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MD: Man given 3-year term on federal gun charge
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"A convicted drug lord at the center of a high-profile probe of the rap music industry in New York and the investigation of a double homicide in Owings Mills was sentenced yesterday to 37 months in prison on a federal gun charge."
"Kenneth 'Supreme' McGriff, who has been linked by authorities to other violence -- such as the well-publicized shooting of rap star 50 Cent -- was sentenced by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz in Baltimore for illegally possessing a handgun as a convicted felon when he took target practice at a Glen Burnie firing range." ...
"There's no reason to be at a firing range at all ...And if you're there to keep your skills up, that says it -- there is no reason to keep your skills up." |
NY: 10 Year Old Found With Hand Gun At City School
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"A student at Huntington Elementary School is accused of bringing an unloaded handgun to school."
"Police say the child showed another kid the gun, and that kid told a teacher. The teacher and a police officer confiscated the gun."
"His mother is charged with criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child."
"Police say she says she put it in a secure place, the boy knew where to look."
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South Africa: Police considering firearms amnesty
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"Police are considering a general amnesty for people who want to hand over firearms to authorities, Jackie Selebi, the national police commissioner, said today. Speaking at a justice, crime prevention and security cluster meeting in Johannesburg, he said he would discuss the idea with Charles Nqakula, the Safety and Security Minister." |
MN: More Bans Surface To New Gun Law
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"The fallout from the state's new conceal-and-carry gun law continues this week as more public officials OK bans to the law and churches, businesses and community groups post big-lettered signs declaring their buildings gun free."
"The latest open challenges to the law come from a lofty legal group, the Minnesota Supreme Court and Court of Appeals." |
Global tobacco treaty will curb freedom
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"The international anti-tobacco treaty that the U.S. government has suddenly embraced won't reduce smoking in other nations by one iota, Libertarians predict, but it will infringe on the right of adults everywhere to smoke."
" 'This treaty proves that politicians and bureaucrats are hopelessly addicted to running other people's lives, no matter which nation they're from,' said Geoffrey Neale, Libertarian Party national chairman. 'While this document will further empower the international nanny state, in all likelihood it won't deter people from smoking.' " |
The legal system is now our enemy
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"I have come to fear almost everything having to do with law. Though there are many fine people in the legal profession, and though law is necessary to protect society from descending into chaos, I now fear the legal profession more than I do Islamic terror. I am far from alone. I believe that more Americans rightly fear being ruined by the American legal system more than being killed by a terrorist." |
UK: Pub chain wants to call time on bad language
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"One of Britain's biggest pub chains is considering a ban on swearing after two customers complained that bad language was 'increasingly difficult to ignore'."
"JD Wetherspoon, which operates more than 600 pubs, may print a warning on menus asking drinkers to keep their language clean or risk being told to leave." |
MN: New gun law works
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"Minnesota's new law made it much easier for residents to get a permit to carry a concealed handgun. Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed the law, which the Republican Party had been trying to pass for years." ...
"Liberals in the state are aghast at that prospect. They've a right to be worried but are probably wrong about this issue. The reason is that North Dakota (and some other states) has had a similar system for years. Yet the state enjoys one of the rock-bottom lowest crime rates in the nation." |
GA: Protesting? Atlanta Police Department is watching
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"The Atlanta Police Department routinely places under surveillance anti-war protesters and others exercising their free-speech rights to demonstrate, police officials acknowledged this week."
"While the APD denies the taping is akin to spying, demonstrators, civil libertarians and some elected officials disagree and demand that the surveillance be stopped."
"And, in an era of tighter budgets, critics say taxpayer dollars are being wasted."
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CA: Videotape shows officers' threats
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"A videotape secretly recorded during a police search at a rural Ripon residence shows a Manteca detective threatening an unarmed, handcuffed man with a gun after the man made a sarcastic comment to the officers. 'We can kill you right here,' the detective, identified by the San Joaquin County Deputy Public Defender's Office as Sam Gallego, tells a handcuffed James Walton, 51, after Walton is thrown backward onto his bed." |
CO: Gun-Safety Classes Fill After Colorado Loosens Weapons Laws
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"Gun-safety classes have been filling up since Gov. Bill Owens signed two laws loosening the state's weapons regulations."
" 'I'm booked clear into August,' instructor Roger Miller of the Firing Line in Aurora said this week."
"One law requires sheriffs to issue five-year concealed-carry permits to anyone who passes a fingerprint-based criminal background check and completes a handgun-training course." |
Mozambique: Supreme Court Denies Providing Gun to Criminal
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"Mozambique's Supreme Court has denied all knowledge of any firearms license issued to one of its employees, the man who is said to have hired out a pistol to criminals who shot and wounded two people on Friday night."
"Sousa says that the institution has no idea where [he] acquired the pistol."
"He stressed that only the judges at the court have an automatic right to bear firearms for their self defence. Other people are 'free' to request a licence from the Ministry of the Interior." |
CA: New pistols to have anti-accident devices
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"Newly designed handguns would have to be equipped with devices intended to prevent accidental shootings under legislation approved Monday by the state Senate."
"The measure by Sen. Jack Scott, D-Altadena, would require that the firearms have either a chamber load indicator or a magazine disconnect mechanism, starting with models produced in 2005. New handgun models made after Jan. 1, 2007, would have to have both items."
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LA: With suspect caught, task force wrestles with DNA samples
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"With a suspect under arrest in the South Louisiana serial killer case, investigators face questions about what they are going to do with the DNA samples collected from more than 1,000 men as part of a huge genetic dragnet."
"Already, one man ordered to submit to testing is suing to have his DNA removed from police files. Legal experts say the case could help determine where the line is drawn between the interests of a criminal investigation and personal privacy." |
Canada: Nova Scotia defies Ottawa on gun registry
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"Nova Scotia has joined three other provinces in saying it won't enforce the rules surrounding the federal gun registry."
"Justice Minister Jamie Muir said on Tuesday that he will tell the province's prosecutors to forward to their federal counterparts all charges against people who haven't registered their rifles or shotguns." |
US 'abused rights post-9/11'
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"The report, by the inspector general of the US Justice Department, says some of the detainees were held in unduly harsh conditions and were subject to abuse." ...
"The Justice Department says its actions were fully within the law, adding that it makes no apologies for finding every legal way possible to protect the American public from terrorist attacks." |
UK: Court is told of shotgun threats
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"A visitor to the West Midlands Game Fair at Weston Park in Staffordshire feared for his life when he was threatened with a shotgun, a jury heard."
"Peter Landsdown is alleged to have produced the gun because he was annoyed by noise from the camp site at the fair in the early hours of the morning." |
More Families May Join Maine Gun Manufacturer Lawsuit
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"Seven more victims or victim's relatives may join in a lawsuit filed in January against the Maine company that manufactured the rifle used in the Washington, DC-area sniper killings."
"That word today from attorneys in the lawsuit filed in Tacoma, Washington, home of the gun shop that stocked the weapon."
"Bushmaster's vice president of administration, Allen Faraday, says the company did nothing wrong and sold the rifle legally to a firearms dealer." |
Eagle egg destroyed due to lack of permit
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"Citing a lack of 'legal authority to let the egg hatch,' Kentucky wildlife officers destroyed a rare bald eagle egg laid by a pair of birds in captivity at a state game farm." ...
"State officials told the paper allowing the egg to hatch would have violated their federal permit. The farm only is permitted to exhibit birds, not raise eaglets."
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NY: Tougher ban, standards are what is needed
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"Democrats in the county Legislature want to issue a formal letter of support to Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who is proposing an extension of the law that presently bans assault weapons, and for that, both Schumer and county legislators are going to put themselves in the line of fire."
"The Constitution gives the right to bear arms to every law-abiding citizen in the United States, and that is only just."
"You do not truly live in a republic if the government can possess weapons but the citizenry can't." |
South Africa: Gun violence against children in the spotlight
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"The high number of deaths and injuries sustained by children through gun violence came under the spotlight in Cape Town yesterday."
"Non-governmental organisations, government representatives and various communities met to express their concern about the impact gun violence has on children and their families."
"Gun Free South Africa believes one of the most serious problems in the country is the proliferation of firearms and how criminals get hold of guns."
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Global tax on guns?
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"Some world leaders at the G8 summit meeting are floating the idea of a global tax on arms sales, including – at French President Jacques Chirac's suggestion – a tax on gun purchases by individuals."
"In a speech at the annual meeting of the 'Group of Eight,' or G8, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pushed the arms-sales tax as a scheme whereby the world's wealthiest nations could fund efforts to eliminate world hunger, reports Bloomberg News." |
GunStock - The Woodstock Of Weaponry
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October 10, 11 & 12, 2003, at the L.T.Dillon Range near Waco TX.
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MD: Officers fatally shoot man with swords, pellet gun on street
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"Two Prince George's County police officers shot and killed a man yesterday after he allegedly threatened them with a weapon that turned out to be a pellet gun."
"The man, who was not identified by police, was spotted walking on Route 202 here dressed in a cape and armed with two swords, according to Capt. Andrew Ellis, a police spokesman."
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Mapping May Help Predict Crimes
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"More than a decade of extensive crime data collection matched with new technology may soon allow police to predict to a surprising degree of accuracy the number and type of crimes that will occur in a given neighborhood one month in advance."
"Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University plan to release software later this summer that, according to computer models, can forecast the number and types of crimes that will occur within a 10-block area, with a 20 percent error rate." |
WHEN MOMS ATTACK - Another Adventure in Absurdity
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"It is called 'maternal filicide' which is a fancy way of saying child murderer and it happens over 600 times each year. That number seemed ridiculously high to me so I doubled checked with the Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics and the FBI Crime statistics. They verified that mothers kill their own kids over 600 times per year!"
"That puts a pretty frightening face on the group calling itself the 'Million Mom March'. I wonder how many of those mothers are ticking time bombs? What sets them off and how can we protect their children? I know of at least one of those anti-gun moms who committed murder. She even spoke out against gun violence at the first Million Mom March in Washington, D.C. Then, a few months later, she shot and killed a boy. Now, she didn't kill her own child, but she did murder the boy she thought had shot her son. It turned out she got the wrong guy and shot an innocent person. What that group needed to be pushing was self control not gun control. Perhaps, after reading the rest of this article, they will see the dangers within their own group and switch their efforts to mother control." |
MD: Case shows paying for errors is not part of the FBI's policy
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"In March last year, FBI agents stopped a Pontiac Grand Am in Anne Arundel County. Krissy Harkum was driving. In the passenger seat was her boyfriend at the time, Joseph Schultz."
"Schultz and Harkum contend that agents shouted at them to show their hands and unlock the door. Schultz said he was reaching down to unlock the door when Special Agent Christopher R. Braga, armed with an M-4 rifle, shot him in the face."
"The agents were looking for a bank robbery suspect. Schultz wasn't the guy." |
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