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UK: More calls for tighter air gun controls
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"Borough councillors in Nuneaton and Bedworth are being urged to back calls for stricter controls on the sale and use of air rifles and air guns."
"They are asked to support a campaign launched by Gateshead Council, which is urging the government to introduce a formal licensing scheme."
"Gateshead wants to ensure that only responsible adults are able to buy the weapons - and to increase the age limit for those who use the weapons from 14 to 18." |
IA: Council's gun ban prompts legal scrutiny
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"The National Rifle Association has set its sights on the new city ordinance banning guns in municipal buildings, but the city attorney believes the ban is legally bulletproof."
"The City Council adopted the ordinance Monday declaring any structure 'owned, leased or otherwise occupied by the city' to be a firearm– and weapon–free zone." |
DC: Mayor says cameras will make city money
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"D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams yesterday said he wants to expand the use of traffic cameras because the city needs the money."
" 'The cameras are about safety and revenue, and the way not to pay that tax is to not be speeding,' Mr. Williams said."
"The mayor's comments were a change from earlier this year, when Mr. Williams told a radio audience in February that the purpose of the traffic cameras was to 'calm' dangerous streets — not generate revenue for the city." |
PA: Erie police chief accused of breaking teen's nose
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"A teenager has filed a criminal complaint that accuses Erie's police chief of breaking his nose after the boy sprayed him in the eye with a squirt gun."
"Chief Charles Bowers has maintained that he didn't strike the boy, who was 17 at the time."
"According to the complaint, Bowers allegedly punched John D. Wilson II, now 18, and threw the teen onto the roof of a vehicle after Wilson squirted water in the chief's face." |
CA: "Bill Toughens Gun Dealer Laws"
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"In another victory for gun violence victims, the California Assembly recently passed AB 2080 (Steinberg), the Gun Trafficking Prevention Act. On a vote of 48-29, the Assembly approved Senate amendments and sent the measure to Governor Davis for signature."
"The Gun Trafficking Prevention Act allows police to improve efforts to block the trafficking of illegal firearms." |
VA: 'Packing' for trip just invites trouble
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- More gun bigotry from Jim Spencer
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"My God, I said, as I walked in the room, what are you doing?"
" 'Packing,' he said."
"What the heck has gotten into you?"
"The same thing that's gotten into Gov. Mark Warner and Attorney General Jerry Kilgore."
" 'You obviously aren't paying attention,' Homeboy said. 'Not that that surprises me. The governor and the attorney general both agree with the gun lobby that the people of Virginia should be able to carry concealed weapons in state parks." |
MD: Gun control advocates object as Ehrlich backs bill on lawsuits (redux)
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"Gun control advocates criticized Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. anew yesterday for his support of a bill that would give sweeping legal immunity to the gun industry."
"The bill, backed by the National Rifle Association, would bar certain kinds of lawsuits against gun dealers, manufacturers and trade associations. Ehrlich, a Republican running for governor, voted in favor of the measure yesterday as it passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee." |
WI: Proposed concealed carry bill shot down but still alive
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"The Wisconsin Concealed Carry Association is using political donations to help reintroduce the Personal Protection Act, commonly known as the 'conceal and carry' law, to the state legislature."
"Dick Baker, treasurer of the Wisconsin Concealed Carry Association, said the group is giving donations to legislative candidates who are in support of a bill introduced last year by Sen. Dave Zien, R-Wheaton." |
Australia: Prime Minister's bodyguard negligently fires pistol in airport
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"PRIME Minister John Howard arrived back in the Australia with a bang yesterday when one of his security guards accidentally fired a gun at Sydney Airport."
"No one was injured when the Australian Federal Police officer, who had accompanied Mr Howard on his trip to London, fired the gun into a bag while it was being cleared by Customs." |
MD: Wrong man beaten by deputies (another report)
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"A man eating lunch at a public market was beaten and stunned by deputies who mistook the man for a bank robber, and then left him injured without calling for medical help, according to a complaint filed with the sheriff's department."
"Rolando Sanchez, 26, said he was taking a lunch break at the market Sept. 18 when the deputies attacked and humiliated him. Five deputies have been suspended with pay while an investigation of the complaint is conducted, the sheriff's department said." |
TX: Not easy to make arrests disappear
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"UNARRESTING SOMEONE might sound easy, but it's really almost as hard as unshooting a gun."
"ACLU attorney Randall Kallinen represents several of the victims of those police raids outside Kmart and Sonic Drive-In and James Coney Island. He said that getting your name cleared of an arrest that should not have occurred in the first place is time consuming, expensive, and may not be 100 percent effective."
"These things can take several years," he said.
--- Exactly what the bullies want |
UK: More than 100 mps back the gun cause
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"OUR campaign to take airguns out of the hands of yobs who maim, blind and kill victims has won support from more than 100 Members of Parliament."
"Politicians have pledged to support the principles of our Gun Law campaign, in letters they have sent to the mums of two of the city's latest airgun victims." |
NE: Nebraska Bank Victims Were Slain Execution Style
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This happened -- in case you have missed it -- in a state where concealed carry by lawful, peaceable citizens is illegal and where concealed carry reforms have been thwarted by people who apparently like having their neighbors easy to murder.
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"Five people killed during the deadliest bank robbery in Nebraska history were shot execution style within 40 seconds of when three bandits entered the building, a police investigator said on Friday."
"But Norfolk Police Capt. Steve Hecker said the reason for the violence was unknown and that one of the bandits, Erick Vela, simply told him that despite weeks of planning the crime 'It went to hell in the bank.' " |
WA: Taxman Cometh to Tax Your Coffee
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"A cuppa joe could cost a dime more next fall in Seattle, when a proposed ten-cent espresso tax will be put on the ballot. In perhaps one of the strangest tax proposals ever seen in Seattle, backers are proposing the coffee tax to raise money to improve and expand the city's daycare programs."
"Seattle's City Council voted 7 to 1 Thursday to put Initiative 77 on the municipal ballot with statewide primary elections on Sept. 16, 2003." |
TX: Kmart raid could prove very costly
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"The mass arrests of nearly 300 people during two westside police raids last month could cost Houston taxpayers millions of dollars in legal damages, not to mention the cost to the Houston Police Department in terms of public trust, legal experts said Thursday."
"National civil rights leaders say the financial cost to taxpayers is only one repercussion of last month's arrests. An even higher cost may come in growing public distrust of law enforcement." |
TX: Keep your options open
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"Open chokes and inexpensive, low-brass shotshells rule the dove hunting roost."
"At least that's what conventional wisdom dictates."
"Not all dove hunts are conventional. One just outside Uvalde on Monday morning certainly wasn't. Same goes for one Tuesday afternoon outside Batesville." |
UK: 'Faulty' rifle passes desert tests
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"The Army is to keep the controversial SA80 A2 assault rifle after it passed 'intensive' tests in the desert."
"A top military commander told a news conference at the Ministry of Defence in central London on Friday the rifle - a UK forces' standard weapon - was 'highly reliable' ".
"Trials were carried out in Oman after Royal Marines in Afghanistan claimed the new rifle jammed in action on three occasions - despite a £92m upgrade." |
The Myth of GOP Conservatism
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"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."
---Thomas Jefferson
"While the average American was lazing around, stuffing his face with potato chips, and watching 'Big Brother' on TV, the Federal Government became Big Brother in real life. Sadly, it requires effort---like reading and thinking---to see that our liberties are being threatened from within; this is apparently beyond the scope of most modern Americans."
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"Ashcroft’s call to arms"
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MSNBC's "Slate" Senior Editor, Dahlia Lithwick, takes numerous shots at John Ashcroft and the truth about the meaning of the Second Amendment.
Detailed hit piece, with several distortions and a few outright false assertions.
Other than that, it's a great article. |
FBI Denies Foreknowledge of 9/11
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"The FBI has found no one in the United States who had foreknowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks other than the 19 hijackers, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told Congress."
" 'While here, the hijackers effectively operated without suspicion, triggering nothing that alerted law enforcement and doing nothing that exposed them to domestic coverage,' according to a declassified copy of written testimony Mueller gave in June to the congressional inquiry into the attacks." |
Anti-gun nonsense
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"The idea of suing gun manufacturers for the criminal misuse of their lawfully manufactured products by third parties over whom they have no control is an obviously ridiculous misapplication of the law."
"Mr. Ehrlich [R-MD] voted in favor of H.R. 2037, which, among other things, would limit the vulnerability of firearms manufacturers to civil lawsuits."
"Maryland's Democrats and gun-control advocates denounced Mr. Ehrlich for being a conservative and for backing the 'gun industry protection act'."
"Both the car and the gun have the potential to be misused. But neither are inherently dangerous — and any unlawful use to which they are put by their owners is certainly something neither the automaker nor the gun manufacturer can control. To suggest otherwise is a distortion of cause and effect, which would open the door to potentially limitless lawsuits affecting just about any consumer good one could think of." |
Stop, Or My GI Joe Will Shoot!
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"Owing to recent international events, airports around the world have tightened security, making sure planes and passengers are safe from terrorists and hijackers. As a result, many people have been caught carrying things they shouldn't onto the plane."
"I was flying out of Chicago last November, the same day they caught a Nepalese man trying to sneak seven knives, a stun gun, and pepper spray onto a United Airlines flight. They found these during a random baggage search after security personnel confiscated two other knives from the man a few minutes earlier." ... |
NE: Nebraska Trooper Commits Suicide After Failing to Nab Future Murderer
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"A state trooper committed suicide Friday, apparently upset because he botched a background check involving a man who one week later allegedly killed five people in a bank robbery, authorities said."
"Mark Zach, 35, shot himself with his service revolver just outside Norfolk, the site of Thursday's deadly heist."
"Zach had stopped one of the four robbery suspects last week and ticketed him for carrying a concealed weapon, Gov. Mike Johanns said."
"However, Zach transposed two digits when entering the gun's serial number into a police computer — a mistake that kept him from learning the weapon had been stolen, Johanns said." |
NJ: Killer cop was treated by drug-addicted psychiatrist
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"A Toms River psychiatrist was high on drugs when she treated Seaside Heights Patrolman Edward L. Lutes several months before the SWAT team member went on a shooting rampage that left five neighbors dead, according to the doctor's former office manager and romantic partner."
"Dr. Debbie L. Miller checked herself into a private drug rehabilitation center in December and surrendered her medical license in February after a relapse into prescription drug abuse, according to the state Board of Medical Examiners. The board has known about Miller's substance-abuse problems since 1997 but allowed her to practice, according to board records."
"On the night of April 9, Lutes killed his Dover neighbors with his SWAT-issued automatic weapon, then shot himself fatally in the head with a pistol after attempting to kill his police chief." |
IL: Housing Authority director returns to work after 'obstructing justice' felony conviction
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"The head of the Champaign County Housing Authority issued a statement Thursday saying he had used 'bad judgment' when he was 'not completely honest' with Champaign police three months ago."
"Housing authority Executive Director Elawrence Davis also thanked the housing authority board for allowing him to return to work this Monday after a three-month leave of absence."
"The housing authority board voted unanimously Wednesday to allow Davis to end his leave of absence and return to work Monday. The decision came after Davis pleaded guilty Sept. 9 to the felony charge of obstructing justice. He was sentenced to two years of conditional discharge."
"Davis was arrested June 22 in Champaign. He pleaded guilty to obstructing the efforts of Champaign police to investigate a man with a gun complaint by telling police he owned a shotgun but failing to mention that he possessed a .38-caliber handgun."
"At the time of his arrest, Champaign police issued a news release saying an unmarried couple had flagged down a Parkland College police officer and said they had been threatened by a man with a gun. Davis was arrested in connection with the incident." |
CT: FBI takes guns, ammo at house
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"Federal agents seized weapons and ammunition Wednesday afternoon at a house on Celentano Drive, 11 days after law enforcement officials charged its owner with federal weapons violations."
"Harry N. Zarkos Jr., 42, of 65 Celentano Drive, is charged with possession of two sawed-off shotguns. His lawyer, William S. Palmieri of New Haven, declined to comment except to say, 'Mr. Zarkos is not guilty,' and that he entered a plea of innocent."
"Federal agents arrested Zarkos the night of Sept. 14 after they found two sawed-off shotguns during a search of the house, officials said."
"FBI agents, assisted by the U.S. Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and state police, executed a search warrant after a day-long stakeout."
"Federal agents returned to the house Wednesday evening. According to neighbors' accounts, the agents seized military-style ammunition cases and belts, several more firearms, a flak jacket and more than a dozen heavy wooden boxes." ...
[Just imagine what could happen if "more than a dozen heavy wooden boxes" made it out to the streets.] |
TX: Parents appeal school suspension for Leatherman tool
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"The parents of a sixth-grader suspended for three days and assigned for six weeks to the Grapevine-Colleyville school district's alternative campus are appealing the punishment, calling it an example of zero tolerance taken too far."
"Harrison Arth's Leatherman multipurpose tool -- which opens like a butterfly knife and has a 2.75-inch knife in the handle -- fell out of his backpack around 3:15 p.m. Wednesday at Colleyville Middle School. The 12-year-old said he had forgotten to remove it from his backpack after a Labor Day fishing trip to Lake Whitney with his grandfather. He used the knife to descale fish."
" "We want them to take a look at each case individually,' Claudia Arth said. 'Look at these children as an individual, not as 'You are locker No. 9.' "
"More parents are speaking out against the blanket approach of zero tolerance..." |
The 'ideal' grouse gun? A matter of fit and choice
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"Want to start a fight in grouse camp? Just ask a couple of rabid grouse hunters to name the ideal grouse gun. Most brush-worn uplanders have experimented with several guns over the years, seeking the perfect piece. Some settle on one and use it for decades." |
Bulgaria: Ex-members of elite anti-terrorist unit accused of being mafia hit men
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"More arrests are expected in a continuing crackdown on organised crime, in which more than 1,000 people - including ex-members of Bulgaria's elite anti-terrorist Barrets unit - have so far been detained, according to IWPR sources."
"Significantly, justice officials are to investigate the Barrets unit, six former members of which were rounded up at the end of August on suspicion of working as mafia hitmen."
"The arrests were part of a huge police dragnet - the biggest law enforcement operation seen in Bulgaria since the fall of communism - launched after a wave of gangland shootouts in Sofia."
"The battles appear to have been the result of a major turf war between Bulgaria's drug gangs, keen to take advantage of a growth in heroin trafficking following the rise in opium production in Afghanistan this year." |
UK: Police officer calls slow response time of department "an absolute disgrace"
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ORIGINAL TITLE: "Officer Lashes Guns Policy As 'Disgrace' "
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"A senior officer has launched a savage attack on his own force's firearms policy after police took nearly an hour to arrive at a packed city centre pub where a man had opened fire with a shotgun."
"Regulars at the Prince Arthur made desperate 999 calls after a man burst into the pub on Wednesday night wielding a shotgun and terrorised customers before leaving and blasting away outside. It was 45 minutes before police arrived on the scene."
"Arthur Street residents last night begged police to act over drug-dealing in the area."
"The officer, who asked not to be named, branded the delay 'an absolute disgrace, predicting that sooner or later someone would bleed to death because of Gloucestershire Constabulary's policy."
The officer's tongue-lashing includes:"Our firearms response is ridiculously slow - we simply do not attend quickly enough," he said. This wasn't the case here 10 years ago and it wouldn't happen in the Met.
"You have a situation where a member of the public is calling for help and, when firearms are involved, it can take two hours to attend.
"We have to have tactical weapons advice and various procedures before we are allowed to respond.
"I realise officer's safety is important but personal risk is part of the job and the safety of the public is paramount." |
TX: Former sheriff's deputy, private investigator jailed on 3 felonies
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"A former Smith County sheriff's deputy working as a private investigator has been arrested on three felony charges."
"David Beddingfield, once a member of a task force that investigated major crimes across East Texas, surrendered at the county jail Thursday after a grand jury returned three indictments charging him with execution of an arrest warrant."
"If convicted of the state jail felony, Beddingfield faces up to two years' imprisonment on each count."
"Assistant District Attorney Brett Harrison said the charge 'deals with what private investigators can and can't do while working for bondsmen.' " |
CT: Bridgeport police captain's son nabbed on drug, weapons charges
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"A city police captain's son has been arrested for allegedly running a drug factory in his home."
"Aaron M. Kearney, 32, was arrested during a Wednesday night raid of his East Side home by a Bridgeport and State Police task force. Police said three guns and heroin were found in the home."
"Assistant State's Attorney Craig Nowak said Kearney was nabbed under the federal/state Project Safe Neighborhoods Program."
"At the time of his arrest, Kearney was free on bond while awaiting sentencing for a conviction on charges of criminal possession of a firearm."
"As a result of the raid, he is charged with three counts of criminal possession of a firearm and one count each of operation of a drug factory, sale of illegal drugs and possession of a controlled substance within 1,500 feet of a school."
"Nowak recommended that Kearney the son of Capt. Nelson Kearney be held in lieu of $1 million bond because of the seriousness of the charges."
"Judge David Gold, however, set bond at $500,000 and continued the case to Oct. 24."
"Police said they raided Kearney's Bunnell Street apartment after learning he had guns and drugs there."
"They busted down the door to find Kearney in bed with his girlfriend." ... |
CA: "California Holds Gun Makers to Higher Standard" - Responsible, Lawful Firearm Industry Targeted
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"California Governor Gray Davis signed recently enacted legislation making lawful manufacturers more vulnerable to lawsuits when their non-defective products are criminally misused. The move opens the door to politically motivated nuisance lawsuits designed to financially cripple an industry with a long-standing and genuine commitment to further reducing accidents and to working cooperatively with law enforcement in its efforts to combat the criminal and accidental misuse of firearms." |
"Support For Gun Control A Winning Position In Key Primary Races, New Report Shows"
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"Gun violence issues played a key role in influencing several of this year's most hotly contested primary elections, according to a new report issued today by the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. The nalysis [sic] identified trends in the 2002 primary season, some of which continue from the 2000 elections. They include:"
"Gun control remains popular among voters, particularly in suburban areas"
"Candidates who actively seek the NRA's endorsement and assistance do so at their own peril" |
CA: Clerk shoots at robbers, leading to three incarcerated bad guys
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"Police arrested three armed robbery suspects Thursday after a store clerk opened fire on them, Police Det. Al Parra said."
"Three robbers entered Andy's Market, 1245 N. Grove Ave., at 12:40 p.m. and at least two of them brandished handguns, Parra said. The robbers began to take cash and property from the store, but were interrupted when the store clerk armed himself and opened fire, Parra said." |
UK: Shocked mum urges ban on (BB) gun sales
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"A FORRES mother has said she was astonished to learn her son had legally bought a gun within days of celebrating his 14th birthday."
"The woman claimed her son bought the air pistol, which fires plastic pellets – more commonly known as a 'BB gun' – from the Tackle Shop in Forres, without her knowledge." |
VA: Concealed guns allowed in Va. parks (redux)
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"Gov. Mark R. Warner has decided to allow concealed weapons in state parks."
"Following the advice of state Attorney General Jerry Kilgore, the governor overturned a decades-old regulation that barred gun owners with permits from carrying concealed handguns in Virginia's 34 state-owned parks."
" 'This is a big win for gun owners,' said Philip Van Cleave, the president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League."
"The battle now shifts to municipal parks."
"Van Cleave's group is challenging ordinances in several localities throughout the state, including Hampton and Isle of Wight County." |
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