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TX: Dove Season May Come Along Earlier This Year
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South Texas wing shooters can begin to plan now for what will be their earliest dove season opener since 1950. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials have modified the usual late September opening day of the regular dove season, and this fall the date will be Sept. 14.
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TX: Burton Bank Robber Still at Large
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Just down the road, another bank has become famous for its policy welcoming in firearms.
For about ten years, the Chappell Hill Bank has allowed licensed concealed carry holders to come inside their lobby armed.
"If you were so inclined, which I'm sure you're not, to rob a bank, would you go in one that said 'no weapons allowed' or one that said 'concealed carry welcome'? If you were ever thinking about it, you'd go in one that said 'no weapons allowed,'" said Edward A. Smith, Chappell Hill Bank President.
Smith says the bank has been robbed five times since it opened in 1907, and zero times since they started allowing guns. They also have a reward sign for dead bank robbers.
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OR: ‘Stop the Gun Ban’ Continues Push for November Ballot
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A controversial state gun ban that is still being processed through the Oregon Supreme Court has galvanized one local group to take a stance against the initiative. For the past three weekends, local volunteers from Jackson County have been organizing pop-up stands in Central Point and Medford to gather signatures for a ballot measure protecting gun ownership – an antithesis to the state gun ban. |
CO: Boulder County Sheriff‘s Office to Talk About Storing AR-15 Rifles Inside Niwot, Lyons High Schools
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Parents and law enforcement officials hope meetings this week with St. Vrain Valley School District regarding a Boulder County Sheriff‘s Office proposal to store long-range rifles in firearm safes inside two high schools steer clear of political debate surrounding gun rights. Questions from parents about the monitoring of such safes and how effectively they might expedite a deputy‘s response to a shooting at either Lyons Middle/Senior or Niwot high schools loom ahead of public discussions with St. Vrain Superintendent Don Haddad. |
MI: Man Armed with Rifle Killed by Home's Occupant
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A shooting early Saturday left a 40-year-old man dead after he went armed with a rifle to the home of another man, police said.
The man, who police did not identify, was shot multiple times around 12:10 a.m. in the 15000 block of Muirland after he arrived with a rifle at the home of a 44-year-old man who is accused of shooting him with a handgun, police said. Police said the circumstances leading up to the fatal altercation remain under investigation.
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FL: Hearing set in Police ‘Stand Your Ground’ Case
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The Florida Supreme Court will hear arguments Aug. 28 in a dispute about whether a Broward County sheriff’s deputy could use the state’s “stand your ground” self-defense law after being charged with manslaughter in an on-duty shooting. Justices agreed in February to take up an appeal by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office and issued an order Friday scheduling the August oral arguments. Bondi’s office contends that Deputy Peter Peraza was not legally entitled to claim immunity under the “stand your ground” law in the 2013 shooting death of Jermaine McBean. Instead, Bondi’s office contends, officers can seek a more-limited type of immunity under another part of state law. |
I-1639 Fight is On: Money, Paid Signature Gatherers v. Grassroots Manpower
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With Thursday’s court-mandated changes of the ballot title for Initiative 1639 – the latest gun control scheme from the billionaire-backed Alliance for Gun Responsibility – the fight is on as paid signature gatherers are now hitting the streets to gather what the Everett Herald estimated must be close to 350,000 signatures, while grassroots rights groups are energizing the opposition. The action comes less than two months after thousands of gun owners rallied in the state capitol steps in Olympia to oppose further restrictions on their right to keep and bear arms, and four months after they testified against such measures before the Legislature. |
NRA Challenges Oregon Gun Ban
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The National Rifle Association recently announced the filing of a joint legal challenge with the Oregon Hunters Association to contest the state of Oregon’s Initiative Petition 43, which seeks to ban commonly owned semi-automatic firearms and standard-capacity magazines. |
California’s Suicide Rate is Among America’s lowest – Maybe Because We Control Guns
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It is an article of faith among opponents of gun control in California that this state’s tough firearm laws are pointless – that try as we might, sick people will do what sick people do, and death, as ever, will have its way. But one of the key takeaways from the stunning report released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the difference that can be made by measures that keep lethal weapons out of the hands of people in crisis. |
CA: San Mateo County Supervisor Calls for Ban on Cow Palace Gun Shows as Gun Show Gets Underway
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San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa today called for a ban on gun shows at the Cow Palace in Daly City as a two-day gun show got underway at the venue. Crossroads of the West, a Utah-based company, is holding a gun show at the Cow Palace Saturday and Sunday. The show is taking place just four days after county supervisors voted unanimously in support of proposed state legislation that would ban gun shows at the Cow Palace. "The state should not profit from the sales of guns," Canepa said in a statement. "For 15 years this board has urged the state to ban gun shows at the Cow Palace to no avail." |
Indiana has Long Drawn Attention of Federal Firearms Investigators
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The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has long investigated Indiana as a source of firearms used in Chicago-area crime. That was dramatically brought to public attention Thursday when an ATF agent was shot multiple times in Gary's Emerson section while conducting an undercover operation. Alex Perez, reporting for ABC's "World News Tonight," said the incident was part of a larger effort by ATF to curb the flow of guns into Chicago. |
IL: Free Concealed Carry Course Offered to Illinois Teachers
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After seeing the recent uptick in school shootings around the country, former police officer Rick Noble is offering a free concealed carry class to teachers in central Illinois. "An active shooter will kill eight people a minute, average,” Noble said. "If somebody calls and says there is an active shooter in our school, it's going to take the police at least a minute to two minutes to get there, if they're in a big district. 20 minutes in a rural district."
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CA: Local Gun Store Hosts ‘Train a Teacher Day’
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Teachers, administrators and school board members across the county were invited to attend a free gun training event Sunday in Bay Park. The Second Amendment political action committee San Diego County Gun Owners and retailer Discount Gun Mart co-hosted the complimentary training sessions, which covered gun "safety, proficiency and familiarity." Course topics included the legal requirements for purchasing a firearm, differences between assault rifles and sporting rifles, "gun-free zones," and weapon-specific courses on small handguns and defensive shotguns.
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SD: Shooting for Rally
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Sturgis Guns is in a new location as their plans for a state of the art facility starts taking shape. The company stirred up local controversy when they announced plans to convert part of the old Davenport Ranch into a gun range earlier this year. Now, after thousands of dollars of expert testimony assuring the public and county officials of the range's safety, Sturgis Guns is almost ready to start breaking ground on the new building. |
Anti-Gun Diatribe Ignored Facts
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On May 6, the Tribune printed an AP story headlined " 'Good guys with guns' sometimes make honest mistakes." The story said "in a span of 48 hours in March the three [good guys] were responsible for gun safety lapses that put students in danger." The authors go on to mention that the "nonprofit Gun Violence Archive (GVA) revealed more than 30 publicly reported mishaps since 2014 [by officers and teachers on campuses]." Let's break that down. |
Hunting Wild Game in the Modern World
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After last week’s column, in which I lauded the benefits of opossums, snakes and such, I received more than one email suggesting I did not understand the benefits of killing animals for food. I was perplexed because I too have a freezer full of 100-percent organic protein (aka wild game). |
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