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DC: Citizens Mount Constitutional Challenges to D.C. Gun Ban
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"Rich Heller is a special police officer in Washington, D.C., licensed by the city government to carry a handgun in the performance of his duties protecting the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judicial Center. While city officials want Heller to carry a gun to protect federal judges on government property, they have barred him from possessing a similar gun in his own home to protect himself and his family from criminals in his high-crime neighborhood."
"Now Heller and six of his fellow D.C. residents are suing to overturn that law claiming it violates the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution..." ... |
TX: HPD officer and wife to be arraigned in daughter's shooting death
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"A Houston police officer and his wife will be arraigned Thursday morning on charges of child endangerment."
"Glen Hill allegedly left his service revolver in a place where his seven-year-old daughter could find it and she did. Her parents left her with her 13-year-old sister in January. That's when Dovie Hill accidentally fatally shot herself with her father's gun." |
SC: Martial Easter baskets draw fire from critics
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"For just $9.74, you can buy the 'Military Combat' Easter basket, a pretty pastel-colored package loaded with gun-toting toy soldiers, tanks and grenades." ...
" 'I think it's very deplorable to try to sanitize the ugly face of war,' said Hal French, professor emeritus of religious studies at University of South Carolina." |
FBI scientist admitted false testimony
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"Weeks after testifying at a court hearing in a Kentucky murder, FBI scientist Kathleen Lundy told her superiors that she had knowingly given false testimony about her specialty of lead bullet analysis." |
UK: Amnesty goes great guns
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"Unusual weapons so far handed in at police stations in Cheshire have included ...a walking stick which conceals a bladed weapon and a harpoon gun as used by divers."
"Police say the weapons have included a number of replica guns which look undistinguishable from the real thing as well as shotguns, handguns and air weapons." |
UK: Police warnings to ball bearing gun teenagers
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"Police have given warnings to three teenagers who were caught with ball-bearing guns in Ormskirk town centre."
"The parents of the boys were informed and agreed to sign over the toy replica weapons to the police as part of the gun amnesty." |
MD: Robbery Try
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Robbery try: A gunman forced his way into a house in the first block of Hydroplane Drive in Middle River on Tuesday and tried to rob three male occupants, but fled when one of them threatened to shoot him with a shotgun.
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MD: School police officer goes on trial today in boy's death
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"Fitzgerald was standing behind Leithwalk Elementary School in Northeast Baltimore, smoking marijuana and drinking with a companion at 1 a.m. when he was shot in the head. Police charged Lynch, who was in uniform and making routine rounds of city schools, with firing his department-issued handgun at the boy. Lynch's attorney, Warren A. Brown, claims the shooting was in self-defense." |
Gun stores: Please refuse to sell to African-Americans (Press Release)
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"One of the great scourges of gun violence is the "black on black" shootings taking place in our inner cities. To address this tragedy The Baltimore-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has sued gun manufacturers. The NAACP is arguing that handgun violence disproportionately harms poor, urban blacks, and that gun companies have failed to take steps to lessen the harm." ...
"I have always advocated the way to reduce 'black on black' gun violence was to arm the law abiding blacks by overturning Mayor Daley's gun ban and creating public awareness for the safety of the community provided by good citizens with guns. I am willing to admit now that I may have been wrong." |
Injured Big Game Hunter Sues Bullet Manufacturer
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"When a professional big-game hunter on safari in Africa shot a charging lion from about 30 yards away, he expected that the cat would die, or at least be stopped."
"Instead, the lion mauled the marksman."
"It wasn't bad aim, but bad bullets that allowed the lion to take Rolf Rohwer temporarily out of the hunting game, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday against the bullet manufacturers, one of which is the Federal Cartridge Co. of Anoka."
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OH: Unconstitutional arms control?
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"The people have the right to bear arms for their defense and security; but standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and shall not be kept up; and the military shall be in strict subordination to the civil power." Article 1, Section 4 of the Ohio Constitution."
"The first 13 words seem as clear to me as any children's nursery rhyme: 'The people have the right to bear arms for their defense and security.' " |
AR: Trial Rescheduled In Firearms Case
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"The trial of two Mena men accused of firearms violations has been reset by a federal judge."
"Robert Louis Salter Jr. and his son, Robert Jackson Salter, are charged in U.S. District Court in Fort Smith. Both are charged with possession of a machine gun, possession of an unregistered firearm and possession of a firearm with its serial number obliterated."
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CT: Officer exonerated in theater gun incident
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"An off-duty state Capitol police officer has been exonerated in a gun incident at the Bushnell Center." ...
"Both Hartford police and state Capitol police could not determine why the gun went off and found no negligence on Warren's part."
"They also determined he did not violate any laws or department policy."
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"Bachelor" Contestant's A Real Pistol
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"He probably doesn't realize it, but TV's newest 'Bachelor,' Andrew Firestone, included a real pistol among the 15 women he selected last night as finalists in the ABC-TV reality program. That's because one of the wannabe brides, 24-year-old Christina Sztanko, was once nabbed for discharging a firearm near an elementary school in her hometown of Palm Harbor, Florida."
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Upset Gun Owners Set to Dump Bush
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President George W. Bush's recently reported support of the Clinton '94 ban on scores of semi-auto rifle and all over-10-round firearm magazines has generated a backlash against his re-election, if this poll is any indication. |
MI: Mount Clemens suspends two more officers
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"One day after he fired three police officers for allegedly beating a civilian, Mount Clemens Police Chief L.J. McKeown took disciplinary action against two additional officers on unrelated matters."
"As a result of the latest action, a total of seven officers in the 37-officer force are on paid or unpaid suspension at a time when the department is struggling to boost revenue and reduce expenses, particularly in overtime." |
Canada: Death threat leads to takedown, lockdown
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"On April 11, McQuade was in a restaurant with three co-workers when he became upset by a comment made by one of the men; McQuade threatened to kill the man." ...
"On Wednesday, the employee who was threatened by McQuade reported the incident to his supervisor, and police were called in."
"The police tactical unit assembled near a home on Churchill Avenue after they received word that the man who lives there owned guns." ...
"Several weapons were seized in the raid." |
UK: Students worried about their safety
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"Police have urged people not to be put off going into the centre of Bath by a stabbing that left a 19-year-old man fighting for his life. The attack on student Daniel Warren has caused shock around the city - but senior officers say such incidents are rare in Bath." |
IN: Man free on claims he fired to protect himself
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"For the second time in less than a week, an Allen Superior Court jury has found a defendant accused of killing someone not guilty because they acted in self-defense. On Wednesday it was Shane Douglas, the 20-year-old accused of shotgunning to death Austin Sheets on July 21; on April 10 it was Jasper Upchurch, charged with stabbing to death Barry Hall on Christmas Eve."
"Attorneys for both men said their clients acted out of fear their victims were going to kill them." |
UK: Police forces adopt taser pilot scheme
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"Five police forces across the UK are set to adopt a non-lethal stun gun in a pilot scheme starting today."
"The operational trial of the Advanced Taser M26 will see it used by officers in the Met, Thames Valley, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and North Wales police forces." |
UK: Family's gunpoint ordeal
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"The hour-long gun ordeal began when two armed response squads targeted the house in Redworth Road, Billingham, after receiving a hoax call about an alleged shooting."
"Annette Atkinson, her fiance Arthur Ibbetson and two of her children reacted with terror as police marksmen trained guns on them." |
NY: Officials' special badges become a chief concern
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"The city's police chief is steaming over the city buying gold badges that say 'Rensselaer Police Authority' for elected officials."
... "The badge issue has become a sore topic for Fusco, who argues that only police officers can carry a badge bearing the word police."
"The next thing you know, they're going to want to carry a gun," Fusco said." ... |
NJ: Local gun club up in arms
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"The New Jersey Arms Collectors Club Inc. alleges township officials have stymied the club's operations with a volley of costly land-use requirements, according to a lawsuit the club filed last week."
"Members of the gun club allege the township is overreacting to what they describe as minor maintenance work at the firing range last year." |
OH: Concealed carry: Bad law
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"What the state does not have the right to do is make gun possession so cumbersome that it essentially prevents people from exercising their right. That's what the current law does. It is time, indeed past time, for the General Assembly to enact a practical law on this issue, setting clear regulations on who can, and cannot, carry concealed guns." |
Gun policy debate available on the web (Blog)
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"The debate on Gun Policy and the Second Amendment, held at Harvard Law School on April 8, 2003, featuring Eugene [Volokh], Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School, Dennis Henigan of the Brady Center, and moderated by incoming HLS dean Elena Kagan, and co-sponsored by the HLS Target Shooting Club and the HLS Democrats, is now available on the web."
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IN: Robber sues clerk who shot him during holdup
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"A convicted robber is suing the convenience store clerk who shot him as he fled after a holdup."
"Willie Brown, 44, claimed the clerk acted 'maliciously and sadistically' in firing five shots as Brown ran out of Zipps Deli with money from the store's cash register."
"Two bullets struck Brown's back and side, and he was arrested in a nearby home a few minutes after the holdup on March 15, 2002. Brown pleaded guilty to robbery in February and was sentenced last week to four years in prison." |
Jefferson and Voltaire
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"It's Voltaire's sentiment that puts the teeth into Jefferson's axiom for humanity. It insists that we are not merely equal and possessing of inalienable rights, but that the equal possession of those rights is so overwhelmingly important that we will overlook all other issues and be unequivocal in our support of even sworn enemies in order to preserve those sacred rights. Sadly, in these days of political correctness, Voltaire's idea seems almost na�ve and quaint." ... |
TX: 'Avoid wearing of uniform' general warns local soldiers
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"If possible, avoid wearing of the uniform when dining in public places."
"Because of recent instances of harassment of uniformed personnel, Porr, the commanding general at Fort Sam Houston, felt compelled to warn the men and women who serve under him to use caution when traveling, shopping and dining in San Antonio."
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AZ: To have freedom, 'let people be free'
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" 'It's not about drugs or legalization. It's about the violation of the right of self-ownership,' the married father of three young children said. 'I'm fighting for the right of the individual against government intrusion. If you want freedom, then damn it, you have to let people be free - even if you don't agree with it.' " |
Airline Pilots Set to Finish Gun Course
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"Only two of the 48 commercial airline pilots in the first class being trained to carry guns in the cockpit failed to make it through the early days of a rigorous course at a federal facility."
"More of the pilots may wash out by Saturday, when those who passed the course are sworn in as federal flight deck officers under a program approved by Congress. They could be armed while flying as early as Sunday." |
AL: School Suspends Students For Having Toy Guns
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School officials suspended two Oak Mountain Middle School students for one day for having toy guns on a school bus.
A bus driver called the Shelby County Sheriff's Department when she saw the two boys on the bus ahead of her with what she thought was a real gun.
School officials say the toy guns were taken to school as part of a literature project on "Treasure Island." |
Russia: Veteran opposition leader shot in Moscow
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"A veteran Russian liberal politician, leader of a staunchly anti-Kremlin party, was shot dead today in an attack that Moscow's police chief said was the work of a contract killer. Sergei Yushenkov, whose Liberal Russia party was founded by exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky - himself at odds with President Vladimir Putin - died shortly after being shot at close range near his home in northern Moscow, police said." |
MD: State's Leading Gun Violence Prevention Organization Announces Name Change
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"Marylanders Against Handgun Abuse (MAHA), the only statewide group working to free Maryland from gun violence, announced a name change to CeaseFire Maryland. Leah Barrett, Executive Director, said: 'CeaseFire Maryland says what we are about: stopping the gunfire that kills over 650 Marylanders each year and injures countless others.' "
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Standing on Dangerous Ground
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"If the case is allowed to proceed, even if the NAACP loses, it will change the face of federal jurisprudence. Allowing the NAACP to sue gun manufacturers on behalf of all African-Americans means that anyone has 'standing' to sue anyone over anything."
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