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Director defends FBI, says creating new agency a mistake
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"FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, facing growing criticism over his agency's shortcomings in the war against terrorism, offered a forceful defense of the FBI's performance yesterday and argued that the creation of a separate domestic intelligence agency would be 'going in the wrong direction.' ' |
DC: Cameras to monitor protesters
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"The Metropolitan Police Department will activate surveillance cameras next month along city streets for the first time since city officials passed new legislation."
"Organizations participating in the pro-life march, which has taken place in the District for 30 years, said they were not aware of surveillance plans until they were contacted by The Washington Times." |
CA: No break for city's gun dealers
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"The City Council gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a plan that would extend the deadline for some Los Angeles businesses to pay new, higher fees for police permits."
"But the council declined to delay the current Dec. 31 due date for gun dealers."
"City officials said they have received hundreds of calls and letters from holders of police permits protesting fee increases of more than 1,000% in many cases." ... |
An Academic Comeuppance
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"The ill-considered rush to praise 'Arming America' at its publication has, two years later, backfired badly on the academic and activist communities. Had historians and policy advocates kept their ideological biases in check long enough to consider the facts, the embarrassment could have been avoided. We hope a lesson has been learned." |
UK: Taxi driver survives gun attack
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"A taxi driver has escaped injury following a shooting incident in south Belfast last night."
"The attack happened at the junction of Egmont Gardens and Utility Walk in south Belfast shortly before 3am."
"As the driver went to pick up a fare, a lone masked man came towards his car brandishing a handgun. The taxi driver began to drive off and two shots were fired at the driver’s door." |
Gun Victims' Silver Bullet?
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"The Grunow case represents a new tactic for gun opponents, a strategy that involves scaring insurance companies away from cheap, dangerous guns. The Grunow case did not end up costing the gun businesses much; it was the insurance companies who got hit. And the insurance industry is too smart to pick up the tab for everyone else's mistakes. They are instead raising rates or refusing to take on or insure some gun businesses." ... |
UK: Police foil Belfast gun attack
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"Police have arrested two men as they foiled a gun attack which they believe was linked to a loyalist paramilitary feud in Belfast."
"A police officer was injured during the major security operation when two handguns were found in the Ballysillan district of the city." |
Bill of Rights reduced to 6 (humor)
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"Flanked by key members of Congress and his administration, President Bush approved Monday a streamlined version of the Bill of Rights that pares its 10 original amendments down to a 'tight, no-nonsense' six."
"The Second Amendment, which protects the right to keep and bear arms, was the only article left unchanged." -- figure the odds on that one. |
We Must Take All the Guns to Save Our Babies!
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"...support gun legislation that gets the guns out of the hands of people who don't know how to use them and put them back in the hands of people who do; the police, the military, and my personal bodyguards. Remember that people don't kill people, guns break into your house and rape you and then shoot you."
"Let me appeal to your irrational emotional side by conveying an event that was related to me by a young girl in the ghetto and to which I can provide no factual backing." |
FL: Sheriff's Office pays $100,000 to settle suit in bar
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"Nearly five years ago, a pair of elite units from the Orange County Sheriff's Office burst into a crowded sports bar with guns drawn and searched the bar's patrons and employees as a part of a crackdown on a Central Florida organized-crime ring."
"There were a few problems with the raid."
"Officers soon learned that no one in the bar had anything to do with their criminal investigation or even posed a threat to law enforcement. Furthermore, they found out their searches were unconstitutional." |
Gun Rights: The Final Extent
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"Opponents of the right to bear arms like to talk as if they are just using common sense. Surely, they say, it is reasonable that people not be allowed to own fully automatic machine guns, tanks, and military aircraft. Pushing it to the extreme, they ask whether you would really trust your neighbor if he had a nuclear warhead. Well, if we're going to use that argument, the United States government has more weapons than anyone else on the planet, and I sure as hell don't trust them." |
FL: Woman punches would-be carjacker
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"Forbes balled up her fist and struck him in the face. He fled and she followed, catching up and punching him some more. He never used the gun he had."
"Police later arrested the suspect at another nearby fast-food restaurant. But they advise against hauling off and hitting an armed robber, since each of them reacts differently." |
MA: Unlicensed guns confiscated: Bomb squad called to Dedham man's home
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"A local man police described as a gun fanatic was arrested Tuesday after police confiscated 24 firearms and more than 15,000 rounds of ammunition and gunpowder from his home." ...
" 'If he had a Class A license to carry he would have been within his legal right to have those guns,' said Walsh, who questioned why someone would need such a large amount of ammunition."
" 'His possession of all the powder is considered a misdemeanor,' he said." |
TX: Brazos Valley's first indoor shooting range opens
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"Champion Firearms plans to open the Brazos Valley’s first indoor shooting range Thursday..."
"For $12 an hour, customers who are at least 21 can target practice with their own handguns or try out guns they are considering buying."
"There are at least two other shooting ranges in this area, but the new practice area has nine lanes in an air-conditioned room."
"Customers will range from hunters to law enforcement officers." |
Strum, Ruger sees lower 4th-quarter, 2002 earnings
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"Gun maker Sturm, Ruger & Co. said on Thursday earnings for the fourth quarter and 2002 will be sharply lower than year-earlier levels due to lower sales in its investment castings and firearms segments."
"The gun maker said firearms shipments for the fourth quarter and full year would be substantially below shipments in the same periods last year." |
UK: Air marshals 'looking for the unusual'
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"The undercover armed police would be highly trained and 'pro-active' - watching for any signs of unusual behaviour which could suggest a hijack was imminent."
"Mike Bluestone, managing director of security consultants the BSB Group, said it was essential that air marshals were backed up by improved security on the ground."
"Claims that marshals could make air travel more dangerous - particularly if they were disarmed by hijackers - were without foundation, Mr. Bluestone said." |
UK: So Solid star remanded in custody
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"A member of the garage group So Solid Crew has appeared in court on drug and gun charges."
"Shane Neil, 23, whose stage name is Kaish, is charged with possession of a firearm with ammunition and possession of firearm without a license." |
UK: Capital "is turning into Bronx"
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"London is in danger of 'turning into the Bronx', gun campaigners have warned after the police stepped up armed patrols on the capital's streets."
"Critics have expressed alarm after the Metropolitan Police announced the second increase this year in the number of firearms officers, adding another 50 to the 200 deployed earlier."
"But supporters said Scotland Yard had no choice, with the number of guns seized by officers having leapt 23% in the last year to 144 a month." |
UK: Met arms more police to target gun crime
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"The Met is increasing the level of armed police patrolling the streets of London to reduce the rapidly escalating level of gun crime in the city."
"Met Commissioner Sir John Stevens ordered the extra armed police with statistics showing criminal incidents involving guns have risen 20 per cent in the last year."
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MI: Road Rage investigation focuses on police officer
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"A Muskegon Heights police officer is charged with a road rage attack. It's alleged to have happened on December 7th as the officer headed to work. Today, 26 year old officer Niel Siebert was arraigned in Muskegon County accused of assault with a deadly weapon. The weapon in question is his car which 21 year old Luis Sainz and his pregnant wife, Elvia, say was used to push them off the highway." |
IL: Gun buy-back works: police
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"The firearms will be melted down by the crime lab to remove them from the national gun inventory."
"Among the local guns collected were: three shotguns, nine rifles, three black-powder muskets, five revolvers, seven black-powder handguns, a flare gun, a starter pistol, and a BB pistol. Also collected were about 300 rounds of miscellaneous ammunition." |
Canada: Bureaucrats fired over gun registry: PM
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"Public servants who managed the federal gun registry and licensing program were demoted and fired as problems mounted and the cost of the scheme mushroomed to $1 billion, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien says."
"Mr. Chrétien said yesterday heads rolled after "three or four" different public servants tried in succession to manage the program once the government introduced it and difficulties began to arise." |
UK: Shotgun Santa angers grandma
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"Appalled, Doreen Clayton has told how her five-year-old grand-daughter Shannon is still shocked after seeing a model Santa Claus perched on top of a pub roof armed with a rifle and poised to shoot."
"Mrs. Clayton ...has called on pub landlords of The Crooked Billet in Sheepridge Lane... to pull down the 'tasteless' and 'offensive' gun toting prop before any more children see it."
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Norway: Man busted with nearly 1000 guns
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"At least 600 weapons were found... The man, who formerly ran a weapons business with a partner who is a gunmaker, was found to be in possession of pistols, revolvers, shotguns, rifles and machine guns..."
"Police prepared the raid after [he] turned in a gun belonging to an ex-girlfriend to authorities. Police arrested him after learning the weapon was not registered. After searching his car, police found a loaded weapon and then decided to raid his shop in downtown Oslo." |
IL: Airport security staff find trend alarming
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"A female security guard was summoned to do a wand search of Chiaro's person."
"She explained to me that every spot where her little wand beeped, she'd have to touch it with the back of her hand. 'Standard procedure,' she kept saying. ...I stood there with my arms and legs spread out, and she was running the wand over my arms and then over my chest--and that's when it beeped and I thought, 'Oh s---.' "
" 'I explained that I'd had my nipple pierced,' said Chiaro." |
‘Hip-Hop 4 Peace’ advances anti-violence call
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"Another goal is to strengthen gun control laws, making it harder for young people to gain access to weapons... One idea is to create an application process for purchasing ammunition which could mandate age limits, said Elizabeth Goldsmith, president of the Cambria Heights-based Mothers Against Guns."
" 'Without bullets, a gun is useless. We have to target ammunition... There should be some type of laws to make it impossible for young people to buy bullets to put it in that gun.' " |
Group Urges DC To Drop Gun Ban After Court Trouncing
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"Now that a federal judge has dismissed Washington, D.C.'s lawsuit against the firearms industry, the Second Amendment Foundation is urging the city to do away with its ban on handguns." ...
"Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, suggested that if the nation's capital really wants to reduce its crime problem, it 'needs to allow its law-abiding residents the means with which to defend themselves.' " |
Better bullets also will help, experts say
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"The 5.56 mm round shot — a bullet equivalent to that marketed in the States to shoot small vermin — wasn’t effective in stopping al-Qaida and Taliban fighters. 'Should be a 7.62 mm, so it will drop a man with one shot,' wrote one soldier." |
Afghanistan vets criticize M-9 reliability, lethality
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"An unclassified U.S. Army 'Lessons Learned' report indicates some soldiers were dissatisfied with the performance of the M-9 9 mm Beretta pistol, the Army’s standard-issue sidearm — the same one used by soldiers during operations Anaconda and Mountain Lion in Afghanistan." |
MN: Legal big game cartridges
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Legal Cartridges - 308 Winchester (7.62mm NATO)
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Illegal Cartridges - 223 Remington (5.56 NATO)
"Not all legal or illegal cartridges are included as there are many more obsolete or foreign cartridges as well as wildcat cartridges not listed." |
U.S. Social Security to Reach To Mexico
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"The Bush administration is working on a Social Security accord that would put tens of thousands of Mexicans onto the Social Security roster and send hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits south of the border."
"Extrapolating from U.S. and Mexican government statistics, the accord could cost $720 million a year within five years of implementation. One independent estimate put the total at $1 billion a year -- a large sum, but a trifle compared with the $372 billion in Social Security benefits currently being paid to 46.4 million recipients." |
UK: Loyalist councillor survives gun attack
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"A gun attack was launched on the home of a loyalist councillor on the outskirts of North Belfast tonight in what was seen as the latest phase of the bitter ongoing feud between rival factions."
"Tommy Kirkham, a councillor representing the Ulster Democratic Research Group, survived uninjured when shots were fired at his home in Carnmoney." |
Canada: Gun owners prepare for civil disobedience
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"In just over a week, the Canadian Firearms Centre wants the heavyset Nova Scotian and an estimated 2.3 million other firearms owners to have applied to register all of their estimated 7.9 million guns."
"It won't happen, says Muir, who owns six guns he calls 'the tools' he needs to fulfill his passion for hunting deer in the woodlands of Nova Scotia." |
Canada: Costs may kill gun control: critic
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"Edmonton-based gun registration opponent Jim Hinter figures there is an even chance that the gun control cost overrun fiasco in Ottawa will end the program this winter." ...
" 'The government has a chance here to abandon a lost cause,' the president of the National Firearms Association said in a Dec. 13 interview. 'If (prime minister Jean) Chrétien has half a brain, he will cancel this. I'd say it's an even bet." ... |
NY: Angry Teachers Speak Out—Say Assaults From Students Are Norm At MS 226
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" Angry teachers at MS 226 in South Ozone Park threatened to walk off the job last week after three assaults on teachers in two days." ...
" 'There are food fights in the cafeteria and teachers get hit by apples and other food,' said another female teacher, a five-year veteran of the school. 'Kids have been robbed at knifepoint. Teachers have been threatened with guns and knives. Students curse at them and use vulgar language.' "
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UK: Five-year jail terms for possessing firearms
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"A five-year minimum prison sentence for anyone caught with a firearm is likely to be introduced by the Government next year amid growing concern about gun crime."
"Police chiefs alarmed at the sharp increase in shooting incidents have been lobbying the Home Office in recent months for tougher treatment of gun criminals."
NOTICE: One wouldn't even have to commit a crime with said gun - just be in possession of it - to end up in prison for five years. |
LA: Jury declines to indict N.O. man who shot car burglar
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"A grand jury declined to indict a New Orleans man who stood on his third-floor balcony last August and fatally shot a man who was breaking into his car."
"Sean Minor, 29, had claimed he feared for his life when he fired at Alaberto Munoz, 18."
"Police said Munoz and another man were trying to break into Minor's black Nissan Altima. The shots hit Munoz in the face and chest at a range of more than 30 yards, police said at the time." |
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