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NRA Director Sen. Larry Craig's Ammunition Ban Amendment
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"While National Rifle Association officials have been denying that they've been orchestrating a sellout in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) -- an NRA Director -- has been working on an ammunition ban. On the Senate floor today, he introduced, discussed, defended and tried to justify the 'Craig/Frist' amendment. This amendment, said Craig, is needed 'to strengthen current armor piercing ammunition law.' NRA's point-man in the U.S. Senate says that this is 'what the law enforcement community needs.' "
" 'We don't want to wipe out the hunting and sporting ammunition,' said Craig. The 'sporting purpose' test was used before -- as justification for firearm rights infringements via the 1938 Nazi Weapons Law ..." ... |
Senate OKs Handgun Locks Legislation
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"The GOP-controlled Senate voted 70-27 to require all handguns sold in the United States to have child safety locks, adding the measure to the legislation providing the gun industry immunity from suits when a legally sold gun is subsequently used in a crime."
"Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and Herb Kohl of Wisconsin argued that requiring child safety locks on newly purchased handguns would help reduce the number of children accidentally killed by handguns in the home. Every 48 hours, a child is killed through an accidental shooting, Boxer said."
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Senate Democrats Push Anti-gun Measures
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"Senate Democrats hope to complicate the future of a Republican-led bill that would shield gun manufacturers and distributors from lawsuits arising from crimes in which guns were used." ...
"Renewing the 1994 prohibition against "assault weapons" has been a Democrat priority this year. They picked up support Tuesday from GOP Sens. John Warner of Virginia, Mike DeWine of Ohio and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.
" 'Although I voted against the ban a decade ago, over the past 10 years it has reduced crime dramatically and has made our streets safer,' Warner said. 'The legislation also has protected the rights of gun owners better than many of us predicted.' "
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Extra Unemployment Benefits Lose in Senate
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"A Senate measure to extend federal unemployment benefits failed by two votes Thursday despite the election year support of 12 Republicans from states hit hard by layoffs."
"Democrats tried to attach the amendment to a gun liability bill, but it failed 58-39 in the GOP-controlled Senate."
"The measure would have extended the emergency benefits program for six months, providing 13 weeks of extra unemployment benefits to people who exhaust their state benefits - usually after 26 weeks."
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Senate to Vote on S. 253; The 'Steve Young Law Enforcement Officers' Safety Act' Debated in Senate, Vote Expected Tuesday
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"Chuck Canterbury, national president of the Grand Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police, urged all F.O.P. members and other law enforcement officers to contact their Senators and ask them to vote in favor of Senate Amendment 2623, the 'Steve Young Law Enforcement Officers' Safety Act,' which was offered today to S. 1805, the 'Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.' "
"The amendment is virtually identical to the F.O.P.'s top legislative priority, S. 253, and would exempt qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from State and local prohibitions with respect to the carrying of concealed firearms."
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"Officers who are traveling from one jurisdiction to another do not leave their instincts or training behind, but without their weapon, their knowledge and training is rendered virtually useless in a time of emergency..."
Trained and responsible gun owners also do not leave their knowledge and training behind, but why should they be denied, while the LEOs get to exercise their right to keep and bear arms nationwide? |
MO: Court approves concealed weapons
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"The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Missouri Legislature had the authority to permit citizens to carry concealed guns, but it also ruled the law does not have to be enforced in four counties where it was shown to impose an unfunded mandate."
"The ruling also opens a way for similar unfunded mandate claims to be made in other counties, raising the possibility of a piecemeal enforcement of the contentious new law."
"Supporters and opponents of concealed gun rights both claimed victory in the mixed decision."
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MO: Court Issues Split Ruling On Concealed Guns
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"The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the general constitutionality of a law allowing most adult Missourians to carry concealed guns, but prohibited its enforcement in four counties where the court said it would impose an unfunded mandate." ...
"Enacted when legislators overrode Democratic Gov. Bob Holden's veto, the law allows Missourians age 23 and older to receive concealed gun permits from their local sheriffs after passing criminal background checks, firearms training courses and paying a fee of up to $100."
"The law also entitles Missourians age 21 and older to conceal guns in their vehicles without need of a permit." |
MO: CCRKBA Congratulates Missouri Supreme Court for Gun Rights Ruling
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"The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today congratulated the Missouri Supreme Court for its intellectual honesty in ruling that there is no constitutional prohibition against carrying concealed firearms, thus upholding the Legislature's override of Gov. Bob Holden's veto last year."
" 'This is great news for the law-abiding citizens of Missouri, who may now join citizens in 46 other states in legally carrying firearms for their personal protection,' said CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron. 'Thanks to the intellectual honesty of Missouri's high court, the arguments of anti-self-defense fanatics who desperately tried to stop this law have been shown to be without merit.' " |
CA: Police who shot, killed suspected burglar remain on active duty
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"Pending investigations of their conduct, three Los Angeles police officers who shot and killed a suspected burglar in an incident that repeated was broadcast live on local TV stations remain on active duty, a police spokesman said."
"Officers Solis, Ramirez and Ocegueda had shot Nicholas Hans Killinger early Monday at the end of a 90-minute car chase."
"County coroner's investigators found 10 bullet wounds in Killinger's upper body and left arm after he was shot in front of a high school. He died of the wounds about an hour later."
"Solis and Ocegueda, in self-defense, fired multiple rounds at Killinger when they felt he 'was attempting to ram' a police vehicle, according to a statement released Wednesday." |
Guns, Gays And NASCAR Dads
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In an editorial on the Gun Immunity Law, Dick Meyer shows his true colors (along with the REAL reason some don't want this law):
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"...when it comes to voting behavior, gun control is the Gettysburg of the culture wars. Except for one thing: the Democrats have already retreated." ...
"This is an important piece of legislation because lawsuits brought by victims of gun violence and by municipalities, have become perhaps the most effective tactic in pushing for increased gun control and regulation, especially as advocates lose more and more battles in legislatures." |
NJ: Turning widows into felons
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"A1083 requires:
"Upon the death of an owner of a firearm, the administrator or executor of the estate shall turn over custody of the firearm to the chief law enforcement officer of the municipality in which the decedent resided"
"In other words, while the widow is grieving, she will have to
GO TO THE POLICE STATION TO DROP OFF HER DECEASED HUSBAND'S GUN COLLECTION OR ELSE BECOME A FELON!"
"How nice of Assemblywomen Weinberg being so thoughtful at the widow's time of need!"
Also note: (1) the bill conflicts with federal law by interfering with interstate transfer via inheritance and (2) it turns police stations into gun storage facilities so now the police can spend even less time fighting crime and more time doing paperwork and acting as temporary gun shops! |
IA: Police Chief Arrested On Assault Charges
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Laurens Police Chief Rodney Watkins was arrested Sunday on domestic abuse assault charges.
The mayor placed Watkins on administrative leave and appointed Phil Queen as acting police chief.
Two other officers will cover Watkins' shifts for the next couple of weeks.
Under Iowa law, a police officer convicted of domestic assault cannot carry a gun.
Watkins made national headlines last October when he asked a teenager to stop riding his wheelchair in the streets. Watkins said he was concerned about the boy's safety and threatened him with fines.
Last week, the Iowa Senate approved a bill clarifying a transportation policy that allows disabled Iowans to use motorized wheelchairs when and where they need. |
TN: Home Invasion Leads To Gunfire
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"A home invasion on Dorris Street led to gunfire when the homeowner came out of a bedroom with a handgun."
"Police said Willie Hall was in a bedroom asleep with his girlfriend, Jillian Phillips, when they heard a loud noise at the kitchen door. He grabbed his gun and went toward the kitchen, when he came face to face with two black males. One was holding two black revolvers."
"When the pair saw the homeowner's gun, they ran out the kitchen door they had just kicked in." |
NY: Fee plan threatens gun owners' rights
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"Over the past several weeks, my office has been inundated with letters and phone calls from constituents who take issue with the recent proposal to impose pistol permit fees and stricter gun renewal regulations in New York state."
"While New York clearly must explore every avenue possible to find ways to make ends meet and close its $4 billion to $5 billion budget shortfall, this must not come at the expense of our Second Amendment rights."
Joel M. Miller, R-Poughkeepsie, is a member of the New York state Assembly.
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More lies and misinformation from the anti front
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"The American public should know that a small number of federally licensed gun dealers supplied one of every five guns traced to crimes nationwide yet remain in business. People should know that guns used in 52 fatal shootings and other crimes were traced to one gun shop in Washington state that already had multiple violations of the law. That was before the same shop sold the rifle used by convicted Washington, D.C., sniper John Muhammad and teenage sidekick Lee Malvo to kill 16 people in five states in 2002."
"The public won't have access to this information anymore because Congress last month barred the release of such data to the public in the latest cave-in to the gun lobby. A little-publicized measure attached to a spending bill that funds major government agencies forbids the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from making public information about the AFT's [sic] records on tracing the source of guns used in crimes. Law enforcement agencies still have access to tracing information, but not the public." |
NY: Gun permit renewal plan drawing fire
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Pataki appears to be ticking off nearly everyone with his unconstitutional, repugnant attempt to eradicate gun ownership through taxes and fees.
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"Cayuga County lawmakers took aim Tuesday at a budget proposal by Gov. George E. Pataki to force handgun owners to renew the registration of their handguns every five years."
"At Tuesday's regular meeting, the county Legislature unanimously passed a resolution opposing Pataki's proposal." |
MD: Stokes retrial set on gun charges
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"Dontee D. Stokes, the city barber who was acquitted of shooting a priest he said molested him, will be retried on related handgun charges that were thrown out last week by the state's highest court, prosecutors said yesterday."
"The state will retry Stokes not in an attempt to send him to prison, but to prevent him from owning a handgun in the future, said Margaret T. Burns, a spokeswoman for the city state's attorney's office."
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Dr. Joyce Brothers: Owning guns helps erase feelings of inferiority
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"Gun ownership is extremely important to some people, and often they're not aware of why. To most, the gun means added power, something that erases all feelings of inferiority, weakness, vulnerability and impotence. It's not irrelevant that guns, in themselves, are so frequently linked to sexuality and the male sex organ. Think of the many slang terms common to both sex and guns, and the relationship becomes obvious. Guns have been accurately called 'the great equalizer.' "
"Some of this exaggerated need for protection -- and fear of what might happen were they not to have this -- might have been carried over from experiences in early childhood, at a time when they truly were weak, small and vulnerable to attack. If a boy were abused or brutalized in his youth by bullies or by bullying parents, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that he might still bear feelings of anger and resentment and a desire for an assurance that no one could ever humiliate or hurt him again."
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How about people who live in gated communities. Many of them have intruder alarms. Are their fears exaggerated?
In her inane attempt in trying to link feelings of inadequacy, sexual and otherwise, to human beings exercising their basic human rights, Dr. Brothers reveals much more about herself than she does about gun owners. |
VA: Plea Agreement In School Shooting
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"A lawyer representing three students wounded during a deadly shooting rampage at the Appalachian School of Law suggested today that prosecutors are offering a plea agreement to the alleged shooter partly to keep embarrassing facts about the school hidden." ...
"Yeary said the plea agreement, which would put Odighizuwa in prison for life, would curtail any investigation into the school's culpability in the shootings. In lawsuits seeking $22.8 million, the students allege that school administrators knew Odighizuwa was dangerous, but allowed him to continue classes despite failing grades because they needed minority students to help the school reach accreditation requirements." ...
"Some of these facts could certainly be extremely embarrassing and incriminating to the law school and certain people..."
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List of Senators running in 2004 - MCCAIN IS ON LIST
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Here is a list of Senators up for re-election this year to call and urge to pass S. 1805 WITHOUT any further restrictions on our rights.
Be sure to give McCain a call and let him know his re-election is in jeopardy!!! |
Gunfight at the Collectivists' Corral
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Democrats are eager to fight this election on the economy, education, the deficit, but today they're stuck fighting each other over one of the most potent wedge issues around -- guns.
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"Today the Senate continues to debate a bill protecting gun dealers and makers from negligence lawsuits, and the Democrats are all over the map."
"Most red-state Democrats voted for the bill. Most blue-state Democrats voted against it."
"John Kerry didn't show up to vote, but he.....opposes the bill."
Meanwhile, the usual suspects are frothing mad...
"We are tired of this as hell and we're not going to take it anymore," raged Lautenberg.
"When the NRA says jump, too many members of Congress say, 'How high?' " fumed Clinton. |
CO: Authorities had many contacts with killers before Columbine massacre
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"Authorities had at least 15 contacts with the Columbine High School killers dating back two years before their murderous attack, Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar said today in a report that angered families of the victims."
"Salazar also said he is investigating whether authorities tried to cover up what they knew about the rampage." ...
"...Authorities have said an anonymous tip that year led a deputy to a website run by Harris that said the two teens had built pipe bombs and concluded: 'Now our only problem is to find the place that will be 'ground zero'." |
UK: Three held in shotgun probe
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"ARMED police swooped on a wood in Huddersfield after shots were heard and people were seen with guns."
"The firearms officers responded after a man and two youths were seen at Round Wood, off Woodedge Avenue in Waterloo, at 4.30pm yesterday."
"Sgt Tim O'Sullivan, of Huddersfield police, said: 'The armed officers could hear firearms being discharged in the wood and arrested the three at gunpoint.' "
"They were taken to Huddersfield police station for questioning."
"The three - a 20-year-old man and two boys aged 14 and 15 - all come from Waterloo."
"Sgt Tim O'Sullivan, of Huddersfield police, said: 'This must have been a frightening experience for witnesses who saw these people with weapons.'
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DC: Williams, Ramsey Plead With Hatch To Remove Gun Ban Repeal
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D.C.'s police chief says Senator Orrin Hatch will give some thought to withdrawing his amendment that would overturn the city's handgun ban - but made no promises.
Charles Ramsey and Mayor Anthony Williams met with the Utah Republican Wednesday asking him not to try to repeal the city's handgun ban. Hatch's amendment is part of a bill that would protect gun manufacturers from lawsuits over gun crimes. The bill has already won the support of 75 senators in a test vote.
Ramsey says that Hatch has expressed a desire to work alongside city officials on the issue. Ramsey says it should be up to the city to change its laws - not congressman from other parts of the country.
A federal judge upheld D.C.'s gun ban in January, dismissing a lawsuit by a group of citizens backed by the National Rifle Association. |
Democrats encouraged by Senate approval of amendment requiring handgun safety locks
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"A Senate agreement requiring child safety locks on U.S. handguns gave Democrats encouragement Thursday that renewing an assault weapons ban might also become part of a package to protect gun makers and sellers from gun crime lawsuits."
"The GOP-controlled Senate voted 70-27 to require all handguns sold in the United States to have child safety locks, adding the measure to the legislation providing the gun industry immunity from suits when a legally sold gun is subsequently used in a crime."
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NY: Cab driver robbed in "gun free" utopia
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"Investigators say 2-black men and a black woman got into a city cab around 11:45 last night in downtown Binghamton."
"They asked the driver to take them to West Endicott. As the cab drove on Glendale Road in the Town of Union one of the passengers pulled a gun."
"Deputies say the suspects then choked the driver with a seatbelt until he passed out. They left on foot with cash." |
Gun-Rights Supporter Harassed for Exercising 1st Amendment
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"The result of Mr. Codrea's satirical letter has been an investigation launched by the San Francisco Police Department, a personal visit from the Redondo Beach Police Department, a death-wish from a Canadian anti-gun-rights nut, and a subsequent report to the FBI by the aforementioned nut." ...
"Many of us already watch our p's and q's when it comes to the subject of firearms. We tend not to discuss our love of freedom and passion for shooting, preferring to keep it a secret part of our lives. Surely OUR First Amendment rights are in jeopardy."
"There is only one cure for this ailment. That is to keep talking. Speak up every chance you get. Don't let anyone intimate you into keeping quiet about the subject of firearms. Remember, 'gun' is not a four-letter word." |
Guns At Their Backs
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"The Senate is poised to pass legislation today that would immunize gun manufacturers from civil lawsuits. But by agreeing to support the measure � with amendments attached to renew the assault weapons ban and close the gun show loophole � Democrats are sacrificing long-held principles for short-term electoral gains." ...
"... A memo from Democratic pollster Mark Penn, Jonathan Cowan of Americans for Gun Safety and former Al Gore campaign aide Doug Hattaway � which was handed out to Senate Democrats and candidates � said that Democrats must pass the bill in order to reach out to union members and pick up states that Bush won in 2000, according to Roll Call."
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Assault weapons ban faces expiration - Proponents accuse Bush of resorting to political trickery
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"Proponents of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's decade-old federal assault weapons ban accused President Bush on Wednesday of using political sleight of hand to break his promise to support their bid to reauthorize the legislation for another 10 years."
"As the Senate started debating a bill that would grant gun manufacturers and dealers unprecedented protection against almost all civil lawsuits, the White House issued a statement of policy saying the president didn't want any amendments to the bill, which is a key priority for the National Rifle Association and its allies. Since proponents of the assault weapons ban say their best and perhaps only chance of getting the law renewed is as part of the bill on blocking lawsuits, they cried foul." |
IL: Illinois Amish Seek FOID Card Photo Exemption
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"Illinois firearm owners' cards require a photo, but Amish residents want an exception for them reinstated."
"The Senate Judiciary Committee today OK'd legislation that would exempt Amish from the requirement but said they want a compromise reached with the Illinois State Police."
"Cleric Roy Headings of the Fairfield Amish Mennonite Church near Tampico says Amish avoid personal photographs because they believe they lead to idolatry, but he says many Amish are avid hunters. Amish were exempted before the September 2001 terrorist attacks. The state police then rescinded the exception."
"Under Republican Sen. Frank Watson's bill people could get the exemption if a church leader provides a letter and they are fingerprinted." |
Gun show amendment could snag bill
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"In a 75-22 vote, senators, including Mississippi Republicans Trent Lott and Thad Cochran, voted to move forward with debate, demonstrating the gun dealer immunity bill is widely supported. But Democrats are pushing amendments that would make the final vote less secure."
"The amendment would require background checks for everyone buying from a gun show or any event where at least 75 firearms are for sale. Gun owners who are not licensed dealers are permitted to privately sell their guns to others without performing a background check."
"Mississippi is responsible for the highest guns sold per-capita to criminals in any state, according to Americans for Gun Safety, an organization hoping the gun show loophole amendment would curb gun sales to criminals."
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UK: Secrets Act reviewed after Gun case
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"The Government is to review the working of the Official Secrets Act following the collapse of the case against ex-GCHQ worker Katharine Gun, says Downing Street."
"Prime Minister Tony Blair's official spokesman said the Government had been disappointed by the decision to offer no evidence against Mrs Gun, who admitted leaking details of US requests for eavesdropping help against United Nations delegates in the run-up to the Iraq war." |
CO: Gun-show law is working
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"Colorado has made itself part of the solution in preventing firearms from falling into the wrong hands."
"The state's per-capita ranking as an exporter of guns used in crimes has dropped from a shameful 17th place to 27th, says Americans for Gun Safety. The group based its figures on 36,828 federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms criminal traces of guns bought in one state but used for criminal purposes in another."
"The welcome decline occurred the year after Colorado mandated background checks for firearms sold at gun shows."
"The National Rifle Association disputes the findings because the report doesn't show how many of the traced guns actually were purchased at gun shows."
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AL: Third-grader back in school after suspension for having toy gun
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"A third-grader suspended for bringing an inch-long, G.I. Joe toy gun to school was reinstated Thursday, after school officials decided the toy wasn't a violation of a zero-tolerance policy against weapons, the boy's grandmother said." ...
"They voided the suspension and said even the days he was out would be excused, and he would make up all of his work, and this would not be on his record..." |
LEAA Commends Senators for trying to create an elite class of people privileged enough to carry firearms
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"Law Enforcement Alliance of America (LEAA) Executive Director and retired police officer Jim Fotis commended Senators Hatch (R-Utah), Leahy (D-Vt.), and their colleagues for introducing an amendment to the gun lawsuit legislation that would allow qualified off duty and retired law enforcement officers to carry their firearms nationwide."
"The amendment ads the text of the Law Enforcement Officer Safety Act of 2003 (S. 253) to the gun lawsuit bill. S. 253 allows qualified off-duty and retired law enforcement officers to carry their firearms nationwide." ... |
Gun-Shy Democrats Are Giving the NRA Room to Maneuver
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"These are tough times for the gun control crowd."
"After 13 people were shot to death in 1999 at Columbine High School in Colorado, Democrats led a stampede in Congress to pass tougher gun laws. Now some of those same politicians are lining up with the National Rifle Assn. to soften gun regulations."
"Congress has voted this year to require speedier destruction of gun purchase records; the renewal of a 1994 law banning assault weapons faces an uphill battle; and on Wednesday, the Senate debated a measure shielding gun makers and sellers from lawsuits by gunshot victims."
"Many Democrats think Al Gore, the Democratic nominee in 2000, lost support in some pivotal rural states because he supported tough gun control." |
MD: How to be a good witness (read: victim) if you are being robbed
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"If a weapon is shown, while you may be very frightened, try to make a mental note of it. If it is a gun, look at the size, color and shape. If the robber brandishes a knife, note the same characteristics. However, if a note is used, try to hold on to it for investigation later by the police forensics team. Criminals will often leave the note behind, but do not force the issue if a criminal wants the note back." ...
"Don't volunteer any information. When the robber has left, call 911 immediately." |
FBI Bans Taking Items From Crime Scenes
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"The FBI banned agents from removing anything from crime scenes or evidence sites after a Justice Department review found 13 agents took chunks of concrete, pieces of metal, U.S. flags and a Tiffany globe paperweight from the rubble of the World Trade Center."
"None of the agents has been charged with a crime. One was suspended for 10 days for shipping 80 pounds of debris to his home office, and another is under investigation by the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility for making misleading statements about what was taken from the debris collection site at the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island, N.Y." |
MA: Another cab driver robbed in Fitchburg
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"A man allegedly robbed a 23-year-old rookie cab driver at the intersection of Read and West streets early Wednesday morning."
"The armed robbery of a rookie driver for GG's Taxi happened the same day prosecutors tried to wrap up a case involving a spree of cab-jackings that terrorized Fitchburg taxi drivers a year ago."
" 'Now all my drivers are nervous,' said David Bourke, a driver and owner of GG's Taxi."
"Bourke does not believe there is anything drivers or his company, GG's Taxi, can do to keep drivers safe from cab-jackings."
" 'There is no protection,' said Bourke. 'Taxi drivers need to be allowed to carry mace or get an FID (Firearm Identification) card.' " |
USA Patriot Act: Sacrificing civil liberties for safety
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"Rep. James Langevin played host on Monday to a panel discussion on the controversial USA Patriot Act. The six experts and activists on the stage at North Kingstown High School argued back and forth over some of the provisions in the act and whether or not it infringes upon the civil liberties protected in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights."
"But both the pro-Patriot Act and the anti-Patriot Act panelists glossed over the most important topic of all, the pervasive climate of fear and suspicion that enveloped the nation in the weeks and months after Sept. 11." |
Many unsure what U.S. Patriot Act says
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"While most Americans favor the idea of the U.S. Patriot Act, many don't know what it says or does, it was reported Thursday."
"With its poll showing widespread support of the idea, USA Today says there is a widespread confusing, troubling feeling about the law that gives federal agents more latitude to spy on U.S. citizens and non-citizens while hunting terrorists." |
NY: Senate GOP rejects hand gun fee hike
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"The Republican-led state Senate is rejecting Gov. George Pataki's plan to increase handgun permit fees and to close the Middletown Psychiatric Center, a state lawmaker and spokesman for Majority Leader Joseph Bruno said Thursday."
"Senate Republicans will not go along with Pataki's plan to add a $100 fee for the state when handgun permits are issued and a $25 state fee every time a pistol is added to the permit, said Sen. John Bonacic, a Republican from Orange County. Bruno spokesman Mark Hansen later confirmed his boss's opposition to the fee increase." |
Zimbabwe: We paid cop $5m to facilitate escape say suspects
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"SIX of the seven suspected armed robbers who were re-arrested after they fled from police custody at Southerton Police Station yesterday revealed to a Harare Magistrate�s Court that an officer at the station facilitated their escape".
"The six ...said this when they appeared before magistrate Ms Faith Musinga to answer to charges of contravening the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act."
"They said they had paid a police officer $5 million to facilitate their escape from holding cells at Southerton Police Station."
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Smith & Wesson's new chairman resigns over old crimes
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"The new chairman of the board of Smith & Wesson's parent company resigned following reports that he committed a string of armed robberies in the 1950s and 1960s."
"James Joseph Minder, who had been an outside director of Smith & Wesson Holding Corp., said he submitted his resignation voluntarily at a directors meeting this week." |
New Zealand: Second armed robbery at pub in six months
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A masked robber armed with a pistol made off with about $12,000 from the Albion Hotel in Central Auckland on Wednesday night.
Police are speaking to witnesses who were at the pub during the holdup at 10pm. The robber was described as Maori, about 1.76m tall and slim.
The robbery was the second at the Albion in the past six months.
A balaclava-clad man with a shotgun took a large sum of cash in a holdup at Labour Day weekend.
Detective Sergeant Peter Steward said police would look for any correlation between the robberies. |
UT: The almighty gun (Letter)
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"So, state Sen. Mike Waddoups introduced Senate Bill 48 in order to strip the University of Utah of its right to keep concealed weapons off its campus. Then he opposed an amendment to the bill that would allow private property owners to ban guns from their own premises."
"Waddoups says such restrictions would create a big problem for the state's 50,000-odd (pun intended) concealed-carry permit holders. Did it ever occur to him that having 50,000 paranoid, would-be Rambos (remember pistol-shootin' former legislator David Bresnahan?) running around might be a big problem for the rest of us 2 million Utahns?"
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LA: Armed sailor holding woman hostage
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"An off-duty sailor armed with a pistol was holding a woman hostage in an apparent domestic dispute at the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse, a spokesman for the air station said Wednesday night." ...
"The sailor, whose name wasn't released, entered the workplace of the unidentified civilian contract worker about 4 p.m. and took her hostage, the spokesman said."
"The hostage situation occurred in the Billeting Office on the base, Senior Chief Petty Officer James Christian said. The Navy called it a 'domestic victim issue.' "
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UK: Man Jailed for Running 'Arms Factory' from Home
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"A man who ran a 'major firearm conversion factory' in his terrace home was jailed today for nine years."
"Jobless Paul Henry Packham was found with an illegal cache of weapons, ammunition and drugs � including stun guns, CS spray canisters and more than 60 pistols � at his home."
"Officers also found two hydroponic systems for growing cannabis, and a workshop equipped to convert blank firing guns into lethal weapons, together with facilities to make ammunitions for the converted handguns."
"The arsenal and cannabis factory were found during an early morning raid on November 6 last year by detectives and specialist firearms officers from the Met�s Central Task Force."
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U.S. Senate Rejects Measure to Allow Sniper Lawsuits
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"Debating a bill to give the gun industry broad immunity from civil lawsuits, the U.S. Senate on Thursday rejected a proposal that would have guaranteed families of victims of the 2002 Washington area snipers could pursue their cases in court."
"Earlier, in a rare victory for gun control advocates, the Senate voted 70-27 to require handguns to be sold with a trigger lock or similar child safety device."
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IN: Police Say Shooting In Officer's Home Believed Accidental - Teenage Girl Suffers Shoulder Wound; Officer's Son Allegedly Held Rifle
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"A Cloverdale police officer's son apparently was cleaning a rifle when it fired, wounding his 15-year-old girlfriend, state police say."
"The girl, whose name was not available, was treated at Methodist Hospital for a shot to the shoulder area and released."
"State police are investigating the shooting, which happened this month in the home of Officer Tim Walker. Police said they believe the shooting was accidental."
"Walker's 15-year-old son, whose name was not released, said he was cleaning a rifle of his dad's, according to police. The weapon fired, striking the girl."
"Because Walker works for the Cloverdale PD, the department handed the investigation to the Indiana State Police."
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