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NJ: Air Marshal Indicted In N.J. Road Rage Incident
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Grand jurors in Monmouth County have indicted a federal air marshal on charges stemming from a road rage incident on the Garden State Parkway.

Michael McGowan is charged with official misconduct, aggravated assault and possession of a weapon.

Authorities say McGowan cut off another motorist on the toll road in Bricktown in May. They say he then flashed his lights and turned on a siren to pull over the vehicle and brandished a pistol.

McGowan told police he was attending air marshal training in Pomona.

McGowan has been suspended from the service after he was charged by federal authorities with possessing child pornography in July.

IN: Student should be informed of gun laws
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... "Speaking of facts, I encourage you [Mr. Noble] to see No. 14 on page 146 of your Mortar Board, which does allow authorized students to have a gun on campus."

"I was also disgusted to see you label yourself as a 'real man' based upon the type of weapon you use for hunting. Maybe it is you who is suffering from the same 'personal insecurities' you accuse others of. One who is truly knowledgeable about firearms knows they don't make the person; they are simply tools available to use. Of course, you've already labeled women who use a pistol to defend themselves from rapists 'cowards;' so maybe I give you too much credit." ...

IL: Lawmakers override veto, approve bill protecting gun owners
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"Rejecting the governor's veto, Illinois lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to give new legal protection to homeowners who use a banned handgun to shoot burglars."

"The House voted 85-30 Tuesday to override Governor Rod Blagojevich's veto. The Senate had approved the bill earlier, so it now becomes law." ...

"The bill's supporters saw it as a statement of support for the basic concept that people should be able to defend themselves in their own homes. Opponents viewed it as an attempt to undercut local gun laws." ...

"Under the new state law, someone who shoots an intruder on his or her property could not be convicted of violating a local gun ban. The new law does not, however, prevent state charges if prosecutors believe the shooting itself was a crime." ...

TN: Kingsport police investigating shooting of robbery suspect
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"A teenage robbery suspect was recovering from a gunshot wound to the stomach Sunday evening after attempting to rob a 73-year-old man, Kingsport police said."

"Kingsport police had not placed any charges against Smith as of Sunday evening. Police officials said the investigation probably would not proceed to that point until Smith had recovered enough to be interviewed by detectives." ...

"'Upon further investigation the officer discovered that the suspect had attempted to rob the victim Larkin Castle in his home by producing a knife and demanding money,' Blessing stated in his report. 'Mr. Castle then picked up his handgun and ordered the suspect from his home. The suspect took a step toward the victim and was shot one time in the stomach.'" ...

Applying the Second Amendment: The empire strikes out
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... "Another reason is for the simple act of self-defense. Opponents argue that is what the police are for. But the police aren't much help from five miles away when someone's standing there with a gun aimed at your chest. Your own weapon is a much more effective equalizer. And as important as this second consideration is, I think there is an even more important point that needs complete exploration and that has implications for our current international morass." ...

IL: Gun rights pre-date Constitution
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"I agree with every pro-gun rights aspect and statement in this story ['Illinois homes soon to be fortresses, not just castles,' Friday, November 12, 2004] except one."

""We need to all stop saying things like legislation to restore the right of self-defense.' We should say instead something like '...to stop the infringement of the natural right of self-defense.'"

"No one, no government, no law can legally deprive us of the God-given right of self-defense. It can only illegally deprive us of the ability to exercise that right. Such a law is by definition illegal and void in the eyes of Nature and of Nature's God. This is a subtle but very important distinction that we must make continually." ...

FL: Using Tasers on kids
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"It is easy to play armchair officer when debating the actions of police in subduing people. But no matter what the circumstances, separate incidents in which Miami-Dade authorities used a 50,000-volt Taser to overcome an angry 6-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl playing hooky will look awful to the casual observer."

"Miami-Dade police obviously need clearer policies that discourage the use of stun guns to overpower children ..."

"In the first incident, police on Oct. 20 shot a 6-year-old who had grabbed a shard of glass, cut himself and threatened others. The 12-year-old ran from police Nov. 5 after she was found drinking and smoking in an abandoned pool; the officer there said he shot the girl to keep her from running into traffic." ...

FL: Scandal brings ex-cops prison time
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"A federal judge on Tuesday wrote the last chapter of a long-running Miami police scandal, sentencing three former officers to prison for covering up the fatal shootings of two unarmed robbers almost a decade ago."

"U.S. District Judge Alan Gold ordered Lt. Israel Gonzalez, Sgt. Jose Quintero and Officer Jorge Garcia to prison for 16 months each, followed by three years of probation."

"They remain free on bond during their planned appeals, though they must continue to wear electronic ankle bracelets so authorities can monitor them."

"Garcia, Gonzalez and Quintero were prosecuted as part of a broader conspiracy case that alleged 13 Miami officers plotted to plant guns in four questionable shootings ..." ...

AR: It's 'Don't Bring Your Guns to Work Day'
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"Employees at a Little Rock office building have been asked to leave their deer hunting rifles at home because the president and three former presidents are coming to town to open Bill Clinton's presidential library."

"Acxiom Corporation distributed a memo to the 420 employees in its 12-story sales and marketing building in Little Rock's River Market district -- near the Clinton library -- reminding them of its policy forbidding weapons on company property."

"'This would not be a time to violate that policy,' said Dale Ingram, spokesman for Acxiom."

"The Acxiom building overlooks the library, where President Bush and former presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Clinton are to speak." ...

OH: Why do so many employee manuals render workers defenseless?
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"All employers put their workers at risk when forcing them to disarm. Businesses who send their employees into dangerous neighborhoods, such as construction, delivery, and public utility companies, are especially negligent."

"WDTN.com (NBC 2 Dayton) reported last week that a 47-year-old electrical contractor was on the job Tuesday when he was shot in a botched robbery. It happened at Northland Village Apartments in Dayton. A man who witnessed the crime says his co-worker was on a ladder when the gunman approached him. Bill Weekly said, 'He asked him for some money, change for a twenty first. The man said he didn't have any money.'" ...

Quit missing target on Second Amendment
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"Since the expiration in September of the federal assault weapons ban, the debate over gun rights and the Second Amendment has been renewed."

"The Second Amendment reads, 'A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.' Those on the anti-gun, anti-NRA, anti-Second Amendment side insist that there is no right of individual citizens to keep and bear arms. They are wrong on a number of counts." ...

"Logic alone reduces the anti-individual right arguments to dust. All of the other rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights are universally accepted to be individual rights. It is absurd to suggest that the Founders would be so illogical as to have one of those rights, the second no less, not be an individual right." ...

Seegars v Ashcroft: The Complaint
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"Seegars v Ashcroft was filed on behalf of 6 plaintiffs and named as defendants Ashcroft, the Attorney General of the United States at the time (he has since announced his intent to resign), and the Mayor of the District of Columbia. The basic facts of the challenge are similar to what was discussed in Parker v DC, specifically, that the law in the District of Columbia forbids the common citizen from keeping a firearm in their own home for purposes of self defense. Those laws are challenged as being in violation of the 2nd Amendment. The attorney for the plaintiffs is Stephen Hallbrook, a respected legal scholar well-known for his positions on firearms law, and this lawsuit is considered the chosen vehicle of the National Rifle Association." ...

PA: Gun Buy Back Plan in Luzerne County
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"Luzerne County is making an offer for your pistols, rifles and shotguns. Gunowners get paid and the guns get destroyed. The Luzerne County district attorney, joined police, said Tuesday they're tired of seeing all the gun-related crime cases come through the courthouse. With federal cash they will be buying unwanted guns, making sure the weapons don't end up on the streets." ...

"Luzerne County is looking for guns people no longer use. It will give $75 Wal-Mart gift certificates for each handgun turned in and $50 certificates for each shotgun or rifle."

"Is that deal worth it? 'For some it would probably be a great deal. Guns can be worth anything from $25 to $2,500,' said Mark Piazza of Shawnee Guns and Ammo in Plymouth." ...

MN: Gun rights wasn't main issue to bring down Boudreau
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"A longtime advocate for gun rights at the Minnesota Legislature, Rep. Lynda Boudreau's Nov. 2 defeat offered hope to those who opposed her efforts to expand access to concealed-weapons permits."

"But other issues seemed to have had a bigger effect on the race."

"The Faribault-area candidates and others say the race centered more on government spending, and was characterized by tough campaign tactics and significant spending by political and interest groups."

"'You take a shred of truth - you twist it,' Boudreau said of the criticism she faced, including a nursing-home increase dubbed a 'granny tax.'"

"Winner Patti Fritz and her supporters believe they won because of concerns that the district was losing out and that Boudreau was part of a Republican majority starving schools, local governments and other local projects." ...

CA: Ventura pistol range [first letter on page]
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"Re: your Nov. 15 article, 'Venturans to ask again for closure of pistol range':"

"The article on the Ventura shooting range left out three critical issues that must be addressed."

"First, why the omission of a very important law? Senate Bill 517, enacted October 1997, makes it crystal clear that no current range in California can be shut down because of noise. I brought a copy to the council in November 1997. All ranges were 'grandfathered' in. Now, why was this overlooked and not mentioned?" ...

"Why would not the city use SB517 to eliminate this problem? The council has copies of this sound testing that proves there is no existing noise problem. I would hope any decision on the operations of this range have not been prejudged long before the vote."

MA: Smith & Wesson aims for presence on screen
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"Smith & Wesson is ready for its close-up."

"The Springfield-based firearms maker has hired a Hollywood product placement company to get the firm's famous brand featured in films and on television."

"Executives of Smith & Wesson said they hope to get their guns shown in a variety of films and television series starting as soon as this fall."

"'In addition to targeting action movies, we will be seeking to place our products in TV programs like the three 'CSI' series, 'Deadwood,' 'Las Vegas' and other topical series where our heritage and authenticity fits the story line,' said Thomas L. Taylor, vice president of marketing for Smith & Wesson, in a statement." ...

IA: Students suspended for gun violations
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Two Louisa-Muscatine High School students who brought shotguns onto the school grounds in the vehicles after going hunting have been suspended for 45 days by the school board.

Superintendent John Dotson said the boys had been hunting and one was wearing a hunting jacket with ammunition in the pockets at school Nov. 11. The guns were not taken from the vehicles into the school.

�This is the second time in a month we have suspended students for weapons policy violations,� Dotson said. �The students need to think twice about their actions.�

In October, the board voted to suspend for 45 days two high school students who were in joint possession of a BB-pellet pistol on the school grounds.

MI: The hunt is on -- First day of firearm deer season keeps conservation officer busy from dawn to dusk
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"By 5 p.m. Monday, Chris Holmes had driven across Washtenaw County a dozen times, and had refilled his pickup's gas tank twice."

"He had been hugged at a gas station by a hunter delighted at bagging a big buck, and had checked the credentials of more than 150 hunters for violations."

"Holmes was the lone conservation officer patrolling Washtenaw County for the Department of Natural Resources on Monday, the opening day of the firearm deer hunting season in Michigan." ...

"Holmes began the day at 7 a.m., and expected to finish handling complaints around 11 p.m. His biggest flurries of activity came as hunters went into the woods during the early morning at sunrise and when they emerged after sunset. 'That's when I find the most violations,' he said." ...

MI: Ready, aim, steer away from deer
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"If you are reading this while driving, keep both hands on the wheel, because in the days ahead, we will all be seeing more deer being driven down the expressway on top of cars and trucks, sticking their tongues out at us in what was likely their last act of defiance."

"For the uninitiated, this is the time of year when the population of deer is 'thinned' by 'harvesting' the dumbest or slowest does and bucks." ...

"To be fair to the deer, only a limited number of permits are issued to hunters, and only during certain seasons. There is bow season, rifle season, handgun season and muzzle-loading season, and I think there is a two-week period where you can hunt them with clever repartee. If we miss any of those opportunities, we must bag our deer the civilized way: hit them with our car." ...

MI: Early birds find opening day success
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"The firearm deer season was barely an hour old when 16-year-old Matt Anderson joined the loose but loyal fraternity known as the successful deer hunter."

"The high school junior from Elk Rapids felled a sturdy 11-point buck Monday morning on his family's property between Elk and Torch lakes in Antrim County - an impressive kill for a hunter in just his second season."

"'As soon as I saw it I said 'ooh - a buck' and I started shaking pretty bad,' Anderson said."

"But he quickly calmed himself and centered a square shot on the deer about 30 yards away."

"'I'm a pretty good shot - and I like that gun,' he said of his 6 mm rifle." ...

MO: More African-Americans are starting to feel thrill of the hunt
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"Gary Davis remembers the days when he was one of the few African-Americans in the Missouri deer woods."

"But everywhere he looked Sunday, he was reminded of how much that has changed."

"From his two hunting partners who sat in the woods with him to the others he ran into at a check station and area farms, it was obvious that African-Americans were taking to deer hunting in increasing numbers."

"And for Davis, that was cause for excitement."

"'I was lucky,' said Davis, 55, of Kansas City. 'I was brought up in the country and I had a father who took me hunting and fishing every weekend.'"

"'But a lot of blacks don't have that same advantage. They've never been exposed to things like deer hunting.'" ...

MI: Opening Day Up North: A Girl's First Hunt
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"Normally, Amanda Farley would choose her warm bed over the predawn chill of the woods -- or just about anywhere else at that hour."

"But this was no ordinary Monday, and even rising around 6 a.m., hauling on layers and layers of bulky clothing and trudging out into star-speckled stillness contained an element of exhilaration."

"The 14-year-old from Indian River was finally going to hold her own rifle, stare intently from her own prime spot and possibly take her first shot at that elusive whitetail deer she envisioned while waiting patiently to reach the age when youngsters are legally allowed to participate in firearm deer season."

"'She has blood lust,' joked her father, Brian Farley." ...

TX: Texas Officials Wary of Plan to Hunt by Internet
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"Hunters soon may be able to sit at their computers and blast away at animals on a Texas ranch via the Internet ..."

"A controversial Web site, http://www.live-shot.com, already offers target practice with a .22 caliber rifle and could soon let hunters shoot at deer, antelope and wild pigs, site creator John Underwood said on Tuesday."

"Texas officials are not quite sure what to make of Underwood's Web site, but may tweak existing laws to make sure Internet hunting does not get out of hand." ...

"Underwood, an estimator for a San Antonio, Texas auto body shop, has invested $10,000 to build a platform for a rifle and camera that can be remotely aimed on his 330-acre southwest Texas ranch by anyone on the Internet anywhere in the world." ...

Canadians open arms to Americans
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"Rudi Kischer wants to help those Americans who have the post-election blues after U.S. President George W. Bush's second-term victory."

"The Vancouver, British Columbia, immigration lawyer plans seminars in three U.S. cities -- Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles -- to tell Americans frustrated with Bush's re-election that the grass is greener north of the border." ...

" 'We started last year getting a lot of calls from Americans dissatisfied with the way the country is going,' Kischer says. 'Then after the election, it's been crazy up here. The Canadian immigration Web site had 115,000 hits the day after the election -- from the U.S. alone. We usually only get 20,000 hits.' " ...

State strife turned Rice into leader
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"In nominating Condoleezza Rice to head the State Department, President Bush said Tuesday that her early years in segregated Alabama helped shape her world view."

"'As a girl in the segregated South, Dr. Rice saw the promise of America violated by racial discrimination and by the violence that comes from hate,' Bush said." ...

"Rice has said memories of Birmingham's racial turmoil shaped some of her core values."

"During the bombings of the summer of 1963, her father and other neighborhood men guarded the streets at night to keep white vigilantes at bay. Rice said her staunch defense of gun rights comes from those days. She has argued that if the guns her father and neighbors carried had been registered, they could have been confiscated by the authorities, leaving the black community defenseless." ...

Australia: Freedoms lost are hard regained
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"Scenario one: a documentary maker, a publisher and an academic have their computer hard drives erased by a government 'cleansing' squad because each has been emailed a politically sensitive manuscript. Fiction? No, it happened in Australia."

"Scenario two: without your knowledge, police obtain a warrant to enter your house. They rifle through your belongings, seize some items and substitute them with others, copy documents and plant listening devices. They are under no obligation to tell you about it until six months later."

"The stuff of George Orwell's novel 1984? Wrong again. The NSW Government plans to give its police such powers." ...

"Stephen Southwood, QC, the new president of the Law Council of Australia, believes governments should have looked more closely at the police powers that existed before the avalanche of post-September 11 counter-terrorism laws. 'We'd probably find they were more than adequate,' he says. 'We've kind of abandoned too readily our existing criminal procedures and [are] potentially doing enormous damage to fundamental principles ... We are in effect substantially changing the nature of our society.'" ...

Jamaica: 527 seized so far this year
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"THE police have, up to mid-November, recovered 527 illegal weapons and 18,601 rounds of assorted ammunition."

"The gun seizures represent a 13 per cent rise in the number of illegal firearms recovered over the same period last year, when the police took 460 illegal weapons off the streets."

"The 527 illegal weapons include 239 pistols, 111 homemade guns, 109 revolvers, 24 rifles, 22 submachine guns and 22 shotguns." ...

"'The large amount of guns that we have taken off the streets indicates that a lot more are out there and speaks to the high influx of weapons into the country,' Crime Chief Lucius Thomas told the Observer yesterday." ...

Japan: Masked soldier mugs old woman
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"A member of the Ground Self-Defense Force has been arrested for bashing and robbing at knifepoint a little old lady, police said."

"Koji Namikawa, 43, an instructor at the GSDF's Katsuta Base, was arrested for armed robbery."

"He denies the allegations. GSDF officials pledged to make sure similar incidents did not occur again."

"'If the accusations are true, it's extremely regrettable,' a GSDF spokesman said. 'We'll thoroughly train all our members to prevent similar acts from happening.'"

"Police said Namikawa put on a mask and approached 72-year-old old age pensioner Katsue Nemoto as she worked in the garden of her Hitachinaka home on Tuesday afternoon."

"He thrust out a knife at her and punched her in the head, demanding she give him money, police said." ...

South Africa: Six arrested for N12 cash-in-transit heist
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"Police have arrested six of a gang of cash-in-transit robbers who attacked a Standard Bank vehicle on the N12 near Southgate, Johannesburg today. The robbers struck just after 8am. Police had the six in custody shortly before 10am, Chris Wilken, a police spokesperson, said."

"They were caught in a maroon BMW at a garage near the Baragwanath taxi rank in Soweto. Two AK47 assault rifles, an R5 rifle and a 9mm pistol were confiscated. Police were still looking for the occupants of a silver-grey and a white BMW that took part in the robbery. They were thought to be in the Soweto area, Wilken added." ...
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Submitter's Note: But I am sure that the guns were all registered in accordance with the law.

UK: Country crime is crippling industry
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"Farmers and rural businesses are facing the effects of crime on a daily basis but failure to report criminal activity is preventing much-needed police resources from being allocated to tackle the problem, it was claimed today."

"Two thirds of people living in the rural West Midlands said they had been victims of crime in the past year at a cost to businesses of more than �580,000, according to business leaders." [emphasis added]

"The Country Land and Business Association questioned 245 landowners, farmers and rural businesses in the region following fears that crime was being largely under-reported." ...

"According to the survey, 67 per cent of people had been victims of crime in the last two years. Of them, 77 per cent had been victims on more than one occasion." [emphasis added] ...
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Submitter's Note: So in two years, more than half of these disarmed victims had been victimized at least twice!

UK: Gun Club Men Guilty of Arms Charges
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"Two gun club members were convicted at the Old Bailey today of manufacturing sub-machine guns for use by members of the criminal underworld."

"They were caught after the discovery of a murder weapon on an Irish river bed." ...

"The gun had been reactivated by James Greenwood, a member of the Morecambe Rifle and Pistol club in Lancashire."

"Greenwood, 56, from Morecambe, was found guilty of manufacturing the weapon, a CZ Model 75 9mm self-loading pistol � which he had denied."

"He, and fellow gun club member, Robert Naylor, 49, also from Morecambe, were also convicted of two further charges of manufacturing other prohibited weapons � two Sterling sub-machine guns � between summer 2002 and summer 2003." ...