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"Risky Shooting in Self-Defense"
"This was the bedwetting headline of the lead editorial in the August 14, 2005 edition of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis."
"The dead assailant certainly found the shooting to be risky, and the survivor who escaped probably believed that the victim posed too great a risk."
"But the point of the editorial was, of course, designed to convince us that even though self defense saved a kidnapped man's life, it is better to do nothing. Makes sense does it not?"
"No, it does not make sense."
"... It seems that The Commercial Appeal finds nothing risky for a victim to be held at gunpoint by armed robbers. After all, if we do nothing threatening to the assailant, we will convince him that we mean him no harm, right? ..." ... |
Readying Your Rifle for Hunting Season
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"It's probably been about a year since most area hunters have fired their rifles. But with the gun deer season rapidly approaching, hunting experts say now's the time to dig it out and test it out."
"For avid hunters, Marathon County's shooting range is considered one of the best in the country. Now that fall is here, business is starting to pick up." ...
"And [Ken] Krueger [operations manager for the Marathon County Parks Department] says it's important to get out to a range before the deer hunting season gets underway. When not in use, the scope on the gun can shift, and dirt, dust, and rust can set in, causing it to malfunction." ... |
WI: Text of Personal Protection Act (.pdf file)
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"This bill creates a licensing system under which an individual is permitted to carry a concealed weapon under certain circumstances. The bill also makes certain changes in Wisconsin law to account for a federal law that requires the state to permit an individual who works as or who has retired from working as a federal, state, tribal, or local law enforcement officer in Wisconsin or in any other state to carry a concealed firearm under certain circumstances. In addition, the bill changes the law relating to background checks for handgun purchases to require the Department of Justice (DOJ) to determine whether a person seeking to purchase a handgun has been subject to an order or finding regarding his or her mental health that makes the purchase unlawful." ... |
WI: Bill would hide gun-holders' identities
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"The public would not be able to learn who can legally carry concealed weapons under a bill that would make Wisconsin the 47th state to allow average citizens to take guns on the street."
"In rolling out legislation Thursday that would allow people to carry concealed weapons, state Sen. Dave Zien (R-Eau Claire) and Rep. Scott Gunderson (R-Waterford) said they wanted to protect the privacy of permit holders."
"Making that information public could lead to police officers targeting permit holders in criminal investigations even if they did not have reason to suspect them, Zien and Gunderson said."
"'There are other states where it's public record and it's been just a holocaust,' Zien said." ... |
WI: Lawmakers introduce new concealed carry plan
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"Would the public be safer if Don Heinke and 100,000 other Wisconsin residents had permits to carry handguns?"
"Of course, Republican lawmakers insisted Thursday as they revived a proposal that would allow state residents to carry concealed weapons in most public places-including churches and the state Capitol."
"Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle and gun control advocates said allowing more guns on the streets and in crowded areas would lead to more violence."
"But for his part, Heinke, 57, of Madison, who says diabetes and other illness have weakened him, said he would be among the first to get a permit."
"'I can't fight anyone. I can't run,' said Heinke, who said a stranger attacked him last year. ..." ... |
TX: Burglary suspect found wounded at hospital (follow-up)
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"Police arrested a suspected burglar on Thursday after the 21year-old man sought treatment for gunshot wounds officials believe occurred when a resident heard noises in his garage and fired at an intruder."
"Daniel Dunn, 50, told police it was just before 6 a.m. Thursday that he heard a noise in the garage of his home in the 2200 block of Gershwin Lane. Dunn told police he found a young man in his garage who began swinging a knife at him, cutting Dunn across the neck and a hand. Dunn said that after he was cut, he ran in his house and grabbed a .22caliber rifle and fired at the intruder." ... |
PA: Teacher Took Gun On Campus
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State police say charges have been filed against a science teacher who was allegedly seen with a gun at a Perry County school.
Police have charged 54-year-old James Woods, of New Bloomfield, with possession of a firearm on school property.
Woods is a teacher at West Perry Middle School.
Police said he was seen placing a rifle or shotgun against a fence around New Bloomfield Elementary School about 7:45 p.m. on Sept. 12.
Police said Woods then confronted a group of school children, and warned them that they were damaging trees and shrubs while they were playing football on school property.
Woods is scheduled for a hearing Oct. 14. He declined to comment Thursday. |
NC: Teen brings gun to school, police say
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"A 15-year-old Garinger High student was arrested Thursday after police found he had a .40-caliber handgun and 14 rounds of ammunition at school, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Sgt. Randy Hagler said." ...
"Another student told authorities about the gun and police found it on the student after he was called out of class about 10:30 a.m."
"It was the first gun found at a Charlotte-Mecklenburg school this year, spokeswoman Natasha Suber said. School officials reported finding at least 12 firearms last year."
"Suber said the boy showed the gun to another student but did not threaten anyone with it. Any student who brings a firearm to school is automatically kicked out for a year, according to district policy." ... |
MA: Bumper stickers back suspended police officer
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"An ex-girlfriend of a suspended policeman has launched a bumper sticker campaign to help him get his job back."
"'MPD Reinstate Peachey' read the stickers that have been passed around this month by an ex-girlfriend of Middleton Patrolman Robert Peachey."
"Peachey, 36, was cleared of domestic abuse charges brought by another former girlfriend last April. But he remains unpaid and off duty because Middleton police Chief Paul Armitage has revoked his license to carry a gun, a requirement of his job."
"Armitage, in court documents, cites not only the domestic dispute but two other incidents involving Peachey ... Armitage says those incidents make Peachey unsuitable to carry a gun." ... |
VA: N.J. police object to stop of 95-mph convoy
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"A New Jersey police convoy speeding as fast as 95 MPH should not have been warned to slow down here, its superiors say, despite numerous 911 calls from motorists claiming they were forced off Interstate 81."
"An incensed New Jersey sheriff called an Augusta County deputy a 'disgrace' for pulling over officers returning home from a Hurricane Katrina relief mission Sept. 18."
"Augusta Sheriff Randy Fisher and the Virginia State Police defend the stop because the New Jersey officers were traveling 95 mph with their lights flashing."
"Virginia law requires an emergency before officers can speed and activate their lightbars. Instead of a warning, the speeding officers could have gotten citations." ... |
LA: Police Took Part In New Orleans Looting, Witnesses Say
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"In the hours and days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and floodwaters overwhelmed 80 percent of the city, reports of widespread looting, violence and heavily armed gangs roaming the streets were rampant."
"Now, as police investigators unravel the tales and find that many of them ... were false, officers are also faced with the difficult task of investigating their own. On Thursday, four New Orleans police officers were suspended and one reassigned amid allegations that they participated in some of the looting."
"According to CNN, the city's police department is looking into claims that as many as a dozen officers may have gone on a looting spree in the days after the storm hit. ..." ... |
UK: Dad murdered after 999 call put on hold
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"A TEENAGE bully faces life imprisonment for stabbing a concerned father to death - after the victim's 999 call was put on hold."
"The 35-year-old phoned police to say his son had been threatened on their doorstep, but the operator could not connect his call to an officer."
"When the Brixton dad went to confront the thug himself, the 16-year-old pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the heart."
"The teenager claimed he acted in self-defence, but on Wednesday an Old Bailey jury decided he was lying. Dressed in a suit and flanked by security, the youth showed no emotion as he was found guilty of murder." ... |
Thailand: April 2004 killings must be probed (Second letter)
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"The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) concluded that the killing in April 2004 of 18 young Muslims, mostly from the same football team, in Songkhla's Saba Yoi district was due to 'police overreaction'."
"Was over-reaction much too mild a word to use?"
"Many had been shot in the back or in the back of their heads, which is seemingly inconsistent with the police claim of self-defence. Several were shot through the heart, but is such precise shooting likely ..."
"The police claim the young men tried to shoot. If so, were they such lousy shots that not even one policeman was killed or wounded?"
"Did all 18 of the men try to shoot and, if not, why were they, too, shot? Why weren't any southerners wounded, only killed?" ... |
LA: Northwest La. gun shops report increased sales, credit Katrina
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"Some northwest Louisiana gun shops saw an increase in sales in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina and owners attribute it to New Orleans area residents planning to return home."
"'They just wanted to be better safe than sorry,' said Kay Miculek, owner of Clark Guns & Personal Safety in Bossier City."
"Miculek said her sales increased four times in the weeks following Katrina's Aug. 29 landfall."
"People were buying short-barrel shotguns, which Miculek said typically are used for home defense, and 'a little bit of everything in the handgun department.'" ... |
FL: Florida's 'Shoot First Law' Is Locked, Loaded
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"Welcome to Florida, the Sunshine State. But avoid unnecessary arguments with locals. Starting Saturday, they may be more inclined to shoot you � or at least, in essence, that is the message from one national gun-control organization as a Florida law goes into effect empowering people who feel threatened in the street or anywhere else to use force, including a firearm, to protect themselves." ...
"'It's unlike any supposed self-defense statute in America,' said Peter Hamm, communications director for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. 'It empowers people who are on edge and have violent tendencies to presume a situation is dangerous to them that may not be.'" ... |
MS: Opinion: Owning Firearms Should be a Protected Right
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"Make no bones about it: I am a liberal who believes that guns in themselves are not evil."
"Are you shocked? You shouldn�t be. Some conservatives like to present the clich� counterargument that 'guns don�t kill people; people kill people' in debates about gun control ..." ...
"This right, however, should not extend into the realm of automatic weapons. The gun must have a child safety feature, and it should be made illegal for that person to re-sell his or her gun to whomever he or she chooses because you never know what kind of psychotic individual might then be the owner of the gun." ...
"If anybody can make a good argument as to why such weapons should be legal, or what positive purpose they serve in our society (or what purpose at all), please e-mail me or write an editorial about it." ... |
OH: Native-American Speaker Touts 2nd Amendment Rights
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"A Native-American professor from Oklahoma defended the Second Amendment in a speech at Ohio University's Bentley Hall on Tuesday night."
"'Owning a weapon is a precious freedom,' declared David Yeagley, a member of the Comanche Nation." ...
"The professor questioned why someone would want to take away another person's gun. 'Do they want to prevent you from protecting what you have?' he asked." ...
"Yeagley suggested that gun control 'infantilizes' citizens. 'It's like saying, 'You can't be trusted to take care of yourself. Give me your weapon and I will take care of you instead,' he said." ... |
WI: Congressional black caucus honors gun-control advocate
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"Debra Lee Fifer may not have come any closer to obtaining passage of the responsible gun ownership bill, a measure pending in the state Legislature following her son's tragic death in 2003, but she now has national exposure for the bill." ...
"In 2003, her son Kirk Bickham Jr. and two of his friends, Deshawn Winbush and Carl Hall, were shot and killed by a felon ..."
"Fifer said the gun that killed them was legally purchased in what she called the 'gray market,' sold by the original buyer with no record of the transaction." ... |
OH: Belmont County Sheriff Demanding Annual Verification (OFCC)
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"Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that the Belmont County Sheriff's Office is sending letters to concealed handgun license holders demanding that they complete a one page document verifying their address, and asking if they still have their concealed handgun licenses."
"Worse, the document states that you 'MUST' complete this form because it is 'a part of the requirements of having a CCW Permit.'" ...
"Ohioans For Concealed Carry has written a letter to the Belmont County Sheriff's office and the Belmont County Prosecutor's office asking them to clarify a few points, including:
"What section of Ohio Revised Code authorizes a Sheriff or designee to demand or compel a concealed handgun licensee to supply this information annually, let alone at all?" ... |
OH: If Canadian criminals are smart enough, so are Ohio's (BFA)
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"America's 1st Freedom magazine is reporting that Canadian MP Garry Brietkreuz has reason to believe that the country's $2 billion gun registry debacle is being used by criminals to target potential burglaries." ...
"Before the media access loophole was inserted into the law by Governor Taft as an 11th hour poison pill, legislators in Ohio were warned that newspapers would abuse the law and publish entire lists of concealed handgun license-holders. They were also warned that such lists could then be exploited by criminals wishing to steal firearms, and that instances of criminals targeting particular locations they know to contain specific valuables (such as firearms), and staking out or casing residences to make sure no one is home, are common and well documented. But few listened..." ... |
NH: Gun locks to be distributed in N.H.
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Gov. John Lynch announced on Thursday about 160,000 free gun locks will be distributed throughout New Hampshire beginning this week.
"There are no forms to sign, no questions asked. I really do hope the gun owners in New Hampshire take advantage of this program," Lynch said. "It is free, it is easy and it builds on the steps (gun owners) already take to keep children safe."
The locks are provided by the group Project Child Safe, which has distributed locks in New Hampshire in previous years. Those interested in obtaining a free gun lock can log onto www.projectchildsafe.org.
Once on the website, visitors can click on New Hampshire to find the nearest local law enforcement agency which should have the locks. |
CO: As elk herds decline, hunters can expect fewer cow licenses
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"As rifle hunters sight in and rig up for elk camp, the same sweet song rings true: 'More elk than any state or province in North America.'"
"Nor is that admirable status likely to change, what with Colorado's plenitude of high-country sanctuaries to harbor the large deer. Hunters should be aware, however, that the comfortable old chant, with its chorus of 'too many elk,' has toned down a few notches."
"After years of liberal hunting regulations targeting female elk, the uncontrollable herds are coming under control in many areas. In coming years, hunters can expect the huge supply of cow-hunting licenses to dwindle." ... |
CA: Clinic offers women trap shooting training
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"The Auburn Trap Club is hosting a National Rifle Association Women on Target Shooting Clinic Oct. 22 at the Lorenson Road club."
"Patricia McLelland, of Auburn, has been competing in trap-shooting events for about three years. She said Wednesday that she has been shooting in one capacity or another most of her life."
"McLelland won the state championship in 2004 in D class and now shares her enjoyment of trap shooting with others."
"McLelland said she does it to get women interested in responsible recreational shooting through positive encouragement." ... |
CA: It's Always Fair Game for Wild Pigs
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"MICHELLE STRAUB knows what it is like to feel deeply and profoundly nervous. Just hearing the grunts of wild pigs behind shrubs, the rustle of grasses signaling they were near, made her knees shake and her French-manicured nails quiver on the trigger. Only she knows the true terror of the heart that comes from holding a 7-millimeter rifle while bushwhacking down steep trails made by potentially ferocious marauding wild pigs and having your husband turn to you to say, 'I think I hear something.'" ... |
PA: Shotgun experiment came up short
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"Although the rifle has always been a big game rig, back in the 1920s or early 30s, an attempt was made to make shotguns suitable for big game hunting, at least at close range. Ammunition makers cranked out shotshells using a single round ball of lead. The punkin' ball shell was loaded to somewhat higher velocities than regular shotshells. The lead ball had the diameter and weight to kill many species of large game-provided it could be placed in the chest area. It was a common round prior to World War II, and hundreds of hunters in the bleak Great Depression era got their deer with the ol' punkin' ball."
"While it had the kinetic energy to kill a deer or black bear at ranges well under 100 yards, it lacked in the accuracy column ..." ... |
PA: Gov. Dick deer-hunt plan to go before judge
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"The decision on allowing a controlled deer hunt in Clarence Schock Memorial Park at Governor Dick will soon be in the hands of a Lebanon County judge."
"Yesterday, the county commissioners, in their capacity as park co-trustees, approved the Governor Dick board�s request to petition the court for permission to conduct a hunt to thin the population of deer that are severely damaging the forested park." ...
"A forest-stewardship plan developed in partnership with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources concluded that an over-population of deer is damaging the forest by eating the undergrowth, Bender said. That claim was substantiated by a survey in late April." ... |
MT: 2005 Mule Deer Hunting Outlook
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"Deer populations in most of the state are thriving and numbers are recovering in northeastern Montana where a harsh winter two years ago knocked back populations."
"'We expect to see some good deer hunting this season, and populations in general have been stable to increasing in most regions across the state,' said Gary Hammond, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks wildlife management bureau chief. The rifle season for deer is generally Oct. 23 to Nov. 27. Please check the 2005 regulations for details on season types and dates." ... |
KY: Motivation easy to find for rifle team
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"After missing the chance to compete in its 25th consecutive NCAA Championships last season, rifle team members will not only have rifles on their shoulders this year but also a large chip."
"Head Coach Ann Proctor and her rifle team has been thinking about last season and the void of not going to the NCAAs."
"'I think that motivation will be a huge driving force for us this year,' Proctor said. 'We're going to make it this year.'" ... |
Germany: Prince Ernst August's family's weapons may be illegal
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"The family of troubled Prince Ernst August of Hanover may face illegal gun possession charges after police discovered that 37 items in the family collection of muskets, pistols and rifles were still in working order."
"Prosecutor Thomas Klinge said Friday police scientists were still checking the weapons, which are listed in an online Sotheby's catalogue for an 11-day antique auction starting next week at the prince's fairytale Marienburg castle south of Hanover in Germany." ...
"The prosecutor said it was illegal to own unregistered guns, even antique ones. Police seized the weapons Tuesday and were investigating who owned them, whether they were covered by any permit and whether they were dangerous." |
UK: Helicopter search for gunman
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A police helicopter was used to search for a man who fired an air rifle at a passing car in Coventry.
The offender was spotted on a bridge over the A444 next to School Lane, Exhall, yesterday afternoon with what witnesses describe as a long gun.
The lone motorist, who was travelling along the road at 2.35pm, reported hearing a loud bang and something hitting the windscreen of his car.
He said he looked up to see the offender leaning across the barrier.
Police are appealing for the public's help to trace the offender who is described as white, wearing a black bomber jacket and light-coloured beanie hat. |
UK: Councillor escapes jail for leaving boys at risk
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"A YORKSHIRE councillor escaped jail yesterday, despite leaving two children home alone with a stash of guns and a knife."
"Tory councillor John Smith left the children alone for three hours while he went to see decorators, Sheffield Crown Court heard yesterday."
"Police had to force their way into his locked Barnsley home in June, where they found two distraught boys aged eight and four, the court heard."
"South Yorkshire Police officers also found a Bren gun with a loaded ammunition clip at the top of the stairs, a rifle in a bedroom, exposed wires on a light switch and electrical socket and a knife with a serrated edge easily accessible in the kitchen." ... |
UK: Robber in violent hold-up knew victim
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"A FATHER-OF-TWO who took part in a violent robbery during which a man was pistol-whipped and shot in the leg has been jailed for 10 years."
"Ricardo Gray, 25, from Tylecroft Road, Norbury, was part of a vicious gang which mugged four victims in Lucern Road, Thornton Heath, on January 13 this year."
"Two of the victims had been preparing for a funeral the following day, while the others had been out shopping." ...
"Speaking after the sentencing, Det Con Rod Austin, who helped catch Gray as part of Operation Trident, said the robbery was particularly nasty."
"He added: 'What's disturbing is that one of the suspects (Gray) knew one of the victims, but still carried out the robbery.'" ... |
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