolitan Police's community safety unit took part in the dawn raids on Wednesday."
"Twenty-seven people have been charged, including one for rape but most have been arrested on suspicion of making racist threats and of homophobic harassment."
"The raids signal the start of a day of police action against 'hate crime' - offences against people on the grounds of their race, faith, religion, disability, or sexuality." ...
"Commander Cressida Dick, director of the Diversity Directorate, denied the operation was simply a publicity stunt." ... |
UK: Fake guns swapped for record vouchers
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"Youngsters are being offered record vouchers in exchange for handing replica guns to police."
"The amnesty is part of an operation by Thames Valley Police to cut the number of false alarms and serious crimes involving fake weapons or ball-bearing guns."
"The force says replica guns can be extremely difficult to distinguish from real weapons - yet all crimes that are reported to involve guns have to be treated as real firearm incidents."
"This often wastes valuable police resources if the gun later turns out to be fake." ... |
F.B.I. Head Says He Backs Shift of Firearm Agency
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"The director of the F.B.I., Robert S. Mueller III, said today that he supported the idea of relocating firearms operations into the Justice Department and that he had 'the utmost respect' for employees of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms."
"Mr. Mueller's statement sought to put to rest a brewing controversy over whether his agents and A.T.F. investigators can work together under the same roof at the Justice Department after years of ill will. His comments came hours after the public disclosure of an internal draft report at the F.B.I. that sharply attacked the training, skills and management of the firearms bureau's employees and suggested that a homeland security reorganization plan could undercut F.B.I. authority in terror investigations." ... |
"Sniper Rifle Is Cleared"
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"A rifle linked to the defendants in the East Coast sniper attacks was not the weapon used to kill a golfer here in March, the police said today."
"Last week, detectives determined that the rifle, a Bushmaster .223-caliber weapon linked by ballistics to many of the attacks, was in a gun dealer's inventory when the golfer was shot, said Sgt. Marco Borboa of the Tucson Police Department." ... |
NC: Program sets sights on weapons
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"Gun violence is rampant in Durham."
"Twenty-five of the city’s 28 murder victims this year met their demise by the smoking barrel of a gun."
"Nineteen of last year’s 28 murder victims and roughly three-quarters of the more than 250 people slain in Durham in the past eight years were shot." ...
"Now a new program is about to target the problem with beefed-up analysis, training and community partnerships."
"The City Council agreed to devote $153,414, nearly half the Police Department’s block grant money for this year to the program -- Project Safe Neighborhoods -- last week." ... |
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