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"National Campaign to Close the Newspaper Loophole"
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PEORIA, ILLINOIS -- "Just because you can legally advertise the sale of handguns and rifles in a newspaper doesn't mean you should, a national group told the Journal Star Wednesday."
"Newspaper classified ads are being used to circumvent federal laws requiring background checks on individuals purchasing guns, said John Johnson, the head of the National Campaign to Close the Newspaper Loophole."
"The 'loophole' is the fact that people can sell firearms without a license and people can buy the weapons without a background check, just as they can at gun shows, estate sales and flea markets, Johnson's organization maintains." ...
If Lawful Gun Owners Weren't So Peaceable...
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INS Agent Shot Girlfriend, Self - with department-issue weapon, in crowded shopping center
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PEMBROKE PINES, Fla., 6:16 p.m. EST December 4, 2002 - "An Immigration and Naturalization Service agent is dead and a woman remained in critical condition after an apparent murder-suicide attempt in a Pembroke Pines parking lot Tuesday night."
"Pembroke Pines police said Willard Williams, 41, shot his girlfriend in the face with his department-issued handgun Tuesday night and then fatally shot himself."
"The shooting happened in a crowded shopping center parking lot at Pines Boulevard and Flamingo Road." ... |
TX: Pawn shop tricks gun thief
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"A Granbury pawn shop called Christopher Shane Lucas and said they had videotaped him stealing a pistol from the business, said Hood County district attorney Rob Christian."
"Lucas, 23, of Mabery Court, then brought back the Ruger 9mm semi-automatic pistol, Christian reported."
"However, the pawn shop’s call to Lucas was a ruse to get the gun back because the shop had never taped Lucas stealing the pistol, said Christian."
"Lucas was given four years’ probation last week and fined $2,000 after pleading guilty to stealing the gun from the shop last Dec. 5..." |
CA: Citizens help officer subdue violent, armed felon
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LA MESA – A felon suspected of threatening to shoot his ex-boss proceeded to attack a patrolman who approached him on an East County street today, scuffling with him until a pair of citizens came to the officer's aid.
Shortly before 11:30 a.m., dispatchers got a 911 call about a gunman threatening someone in a home in the 4400 block of Rosebud Lane in La Mesa, police said.
A few minutes later, Officer Bob Lowry saw a pedestrian matching the assailant's description in the 7500 block of University Avenue, stopped him and was "immediately threatened," LMPD public affairs Lt. Raul Garcia said.
The man – later identified as 34-year-old Benjamin Reyes of La Mesa – allegedly announced he was carrying a concealed pistol and would shoot the patrolman.
"As Reyes reached into his pocket and kept his hand concealed from view, Officer Lowry drew his service weapon and ... attempted to talk Reyes into surrendering peacefully," Garcia said. "Reyes began to comply with the officer's directions, then ran at the officer."
As the men grappled, two passers-by ran up and helped wrestle Reyes into submission. Lowry arrested him and found a loaded .22-caliber handgun in his pocket, along with extra ammunition, according to police.
"It was later discovered that Reyes is a convicted felon with a history of violence and is not allowed to possess a gun," the lieutenant said.
The civilians' assistance "was significant and probably prevented death or serious injury" to Lowry as well as the suspect, he added. |
Australia: All governments now agree on handgun ban
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Govts share cost of handgun buyback
State and territory leaders have reached an agreement with the Prime Minister on tougher gun laws across Australia.
All governments have endorsed the resolution including limits on the calibre and barrel length of handguns.
A ban on handguns will come into force from June 30 next year.
The leaders have also resolved the major sticking point, with a buyback scheme to be jointly funded by the two tiers of government.
Prime Minister John Howard said: "There will be a buyback, there will be an amnesty of both legal and illegal guns.
"The buyback will be funded initially from the $15 million which was left over from the buyback monies from the post-Port-Arthur buyback.
"The rest, the Commonwealth will meet two-thirds and the states one-third."
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Reckon we'll now find out if Australians have more guts than the cowards in Britain. |
Secret Service officer charged
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"Maryland State Police charged an off-duty U.S. Secret Service officer with two felonies in a 'road rage' incident over the weekend. He is accused of pointing a handgun at a driver on a Western Maryland interstate highway, authorities said." ... |
Why Males Don't Go to College
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[B]oys' sagging educational performance is one of the main reasons for the increasing disappearance of male students from our college campuses. However, there is another, unacknowledged reason why some males don't go to college-rampant anti-male feminism has made college campuses a place where many males feel unwanted and unwelcome. To use a feminist term, our universities have become "hostile environments" for young men. |
Canada: "Parliament mugged"
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"Straight shooters they're not. But then, they never aimed to be."
"For seven years, bureaucrats in Canada's justice ministry under Allan Rock, Anne McLellan and now Martin Cauchon have lowballed, denied, hidden and shrugged off the ever-rising cost of setting up a national firearms registry."
"In 1995 Rock told Canadians it would cost $2 million to register owners and guns. Not even close. Cauchon now guesses $860 million, maybe more."
"This is not a 'cost overrun.' It's a scandal that strikes at Ottawa's credibility. Heads should roll." ... |
NY: Shaming the shield
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"Michael Silvestri is a veteran New York City police detective who is on trial in federal court in Manhattan for his alleged association with a Mafia crime family."
"The trial will determine if the allegations are true. But I'm not surprised that Silvestri is entangled in this mess. The guy's no genius."
"One of his misadventures, an especially dangerous one, occurred last year when he was the lead detective investigating a holdup and attempted murder in Brooklyn." ... |
PA: Handguns for Sale, $51 - Shotguns, Rifles, $26
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Gun buyup in Pennsylvania offer opportunity to buy firearms inexpensively. Just outbid the posted amounts being offered to people who want to get rid of their firearms...Goods for Guns of Allegheny County
Get $50 gift certificate in exchange for working handguns; $25 for rifles/shotguns at the following collections:
Gun Buybacks
December 7th & 14th
9am - 3pm Click above link for locations and let us know if you outbid these dingleberries. |
OR: "Work to avert more gun deaths"
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"And why must concealed weapons be allowed in our schools, churches, sporting events, public buildings and other public places where kids and families congregate?"
CHRIS DEARTH
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Oregon Ceasefire
Anyone care to submit a printable letter to the editor in response to Mr. Dearth?
letters@news.oregonian.com |
MI: Storeowner Kills Thug in Defense of Himself
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A local Detroit businessowner was accosted by 4 thugs attempting to rob him as he was leaving his store through the back door.
He was ordered back into the store at gunpoint. The storeowner pulls out his own piece and shoots one assailant, who is later DOA at the hospital. During the shooting, one assailant did manage to shoot the storeowner in the leg, but he is doing fine. He kept 2 others at bay for the police to come by and arrest. One other assailant fled the scene. |
Surveillance steamroller flattens our every right
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... "If the ACLU can join with conservatives to preserve the Bill of Rights, why can't the National Rifle Association do the same, when it comes to homeland spying? The NRA has remained strangely - one might say even eerily - quiet about the Homeland Security Act."
"Surely every gun owner in America realizes that a full-blown surveillance system, in which every American's life is monitored by the Pentagon in a war on terrorism, can red-flag gun owners with a very big flag, indeed. And such a system would be tantamout to universal gun registration." ... |
Canada: Rock takes aim at gun lobby, provinces
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Alternate Title: Hapless bureaucrat whines and tries to pass responsibility to the gun lobby for his screw-ups.
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"Liberal leadership hopeful Allan Rock blamed gun lobby groups and some provinces Thursday for the $1-billion cost overrun in the federal gun registry, saying they blocked the process and drove up the cost...
" 'Some provinces refused to administer it and left it just to us. Ralph Klein and Mike Harris wanted nothing to do with effective gun control,' he said." ... |
Federal Court Upholds CA Assault Weapons Ban, Rebuts Ashcroft's Alleged Individual RKBA Stance
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"The federal appeals court in San Francisco yesterday unanimously upheld most aspects of a California law restricting sales and ownership of the semiautomatic firearms sometimes called assault weapons. It rejected a challenge to the law based on recent interpretations of the Second Amendment by a federal appeals court in New Orleans and by the Justice Department."
"The law, enacted in 1989 and broadened in 1999, was challenged by people who owned or wanted to buy such firearms."
"The decision is significant, legal experts said, not for its outcome, which was largely required by earlier decisions of the court, but for its extended rebuttal of more recent interpretations of the Second Amendment. The ruling was issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit." ...
"The panel struck down as irrational a provision of the law that allowed retired law enforcement officers to retain assault weapons." ... |
Canada: Police nab violent offenders
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"A joint-police task force has conducted a series of raids in Ontario and Quebec aimed at getting convicted violent offenders off the streets and, in some cases, out of the country.
"The raids early Thursday targeted 55 individuals involved in serious violent crimes who were non-Canadians, Toronto Police Chief Julian Fantino told a news conference...
"The crimes involved included robbery, weapons and firearm offences, Fantino said. A .22-calibre handgun was seized during the raids." ... |
"Suicide-Gun Ownership Link Remains a Mystery"
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"The jury is still out on why suicide rates are higher in parts of the US where more households own guns, as new research indicates the link cannot be explained by the prevalence of mental health problems in these areas.
" 'This gun-suicide association is not due to differences in rates of depression or serious suicidal thoughts,' study author Dr. David Hemenway of Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, told Reuters Health." ...
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While these pontificators are at it, perhaps they can explain why there are countries with low gun ownership rates but much higher suicide rates -- and why there are countries with higher gun ownership rates but much lower suicide rates. |
2nd Amendment fight back policy
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"We advocate the filing of Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuits against all State and local Governments That limit or restrict your RIGHT to keep and bear arms when it leads to the inability to protect yourself from the Criminals that these municipalities and States protect.
"...ANY City or State that denies or limits your RIGHT to carry a weapon for defense is Liable for any and all damages and/or Injuries to your person. Period." ... |
What's To Debate?
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"Hayhoe is a hoplophobic liberal who is hellbent on treating an inanimate object, a firearm made of steel, wood, rubber and plastic, as a living, breathing, satanic creature, just like that Stephen King novel which attributed an evil soul to an automobile. Good reading, perhaps, but pure fantasy."
"Satanizing one inanimate object, a firearm, while ignoring the inherent potential dangers of every other man- made object, such as automobiles (accidental auto fatalities outnumber accidental firearm fatalities by about 40,000 to 1) or knives/cutting instruments (the No. 1 weapon of choice in Florida in the crime of aggravated assault, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, for 2001) is irrational." ... |
Alternative Clinton Library Keeps the Truth Alive
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WASHINGTON – "Bill Clinton, America’s only elected president ever impeached, will not get away with rewriting the history of his legacy. In the fall of 2003, a Counter Clinton Library is scheduled to open in Little Rock, Ark., to set the record straight."
"Furthermore, it will be located just a short walk from the official Clinton Library that will spin the legacy, as presented by Bill and Hillary Clinton. The Counter Clinton Library is set to open about six months ahead of the sanitized Clinton version." ... |
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