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James Madison, House Debates June 8th, 1789 (blog)
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"It seems Mr. James Madison had quite a different view concerning our rights than that held by the politicians and government officials of today. So much so, that it is hard to reconcile his views, as the main author of the Bill of Rights. With the views commonly held today by our supposed representatives. An alarming discrepancy to say the least. But, of course, that is just my opinion. If you take a look at the following debate, think that you will probably arrive at the same conclusion; ..." ... |
CA: SF Court: Prosecutors Must Prove Gun Owner's Know Weapons Are Unusually Short
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"The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a person can't be convicted of the crime of possessing a sawed-off rifle unless prosecutors can prove that the defendant knew the weapon was unusually short."
"The court upheld the conviction of Sean King of San Francisco for possessing a short-barreled rifle in 2001."
"Police found the loaded rifle in the drawer of a workbench in the garage of a house shared by King, his mother and his brother."
"The stock of the rifle had been sawed off so that the weapon measured 24 and 1/8 inches. The state's Dangerous Weapons Control Law makes it a crime to possess a rifle less than 26 inches long." ... |
MI: Man shot in Oakfield Township (follow-up)
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"Kent County Sheriff Deputies and detectives are investigating a home invasion in the 10700 block of 15 Mile Road NE in Oakfield Township."
"Authorities tell WZZM 13 News a neighbor who was house-sitting at the residence shot a suspect as he was trying to get inside." ...
"He told investigators that he shot one of the suspects as he tried to break in. Police say he used a registered handgun that belonged to the owner of the home." ...
"The man who shot the suspect is not being charged at this time, but the investigation continues." [emphasis added]
"Current state law requires that you try to retreat if you feel your life is in danger."
"But a series of bills passed by the house, allows you to defend yourself and your family by shooting first." ... |
PA: Man fights to regain right to carry weapon
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"A Mt. Pleasant Township man is fighting to regain his right to carry a concealed weapon after police charged him with drawing a handgun in a public area and threatening to kill a former state trooper."
"Court records say David J. Warburton Jr., 49, had his firearms permit revoked in April. Police say Warburton unholstered a Browning .380-caliber pistol during a confrontation with David S. Flagg ..."
"Westmoreland County Sheriff Chris Scherer said he decided to take Warburton's permit away after he learned state police charged Warburton ... Warburton's lawyer ... said his client did not point the gun at anyone and drew it only because he felt threatened by Flagg. ..." ... |
VA: Shooting incident locks down Chesapeake schools
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A bizarre shooting incident resulted in a school lock down Monday in Chesapeake.
Two Indian River High School students reported seeing a man firing a rifle or long gun away from the school.
According to a school official, the students say it's possible the man was shooting at ducks.
A youth services officer responded to the lake, but the man had left the property.
The lock down lasted 45 minutes until the school was secured.
Two other schools were in lock down also, and notes were sent home to parents. |
ME: NRA is not opposed to LD 1938
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"It is unfortunate that Ellen Wells, Cathie Whittenburg and others have politicized the efforts to pass LD 1938, An Act to Protect Victims of Domestic Violence, by portraying the National Rifle Association as opposed to the bill."
"Their statement [in the May 3 BDN op-ed, 'Is this any way to run a democracy?] that the NRA 'wins' and women and girls are 'losers' is both false and inaccurate. Opponents to gun ownership and the Second Amendment are wont to depicting supporters as swaggering violent men decked out in camouflage sporting aggressive slogans on their beer-stained T-shirts."
"Any impartial examination will find we are representative of average Maine citizenry. ..." ... |
NH: Defusing the hair-trigger law
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"Gov. John Lynch listened to the law-enforcement community and did the right thing by vetoing a measure that would have made it easier to use deadly force in public places."
"Senate Bill 318 was a bad piece of legislation to start with, a feel-good solution in search of a problem New Hampshire doesn't have. ..." ...
"But the bill gave Lynch — and many of the state's police chiefs and prosecutors — visions of 'OK Corral' shootouts on the streets. One example cited by Lynch in his veto message: SB318 would have let any shopper instantly shoot and kill a thief who grabbed at their purse or briefcase, regardless of who else might be put in harm's way by their actions. ..." ...
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Submitter's Note: Repeating the governor's lie does not make it true. Read the bill for yourself. |
CA: Assemblywoman Parra Announces Passage Of Gun Safety Legislation
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"Assemblywoman Nicole M. Parra (D-Hanford), today, announced the passage of AB 2096 out of the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee by a bi-partisan vote of 5-2. AB 2096 would exempt gun safety devices from state sales and use taxes."
"'Not applying sales and use taxes to gun safety devices makes it that much less cumbersome for gun owners to purchase such devices,' said Assemblywoman Parra. 'I really do believe that over the course of time, AB 2096 will reduce the number of firearm related injuries in our communities.'" ... |
VA: Congressman Calls for Tighter Gun Control Laws
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"The deadly shooting outside of a Fairfax County police station a week ago has prompted many to call for tighter gun control laws."
"Virginia Congressman Jim Moran and Virginians Against Handgun Violence are stepping up efforts to ban 50-caliber sniper rifles."
"Congressman Moran has introduced legislation, H.R. 654, that would prohibit the sale or transfer of 50-caliber sniper rifles, and require those types of rifles already in private collections to be registered under the National Firearms Act."
"The bill would exempt members of the military and law enforcement."
"The Congressman and Virginians Against Handgun Violence are also trying to reinstate the assault weapons ban that lapsed in September, 2004." ... |
Troops do double duty in gangs
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"Army soldiers who belong to the Gangster Disciples have robbed people to raise money for the gang, orchestrated drug and gun deals, and even killed two people after gang members were kicked out of a bar."
"About a dozen soldiers at bases in Texas and Colorado have been sentenced to prison over the last decade as a result of federal investigations into criminal activity they carried out for the Chicago-based gang."
"They highlight the danger of soldiers maintaining gang affiliations."
"'It is a continuing problem, sure. It's ongoing,' said Scot Thomasson, a supervisor with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who investigated dope dealing and gun trafficking involving Fort Carson, Colo., soldiers." ... |
TN: U.S. marshal dies in shootout with police
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"A deputy U.S. marshal was killed in a shootout with police officers who had stopped the agent for driving erratically early Sunday, authorities said."
"Mary Fisher, 46, refused to stop when officers tried to pull her over and led the officers to her home around 6 a.m. ..."
"When the officers told her to get out of the car, she opened her door, pulled out a gun and started shooting at them ..." ...
"Sheriff's deputies went to Fisher's home just before 10 p.m. Saturday after a woman there dialed 911 and hung up."
"Fisher was gone by the time they arrived, but a work associate at the house told deputies Fisher was delusional and had driven away, according to a joint statement from the sheriff's office and police." ...
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Submitter's Note: Perhaps a better title would be "Delusional Fed Killed by Local Cops in Shootout"? |
TN: Investigation Continues into Deputy U.S. Marshal Shot by Memphis Police (another story)
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"Mary Fisher's fifteen year career with the U.S. Marshal's Department came to a violent end Mother's Day morning outside of her Cordova home after she was shot to death. Police say the bizarre series of incidents that would lead to the shooting started hours before."
"Around 6am Sunday she was spotted at Germantown Road and Macon Road by Memphis police working an accident scene. 'They witnessed the vehicle driving erratically in opposing traffic, violating some traffic laws. They put on the blue light and sirens in an attempt to do a traffic stop.' says Sgt. Vince Higgins with the Memphis Police Department." ... |
IN: Officer says he was following orders, normal procedures
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"Cannelton Police Patrolman Mike Humphrey said he was complying with orders when he left a stun gun in a vehicle delivered to Tell City High School for work and when he ended his Sunday shifts at 8 p.m. When he made a traffic stop on a man whose estranged wife he was seeing, he said, he was performing a standard welfare check on a driver who'd threatened suicide."
"Humphrey said the Taser pistol was tucked out of sight when he left the car at the city's police station to be delivered to Tell City High School for students to work on. Also in the vehicle when Cannelton Police Chief Darrin Cox delivered the car to the school March 30 was a shotgun and pepper-ball gun, Humphrey said in contesting a 15-day suspension ..." ... |
NJ: Tragic ending, few answers: Probe of Millville shooting continues
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Barbara Vanaman, 37, was a mother, a daughter, a teacher and an aerobics instructor. She loved her children, riding her bike and running marathons, her family said Friday afternoon."
"She was shot and killed late Thursday afternoon in a domestic dispute with her husband, 15-year veteran police officer Sgt. Robert E. Vanaman." ...
"No charges have been filed against Sgt. Vanaman, Cumberland County Prosecutor Ronald Casella said Friday. The police officer remained in South Jersey Healthcare Regional Medical Center recovering from stab wounds presumably suffered during a physical confrontation that neighbors said preceded the shooting at the couple's South Wedgewood Court home."
"Hospital spokesman Paul Simon would not disclose Vanaman's condition, citing federal privacy laws." ... |
FBI: 122 Police Officers Killed in 2005
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"Fifty police officers were shot to death in the United States last year, among 122 who were killed in the line of duty."
"In all, 55 officers were killed intentionally, two fewer than in 2004, according to preliminary FBI statistics released Monday. Vehicles were used in five deaths, the bureau said."
"At the time they were killed, 34 officers were wearing body armor. But the FBI did not say whether bullets penetrated the armor in any of those deaths. Handguns were used to kill 42 officers, while five were shot with shotguns and three with a rifle. Six officers were killed with their own weapons, the FBI said." ... |
CT: Police Detective's Lost Gun Used in Crime
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A New Haven police detective has been reprimanded after her service pistol -- which she had lost -- was used in a December shooting.
Detective Lynn Meekins lost the gun in December, and three days later it was used to shoot a man inside a city apartment building.
The gun was recovered, and 20-year-old Skyler Smith of New Haven is charged with stealing it. He has not been charged in the shooting. |
OK: 'Bushytails' better run and hide, season starts May 15
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"You couldn't ask for more: the longest hunting season in our state, a plentiful population, a challenge to hunt, thousands of acres of public hunting access and probably the most underutilized season in the state. Of what am I speaking? Squirrel season!"
"The state's season opens May 15th and runs through January 31 of next year. This makes it the longest season of any of our state's game seasons and yet it is probably the one that most hunters don't participate in."
"It wasn't that way years ago when I was a kid. I remember my father loading up the trusty .22 and we would head to the Oologah bottoms. The public hunting area there was often overlooked by all but the few that knew what it had to offer. ..." ... |
CA: Smith & Wesson to provide 9,700 pistols
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Springfield gun-maker Smith and Wesson has received an order from the California Highway Patrol for 97-hundred new pistols.
Financial terms of the contract were not disclosed.
The pistols will be shipped over an 18-month period starting in June.
Each officer will receive a new 4006 T-S-W pistol to replace early-model pistols used for 16 years.
The order will also provide inventory for future California Highway Patrol officers. |
MT: Search goes nationwide for rare revolver stolen from Malta
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"The Department of Interior is posting reward posters nationwide in attempt to break open the cold case of who stole Dutch Henry's rare revolver from the Phillips County Museum in Malta."
"Henry was a fearsome outlaw from the Old West who made the Missouri Breaks his stomping grounds."
"On Oct. 23, 2004, the rare antique pistol was stolen from the Phillips County Museum — the thief lifting the unlocked glass cube surrounding the gun and slipping away."
"Valued at $40,000, the extravagantly engraved Bisley Colt .45 is one of 17 ever produced. It was designed as a target gun for English Lords in the 1800s." ... |
PA: No more sad stories: Limit gun sales and save lives
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"As of Friday, at least 111 people in Philadelphia had died this year after being fatally shot. At least 11 were younger than 18."
"Those numbers don't even count the many people who were shot but survived, often maimed and incapacitated, thanks to the advances in emergency medicine."
"The city is in the midst of an epidemic of gun violence."
"Most of the firearms involved in these fatal shootings (105 out of 111) were handguns."
"Criminals often get their handguns through an underground market that begins with a transaction called a straw purchase. ..." ...
"Clamping down on straw purchases would stem the flow of illegal guns into the city." ... |
Canada: Most oppose PM on guns
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"Prime Minister Stephen Harper will have a tough time convincing Canadians it's time to completely scrap the country's expensive gun registry program, a new opinion poll suggests."
"The Ipsos Reid survey ... indicates two out of three Canadians believe the government should revamp the gun registry system." ...
"'There's nothing ambiguous about this,' said John Wright, senior vice-president at Ipsos Reid.
"The concept of a gun registry has taken root across the country. There's a majority, 67 per cent, that's not a small majority, who believe that Stephen Harper shouldn't be doing away with all gun registries." [emphasis added]
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KABA Note: Then the poll is meaningless, because Mr. Harper is talking about scrapping the long gun registry, not the 28 year old handgun registry. |
Canada: 54% of Canadians Feel Gun Registry Should be Scrapped (same poll, less bias)
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"A new Ipso-Reid survey for CanWest/Global News reports that most Canadians (54%) feel the 'gun registry is badly organized, isn't working properly, and should be scrapped' – a level of opinion essentially unchanged from what was recorded nearly four years ..."
"Professor Gary Mauser, from Simon Fraser University is not surprised by the results. 'The expected Auditor General's report will probably peg the cost of the firearms registry at over two billion dollars,' stated Mauser. 'This cost is exorbitant but that is not the worst problem with the registry. The Liberal government hid the true costs from Parliament, so the public could not discover the real cost.'" ... |
Canada: Bear runs down and mauls bicyclist in Canadian park
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"An undersized black bear chased, caught and mauled a bicycle rider on a mountain trail in Canada's oldest and most popular national park, refused to leave the area and was shot and killed, a warden said."
"The biker, Greg Flaaten, 41, a Web administrator for the town of Banff, was being treated for severe arm injuries at Foothills Hospital in Calgary following the attack, and reconstructive surgery in the biceps and triceps area was scheduled Monday." ...
"A predatory bear evidently ran down and attacked Flaaten on Friday evening along the heavily wooded Hoodoos-Bow River Trail through the park east of the town, he said." ...
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Submitter's Note: And the cyclist was defenseless because Canada banned handgun carry in 1930. |
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