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Time for New Orleans to Return or Replace Confiscated Firearms, Says SAF
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"Two years ago today, New Orleans and the surrounding area was pounded by Hurricane Katrina, and in the following days, police and National Guard units, acting under orders that violated both the federal and Louisiana state constitutions, illegally seized without warrant or probable cause, hundreds of privately-owned firearms."
"After the [SAF] successfully halted the gun seizures in a federal lawsuit, the city undertook a campaign of stonewalling and stalling in an effort to retain those wrongly-confiscated firearms. That effort continues today, and it is time for the Ray Nagin administration to end this demagoguery and return those guns ... SAF was joined in the landmark lawsuit by the National Rifle Association." ... |
David Codrea: A Great Question
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"Tom Gresham and Clint Smith nail it." ...
"... The Republican YouTube debate will be hosted by CNN in November."
"So I wrote to them via their website contact form:"
"(Note I clicked the 'Positive' feedback option, as I figure everybody, especially 'authorized journalists,' likes to read compliments.)" ...
"So what if they get hundreds of comments urging them to 'Play Tom Gresham and Clint Smith's question in the YouTube Republican Debate'? What if they get thousands with just that simple message?" ...
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John Longnecker: 32 or 2.5 Million?
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at Virginia Tech? Thirty-two."
"How many innocents could be saved by an armed citizen on site, anywhere, including post office, workplace, schools, airports, civil aircraft...wherever there have been shootings?"
"The answer would be everyone in the room, or everyone within range of the killer, and that includes knife or gun."
"How many people are saved when an armed citizen takes the situation in hand long before Police could arrive? The answer could be perhaps... all of them. Certainly, fewer of them."
"2008 Candidates and college administrators, let's remember the chief arguments against your practice of gun control:"
"1. Police have no duty to protect individuals. ..." ... |
Hip! Hip! Hooray! We Americans got the guns, notes United States firearms law expert
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"'Hip! Hip! Hooray! We've got the guns, and we intend to keep them,' gun rights advocate John M. Snyder noted here today after reviewing a news report on the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva based Graduate Institute of International Studies."
"According to the survey, for every 100 citizens in the United States, there are 90 firearms. This makes the American society the most heavily armed in the world. American citizens possess 270 million of the 875 million firearms known to those conducting the survey. People in the United States purchase more than half – 4.5 million - of the eight million new guns manufactured each year." ... |
Knight Column: New Study Exposes Anti-gun Bias in Media
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"On Tuesday, Jesse Jackson, the Brady bunch -- not the TV folk but the anti-gun lobby -- and other liberal activists rallied against 'the national scourge of illegal guns' in cities around the nation."
"The networks ignored the event, probably because turnout was so embarrassingly low. The Chicago Tribune reported that 'about 200' piled out of three buses in Lake Barrington, Illinois, the Chicago-area protest keynoted by Jackson himself. The Philadelphia Inquirer said 'about 200' showed up in Philly. The Dallas Morning News reported about 60 demonstrators in South Dallas, and AP said 'about 100' attended the Washington, D.C. event held in nearby District Heights, Maryland." ... |
A Fistful of Bullets
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"As 7 p.m. approaches, the high-desert sunlight lingers with a golden hue and 80 degree warmth, favoring the people who pull their vehicles into the downtown lot by the Lamphouse Theater. Disembarking and filing into the movie theater, they appear to be a Western cross-section ..." ...
"Ryan Horsley greets them as they walk in; he knows many by name. ... He's president of the Historic Downtown Twin Falls Business Improvement District, chairman of the Planning and Zoning Commission, board member of the Chamber of Commerce."
"Mainly, though, he runs Red's Trading Post, which bills itself, without much argument, as Idaho's oldest gun shop. ..." ... |
Camelot and the Cultural Revolution
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"Why are so many liberals so angry? Why do they hate America? Why do they oppose self-defense measures? Why do they laud dictators and terrorists?"
"There was a time when liberals were characteristically optimistic. ..." ...
"Kennedy was also a member of the National Rifle Association. Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, a one-time Democrat candidate for President, had gone on record defending the Second Amendment as the means for preserving the militia which might someday be needed to resist a tyrannical American government."
"Anti-communism and support of the Second Amendment evaporated almost overnight following Kennedy's assassination. ..." ... |
U.S. Most Armed Country with 90 Guns per 100 People (GunGuys)
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"It would be great to have bragging rights that America had the lowest percentage of poor people in the world, or the least number of infants who die, but, alas, our latest claim to fame relates to a record-setting level of gun ownership."
"According to the Small Arms Survey 2007 ... the U.S. can boast being the most heavily armed nation in the world."
"Of course, this hasn’t made us any safer, because the United States is also the leader among industrialized nations in the number of our young people killed by gunfire. More guns, more deaths." ...
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IN: Double shooting tied to argument, metro police say
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"Metro police learned Tuesday that an early-morning double shooting at a Domino's Pizza involved an argument, not a robbery."
"One man was shot three times and is in fair condition, while the second man was shot once and treated at a hospital." ...
"Police believe the shootings stemmed from an argument involving four men outside Domino's early Tuesday." ...
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NY: City Women Are Falling for (Nonlethal) Weapons
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"Stop, or I'll pelt you with a piece of hard candy!"
"Until this summer, that's all most women were packing when it came to heat. And then, out of the blue, just like bejeweled flipflops, cute, little, nonlethal weapons became the accessory du jour. We are suddenly in the midst of a small small-arms arms race. In one corner is the new, pink, purse-size Taser C2 ... In the other is the new, pink, purse-size Avurt IM-5, a fab baby gat that fires five plastic pellets filled with artificial pepper spray. ..."
"What a great moment to be a gal ... pursued by an unsuspecting mugger."
"'Our goal is to give women, especially, something more effective than pepper spray,' the chief executive of Security With Advanced Technology, Scott Sutton, said. His company makes the Avurt." ...
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NY: Concealed Pistols Permits Drop in City
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"The number of New Yorkers who may carry pistols legally dropped this year, while permits issued to allow people to keep pistols in their home increased, according to police statistics."
"Mayor Bloomberg has sought to cut the number ofconcealed weapons on city streets, and since he has been in office it has dropped dramatically. This year, 2,516 New Yorkers received a permit to carry a concealed pistol. The city issued 2,555 such permits in 2006, almost 50% fewer than the 4,789 that were given out in 2004."
"The head spokesman for the police department, Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne, said the reduction in the number of permits issued is partly due to sharp increases in the fees holders must pay to renew their permits. ..." ...
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Gun Opponents Rally on MLK Anniversary
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"Opponents of gun rights on Tuesday ... rallied against gun stores in cities across the nation and urged more government action against firearms dealers."
"The Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence partnered with local organizations in at least 16 cities to stage demonstrations 'to focus attention on the scourge of illegal gun trafficking,' according to the Brady Campaign." ...
"'We're not trying to take away the rights of the folks that are protesting behind us,' Helmke said, referring to several dozen pro-gun rights protesters running a counter-demonstration nearby. 'What we're trying to say is that we can make our society work so that people are safe.'" ... |
In Communities Across America, Huge Crowds Protest Gun Violence
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"Advocates for laws making it harder for dangerous individuals to get firearms demanded action at events in more than 25 cities and towns from District Heights, Maryland to Seattle, Washington and from Dallas, Texas to the Twin Cities of Minnesota, on a national day of protest organized by the Reverend Jesse Jackson's Operation Rainbow/PUSH and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence."
"The National Day of Protest marked the 44th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's March on Washington. Rev. Jackson reached out to the Brady Campaign in July and asked Paul Helmke, President of the national gun violence prevention group, to join his organization in planning a series of public protests to mark the anniversary." ...
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IL: Gun protest moves to manufacturer
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"A northwest suburban gun manufacturer was the focus yesterday as two high-profile Chicago clergy leaders led a demonstration outside the plant."
"Revs. Jesse Jackson and Michael Pfleger, along with about 150 anti-gun violence protesters, were met by dozens of Lake Barrington residents and pro-gun enthusiasts when they arrived outside of D.S. Arms gun manufacturer." ...
"... We want Barrington to vote gun dry,' Jackson told supporters as pro-gun supporters countered that they had the right to exercise the Second Amendment ..."
"D.S. Arms, a 20-year-old institution, manufactures semi-automatic assault rifles and does not sell to the public. They have about 20 clients, consisting of law enforcement and the military ..." [emphasis added] ... |
PA: At rally, activists decry gun violence
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"Forty-four years after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech in Washington, dozens of Philadelphia community activists yesterday marked the day with a street-corner rally to decry gun violence in the city."
"Organizers said the gathering of about 200 people at 10th and Spring Garden Streets was held a few doors from Colosimo's gun store to emphasize the problem of straw purchasers of guns, those who buy firearms legally and transfer them to criminals who are forbidden by law from possessing them. But they said Colosimo's was not involved in any illegal activity." ... |
WA: Green Lake protest falls flat when few show up
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"Even with the Iraq war lingering and plenty of trouble with guns and violence on the streets of Seattle, a planned demonstration was barely a protest at all Tuesday night – despite advance publicity garnered through an official-looking media release."
"P-I reporter Amy Rolph went out to cover a planned protest Tuesday night at Green Lake, only to find just two demonstrators. Here's Amy's report:"
"The demonstration didn't take long at all. In fact, it might have been the shortest in recent local history."
"It might have been the smallest, too."
"Two activists showed up. They stretched out on the ground for 32 seconds. Then they rolled up their banner -- www.protesteasyguns.com -- and headed for the parking lot." ... |
IL: A rally against rifles in the suburbs (another view)
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"While many people likely wouldn't consider the quaint suburb of Lake Barrington a major center for gun problems, the Rev. Jesse Jackson thinks otherwise."
"Jackson, along with the Rev. Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Church in Chicago and hundreds of protesters, marched in front of the D.S. Arms gun manufacturer to shed light on what they say is the problem of easy access to firearms."
"'We want these weapons off America's streets,' Jackson said of the high-powered rifles made in the facility. 'Citizens of Barrington, vote these gun manufacturers out of here.'" ... |
VA: Virginia Tech Criticized for Actions in Shooting
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"A state panel has sharply criticized decisions made by Virginia Tech before and after last April’s shooting massacre, saying university officials could have saved lives by notifying students and faculty members earlier that there had been killings on campus." ...
"In a raucous conference call with the governor’s office on Wednesday night, family members of victims voiced frustration that the university had not imposed a lockdown after the first shootings and criticized the report for not demanding that some officials be fired."
"'Can you explain how 32 people were killed and no one has been fired, no one has been held accountable at that university?' one family member on the conference call asked." ... |
VA: A toxic mix
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"Some gun-rights activists think they know the solution to the issue of campus security, one that has come front and center since the shootings at Virginia Tech."
"But it is a frightening, potentially disastrous solution. Allowing students and staff to be armed — or even, as some suggest, encouraging them to be armed — runs the risk of bringing violence to more situations and more campuses."
"If there was ever a toxic mix, it's this: alcohol, immaturity, stress, hormones, drugs, and all sorts of mental health issues (the usual brew of college campuses), combined with deadly firepower."
"But that's precisely the concoction that some activists are urging and will be pressuring the General Assembly to make way for." ... |
MO: Missouri Stands Behind Right to Own Firearms with New Law
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"According to a ... Missouri Governor's press release, the state of Missouri is continuing to stand behind the belief in the second amendment and legal right which allows residents to defend themselves and their families in case of a home invasion or an attack."
"Due to this, the Missouri legislation today asked Governor Matt Blunt to address the issue in his January State of the State Address and remind residents of their right."
"Governor Blunt stated, 'Americans maintain a deep reverence for their Second Amendment freedoms. The law I signed reinforces those freedoms and ensures law-abiding Missourians will not be punished when they use force to defend themselves and their families from attacks in their own home or vehicle.'" ... |
PA: Rendell OKs three-day gun sales suspension
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"Gov. Ed Rendell said Tuesday that the state will go ahead with a computer upgrade that will force a three-day suspension of gun sales next week."
"His decision angered many gun dealers and representatives of sportsmen's clubs."
"Dealers have said they counted on Labor Day week as a springboard for strong fall hunting season sales. Sportsmen's group representatives called the decision a dismissal of the hunting community." ...
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NJ: Manzo: Send In Guard
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"Call in the National Guard."
"That's Assemblyman Lou Manzo's proposal to help local law enforcement put the kibosh on gang activity in neighborhoods across the Garden State ..."
"Manzo directed the state Office of Legislative Services yesterday to draft a resolution to urge Gov. Jon Corzine to deploy the New Jersey National Guard, at the request of local governing bodies, to assist municipalities in combating violent criminal gang activity."
"'In certain areas ... gangs have taken over areas," Manzo said. 'They (the National Guard) are going to come in with heavy infantry and they are going to take the scum off the streets and put them in jail cells where they belong.'" ...
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Several Updates (Red's Trading Post)
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"Well I did not have a chance to write a blog on Tuesday, we were too busy selling ammunition. We had several people come in and stock up on ammo, which we were offering a free copy of The Gang with every 5 boxes of ammo. Thank you this has been the most ammunition that we have EVER sold in one day."
"We have sold nearly 70 Red's Trading Post hats now, which was overwhelming. We do not have many left and with every new batch of hats we change colors, so this will soon be the last of these colors. Our accountant is going to be puzzled with the upsurge in ammo and hats...of all things." ... |
Only Military Officer Charged in Abu Ghraib Acquitted ... No Vindication for Rumsfeld / Bush
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"While Abu Ghraib represents a low point for the United States in the Iraq War, it is also a symbol of the liberal media run amok. ..." ...
"Until this week, no military officers had been convicted of abuse charges ..."
"The only military officer to be charged criminally, Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, went on trial this week on a host of charges ..."
"The jury (nine colonels and one brigadier general) acquitted Jordan of the 'abuse' charges. Jordan was found guilty of a single count of failing to obey an order. Jordan had been told by a superior not to comment on the Abu Ghraib situation, and Jordan thereafter spoke with some of his soldiers about the allegations, which is the basis of the single conviction. " ... |
MI: 6 Face Firing in Michigan Police Sex Scandal
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"Five police officers and another police employee could lose their jobs after being accused of having sex with a female dispatcher at police headquarters, The Grand Rapids Press reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed person close to the investigation."
"City Manager Kurt Kimball on Tuesday confirmed ... he had suspended some workers without pay and ordered a discharge hearing for them at the recommendation of outgoing police Chief Harry Dolan. ..."
"Kimball would not say why the employees were being disciplined, only that there was an investigation." ...
"The former female employee reportedly engaged in sex with up to 10 police department employees. Trysts with four of them supposedly occurred outside of work hours and those workers remain on the job ..." [emphasis added] ...
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NJ: Paralyzed Manville resident seeks gun permit for hunting
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"James Cap loved hunting, but he was robbed from enjoying that past time 27 years ago when he was paralyzed from his neck down during a high-school football game."
"The Manville resident now wants to use modern technology to hunt with a gun, but he may soon be denied a permit to do so."
"Local police have indicated Cap doesn't meet the legal requirements for obtaining a gun permit because of his medical condition. Cap's attorney said case law holds otherwise when the person is accompanied by someone else and uses adaptive equipment."
"Still, police suggest they have no authority under state law to tie such restrictions to a permit. If anyone ends up fine-tuning a permit to fit Cap, it may be a Superior Court judge." ... |
SC: Former Greenville police officer charged with misconduct
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"A former City of Greenville police officer was arrested by SLED agents on Wednesday and charged with misconduct in office and unlawful possession of a sawed-off rifle."
"According to a warrant, the former officer, Jeffrey Scott Copeland, 36, of Greenville, responded to a call about a suspicious vehicle. He's accused of taking a Glenfield .22. caliber rifle with a sawed off barrel and two knives from the vehicle's occupant."
"No arrest was made after the seizure, and the warrant accuses Copeland of keeping the items." ...
"The arrest is the result of an investigation conducted by SLED at the request of the City of Greenville Police Department. The case will be prosecuted by the Thirteenth Circuit Solicitor's Office." |
CO: Colorado Officer Who Helped Stop University Stabbing Suspect Talks
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"A Boulder policeman who arrived a few seconds after a freshman's throat was slashed is relieved the stabbing at the University of Colorado didn't turn out worse. ..." ...
"'Well, it makes you feel great. You know, we always want to be in a position to stop things before, you know, they get worse,' Smith said. 'This is our job. This is what we're out there to do. And if we're called on to do it and have the opportunity to be in the right place at the right time, that's just what we're going to do.'" ...
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OH: Feds indict Cleveland cop on drug charges
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"The Cleveland police officer accused of taking part in a cocaine distribution ring took $23,000 in cash from a man who wanted to buy cocaine in May, prosecutors said."
"Patrolman Zvonko Sarlog didn't realize the man giving him the cash was an undercover FBI agent."
"The indictment against Sarlog and six other men was unsealed Monday afternoon. It lays out a cocaine and marijuana trafficking ring lead by Ljubomir Rkman, who lived in Mexico. The ring brought in at least 26 kilograms of cocaine, according to the indictment. The street value of the cocaine was at least $600,000." ... |
VA: Gun rights group defends man's right to carry weapon
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"Members from the Virginia Citizens Defense League took aim at City Council over a man's arrest for carrying a gun at this summer’s Harborfest."
"The group says Chet Szmecki’s constitutional rights were violated, even though the charges against him were dropped." ...
"'My children were panicking watching their law abiding father be stripped of his dignity while their mother was being told to be quiet or she too would be arrested ...' recalled her husband."
"Verbal bullets flew from the City Council podium as Virginia Citizen Defense League members spoke out against the alleged harassment by Norfolk Police officers."
"'Get your police dept under control,' said one angry citizen. ..." ... |
OH: Former Attorney General Petro to run for state Supreme Court in 2010 (BFA)
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"The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that Northeast Ohio native and former Attorney General, Jim Petro, has set his sights on becoming Ohio's next Supreme Court chief justice." ...
"Party leaders, including U.S. House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio, had urged Petro, a moderate Republican who made an unsuccessful bid for governor in 2006, to run next year for a seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Deborah Pryce of suburban Columbus."
"'I have had strong experience as a manager, a lawyer and advocate in courts across the country, so I really do lean toward running for the Supreme Court in Ohio,' said Petro, who also has served as state auditor." |
CO: Northern Colorado chapter of the Friends of the NRA to host annual banquet
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The Northern Colorado Friends of the National Rifle Association will host its annual banquet and fundraiser starting at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 6.
A prime rib dinner, silent auction and drawing will be some of the highlights at the banquet in the University of Northern Colorado ballrooms.
Tickets are $35 and can be purchased by stopping by Offen Ace Hardware, 1722 9th St. and William Moore Jewlers, 914 9th Ave. or calling 353-8200 or 378-0803.
Money raised goes in part toward supporting outdoor youth groups in northern Colorado. |
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