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AK: Even with a .44 magnum, run-in with grizzly leaves fisherman shaky
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"Duffy Blume was fishing in the north fork of Campbell Creek on Sunday evening, several hundred yards south of the Alaska Botanical Garden in Far North Bicentennial Park, when he heard a grunt and a growl in the brush across the creek to his left."

"Blume knew it was a bear before he saw it. Instinctively, he pulled his .44 Magnum from a shoulder holster and crouched as a huge grizzly showed up in a bad mood."

"All I could see was this blond mass of fur, snapping his teeth, grunting and coming towards me," Blume said. "All of a sudden, it stopped and stood on its hind legs. He just stared at me." The bear was 30 feet away.

MO: Elementary student suspended for toy gun in summer school
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"Even in summer school, the Nixa R-2 school district is dealing with the Safe Schools Act firsthand."

"A second-grader was suspended for three days after bringing a toy cap gun to his class June 18. The punishment was decided by school officials and the boy's mother."

"The boy, attending summer school at Century Elementary, had told one of his classmates that he had the toy in his bag. The classmate told the teacher about the toy, who informed summer school principal Randy Spargo."

"Some parents responded by pulling their own students out of class for a time. Spargo said that three parents, who had taken their kids out of school, had brought them back by June 21, three days after the original incident."

NY: Attorney jailed for mere possession of a few guns faces possible 7 years in prison
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"An attorney who serves as an auxiliary police officer has been arrested and accused of stockpiling an arsenal of deadly weapons and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition in his Fresh Meadows home, authorities said yesterday."

"Police seized 16 guns, the ammunition and more than 80 high-capacity magazines used to feed weapons from Philip Bernstein's house at 69-40 Fresh Meadow Lane last week, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said."

"This arsenal of weapons is really quite unbelievable," Brown said at a news conference in which the seizure was displayed across the full length of a 24-foot-by-6-foot conference table.

Bernstein's attorney, Kevin Campbell, said he is a "sports shooting enthusiast" who is now a victim of "anti-gun hysteria."

FL: Guards cited for having handguns "in violation of park rules"
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"Two security guards working at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center were cited Saturday for carrying handguns, in violation of park rules..."

"The men...were working as armed guards in the SPAC box office Saturday afternoon during the Freihofer's Jazz Festival."

"Neither man drew his handgun, nor was anyone in any danger, Warwick said."

"Both [men] were cited under state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation rules and could each face a $250 fine."

"Beers has a state handgun permit, Warwick said. Barrett has a permit allowing him to carry a handgun only while hunting. Warwick said Barrett could face additional charges because of this."

MA: Anti-gun Boston Mayor finally coming to his senses?
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In response to a recent crossfire shooting of a kid, Boston's notoriously opportunistic anti-gun mayor is finally whistling a bit of truth. Said Mayor Menino:

'I don't have a solution, I won't mislead people.'

That'd be nice -- he sure was misleading people in his attempt to force gun manufacturers out of business. (The city was forced to drop their bogus, irrational lawsuit in March.)

'We as a government can put program after program into place,' Menino said. 'But there has to be some sense of caring about life and a focus from parents on their children.'

Gee -- why didn't we think of that. The only difference in philosophy between gunowners and people of Menino's ilk is that Menino thinks a "law" is going to make a bad person good -- gunowners, on the other hand, will make a bad person lay down on the ground and whimper for mercy while waiting for police to arrive.

The Second Amendment is Not Enough Submitted by: Culpepper Gadsen Website: http://www.commspeed.net/bullseye/	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Pro-firearms advocates have been in a defensive posture for too long on this issue. Rather than forever reacting to the threats by anti-gun advocates, pro-gun advocates should seek a legislative affirmation of the individual's right to bear arms

Darwin Awards Candidate: Man shoots himself in head with speargun, survives Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
This is interesting if for no other reason than to see the X-ray -- especially so when you realize this guy survived and is already back at home. It probably won't be very easy for him to convince any friends to go spearfishing with him any time soon -- a risky scheme at best. Next time he goes out after the fishies, hopefully... he'll use his head.

"Freedom vs. Security -- Delicate balance"
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This article was written by a new U.S. citizen -- been a citizen for about a year -- named Fareed Zakaria. Keep that in mind...

"Ashcroft has warned against even discussing violations of civil liberties, saying, 'To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists.' "

"But who is the greater help to terrorists today, the American Civil Liberties Union or the National Rifle Association? The FBI is finding out all it can about the 1,200 people rounded up since September 11except whether they have ever bought firearms. Its not that the government doesnt have that information, but the Justice Department will not share it because of an NRA-sponsored law that says that information about people buying gunseven illegal immigrants!can never be shared with anyone. Ashcroft defends this policy. Perhaps someone should remind him that we are at war."

AR: Liberty Advocates, Real Americans Gathering for Independence Day Celebration
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"We're not an anti-government group. We just concerned that our freedoms are going down the toilet," organizer Wayne Hicks of Osage says. "We're concerned that our rights are being ripped away from us by a government no longer constrained by the Constitution."

"We're not a bunch of gun-toting militia anti-government nuts," he said. "We're just having a big Fourth of July party. I am probably fairly well known to the government as the man who is trying to keep everything peaceful."

"His organization, the Fourth Branch Clubs of America, believes that when the administrative, legislative and judicial branches of government won't protect individual rights, a fourth branch - the people - needs to rise up."

KABA NOTE: Looks like the place to be if you're in the area -- anyone who attends is invited to submit a report for publication. And do give these good folks our best.

Russia: Fools who didn't learn from history are turning in their weapons for cash
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In case this report gets moved, their title is: "Public exchanges weapons for cash".

"Residents of the Russian Far East have turned over large amounts of illegally held firearms and explosives under a local weapons-for-cash program, police said on June 28."

"People have brought 517 firearms, 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) of explosives, 850 bombs, 1,600 detonators and 172,500 cartridges since the program started 1 1/2 years ago, said police spokesman Vadim Reshetnyak. He said someone even handed over a gun taken off a military aircraft."

"Police have paid 685,500 rubles ($21,420) in exchange for the weapons, the spokesman said."

KABA NOTE: Two words: Joe Stalin.

NYC: Mayor Shoots From The Lip
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"The term 'shooting from the lip' is acquiring a meaning of its own for Mayor Michael Bloomberg. His latest verbal discharge: an off-hand joke to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly Monday as the two faced questions in the hot sun about how big an arsenal the NYPD had on hand in case of July 4 terrorism."

"Big enough to blow the press away, cracked the mayor, sotto voce, raising a chortle from aides and picked up on some tape recorders."

"But Bloomberg...has aimed his rhetorical shots at many more targets than the press."

"Gun images in particular have repeatedly been part of his informal banter in his first six months at City Hall:"

MA: Concord Police detective accused of assaulting his wife, shooting out her car window Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Almost two months after he was charged with harassing his estranged wife and throwing out her belongings, a Concord police detective is facing new, more violent domestic allegations." "James Walgreen, 35, is now in Rockingham County jail with no bail, waiting to face charges that he rammed his wife's car Thursday, shot out her driver's side window with a BB gun and beat her."

OH: Woman files suit against officers, claims they demanded sex from her while on duty
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"The woman who two Cincinnati police officers admit they had sex with while on-duty filed a federal suit against the officers, saying she was drunk when the pair took advantage of her."

"Kandy Linthicum, 40, filed a suit Monday in U.S. District Court, saying she was 'incapacitated' by alcohol when Officers Robert Johnson and Robert Kidd Jr. took her to her Clifton home and had sex with her."

"The woman was celebrating her birthday Dec. 4, 2001, in a downtown bar. After 12 beers and at least four shots of alcohol, the suit notes, she tried to leave the bar at 1 a.m. when the on-duty uniformed officers approached her and took her home in their police cruiser."

"Once inside her home, the suit notes, the officers took off their gun belts, exposed themselves and 'demanded' she have sex with them."

Uganda: Disarmament Yields 10,000 Guns, more forced disarmament sought
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"The First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs, Eriya Kategaya, has said the on-going disarmament exercise is a success and that over 10,000 guns have been collected, reports James Odong."

"The exercise is going on well and up to 10,000 guns have so far been collected," Kategaya told The New Vision on Thursday.

He said the disarmament exercise had cost the Government a lot of money. "Billions of shillings," he said.

KABA NOTE: Elsewhere in East African news, Buganda Minister of Education, Concerned By Increased Violence, calls for more police disarmament -- the kind of enforcement only the lawful will follow.

IL: Gun Rights Group Blames Illinois Murder Rate On Anti-Self Defense
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"A report this week that Illinois homicides are on the rise came as no surprise to the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), which blames the state's anti-self defense laws for the increasing bloodshed."

"Illinois lawmakers have stubbornly refused, time and again, to reform the state's law on concealed carry of firearms for self defense," noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb."

MD: Shriver claim of role in gun bill disputed
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"Supporters of a rival candidate in the 8th District congressional race accused state Del. Mark K. Shriver yesterday of misstating his legislative record by claiming a leadership role in the effort to pass Maryland's landmark gun safety bill two years ago."

"The real leader, according to a well-known gun safety advocate, was state Sen. Christopher Van Hollen Jr., one of Shriver's opponents in the hard-fought primary for the Democratic nomination to face Republican Rep. Constance A. Morella in November."

KABA, Guns & Ammo writer gets letter printed in Washington Post Submitted by: Anonymous	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
From the "HEALTH" section of the Washington Post: David Codrea's letter is the second one posted under "Preventive Measuring". It is in response to an article appearing in Newslinks on 6/26, and can be read by clicking here. Codrea's archives on KeepAndBearArms.com can be found here: http://www.KeepAndBearArms.com/Codrea

CA: Troubled ridge gun club wins grant, settles with county Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Members of a beleaguered private gun club got a double-barreled dose of good news last week, but it may bring them no closer to reopening a range on the Skyway, where shots haven't been fired for almost two years." "The National Rifle Association, through its charitable foundation Friends of the NRA, has awarded the Paradise Rod and Gun Club a $35,000 improvement grant."

Safer skies Submitted by: Larry E. Bigham Website: http://www.freeindividual.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Good security move, boomerangs are even more dangerous than Medals of Honor you know, so they both should be confiscated to protect passengers. Damn betchya, and elephants roost in trees at night too. -- free men DO NOT ask permission to be armed and going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

UK: Pay convicts not to commit more crimes Submitted by: Guy Smith Website: http://www.FundTheCause.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Now the Brits want to pay convicts not to commit more crimes when they are released from jail. Let me get this straight: Tax the victims to pay for the leisure of their attackers? Has mad cow disease infected the whole of Parliament?

NJ: Rival Accuses Shriver Of Exaggerating Role On Trigger-Lock Bill
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"Campaign literature mailed by congressional candidate Mark K. Shriver to tens of thousands of voters in Maryland's 8th District overstates the role the state delegate played in passing landmark gun control legislation, one of his rivals in the Democratic primary said yesterday."

"The brochure, which hit mailboxes in the Montgomery County-based district during the weekend, says Shriver "led the fight" to make Maryland the first state to require built-in trigger locks on guns."

SD: Area BB gun shooters aim for national tourney Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"BB gun shooting is more than just hitting a bull's-eye." "It doesn't matter what size and shape you are, it's the discipline you have," said Bob Kallemeyn, coach of the Pierre Junior Shooters." "Kallemeyn and coach Randy Dyce will be taking a team of BB gun shooters to the national BB gun tournament in Atlanta, Ga., on July 5 through July 6."

Australia: Fair crack of the gun for Aussie shooters Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"SOME of the guns go phut. Some go crack. And some go boom! But there is one daily sound at a Commonwealth Games shooting range that is consistently repetitive: Advance Australia Fair." "Australia is the most accurate Commonwealth nation when it comes to putting bullets through bullseyes or pellets through clay discs: 38 gold medals overall to Canada's 34 and England's 27."

Report Shows Newspaper Ads Allow Purchasers to Buy Firearms Without a Background Check
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"You've heard of the gun show loophole; what about the newspaper loophole?"

"Indianapolis, IN - The unregulated sale of firearms through classified ads in newspapers poses a potential threat to Hoosiers according to a report released on June 26th by Hoosiers Concerned About Gun Violence (HCAGV). The report, Newspaper Loophole a Potential Threat to Hoosiers, provides the results of a survey of newspaper classified advertising policy of Indiana newspapers."

Congressman Paul Agrees: A Police State is Blowing in the Wind
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""Mr. Speaker, what, then, is the answer to the question: 'Is America a Police State?' My answer is: 'Maybe not yet, but it is fast approaching.' The seeds have been sown and many of our basic protections against tyranny have been and are constantly being undermined. The post-9/11 atmosphere here in Congress has provided ample excuse to concentrate on safety at the expense of liberty, failing to recognize that we cannot have one without the other."

July 4, 2002: Americans Celebrate Dependence Day! Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"How do you imagine present day Americans would have responded to the events of July 4th, 1776, and the years immediately preceding and following, had they occurred today? I shall take literary license and do what most Americans have already been taught to do, namely, compress this time period into one continuous event."

'Under God' Iconoclast Looks to Next Targets
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There is so much about society that Mike Newdow would like to change.

He does not understand, for example, why the English language allows itself anything so cumbersome and awkward as masculine and feminine pronouns. The Mike Newdow dictionary would replace "he" and "she" with "re," "his" and "hers" with "rees" and "him" and "her" with "erm."

--If only this sorry excuse for a human being would just step in front of a Mack Truck doing 75 mph on the highway.

Foreign to the First Amendment Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"This is not the first time Congress has tried to erode the protection accorded by the Constitution to editorial issue ads. The 1974 Federal Election Campaign Act contained a similar provision that prevented groups from spending more than $1,000, "relative to a clearly identified candidate during a calendar year."

MI: Gun law has 1,168 packing in County Submitted by: Doug Charette	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Nearly 1,200 more people pack pistols in Jackson County since a new law made it easier to get permits beginning one year ago today." "Statistics kept by the Michigan State Police show 1,168 permits were issued through June 21 and another 192 people have applications pending." "Only 12 permits have been denied in the county and a few were issued and later suspended or revoked."

OK: Patriotic statues to be unveiled at Woodland Park
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"Two symbols of liberty, independence and patriotism will be unveiled Wednesday in Woodland Park."

"Rocky Williams completed the brick pedestals last week for the cast aluminum replicas of the Statue of Liberty and an American eagle soon to be showcased in the downtown park."

"The tarps covering the statues will be lifted during a ceremony beginning at 7 p.m. on the eve of the nation's Independence Day. Shawnee Mayor Chris Harden will uncover the park's newest feature with Trey Davis as the master of ceremonies."

"Shawnee firefighter Tony Adams will play the bagpipes as fellow firefighters present the colors."

Canada: Hello cameras - goodbye cops
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"I don't suppose that you want a photograph of me, but if you do, might I suggest that you contact the British police. By my reckoning, they've got hundreds of them."

"No, I'm not a notorious felon (the closest I've come to committing a crime is a rather unfortunate bomber jacket I owned back in the mid-80s). Nor am I 'known to the police.' I've never even been asked to 'assist the local constabulary with inquiries."

PFAW: "U.S. Supreme Court Eroded Civil Rights, Liberties In 2002"
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"In its 2001-2002 term, the U.S. Supreme Court attacked civil rights and liberties, striking
blows to the separation of church and state, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the privacy rights of students and other fundamental rights. The number of close decisions -- often by 5-4
votes -- that were led or joined by Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas points out the grave risk presented by future appointees in the mold of these two right-wing activist justices."