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Hollis Wayne Fincher Case
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New Petition Filed in the Hollis Wayne Fincher Case.
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Submitter's Note: The petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc were filed today. This petition addresses issues ignored, or totally misread by the Panel at the 8th Circuit. This petition seeks redress of that error by the panel. Failing that, a hearing by the entire circuit bench is requested. This case is significiant in that it addresses the issue of military grade, individually employed arms and their coverage under the Second Amendment. |
Gun Control: Using Children for Political Ends
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"The death of a child is horrible and painful, and any decent person would do whatever it takes to save that life. How could an organization called the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) possibly have an agenda that could result in more child fatalities?"
"A recent report by the CDF leads with: 'Firearm Deaths Among Children and Teens Increase for the First Time Since 1994: 3,006 in 2005.' Insisting this ties into the now-defunct Clinton 'assault weapons' ban, CDF says:""According to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 3,006 children and teens were killed by firearms in 2005, the first increase ... since Congress allowed the Assault Weapons Ban to expire in 2004." ... |
Court Gets It Right On Guns
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"Advocates of freedom dodged a bullet recently when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that the right to keep and bear arms ... is an individual, not a collective, right. Opponents of gun ownership have long maintained that the amendment's reference to the militia indicates that the right does not apply to private persons." ...
"Scalia's opinion goes to the heart of the matter. The Second Amendment recognizes an inherent right that precedes government. It does not purport to create one."
"In his dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens said that since the explicit purpose of the Second Amendment does not include hunting and self-defense, those uses of firearms couldn't have been intended by the framers." ... |
Gun Control: Signs of Desperation
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"It is a sight to behold when a journalist is so enthralled by anti-self-defense fantasy that they would contradict themselves and publicly display ignorance of the facts, especially in a newspaper nicknaming itself The Facts."
"Michael Morris, assistant managing editor of the online version of the Brazosport Facts, is not happy with the Harrold school district's decision to allow trained staff carry concealed handguns on campus. ..." ...
"The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that between 1995 and 2005 the accidental firearm death rate for children decreased 60.3%, outpacing the non-firearm drop of 23.1%. These decreases are consistent across categories. ..." ... |
In Historic Speech, Senator Obama Addresses Common Sense Restrictions On Assault Weapons
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"The Brady Campaign ... praised Senator Barack Obama for highlighting the need for common sense gun laws in his speech accepting the Democratic nomination, specifically addressing easy access to assault weapons:"
"'I was fortunate to be in Mile-High Stadium last night to watch and listen to Sen. Obama's historic speech as he accepted the Democratic nomination for President of the United States,' said Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign ..."
"'It was very significant that Sen. Obama directly addressed the gun violence issue in our country. He decided to strike a balance between rights and responsibilities, and showed how we can have common sense gun laws in America to protect our families and communities,' Helmke said." ... |
The NRA's Environmental Demons
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"When it comes to conservation, all gun rights advocates are not created equal. And according to Pat Wray at High Country News, the National Rifle Association (NRA) is the worst of the worst."
"Wray, a life member of the NRA, is running for the organization's board of directors to try to change that. Wray is a hunter who wants his right to bear arms protected, but he also wants wildlife habitat protected, and at this the NRA is failing miserably, he says."
"'The NRA's ability to take money from hunters and use it in ways that will ultimately ruin hunting constitutes one of the most dishonest public relations campaigns ever perpetrated on the American people,' Wray writes." ... |
Is Scalia nuts?
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"Five members of the Supreme Court, led by Scalia ... decided to make law rather than interpret the intent of our founders who wrote and approved the Constitution and its initial amendments."
"In this case it was the all-important Second Amendment. It is a single sentence, and is very clear in its meaning if you understand history! ..." ...
"This was written when the American colonies were fighting for their freedom from England and large numbers of English troops were stationed in Boston, and America of course, did not have an army. So how were they to defend themselves? They couldn't initially and thus there was the 'Boston Massacre' of 1770, when Americans protested being taxed without representation[sic]." ... |
TX: In Texas School, Teachers Carry Books and Guns
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"Students in this tiny town of grain silos and ranch-style houses spent much of the first couple of days in school this week trying to guess which of their teachers were carrying pistols under their clothes."
"'We made fun of them,' said Eric Howard, a 16-year-old high school junior. 'Everybody knows everybody here. We will find out.'"
"The school board in this impoverished rural hamlet in North Texas has drawn national attention with its decision to let some teachers carry concealed weapons, a track no other school in the country has followed. The idea is to ward off a massacre along the lines of what happened at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999." ... |
NM: Police can save lives, but concealed weapons can too
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"I am writing this letter in support of Jean Aragon's letter promoting concealed carry on campus that was published Monday. ..."
"No one knows what goes through a person's head when he or she decides to indiscriminately start killing people, but ... although a person may be mentally unbalanced, it does not mean he or she is stupid. ... Any would-be shooter knows he will come to the point where he will have to deal with the police. However, the relevant issue is not whether the criminal will be stopped by the police, because, eventually, he will be. The issue is how many people will die or be injured before the police can stop him." ... |
Dr. Lott: Obama's gun ban rhetoric
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"Sen. Barack Obama's campaign just won't let the gun issue rest. Mr. Obama and his campaign surrogates continue to assure gun owners that he is on their side, and it appears to be paying off. John McCain only leads Mr. Obama among hunters by 14 percentage points, just about half the 27-point lead that President Bush held over John Kerry in 2004. If Mr. McCain had a similar lead, he would be ahead in most polls, particularly in many battle ground states."
"Yet, despite all the Democratic claims to the contrary, Mr. Obama is undoubtedly the most anti-gun candidate ever nominated by a major party for president." ... |
John Longnecker: My Two Cents In A Multi-Million Dollar Campaign For President
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"The subject came up in the Democrat Convention, 2008."
"The Democrat view of banning guns will never touch crime, because it focuses on the iron and not the behavior of criminals. It profoundly ties the hands of victims to respond, and this results in scarring injuries numbering in the millions each year. Please visit www.FBI.gov for precise figures on crimes by type, by type of weapon used, and, of course, numbers of gun-related deaths."
"At the Democrat Convention, and in the discussion of automatic weapons, Senator Patrick Kennedy remarked that 30,000 people die from gun violence."
"Mr. Kennedy, America does not see 30,000 gun deaths every year, much less by fully automatic weapons. ..." ... |
Obama acceptance speech imagines divisions between Ohio gun owners; Campaign materials prove his ignorance about guns
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"Gun owners in Ohio were given attention from former Joyce Foundation board member Barack Obama in his acceptance speech at Invesco Field in Denver on Thursday, and his comments, while short, are sure to draw renewed attention to his ignorance about firearms." ...
"In an Obama campaign position paper directed at convincing sportsmen that he supports their rights, and located just under a header entitled 'Promote Common Sense Gun Control', is the following statement:""As a long-time resident and elected official of Chicago, Barack Obama has seen the impact of fully automatic weapons in the hands of criminals. Thus, Senator Obama supports making permanent the expired federal Assault Weapon Ban. ..." ...
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The libertarian VP candidate
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"� or, rather, as libertarian as you can hope for on a major ticket."
"For Republican nominee John McCain, there are a numerous potential political downsides and upsides to choosing a relative unknown for VP. But stepping outside the horserace aspects of 2008, Palin is the most libertarian Republican that's been on a major ticket for a long time. This ideological storyline should appeal to many Western voters." ...
"Palin sued the Federal government over its outrageous listing of the polar bear as a threatened species. She is an ardent supporter of the Second Amendment. Her views on the Drug War are more reasonable than most in Washington. ..." ... |
Sarah Palin, a moose-hunting, lifetime NRA member guns for D.C.
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"Like many Alaskans, Gov. Sarah Palin is a lifelong hunter and strong proponent of Second Amendment rights. A longtime member of the National Rifle Association, she told USA Today when she was running for governor as a Republican in 2006 that 'We hunt as much as we can, and I'm proud to say our freezer is full of wild game we harvested here in Alaska.' ..."
"... But in selecting a pro-gun female running mate who can probably skin and process a deer, Sen. John McCain may be inviting a debate on gun control into the campaign ... a recent independently-produced video clip by a Palin supporter included footage of her firing an assault rifle with Alaska National Guard soldiers. ..." ... |
Gun owners rights threatened by Obama
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"Off target is the only way to describe Gov. Brian Schweitzer when he tried to shoot down Republican presidential candidate John McCain during a press conference this week sponsored by the Barack Obama campaign."
"Schweitzer said there was no difference between Sens. Obama and McCain on gun rights and further stated that Obama 'ain't going to take your gun away. He ain't ever going to take your gun away.' Montanans know better. America knows better."
"On gun owner's rights, Sen. Obama's record clearly shows he is one of the most anti-gun candidates to ever run for president." ... |
NC: Beware of gun control
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"This letter is addressed primarily to sportsmen of Richmond County and to those of us who believe that the Second Amendment to the Constitution means just what it says."
"The rhetoric of the current presidential campaign has been silent on the subject of legally owned guns because the Democrats firmly believe that their stated positions on what they called the control of guns seriously hurt them in both of the last two presidential elections."
"While the Democratic contender has not spoken his intentions his record as a Chicago assemblyman, Illinois senator and United States senator speaks for him. ..." ... |
NJ: Wildwood cop indicted on misconduct charge
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"A city police officer was indicted this week on a single count of official misconduct after he allegedly kicked two handcuffed suspects in the head last year."
"Sgt. David Romeo, 37, was suspended without pay a year ago Aug. 24 following an internal police investigation of his conduct July 24, 2007."
"The two suspects had resisted arrest, injuring Officer Ed Ramsey."
"Romeo, 37, was charged ... with official misconduct, a second-degree crime, and two counts of simple assault, a disorderly persons offense." ...
"First Assistant Prosecutor J. David Meyer said this kind of street justice is not acceptable."
"The two men were lying on the ground on their stomachs when Romeo kicked them, he said. ..." ... |
LA: Gun, ammo sales are brisk ahead of storm
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"On what would normally be a slow summer weekday, the three employees at Gretna Gun Works Inc. frantically tended to a crush of customers admiring the racks of shotguns and rifles lined up behind the glass counter."
"Among the patrons: a jewelry store owner from eastern New Orleans with plans to stand guard through Gustav; two uniformed Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office deputies inquiring about additional firearms; and an avid hunter who was in to pick up a 12-gauge he dropped off for cleaning."
"'It's hurricane season, you definitely want it back now, right?' employee John DeRosier said with a grin as he handed the Beretta shotgun back to the owner." ... |
NY: Rep. Hinchey faces hearing on harassment
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"Rep. Maurice Hinchey has a town court date to face a charge that he struck a local member of the National Rifle Association during the Rosendale Street Fair last month."
"Hinchey has been charged with second-degree harassment, a violation."
"The man who brought the charge, Paul Lendvay, 46, is chairman of the Catskill Regional Friends of the National Rifle Association. He has alleged that Hinchey struck him on the head after the two men became embroiled in an argument at the street fair."
"The allegation is a 'silly' attempt to damage Hinchey's reputation, Jeff Lieberson, Hinchey's spokesman, said on Wednesday." ... |
UK: Gun factory's supplier on anti-gun committee
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"A FIREARMS dealer who sold 90 replica pistols that were turned into killing machines chairs a joint police committee set up to keep guns off Britain�s streets."
"Guy Savage, 37, pocketed �55,000 when he handed over the batch of Mac-10 sub-machine guns to Grant Wilkinson in July 2004."
"Wilkinson, jailed for life yesterday, said he was supplying them as props for a Bond movie.
"He instead took them to his 'factory' and converted them into live weapons linked to more than 50 shootings, including nine murders."
"There is no suggestion that Savage knew or suspected that the replicas would be converted."
"Savage ... was already chairman of the Registered Firearms Dealers Committee � a post he still holds." ... |
UK: UK gun crime every hour
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"A GUN crime is carried out in Britain every 52 minutes, new figures showed yesterday."
"Cops dealt with 9,967 last year � four per cent up on 2006. Firearms-related injuries rose two per cent to 3,048, but deaths fell from 56 to 49."
"Drug crime rocketed by 20 per cent in the last quarter of 2007."
"But overall crime FELL by 12 per cent � robberies were down 21 per cent, violence ten per cent, burglaries five per cent and sex offences eight per cent."
"Home Secretary Jacqui Smith hailed the figures as 'excellent' and vowed 'severe punishment' for gun criminals."
She said: 'Thankfully, gun crime remains rare in this country.'" ... |
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