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Army hired criminals as security guards, report says
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"The U.S. Army and private contractors employed convicted criminals as security guards across the country despite repeated warnings in the past three years of the 'risky situations' that could present, according to a new federal report." ...
"The report by the Government Accountability Office, Congress' investigative arm, said this is the third time in three years that it has warned the Army that the lack of proper background checks could jeopardize security at some of the largest and most important installations, including Fort Bragg and West Point." ...
"The GAO report says that at one facility, which was unidentified other than it was not in Hampton Roads, 61 security guards with criminal records had been hired, including two dozen with felonies and one with an outstanding warrant." |
CO: Gun cleaning led to police shooting
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"The Durango police officer who accidentally shot a fellow officer in the knee two weeks ago did so while cleaning his pistol, according to a news release issued Wednesday by District Attorney Craig Westberg."
"Officer Jeff Tipton pointed the gun down at a table and depressed the trigger, believing the weapon was empty, the release said. Although the clip was removed, there was a bullet in the chamber. The gun discharged, sending the bullet through an aerosol can on the table and through the table top, where it struck a metal leg and ricocheted into Officer Pete Malberg's right knee, according to the news release." |
FL: Jail employee fired for allegedly striking his wife over Dungeons and Dragons toys
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"A Marion County Jail corrections officer was fired after an internal affairs investigation determined he struck his wife in an argument over his buying Dungeons and Dragons fantasy toys."
"Investigators say Edward Bonthron and wife Lori Jo Bonthron were arguing at their home last month over whether he was paying too much for the toys."
"Lori Jo Bonthron told investigators she was hit, pushed and choked." |
TN: Former judge Thomas Austin involved in crash
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"A former Roane County judge recently in trouble with the law may be in trouble again." ...
"Austin stepped-down from the bench in February after being arrested on extortion charges." ...
"Last week, Austin admitted to taking kickbacks from two driving schools where he sent defendants. He's expected to be sentenced for the federal crimes in August."
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AL: This house protected by Smith & Wesson
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"The Alabama Legislature is downright dangerous when its members set out to get themselves re-elected."
"Take the deadly force bill that sailed through both houses and Gov. Bob Riley was quick to sign. That's a dangerous piece of legislation."
"It basically says that a property owner can shoot first, then ask questions later ... if there is anyone left to ask."
"Every person has the right of self-protection, but that right needs to be tempered with restraint." |
AL: Gov. Riley signs new self-defense gun law
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"Governor Bob Riley signed into law legislation that gives law-abiding citizens greater legal safeguards if they use a firearm to protect themselves against people breaking into their homes or vehicles."
"The measure removes language from current law that says a resident should not use deadly force during a break-in if he or she can 'avoid using force with complete safety.'" |
CA: Burglaries increase 14% under new alarm policy
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"One year ago, Fremont Police Department announced it would stop responding to burglar alarms in the city unless there was confirmation that a home or business had actually been hit."
"A year after its "verified response" policy took effect, the police department's statistics show that burglary rates have increased 14.4 percent from last year."
"According to department statistics, there were 854 burglaries in 2004, and 977 burglaries during the policy's first 11 months."
"Despite the increased number of burglaries, the police department said it isn't discouraged by the statistics." |
NE: CCRKBA Urges Nebraska Lawmakers to Close the 'Omaha Loophole'
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"Passage of a concealed carry statute in Nebraska was a good first step toward insuring the safety of Cornhusker State citizens, but the new law has a gaping loophole that apparently allows cities like Omaha to continue denying their residents the right of personal protection."
"The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) is encouraging residents of Omaha, Lincoln and other communities to start contacting their city councils, demanding that they reject any attempt to prohibit concealed carry as the City of Omaha is apparently planning to do, based on a 70-year- old ordinance." |
FL: WMS student arrested for bringing knives to school dance
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"A Williston Middle School student was arrested last week on a felony count of possession of a weapon on school property after school officials caught him with two knives at a school-sponsored dance."
"According to reports from the Levy County Sheriff's Office, WMS Assistant Principal Terry Traylor and P.E. teacher Jason LeClere were told by other students about the weapons during the dance. The officials then took the boy to a locker room, where they asked him if he had anything he shouldn't have, and the boy turned over a folding pocket knife and removed a K-Bar knife with a seven-inch fixed blade from his sock, where he had it concealed." |
MD: Surveillance Cameras scan license plates for stolen cars
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"Two cameras, positioned like crab eyes on the police cruiser's roof, snapped digital pictures of hundreds of license plates, and with each beep, the laptop checked the images against an FBI list of stolen cars."
"Such cameras - called Mobile Plate Hunters - are replacing the laborious eyeball-and-keystroke method of checking for stolen cars, letting busy officers rely instead on an automated scan that takes less than a second."
"Automatic number plate recognition is a technology on the verge of exploding in the Baltimore-Washington area, fueled by funds from the Department of Homeland Security."
"'The uses are as limitless as your imagination,' said Lt. John McKissick, director of Howard County's emergency preparedness division." |
UK: Robbers stole just £75 in gun raid
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"Armed robbers who stormed an off-licence on the south Shropshire border and threatened a 19-year-old shop assistant with a gun left with just £75, it was revealed today."
"The young woman was preparing to lock up at The Local off-licence in High Street, Leominster, at 10pm on Tuesday when two men walked in and demanded the contents of the till." |
In response to letter to editor in The Free Lance-Star (Blog)
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"In response to 'Armed German citizens wouldn't have stopped Hitler' by James Good (4/5/2006)"
"Guns in the hands of citizens could very well of had an effect. It certainly did in the Warsaw ghetto as well as the partisan movement. The citizen resistance in Russia wrecked havoc on the Nazi war machine's supply line. The resistance did 'hit and run' campaigns. Killing individual and small groups of soldiers, taking their weapons and ammunition. This made them stronger and the Nazi's weaker. If not for the French resistance, D-Day may have been very different. For they assisted in a number of ways and fed the Allies pertinent info. As well as disrupted communications and supply lines." |
OH: Rifle Coach Newt Engle Receives NRA Coaching Award
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"The University of Akron's head rifle coach Newt Engle was recently given the National Rifle Association's Outstanding Service to Collegiate Shooting Sports award at the national collegiate banquet held in Colorado Spring, Colo. on March 11. Engle, who is in his 28th year of coaching at Akron, led the Zips rifle team to its second-straight Western Intercollegiate Rifle Conference championship, a top finish in the NCAA regionals and a second-place finish in the Mid-Atlantic Conference championships in 2005-06." |
Canada: Liberals say most MPs back gun registry
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"The Conservative government can't deliver on its promise to abolish the gun registry because a majority of MPs oppose the plan, according to Liberal public safety critic Irwin Cotler."
"Cancelling the much-maligned program didn't get a mention in Tuesday's throne speech as the long-time pledge appeared to take a back seat on the government agenda."
"But it remained a hot topic of debate in and outside the House of Commons yesterday." |
Australia: Gun-wielding bandits threaten family
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FOUR men held a family at gunpoint during a home invasion on the Gold Coast today.
Police said the men, one wielding a shotgun, forced their way into a house at Oxenford about 3.30am and threatened a couple and their three sons.
None of them were hurt.
It was believed the men were looking for money.
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UK: Gun drama is busy city shopping street
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"Gun-wielding police swooped on one of the busiest streets in Cardiff - closing it for more than five hours."
"Residents and shoppers were unable to get to their homes and cars after more than 20 police officers evacuated the area yesterday."
"Two men were arrested and a shop was searched in Albany Road, Roath, Cardiff, after the armed officers moved in." |
TX: Shooting was justified, police say
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"An Irving teen-ager accused of trying to rob a man at gunpoint Wednesday night was shot by the victim in a parking lot of an apartment complex, police said Thursday." ...
"The attempted holdup victim, a 45-year-old Irving man, told police that he was sitting in his pickup truck in the parking lot, talking on his cellphone, when the teen walked up. The teen — armed with a semi-automatic handgun — demanded the man’s cellphone and wallet, police said."
"The man told the teen he would give him his wallet and acted as though he was going to get it, but instead grabbed a larger caliber revolver that was lying on the seat, police said." |
PA: Teens in Gun Plot Due in Court
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"The 3 teens that police say confessed to plotting a brazen, Columbine-like massacre are due in court for a hearing on terrorist threats and conspiracy charges."
"The details are chilling. Following a court order, we're not identifying the 3 teens. But detectives say the boys, all freshman, planned to start a food fight during 4th period lunch in the Winslow High School cafeteria."
"Police say the teens had a target list of 25 students and teachers which included many athletes. Police say the boys were part of the Goth culture which worships the devil and believes in vampires." |
Australia: Woman, baby threatened in hold-up
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"Police said two men threatened staff and customers at the Fernvale Post Office on the Brisbane Valley Highway around 3pm yesterday."
"One man, carrying a large silver revolver, ordered them to put their hands up and hand over money and the counter attendant was told to open the till while a second man rifled through it."
"The gun-toting robber then placed the barrel to the head of a 34-year-old woman customer who was holding her child." |
VT: Twinfield student expelled after gun incident
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"Twinfield School Board members voted to expel a student involved in a February incident in which he pointed a BB gun at another student just off campus."
"Board members at their March 20 meeting voted 4 to 0, with one member abstaining, to accept Superintendent George Burlison's recommendation that the student be expelled for the remainder of the 2005-2006 academic year. The student will be allowed to complete the necessary requirements for graduation from home, Burlison said, with board members voting to allow him to receive academic support from the school on an 'as-needed' basis." |
WA: More stringent gun control laws unnecessary
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"The truth of the matter is that there is no exact face critics can throw up on the television to represent the image of gun supporters. ..."
"While there are no problems with individuals choosing not to own a firearm, restricting citizens from attaining the means of protecting themselves is an unacceptable and unconstitutional act. Gun ownership, even if the person is a law-abiding adult, has attained a certain stigma in society, which creates the sense that gun ownership is somewhat of a sin. Critics are not grasping the fact that there is a bigger situation at hand – guns are not the problem, people who abuse them are." |
South Africa: Mom hands in gun, threatened
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"A man threatened his mother with a knife when he discovered she had handed his illegal gun to the police."
"Concerned neighbours called police on Wednesday afternoon and the man locked himself in his shack in Mhluzi near Middelburg in Mpumalanga." |
MA: Teachers swing into action over kiddie hug
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"Parents of a kindergarten student in Maynard are outraged that their daughter and her classmate were disciplined for hugging each other on the playground."
"Michael Marino and Brenda Brier told WCVB-TV that their 5-year-old daughter, Savannah, who attends Greenwood Elementary School, was forced to write a letter, complete with teacher corrections, claiming she didn’t like the hug."
"'I touched Sophie because she touched me,' Savannah wrote. 'I didn’t like it when she hugged me.'"
"Brier said her daughter was 'sad' that her classmate was disciplined for comforting her after a fall on the playground." |
IL: Police prepare to use gun range
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"Elburn and four additional police departments will continue to use the police gun range on Thrysellius Drive in the village, Police Chief Jim Linane said."
"Geneva, St. Charles and South Elgin renewed an annual agreement with the village to practice shooting at the range. Carol Stream also has an agreement with the village. The departments finished shooting by Thanksgiving, but will resume firearms training soon, he said."
"Last summer, the Elburn Police Department received several complaints from residents in the Cambridge subdivision, but Linane said the department was doing everything in its power to be a good neighbor." |
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