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PA: Mayor out of coalition
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Wolf confirmed the move Monday when asked about a news release issued by the Second Amendment Foundation claiming she and other mayors had dropped out of the coalition because they found some of Bloomberg�s positions in �conflict with legal gun ownership.�
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IA: Police: Woman shot in self-defense
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A commotion at that window early Saturday caused Bell, the owner of the apartment building, to get her gun.
�She sleeps with a shotgun under her mattress,� Stanley explained. �We asked her about that. She said she used to live in Chicago.� |
MT: HB340 would undermine state's safety
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Ignoring pleas of the Montana organizations representing sheriffs, police officers and county attorneys, the Montana House of Representatives passed on for the Senate's consideration House Bill 340. The bill seeks to overhaul Montana laws relating to gun possession, use and self-defense. |
VA: Gun rights: I�ll second that amendment
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On 9 March 2007, liberals lost a gun fight. The U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decided to restore to citizens of Washington, D. C., a Constitutional right that had been denied them for 31 years. In a 2 to 1 decision, the court decided that the city�s law banning all handguns, requiring shotguns and rifles to be disassembled or locked while in the home, and additionally requiring a permit to keep such guns in the home, was a violation of the right to keep and bear arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment. |
DC: Gun Laws and the Bill of Rights
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Mr. Chemerinsky claimed the court "interpreted the Second Amendment as bestowing on individuals a right to have guns." No, it said, "[T]he Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. That right existed prior to the formation of the new government under the Constitution . . . ." In recognizing that the right predated the Constitution, the court recognized that it must be individually held. |
IL: Handgun bans' logic got shot full of holes
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Our good and well-meaning friends in Chicago, Wilmette and other towns that have outlawed the possession of handguns, even in the sanctity and privacy of the home, might want to notice that the nation's second-highest court has tossed out a similar weapons ban.
By overturning a Washington, D.C., handgun ban 10 days ago, the district's federal appeals court affirmed that bearing arms is an individual right, in existence even prior to the writing of the Constitution. The ruling puts the court at odds with 10 of the 11 other federal appeals courts, which have ruled that bearing arms is a just a collective right, meant only to ensure that the civilians who serve in state militias are armed. |
DC: State of the Second Amendment: Does It Apply in the District of Columbia?
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But even if the Supreme Court agrees to hear the case, there remains a potentially significant obstacle that may prevent the justices from using the case to resolve whether the "individual right" or "collective right" view of the Second Amendment is proper. The obstacle, which is the central focus of D.C. Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson's dissenting opinion, is that the Second Amendment may not apply to the District of Columbia. |
MI: Second Amendment decision has Copper Country connection
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It takes a lot of history to explain how a retired Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park ranger had anything to do with last Friday�s federal appeals court decision overturning Washington D.C.�s handgun ban.
But history, especially of the constitution and its second amendment, is what David Young is all about. |
OR: Second Amendment no dead letter, says appeals court
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"The Population of the Nanny State, being composed of irresponsible rednecks, rejects and retards, must not be allowed to have Arms."
- The Second Amendment as seen through liberal eyes, according to Human Events columnist Mack Johnson.
That's how many on the left would indeed phrase the amendment, but now we have a substantial opinion from an influential federal appeals court saying they are wrong. |
DC: Unalarming, impeccable ruling
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a constitutional right of individuals to keep handguns suitable for militia duty in the home under the Second Amendment in Parker v. District of Columbia (March 9, 2007). Writing for a 2-1 panel majority, Judge Laurence Silberman convincingly demonstrated that any other conclusion would require flouting language carefully chosen by the Founding Fathers and the Second Amendment's self-defense purposes. His opinion sets a standard of constitutional interpretation to which the wise and honest may repair. |
NY: Guns aren't enough - pols want bullet control
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Getting guns off the street is not enough to stop violent crime, a group of lawmakers said yesterday. You have to stop the bullets, too. "For far too long we have ignored the relationship between bullets and gun crimes," state Sen. Eric Adams (D-Brooklyn), a former NYPD captain, said as he held a hollow-point slug. "We can no longer allow this item, this bullet, to be that silent partner." Adams said he was introducing legislation that would mandate the tracking of ammunition and force buyers to register the bullets they purchase. |
NJ: Rising threat brings firepower upgrade for police
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Local police are in the forefront of a nationwide move by law enforcement to upgrade their firepower in the face of high-powered weapons used by criminals.
"I don't want our officers outgunned," Chief Timothy Codispoti said. "We have an obligation to protect the community. This provides a greater deterrent to violent crime."
To meet the increasing threat of criminal violence, Codispoti has instituted a requirement that all patrol sergeants have fully automatic weapons in their vehicles. Sergeants are receiving specialized training on the operation of the M-4, an assault weapon currently used by American troops in Iraq.
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PA: Trooper Accused Of Beating Woman
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MIDDLETOWN, Pa. -- A state police trooper has been accused of beating a woman.
Police in Dauphin County said trooper Michael Myers got into a fight with the woman at her home in Middletown.
Police said the woman told them Myers pushed her down several times and struck her face, causing her nose to bleed.
Myers is assigned to the Avondale Barracks. State police said he would be suspended without pay pending an internal investigation. |
NY: Biathlon course planned for ski jumps
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Area biathletes need a new summer training facility, according to the state Olympic Regional Development Authority, which is hoping to build one by the end of the summer. Bob Hammond, ORDA�s project administrator, presented ORDA�s plans for a new biathlon training course to be located behind the jumps at the Olympic Ski Jumping Complex, to the North Elba Town Board Tuesday night at their regular meeting. Hammond said the biathlon targeting system, which has to be approved by the state Adirondack Park Agency, would span 150 feet by 40 feet and be used during the summer season. |
MI: Fear blamed in I-94 rage
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The Dodge Ram weaved closely behind her, following her from lane to lane.
Bernadette Houghton Headd -- who was enduring stress from caring for sick loved ones -- was convinced she would be run off the highway.
And she snapped.
Police say that Headd pulled her 1993 Chevrolet Cavalier alongside the pickup as the two vehicles traveled down I-94 in Harrison Township last month.
She then grabbed the 9mm pistol she's been licensed to carry for nine years, pointed it out of the window and fired at the tires of the truck driven by a New Baltimore man, police say.
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Australian Gun Ban: No Impact
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Discusses the Australian Gun Ban and Buyback (costing $500,000,000) and the total lack of effect on the national murder rate after ten years. |
IL: ISRA: $300 Million Gun Ban Could Bankrupt Illinois
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A gun control bill currently making its way through the Illinois Senate could prove to be the "coup de grace" to the state's seriously ailing finances. The bill in question, SB16, would require the registration of certain semiautomatic firearms within 90 days of the bill's signing by the governor. The ISRA estimates that there may be upwards of 10 million affected firearms in the hands of law-abiding Illinois citizens. To remain on the 90-day schedule, the state would have to hire approximately 7,000 new employees to process in excess of 111,000 registration forms per day. |
MI: Sgt. Uses Computer To Talk With Minors
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A Michigan State police sergeant is in custody and facing charges.
Michigan State Police Sgt. Kevin Michael Hardoin, 45, of Chesterfield Township, was arrested on Monday after investigators said he used the Internet to solicit minors and send them sexually explicit material, according to a news release from the attorney general's office.
Hardoin began chatting online with two girls who he believed to be 13 and 14 years old, but were actually investigators posing as minors, according to the news release.
Investigators said Hardoin used a computer to chat with the "girls" and used a webcam to perform explicit acts while they watched. |
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| Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? � Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836 |
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