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Kerry on the Record: Brandishing the Gun Issue
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"Kerry has voted with the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence 100 percent the time, and he has earned a grade of 'F' from the powerful National Rifle Association – as well as a 0 percent rating with Gun Owners of America. He opposes granting gun makers immunity from civil lawsuits arising wrongful use of weapons, supports renewing the ban on assault-type weapons, and would require the same background checks at gun shows that are mandatory for other gun sales."
"Kerry’s stump message in a nutshell: I’m a hunter. I like to hunt and shoot guns. I believe heartily in the right to bear arms. But, stick with me now, we gun-totters can certainly stand some common sense rules of gun responsibility." ...
"On the Record:
"Kerry voted for the assault weapons ban contained in the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1993, restricting the manufacture, transfer, and possession of certain semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices. ..."
"Kerry voted for the Brady Bill in November 1993. ..."
"Kerry voted against the motion to table (defeat) the Boxer/Kohl Amendment, requiring that all handguns sold in the United States be sold with a child safety lock. ..."
"Kerry voted against the Craig Amendment that would have required that gun stores have trigger locks in stock and available for sale. ..."
"Kerry voted against the Large Ammunition Magazine Ban Amendment to ban the importation of large capacity ammunition feeding devices. ..."
"Kerry voted against the motion to table (defeat) the Child Access Prevention Amendment to increase penalties for individuals who permit juvenile access to firearms. ..."
"Kerry voted for the Lautenberg Gun Show Amendment to the Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Accountability and Rehabilitation Act of 1999 to close the loophole allowing individuals to sell guns from their private collections at gun shows without completing background checks for purchasers. ..."
"Kerry voted against the motion to table (defeat) the Ban on Unlicensed Sale of Guns on Internet, an amendment to the Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Accountability and Rehabilitation Act of 1999 banning the unlicensed sale of guns on the Internet by requiring websites clearly designed to sell guns to be federally licensed firearms dealers and to comply with all such federal laws. ..."
"Kerry voted against the motion to table (defeat) Large-Capacity Clips..." |
Why Did it Have to be … Guns?
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"People accuse me of being a single-issue writer, a single- issue thinker, and a single- issue voter, but it isn't true. What I've chosen, in a world where there's never enough time and energy, is to focus on the one political issue which most clearly and unmistakably demonstrates what any politician -- or political philosophy -- is made of, right down to the creamy liquid center." ...
"If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you." |
Gun Control, Dianne Feinstein, and the 'Assault Weapons' Ban
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" 'The Senators and Representatives shall … in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House...' – U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 6, Clause 1."
"The preceding excerpt from the Constitution is our origin of what is called legislative immunity. It means that if Diane Feinstein prefers to lie while carrying out her job as Senator, we cannot hold her liable. ..."
"Diane Feinstein sent this in response to a request she uphold the Constitution that protects her from arrest for using her position to lie about firearms." |
Defending Our Right To Keep And Bear Arms
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"Any attempt to eradicate the 2nd Amendment would be tantamount to a crime against the people of this country, and indeed humanity, perpetrated by a despotic and tyrannical group of people who seek nothing but dominion over their fellow human beings!"
"Some have referred to the Constitution of the United States of America as simply a political or a legal document, but it is far more than that! It is a HUMANISTIC document, which asserts the necessity for self determination above and beyond all other human constructs, yet does not deny the importance of God in people's lives. ..." |
Chemical matching of bullets comes under fire
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"...a growing body of research has revealed that the practice of chemically matching bullets is seriously flawed." ...
"For several years, statisticians, metallurgists, and others outside the FBI have questioned the courtroom use of bullet chemical analyses. Now, the National Academies' report, Forensic Analysis: Weighing Bullet Lead Evidence, has brought the practice into the spotlight. That report, combined with past studies detailing the forensic tool's shortcomings, could call into question many past convictions in which results of the chemical analysis of bullets was introduced as evidence."
"First developed in the 1960s, bullet chemical analysis has been used by prosecutors when a suspect's weapon is not available or when the bullet found at a crime scene is too fragmented to permit visual inspection of the characteristic markings that firearms leave on intact bullets." |
CA: Is this what we call "the land of the free?"
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"When police noticed Dina Dagy's family was spending $250 to $300 a month on electricity, they suspected a marijuana farm was flourishing under high-intensity lights inside their suburban home."
"It was too many appliances, not pot, that police found at Carlsbad home"
" 'It's hard to believe a high utility bill would be enough to issue a state warrant,' said Dagy, who is demanding the Police Department issue a written apology.
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MI: Deputy fired for possessing his firearm during an alleged drunken altercation with a woman fighting to reclaim job
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"A former Otsego County Sheriff's deputy who was fired for possessing his firearm during an alleged drunken altercation with a woman is fighting to reclaim is job."
"Nicholas Cavanaugh, who spent five years as an Otsego deputy, hopes arbitration will return him to his former job." ...
"According to police reports, a Gladwin City Police officer saw Cavanaugh grasping a woman by the back of her hair while his car was parked with its light on in the lot of a business on Feb. 14 around 11:45 p.m."
"Cavanaugh allegedly told the Gladwin officer he would not leave the parking lot until the female passenger said 'please.' " ... |
AK: NRA endorses Sen. Murkowski
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"The National Rifle Association announced its endorsement of U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, at a campaign gathering in Fairbanks on Saturday."
"This is the first time the powerful gun lobby has officially supported Murkowski, who was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2002. ...The NRA backed her opponent the last time Murkowski ran for a political office, which was for a seat in the Alaska Legislature, also in 2002."
"Murkowski's challenger, former two-time Democratic Gov. Tony Knowles, has never received the NRA endorsement..."
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CA: Probes of inmates who bled to death or were beaten as they lay prone on the floor
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"Dozens of prison employees have refused to cooperate in recent weeks in probes of inmates who bled to death or were beaten as they lay prone on the floor." ...
"The most recent allegations are in an internal California Youth Authority report on the videotaped beatings of two youths, ages 19 and 21, by two employees at Stockton's N.A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility Jan. 20."
"Four employees who witnessed the beatings gave information that is 'misleading, factually false and contradicted by witness statements and the videotape evidence,' says the confidential report obtained by The Associated Press." ... |
U.N. General: Big powers' "self-interested racism" could allow genocide to happen again.
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"Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian general who grieves for the hundreds of thousands of Rwandans his token U.N. force could not save 10 years ago, fears big powers' 'self-interested racism' could allow genocide to happen again." ...
" 'I'm sure there would have been more reaction if someone had tried to exterminate Rwanda's 300 mountain gorillas,' he said." ...
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PA: Assault weapon ban's effectiveness debated
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Although Pittsburgh has recorded one murder this year involving an AK-47, police aren't encountering them often anymore, much to their relief.
" 'You don't see them like you used to,' said Mullen. 'And we don't have shootings like we used to, where someone pulls up to a corner and sprays it with an AK-47 and hits innocent people.' "
NOTE: According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, so called "assault" weapons are used in less than 2 percent of all crimes.
"Now some Pennsylvania legislators are wading into this fight, saying a state law banning assault weapons is necessary in case the federal ban is not renewed." |
Army's M-16 rifle targeted for replacement
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"After nearly 40 years, the Army is ready to replace the M-16 rifle, a weapon introduced in the jungles of Vietnam and still carried by troops in the deserts of Iraq."
"The replacement, called the XM-8, is under development at Picatinny Arsenal in Morris County, N.J., and is being tested at Fort Benning, Ga."
"Developers say the new rifle with the futuristic-looking curves is a marked improvement over the M-16 because it is shorter, lighter, easier to clean and unlikely to jam in a firefight -- an M-16 shortcoming illustrated in the ambush that wounded former POW Jessica Lynch and killed 11 of her comrades in Iraq." |
Pre-election battles shape up in Congress
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"From gays to guns to the rights of the unborn, Republicans are staging a series of cultural clashes in Congress in the run-up to the fall elections, seeking political advantage as much as legislative accomplishment." ...
"The gun debate is not likely to result in new laws anytime soon, either, but Senate Republicans were eager to debate legislation sought by Bush and the National Rifle Association."
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CA: KL rifle team wins Butte title
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"Knights Landings won the Butte Rifle League title, finishing the season with a 1450-1443 victory."
"The 'A' team finished with a 12-3 record, but it was the first time in three years they lost a match. Knights Landing lost to Chico once and Yuba City twice." ...
"Tom Keehn led the team in the finale, shooting 296. He was followed by Wademan, 293, Kevin Lopez, 292, Mike Wademan, 285, and Mark Hutchison, 284."
"The 'B' team (8-7) fell 1,340-1,097. Paul Hutchison led with 283, followed by Cliff White and Roger Post 277 and Ralph Gunby 262." |
UK: Half of the soldiers in Britain can barely spell "rifle," but they're armed with one
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"A confidential study into the educational standards of soldiers has revealed that half of all new infantry recruits only have the reading and writing skills of 11-year-olds."
"The study commissioned by the Ministry of Defence, which the Telegraph has seen, also discloses that a fifth of recruits have the literacy and numeracy levels of seven-year-olds. Four per cent are at the standard of the average five-year-old."
"Among the problems uncovered were one soldier who admitted that he struggled to write letters to his young daughter and another who wrote 'riht' for write, 'cepe' instead of keep, and 'rifel' for rifle."
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Argentina: Policing corrupt police
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"Lewicki takes no chances."
"In the past three years, he says, he has been knifed, threatened at gunpoint, beaten and burned with cigarettes. He rolls up his sleeve to show a nickel-sized lesion, which he says two men inflicted by pressing his arm against a motorcycle exhaust pipe."
"Such is the price one pays for turning on one of Argentina's most powerful criminal organizations: the maldita policía, a network of corrupt police officers in the urban sprawl of Buenos Aires province." |
OH: Interest in gun permits soaring
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"What is it about journalists that insist on using phrases like 'pack heat' in writing their stories? Few if any persons who apply for licenses would ever be caught referring to this serious responsibility so flippantly." ...
"A lot of people in Hamilton County apparently want to pack heat."
"Even though a new law that allows Ohioans to carry concealed weapons doesn't go into effect until April 8, the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department is already receiving a stream of calls from people wanting to apply for permits." |
UK: Giant X-ray used in drugs search
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"A 7ft-tall X-ray machine was used for the first time by police who arrested 35 people during a raid on two pubs in north-west London."
"More than 400 officers took part in the operation to scan suspects for drugs and weapons in Harlesden High Street."
"Equipment was brought in on articulated lorries on Friday night, and suspects had the choice of being strip-searched or scanned."
"The machine shows a 'graphic' image of the suspect minus their clothes."
"It shows up anything hidden under the clothes, including metal, plastic or ceramic guns, wooden clubs and coshes, explosives or drugs." |
There's been some bad news from the courts this week (Blog)
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"What I do want to stress is this: gun owners don't have many friends apart from other gun owners. There are a few who are on our side on general principles but don't own guns themselves, but the majority of people you will see that believe in an individual having the Right to Arms are gun owners. & hell, even some gun owners aren't our friends. We do have a lot of enemies, both in ideology & fact."
"So what I would recommend is if you know anyone who advocates civilian disarmament or who actively advances it (such as those people named above) then politely try to change their minds. Convince them that what they're doing or encouraging hurts not only themselves but everyone in our society. If you honestly attempt to sway them & they still persist in their encouragement of civilian disarmament then politely but firmly tell them that you've got no choice but to take it personally & as such you'll be disassociating yourself from them. Don't do business with them; don't go to social events with them; don't invite them to dinner, etc. Leave an invitation open to discuss their views on civilian disarmament but make it clear that that's it." |
NY: Officer faces child porn charges
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"A veteran patrolman with the Town of Hamburg Police Department was arrested Friday on felony charges of possessing and receiving Internet child pornography."
"Federal prosecutors said George Adymy, 45, was caught up in an international Internet child pornography investigation called Operation Predator. He is accused of using his home computer to download numerous images of children engaged in sexual activity."
"Adymy was suspended with pay after his arrest. ..."
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FL: Corrections Officer leads by example
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"Meet Travis McConchie. The 31-year-old corrections officer had a good reason for making the Florida Highway Patrol chase him for half-a-mile before pulling over his Ford pick-up Wednesday morning. No, it wasn't because he was going 73 in a 45 mph zone. And it had nothing to do with the fact that he was drunk, with his blood alcohol level twice the legal limit. And he wasn't even concerned about the pot in his ride. Nope, the Clearwater man (seen below in a Pasco County Sheriff's Office booking photo) just did not want to interrupt a very tender moment with his girlfriend Bernadette." |
CA: Park police train with evil AR-15 assault rifles that have no purpose other than to "mow down innocents"
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"The 22-person police force at Lake Perris State Recreation Area is being prepared to use AR-15 rifles in the event the park ever becomes a terrorist target."
"State park rangers throughout California are getting similar training to protect themselves and the public from snipers or terrorists who may be armed with long-range assault weapons."
"At stake locally is protecting an important Metropolitan Water District resource and the dam that provides drinking water for the Inland region."
"The FBI's terrorism task force has worked with all law enforcement agencies to be vigilant and prepared to deal with any threats, said the bureau's spokeswoman in Los Angeles."
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CA: Workers Hired To Remodel Homes Assault, Try To Rob Owner, But He Drives Them Off With A Gun
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San Diego police reported Saturday that three men hired by a man to remodel his La Jolla properties pistol-whipped and tried to rob him, but they fled after the victim got a gun and fired two shots.
According to SDPD Sgt. Rich Nemetz, the attack occurred in the 6100 block of Avenida Chamnez about 5:14 p.m. Friday. The hired workers came to the victim's home and tried to rob him at gunpoint.
Police said that when the victim's wife arrived, one of the suspects told her to leave, which she did with two of her children.
Somehow the victim got away, got hold of his gun, firing two rounds at the suspects, who fled the scene, Nemetz said. |
KS: Kansas serial killer resurfaces 30 years after first killing
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"For some, the memories had only recently faded, the gnawing dread that made them check behind their doors when they came home at night, or look for broken windows before they entered."
"Now, 30 years after the first of eight grisly murders that terrorized this Midwestern city, fear has again gripped many in Wichita after police said last week that the serial killer known as the BTK Strangler has resurfaced."
"A March 19 letter to a local newspaper suggests the killer, last heard from in 1979, was responsible for the slaying of 28-year-old housewife Vicki Wegerle in 1986. The letter included a copy of her stolen driver's license and crime scene photos as evidence."
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New Zealand: 'Guns for kids' send sinister message say parents
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"Rifles are being advertised for children as young as six, shocking parent groups who say it encourages children to kill."
"The advertisement features in a hunting and fishing mail-order catalogue and promotes the guns - imported from the United States - using a picture of a six-year-old boy alongside his 'kill' (a goat) and the words: 'Take a kid hunting with the deadly wee Chipmunk Rimfire.' It says the guns are 'custom made just for kids'."
"Suppliers have defended the ad, saying the $399 rifle is designed for children and is safer than other rifles they would use."
"But the ad has outraged the children's commissioner and parents' groups. They say they don't want New Zealand to import the kind of killing culture the gun represents."
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AZ: Gun fired in Tucson High not reported for 12 hours because assistant principal did not recognize the noise
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"A 16-year-old student inadvertently fired a handgun in a Tucson High Magnet School hallway Wednesday, but officials didn't report it to police for more than 12 hours, a delay that upset some parents."
"Parents didn't find out about the incident until Friday."
"Tucson Unified School District officials said the situation was handled as well as possible, considering the assistant principal who heard the gunshot at 4:45 p.m. didn't recognize it as a gunshot."
"They also said she found no signs of a shooting when she investigated, and suspected the noise might have been a firecracker when she saw a chip in the wall and noticed the smell of gunpowder." |
IL: Gun control suffers setbacks
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"The Illinois Senate Friday approved legislation to allow retired police officers and former military police officers to carry concealed weapons, the latest example of a growing mood against gun control in the legislature despite the Democratic takeover of both chambers."
"In addition to the concealed-carry measure, lawmakers in recent days have voted for bills that would lower the age to obtain a gun owner's permit without parental consent and allow a court to override enforcement of municipal handgun bans in cases where weapons are fired in self-defense." ... |
PA: Big Labor Tries to Throw GOP Election in Pennsylvania
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"A labor union wants its Democrat members to raid Pennsylvania's Republican primary and save an endangered RINO." ...
"Many blue-collar unionists fervently favor the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Toomey, not Specter, agrees with them." ...
"True to the 'playing it safe' strategy of sticking with incumbents in a primary, the Bush White House supports Specter, as does Pennsylvania’s other U.S. senator, the conservative Rick Santorum." |
NY: 911 System Is Shut Down in 3 Boroughs - Panicked Disarmed Callers Who Have Been Told 'You Don't Need A Gun Just Dial 9-1-1' Get Busy Signals
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"New York City's 911 emergency line went down for about two hours in three boroughs last night in what city officials said was a telephone company problem. The malfunction left city officials frantically trying to set up alternative ways to get help to New Yorkers who heard only busy signals when they tried to call 911."
Poster note: I'm sure city officials were nowhere near as frantic as some callers.
"The line stopped working about 7:20 p.m. in parts of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island..." ...
Not all callers were affected, the authorities said, and those who called an operator were patched through to the Police and Fire Departments. [S]ome calls began to be rerouted by 8:30 p.m., but the process was not completed until 9:35.
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"Imagine: an American journalist using his cover for the most prominent paper in the country to inform on and demonize select political critics of the government! The Godfather had his 'newspaper friends' on the payroll, and the IRS has theirs: David Cay Johnston."
"David Cay Johnston, a celebrated New York Times reporter, reveals in his recent book, Perfectly Legal, his history of acting as a government informant against political dissenters on behalf of his best government sources. ... Johnston's revelations in his book still shock the conscience. Johnston's informing and propaganda at the behest of favored insiders induced audits, secret surveillance, and criminal prosecutions of select political targets." ... |
PA: Outspoken gun dealer "raided" by "dozens of heavily armed ATF agents wearing flak jackets, helmets and carrying military style weapons"
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(Thursday, March 25, 2004) -- Meadville area gun dealer Daryl Sivik was apprehended by federal agents this morning, as heavily armed investigators raided his Williamson Road gun business in West Mead Township.
Sivik could be facing federal firearms charges in connection with Thursday’s raid. During the raid dozens of heavily armed ATF agents wearing flak jackets, helmets and carrying military style weapons swarmed the area around Sivik`s gun shop around 9:00 this morning.
State police closed the road for hundreds of yards in each direction. Dogs were also used by investigators at the scene.
Gun dealer Daryl Sivik is an outspoken critic of the federal government, and is not a stranger to controversy. He's known to be a supporter of local militias and back in 1998, Sivik put an unlicensed low power pirate radio station on the air from a make shift studio on his property. The content can be described as extremely right wing. Sivik also leads an annual UN flag burning ceremony in downtown Meadville to protest US involvement in the United Nations.
In 2003, Sivik unsuccessfully ran for elected office as a West Mead Township Supervisor.
By Thursday afternoon Sivik was in federal custody in Erie facing a variety of charges. |
The Awful Truth about Republicans
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"Anyone who wants cuts in the size and scope of government should be concerned and frustrated with the policies of President George Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress. Government spending has increased enormously and the federal budget has plunged ever more into deficit."
"Protectionism, regulation and government power are on the rise, and we are at war or in conflict with a record number of countries around the world. The Republican-controlled Federal Reserve has pushed interest rates to below 1% while it frantically tries to flood the economy with money and credit." ...
"Republicans have become the party of fiscal irresponsibility, trade restriction, big government, and failing-grade microeconomics." |
FL: Gun idea joins a long list of dubious laws
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"The legislation — Bill 155 in the House and Bill 1152 in the Senate — was drafted with the help of the National Rifle Association. The purpose is to keep police and any other governmental agency from compiling computerized lists of law-abiding gun owners."
"It is designed to block gun registration." ...
"Some critics argue the bill is unnecessary and born out of paranoia."
"Other critics worry that the new law will prevent police from keeping track of firearms and that could hamper criminal investigations. ..." ...
"Florida's First Amendment Foundation — funded by this and other state newspapers and broadcasters — remains critical of the bill and points out that while government, the press and individuals will be barred from keeping gun and gun-owner lists, the NRA won't. The bill exempts membership lists of organizations comprised of gun owners."
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UT: Appeals court says gun-toting man broke law
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"Dale Parker of Utah says he can carry his Colt double-action six-shot revolver as part of his Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms."
"But an appeals court has said otherwise, ruling there was insufficient proof that possession of the firearm he used for self-defense and target practice was related to participation in a well-regulated state militia."
" 'Parker has presented no evidence that his revolver would come within the category of arms used by the military,' Judge Mary Beck Briscoe of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote on Wednesday ..."
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CA: Triggering many memories at the tommy gun exhibit
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"...Most of the old tommies were junked or sold off to Third World militaries that have by now junked them. The few operating survivors escalated exponentially in value -- especially after a 1986 federal law froze the number of automatic weapons in the country -- and therefore disappeared into private collections, where high-end aficionados could admire them over a glass of fine port in front of the fireplace after a hard day clipping coupons."
"So if you called out, 'Where's my tommy gun?,' the answer would be: 'In your local millionaire's mansion.' But today it's different." |
Jamaica: Gun licence scam deepens
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"Police have seized 300 firearms believed to have been issued to shady characters and are investigating six former commanding officers at the height of an islandwide probe into the corrupt issuing of gun licences, the Sunday Observer has learnt."
"The implicated officers have all been relegated to the Inspection Branch, a division of the constabulary referred to as "Never Never Land" where cops who are suspected of breaching force regulations are sent to be forgotten in the system, Sunday Observer sources said." |
Guam: More events to offer gun locks
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"More than 600 registered firearms on the island may now be child safe, thanks to Project Childsafe."
"Armenio Prangan, a 36-year-old Dededo resident with four children, was among the first yesterday morning to receive a free yellow gun lock, with a cable designed to enter a firearm's barrel or chamber to prevent it from firing."
"Prangan inherited the .357 magnum when his father left the island recently, and although he has no use for it, he has to keep it for his father." |
UK: Gun police hold three in Heathrow scare
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"ARMED police stormed a plane at Heathrow yesterday after suspicions were raised over three passengers."
"The men, thought to be of Arabic origin, were removed from the flight to Brussels minutes from take-off."
"Witnesses claimed the trio had been talking about how to gain access to the cockpit of the bmi (British Midland) flight. Services to Brussels were under heightened surveillance, it is believed, because of the EU summit there."
"A source on flight BD145 said of the men: 'They were talking in Arabic about how to take hold of the aircraft.' " |
Canada: Code of Silence Enshrouds Toronto Gun Murders
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"Segun Farquharson spent his last moments in a car with three other men, one of them a friend, frantically pleading with his killer and promising to obtain money to pay a debt."
"Just let me go get it for them, man. I swear to God, I'll pay for it out of my own pocket. I swear to God, man."
"The pleas fell on deaf ears. A passenger told Farquharson 'this ain't no negotiation,' and someone shot and killed the 24-year-old man."
"The chilling conversation was captured on Farquharson's cell phone voicemail and released by the police."
"After almost three years, Farquharson's murder remains unsolved despite the taped conversation and the presence of witnesses. ..." |
FL: Women take action in response to gun violence
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"A report on Polk County gun violence statistics is propelling a local drive for firearm safety."
"The 'Gun Violence Assessment for Polk County, Florida,' compiled by the League of Women Voters' Gun Violence Prevention Committee, focuses primarily on firearm deaths that occurred from 1994 to 1998."
"The Lakeland-based League is issuing the report in advance of an upcoming project that will distribute free gun locks through a partnership with the Polk County Sheriff's Office." ...
"Citing data from a U.S. Department of Justice study, the assessment states that Polk ranked second among 36 Central Florida counties in gun violence from 1994 to 1998. ..."
"We're not anti-gun at all, we're just interested in safety, she said." |
Cowardly advice for hoplophobes
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"Dear Mr. Dad: Should I tell my preschoolers about guns? We don't watch violent programming or own any toy guns and no one I know even owns one. But you can't turn on the TV or open a newspaper these days without a story about someone getting shot. What should I do?"
"A: To start with, continue to keep your children far away from violent media, including children's programs that involve guns and gun-like lasers. Don't allow them to play with toy guns, especially realistic-looking ones. But be realistic -- you can't shield your children forever. One of these days they'll come across a gun and it's critical that they know what it is and that it's dangerous." |
Israel: Soldier nabbed selling nicked weapons
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"Police have arrested an IDF soldier caught by undercover police officers while selling them weapons he had stolen from an IDF base."
"The soldier, a resident of Pardess Hana told the police officers that he did it in order to feed his family. 'We don't have any money, not even to buy food, and I don't mind selling guns to anyone for any price, whether it's Palestinians or criminals', he told military investigators explaining why he stole weapons from his base and tried to sell them to criminals."
"The soldier, who will be 19 years old this month, was arrested for stealing military equipment including assault weapons from his army base on the northern border." |
KS: Senate debates bill to allow concealed guns
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"The Senate debated a bill Friday to permit Kansans to carry concealed handguns, rejecting attempts to limit the places where the hidden weapons would be permitted."
"The measure would require the attorney general's office to issue a concealed-carry permit to any Kansan who pays a $150 application fee and is a U.S. citizen at least 21 years old, has no mental illness or drug or alcohol addiction and completes eight hours of training."
"Handguns would be forbidden in certain places, including schools, city halls, courthouses, the Kansas State Fair, bars and taverns." |
OR: Swindled elderly pair forced from their home by sheriff's deputies
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"An elderly couple, swindled out of more than $80,000 by their accountant, were forced out of their $1 million Beaverton home by Washington County Sheriff's deputies."
"One week ago, six armed deputies, said Ken and Trudy Reusser, broke down the door to their home, searched the house and asked the couple to pack their belongings and leave within the hour. Two of the deputies drew guns, said Trudy Reusser."
"The officials removed the couple because the pair was unable to pay for the home, which sits on land once owned by Ken Reusser's grandfather." |
FL: Gun range bill may backfire
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"A year ago, leaders of the National Rifle Association and the National Shooting Sports Foundation signed a pledge to protect the environment from lead pollution at gun ranges." ...
"Six months later, though, the NRA launched a drive to do away with any environmental regulation of gun ranges in Florida. Marion Hammer, the NRA's lobbyist in Tallahassee, told lawmakers that gun range owners need to be protected from bureaucrats who 'are drunk with power, and they think they can bully anybody they want.' " ...
"By trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist, the bill will create a result opposite from the one the NRA had sought: Range owners will face more state scrutiny than they do now, not less." |
IL: Gov to lower age to get gun permits solo
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"Gov. Blagojevich will sign legislation that lowers to 18 the minimum age to own a gun in Illinois without parental consent, but his spokeswoman told the Chicago Sun-Times on Saturday he is vowing to veto two other bills that ease local gun laws."
"One bill would allow a self-defense claim to override municipal handgun bans. The other would allow retired police officers and former military police officers to carry concealed weapons." |
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