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I-Team: Illegal Strip Searches at Reagan National?
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TSA Employee: "I couldn't imagine my sister or my mother going through that process. I was so upset."

TSA Employee: "The look on their face would almost give you the sense that they felt like they were in a sense being raped. In a sense, being victimized and to a certain extent, they were. "

TSA Employee: "That really incensed me that someone felt that they could just put on some gloves and they could just violate someone to that degree."

TSA Employee: "They actually had the passenger remove the clothing that covered the sensitive area and perform a duck walk to see if something would fall out."

Ron Paul: TSA -- Bullies at the Airport
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"...A new TSA policy begun in September calls for invasive and humiliating searches of random passengers; in some instances crude pat-downs have taken place in full public view. Some female travelers quite understandably have burst into tears upon being groped, and one can only imagine the lawsuits if TSA were a private company. But TSA is not private, TSA is a federal agency-- and therefore totally unaccountable to the American people." ...

"TSA has created an atmosphere of fear and meek subservience in our airports that smacks of Soviet bureaucratic bullying. TSA policies are subject to change at any moment, they differ from airport to airport, and they need not be in writing. One former member of Congress demanded to see the written regulation authorizing a search of her person. TSA flatly told her, 'We don't have to show it to anyone.' Think you have a right to know the laws and regulations you are expected to obey? Too bad. Get in line and stay quiet, or we'll make life very hard for you. This is the attitude of TSA personnel."

TSA Strip Searches - Bureaucracy Run Amok
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"According to ABC News 7's I Team servicing the Washington, DC metro area, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is conducting strip searches of passengers at Reagan National Airport ..."

"Their recent on site investigation revealed that some of these searches have taken place in stairwells at the airport which violates even the TSAs own guidelines. After complaints about these strip searches in stairwells which exposed female passengers private parts, the searches were then moved to the manager's officer where a camera - without the knowledge or consent of the passenger being stripped - recorded the violations." ...

"There were also charges that profiling is going on for preselection to be strip searched, i.e. a woman with large breasts. ..."

Ron Paul Denounces National ID Card
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�National ID cards are not proper in a free society... This is America, not Soviet Russia. The federal government should never be allowed to demand papers from American citizens, and it certainly has no constitutional authority to do so.�

�A national identification card, in whatever form it may take, will allow the federal government to inappropriately monitor the movements and transactions of every American... History shows that governments inevitably use such power in harmful ways. The 9-11 commission, whose recommendations underlie this bill, has called for internal screening points where identification will be demanded. Domestic travel restrictions are the hallmark of authoritarian states, not free nations. It is just a matter of time until those who refuse to carry the new licenses will be denied the ability to drive or board an airplane.�

Accidental Firearm-related Fatalities Drop to All-time Low
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"A report from the National Safety Council shows that accidental firearm-related fatalities continue to decline and are at the lowest level in the history of record keeping. Statistics in the council�s 'Injury Facts 2004' reveal a 54 percent decrease over a 10-year period ending in 2003."

"Last year, 101,537 U.S. residents died in accidents of all types. Less than one percent, 700, involved firearms. The most common deadly accidents involved motor vehicles, falls and poisonings, claiming 72 percent of all accidental deaths." ...

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Submitter's Note: The news is even better than this. Firearms ownership is up and the overall population is up, but the absolute number of firearms deaths continues to fall!

Judge OKs sniper gun settlement
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"The dealer and manufacturer of the rifle used by the Washington-area snipers will pay $2.5 million to the families of six victims and to two surviving victims under a settlement approved Friday by a Washington state judge."

"The settlement, reached in September, marked the first time a gun manufacturer paid damages for negligence that led to violence, said David Beninger, one of the attorneys representing the families."

"Washington state Superior Judge Frank Cuthbertson signed the settlement agreement, which will be divided among the eight plaintiffs. The amount to be received by each is still to be determined, said Daniel R. Vice, an attorney with the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence."

GA: Resident captures intruder
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"Gamage said he pointed the rifle at the suspect's stomach and ordered him to freeze while Gamage made a telephone call. Instead of calling 911, Gamage called a neighbor, Tom Friday, and told him he had been attacked."

"When he went back the intruder was gone. Gamage said he did not feel comfortable knowing the suspect was out there, so he went into the dark, looking for the young man."

"Gamage said he spotted the suspect near the garage, next to the barn. Gamage crept up behind the man and ordered him not to move or he would kill him."

"About that time Tom pulled up... I think he was shocked because I was holding the intruder at gunpoint."

MA: Clerk wounds one of two would-be robbers (Alternate report)
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"A gas station attendant in Medford pulled his own gun on two would-be robbers, shooting and wounding one of the suspects, police said. The second suspect got away."

" 'It looked like self-defense,' Medford police Lt. Paul Covino said of the incident Tuesday night at Fred's Gas Auto Service on Mystic Avenue. He said the gun was registered to the attendant, who was licensed to carry a firearm."

"The wounded man, whose name was not released, collapsed about 100 yards down the street from the station. He was arrested and taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston with bullet wounds to his torso, police said. ..."

"A handgun police say was used in the attempted robbery was recovered from the wounded man." ...

"No charges have been filed against the attendant, who was not identified. Police said he fired seven or eight shots at the suspects."

MA: Gas station clerk guns down thug
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"A pistol-packing gas station clerk unloaded on a pair of would-be robbers in Medford last night, leaving one of the stickup men riddled with bullets and the other fleeing into the night."

"Police said both masked suspects fled onto Mystic Avenue when the clerk, who had been held up before, opened fire about 9:30 p.m. Two bullet holes were visible in the glass door to the convenience store at Fred's Gas Auto Service. The robbers' apparently fake gun lay on the concrete."

CO: Dove Creek savors outlaw past
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"It didn't create a stir when 82-year-old Dorcas Lowery took her firearm into the Dolores County Sheriff's Office to ask advice about the proper barrel length for a sawed-off shotgun."

"Lowery got the gun to fend off intruders after a rash of break-ins at her place along U.S. 491. She sawed off the end so the gun would be lighter and easier to handle. She has several other guns and really can't remember a time when guns and outlaws weren't part of her life."

" 'We've always had to have guns to protect the chickens from coyotes and hawks,' says the trim, straight-backed, lipsticked and turquoise-bejeweled octogenarian. 'And Dove Creek was a hideout for outlaws for a long time.' "

"Lowery wanted her new shotgun because she figures that just the sound of the mechanism being pulled back to load the chamber would alert most would-be burglars to the error of their ways."

FL: Father claims self defense in son's shooting
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Detectives in Putnam County have not yet decided whether to arrest a father who says he shot his son in self-defense.

When deputies went to Harding Avenue Tuesday night they found the body of 29-year-old Benjamin Wayne Jones. He'd been shot several times.

Deputies say Jones' 59-year-old father met them in the yard and told them he'd shot his son after Jones attacked him.

Detectives say evidence at the scene supports what Jones's father told them. They'll give their findings over to the State Attorney's Office, which will decide on whether to file charges.

CA: County asks state to block gun shows on fairgrounds
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"Contra Costa supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to ask the state to prohibit gun shows at the county fairgrounds in Antioch."

"The county will send a letter to the 23rd District Agricultural Association, which controls the grounds, asking that they stop allowing the two annual gun shows. A similar letter will go to the California Fair Board." ...

"Also, because Contra Costa forbids gun sales on its own property, allowing sales at the fairgrounds is inconsistent with county policy, DeSaulnier said."

FL: Widow's team attacks gun's design
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"Attorneys for Pam Grunow, the widow of murdered Lake Worth Middle School teacher Barry Grunow, told an appeals court Tuesday that the murder weapon was nothing but a cheap, poorly manufactured handgun designed solely to be used for crime." ...

"The legal arguments, though more technical, were similar to the arguments jurors heard in the closely watched trial. This time, though, a three-judge panel will decide whether the gun distributor should be held liable."

"Grunow attorney Edna Caruso told the judges that the Raven .25-caliber semiautomatic serves no legitimate purpose other than for use in crime."

Craig Roberts: You have papers?
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"I refuse to fly anymore. I refuse to be treated like a criminal. And I'm not the only one. Because of the treatment of passengers at our airports by the agents of the Transportation Security Administration, many Americans now refuse to fly if they can drive, or simply decide to stay home. This means fewer paying passengers on our airlines, fewer tourist dollars in vacation spots, and less revenue being generated for our airports and airline infrastructure." ...

"Dont' worry about the airlines. They will go broke until there are only a few left, all subsidized and totally controlled by the government--like Lufthansa and el Al. We'll be told it was because of unions, or rising fuel costs, or other excuses, when in fact it will be because people will no longer wish to fly unless they have to."

"But, Citizen, remember: when you get to the airport, have your papers in order and be ready to be searched. ..."

UK: Gun found in hunt for killer of bank manager
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Detectives hunting the killer of a Highland bank manager say they have found a gun.

Thirty-year-old Alistair Wilson was shot three times on the doorstep of his home in Nairn after putting his two young sons to bed. His wife Veronica had answered the door to a man wearing a baseball cap asking for her husband.

It is though he handed Alistair an envelope second before opening fire.

School shootings, workplace violence and guns.
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"Most of the boys in my neighborhood had guns. Surplus 7.62mm Mausers were sold at the local department store for $12.00. Ammo was available at Robbys surplus store. You needed no I.D., permit or anything but two bucks to buy 150 rounds of surplus NATO ammunition. We spent Saturdays at the local trash dump shooting at rats and pretend Nazis. Other days we played war games, had BB battles, played cowboys and Indians and Cops and Robbers. For these, of course, we'd leave the 'Real' guns at home. We somehow knew they weren't toys." ...

"Our toys had sharp edges, things that would burn you, shock you, crush your fingers and get lodged in your throat. We had knives, hatchets, axes and other potentially harmful tools."

"We lived next to forests with snakes, rivers with undertow and all manner of other deadly things. We had fishhooks, spears, crossbows (mostly home made) poisons and other potentially fatal objects all around us."

NH: NRA mum on Douglass' case
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"The National Rifle Association yesterday refused to quell local speculation that it would not help finance Londonderry High School senior Blake Douglass' lawsuit against the school district for refusing to publish his submitted yearbook photo featuring a broke-open shotgun." ...

"Douglass attorney Penny Dean, who filed a complaint against Londonderry in U.S. District Court on Nov. 15, yesterday said she was uncertain whether the NRA would financially back her client."

CA: Panel orders deputy rehired
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"He was convicted of on-duty trespass into woman's home." ...

"A Sacramento County sheriff's deputy who was convicted of trespassing on duty into the home of a woman he hoped to pursue romantically has been ordered rehired by the county Civil Service Commission, despite his department's efforts to fire him."

"Timothy James Durel, a 14-year veteran of the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, was convicted in August 2003 of a misdemeanor trespass charge after he lied about a 911 call to get into the woman's Carmichael home, where her two daughters were alone."

"A federal civil case accuses him of rifling the woman's dresser drawers after ordering the two girls - then 8 and 12 - to stay in the living room."

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Submitter's Note: Lets see:

1. Abuse of authority under the color of law.
2. Rifling the woman's dresser drawers
3. Traumatized a woman and two young girls.

He gets his job, badge and gun back.

NY: Loaded Gun Found At L.I. School Day Of Riot
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"Classes resume Wednesday at the Wyandanch High School, two days since a fight ended in 13 arrests on Monday."

"The school was closed Tuesday. Principal Larry Spruill told a meeting with parents Tuesday night that a loaded gun was found hidden in a radiator in a second-floor bathroom. Spruill said the school was searched following a rumor about a shooting that was going to happen at school. Forty-three students have been suspended because of the fight."

"Spruill said an additional Suffolk County police officer will be assigned to the high school. That means the school will have two police and four security officers in the building."

PA: Alleged Militia Sentence (sic) to Prison in Pa.
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�An alleged militia leader who authorities claimed built a bunker on his land and stockpiled weapons for a showdown with federal agents was sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison�'I can't imagine anything worse,' U.S. District Judge Maurice B. Cohill Jr. said��.

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Submitter�s comment: Cohill, a �moderate Republican� was a 2003 recipient of the �Jefferson Award� (yeah, THAT Jefferson�the one who said �The tree of liberty must be refreshed...with the blood of patriots and tyrants.�

Letter about killings insensitive (Letter)
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"Hopefully, those surviving members and their families will never see your letter. While you are celebrating Christmas with your family, those people will be mourning the senseless deaths of their friends."

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Submitter's comments: Two letters (last ones on the page) responding to an anti-gun bigot who rejoiced in the murders of the Wisconsin hunters. See Newslinks on Nov. 30: "Killing of hunters not surprising (Letter)"

Dave Henderson: Society has lost its respect for firearms
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"Why is it, then, that 30-40 years ago -- when firearms were virtually never kept under lock and key -- the statistics weren't nearly so dire? Because in those days youngsters were taught to respect firearms."

"Back then we knew that a gun was something that you would be able to use when you reached a certain age and level of responsibility. Handling a firearm was an earned privilege. We were fully aware of what a firearm was capable of, respected that power and aspired to a level where we would be allowed to handle it."

"In those days guns hung over the fireplace, were stored behind doors or in the corner of mud rooms, under beds, behind truck seats, etc. I remember kids on the rifle team riding to school with their rifles on the bus. Access was far easier than it is today, yet society didn't have the problems with gun violence that it has today."

Gun Sellers Respond To Trigger Lock Warning
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"Trigger locks [are] so easy to remove without a key, even a child can do it. Monday we showed how a security expert and even an 11 year old child could take a trigger lock off a gun in a matter of seconds. Today we asked stores who sell trigger locks to respond." ...

"All you can do is slow people down nothing is going to be 100 percent effective." ...

"We take a lot of these off all the time, people lose their keys they're not that hard to get off." ...

"The biggest problem I see is improperly putting these on they're not tight enough they're very loose." ...

"Education is definitely the key if kids aren't taught right from wrong, if they are safe or not. How to use them when they do get old enough 12, 13, 14 the problem will never stop."

IL: 2 off-duty cops in shootout
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"Two off-duty Chicago police officers were involved in a shootout with a group of men early Sunday after a quarrel outside a Berwyn bar, police said."

"One of the officers was slightly injured in the hand. Berwyn police took a 24-year-old man into custody and have a warrant out for another suspect."

"Berwyn Public Safety Director Frank Marzullo said that about 2:50 a.m., a man tried to enter a bar called Fuggedaboudit, 7001 W. 16th St., where the off-duty officers were attending a private party. The man was told the bar was only open for the private party and was asked to leave, Marzullo said. Patrons then escorted him out, Marzullo said." ...

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Submitter's Note: Isn't it great to have a badge and the legal right to be armed for self-defense in otherwise self defense-free Chicago!

IL: Get a grip
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"The loss of Project Safe Neighborhoods federal funding should not cause any undue concern, much less cause Chicago authorities to 'scratch their heads,' as noted in the Sun-Times on Dec. 3."

"Eliminating this funding in no way affects the ability of federal prosecutors to put gun law violators away in federal prisons. Much of the money is largely just fluff spent on advertising, educating convicts about guns (as if they don't already know a gun violation will land them in jail) and paying police to do what they are already paid to do: arrest those with illegal guns." ...

"The Illinois gun rights community has repeatedly put forth a plan that would generate revenue and save lives. ..."

Bulgaria: 11 Guns, Silencers and 34 Bullets captured at Kalotina Border Checkpoint
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Customs inspectors in the Bulgarian Kalotina Border Checkpoint have prevented an attempt for illegal export of guns, silencers and bullets after a check of a car with Bulgarian registration, the Customs Agency PR Ekaterina Genova said for FOCUS News Agency.

The weapons have been discovered after a detailed check of a vehicle, driven by a Bulgarian citizen, travelling for Serbia. Packages containing 11 guns, 11 loaded cartridge clips, 4 silencers and a package with 43 bullets have been found in the car�s fuel tank.

The car�s fuel tank has been full and the packages were specially prepared. The 32-year-old driver is held.

AL: Firearms Ordinance on Burns Harbor Agenda
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"When Burns Harbor Town Council meets in its regular monthly meeting Wednesday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 p.m., the council will discuss and hear public input on a proposed new firearms ordinance. ..."

"The ordinance would prohibit discharge of any firearm or projectile within town limits, a change from the previous ordinance, adopted in 1978, which permitted the firing of shotguns on five acres or more and allowed bow and arrow hunting and trapping devices." ...

"Besides the increase in the population of Burns Harbor since that time, the technology of weapons has improved, dramatically for some, and 'it�s just not safe...' "

Canada: Parents upset that kids saw gun bust
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Parents of students at a northwest Calgary elementary school are angry that their children were left outside to play after police received a complaint of someone carrying a gun in the area.

On Friday, nearby residents reported to cops they'd seen youths in a car brandishing a handgun. Police informed a high school in the area but no one notified the elementary school, where students outside for recess saw the arrest of three young men, one carrying what turned out to be a pellet gun.

UK: Party-goer describes gun deaths experience
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"A party-goer yesterday described seeing two teenage friends lying dead in the street after they were gunned down in a drive-by shooting."

"Letisha Shakespeare, aged 17, and Charlene Ellis, aged 18, were shot dead outside the Uniseven hairdresser's salon, in Birmingham, in the early hours of January 2 last year."

"Giving evidence at Leicester Crown Court, Safural Blake spoke of the horrific moments when the New Year celebrations were interrupted by a hail of bullets."

Australia: Stolen guns in hands of criminals
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"Police fear three long-arm firearms stolen from a Wunghnu home at the weekend will be used in a criminal act."

"Cobram Criminal Investigation Unit Detective Senior Constable Fiona Lavery said officers were concerned because the firearms were the target of the theft, with nothing else stolen from the home." ...

"A CMC Mountaineer bolt action .222 centrefire rifle looked new, had a Hunter scope attached and was valued at $900."

"A SKB 700 shotgun, 12 gauge, which also looked new, was valued at $900."

"A KRICO bolt action .22 rimfire rifle was an older-looking firearm with a shoulder strap and scope attached, was valued at $500."

WI: NFdL police will distribute 500 free gun safety kits
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"The North Fond du Lac Police Department will provide 500 free firearm safety kits today to local residents through a partnership with Project ChildSafe, the national firearms safety education program."

"The safety kits each include a gunlock. They will be distributed to all adults who attend a short presentation by North Fond du Lac School Resource Officer Troy Dam-steegt at 6:30 p.m. in the North Fond du Lac High School auditorium."

Canada: MP drops plan for showdown on gun registry
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"Liberal MP Roger Gallaway said last night he will drop plans that would have forced a separate vote on funding for the federal gun registry."

"Mr. Gallaway said he met with colleagues yesterday and decided to withdraw his motion because it had no chance of winning. But he added that he and the Liberal MPs who had backed his attempt to cut funds to the expensive and much-hated gun registry would renew the fight at another time."

ME: Ad campaign designed to deter gun crime and domestic violence
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"Governor John Baldacci today joined Maine's top law enforcement officials in kicking off a publicity campaign to deter gun crime and domestic violence."

"U.S. Attorney for Maine Paula Silsby says the central message is straightforward: Abusers who beat their wives, girlfriends or partners will lose their right to possess guns for life."

"And for those who commit a violent crime with a gun, plan to do time in federal prison. Maine has one of the nation's lowest rates of gun violence."

MI: Gun shop owners tense
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"Sue Bare is packing heat."

"All her employees are too, every minute of every day."

"So goes workplace safety for the St. Charles gun seller as a squad of armed bandits pillaging northern mid-Michigan firearms shops pull job after job, each more brazen than the last." ...

"Gun shop owners across the region are effectively battening down the hatches ..." ...

"Sue Bare said that besides keeping all workers armed all the time, the store this week has added extra security cameras and alarms."

"She's careful from experience. In 1990, a Detroit bunch stole 203 guns from her shop, just a year after opening. It took police four years to retrieve all but a couple dozen, she said."

IL: Judge: Let BB-gun boy in school
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"A Sauk Village boy who faced a two-year expulsion for bringing a pellet gun to school will return to all of his classes today after a judge ruled the punishment was too extreme."

"Cook County Circuit Judge David Donnersberger issued a permanent injunction Tuesday, saying the two-year expulsion was inappropriate because the boy never brandished, used or took the pellet gun out of his school bag."

"The boy, now 10, had confessed he wanted to shoot classmates who bothered him, according to hearing testimony."

UK: Police chief appeals help in catching killer of a leading Leeds criminal
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"Mark McCall was a career criminal with extensive involvement in organised crime when he was murdered in an execution-style shooting in Bramley, Leeds."

"Detectives say their investigation has been hampered by a wall of silence as some are too frightened of repercussions if they speak.
Yesterday, at an inquest into his death, it was revealed that Mr McCall was shot three times at close range."

"He died at the scene from multiple injuries caused by shotgun pellets."

IL: A gun fight we don't want to break up (Letter)
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"We have made great strides in cutting the murder rate, thanks to the hard and innovative work by the Chicago Police Department and vigorous prosecutions by our assistant state's attorneys. A key part of the strategy in reducing violent crime has been Project Safe Neighborhoods."

"We are sending the wrong signal to our community when a successful program to take guns out of the hands of criminals and severely punish the ex-convicts caught with them must be dismantled for lack of funding. This is not the time to cut funds for this important program. If anything, we should increase the support for Project Safe Neighborhoods."

Australia: Injured man holds police at bay
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"AN injured man armed with a sword and a gun allegedly set a police car on fire and held authorities in Queensland at bay for more than three hours."

"Police found the injured man when they went to a home in Bellbird Park west of Brisbane, at 10.20pm (AEST) last night, a police spokeswoman said."

"As police waited for an ambulance the man armed himself with a sword and threatened officers."

"Police tried to speak to the man, but when he produced the gun they withdrew from the house and cordoned off the area."

"Shortly after police left the house the man allegedly set fire to a police car parked at the premises."

SD: Free Gun Locks
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"The Sioux Falls Police Department is giving out free gun locks but they may not last long. It's part of 'Project Childsafe,' and a federal grant."

"Sgt. Bob Thompson, Sioux Falls Police Department, says, 'They always go fast. It's limited to two people. There's no paper work, nothing to fill out, nothing to do. Just come to the front door and grab two.' "

"The police department started participating in the program several years ago."

IN: Codifying right to hunt
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"It�s no secret that hunting and fishing are an institution in the Midwest."

"It bonds work buddies in wooded areas and on lakes during the weekend, is a family tradition in some households, a source of food for others and an economic well for states."

"As hundreds of thousands of residents apply for hunting and fishing licenses annually, it is an activity that continues to go strong in the area."

"But fearing that animal rights activists are campaigning to try to eradicate the centuries-old activity in the states, two Republican state lawmakers in Ohio and Indiana have or are planning to introduce legislation that would add an amendment to each state�s constitution guaranteeing the right to hunt and fish." ...

NJ: The hunt for a bear policy
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"State Environmental Commissioner Bradley Campbell yesterday won the immediate battle over next week's scheduled bear hunt. There won't be one. But the bear wars are far from over. The state Supreme Court didn't rule out the possibility of letting hunters eventually help trim New Jersey's growing number of bruins."

"The problem, the court said, is that the law requires a comprehensive policy for protection of game animals and New Jersey doesn't have one for bears. Both pro- and anti-hunting factions will now be scrabbling about to shape it."

"The need for a new bear policy is undoubtedly a surprise to both Campbell and the members of the state Fish and Game Council; they thought they had one. ..." ...