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WA: Traffic stop nets gun, beating victim
Submitted by: Bruce W. Krafft
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"A state trooper who stopped a speeding van near Montesano wrested a handgun from the driver and discovered a Kent woman who had been beaten tied up in the back. A 55-year-old Kent man was arrested."

"State Trooper Drake stopped the Caravan on Monday afternoon on U.S. Route 12. The driver pulled out a pistol, but Drake was able to take it away. He then heard the woman moaning in the back."

"Kent police reported that the 53-year-old woman said she had dated the suspect for about a year."

Buying Guns Off-Paper
Submitted by: Bruce W. Krafft
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"If you don't keep up on gun laws, you may not know that we have a de-facto system of gun registration already in place, in the US. It's not as centralized or complete as the government would like, but it exists and you should know about it. It works like this: you know that yellow form you have to fill out when you buy a firearm from a gun shop? Form 4473; you have to fill in your name, birthday, SSN, and some other info, and affirm that you're not a felony, a loony, an illegal immigrant, and so on."

"Janie the Soccer Mom thinks that it's there to ensure that loonies and killers and foreign terrorists don't get guns, and while that was the rationale behind it, it serves another function as well. The system exists in an attempt to log as many firearms purchases as possible. The gun dealers are required to keep those 4473s for as long as they have a Federal Firearms License, and when they give up their license they are required to submit all those archived forms to the BATF. This gives the Feddies a great resource to start with when they decide that you can no longer be allowed to possess whatever gun they don't want you to own that month." ...

CA: Court Gives Bryco/Jennings the (Index) Finger
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"Once again, someone has managed to blame a few pounds of metal for the demonstrated ineptitude of a few pounds of gray matter. Last week, jurors in a California civil court ruled that gun manufacturer Bryco/Jennings must pay over $50 million to a 16-year-old who became a quadriplegic after his moronic babysitter shot him in the jaw nine years ago. Virtually no one--even the normally 'pro-gun' right--seems to be complaining about the verdict. While the right remains silent, the left is hailing the decision as an example of a 'legitimate' case of compensation for a 'dangerous design flaw" in the gun.' "

OR: Police Illegally Raid Homes with Tank; Prompts Federal Lawsuit
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"The victims of an egregiously false police raid, and their attorneys, announce an impending lawsuit against the Oregon State Police, Lane County Sheriff, Eugene and Springfield Police Departments, Portland Police Bureau, Oregon National Guard and others. In the pre-dawn of October 17, 2002, approximately 50 police officers from these agencies swarmed a residential neighborhood in Eugene, Oregon, USA, armed with automatic assault rifles and accompanied by a National Guard military Light Armored Vehicle, which looks like a tank. Police claimed to be searching for a marijuana growing operation within three homes."

Iraq: Middle classes rush to buy guns as lawlessness spreads
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"Now the retired bank director is preparing to take up arms once again as he sits on the porch of his suburban home, awaiting delivery of a Kalashnikov bought by an intermediary for $100 (Ł62) on the thriving black market in weapons."

" 'Ive never had a gun in my house in my whole life,' the diminutive pensioner said. 'Its not in my nature. I know it is breaking the law to buy it, because it is either stolen or looted, but I have to protect myself and my family. What choice do I have?' "

KY: Ex-boyfriend charged in killing
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"Angela Turley, so afraid of her ex-boyfriend that she obtained a court order to keep him away from her, ominously foretold her own death as she explained his behavior earlier this year."

" 'I am scared to death there will be more violence in the future,' she wrote Feb. 6 in a document on file in Kenton District Court."

"On Tuesday afternoon, Turley, 26, died in her apartment in Hamilton, Ohio, the victim of a single gunshot wound to the head."

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Another sad example of a piece of paper with legal writing on it not being able to stop a bullet.

Countryside uprising
Submitted by: Paul Raynolds

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"I just returned from a conference on civilian firearms ownership and regulation held in the Tower of London, which, some might say, is appropriate place for a group of pro-gun scholars to gather."

"Shooting sports in the United States have their problems, but having the chance to converse with some fellow shooters from England, I came away thankful for what we've got in the good ol' USA."

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Of course, if we continue on our course of apathy and compromise, expect the US to turn into merrie olde England in the not too distant future.

CT: Guns Seized At Border; Hamden Man Arrested Submitted by: Bruce W. Krafft Website: http://www.idcwebdev.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"More than 100 weapons were seized from a Connecticut man and four others trying to cross into Canada from New York in three vans, authorities said Wednesday." "Customs inspectors searched their vehicles about 9 p.m. Sunday at the border across from Champlain in northern New York, after they declared a few hunting rifles without proper registration..."

SC: 2 charged in break-in at area lawyer's home
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"Swerling said he and his family are relieved by the arrests."

"But the Swerlings don't live the same way anymore."

"The lawyer who once sat at defense tables next to the most reviled killers in the state and the Midlands now carries a concealed gun."

"The doors are locked, and no one goes outside alone."

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Sometimes it takes a trauma to make one realize the importance of armed self-defense.

Report Details the Folly of 'Zero Tolerance'
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"Destructive 'zero tolerance' policies in the nation's schools are leading students off the academic track, sometimes straight to the jailhouse, critics say."

"In what's billed as a 'first-of-its-kind' report, a public policy group called the Advancement Project noted, 'In school district after school district, an inflexible and unthinking zero tolerance approach to an exaggerated juvenile-crime problem is derailing the educational process.' "

UK: Brown bites bullet for Channel 4
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"Illusionist Derren Brown will attempt to avoid shooting himself in the head." ...

"The Russian roulette special will be filmed on the Isle of Man, Jersey or Guernsey because the gun laws in mainland Britain prevent Brown performing the stunt."

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This is an irresponsible publicity stunt that could very well prompt "Jackass"-style imitators, while gun possession by British citizens for legitimate defense is prohibited.

WA: Police are sued over killing of dog
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"It began one afternoon early last year, when two Seattle police officers rushed into a West Seattle apartment, looking for young men who had just beaten up a man on the street."

"Instead the officers found Princess, an 18-month-old American Staffordshire terrier, which, they said, charged at them. They shot the animal dead. An internal departmental review later said they were justified."

"But now Princess' owners have filed a federal lawsuit against the Seattle Police Department and the officers, alleging they had no right to shoot their beloved pet. They are demanding payment for emotional stress and mental anguish."

TX: Pleas for help heard on 911 tape
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"A frantic 911 call from a person speaking Spanish, with yelling in the background, described a dire situation in a semitrailer in which the occupants were being asphyxiated."

"But dispatchers in Kingsville couldn't understand the call late Tuesday. It wasn't until they got word hours later that bodies were found in and around a semi-trailer at a truck stop near Victoria on U.S. 77 - about 100 miles north of Kingsville - that they linked that call with another and believed there might be a connection to the truck, said Kingsville Police Chief Sam Granato."

Firearm Industry Wins Major Victory With Common-Sense Verdict In NAACP Case (Another report) Submitted by: Anonymous	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"This verdict is the latest defeat for those attempting to use the courtroom for an end-run around the legislative process and impose changes to gun laws that federal and state legislators have roundly rejected. The Federal Court's advisory jury's decision can be accepted or rejected in whole or in part by Judge Jack B. Weinstein in the next 30 days."

IL: Focus on facts simplifies gun debate
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"Which brings us to fact No. 5: There has never been a reliable poll showing that most, or even many, Americans see the Second Amendment as an absolute bar against government enactment of gun-control laws."

"Most people seem to want government to impose at least some kind of control on weapons. Hardly anybody thinks the Constitution gives everybody the right to own bazookas, machine guns, tanks, nuclear arms and such. Even with respect to ordinary firearms, most folks want them kept out of the hands of career criminals and certifiable mental cases."

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Email this paragon of ignorance with the facts, please. pcunningham@registerstartower.com.

"Assault Weapons Is a Redundant Term"
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"The ban itself is unconstitutional, sir. It violates the second amendment. The key term here is 'shall not be infringed.' It would also violate the spirit of the fourth amendment, which provides 'the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures' of an item already guaranteed to be protected under the second amendment. It can also be argued that the ninth amendment may come into play here, sir, in that although the second amendment doesn't specifically denote assault weapons, that lack does not deny or disparage the right of people to own them. From a historical perspective, during the Revolutionary War, the long musket could indeed be viewed as an assault weapon."

UK: Dirty bomb victims 'may be shot'
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"Police could be forced to shoot members of the public to maintain order in the event of a terrorist 'dirty bomb' or biological attack on Britain, it was claimed yesterday."

"The Police Federation annual conference in Blackpool was told that so few officers have been trained to deal with a chemical, biological, nuclear or radiological strike that they would have to resort to 'very unsavoury but necessary' crowd control."

ME: Report: Maine prosecutes 10 percent of violent crimes committed guns
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FULL STORY BELOW:

A new report from the Americans For Gun Safety Foundation says federal prosecutors in Maine are only prosecuting about 10 percent of the violent crimes committed with a gun.

U.S. Attorney Paula Silsby responds that the statistics don't show how many of those crimes were pursued at the state level, or how few gun crimes Maine has to begin with.

"Maine's problem, unlike other states, is not a lot of violent crime committed with firearms. The number one violent crime problem in this state, according to every law enforcement official that you talk to, is domestic violence," Silsby said.

A task force Silsby convened last fall plans to creatively apply gun laws to reducing domestic violence, by reminding would-be abusers in an ad campaign that people convicted of domestic assaults lose the right to own a gun.

Underhanded tricks
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"The Democrats just aren't used to being in the minority so they continue to act like they're still in the majority. Unfortunately, they need a different kind of scam to use when the Republicans have more votes than they do. So what they can't get in the legislature they try to get by suing (Colorado) -- or just 'running away' (Texas) so the Republicans can't get a quorum to do business. In Colorado, the Republicans were doing some 'gerrymandering' of districts. The same thing the Democrats always do when they're in the majority and which the GOP usually goes along with, bowing to the fact that they are in the majority. But what do the Dems do when they lose? They sue. They claim the new redistricting law is unconstitutional. It is not. They're going to lose again."

Our System is Broken
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"While the feds spend billions of American taxpayer's money trying to create a semi-democratic government in Iraq, they ignore the realities of how our system at home is failing to function properly in a truly republican form as the founders planned. The feds claim to want to provide for the Iraqi people a democratic government, as if this implies they are going to give the Iraqi's what we have. That is something the Iraqis most likely don't really want. Perhaps it isn't so much the feds are ignoring how our own system of government is failing, as it is they are enabling it to fail."

CA: Road Rage Without A Gun
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"Under a little-known loophole of the California Vehicle Codeone that was designed primarily to get unsafe elderly drivers off the roadanyone can file a complaint against any driver for whatever perceived infraction they want. Didnt signal before you made that lane change? Not going fast enough? Someone thinks youre ugly? Youre the wrong ethnicity? Got an IMPEACH BUSH sticker on your bumper? With a license-plate number, perhaps a bit of colorful elaboration and no proof or witnesses whatsoever, its shockingly simple for someone to commit whats essentially a sort of bureaucratic road ragevengeance via inconvenience. You could lose your license, and in Southern California, that means you could lose your life."

IL: Daley's Billboard Blitz Lacks Truth in Advertising
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"The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today said Chicago Mayor Richard Daleys new anti-gun billboard campaign to keep guns out of his city 'lacks truth in advertising.' " ...

" 'If Daley believed in truth in advertising,' observed CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, 'his billboards would actually tell people from Mississippi and Indiana to 'Come here unarmed and be a crime victim.' Chicago under Daley is the murder capital of Illinois."

Lawmakers Weigh Ban on Assault Weapons
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"Speaker Dennis Hastert opened the door Thursday to a vote on extending an assault weapons ban that expires next year, and the leader of House Democrats prodded President Bush to urge the Republican leadership to bring the bill to the floor."

" 'And I hope that he will work for its passage as well,' said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif."

"Hastert, R-Ill., said he hadn't yet decided whether the GOP-controlled House would vote on renewing the ban, which was approved in 1994 on 19 military-style automatic weapons. 'I need to have some discussions with the president and (Republican) leadership before I make that decision,' he said."

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Start calling your congresspeople now. Stop it in its tracks!

Malvo's Attorneys Want Change Of Venue Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Attorneys for sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo plan to ask that Malvo's trial be moved out of Fairfax County, arguing that reports in the news media have prejudiced potential jurors against Malvo before the first witness has testified."

Germany: Elderly man goes on shooting rampage Submitted by: Blacksnake	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"A 69-year-old man shot dead two doctors and apparently his wife before killing himself in the south-western German town of Ludwigshafen on Thursday, said police." "They said they did not know the motive for the killings." "Police said the Italian-born man walked into a surgery, asked to speak to the doctor and then shot and killed him with rounds fired from a large-calibre pistol."

Senate turns back tax-cut amendment
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"Republicans defeated the first of a series of Democratic amendments yesterday designed to rewrite Republicans' tax-cut bill, but the big showdown is expected today."

"Senators will vote on amendments from Democrats to eliminate or reduce the dividend-tax cut in order to increase aid to the states or to block other tax increases in the bill. Republicans, meanwhile, will offer an amendment to broaden the limited dividend-tax cut approved in the Finance Committee by temporarily phasing the tax out."

President Bush, we read your lips. Keep your promise Submitted by: Doug	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Here's a prime example of the "million" morons and Brady trying to whine away some more of our rights. ------- "During his 2000 Presidential campaign, now-President George W. Bush repeatedly promised to renew the Federal assault weapons law. But it now appears the President plans to break his promise, and work with House leaders to let the law die." ------- We can only wish that were true.

Local Communities Refuse to Enforce Patriot Act Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"In a rare occurrence, conservative watchdogs are siding with liberal groups who say that several provisions of the anti-terror USA Patriot Act are cause for concern by Americans seeking to protect their basic rights."

TX: Texas Democrats continue self-imposed exile Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Fifty-one state House Democrats who remained holed up in an Oklahoma hotel Thursday said their self-imposed exile from the Texas Capitol will be over by the end of the week, one way or the other." "The missing lawmakers fled to Ardmore, Oklahoma, over the weekend in order to thwart a quorum and derail Republican efforts to redraw the state's congressional districts in favor of the GOP."

Hastert says no decision on assault weapons vote Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"House Speaker Dennis Hastert said Thursday that Republican leaders have not decided whether to schedule a vote to renew a ban on assault weapons, backing away from comments from another GOP leader."

IL: Sheriff's order to remove flags from uniforms upsets deputies Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Hundreds of Cook County sheriff's deputies have been wearing their patriotism on their chests since the 9/11 terrorism attacks." "They've pinned American flags to their uniforms, expressing solidarity with soldiers overseas." "Now they're steaming that sheriff's administrators have ordered them to take their pins off."

Schumer's Hypocrisy Exposed; CCRKBA Says Schumer Should Drop Bodyguard
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" 'Chuck Schumer has been working overtime for years to deprive honest, law-abiding Americans the means with which to defend themselves from violent crime,' said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. 'Yet, here's Schumer unmasked, protected by an armed New York police detective, a luxury not available to average working class Americans. If Schumer is convinced that his fellow Americans don't need firearms, why does he feel the need for an armed bodyguard?' "

CNN Poll on Bush's Support of Assault Weapon Ban Submitted by: Anonymous	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Today the CNN website is polling viewers on whether President Bush should "do more to renew the assault weapons ban". Make your voices heard. The voting area is halfway down the Headline News page (see link) in the left hand margin.

LA: Letten vows crackdown on falsified gun checks Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Federal prosecutors in New Orleans have adopted a 'zero tolerance' policy for people who lie on criminal background checks to buy firearms, acting U.S. Attorney James Letten said Wednesday in response to a private study that shows a lack of enforcement of the nation's major federal gun laws."

TX: Jury returns a guilty verdict in stun gun child abuse case Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"He used a stun gun as discipline on his kids and now he could go to prison for it. A jury found a Brazoria County father guilty of child endangerment and injury to a child."

MO: Legislature votes to ban suits against gun makers Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Governmental entities would be barred from suing gun manufacturers under Missouri legislation sent to the governor." "The bill was passed earlier by the Senate and won final House approval Wednesday a 113-37 vote." "The legislation would prohibit cities, counties and the state from suing gun manufacturers."

Latest police state example
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"As reported in the Scottsdale Tribune on May 13, 2003, authorities at Connolly Middle School suspended a 12- year-old girl for a month (reduced later to 12 days), for bringing a small pocketknife to a teacher 30 minutes after she discovered the little tool in her backpack."

"The Connolly Middle School principal reportedly confined the young girl for hours, and questioned her severely without letting her call parents, get a drink of water or go to the bathroom. Apparently the principal wanted her to admit that she intentionally brought the knife to school."

"The girl, a student body leader, received the harsh penalty because she failed to turn in the little knife 'immediately.' Her 30-minute delay invoked the 'zero tolerance' rules against prohibited weapons." ...

" 'School administrators eager to 'send the right message' with zero-tolerance zealotry must realize they are in fact sending a most invidious one: that adults in authority are hysterical tyrants [whom] kids trust at their peril.' "

GA: Senate needs to protect public, not gun industry
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"Despite Georgia's well-established national reputation as a source state for guns furnished to criminals elsewhere, only two allegedly corrupt dealers were prosecuted here. An estimated 25,000 guns were reported stolen here, but only 13 cases of possession of a stolen gun were prosecuted."

"Criminal prosecution is clearly not a threat to corrupt gun dealers. If the Senate grants them immunity to civil lawsuits, they won't have to worry about litigation either."

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Enlighten us how suing a legitimate industry out of existence (an admitted anti-gunner goal) will protect the public.

Japan: Man arrested for trying to sell gun on Internet Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"A company worker has been arrested for putting a gun on sale on an Internet auction, police said Thursday." "Kazuhiko Sone, 40, of Nishitokyo, western Tokyo, put the revolver on sale May 6 and kept it in a drawer at his home, where it was found by investigators the following day, the Metropolitan Police Department said."

UK: Fascinating gun is handed to police under amnesty
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"An antique shotgun dating back to the 1860s was handed in at Leatherhead Police Station just a day before the end of a month-long weapons amnesty."

"The weapon was taken to the station in Kingston Road by Bookham resident John Parker, 76. It had been issued to his grandfather Orfeur George Parker after he joined the 2nd Battalion of the Kings Royal Rifles Corps in 1864 and would have traveled to India and the Boer War in South Africa with him."

Gun Foes Face Uphill Fight
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"Proponents of the assault weapons ban thought the sniper attacks that paralyzed the Washington area in the fall might reinvigorate support for their legislation. And McCarthy's latest bill expands the definition of assault weapon to include the Bushmaster rifle used in the shootings. But the gun lobby has had more victories lately, including a House vote last month to shield gun manufacturers from lawsuits. Similar legislation is pending in the Senate."

National Right to Bear Arms Meetup Submitted by: Melissa (skypod) Website: http://profiles.yahoo.com/skypod	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
WHAT: Meet with other local supporters of your Constitutional Right to Keep And Bear Arms. WHEN: The 4TH Saturday of every month at 2:00 PM.

CA: Concealed Carry Oppression Continues in CA
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"Here in California there are the free and the oppressed. The free are the minority elites that have set aside for themselves rights and privileges meant for all people to enjoy. They are the ones who control and define the parameters of the freedoms and rights dispensed to the general citizenry."

"Worse still, these elites have prostituted rights that were meant for the security of a free state as a means of acquiring personal and political power through the perpetuation of the perception that they and their ilk are needed to promote the peace of society."

The Federal Firearms Act
Submitted by: Flo Hoffman

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"Where does the federal government get its Constitutional authority to enact laws such as the National Firearms Act, which has been codified to Chapter 44 of Title 18 of the United States Code? Upon whom are such laws operative, and where? Since a careful reading of the Constitution reveals that the federal government has no specifically delegated authority to regulate firearms, from where does the federal government's authority to regulate firearms come?"