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CA: BATF Night Special Guest Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Mr. Carner is also a cofounder of GunTruths.com and of Citizens of America, the national pro-self-defense, pro-Second Amendment advertising campaign. He is a Life Member of both the National Rifle Association and the Sierra Club, serves on the Executive Committee of Catholics in Media, and is a biographee in the 1998 edition of Who's Who in America."

UK: Deadly games
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"A trio of youngsters brandishing a fake gun in fast-food restaurant car park sparked a manhunt by squads of armed police officers."

"The crack firearms unit was scrambled after reports the youths had pointed the handgun at a member of staff in the drive-through part of Burger King in Sweet Briar Road."

Why Britain needs more guns Submitted by: Randy Hudson	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"As gun crime leaps by 35% in a year, plans are afoot for a further crack down on firearms. Yet what we need is more guns, not fewer, says a US academic."

Foul Language Submitted by: Jennifer Website: http://www.libertybelles.org	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The current debate on personal firearms ownership has been skillfully orchestrated through the inappropriate use of customized jargon." ... "It is imperative, therefore, to point out the inadequacies of the catch phrases invented by gun-ban groups and to use appropriate language that conveys the actual meaning of the words used." "A few examples are:" ...

MA: Gun club sign may be moved Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Opponents of the sign's location, off the south side of Rte. 109 intersecting with Trailside Road, told selectmen they had convinced the gun club to take the sign down. In exchange for taking the sign down from that location, residents agreed the gun club could put up two identical 'WGC' on the other side of Rte. 109, where there are no residences and no intersecting street."

GOA Senate Ratings For The 108th Congress Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
See how your senator scored during the 108th Congress.

Brady Campaign Report Card Flunks Again Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
" 'Once again, the Brady Campaign has flunked out,' said GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt. 'Their report card has nothing to do with reality.' " ... " 'Interesting,' said Pratt. 'The three states where plenty of people are freely packing a piece are also the safest in the country.' "

Miscarriage of justice
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"The commutation of the sentences of more than 160 inmates on Illinois' death row by Republican Gov. George Ryan just two days before he left office is a miscarriage of justice." ...

"Among those spared a death sentence are a man and woman who murdered a pregnant woman, her 10-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son. They also cut the baby, who survived, from the woman's womb. If the notion of 'just deserts' ever matters, it should matter in this case."

CO: 3 Arapahoe County Deputies Hurt At Firing Range
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"Three Arapahoe County sheriff's deputies were injured at the firing range Wednesday when a gun accidentally discharged during a training exercise, Sheriff Grayson Robinson said." ...

"Apparently, when one of the deputies removed his Glock Model 17, 9 mm semi-automatic pistol from his holster to be examined at the table, he nearly dropped it."

"He quickly grabbed the weapon and it unintentionally discharged -- shooting a hole through the table and hitting the concrete, Robinson said."

IL: The jury's still out on ballistic fingerprinting Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The National Rifle Association disputes the effectiveness of ballistic fingerprinting." ... "Ahern said the ATF stands behind ballistic fingerprinting." ------- Of course he stands behind ballistic "fingerprinting." If this system were confirmed ineffective, he and his bureaucratic buddies would likely be out of a job.

CO: Parole Denied For Columbine Gun Seller Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Manes will remain under intensely supervised probation. He must adhere to a curfew and have his movements monitored by an electronic ankle bracelet." "Manes pleaded guilty to selling a Tec DC-9 semiautomatic assault pistol to Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. The high school gunmen used that weapon and several others to kill 12 students, a teacher and themselves in April 1999."

GOA House Ratings For The 108th Congress Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
See how your representative scored during the 108th Congress.

The Biggest Threat To Peace Submitted by: Newlinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Which country really poses the greatest danger to world peace in 2003? TIME asks for readers' views."

VA: Bill to expand gun checks dies in committee
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"A bill that would have required unlicensed dealers at gun shows to conduct background checks on people purchasing guns failed to get out of committee Wednesday."

"The Senate Courts of Justice Committee decided instead to request a study on the issue by the state Crime Commission. Sen. Henry L. Marsh III, D-Richmond, said the move was a polite way of killing his bill."

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This piece of fascist legislation would have hoisted yet more unreasonable bureaucratic hoops on gun sellers. Polite applause for its timely demise.

Where have all the birds gone? Submitted by: LFA Editor Website: http://www.libertyforall.net	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The US Government never does anything without a purpose - both declared and undeclared with both hiding 'hidden agendas'. The purposes are always detrimental to the people of our once great country. People who believe otherwise have their heads in the sand or their lips stuck to some politician's butt. Or getting what they think is a free handout."

U.S. Heading Toward Big Brother Society?
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"The report says a growing 'surveillance monster' is emerging in which the private and the public sector are monitoring Americans with video cameras to the extent that it is becoming almost impossible to walk the streets of major cities without being filmed."

"Yet there are virtually no rules governing what is allowed to be done with those tapes, like employing face-recognition technology to investigate and identify people."

Homeland Security to monitor "peace march"
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"Public Relations volunteers from the newly formed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will reach out to and monitor the scheduled 'anti-war' march in San Francisco on Saturday January 18th. The DHS volunteers will set up checkpoints along the march route to videotape participants, display a lifelike Mobile Detention Facility (MDC), and help safeguard Chevron-Texaco, Citibank and other corporate offices along the Market Street route." ...

Canadians need group like NRA Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Groups like the Coalition for Gun Control are not going to go away. We need a strong national organization along the lines of the NRA to protect firearm ownership."

Contest Unpatriotic Act
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"When a law is patently unjust ...just people have no obligation to obey it. If Harvard researchers defy this law, morality and common sense will be on their side. Just as non-profits across the country have been challenging provisions of the Act that allow the Justice Department to wiretap private homes and businesses at will, academic institutions must be the ones to take the lead in challenging the legitimacy of the clauses dealing with research."

The Stalker State, or Why We Should All Have the Creeps
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"Cell phone tracking, implantable chips, National ID, GPS, electronic data trails, fiat money, video surveillance, DNA analysis, integration of commercial databases with government resources; all may have a role to play in the hostile takeover of human lives by those who claim superior authority and knowledge, and plead necessity. ...however useful we may find these things, they will serve the stalker just as readily, and most effectively."

Philippines: Lashing out at bullies
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"Senseless killings like that of Jose Ramon Llamas will continue as long as we don�t have a gun ban similar to those in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and the other orderly countries. Vehicles, whether cars or motorcycles, have somehow become an extension of a person�s ego and personality and any harm inflicted on the vehicle is taken as harm on the person�s physical body. ...How about police officers in uniform subjecting motorcycle freaks to body searches or spot-checking drivers or vehicles?"

UK: Man is jailed for stashing gun and drugs
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"A man caught hiding a pistol and devastating home-made bullets has been jailed for three years."

"Police recovered the deadly 6mm Deringer and ammunition together with �20,000-worth of drugs when they raided David Scott's home."

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Notice the complete rejection of any semblance of objectivity on the part of this British publication. The bullets are automatically "devastating" and the Deringer is "deadly" even though none of these objects have ever been used in a fatal incident.

The United States of America has gone mad Submitted by: Anonymous	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"According to John le Carr�, the reaction to 9/11 is beyond anything Osama bin Laden could have hoped for in his nastiest dreams. As in McCarthy times, the freedoms that have made America the envy of the world are being systematically eroded."

Canada: Canadians defy stereotype and break gun laws Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Critics of gun control in Canada, where some 20 percent of households own a firearm, argue that the registry is a step toward government confiscation - as happened in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia." "But beyond this debate, the sheer number of angry citizens defying the policy is challenging Canada's reputation as a country defined by respect for the law."

UK: Gun amnesty delivers up 29 Submitted by: Newlinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Twenty-nine BB and replica guns have been handed to police by West Berkshire owners since the force launched an amnesty before Christmas." "Across the Thames Valley force more than 400 weapons were surrendered during a three-week amnesty aimed at young people."

Mexicans posing as U.S. agents obstruct probe
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"Mexican consulate staff posing as U.S. immigration agents interfered with a murder and smuggling probe following a border patrol chase of illegal aliens that ended in a fatal freeway crash near San Diego."

"The incident, which appears to be a breach of national sovereignty and security, began last Thursday when U.S. Border Patrol agents and California Highway Patrol officers chased a pickup truck loaded with Mexicans believed to have entered the U.S. illegally..."

4 Ways to Shoot Fast
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"Implicit in all four is the assumption that you will clearly identify what you�re about to shoot before you pull the trigger. Speed means keeping your composure and your concentration, and acting deliberately once you decide to act. Get Down on Your Knee. If you can�t get to a tree to steady your gun ...use the kneeling position. It�s extremely quick to get into, and much steadier than offhand."

NY: Handcuff Delay in Cop Shooting
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"A convicted car thief, fatally shot when an officer broke his car window with the butt of a gun earlier this month, was locked in his handcuffs during a resuscitation attempt because the arresting officer misplaced his handcuff key, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday." ...

"Kelly said Lagatutta, who police maintain was shot accidentally by the officer in the upper back ...fled and crashed the car into a Federal Express truck, where he was arrested."

Canada: Gun registry contractor a Liberal donor
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"A leading information technology firm that won the lion's share of a $36-million contract last year to build new computer systems for the federal firearms registry had donated a total of $27,000 to the Liberal party over the previous two years."

"CGI Group of Montreal won the nine-month contract to develop the computer system and programming in partnership with another company ...which is developing the business process functions of the controversial firearms licensing and registry system."

Groups call for halt to TIA Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Total Information Awareness (TIA) system is continuing to make headlines that the Defense Department would rather avoid." "The latest development is in the form of a Jan. 14 letter signed by a nonpartisan coalition of watchdog organizations urging Congress to stop further development of the system."

TX: Amarillo reviews gun range plan Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The Amarillo Parks and Recreation Commission reviewed a preliminary site plan Tuesday for the city's planned public/police shooting range." "Last year, the Amarillo City Commission approved $850,000 for development of a new shooting complex to replace one closed in August 2001 due to safety concerns."

UK: Burglaries still a top priority
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"Detectives have been chilled by a Metropolitan Police initiative to give less priority to domestic break-ins."

"It's feared thousands of house thefts will not be probed by officers under the new crime-screening policy."

"One senior detective ...insisted: 'It's not going to happen here. We will continue to hammer burglars as well as associated Class A drugs dealers and those who commit car crime and assault people. These are our top priorities and they are not going to change.' "

WA: City may curb gun club operations
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"If Gig Harbor enacts legislation to regulate the operation of a 52-year-old gun club in the city, the issue surely will wind up in court, said Dan Koch, past president of the Gig Harbor Sportsman's Club."

" 'I get kind of nervous when I see an ordinance that's going to put a shooting club out of business,' gun club member David Gordon told City Council members Monday night, pointing out that there already are laws 'against dropping rounds on your neighbors.' "

Canada: No gun charges expected until deadline
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"Police officers likely won't lay charges under Canada's new firearms law until a new gun registration deadline runs out in several months, the Canadian Police Association said yesterday."

"Executive director David Griffin said his group supports gun control and the registry, but admitted officers will use their discretion when deciding to lay charges against gun owners until an amnesty runs out on June 30."

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In other words, keep moving that line in the sand in a futile attempt to force the illusion that you still wield some power over the population.

CO: A high-handed grab by gun-rights fans
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"One of the old complaints about allowing different cities to enact different controls concerned the hypothetical motorist who, not knowing that Denver has stricter gun controls than other cities, gets arrested for violating one when driving through town." ...

"Lawmakers shouldn't sacrifice the concept of home rule and local control on the altar of S.B. 25. They should kill this bill instead."

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At the same time, the US Constitution shouldn't be sacrificed at the altar of "home rule."

CA: Police alarm policy on ice
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"Brushing aside the Police Commission and Chief William Bratton, the Los Angeles City Council took over the decision Tuesday whether to halt police investigations of unverified burglar alarm calls."

"The council voted 12-1 vote to overrule the commission's action to end police responding to burglar alarms. The action followed more than an hour of testimony before a crowd of hundreds of outraged residents and business people objecting to the commission's decision."

Project Exile statistics not what they appear
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"That's more in line with the reality of Project Exile. More than half of the 173 people prosecuted under the program served three years or less in federal prison."

"And that ...raises the question of whether the program is simply being used to pad statistics and whether it is a worthwhile use of federal money and resources."

"Actual man-hours are not tracked, but Project Exile involves the FBI, Police Department and Sheriff's Office, among other area law-enforcement agencies."

We were almost free Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"...the lust for power over other people's lives is a sickness, an incurable, insatiable pathology that leads, when it can, to the accumulation of more and more power. ...The ultimate, collectivized expression of that individual lust for power is the 20th century Superstate."

Why the Arab world hates America Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"America's and Israel's haters are ethnic and religious haters on a magnitude not seen since the Nazis. They loathe everything Israel (and its American supporter) represents -- freedom, democracy, openness, individual autonomy, freedom of religion, pluralism, women's equality and sexual freedom. They want Israel dead. Gone. Exterminated. They say so publicly, and they say so in polls." ...

Sportsmen's group targets anti-hunters Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"The Alliance will work on two fronts to defeat the anti's. First, it will work with key legislators to introduce model bills to help states prosecute animal rights terrorists and organizations. The Alliance will also campaign for model legislation that will outlaw unproven birth control methods for wildlife."

NRA National Firearms Museum to Open Exceptional Arms Exhibit in March Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
"Exceptional Arms will highlight those guns that are considered the finest and rarest of their type. Among them will be a Confederate-made Dance Brothers revolver, a Walker Colt and two North & Cheney pistols. Historic Arms will feature guns and swords that are associated with individuals of historic note. ...The third theme will explore the beauty of military blades." ...

ME: Man faces no charges in roadside shooting
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"Sprague left his Summer Harbor Road home to help a man whose truck was stuck by the side of the road and was hooking up a chain to the vehicle when a group of men pulled up in another truck, got out and allegedly jumped Sprague."

"The men left the scene in their truck, but Sprague followed in his truck and exchanged words with the men after catching up to them less than a mile down the road, police said."

"Gunfire erupted from both vehicles, and Sprague was injured in the hand."