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Weapons Ruling Temporarily Holstered
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"CINCINNATI -- A temporary injunction has been issued against a Thursday morning ruling that permitted some local residents to carry concealed weapons"
Well, that was quick. I wonder if the injunction was written before the opinion was actually published. |
NH: Bills would toughen school "safety zone" laws (followup)
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Pupils and others who carry weapons onto school property could face tougher penalties under two proposals before a House committee.
One bill would make it a class misdemeanor to have a firearm in a safe school zone, but would include exceptions for police officers and hunters. The penalty could be a fine or jail up to one year.
The other would make it a misdemeanor for pupils who bring any "deadly weapons" to school. |
MA: Regulatory Fraud
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Gun Owners� Action League (GOAL) released a 38-page report today denouncing the Massachusetts Attorney General�s regulations on handguns as �Regulatory Fraud.� The report is based on a review of public records from the Attorney General�s office by GOAL staff. |
I Sent Mother-in-Law Packing
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"The most dangerous place in America is a gun free zone, because only law-abiding people will respect the rules that govern it." --Joseph Farah |
TX: Police to address crime increase
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ARLINGTON - Police Chief Theron Bowman said he plans to spend the first 100 days of the year focusing on the department's "alarming" issues such as last year's longer police response times and the city's higher crime rate.
...the department plans to help empower residents to protect themselves and reduce crimes in their neighborhoods and businesses. |
UK: Mobile Phone Shootings Shock Britain
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Hand guns were outlawed in Britain in 1997 after the massacre of 16 children and a teacher at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland. Some 160,000 handguns were surrendered to police.
Dave Rodgers, vice chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said the ban made little difference to the number of guns in the hands of criminals. According to a recent survey, the number of crimes in which a handgun was reported increased nationally from 2,648 in 1997-98 to 3,685 in 1999-2000. |
NY: Larry Flynt Abets Andrew Cuomo
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Cuomo is best known for such kooky left-wing HUD schemes as blowing taxpayer's money on "new age" nonsense and gun buybacks. Will so-called feminists object to Flynt's involvement? Of course not; they don't even care if there's a rapist in the White House, as long as he's a pro-abortion Democrat. |
Pakistan: Where weapons are a way of life
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"Do you want to buy a cruise missile?"
That's a little gun joke from Habib Ullah, of the Mushtaq Hussain and Sons Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers in Peshawar, Pakistan. Though he didn't have cruise missiles, he proudly displayed his wares: pistols, double-barrelled and pump-action shotguns for about $50 apiece.
"We need guns to protect ourselves, to defend our families." |
WA: The mysterious, declining murder rate
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It was easier to explain things when murder rates were going up. People could point to video games, violent and amoral television, to guns, to drugs, to permissiveness, to poverty, to demographics and the decline of civilized standards. But when the number of murders in Seattle falls to the lowest point in 25 years, as it did in 2001 � then what? |
Canada: Feds "lost track" of 90,000 guns
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More than 65,000 foreigners declared 89,820 firearms as they entered Canada last year, but the federal government has no idea how many are still in the country, says the Canadian Alliance gun control critic.
Yorkton-Melville Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz said that's what he has learned through Access to Information requests from the RCMP and Canada Customs, which revealed almost 90,000 guns were declared but never registered or tracked by the RCMP. |
PA: Gun seizures on rise in Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh police seized 364 "illegal" guns in arrests last year, part of a "stepped-up effort to get firearms off the streets."
The number of guns recovered in arrests was 95 more than the 269 recovered in 2000, the first year the Police Bureau began keeping such statistics.
Another 254 guns were recovered without arrests, including weapons seized during service of protection-from-abuse orders or found discarded on the streets.
KABA NOTE: Perhaps if they actually concentrated on CRIME instead of guns, their crime rate would actually decrease significantly. |
ID: Gun safety classes are for anyone
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A recent accidental shooting that claimed the life of a 15-year-old Boise boy has increased awareness of the dangers of improperly handled firearms.
Ron Schermerhorn�s mission is to instruct community members, young and old, in the safe handling of shotguns and other guns. |
Critics Slam Proposed U.N. 'Tax Authority'
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The United Nations is gearing up for what could be yet another explosively controversial international conference, this time over charges the organization wants to create a powerful worldwide tax bureaucracy.
Supporters see the International Conference on Financing for Development, set for Monterrey, Mexico, from March 18-22, as a chance for world governments to address a wide range of financial issues related to global development. |
CA: Sept 11 influences Gov's plans
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The theme of terrorist attacks on the United States ran through Monday's State of the State address by California Gov. Gray Davis, who called for "broader police surveillance powers" and making an increase in unemployment benefits retroactive to Sept. 11. |
MI: Concealed-weapons permits haven't led to more criminals (followup)
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There were legitimate fears that making it possible for more people to carry concealed weapons legally would result in a huge increase in gun mayhem.
Except in neighboring Macomb County, Michigan residents were forced to prove a need to carry guns in order to be awarded permits.
But as of last July 1, the state changed the law so that residents are presumed entitled to such permits unless they are determined to be unqualified. One example would be because of a criminal record. |
Philippines: Barangay cop indicted for shooting boy
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The City Prosecutors Office forwarded formal charges of frustrated homicide against a barangay policeman for shooting a 17-year-old boy during a disco party in Agdao late last year.
Formally charged by Chief City Prosecutor Raul Bendigo for probable cause was one Emeterio Apari, 34 and a militiaman of Barangay Centro Agdao.
Bendigo forwarded the criminal case based on a resolution from Assistant City Prosecutor Emilio Dayanghirang III. |
CA: Murder rate rises 6% in Los Angeles during 2001
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The city saw a 6% increase in homicides last year, most of which occurred in urban neighborhoods and involved black and Hispanic males, police statistics show.
The numbers released Tuesday show that 584 people were killed in Los Angeles during 2001, compared to 551 people murdered in 2000. |
Democratic Underground: How to Win the Gun Vote
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Restatement of the Dem/AGS triangulation strategy:
"There are many groups the Democrats do not do well with in elections. One group is gun owners... There are some recent examples of the right way to pass gun safety laws, and the wrong way... Fortunately the NRA is not as strong as one might think..." |
Bombs Astray: Are Bad Batteries To Blame For 'Smart Bomb' Accidents?
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The batteries that power the guidance systems of nearly all of America's smart weapons are made at this Eagle Picher Technologies plant in Joplin, Mo. Without power from the battery, a smart bomb turns dumb.
--And without power from the battery, a 'smart gun' turns dumb, too. |
NJIT, Picatinny Arsenal form partnership that may save 'smart gun'
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The New Jersey Institute of Technology and the Picatinny Arsenal will form a partnership that could save the school's "smart gun" from the scrap heap. -- The pair have agreed to cooperate on a wide range of homeland defense and environmental projects through a 5-year "memorandum of understanding."
KABA NOTE: What "scrap heap"? Taurus (and then Smith & Wesson) partnered with NJIT on the "smart gun" project last year. |
Mozambique: Turning Guns Into "Art"
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With a gun trade about to take place, the atmosphere was predictably tense and the participants very nervous.
Sousa, the man with the merchandise, smiled nervously as he talked in hushed tones to Guerra, the man who had come to collect.
The door of Sousa's two-roomed house remained firmly locked thoughout -- he did not want neighbours knowing about his illegal weapons or his past as a guerilla fighter in Mozambique's vicious 17-year civil war. |
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