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South Africa: School target shooting banned
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"North West education MEC Pitso Tsolo has suspended target shooting in public schools in the province until Education Minister Kader Asmal has issued regulations on the sport."
"...the North West education department had not been aware that some 20 schools in the province kept .22 rifles and ammunition on their premises. The rifles were the property of the SA National Defence Force, and had been issued to the school by the old SA Defence Force." |
OK: Security Guard Who Shot At Student Gets Probation
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"A school security guard who shot at a high school student in Tulsa will serve one year probation."
"Ronald Lee Littles Junior was sentenced yesterday after pleading no contest to recklessly handling a firearm."
"Littles shot at, but missed, suspended student Jermaine Cox on the grounds of Tulsa Science High in October after arguing with Cox. Littles said he saw the 18-year-old Cox reach for a weapon, but police never found one." |
UK: Mothers protest over gun crime
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"The march, organised by Mothers Against Gun Crime, will be led by mother of murdered teenager Brendon Lawrence at 1230 GMT on Saturday." ...
"She will be joined by bereaved mothers and people from across the UK who are affected and concerned by guns."
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They should be more concerned about the criminals wielding the guns and the fact that their government has left them disarmed and completely vulnerable to the criminal element. |
Verizon Appealing Order to Reveal Song Swapper
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"Verizon Communications said it would ask a federal appeals court on Thursday to strike down a judge's order to turn over the name of a customer suspected of downloading free music over the Internet."
"Verizon lawyers were to file documents with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia later on Thursday, arguing that the order is unconstitutional and would hobble privacy on the Internet, a company executive said at a press briefing." |
NY: N.Y. liable for freeling slay fiend
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"A judge has ruled that New York state is liable for wrongly releasing a man who subsequently raped and murdered a Long Island mother of three." ...
"Brey's beaten and strangled body was found on a Suffolk County beach on Oct. 12, 1998. Franklin Scruggs, who had been freed 13 years too soon on a conviction of assaulting a woman, subsequently confessed to murdering Brey, whom he met in a bar." |
OH: Town "ticket mill" could be a thing of the past
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... "Sure, we write a lot of traffic tickets. Sure, we make a little money. But so does the highway patrol.'
... "In good years, police bring in more than $400,000, more than 90% of town revenue. Nearly all of the money goes back into the police force."
But this ticket mill may soon shut down, done in by the same force -- angry local merchants -- that has killed other notorious speed traps." ... |
INS extends its foreign student deadline
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"The Immigration and Naturalization Service has extended by 15 days the deadline for the nation's colleges and universities to begin feeding information about their foreign students into a new Internet database." ...
"But campuses were given until Feb. 15 after some colleges complained that the system was too cumbersome or was not responding properly." ... |
NV: Off-duty pilot caught with gun in carry-on at Reno airport
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"Federal safety officers are investigating whether charges should be filed against an off-duty American Airlines pilot who was stopped at Reno-Tahoe International Airport Friday with a firearm in his carry-on bag."
"The pilot, whose name was not released, had intended to board a Southwest Airlines flight for Los Angeles. Airport officials said it appeared to be an 'innocent oversight' on the part of the pilot." |
CA: Officer In Tyisha Miller Shooting Gets Salary For Life
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"A settlement approved Thursday with one of the officers who shot black teenager Tyisha Miller pays him $50,000 and half his salary tax-free for life."
"But the deal keeps Michael Alagna from returning to the police force. Alagna, 31, was one of four officers fired after the fatal shooting in December 1998." |
Philippines: Gun ban sparks debate
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"Anti-crime crusaders welcomed the total gun ban announced by President Arroyo yesterday, but expressed worries that law-abiding citizens would be left at the mercy of those who refuse to comply."
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TN: State employee shot by guard showing off gun
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"Security guard Mark Cawl, 49, who has a permit to carry a handgun, told police he was waiting for a bus to take him to work when he pulled his 9 mm pistol from its holster to show the hot dog seller..."
" 'He was showing me the gun and it went off,' said the vendor of Mikey's Red Hots hot dog stand, who wouldn't give his name." ...
"Police confiscated Cawl's gun but didn't charge the guard because the shooting was classified as accidental, police spokesman Don Aaron said."
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OR: Two Oregon Guardsmen charged with assaults
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"The two other men were arrested at a motel where they allegedly beat the Indian owner, whom they had mistaken for an Arab. The owner suffered cuts and bruises."
"In earlier attacks, a homeless white man was beaten with a club and called a disgrace to his race, and black teenagers were menaced by white men who showed a gun and shouted, 'White pride!'
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OK: City Council Passes BB-Gun Ordinance
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"Carrying a loaded bb-gun in your car or firing one is now against the law in Tulsa."
"The City Council approved the new ordinance Thursday night."
"It also includes slingshots and pellet guns. Opponents call the decision a knee-jerk reaction to the recent bb-gun vandalism."
"More than four hundred reports of bb-gun vandalism were reported between November first and Thursday." |
Australia: Three shot dead in Sydney unit
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Three people were found shot dead in a south Sydney unit today.
Police said the bodies were discovered in a flat in Ashton Street, Rockdale, about 4.55am (AEDT).
Concerned for the welfare of the occupants, police officers gained entry to the unit with the help of the NSW Fire Brigades.
"When inside they located two men and a woman deceased, with gun shot wounds," police said in a statement.
A 25-year-old Maroubra man is helping police with their inquiries. |
Ashcroft Praises Program on Guns (Cato daily dispatch)
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"Project Safe Neighborhoods is an affront to the constitutional principle of federalism. The initiative flouts the 10th Amendment by relying on federal statutes that have no genuine constitutional basis. Moreover, the program will very likely lead to overenforcement of gun laws and open the door to prosecutorial mischief affecting the racial composition of juries..." |
Denmark: Danish police arrest two after airport gun find
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"Danish airport police said on Friday they had arrested two Norwegian men after finding two loaded handguns and a silencer in one of the men's hand luggage, but appeared to rule out a hijacking attempt."
"Police at Copenhagen airport arrested the two men, aged 24 and 25, as they were about to board a flight to Amsterdam on Thursday. The guns were detected by a baggage screening device." |
CO: Legislature 2003: Measure aims to alter gun law
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"The chairman of a House panel abruptly ended testimony Thursday on a bill that would change a law that requires instant background checks on purchases at gun shows."
"Rep. Bill Sinclair, R-Colorado Springs, chairman of the House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee, tabled the measure that opponents said would gut the so-called gun-show loophole that voters overwhelmingly closed in 2000." |
CA: LA city officials are exempt from new false alarm policy
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Los Angeles-AP -- An attempt by Los Angeles officials to cut down on police responses to false alarms makes an exception -- for city officials.
City officials are exempt from the new policy, which will end police responses to most burglar alarms unless they're verified by a property owner or private security company.
But the mayor, City Council members, city controller, city attorney, schools, city buildings and gun dealers will still get priority responses.
Residents are fined 95 dollars after a first false alarm -- but city officials don't have to pay the fees or the annual alarm permit fee.
There's also some evidence the city could be part of the false alarm problem.
One councilwoman says three of her field offices had nearly 50 false alarms in the past year and a-half. |
Stop The Great Global Social Security Giveaway
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... "Under 'totalization,' a foreigner who came to the United States illegally could work fewer than the required number of years, return to Mexico for the rest of his working years, and collect full U.S. Social Security benefits while living in Mexico. That is an insult to the millions of Americans who pay their entire working lives into the system and now face the possibility that there may be nothing left when it is their turn to retire." |
If Dubya was a �leadership genius�
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"The IRS Nazis would be in their place by now: forced to sit in a brightly-lit room 24/7 and memorize the tax code to the letter and page. Less than a score of 100 on any pop quiz would result in harassment, asset seizure and imprisonment." ...
"Every five-year-old would know what happens to a milk jug of water when it�s hit with a hollow point and understand that could be someone�s head." ... |
TX: K-mart raid captain blames everybody but himself
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Original title: HPD's Aguirre claims he was used as scapegoat
"The Houston police captain who ordered the arrests of 303 people at westside raids was fired Wednesday, ending a five-month investigation that tarnished the careers of 32 officers and cost the department $123,000." ...
"In Aguirre's first public comment since late August, he lambasted Oettmeier and the Houston Police Department, saying they made him a scapegoat for a dysfunctional department." |
TX: Handcuffed man may get answers -- Officer indicted over mix-up
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"When welder Edward Riley was hauled from his home by Harris County sheriff's deputies, handcuffed and put in a patrol car, he was at a loss to explain why."
"He had done nothing wrong and was soon released. But he said he never got a detailed explanation for the incident, and that the Precinct 3 constable's office and the Sheriff's Department, which had acted on a deputy constable's information, seemingly showed little interest."
"So Riley, 61, did what few citizens do. He took the case to a grand jury himself. And Thursday, its last day in office, the panel indicted Precinct 3 Sgt. Gerald Blankenship, 61, on charges of filing a false report to police, a Class B misdemeanor."
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IL: ATF grabs grenades
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"AURORA [IL] � Eight men were arrested Thursday on state and federal weapons and drug charges, including a man authorities said supplied street gang members with illegal firearms...."
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Blacks Allegedly Victimized By 'Racist' Gun Control Laws
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" 'Racism still is a big part of gun control,' said Kenn Blanchard, a former federal law enforcement officer and author of Black Man With A Gun, A Responsible Gun Ownership Manual For African Americans. 'Anywhere that there are no concealed-carry's, there's also a predominant black population,' he said." |
Cities Pay Big in Faulty Lawsuits
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"A woman who was lying on subway tracks when she was struck by a New York City train was awarded over $14 million last May, later reduced to about $10 million, by a jury that found her to be only 30 percent negligent for the incident." ...
"And in Oakland, Calif., a bank robber didn't know the bag of cash he stole contained a time-delayed tear-gas canister that went off, scorched him and sped his arrest. He sued the bank and the police for $2 million for burning him." |
Feel Like Dancing?
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"We are continually reminded, as a justification for restrictions on civil liberties, that we are at war. But, precisely because we are at war, we cannot afford to have the Justice Department and federal law-enforcement authorities wasting their time on the kind of trivia represented by much of S. 22, including the misnamed 'crackhouse' provision." ... |
TX: Tragic story should serve as example
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"Dovie Hill was just 7 years old. She leaves a 2-year-old brother, a 5-year-old brother, a 9-year-old brother, and a 13-year-old sister. They all were at home when it happened. A houseful of kids with unsecured, loaded guns."
"She leaves her mother, Terri Lynn Hill, 40, and her father, Glen Forrest Hill, 39, who has been a police officer for almost 20 years." ...
"A police spokesman in Houston, where Officer Hill works, said Thursday that an Internal Affairs investigation is under way to determine whether Hill was responsible for the loaded and unsecured guns found in his house." |
50 Caliber Sniper Rifles That Can Destroy Aircraft Easier to Buy Than Handguns
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"The Violence Policy Center (VPC) today released 'Just Like Bird Hunting'�The Threat to Civil Aviation from 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles, which details the threat of military-bred 50 caliber sniper rifles to aviation and passengers throughout the United States. The 32-page study discusses the range and striking power of the 50 caliber sniper rifle and its ammunition in the context of potential terrorist attacks against civilian airports and aircraft."
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INS Workers Accused Of Shredding Thousands Of Documents
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"Two workers in Orange County, Calif., have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of shredding thousands of documents at an INS office."
"Dawn Randall and Leonel Salazar were indicted on one count of conspiracy and five counts of willfully destroying documents."
"The indictment alleges Randall, a file room manager, ordered Salazar and other employees last February to shred unprocessed documents after the office had discovered a 90,000-document backlog. Prosecutors say a month after the shredding began, the backlog dropped to zero." |
GA: System Problems Lead to False Arrests
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"Innocent people across Metro Atlanta are going to jail because their old arrest warrants were never taken out of a statewide computer system."...
"The problems could mean some people who should have clean records are considered wanted criminals instead..."
Recent Georgia Bureau of Investigation audit reports from 11 metro Atlanta police and sheriff's departments show an average error rate of 25%, meaning that one out of every four warrant entries could be invalid, inaccurate or incomplete. |
Citing Danger to Planes, Group Seeks Ban on a Sniper Rifle
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"A gun-control group has begun a new campaign against large sniper rifles, asserting that the rifles together with armor-piercing ammunition that bursts into flames on impact pose a serious threat to airliners at airports."
Lie: It's nearly impossible to shoot an airborne plane from the ground with this weapon, and it's impossible to sneak one into an airport past security to shoot an airliner that's on the ground.
"Tom Diaz, a senior policy analyst at the Violence Policy Center, the gun-control group that has long campaigned for bans on the .50-caliber rifles, said: 'This is not just a gun control issue. It's a national security issue.' "
Blatant lie: There has never been a documented use of this weapon by any terrorist group here in the US.
Click here for more info on the rifle in question. |
MN: Concealed Carry Bill Introduced
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MN Concealed Carry Bill Introduced. The Republican controlled House and Gov. Support this bill. Will the Dem. controlled Senate allow it to pass? Only the phone calls of the MN citizens will make the difference. |
MN: Ballistic fingerprinting by our very own anti-gun zealot
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Sen. Skoglund Minnesota's very own Chuck Schumer. He and the rest of the Democrat-controlled Senate have in the past been the reason MN doesn't have a shall issue concealed carry bill. Now he wants to register everyone's firearms. Give him a call. Contact info located here. |
NY: Busts in gun-running
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"For a decade, crack-dealing Bloods used illegal handguns to wreak havoc on the Gun Hill Houses in the Bronx, intimidating tenants and shooting rival dealers and gangsters. Yesterday, more than two dozen trailer park tenants were busted in Newport News, Va., and charged with making 'straw purchases' of handguns in exchange for crack." |
OH: Ohio House Expected to Pass Concealed Weapons Bill
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"Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder (R-Glenford) told FOX19 News he expects his chamber sometime soon will pass a bill that allow people to carry concealed weapons."
"Governor Taft has said he'll veto the bill because it's opposed by the Ohio State Patrol, which believes it would increase violence."
"Householder's response is that in the more than 40 states that already allow concealed carry, criminals are deterred by not knowing whether their next victim might be able to fire back." |
AZ: Lawmakers move to limit gun-free zones
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"City and state buildings have them. Schools have them. Large employers have them."
"They are gun-free zones, areas where people must not take their weapons, even if they have a concealed weapons permit."
"But some lawmakers say the idea is an affront to the Constitution, and they're pushing a bill that would take a swipe at the zones." |
ME: Motorists to sue Portland Police Department over accident
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"A Portland attorney said Wednesday he plans to sue the Portland PD on behalf of 2 people whose cars were damaged by a high-ranking police officer." ...
"These people were hurt serious enough to charge him with a felony. If you were in his position, you would be charged with aggravated (operating under the influence) with 6 months in prison and 6 months loss of license."
"Ross faces charges for allegedly having a BAC of 0.25 percent when he drove his unmarked police car into a pickup truck." |
Innocents Betrayed Progress Report
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"This film truly wipes out all of the arguments for 'gun control' - and destroys the credibility of 'gun control' lobbyists. How? By shining the awful truth directly into the hearts and minds of viewers. By making the very idea of 'gun control' seem not just stupid but sick and twisted." |
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