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"...the White House recommended giving pilots lockboxes for the weapons so they won't be left in the cockpit. It also said only pilots who volunteer to carry weapons and receive extensive training should be armed."
"Al Aitken, a pilot speaking for the 14,500-member union representing American Airlines pilots, which supports arming pilots, said the 87-6 vote meant the Senate recognized that all the security layers the administration is putting into place are still inadequate." |
Korea: Voices in his head drive S Korean to slash 10 children
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Maybe Sarah Brady can fly over there and take advantage of yet another tragedy in a gun-free society by promoting knife control.
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"A knife-wielding man claiming he was driven by voices urging him to kill slashed 10 young children yesterday in a church school cafeteria in the South Korean capital, police said."
" 'A deranged man rushed into the church cafeteria and slashed nine children who were having lunch,' the detective in charge of the case said by telephone. 'Some of the kids are seriously injured.' "
"The man picked up two kitchen knives from the table and began attacking the children, aged four to seven, witnesses told police."
"One child was in a critical condition with a stab wound in the head, said police Lieutenant Kim Sa-yeon."
"The man, whom police identified only by his last name Hwang, told authorities that he heard voices on Tuesday night telling him that he would be killed unless he killed many people."
" 'He said he was haunted by somebody else who tried to kill him. We are investigating him now,' a police officer said."
SOLUTION
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Secret Service Agent who threatened to shoot hotel manager charged with misdemeanor
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"More than seven months after a drunken Provo party on the eve of the 2002 Olympics involving U.S. Secret Service agents and several college women who were too young to drink legally, a single misdemeanor charge has been filed against only one of the agents."
"The three men, part of a massive Olympic security detail, were sent home and given desk jobs immediately after the boisterous Feb. 1 revelry inside a Provo motel room, during which one of the off-duty agents allegedly threatened to shoot a motel manager."
" 'I asked him not to push me, and he told me that he could because he was a federal agent,' Clements said. Later the agent allegedly told Clements that if he complained again, 'he would throw me to the ground, put his gun to my head, and I would be sorry.' " |
MT: 'Gun scare' shuts down Fort Benton schools
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"News of a burglary allegedly committed by two teens in which a large amount of guns and ammunition were taken prompted Fort Benton officials to close the town's two schools today."
"Although no specific threat against either school was made, the Fort Benton boy already had conflicts with other students in his first few days at a new school, Skogen said."
"He declined to name either boy or give their ages or grade levels."
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Foreign Airlines Criticize American Plan to Arm Pilots
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"Foreign-owned airlines, noting that many countries don't allow handguns, criticized a U.S. plan to let commercial airline pilots carry weapons in the cockpit."
"The International Air Transport Association, which represents U.S. and foreign-owned airlines, opposes arming flight crews with lethal weapons."
" 'What's going to happen when you land in a country that doesn't allow guns?' asked Wanda Warner, the association's spokeswoman. 'How is this going to work when American Airlines lands in London or United lands in Rome?' "
"Pilots and aviation officials in Sweden, Norway and Denmark dismissed the idea, saying suspected terrorists should be stopped before they get on the plane."
OK, THEN...
Would these anti-rights politicos rather we let domestic U.S. pilots carry firearms, but require international pilots to be defenseless? If so, simple logic suggests that the international flights will be the softest targets. Is that what these people want? |
MD: Murder-suicide attempt by car claims life of 9-year-old girl
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But according to some lie-spreading hoplophobes, outlawing guns will lower the suicide rate!
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TOWSON, Md. (AP) -- "A woman charged with deliberately driving her car into a tree, killing her 9-year-old daughter, had tried three times to commit murder-suicide, according to court documents."
"Before Monday's accident, Lisa A. Dieter had attempted to kill herself and her only child by starting gas explosions at her home in Parkville, the documents said."
" 'I was trying to kill all three of us,' Dieter told police, referring to herself, her daughter and the family dog, which was also in the car." |
UK: Store boss hacked to death with sword
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"A conscientious sports store manager was hacked to death in his own shop with a samurai sword after being betrayed by a fellow employee, the Old Bailey heard today."
"Two masked men burst in just as he was closing up, acting on information provided by their getaway driver, the court heard."
"Had it not been for his sense of duty the victim would not have been at work as he had felt ill and came in due to staff shortages."
"For £4,000 in cash and £4,000 in store vouchers the raiders left assistant manager Carlton Maxwell-Clarke bleeding to death."
"At least one of the raiders was 'elated' and 'happy and laughing at what they had done,' the court heard."
THEIR MENTALITY...
Thank goodness the store manager didn't have a handgun to protect himself -- someone could've gotten hurt. |
NH: Groups urge gun safety to protect children
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"New Hampshire gun safety groups are urging parents to make gun safety as much a part of their family back-to-school warnings as refusing candy from strangers."
" 'We teach them stranger danger, we teach them bus safety, we teach them looking both ways before you cross the street, but what we don't usually teach them is the danger of firearms,' said Laurel Redden, coordinator of the New Hampshire Chapter of the Million Mom March." |
AZ: North Side homeowner shoots, injures burglar
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"A man shot and critically injured a burglar after discovering the intruder in his North Side home early Thursday, police said."
"The man woke up around 3 a.m. in his home in the 2700 block of North Orchard Avenue, near East Grant Road and North Columbus Boulevard, after hearing a noise. He then grabbed a gun and went into his kitchen, where he discovered a burglar holding a long screwdriver, said Tucson Police Officer Kathy Wendling." |
LA: Stay out of trouble or get away alive: Sheriff, police show how
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"If that advice is true of pepper spray, it sounded doubly true of firearms."
" 'If you pull it, be fully committed to the attack,' Web said. 'If you're not fully behind what you're doing. It can backfire...If you doubt that you can put a bullet into the chest of someone who's trying to hurt you, forget it.' " |
Animal rights activist mauled by grizzly is arrested
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"A man [animal rights activist] who was mauled by a grizzly bear near West Yellowstone Aug. 25 went from the hospital to an Idaho jail, where he is awaiting shipment to Ohio on multiple charges of failing to pay child support."
[Firearms are banned from National Parks -- unless you are a government employee.]
"The man identified himself as Jesshua Amun at the time of the mauling, but police in Butler County, Ohio, know him as Jeffrey Scheu, a jailer at the Bonneville County (Idaho) Jail said Thursday."
"A Bonneville County sheriff's deputy arrested Scheu, 36, at the hospital Tuesday after Ohio law enforcement officials contacted the sheriff's office."
"Scheu is wanted on six counts of failing to pay child support in Ohio."
"He and three other members of the Buffalo Field Campaign, a group that protests state and federal actions that harass or kill bison when they leave Yellowstone National Park, had been tracking a bull bison north of West Yellowstone that day when they surprised the bear."
"Scheu, who tried to run from the bear, suffered a badly mauled face and needed hundreds of stitches to close the wounds. His companions escaped unharmed." |
MI: Man released from jail; fatal shooting was in self-defense
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SODUS, MICHIGAN -- "A manslaughter charge was dismissed Thursday against a migrant worker who prosecutors now say shot and killed a 16-year-old boy in self-defense."
"Antonio Martinez, 35, Sydney, Fla., was cleared of voluntary manslaughter and felony possession of a fireman after prosecutors moved to dismiss charges before a scheduled preliminary hearing, said Berrien County Assistant Prosecutor Caryn Hebets."
"Martinez shot David B. Ruiz once in the face Aug. 25 at the Grajauskis farm at 4243 River Road in Sodus Township after a group of men, including Ruiz, attacked him, Hebets said." |
9/11 fears trigger interest in guns
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"Passions drove many people to buy guns after Sept. 11, but pragmatism lured even more to firing ranges to learn how to use them."
"...the gender mix is about 50-50..."
"We have a healthy business right now."
"Meanwhile, by popular demand, owners Blair and Willa Organ of Auto Extras Tint Solutions in Charlotte have added a line of blast-resistant window film to their array of tinting products..."
"He said handgun and shotgun sales were a big reason his business was up 20 percent for the year..."
" "These are people who have decided, 'I need a gun in the house.' Owning a firearm has gotten a little bit more politically correct," he said. " |
UK: Britain is put on high alert for lone terrorists
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"Lone terrorists who want to exploit the anniversary of the September 11 hijacks by attacking British targets are being seen as a significant potential threat, intelligence chiefs have warned."
"They fear that unknown bombers or gunmen unconnected to major terrorist groups may be planning to strike. Suicide bombers are also a potential threat." |
OR: Hunter receives 6-year sentence for death of hunting partner
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"A Medford hunter convicted of second-degree manslaughter was sentenced to six years and three months in prison for the shooting death of a hunting partner last November."
"Jackson County Circuit Judge Patricia Crain gave Ryan Leon Wilson, 41, the minimum sentence for second-degree manslaughter set out in Measure 11 sentencing guidelines."
"He also must spend three years under post-prison supervision and must pay $3,500 in criminal victim’s compensation to help cover funeral expenses of the man he killed, Donald Hauser, 34, of White City."
"Wilson and seven friends were hunting for blacktail deer near Butte Falls Nov. 4 when Wilson thought he heard and glimpsed a deer headed up a steep, forested hillside behind him and to his right."
"He called out to other hunters to determine their positions, and after two hunters shouted back, he fired his .338-caliber rifle without looking through the scope. Wilson testified during his trial last week that then he heard fellow hunter Hauser yell, 'You killed me.' "
"Wilson shouted for help, then dropped his rifle and fled into the woods. He was arrested at his home in Medford the next day and voluntarily spent time in a psychiatric ward before being indicted on manslaughter charges. A jury convicted him Aug. 28 at the conclusion of a two-day trial."
QUESTION:
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Is that the kind of "friend" this man wants to meet in prison? |
Switzerland: Man with iron bar injures 14 people in Switzerland
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"A young man armed with an iron bar went on the rampage in a village near Zurich Friday, injuring 14 people including a 3-year-old boy before being subdued on a bus."
"The man apparently asked somebody for information in Obfelden, then began lashing out at random at passing pedestrians and cyclists, police said."
"There was no immediate word on the assailant's motive or identity."
"The 3-year-old boy and a 69-year-old man were seriously hurt and were rushed to Zurich hospital by air ambulance, police said. Twelve other people were hospitalized."
"The assailant was arrested on a bus." |
CA: Just-convicted man lands back in court
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"A 19-year-old Twain Harte man, convicted Tuesday of threatening people in a road-rage incident seven months ago, was back in Tuolumne County Jail on Thursday as the suspect in a drive-by shooting."
"Andrew B. Tuchsen is charged with firing into an occupied dwelling, and more charges might be added, sheriff's spokesman Lt. John Steely said. Bail has been set at $200,000."
"Just two days before the shooting, Tuchsen pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of making criminal threats and reckless driving in connection with a February road-rage incident in Twain Harte."
"He had been driving behind a Twain Harte couple when he rear-ended their car, then got out and threatened to kill them, according to investigators."
"He was charged with two felonies of assault with a deadly weapon and making threats."
"In a plea bargain, he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of reckless driving and making threats."
"He was sentenced to 70 days in county jail and was to start serving his time in November."
IMBALANCE OF POWER
The California courts will put violent criminals back out on the street, but only a very small percentage of the lawful, peaceable citizens in the state are "allowed" to carry a firearm to defend themselves. |
GA: Home invasion turns deadly for bandit
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OTHER POSSIBLE TITLES FOR THIS STORY:1) Another Parasite Dispatched Efficiently by Armed Husband
2) Husband Improves Society with Two Shots from Handgun
3) One Less Predator Gets to Breed, Thanks to Armed Citizen Who Deserves Award "An armed intruder who forced his way into the apartment of a recently married Clayton County couple was killed when the husband picked up his own gun and shot the would-be robber twice, police said."
"The 24-year-old intruder, armed with a pistol, forced his way into the apartment of John Christian Peoples, 21, and his wife Laura, 24, on Mt.
Zion Road near Stockbridge, and ordered the couple to 'give it up!' said Clayton County police Lt. J.E. Turner." [And give it up he did.]
" 'The couple had answered a knock on the door, and the suspect forced them back into the living room. The husband was able to grab his own handgun from a table, and got off two rounds, hitting the assailant in the stomach,' Turner said. The couple was not injured." |
Fraternal Order of Police Whines for Cops-Only National Concealed Carry
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The Fraternal Order of Police is whimpering about how their National Cops-Only Concealed Carry Bill -- S.2480 -- isn't moving fast enough.
Steve Young, National President of the F.O.P., is upset that Senator Durbin (D-IL) isn't asking "how high" when he says jump. Says Young, "The National Fraternal Order of Police will be working with the more than 35,000 members of the Illinois State Lodge to persuade Mr. Durbin to be more sensitive to the public safety implications of
the legislation."
Sounds like a bit of a threat to me. 35,000 cops to "persuade," huh, Steve?
Unfortunately, Mr. Young's F.O.P. membership in Illinois is comprised of far too many police officers who oppose concealed carry in their own back yard. In other words, he's using anti-gunowner cops -- officers who throw gunowners in jail for carrying a firearm on their own streets and who oppose decriminalization of concealed carry so Illinois citizens can have a fighting chance against street rats -- to try to extend the EXEMPTION PRIVILEGES for the very same public "servants" who violate their oaths and abuse their own local people.
WHY GUN OWNERS SHOULD OPPOSE THIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL, ELITIST TRAVESTY:
For more information on the House version of this unconstitutional, elitist, police state legislation -- the text of which is the same, so it's just as WRONG -- visit:Special Exemptions for Cops?
Public Servants Seek Immunity from Gun Laws they Enforce;
Gun Rights Leaders Say "No Thanks!" To see a list of Gun Rights Leaders who oppose this type of "Cops Are Superhuman" legislation, click here.
To view a couple of cartoons showing what these "we deserve exemption from the laws we use to throw The People in jail" police officers are made of, click here.
To listen to what Fraternal Order of Police National President Steve Young sounds like to anyone who truly understands the dangers this legislation poses, click here.
And don't miss the report by Steven R. Nelson of the People's Rights Organization: The FOP Says, "It Is An Officer Safety Issue". Mr. Nelson takes F.O.P. President Steve Young out to the woodshed quite nicely. |
PA: Trooper committed 'criminal act'
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"Trooper Charles E. Cox Jr., 45, a 17-year state police veteran...has been suspended pending the outcome of the trial, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment."
"In his opening statement Thursday, Assistant District Attorney Jeff Conrad told the jury Cox had no right to shoot at the fleeing teen because no one's life, including the trooper's, was in danger."
" 'There is no evidence to justify Trooper Cox's actions,' Conrad said. 'What he (Cox) did was an absolute criminal act.' " |
WI: Wisconsin Diversifies
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"The University of Wisconsin has demonstrated that it is not inclined to celebrate diversity, practice tolerance, or remember its own history. But it is capable of feeling embarrassment."
"The Wisconsin football team plays the West Virginia Mountaineers on Saturday. Ever since 1936, West Virginia athletic teams have been accompanied by a student who is chosen as the 'Mountaineer.' " |
INS agents: Ashcroft's visa-check plan flawed
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"Immigration inspectors at the nation's international airports are not pleased with the way Attorney General John Ashcroft is implementing his much-anticipated plan to monitor Middle Eastern visitors to ensure they don't overstay their visas like three of the Sept. 11 hijackers." |
AK: Man sues over goods sold by DEA
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"A man convicted on drug charges in the 1980s is trying to force the Anchorage Police Department to return money, jewelry, a truck and other property seized in connection with his arrest."
"Federal and state laws allow the government to seize and, with court approval, keep money and property associated with drug profits. The process is called forfeiture."
"But Wilton Toney, 47, says Anchorage police and prosecutors illegally handed more than $200,000 in seized cash and property over to the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, which obtained court approval to dispose of the property, including $94,000 in cash, $119,000 in jewelry, and a Ram Charger, then split the take among three law enforcement agencies."
"The police even went into Toney's locker at jail and seized the jewelry he was wearing when he was arrested, said attorney Arthur Robinson during opening statements of Toney's lawsuit Wednesday." |
GA: Kennesaw police chief fired over credit card flap
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"Longtime Kennesaw Police Chief Dwaine Wilson was fired Wednesday night, according to City Manager Mike McDowell."
"Wilson was fired for using a city credit card to make a personal purchase and then lying about it, McDowell said today."
"Wilson has been with the city Police Department for 25 years and chief since 1985. He was suspended without pay on Aug. 5, said McDowell."
MEANWHILE...
The President of the United States of America can lie under oath, on video, get caught, keep his job and be adored by millions of sheep and a negligent media. |
WI: The right to bear a musket
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"The University of Wisconsin this week learned the same hard lesson that cost Al Gore the presidency:"
"Do not mess with West Virginians and their firearms, even if the weapons are only shooting powder."
"Wisconsin initially wanted to prevent the Mountaineer from even bringing his musket on campus, citing school policy." |
UK: Deadly danger of fake guns
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"Police are warning that people carrying replica weapons run the risk of being shot and killed by armed officers."
"The caution was issued by Lothian and Borders Police as they revealed that 201 real and fake guns were handed in during their two-month amnesty." |
NY Times on Arming Pilots
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"Washington has done a startling and politically gutless turnabout on guns in the cockpit."
"There are two plausible explanations for this baffling change of sentiment, both alarming. Either Congress and the administration have become so complacent about security a year after the Sept. 11 terror attacks that they are now willing to play politics on a serious security issue by succumbing to the powerful gun lobby, or they have become so unsure of their ability to carry out their own program for protecting the flying public that they are giving up and accepting a reckless alternative."
"President Bush must assert leadership here, and reassure travelers that neither politics nor a sense of helplessness has overtaken the federal effort to secure the skies. He should veto the gun measure if it reaches his desk. The reasons that his administration initially opposed arming pilots are still sound."
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UK: British anti-hunting activists print 'hit list'
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"The names, addresses and phone numbers of more than a hundred British pro-hunting advocates have been published on the Internet by an anti-hunting group that says the hunters 'deserve everything that's coming to them.' "
"The list included several prominent British pro-hunting activists, celebrities and members of the royal family. Access to the Urban Alliance webpage was blocked, however, after reports of the 'hit list' surfaced earlier this week."
"Before the site went down, the Urban Alliance posted names of hunters and urged supporters to 'hunt them down and give them a piece of their own medicine.' "
HMMMMM.....
What are these subjects going to use to go after hunters... baseball bats, or toy guns? |
TX: Most at D/FW report safe, quick passage
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"The vast majority of passengers at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport say they feel safe and that security measures have not hampered travel, according to an airport survey."
" 'What we're seeing in these results is an educated traveler,' said Kevin Cox..."
"But the more telling surveys will come after the Nov. 19 deadline set by Congress to staff airport security checkpoints with federal screeners, and the Dec. 31 deadline to screen all baggage with bomb-detection machines." |
Cockpits being secured, FAA says
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"Terrorist-proof cockpit doors can be installed on all U.S. commercial planes by the April 2003 deadline, top Federal Aviation Administration officials said Thursday."
"Today, all U.S. carriers have cockpit doors reinforced with interim security devices - crossbars or locking mechanisms at the minimum."
"Thursday's announcement of the progress in reinforcing cockpit doors was an update of key security and safety issues that the FAA plans to hold every four to six weeks." |
Canada: Shot For No Reason - Gun shop employee critical after robbery
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"Police have launched a dragnet for at least six bandits who fired -- without provocation -- a [banned] sawed-off shotgun during a firearms heist yesterday morning, critically injuring a gun shop employee."
"The 39-year-old man remains in critical condition following surgery at Sunnybrook hospital to his wound to the back of the head."
"A second employee suffered minor injuries to a wrist from pellets in the 10:25 a.m. theft of between 75 and 85 handguns from Ontario Sporting Supplies on Hwy. 7, near Hwy. 400."
"Insp. Dennis Mulholland said the three employees had been cooperating with the gang of at least six bandits." |
Violence Policy Center Prefers Shooting Down Airliners
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"The Violence Policy Center (VPC) immediately harshly criticized the Administration's policy reversal that should soon allow a few commercial airline pilots to carry firearms. 'Unfortunately, America seems doomed to find out the hard way that guns do not belong on passenger jets,' says VPC Legislative Director Kristen Rand."
"As the expert on every subject, the VPC, of course, knows what's best."
(Apparently almost everyone is tired of the nonsense from the VPC.)
To hear a sound bite of VPC's Legislative Director, click here. |
Canada: Gun shop owners' plea to feds: Help us to defend ourselves
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"Gun shop owners want the government to stop making life easy for criminals and start helping retailers protect themselves."
"Nick Barlas, owner of Nick's Sport Shop on Yonge and Wellesley Sts., said it's the government's tough gun control laws, not robbers, which keep him from defending himself."
" 'They're not protecting me, they're protecting the criminals,' he said."
"Registration laws have gotten stricter on regular gun-toting citizens since Bill C-68 was implemented in 1995."
"Barlas said he isn't surprised when any shop is robbed these days."
"Shop owners in countries like the United States, where gun control laws are much more lenient, are in a far better position to protect themselves."
" 'If a robber knows you have a gun under your store counter, he's not gonna come in.' "
"Patricia Interdonato, owner of Giovanni's Gun Shop on Wilson Ave., agrees -- but after being robbed three times, she doesn't take any chances."
"Now she won't let anybody through the store's locked gated door without seeing a gun owner's licence. 'Maybe they should follow my example,' she said of other gun stores."
"David Austin, spokesman for the Canadian Firearms Association, said that shop owners are always welcome to apply for a permit that allows them to carry a gun." |
MI: Gun 'buyback' offering food, gas
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"Police and community advocates hope people see this as a deal they can't pass up: Turn in a gun and get $50 in gift certificates for groceries and gas."
"It will be a 1-day special, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 14 at the Detroit Police 7th (Mack) Precinct. Anyone from anywhere who brings in an unloaded gun to the precinct at 3300 Mack Ave. will receive a $25 certificate for gas and a $25 certificate for groceries, redeemable at several local businesses."
POSSIBILITY...
If you live in the area, you might be able to outbid the government on some decent firearms. |
OH: Showdown on concealed weapons
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"The Ohio Supreme Court will have the final say in a dispute over whether ordinary citizens should be allowed to carry concealed weapons."
"The state's high court agreed Wednesday to hear arguments in the case, which began two years ago when four Hamilton County residents sued for the right to carry concealed guns."
"The four claimed an Ohio law forbidding concealed weapons was unconstitutional because they needed the guns for self-defense." |
PA: "Cultural sensitivity a concern of officers"
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"Criticisms of law enforcement officials unfairly targeting Muslims and Arab Americans after the Sept. 11 attacks are valid, the head of the FBI's Philadelphia office said yesterday."
"In an interview at an awareness seminar for law enforcement officials in Eastern Pennsylvania, Jeffrey A. Lampinski, special agent in charge, said the bureau had made an effort during the last year to learn about and connect with those communities, but he also acknowledged bumps along the way."
"The bureau has from 7,000 to 8,000 agents working on counterterrorism, Lampinski said." ... |
UK: Ban on deactivated guns demanded
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"A former police officer, whose sons were murdered, has called for a halt to the trade in deactivated guns - which can easily be turned into live-firing weapons."
"Steve Walker's sons, Andrew, 26, and his half-brother Alex Woodcraft, 17, were found shot dead at a flat in Lincoln in August."
"They had been murdered by Jeremy Earls, 34, who used an Israeli-made Uzi nine-millimetre gun - which he bought legally as a deactivated model and then restored to full working order." |
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| Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. — Noah Webster in "An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution," 1787, in Paul Ford, ed., Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, at p. 56 (New York, 1888). |
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