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PA: Leak of guns list has link to ruling Submitted by: Mark A. Taff	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Berks County Sheriff Barry J. Jozwiak was trying to comply with a court order to create a more secure list of gun-permit holders when an outside contractor left at least some of the list exposed on the Internet, officials said Thursday. “The sheriff was in the process of complying with the court when this happened,” county Solicitor Alan L. Miller said.

OH: Guns for pilots = safer planes
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In 2002 the Federal Aviation Administration set into action Section 128 of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, which allows pilots with proper training and certification to carry a loaded firearm in the cockpit to be used at their discretion in the event of a threatening situation onboard.

The pilot is essentially given the authority of God in the skies.

But getting this weapon is not as easy as some may think.

CT: Resolution Targets Illegal Guns
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A resolution intended to help eradicate illegal sales of guns was unanimously approved Tuesday by the Common Council.

The resolution, which was submitted by council President Michael Coffey, D-At Large, notes that 30,000 Americans are killed every year as a result of gun violence, that the council members are duty-bound to do everything in their power to protect the city's residents, especially children, from harm, and that "there is no greater threat to public safety than the threat of illegal guns."

Canada: Quebec to push PM on guns
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Quebec Premier Jean Charest pledged a stiff fight yesterday against Prime Minister Stephen Harper's plans to scrap the country's long-gun registry as his emotionally raw province came to grips with Wednesday's murderous rampage at Dawson College.

One day after the shootings, gun-control advocates promised a reinvigorated battle to save the controversial $1-billion registry, which the Harper government announced in the spring would be scrapped. Virtually all Quebec politicians outside Mr. Harper's Tory caucus lined up against the Prime Minister.

India: Trigger happy: 40 mn guns in India Submitted by: Mark A. Taff	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
New Delhi: Abhijeet Singh is a software professional who works with Open Source Programs – a software that's open to everyone to use without restrictions. He's also part of a growing group which wants the same freedom to extend to something totally different - guns.

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Police are usually trying to get guns off the streets. But right now in Gainesville, something totally opposite is going on.

IN: Guns in safe stolen Submitted by: Mark A. Taff	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Local police are investigating the theft of a large gun safe with more than a dozen guns inside, which was stolen from a house in the northern part of the county during a two-hour time span while the homeowners were away. The theft happened sometime between 9 and 11 a.m. Sept. 7 in the 5000 east block of county Road 600 North, according to the case report.

UT: School District Upholds Guns Suspension
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School districs around Utah say even with threats of year-long suspension, they're still seeing a lot of students bringing potential weapons to school.

Many parents saying suspending a young child for an entire school year because they brought a toy gun to school is too much. But Larry Urry with the Jordan school district says it's state law, and every parent signs a paper each year, "They're always given out every year to every student."

Canada: When legal guns are used to kill
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All three guns in the Montreal shooting rampage, including the semi-automatic weapon wielded to such terrifying effect, were legally registered to the gunman. That comes as a terrible shock. If Canadians are permitted to own guns that prove useful to those bent on mass murder, is the list of tolerated guns too broad? Or is the Canadian Firearms Centre, which runs the federal gun registry, missing some red flags when dangerous people apply for licences and gun registration?

Canada: Owners of guns expecting backlash Submitted by: Mark A. Taff	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
After hearing about the shooting incident at Dawson College in Montreal, I can't help but be reminded of the Ecole Polytechnique shooting in 1989. As a gun owner, I am now bracing myself for the backlash against me and the millions of other law-abiding gun owners in this country.

DC: Police to Buy Back Guns Submitted by: Mark A. Taff	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
D.C. will be buying back guns on Saturday. The day-long event will take place at the First District station on Fourth Street Southwest, the Sixth District station on 42nd Street Northeast and the Seventh District station on Alabama Avenue Southeast.

NC: Durham PD Fires Cops Charged In Alleged Bar Brawl
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DURHAM, N.C. -- Two Durham police officers charged with assaulting a man outside a Raleigh sports bar in July have been fired, Durham Police Chief Steve Chalmers said at a news conference Thursday afternoon.

The termination of Gary P. Lee and Scott C. Tanner was the result of a nearly two-month-long internal investigation into allegations that they assaulted Rene Dennis Thomas, a 29-year-old cook at Blinco's Sports Restaurant & Bar on Glenwood Avenue.

Chalmers said Thursday that the two officers made a terrible mistake. He described them as good officers, but said that having them remain on the police force would only erode the public's confidence in the department.

CT: Ourview: Gun safety merits hearing at state level
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Montville Mayor Joseph Jaskiewicz did what he could and got nowhere. Then he tried again -- with the same result. Since Montville cannot get a firearms safety ordinance onto the books, the state should take the initiative. State Rep. Kevin Ryan, D-Montville, intends to do exactly that. Ryan wants to assemble "the stakeholders" -- police, public safety officials, sportsmen's groups and members of the National Rifle Association -- and discuss a law that would outlaw the discharge of firearms within 500 feet of a building housing people, pets or livestock.

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A. Barton Hinkle on similarities between some of the arguments concerning ethnic profiling and those concerning gun control. Do opponents of profiling realize how much they have in common with opponents of gun control, and vice versa? Richmond, VA Times Dispatch

Apparently, New York used to have some decent politicians....
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THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES....

"...There are many things that the majority and Government cannot do....no laws can be made respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right to assemble and petition Government for a redress of grievances. THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS CANNOT BE INFRINGED; the right to be secure in their persons and houses against unreasonable searches and seizures cannot be violated. No person can be held to answer for capital or other infamous crimes, unless upon indictment of a grand-jury, etc...."

Horatio Seymour.

(Governor of New York State from 1853-1854 and from 1863-1864)

NY: Vintage guns a big draw
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Larry Loveland hopes to get $1 million for an antique revolver involved in a patent lawsuit. But he'll settle for $475, he quipped. "It's a beautiful little 1865-vintage revolver that was involved in a patent suit with Smith & Wesson because it was a copy of their model No. 1," he said. "This was made by American Standard Tool Co." The revolver is just one of the pieces he plans to bring to this weekend's New York State Arms Collectors Association's Gun Show and Sale, at the state fairgrounds in Geddes. Loveland, of Warren Center, Pa., is one of the directors of the show.

In The United States, There Is No Such Thing As An Illegal Gun
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I think we need to get on this.

Think about it for a minute. Guns in America are a civil right. Stopping guns everywhere makes about as much moral sense as punishing the Los Angeles Times just because some people defame others, falsely advertise, commit mail fraud or lie under oath.

Is the Second Amendment absolute? Yes, whereas the First Amendment is not absolute. Who would benefit and who would lose if citizens carried handguns a lot, lot more than they do? Citizens would gain, criminals would lose, and demagogic officials would lose.

Canada: We need means of self-protection
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Another pointless horror visited upon innocents. We fancy ourselves civilized and safe, but we live in a violent and unpredictable world. We cannot control madmen. We cannot predict mayhem. The only rational solution is to allow ourselves the right and means for self-protection. Sadly, successive governments have seen fit to allow us the "dignity" of being a helpless victim by banning self-defence as a right in Canada.

WI: Boys Plotted to Attack School with Guns, Bombs and Napalm, Say Police
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Two 17-year-old boys suspected of plotting an attack at East High School made their first court appearances Friday afternoon. Green Bay police say Shawn Sturtz and William Cornell were planning to use bombs and other weapons on East High School.

The boys had spent months collecting the materials for an attack, investigators say. It was two days ago, after a girl broke off her Internet relationship with Sturtz, that he started talking about attacking their high school.