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Democrats Turn to 'Second Amendment Rights' for Political Gain (JTO)
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"While it remains to be seen whether a termination of the 1994 assault-weapons ban in September might yet infuse gun control into the 2004 election season, Democrats have moved so far away from the issue that they almost sound like Republicans."

"Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) spoke on the need for the ban's extension during the Democratic National Convention, but her call for Congressional action on gun control has become a rarity within a party that once championed the issue. While the Democratic party platform does call for reauthorization of the ban, it also states that the party 'will protect Americans' Second Amendment right to own firearms.' And Democrat after Democrat, including Presidential nominee John Kerry, has used language about 'Second Amendment rights' during their campaigns this season." ...

Hastert accused of misleading comments on assault weapons ban
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"Less than six weeks before the federal assault-weapons ban expires, some supporters of an extension charged House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Wednesday with misleading the country after he said the Senate had already defeated it."

"The Senate voted 52-47 on March 2 in support of an amendment extending the ban. But the National Rifle Association then pressured Senate Republican leaders to kill the gunmaker-liability legislation that contained the amendment. The ban, passed in 1994, expires Sept. 13. President Bush has said he would sign an extension."

"Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ban's main sponsor, has been pressing House Republican leaders to hold a vote on an extension. ..." ...

DC: Virginia: It's for (gun) lovers
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"Ever since July 1 - when yet another gun-lovers' law loosened up Virginia's already lax governance of weapons - it's been one big macho-fest for heat-packers who get their courage from strapping on pistols. Not every diner may relish the sight of six armed men at the next table, but unless the General Assembly comes to its senses next year, families out for a gathering will have to get used to pistols and ammo belts with their burgers and fries."

"... Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, an organization of thousands of gun owners, insists that there has been no coordinated effort to strut with guns, but he notes that this 'is a good opportunity to educate people.' ..." ...
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KABA wonders what is wrong with "families out for a gathering" seeing blacks eating at the same ... AHEM! I mean law-abiding, peaceable gun owners eating at the same lunch counter as whites, I mean, as non-gun carriers.

The left's vision
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... "In Britain, for example, the right to defend yourself is being taken away in many ways. Gun control laws there have not only tightened restrictions on gun ownership -- with the murder rate rising as they do -- these laws ban anything that looks like a gun, especially if it is used in self-defense."

"Britons who have held burglars in their homes until the police arrived, by using toy pistols, have been arrested along with the burglars. To the collectivist mindset, independent self-help of any sort is a threat to their vision of the government as the sole source of protection and direction."

"If someone attacks you in Britain and you knock him down, you are not allowed to hit him again or you will be charged with assault. ..." ...

MN: Oakdale inventor develops a quieter shotgun
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"Having never fired a gun in her life, Faamati Winey pulled up on a flying clay pigeon and dusted it with the latest version of the Quiet Gun."

"A small audience at the Metro Gun Club in Blaine gave an enthusiastic cheer for Winey, who grinned and said, 'Hey, this is easy.'"

"Inventor Wendell Diller, who developed this shotgun with its characteristic long barrel, beamed proudly. He then watched as Winey, his boss's wife, broke another clay target, scoring 2 out of 4 in her introduction to shot gunning." ...

"Three more shooters put the shotgun with a 31-inch extension barrel to their shoulders and dusted clay targets, while the gun emitted a pop slightly louder than a pellet rifle." ...

MO: Missouri Gun Owners Did Not Forget Bob Holden's Veto, Says CCRKBA
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"Tuesday's primary defeat of anti-gun Missouri Gov. Bob Holden should serve as an object lesson for other politicians who place political correctness ahead of the personal safety of their constituents, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms stated."

"'Show Me State gun owners showed Bob Holden the door,' said Chairman Alan Gottlieb. 'Although they tried to downplay it, both the St. Louis Post Dispatch and Kansas City Star acknowledged that Holden's veto of concealed carry legislation cost him critical votes, especially in rural Missouri. The governor and his political advisors should have seen this coming the instant that Missouri lawmakers came back to Jefferson City last year to override his arrogant veto.'" ...

AZ: Shooter enters plea of not guilty
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"Harold Fish, the 57-year-old retired teacher indicted on a charge of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a local humane society volunteer, was arraigned Friday morning in Flagstaff." ...

"Fish killed 43-year-old Grant Kuenzli May 11 at a remote trailhead south of Clint's Well."

"Fish told Coconino Sheriff's deputies that the unarmed Kuenzli threatened to kill him and that he shot him in self-defense." ...
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And deputies said that the evidence supported his version of self-defense, so why is this man being tried?!?

'Disturbing trend' seen in negligent discharges of weapons in Afghanistan
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"In the past 18 months, troops in Afghanistan have accidentally killed themselves or others at least six times and wounded nearly two dozen more troops through unsafe weapons handling, according to Army statistics released to Stars and Stripes."

"In what military officials call negligent discharges, last year troops mistakenly fired their weapons 24 times in Afghanistan, injuring 18 and killing four."

"So far this year, five troops have been wounded and two more have been killed in 16 accidental discharges." ...

"The top enlisted solider in Afghanistan called the staccato of accidental firings a 'disturbing trend' and took leaders to task recently for failing to enforce basic standards to prevent the mistakes." ...

VA: Albemarle girl shot by sister
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"A 9-year-old girl was accidentally shot in the face Wednesday by her 11-year-old sister, according to Albemarle County police."

"Albemarle Sgt. Todd Hopwood said the 11-year-old found a .22-caliber pistol in the master bedroom of a relatives house around 4 p.m. and accidentally fired it when her younger sister entered the room and startled her."

"The gun belongs to the girls great-uncle, Bernard Belew. 'I had it hidden under my mattress. My wife moved it,' he said. 'They found it, I reckon.'"

"'My wife told them 100 times, 'Dont be playing back there,' he said." ...
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Education, education, education! 11 years old is not too young to learn gun handling.

AL: Hammondville police chief faces burglary, menacing charge
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"Hammondville's police chief, who also works part-time as a Mentone police officer, faces attempted burglary and domestic violence charges after allegedly trying to break into a woman's home."

"DeKalb County Sheriff Cecil Reed said authorities arrested Michael Putman, 50, on Monday on a warrant signed by Angela Edgeworth, who also is an officer with Mentone and Hammondville police."

"Reed said Putman turned himself in and was released on $1,500 bond for attempted burglary, domestic violence and menacing charges."

"Reed said Edgeworth came to the department at 8 a.m. Monday to sign the warrant, which was issued based on the alleged break-in that occurred at her home around 9:30 p.m. Sunday." ...
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But only cops and the military, right Sarah?

Australia: Nasty cases took their toll on veteran officer
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"AFTER 35 years solving some of the nation's most gruesome crimes, something inside Steve Leach finally cracked."

"The veteran investigator, described by colleagues as a 'policeman's policeman' walked into the police headquarters at Parramatta in Sydney's west yesterday and in a split second ended it all."

"Although he had never shown it on the outside, the horrors - from solving the murder of nine-year-old Samantha Knight to Ivan Milat's gruesome backpacker killings - had finally taken their toll on the easygoing officer."

"After decades investigating some of the ugliest crimes in Australia, he returned last year from a three-year stint as a genocide investigator in Serbia and Montenegro." ...
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But only cops and the military are stable enough to be trusted with guns, right Sarah?

Russia: Man Shot By Police For Not Having A Metro Ticket
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"A passenger riding the Moscow Metro without a 20p ticket has been shot by a policeman."

"The unnamed 29-year-old policeman has been charged with attempted murder."

"Labourer Rustam Baibekov was shot in the mouth and doctors say he is lucky to be alive."

"The 20-year-old was spotted by police at the Sokolniki station in northern Moscow trying to pass through a ticket barrier behind another passenger."

"He was detained and asked to provide his registration documentation, which is required by law."

"After failing to do so, the sergeant pulled his service pistol and shot Mr Baibekov."

"The bullet smashed his jaw and went through his neck." ...
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Yet another for the "Only Cops . . ." file.

South Africa: Granny ignored deadly shots as policeman kills wife and self
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"A granny ignored two gunshots on Tuesday night, thinking they were usual township shootings, only to find her daughter and son-in-law dead in their bed on Wednesday morning."

"Her son-in-law, a policeman attached to KaNyamazane police station outside Nelspruit in Mpumalanga, is believed to have shot and killed his wife before shooting himself in the head about 03:00 on Wednesday."

"Captain Benjamin Bhembe of Lowveld police said: 'His mother-in-law had heard the gunshots, but thought they came from outside and ignored them.'"

"But, in the morning, the couple's two children saw blood coming out from under their parent's bedroom door and called their gran." ...

Trinidad: Hindu Credit Union guard robbed of gun, ammo
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A HINDU Credit Union security guard was robbed of his loaded 9 mm pistol while on duty in Laventille yesterday.

The estate constable was accompanying a member of the recovery unit at Beverly Hills when the two were ambushed by three masked men.

The officer was robbed of the pistol and nine rounds of ammunition by the masked men who escaped on foot.

Besson Street CID is investigating the robbery.

Recently the HCU has embarked on an anti-crime campaign.

OH: The Plain Dealer editor and gun nuts play a strange game of chicken
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"When Ohio's concealed-weapons law was passed with the provision that only journalists have access to the names of registered carriers, Plain Dealer Editor Doug Clifton declared that he would publish complete lists of all area residents who receive the permits."

"Last week, The PD splashed the names of heat-packing Northeast Ohioans over two and a half pages. Not surprisingly, the move drew the ire of Ohioans for Concealed Carry, which maintains that family newspapers have no right to divulge who's walking around with an unnatural bulge in their pants." ...
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Why do these anti-gun nuts have this strange obsession with guns as penises?

OH: Days after Plain Dealer "outing"; CHL-holder Bill Singleton is dead
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"Less than a week after the Cleveland Plain Dealer published Bill Singleton's name among a list of people who have chosen to obtain a license to bear arms for self-defense, Mr. Singleton is dead." ...

"It is not yet known if the Cleveland Plain Dealer's actions even remotely played into this tragedy. But the harsh reality of the situation begs the question:"

"Why did editor Doug Clifton act to put people like Bill Singleton at so much risk by revealing to potential attackers that they are armed, and why do they promise to continue to do so?"

"Why did Doug Clifton decide that these innocent, law-abiding citizens, desperate to protect themselves from violent criminals that no gun control law or background check can stop, are the ones needing to be treated like persons of suspicion?"

"Initial accounts say the robbers shot first, ambush-style. Did they know Singleton was armed? Did Bill Singleton die upon Doug Clifton's altar of open records? We may never know." ...

NY: Law eases rules for concealed weapons
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"A new federal law has quietly taken the power to decide how police can get concealed weapons permits away from New York state, and placed it into its own hands as a weapon against terror."

"Few are protesting the change, which would offer concealed weapons permits to the nation's 700,000 retired police who qualify. The new law also gives both off-duty and retired police the freedom to take a concealed weapon into other states." ...
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How about 100 times that many law-abiding gun owners? Aren't we a "weapon against terror"?

New Zealand: Shock rounds
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... "ShockRounds are specialised bullets - fully compatible with standard ammunition calibres - that discharge an electrical shock upon impact and disrupt the nervous system. They incapacitate a living target in an instant - reportedly without risk of injury or death."

"US-based MDM Group say their product will make law enforcement safer and more certain, save lives and reduce injuries, ensure less 'collateral damage', enhance security in aircraft and public places, and reduce legal liability. Oh, and it also promises to revolutionise the munitions industry."

"Unlike stun guns and similar weapons, they say, ShockRounds rubber bullets can incapacitate a target at 100 metres ..." ...

TX: Milam County youth shoot it out at Nationals
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"Three 4-H boys from Milam County attended the 2004 Shooting Sports National Match. The three boys, Justin Bruedigan, Dillon Dean and Dex Dean represented the state of Texas as well as Milam County." ...

"The Hunting Skills Team competed in archery, light rifle (.22), muzzle loading and shotgun events. The team also had to take tests on hunter decision making, hunter skills and wildlife management and identification."

"'Originally I thought all I had to do was go up there, take a test and do some orienteering, but it turns out that we also shot four different events,' Bruedigan explained. 'We compete in 3-D archery, sporting clays, which is the shotgun, hunters courses and muzzle loading, which is when you put the powder down the barrel by hand.'" ...

MN: Dont Conceal, Reveal! A Minnesota Handgun Western Submitted by: Bruce W. Krafft Website: http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.krafft/	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
FULL TEXT BELOW: Dont Conceal, Reveal! A Minnesota Handgun Western: Eddie the cowboy and his posse tote humongous guns while teaching gun "safety," handgun aerobics and dance and sing, Western style. 8:30 p.m. Aug. 6, 5:30 p.m. Aug. 7, 7 p.m. Aug. 12, 2:30 p.m. Aug. 13, 1 p.m. Aug. 14, MCTC Whitney Mainstage, 1424 Yale Place, Mpls.

Australia: Woman shot with air rifle
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AN air rifle pellet narrowly missed arteries in a woman's thigh when she was shot while walking through a park in Melbourne's outer east yesterday.

The 43-year-old woman was walking through a Ferntree Gully park about 4pm yesterday when she felt a sting in her leg and saw two boys running away.

The pain in her leg worsened as she walked and she found the pellet wound when she examined her leg at home.

The woman drove herself to the nearby Angliss Hospital, where doctors found the pellet had penetrated 15 centimetres into her thigh, narrowly missing arteries.

Anyone with information should phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

India: 2 criminals shot dead in separate encounters
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"Two alleged criminals were shot dead by the Ghaziabad police in two separate encounters in the Loni and Kavi Nagar police station areas on Wednesday. Both the deceased had long police records of major crimes." ...

"The deceased was later identified as Pramod of the Babugarh police station area. He had a police record of 17 cases including murder, kidnapping and attempted murder. A pistol, several live and spent cartridges and the motorcycle were recovered from the spot." ...

"... The man killed was later identified as Magnoon, who has eight cases of major crimes filed against him, mainly at the Loni police station. The scooter and the looted Rs 10,000 was recovered from them."
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These are the types of thugs that officials permit to prey on disarmed law-abiding Indians.

Malaysia: Two cop killers nabbed
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"Police yesterday arrested the two armed robbers who shot dead a police man and injured another on Aug 1." ...

"Two firearms - a 9mm Baretta semi-automatic pistol said to be the weapon that was used to kill Korporal Manja Abdul Manap, and a .38 Smith and Wesson revolver believed to have been robbed from a policeman several months ago - were seized from the duo who were arrested in Batu Pahat on Wednesday."

"Comm Musa also said that the duo were also allegedly responsible for the murder of another policeman in Muar several months ago as the seized .38 Smith and Wesson revolver belonged to that policeman."
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When guns are outlawed, BGs murder cops to get guns.

TN: World-record buck on display at Bass Pro Shop
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"Tony Lovestuen, who bagged a world-record buck non-typical whitetail will be at the Bass Pro Shop's Fall Hunting Classic Saturday. The trophy deer will also be in the store."

"The big buck, taken with a muzzleloader last September, scored 307-5/8 points in Boone and Crockett."

"The King of Bucks, one of the finest collections of trophy deer, will also be on display at this year's event."

"Some of the top pros in the industry will host free seminars geared to the fall hunting season. The experts include Ricky Joe Bishop (Koplin), Brad Harris (Fieldline/Bass Pro Shops), Bobby Murray (Knight & Hale/Knight Rifle/Code Blue) and Walter Parrot, (RedHead Pro Hunting Team)." ...

People's Republic of China: Man slashes 18 at Beijing school, killing child
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"A school employee with a history of schizophrenia slashed 15 students and three teachers with a kitchen knife today at a Beijing kindergarten, killing one child and leaving terrified classmates covered in blood, police and news reports said."

"Two children suffered serious injuries in the attack at the school run by the No. 1 Hospital of elite Peking University, police said. ..." ...

"China's leadership takes pains to portray the country as a safe place, where an increasingly well-off population reaps the rewards of government-led economic growth. But a spate of serial murders, gangland bombings and mass poisonings over the past several years threatens to undermine that message."
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In a country with some of the strictest gun control laws extant.

Jamaica: South St Andrew police division has most murders
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"WITH 147 people murdered in the area, the South St Andrew police division has the dubious distinction of having the most murders in the island since the start of the year."

"The police division's murder toll inched up with Tuesday night's fatal shooting of 30 year-old Oneil Forbes of Collies Road, Kingston 11. Cops, who were called in after residents heard explosions, found Forbes' bullet-riddled body on Ellastowe Road at about 9:00 pm." ...

"And despite the runaway murder figures, cops have been making some inroads in seizing illegal firearms in the division, with 56 seized up to Tuesday." ...
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But guns are banned in Jamaica! So, for that matter, is murder . . .

South Africa: Bandits Abduct Three, Snatch Vehicles
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"Three people were abducted , robbed and their vehicles stolen before being abandoned in separate incidents which all occurred on Monday night in Lusaka."

"Police spokesperson, Brenda Muntemba said in the first incident, a couple was ambushed and the wife tossed out of the vehicle while the man was abducted in their Green Nissan Hardbody Van registration No ABA 9489."

"Ms Muntemba said the couple was on the way home at about 20:00 hours when two bandits armed with unknown types of firearms stopped their car in Avondale residential area."

"She said the gangsters had been trailing the two until they reached their home and pounced on them just as they were about to enter their yard."
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More disarmed victims . . .

UK: Families join the fight against drug dealers
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"Joe Public is fighting back against the drug pushers blighting city estates by peddling their deadly merchandise from flats and houses."

"Police revealed today how a quiet revolution was taking place on several South Birmingham estates where fed up citizens are finally dishing the dirt on the dealers."

"For years police attempts to bust the pushers have been frustrated by a reluctance among ordinary men and women to come forward with evidence."

"Many were simply too frightened of possible reprisals at the hands of the dealers." ...
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Now why would your subjects (who are imprisoned for actually defending themselves, and for carrying self-defense weapons like knitting needles) fear reprisals?

UK: Gunman jailed over gang shootings
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"A man has been jailed for 20 years for his part in three gangland shootings in a drugs turf war in Greater Manchester."

"Brendan Flynn, 28, was involved in one gang's attempt to gain "superiority", Manchester Crown Court was told."

"Flynn, of Manchester Road, Hyde, Greater Manchester admitted possession of the gun used in the incidents, between 18 and 27 December last year."

"Flynn pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted murder and three of having a rifle with intent to endanger life."

"Prosecutor Mukhtar Hussain QC said the first shooting involved a 28-year-old woman, who was shot at as she sat in her living room of her house in Albert Avenue, Gorton, on 18 December." ...
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All in the "gun-free" UK.