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Japan: Robber armed with rifle makes off with 800,000 yen
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"A man burst into a Korean barbecue restaurant in Fukushima on Monday morning, threatened an employee with a rifle and made off with 800,000 yen in cash, police said."
"The man entered the restaurant at 1:20 a.m., pointed the rifle at a 23-year-old employee who was cleaning the kitchen and demanded money, the police said. The restaurant manager, Hideki Aihara, 29, put the money into a bag and gave it to the man, who drove away in a light-colored passenger car, they said." |
Nigeria: Police Nab Suspected Arms Manufacturers
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"Police in Adamawa State have announced the arrest of nine men suspected of involvement in illegal manufacture of dane guns in the state."
"The State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Hafiz Mohammed Ringim, told journalists in Yola, the state capital, that they were arrested in Wuro-Jabbi area of the state following a tip off by the people of the area." ...
"...the Ministry of Defence has the sole authority to manufacture weapons in Nigeria."
"They're not allowed to bear firearms." |
Philippines: Crime rate "risen by 50 percent since" suspension of firearm permits
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"The crime rate has risen by 50 percent since Malacañang suspended the issuance of permits to carry firearms outside of residences last January, the group Peaceful Responsible Owners of Guns (PRO-Gun) said Monday."
" 'You still have kidnappings, you still have criminality, you have mayors getting killed, sports officials getting ambushed,' PRO-Gun chairman Mike Melchor told reporters." ...
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CA: Modern 'Caesar' honors a classic
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"Daniel Sullivan's powerful staging of 'Julius Caesar' at the Old Globe's outdoor amphitheater is set near the end of the 21st century." ...
"Like the concurrent 'Julius Caesar' in Thousand Oaks, however, this one makes the mistake of importing plenty of firearms into the second act and yet still suggesting that suicide can be committed only with the aid of a colleague holding a knife." ... |
FL: Tensions ease between gun range, neighborhood
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"Tension between the Southwest Florida Shooting Center and nearby neighbors appears to have dissipated."
"Earlier this year, residents of Naples Lakes petitioned Collier County officials to move the firing range to a more rural, secluded area." ...
"Richard Berenson, director of the Masters Association of Naples Lakes, said the discussions with gun range personnel made the community more comfortable." |
Civil Liberties After 9/11
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"The charge that our civil liberties are being systematically dismantled must be taken seriously. America has, in the past, overreacted to perceived security threats; the Palmer raids after World War I and the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II are the most notorious examples. Are we once again jeopardizing the liberties of all Americans while also inflicting particular harm on Muslims in our midst?" ...
"There is no denying the rhetorical force of these accusations, or the success with which they have been used by the Left as a rallying cry against President Bush. What is less clear is their validity, not just on their own terms but in relation to the radically altered domestic security situation we have faced since the attacks of 9/11. There may be a case to be made concerning the measures we have taken so far; but it is not the one presented by the critics." |
Canada: Gun advocates seeking arrest in Regina
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"Some gun owners trying to get arrested for disobeying Canada's new firearms law descended on the Saskatchewan legislature on Monday. They are protesting a new law that says all guns are supposed to be registered no later than July 1."
"The gun owners are refusing to recognize the new gun law and they presented themselves at the provincial legislature in the hopes of getting arrested. One of the protesters, Ed Hudson, tried to get arrested under the gun legislation on New Year's Day, soon after it was supposed to come into effect." |
MA: City stops issuing gun licenses
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"City residents may soon not need their Constitutional right to bear arms -- not because the law has changed, but because the police department has stopped issuing gun licenses."
"Police Chief Raymond O’Berg said yesterday that due to budget cuts and lack of staffing, he has imposed a moratorium on new firearm licenses."
"The department is now four months behind in processing permit applications, and O’Berg said the clerks in his office will not accept new applications until they clear the backlog." |
UN Small Arms Agreement Poorly Implemented: New Report
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"The IANSA Report: Implementing the UN Programme of Action 2003 evaluates progress in 156 countries and has been compiled by over 100 local researchers and experts from the Biting the Bullet project. Small arms, including handguns, rifles and long guns, cause 500,000 deaths a year - taking one life every minute. The humanitarian impact and political, social and economic costs of the spread of these weapons can be seen from Iraq to the Democratic Republic of Congo." |
NJ: Foiled Massacre Leads Ceasefire New Jersey to Exclaim: “Get Guns Out of Homes Now!
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" 'The gun lobby has worked hard to convince Americans that they need guns in their homes for protection. As a result, too many parents have guns in their homes because they believe they will be safer. The reality is they're putting their families, their friends, their neighbors and, as this near tragedy so vividly shows, even innocent people outside the home at greater risk of gun violence,' said David Matos, Board Chair of Ceasefire NJ."
"Matos continued: 'For the sad fact is, that no matter the care parents take to store their guns, it is impossible to store them so that clever and determined young people cannot get their hands on them. So, the only solution is to keep guns out of homes.' "
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France: Man Tries to Rob Gun Shop with Toy Pistol
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"Armed with a toy pistol, a would-be robber picked himself an unlikely target in central Paris -- a gun shop."
"Staff at the Armurerie Gare de l'Est in the French capital immediately identified the weapon as harmless. The 26-year-old Mauritanian was subsequently arrested, Le Parisien newspaper reported on Friday." |
MA: Methuen man shot in carjacking
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"A 29-year-old Dracut man is being charged with attempted murder after police say he shot a Methuen man in the face outside a Hildreth Street home Saturday night then stole the victim's car in a random, armed carjacking."
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South Africa: 150 will die during gun summit
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"About 150 South Africans will be killed by guns during the five days (July 7-11) that United Nations member states meet in New York to discuss their progress in curbing the proliferation of small arms, a spokesperson said on Monday."
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Weapons of Mass Compliance
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"Now at a tech lab near you, agony-inducing tools that will control your disorderly tendencies and blast those riotous urges..."
"The primary challenge for a more media-savvy police state: to make people calm and compliant without actually making them dead."
"Engineers, hard at work for years now on this problem, have come up with some creative solutions, fun gadgets that give the banalities of police work a little Flash Gordon–cum–Robocop sheen." |
Australia: Man to face court on drug, gun charges
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"A 20-year-old Queensland man has been charged with drug and firearm offences after police searched a car yesterday at Chinderah, in northern NSW."
"Detectives stopped the man's car on the old Pacific Highway and during a search they allegedly found an amount of drugs, a bong pipe and a pistol."
"The man has been charged with supply and possession of a prohibited drug, possession of drug utensils, possession of a pistol and a traffic offence."
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Philippines: Gun owners challenge Arroyo ban
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"Gun enthusiasts in the Philippines are fighting efforts by the government and private groups to curb gun ownership."
"A lawsuit on the right to bear arms has been filed by one of them, while groups supporting the same cause are recruiting members to counter rival bodies seeking to restrict the number of guns in private hands." |
Philippines: PNP keeps tight rein on gun-carrying permits
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"The Philippine National Police on Monday thumbed down the request of gun owners to relax the rules on the issuance of Permit to Carry Firearms Outside of Residence, citing the dangers of having a proliferation of firearms on the streets."
"Director Ricardo de Leon of the Police Community Relations Office told The Manila Times that the PNP’s Firearms and Explosives Office will stick to the existing rules and issue permits only to those individuals who have satisfied its strict requirements." |
OH: Gun owners react to concealed carry law
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" 'I hope it passes, but they should screen people that would be carrying the guns,' said Jerry Green of Coshocton." ...
" 'I am for it, but the ones that are going to carry a gun are going to do it with or without a permit,' said Steve Cunningham of Coshocton. 'They ought to have a bill passed to get rid of Taft.' " |
UK: Girl is shot twice in pellet gun attack
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"A 13-year-old girl was shot in the arm and leg in a terrifying attack as she left a shop in Walsall, police revealed today."
"Abigail Fry was shot in the wrist as she threw her arms up to protect her face and was then shot in the thigh as she turned to flee the gunman." |
PA: Existing laws sufficient, local gun experts argue
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"Laws are needed to force gun manufacturers to make firearms safer and to cut down on interstate transportation of handguns, said Bryan Miller, executive director of CeaseFire PA."
"Assault weapon are also a concern, he said."
"The organization thinks laws are needed to force the gun industry to stop making military-style assault weapons available to the public. They are not used for hunting or sport, Miller said." |
UK: Upsurge in Birmingham gun crime linked to gang battles
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"There has been a string of shootings in Birmingham. Only days before the most recent attack, a 22-year-old man was shot and injured in the Handsworth area of the city."
"Six days earlier, two men were seriously injured in a shooting in a barber's shop in the Aston area." ...
"Last week the mothers of the two girls gave evidence to an all-party parliamentary group on gun crime at the House of Commons, to highlight the devastating community impact of firearms crimes." |
CO: A way to buy private-sale firearms in Colorado
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"Since December 2002, Colorado's major newspapers have ceased to accept advertisements for the private sales of firearms. Rocky Mountain Gun Owners is pleased to announce the debut of... ColoGunMarket.com -- Where Coloradoans go to buy/sell firearms." |
MN: Gun law's author hit right on target
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"The man who put Minnesota's new handgun permit law on the books doesn't drape ammo belts around his shoulders, clench daggers in his teeth or paint his face with camouflage."
"Joe Olson is a self-described 'short, balding tax attorney' from Roseville." ...
"Yet he has almost singlehandedly touched off one of the biggest political firestorms in modern Minnesota history." ... |
GA: Deputy held as suspect in robberies
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"The man behind the wheel had robbed his nephew at gunpoint a week earlier, he said, and Ramirez wanted to report him to police."
"Instead, Ramirez said, the man flashed a badge -- 'with a little star on it' -- and told him he was a police officer. Then he held a gun to the back of Ramirez's head, ordered him and his nephew, who had accompanied him outside, to the ground and robbed them of $50 and $55."
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UK: Outcry over gun target mugshots
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"Police in Queensland came under fierce criticism yesterday for using mugshots of living people for target practice."
"A television report showed a police shooting gallery where blown-up photographs of arrested criminals were riddled with bullet holes."
"The gallery had been used by the anti-terrorism squad for training in dealing with hostage situations." |
CA: Davis Allies Focus On GOP Rival
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"The drive to recall him is nearly unprecedented, but Gov. Gray Davis has turned to a familiar formula to fight it."
"...the Democrat is seeking to shift the focus from himself and onto his Republican opponent, portraying him as too conservative for California and unfit to lead.
" 'Darrell Issa is a right-winger,' Davis said Sunday ...'He's against gun control. He won't support a moratorium on offshore drilling. And he's not for a woman's right to choose. He is a right-winger.' " |
Why the Left Hates the Declaration of Independence
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"Since I was six years old, a poster of the Declaration of Independence has hung on my bedroom wall. That’s one reason why I turned out to be a young conservative. But I don’t suppose many Leftists have posters of the Declaration of Independence hanging in their homes and workplaces. They’ve managed to take it out of the schools too. It seems the Left would rather burn it." |
AR: Escapees at large
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"Two men remained at large Sunday after escaping Friday from the Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center in Hodgen..."
"David D. Bender, 22, and Jeffery K. Thomas, 25 ..."
Bender: "white male 6 feet, 3 inches tall and 194 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
Thomas: "white male 5 feet 10 inches tall and 213 pounds, brown hair and brown eyes."
"Both men have several tattoos." ...
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"Bender was serving time for second-degree burglary, two counts of possession of a firearm after former conviction of a felony and two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon." |
Australia: Police union rejects search claims
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"The police union has rejected claims that new police powers to search for drugs on the Sturt Highway, in southern NSW, will infringe civil liberties."
"The laws will allow police to search random vehicles with a sniffer dog in towns close to state borders, including Deniliquin, Albury and Hay." |
CA: Dozens Rally Against USA Patriot Act
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"Proclaiming 'we don't need to trade our freedoms to be safe,' several dozen activists rallied in front of the federal building Monday to voice their opposition to Patriot Act II, the expanded domestic security legislation awaiting Congressional consideration." |
OH: Activists Say Proposed Law Could Violate Rights
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"Civil libertarians and activists say a proposed state law to allow the arrest of protesters during a riot could violate their First Amendment rights."
"The American Civil Liberties Union says it is considering a court challenge. The Ohio Senate has passed the bill and it is now before the House, which could act on it this fall."
"But police, who lobbied for the proposal, say the law would give them a tool to stop rioting, and to clear the scene of a fire or other emergency." |
Goode persists on armed border patrols
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"Despite the Pentagon's misgivings, U.S. Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr., R-Va., has not abandoned his idea of having troops stationed along U.S. borders to staunch the flow of illegal immigrants, drugs and terrorists."
"Goode contends if the nation can defend the borders of Afghanistan, South Korea and Iraq, it should be willing to ensure the security of its own borders." |
CA: Police arrest July 4th pistol shooter - felony charge
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"Police arrested a 45-year-old man whom they say fired a revolver into the air on the Fourth of July."
"Tim Boyle of Antioch was arrested on suspicion of felony gross negligence in discharging a firearm..."
"When people fire bullets into the air, police take it seriously..." |
CA: Calif. Rep. Has Weapons-Arrest History
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"U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who is leading an effort to oust California Gov. Gray Davis, was arrested twice on illegal-weapons charges in 1972, the San Francisco Chronicle reported July 2."
"The arrests came months after Issa left the U.S. Army. One was a misdemeanor gun conviction stemming from an incident in Michigan. The other arrest occurred in Ohio for carrying a concealed weapon and auto theft." |
From the Children - For the Children
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"After lunch Monday, June 30, 2003, Miss Erickson's 5th graders, at So. Jordan Elementary, So. Jordan, UT, held a mock trial. The issue at trial has been the classic liberal wedge issue of at least the past three decades: Gun Control. More specifically: Should guns be allowed in school?" ...
"In the wake of about 45 minutes of intense debate, the jury left the classroom and deliberated behind closed doors for five minutes. The verdict: 12-0 in FAVOR of guns in schools." |
UK: Youth in nightclub gun charge
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"A teenager customised rounds of blanks to turn them into live bullets and hid a gun in his socks in a packed Coventry nightclub, a court heard."
"The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, committed the offence at the Ikon nightclub, in the Skydome, city centre, on April 5, Coventry Crown Court was told."
"Judge James Pyke sentenced the youth to 18 months in custody after he pleaded guilty to charges of possessing a firearm and possessing a firearm without a licence." ... |
Momentum For Concealed Carry Growing Nationwide
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"Gun control proponents are continuing to lose key battles across the country, as citizens in a growing number of states can now carry firearms concealed."
"The most significant victory occurred recently in the Land of the Midnight Sun, where citizens don't need concealed carry permits anymore." |
AZ: Arizona Repugnant printing anti-gun spew again
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"Most deaths are because of handguns."
[A total lack of training in gun safety and the clear violation of the basic rules of gun safety had nothing to do with it.]
"...handguns are more than 40 times more likely to kill someone known to the family than to kill in self-defense, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine."
[Yeah don't take your eye off of a handgun for a second! The "study" they mention was Kellerman's pack of disproved lies.] |
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