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McCarthy adds her touch to anti-gang bill
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"A last-ditch lobbying effort by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy prevented an anti-gang measure that passed the House of Representatives yesterday from including language that would have allowed grade-schoolers to pack a pistol as long as they were in the company of a parent."
"'Today was a very good day because we got rid of something bad in the bill,' said McCarthy (D-Mineola), the leading gun-control advocate in Congress. 'Personally, I don't know why a 9-year-old should ever have a gun.'" |
IL: ISRA: Illinois State Police Voice Opposition to Closing Gun Show Loophole
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"In a move that has shocked many on Capitol Hill, the Illinois State Police (ISP) have come out in opposition to a bill designed to close the 'gun show loophole.'"
"In a tersely worded May 11, 2005 letter, ISP Director Larry Trent implored state legislators to vote 'no' on Senate Bill 57. In that letter, Trent made unfounded claims that the bill would endanger the lives of police officers."
"Sponsored in the Illinois House by Rep. John Millner, SB57 would put in place safeguards to prevent terrorists, drug lords and gang bangers from acquiring weapons at gun shows. The bill would greatly strengthen the state's background check law -- thus protecting the public and police officers alike from gun violence. The bill would also bring the state's gun purchase record keeping system into line with federal regulations." |
Rice: Gun Rights Important As Free Speech
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"In an interview on CNN's 'Larry King Live,' Rice said she came to that view from personal experience. She said her father, a black minister, and his friends armed themselves to defended the black community in Birmingham, Ala., against the White Knight Riders in 1962 and 1963. She said if local authorities had had lists of registered weapons, she did not think her father and other blacks would have been able to defend themselves." |
House Passes Bill to Make Gang Crimes Federal Offenses
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"Working to circumvent a four-month-old Supreme Court ruling, House Republicans overwhelmingly passed a bill yesterday establishing a host of gang-related crimes as federal offenses and dictating minimum sentences from 10 years to life in prison."
"The legislation was introduced by Virginia lawmakers after a Supreme Court ruling in January allowed judges to deviate from the harsh penalties specified in federal sentencing guidelines. The bill, approved 279 to 144, supersedes the guidelines with a schedule of penalties for gang crimes ranging from 10 to 30 years, with a sentence of life in prison or capital punishment for a gang crime that results in a death." |
John Longenecker: Thank You, Secretary Rice.
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"Secretary Rice said that if local authorities had had lists of registered weapons, she did not think her father and other Blacks would have been able to defend themselves."
"This implies properly, of course, that had they known where the guns were, those guns wouldn’t have remained there in private hands for much longer. The fear of a defenseless populace – make that a disarmed populace – where only the government and the criminals have the guns is not unfounded, and it is generations old, as Secretary Rice’s remarks indicate. This reasonable apprehension persists in 2005." |
AL: Gun accidentally goes off in Anderson County school
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"A gunshot was fired into the floor in an Anderson County middle school after a student accidentally pulled the trigger of a deputy's holstered gun."
"The gun fired Wednesday morning after a student at Lakeside Middle School grabbed it as the deputy told them how hard it was to take a gun from an officer's holster, Sheriff David Crenshaw said."
"The student's finger apparently was small enough to get inside the holster and pull the trigger, the sheriff said." |
SC: Gun That Discharged Is Standard Weapon For Officers
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"The gun that accidentally discharged in an Anderson County school Wednesday was a 40-caliber Glock, the weapon of choice by about 65 percent of law enforcement officers across the country."
"A firearms expert said that the major advantage of the weapon --- its ease of firing -- can also be considered a danger."
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TX: Border Patrol agents plead guilty in drug scheme
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"A senior U.S. Border Patrol agent and his brother pleaded guilty Thursday to accepting about $1.5 million in drug dealers' bribes to allow marijuana and cocaine through a checkpoint."
"Agent Juan Alvarez, 35, and his brother Jose Guadalupe Alvarez, 38, both of Laredo, were named in an indictment unsealed April 7. The indictment detailed extortion, bribery, drug conspiracy and firearm charges against the brothers." |
MO: Firearms safety, hunting protocol is serious business
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"Farmer Mark – in real life, firearms safety instructor Mark Brletich of the Dakota County Gun Club – showed the boys a couple of signs on his property that had been shot up by irresponsible hunters. ..."
"The boys, keeping a safe distance from the pitchfork, offered to pay for new signs. Finally, Farmer Mark relented and gave them permission to hunt on his land."
"And so went the continuing education of a new group of hunters. Graduation day of another firearms safety training course in Lakeville took place last month. Each graduate left with a hunter safety certificate and, the instructors hoped, a sense of how to go about it the right way." |
UK: Gun fanatic stalked and killed ex-fiancee
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"An obsessive sadist and gun fanatic faces life in jail after a jury convicted him of threatening, stalking and ultimately murdering a talented young showjumper after she had broken off their engagement."
"Mark Dyche had drawn up a horrific list of brutal fantasies about 26-year-old Tania Moore before he dressed in a pesticide-spraying suit and balaclava, rammed her car off a quiet country road and shot her in the head." |
MN: Ruling on gun law appealed to Supreme Court
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"Attorney General Mike Hatch on Thursday asked the state Supreme Court to review a Court of Appeals ruling that struck down Minnesota's handgun permitting law."
"The conceal-carry law, approved by the Legislature in 2003, gave more Minnesotans permission to carry handguns in public. But a series of state courts struck down the law, saying the method used by the Legislature to approve it was improper." |
UK: "I've got a gun, now take me into the hospital
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"DESPERATE Andrew Foy walked into a busy hospital with an air gun in a bid to be readmitted to a psychiatric ward."
"Foy, 23, of Oxhill Place, Dumbarton, feared he might harm himself with the pistol, so took it with him to the Vale of Leven’s casualty department on March 9 last year."
"Dumbarton Sheriff Court heard last week that Foy had been released from the psychiatric ward earlier that day and wanted to be taken back in." |
MT: Hellgate actually has a choice
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"Hellgate Elementary threw the book at the Missoula-area youngster who carried to school the BB gun he found on his way to class one morning and at the schoolmate who helped him hide it in her locker. The Missoulian this month has reported extensively on the 12-month expulsions the two students received from a school district that portrays itself as bound by a strict federal law that sets a zero-tolerance policy regarding weapons in schools."
"In fact, however, the school has plenty of latitude in disciplining those students. It's the local school board, not federal bureaucrats, deciding that those two students should spend most of two school years twiddling their thumbs at home." |
UK: BASC welcomes publication of police safe gun storage advice
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"Revised guidelines for the police on requirements for security and storage of legally held guns are being made public by the Home Office. In a move welcomed by Britain's biggest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), firearm certificate holders, the police and the general public will benefit from having a comprehensive set of recommendations for the conditions under which guns should be stored." |
AL: Pine Hill auxiliary officers to carry guns
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"Pine Hill’s three auxiliary police officers now have the authorization to carry guns and drive police cars while on duty for the police department."
"The Pine Hill council granted the request made by Police Chief John Brown at Monday’s meeting. Brown’s request was made in writing, but Brown was not present at the meeting due to health issues." |
PA: Other side of gun story (Letter)
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"I'M A RESPONSIBLE gun owner with a concealed-weapons permit, and I've read your series of gun-violence reports over the last few weeks."
"I feel they were all one-sided and inaccurate. If you wonder why responsible gun owners instantly get their dander up every time new 'gun control' ideas are thrown around, I'll tell you."
"Because every anti-gun proposal is just that - anti-gun. It's all or nothing. There is no reasonable compromise. Every proposal is just a foot in the door to complete elimination." |
ME: Remote-control hunting banned
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"Maine has put up a 'keep out' sign for a high-tech version of hunting in which computers and cameras are used to kill animals from remote locations. Gov. John Baldacci has signed a bill to ban remote-control hunting, in which clients hook up online to a set of cameras at a ranch, then sight game and fire a rifle."
"The bill, which was signed Tuesday and takes effect 90 days after the close of the current session, will make remote operations targeting game or birds in Maine locations illegal." |
UK: Eight Out of 10 Police Officers 'Want Stun Guns'
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"Police are to debate whether all frontline officers should carry stun guns after a poll today found eight out of 10 of them supported the move."
"The Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, will examine the issue at its conference next week."
"Survey results released by Police Review magazine showed 80% of police wanted to carry Taser stun guns." |
Australia: Prison workers strike after fake gun find
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"Prison officers at Parklea, in Sydney's west, have voted to continue their strike for another 24 hours over the discovery of a replica gun at the jail."
"The gun was found in the visitors carpark and has prompted Corrective Services to hold an immediate security review of the perimeter of the prison."
"Prison officers believe the incident was a trial run to bringing a real gun into the jail."
"Greg O'Donohue from the Public Service Association says officers will stay on strike until new security measures are introduced." |
AR: Region 8 Man Charged After Bringing Gun To Elementary School
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"21-year-old Blaine Wilkinson allegedly brought a gun onto the property of Riverside East Elementary and began making threats toward his wife, who works as a teacher's aide at the school."
"When Tuesday incident happened, law enforcement was called to the scene and the school went into a temporary lockdown. It's a scary situation, but school official’s say knowing how to react and preparing for a situation like this can keep the nearly 400 students at Riverside East Elementary safe."
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UK: Air gun sniper hunted
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"A WOMAN was shot as she was on her way to take her sick mother to hospital for an X-ray."
"A pellet from an air gun ripped through Caroline Michael's trousers and hit the back of her thigh as she strolled through Highbury New Park, Highbury."
"Police and medics were called to the scene and she was taken to The Whittington Hospital, Highgate Hill, Archway."
"Miss Michael, 43, said: 'I was on my way to see my mum to take her to Bart's Hospital and the next thing I know I was hit by a bullet.'" |
VA: Board takes flak over gun find
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"Anger and alarm among Central Elementary parents over an incident last Friday in which two students brought guns to school came to a head at a School Board meeting Wednesday."
"'The thought of children bringing guns and knives to school petrified us,' said Lisa Lamb, whose son attends the school. One of the two students, who were in fourth- and fifth-grade, also was caught with a knife."
"Lamb was one of several parents who balked at hearing about the incident from the news media and not the school system." |
LA: Family Dollar robbed at gun point
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"A Family Dollar store in the 2500 block of Hollywood Avenue was robbed at gun point this morning, Shreveport Police said."
"The robber went into the store about 11:15 a.m. and pointed a black handgun at the back of the head of an employee forcing her to the back of the store, police said. Not finding what he wanted, the robber forced the employee to the front and ordered her to empty the cash registers, police said."
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