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NRA Endorses Connecticut Candidates
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The National Rifle Association's political arm has released a list of endorsements in Connecticut legislative races, backing 44 Republicans and one Democrat. In the state Senate, where Republicans are hoping to flip four seats to take control of a legislative chamber for the first time in more than 20 years, the NRA endorsed seven GOP incumbents and four Republican challengers or party members vying for open seats.
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TX: Gun Supporters Protest Pi Pizza in the Heights After Restaurant Bans Guns In Restaurant
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Monday’s mass shooting has many Houstonians on edge. Carrying a gun is what makes many folks feel safe, but don’t try that at Pi Pizza in the Heights. They serve alcohol, so the restaurant bans guns. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that booze and Berettas can be a bad mix. This gun ban angered one potential customer who took to Facebook posting, “Any business that removes my right to defend myself is a business that doesn’t want my money.”
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Rifles: 99 Percent of The Gun Control Debate, 2 Percent of Murders
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While most of the gun control debate focuses on the debate over banning assault weapons, data from the FBI show such weapons are involved in only a tiny portion of the nation's murders. Although "assault weapon" has no formal definition, most guns that would be thought of as assault weapons are types of rifles. Yet FBI data show that, in 2015, rifles were the weapon used in less than 2 percent of all murders.
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East Wheeling Shooting: Self-Defense or Murder?
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Several hours of police testimony and surveillance video from the scene were all a part of Day 2 in a murder trial for Dallas Acoff on Tuesday in Ohio County. The defense claims the East Wheeling shootout was self-defense for the defendant, but prosecutors disagree. They’re trying to establish that Acoff, in fact, was not threatened, and they insinuated he could have left the Legion bar at any time. |
More Guns, More Fear
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The Missouri Legislature this month voted to override Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of a sweeping gun rights bill, including an expansion in Missouri’s self-defense statute. How the change in the statute will be interpreted by judges and juries is still an open question. But the overall message it sends about criminal justice in Missouri might be more troubling. |
Man Shot By Cops in Charlotte Bought Gun From Burglar: Report
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The man shot dead by cops in Charlotte was in possession of a gun he had bought from a burglar who stole it during a residential burglary, according to a report. The burglar admitted he sold the gun to Keith Lamont Scott, 43, who was shot Sept. 20 by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg cop when officers noticed him with marijuana while they were serving a warrant on someone, sources told WBTV. Authorities have not released information about the alleged burglar. |
NRA Endorses in North Carolina General Election
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Today, the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) announced its endorsement of several candidates for statewide offices in North Carolina this November. They are Dan Forest for lieutenant governor; Buck Newton for attorney general; and Dale Folwell for state treasurer. These follow NRA-PVF’s recent endorsement of Pat McCrory for a second term as governor. |
TN: UT Professor Issues Apology For Tweet; No Disciplinary Action To Be Taken
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The University of Tennessee says it will take no disciplinary action against the law professor who came under fire last week for a tweet during the deadly protests in Charlotte. Dean Melanie Wilson says Professor Glenn Reynolds issued an apology to the law school community. Wilson says Reynolds was exercising his first amendment rights, even though the tweet offended many people. |
State Trooper Indicted In Chase Suspect Assault in NH
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A Massachusetts State Police trooper accused of violently beating a police chase suspect in New Hampshire earlier this year has been indicted.
Trooper Joseph Flynn, 32, has been indicted on simple assault charges for his role in the May 11 arrest of Richard Simone, of Worcester.
During the arrest, Simone was seen on news helicopter video apparently kneeling on the ground before troopers from Massachusetts and New Hampshire ran up and started to beat him.
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MT: Missoula City Council Passes Gun Ordinance
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The proposed ordinance requiring background checks for private transfers of guns was passed on an 8-to-4 vote by the Missoula City Council on Monday night. Monday night’s public hearing about the ordinance opened the door to nearly 80 people who filled the Missoula City Council Chambers. The ordinance will come into effect in 30 days, after spending nearly a year in committee. |
KY: Attorneys- Put in Metal Detectors To Prevent Guns At Public Schools
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Four Louisville attorneys have sent a letter to Jefferson County Public Schools asking that metal detectors be added to entrances at middle and high schools. Media report that the letter to JCPS Superintendent Donna Hargens expresses concerns about the “continuing danger of gun violence” and says that guns have been found in the last five weeks at Atherton, Iroquois and Western high schools and Noe Middle School.
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VA: Wise County Receives Grant For New Protective Order Law
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Wise County will receive a state grant that will assist the locality with a new Virginia law that strips those charged in domestic violence cases of their guns. Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Monday that $28,045 will be issued to the Sheriff's Office to help prepare their offices to store those weapons. The new law says that individuals who are subject to final Family Abuse Protective Orders are prohibited from possessing firearms and must surrender those guns within 24 hours of being charged or face a Class 6 felony. |
CA: How Gavin Newsom’s Family Tragedy Led To Ammo-Control Initiative
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The November ballot measure aimed at clamping down on the sale of bullets in California can trace its genesis to one grisly death 43 years ago at a dining room table in Mill Valley. That table is where Gavin Newsom’s grandfather shot himself to death in front of the future lieutenant governor’s mother and aunt. Arthur Menzies had endured the Bataan Death March as a World War II prisoner, and apparently was never able to shed the anguish.
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IN: Janurary Likely Opening Date For New Firing Range
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Renovations and expansion continue for a gun shop and indoor shooting range at the former Furniture Gallery building on the city’s south side. Steve Ellis of Top Guns said he expects to have the new facility opened in early 2017, though he wouldn’t mind an early finish to the project in time for Black Friday shopping this year. “It will be a draw for people from all over the Midwest, all over the United States,” Ellis said Monday as he watched work going on inside the former furniture store.
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Trump, Clinton Clash Over How to Solve Chicago’s Gun Violence in First Debate
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As Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump faced off for the first time Monday night, Chicago’s extraordinary gun violence became a hot topic of the debate, however, the presidential candidates clashed on how to solve the crisis. Comparing Chicago to a “war-torn country,” Republican candidate Donald Trump repeated his refrain for a return of “law and order,” pushing the stop-and-frisk tactic that New York City police officers used until it was ruled unconstitutional in 2013. |
How A Pro-NRA Bill Could Stall Pittsburgh’s Efforts To Stop Gun Violence
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A subtle breeze and pristine blue sky set a peaceful scene in the Hill District Thursday morning, so the immediate thought might not be on the dozens of young men killed in the span of only a few blocks. It’s almost always guns. Often stolen, or obtained through a straw purchase, then used against a teenager or young adult. In this neighborhood, in Homewood, Larimer, East Liberty, and across the Allegheny and Monongahela in areas where bursts of gunfire – and stolen weapons – are not rare. |
It’s Not A Carry Gun If You Don’t Carry It
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This month, I was going to write about pocket pistols, but I got totally distracted looking for a quote I needed. While looking for it, I stumbled into an online-forum discussion that had a couple quotes that caused me to completely change my subject. A fellow forum member, who worked in a gun store, related the tale of a police officer acquaintance of his who was shopping for a shotgun so as to have something to “keep in the garage so he’d have a gun nearby while he was mowing the lawn.” When the forum member asked him why he didn’t just carry a gun while doing yard work, the officer looked at him like he was crazy.
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IN: Leaders on Both Sides of Gun Control Issue Square Off
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Prominent advocates on both sides of the gun-rights divide have faced off on law and policy in an Indy Bar Association debate. Second Amendment attorney and talk show host Guy Relford concedes Supreme Court rulings open the door to some restrictions on guns, though he questions the Court's legal rationale. But limiting a constitutional right is still a high legal bar, and he argues the proposed restrictions wouldn't accomplish anything. He says a limit on high-capacity magazines was part of the 10-year assault-weapons ban which expired in 2004, and studies found no noticeable difference in crime rates.
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Active Shooter
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One day last week the prime minister of New Zealand, John Key, came by for a visit with the Chronicle editorial board. A member of New Zealand's center-right National Party, he's been prime minister since 2008 and dropped by to discuss trade, tourism and the new Houston-to-Aukland nonstop flight that has contributed to a 20 percent increase in tourism from the United States.
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Maryland Weighing Ban on Spear Hunting, New Air Gun Regulations
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The Associated Press reports that the ban on spears would be achieved via “regulatory language stating that only the weapons listed in the regulations may be used for deer and black bear hunting.” The language would clarify that the allowable “weapons are bows and firearms, including a powerful new type of air gun that shoots full-sized arrows.” |
Care Center Residents Enjoy Day At Gun Club
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The Cuyuna Regional Medical Center’s care center and the Wealthwood Gun Club hosted the fourth annual Seniors Shoot event Sept. 1. This event brings together former hunters and shooters from the care center. Ali Meyer, director of social services and activities, AP-AC, ADC for the CRMC care center and her staff members Mary and Kary, who transport care center residents, work with Wealthwood members to plan and arrange the event. |
Two Words Democrats Can’t Put Together in Debates
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Monday night’s presidential debate and Washington State’s gubernatorial debate underscored a serious problem that Democrats cannot seem to overcome.
They can’t put the words “gun” and “control” together in the same sentence. Instead, it’s “gun safety.” Both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Gov. Jay Inslee used that term, created by the gun prohibition lobby to mask what is really being discussed. |
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