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NC: Official urges families to buy guns
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"A city alderman peeved some residents of his ward Thursday when he told them to keep guns in their homes for protection in case of a disaster." ...
"Robinson said people who stocked up on food and water would need guns to fend off people who had no supplies. Federal officials would have recommended guns in the warning if not for anti-gun sentiment in the country, Robinson said." |
Canada: Mounties Make Gun Sweep
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"The RCMP have made their largest weapons seizure in Manitoba history. On February 11th, RCMP raided four separate locations, netting 197 weapons and a large amount of ammunition."
"The raids were carried out at a residence on Enfield Crescent in St. Boniface, a St. Anthony Ave apartment, a residence at the 400 block of Hospital St. in Steinbach and a farm southeast of Steinbach." |
CT: A Sizable Risk Pays Off For Target Of Stickup (Another report)
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"[The Police] also said they would never recommend that anyone try to resist an armed holdup. As one officer put it: 'Comply, comply, comply.' " ...
"Despite some law enforcers' opinions that Jarvis' actions were risky and dangerous, Jarvis said he has no regrets. He'd do it again, he said."
" 'I'm not going to let these people ruin my life,' he said. 'They're just terrorists to me.' " |
UK: Baton used in murder
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"A postman murdered as he delivered the morning mail was bludgeoned about the head with a wooden baton, detectives revealed yesterday."
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Is "Bowling For Columbine" More Important Than "Innocents Betrayed"?
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"If 'documentary' means 'a factual presentation,' "Bowling for Columbine" is anything but. The very title reflects one of Moore's many false claims: that the Columbine High School killers were so casual about their deeds that they went bowling just before committing mass murder. It never happened." ...
" 'Bowling for Columbine' cost $3.2 million to make -- that's more than 32 times what JPFO has been able to raise for our documentary, 'Innocents Betrayed.' " ...
"But sadly we don't have that kind of support. Money flows to the left from corporations, governments, foundations, and wealthy individual donors. The victim-disarming left is buying public opinion with its millions."
"Meanwhile, too many people on our side think that freedom is free." |
Feds Look to Expand Electronic Surveillance (Another report)
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Drafted by Attorney General John Ashcroft, the 'Domestic Security Enhancement Act' would increase the powers of the so-called 'PATRIOT Act', by allowing the government to: obtain an individual's credit report without a subpoena, and treat individual suspects as foreign powers (among other things).
Copies of the proposal were sent to Cheney and Hastert last month. |
CA: Violence erupts at food bank
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"Stockton police say an argument Thursday morning over people cutting in line at the Emergency Food Bank ended with a 79-year-old man taking a pruning saw to another patron."
"Police said the victim, Robert Gomez, 56, of Stockton was cut on his head. Police said the suspect, Olbyjee Cykasuawaa of the 9400 block of Parrish Lane, carried the gardening tool in a homemade sheath."
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CA: County, Gun Show Settle Suits Over Ouster From Fairplex
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"Los Angeles County will pay $1.6 million to settle two suits brought by the operators of a long-running gun show that the county kicked off its property in 1999, lawyers said yesterday."
"Great Western Shows, Inc. will not try to bring back its gun show to the Fairplex at Pomona or any other county-owned property under the agreement, which was negotiated by county lawyers under authority given in December by the Board of Supervisors." |
PA: FBI To Start From Scratch In Ellerbe Case
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"A federal prosecutor said her office and the FBI will start from scratch when they investigate the fatal state police shooting of a 12-year-old boy."
"That means, among other things, that federal authorities won't rely on a Fayette County investigation that last month cleared two troopers of criminal wrongdoing -- and that additional witnesses might be interviewed in the latest probe of Michael Ellerbe's death, U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan said." |
AR: Arkansas Senate approves gun bill for federal judges
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"The bill would allow federal trial judges, bankruptcy judges and magistrates throughout Arkansas to carry concealed handguns. First they would have to certify to the chief district judge that they have taken a state-approved handgun safety course." ...
"Sen. Jim Argue of Little Rock said the legislation is unnecessary. He wondered why the judges couldn't just apply for a concealed-gun permit just like any other citizen has the right to do under existing law." |
NH: Attorney OKs gun training
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"The Rockingham County Attorney has told the Board of Selectmen there is no basis for an investigation into the practice of a Seabrook officer or officers training Seabrook Station personnel at the town gun range."
"The selectmen have raised concern about the practice, particularly in light of potential liability to the town." |
VA: Bill to allow guns in bars and restaurants dies
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"Legislation that would give people licensed to carry concealed weapons the right to bring them into bars and restaurants died in a Senate committee today. The Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee allowed Del. Lee Ware's bill to expire without a recorded vote. The committee will not meet again before the General Assembly's scheduled adjournment Feb. 22." |
MD: Punishment May Come Down On Deputies
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The Baltimore City Sheriff's office will announce Monday if it will discipline deputies involved in a violent confrontation at Lexington Market.
The City State's Attorney's Office decided not to file criminal charges against deputies accused of shooting Rolando Sanchez with a stun gun.
The deputies mistook Sanchez for a bank robber and then allegedly left him lying on the ground as they ran out. |
CA: Baja officials destroy guns traded for food coupons in Tijuana
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"A roller machine twisted and flattened rows of guns yesterday as soldiers stoked a fire where the wooden rifle handles crumbled into ash."
"The destruction of thousands of weapons marked the festive end of a statewide program that encouraged residents to turn in their pistols and rifles for food coupons." ...
"A total of 5,931 guns were collected throughout Baja California, exceeding the previous year's total of 5,000." |
FL: Salinas settles wrongful death suit for $301,000
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"Cartagena was shot in December 1999 after police saw a scuffle in a market parking lot."
"The Monterey County D-A says Officer Dana Cornelison confronted Cartagena and a woman as they fought over his car keys. The woman said she was trying to keep a drunken Cartagena from driving the car."
"Cornelison apparently had his finger on the trigger of his service revolver and fired the gun accidentally. He was cleared of criminal wrongdoing." |
UK: Police still hunting for Birmingham gunmen
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"Police are still hunting the gunmen who murdered the two girls outside a hairdressing salon in the Aston area of Birmingham while attending a New Year's party."
"Detectives believe the girls were the innocent victims of a bitter feud between two rival North Birmingham gangs." |
Philippines: Cadiz cop nabbed for gunrunning
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"A policeman from the Cadiz City Police Station has been arrested after being intercepted at a checkpoint in Catmon, Cebu, while allegedly transporting 19 homemade handguns."
"Police Officer 1 Jessie Morin faces summary dismissal after National Police chief Director General Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. ordered the conduct of the appropriate proceedings on the administrative aspect of the case. Criminal charges will also be filed in court against Morin for illegal possession of firearms." |
Australia: More gun than anyone needs
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"Violence Policy Centre executive director Josh Sugarmann said: 'This gun is not being made for hunters in Africa. It's being made for bored white gun owners in America. Why are they putting so much fire power into people's hands?' "
"The real question, say some gun experts, is why are people demanding it?"
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Right to bear arms clearly delineated, law professor says
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"The meaning of the Second Amendment is crystal clear, said Nelson Lund, a law professor at George Mason University school of law in Fairfax, Va."
" 'In fact, for over a hundred years after the amendment was adopted, there was no controversy about its meaning,' Mr. Lund said yesterday... 'Everyone who wrote seriously about it agreed that it protected an individual right to keep and bear arms, just like the individual rights in the First Amendment and the Fourth Amendment.' " |
OH: Judge asked to lift ruling on weapons
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"The Seneca County prosecutor asked Judge Michael Kelbley yesterday to issue a stay of his ruling that declared the state�s concealed weapon ban unconstitutional."
"In a motion filed in Seneca County Common Pleas Court, Ken Egbert, Jr., said he would appeal the decision today to the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Lima, Ohio." ...
"As part of his ruling Tuesday, Judge Kelbley dismissed felony charges against a Fostoria woman arrested in July, 2002, after a loaded handgun was found in her car. The woman told authorities she hid a gun under her seat because she had been raped twice and feared for her safety."
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AR: Concealed guns legislation moves to Senate floor
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"The state House of Representatives has approved and sent on to the Senate legislation co-sponsored by state Rep. Johnny Key of Mountain Home that, if approved, will allow concealed handguns in parks and in restaurants that serve alcohol."
... "Supporters said people with permits to carry concealed weapons are law-abiding, and could use their weapons to put an end to violent encounters."
" 'Concealed weapon permit-holders have proven themselves,' said the sponsor..." |
IL: Chicago gun plan hurt in House bill
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"A last-minute rider slipped in the giant fiscal 2003 spending bill approved by the House on Thursday and poised to be passed by the Senate gives the federal government the ability to deny gun ownership records requested by the City of Chicago."
... "The provision bans the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms from releasing to the city information from its Trace and Multiple Sale Database by exempting the data from the federal Freedom of Information Act." ... |
Second Amendment chair at George Mason
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"SECOND AMENDMENT CHAIR AT GEORGE MASON: The ABA Journal has a pretty balanced article on the NRA's endowing a Patrick Henry Professorship of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment at George Mason University. The first holder of the Professorship is my friend Nelson Lund, who really is a top scholar both of the Second Amendment and other fields." |
OH: Gun Rights Group Applauds Fifth Judge to Nullify State Gun Ban
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"Defense attorney Mark Klepatz said 'It takes courage for a judge to see that a statute is unconstitutional, because essentially, you're telling the legislature that you have to take a second look at what you did.' "
"We agree. 'Focusing on the unconstitutional law reminds law-makers that reform is needed,' said Jeff Garvas, president of OFCC. 'Crafting a concealed carry license system and leaving the unconstitutional language in the law is unacceptable.' " |
UK: Knifed to death by mistake
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"A thug knifed to death an innocent man in a revenge attack - after storming into the WRONG HOUSE."
"Prosecutor Nicholas Hilliard said: 'The awful fact is that the gang got the wrong address. Mr. Shah died simply because he lived there.' "
"After the verdicts, Mr. Shah�s weeping brother Atul, 38, said: 'Naresh was a hard-working, gentle person. He should have been safe in his own home. We�ll never get over his death.' "
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NY: Appeals court upholds ruling on banned protest
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"A federal appeals court agreed Wednesday that the city did not violate the First Amendment when it banned anti-war demonstrators from marching near the United Nations next weekend."
"The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it could find no errors in a judge's ruling this week that found the city acted legally when it permitted a rally for 100,000 people or more, but barred a march this Saturday." |
MO: Woman Shoots Estranged Husband Twice
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A Kansas City woman said she was kidnapped and bound with duct tape, and she told police she fought back by shooting her estranged husband twice.
Police said the man abducted her, restrained her with duct tape and then hit her with a hammer.
The woman managed to grab a gun and fire, striking her husband in the neck and leg.
There was no word on their conditions or on any charges.
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Bill Hides Gun Records From Public View
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"Before the Supreme Court rules on the issue, congressional Republicans included a provision in the mammoth spending bill to keep the government from releasing the names of gun shops and gun owners whose weapons were used in crimes."
"The provision, written by Rep. George Nethercutt, R-Wash., ...prevents the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms from spending money to release the data." |
Bellesiles' lies to be published again
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" 'This is not the first time it has fallen to Soft Skull to ensure the American public can read books the Right doesn't like,' says Publisher Richard Nash. 'It is imperative that we stand up to the NRA smear machine. We believe in allowing readers to evaluate for themselves how Bellesiles has responded to the legitimate criticisms and whether the core thesis of the book-the undermining of the creation myth of the Second Amendment-stands up.' "
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MI: Wyoming settles over officer's alleged abuse of power
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... "According to court records, he pulled a gun from his waistband and put it under the seat and ordered Starr to have sex with him. Starr says the sex was not consensual."
... "Wyoming's investigation found Pierce's conduct was a fireable offense. But no criminal charges will be filed against Pierce. The State Police investigation determined the sex was consensual." |
Suit Limits, Panel's Airline Connections
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"A federal commission assigned to investigate the attacks includes members of law firms that lobby for the airline industry. And people seeking claims from the federal Sept. 11 Victims Compensation Fund cannot sue the airlines; relatives say such lawsuits could uncover pre-attack security flaws.
" 'I believe the government is protecting the carriers, but I also believe the government is protecting itself,' said Mary Schiavo, a former Transportation Department inspector general..." |
'Prison Fellowship' Program Violates Constitution, Group Charges
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"The use of government funds for a program that seeks to rehabilitate Iowa prison inmates is unconstitutional because it promotes fundamentalist Christianity, a national advocacy group said in two federal lawsuits filed this week."
"The InnerChange Freedom Initiative ...indoctrinates prisoners in religion and discriminates in hiring staff on religious grounds. Therefore, the program should not receive federal funds, Americans United for Separation of Church and State said." |
CA: Cop suspended over run-in; 'Intimidated elderly female neighbor'
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"A San Francisco police inspector received a 45-day suspension Wednesday night for getting his elderly neighbor hauled to the police station after she cut a hedge near their homes."
"The Police Commission's suspension of Inspector James Zerga, a 28-year veteran assigned to the sexual assault detail, stems from the abuse of his police authority to 'harass, annoy and intimidate an elderly female neighbor in poor health,' according to administrative charges ..." |
How to act if approached by the police
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"Don't offer more information than necessary. ...Unless you are in a car, you usually can't be forced to identify yourself, but refusal may raise suspicion." ...
"Don't consent to any further search. That doesn't mean you resist, but you politely decline permission for any further search."
"Submit if the police insist on searching you further. Your verbal denial of consent may help you if the matter goes to court." |
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