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UK: London officer shot dead while detaining suspect at station Submitted by: jac	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
A British police officer was shot dead inside a London police station early Friday while detaining a suspect, who also sustained a gunshot wound. Submitter's note: How is that possible? Formally great Britain has a complete prohibition on even owning a handgun. These prohibitions only restrict law abiding citizens. The criminals will get guns regardless of the law.

LA: Louisiana cop charged for falsely claiming he was ambushed after he accidentally shot himself
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A Louisiana police officer who claimed he was wounded in an ambush actually shot himself with his own service weapon, according to authorities.

John Goulart Jr. was arrested on Tuesday and charged with one count of criminal mischief and one count of malfeasance in office, Deputy Chief Darrell Basco of the Pineville Police Department Administrative Bureau told CNN.

Submitter's note: It is not an accident. It is negligence. Keep your weapon in the holster where it belongs and your finger off the trigger and your gun won't fire.

NY: Paul Smith's invests in biathlon range, future student-Olympians, and the Adirondacks as a winter sports mecca
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Biathlon is one of the more niche Olympic Winter sports. It combines two very different sports, cross-country skiing and target rifle shooting, into a race unlike any other.

The Adirondacks has quite the history with Biathlon and biathletes, and Paul Smith's College is entering their own chapter in 2020, with the completion of a biathlon course on their 14,000 acre campus. It's their way of doubling down on developing their sports programs and is a big moment for the biathlon community at large.

To get to the Paul Smith's newly finished Biathlon range, you drive down a bumpy old logging road turned trail. After a mile, the trees open up to reveal a huge flat square of dirt with a hill on the north side, where targets are set up.

Lack of Breonna Taylor indictments shows that police have an unequal right to self-defense
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This terrible incident is a clear indicator that laws must be changed. There should be no no-knock warrants anywhere, for any reason. Body cameras must be worn in any arrest, search, investigation or home raid.

This has nothing to do with the details of concealed carry laws, nor with the implementation of "stand your ground" laws. This is about battling racism, implicit bias and dehumanization at the hands of law enforcement and a society in general that doesn't see Black people as equal humans.

NE: James Scurlock�s father pushes for change in Nebraska�s self-defense laws
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During the conference, James Scurlock�s father said he wants changes made with self-defense laws in Nebraska. He is urging for changes from the state legislature.

�I challenge any law official, any of them, black, white European, I do not care. Let�s come up with some real laws for self-defense so we don�t have to go through this. So other families don�t have to be like mine is because to advocate so much is just ridiculous,� said James Scurlock Sr.

WI: Kenosha shooter�s defense portrays him as �American patriot�
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The way lawyers for Kyle Rittenhouse tell it, he wasn�t just a scared teenager acting in self-defense when he shot to death two Kenosha, Wisconsin, protesters. He was a courageous defender of liberty, a patriot exercising his right to bear arms amid rioting in the streets.

�A 17-year-old citizen is being sacrificed by politicians, but it�s not Kyle Rittenhouse they are after. Their end game is to strip away the constitutional right of all citizens to defend our communities,� says the voice-over at the end of a video released this week by a group tied to Rittenhouse�s legal team.

TX: Deadly shooting behind southeast Houston restaurants is likely a case of self-defense, police say
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A son shot and killed a man who was allegedly assaulting his parents behind two restaurants in southeast Houston early Friday, police said.

The shooting happened behind the Bombshells and the Ostioneria Michoacan along the Gulf Freeway just north of Beltway 8.

Detectives with the Houston Police Department were told the shooting was preceded by an altercation inside the Ostioneria Michoacan. A man said another man touched his wife inappropriately, leading to a fight.

HI: Attorney argues Hawaii law is a ban on carrying guns
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If the ruling stands, it could lead to more guns in public in the few Western states under 9th Circuit jurisdiction where they are currently restricted.

O�Scannlain was among the 11 randomly selected judges who heard arguments Thursday.

�He would be perfectly happy with an open carry permit,� Beck said of Young. �He also would be perfectly fine if this court found that rather than having a freestanding right to concealed carry, he�d be open to carry concealed as a reasonable alternative.�

IL: Hearing seeks to move protest shooter for trial in Wisconsin
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A judge in Lake County, Illinois, was expected to rule Friday on whether to send Rittenhouse to Kenosha to face the charges. A judge postponed a decision on his transfer last month after Rittenhouse�s public defender at the time asked for a delay in the extradition hearing so he had time to hire a private attorney.

Rittenhouse, who has been in custody in Illinois since his arrest, appears to have few options to fight the extradition.

WA: Former WA attorney general: No-knock warrants can lead to �critical mistakes�
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It�s the middle of the night, someone is breaking down your door, they don�t look like police, so you defend yourself. This, Ross says, is a �classic case� of self-defense. And yet, he adds, this is the very reason why the officer who fired back and killed Breonna Taylor was not charged.

�Exactly,� said Rob McKenna, former state attorney general. �It�s just a terrible tragedy that is clearly the result of a lot of errors on the part of the police, in terms of the procedure they were following.�

KY: Kenneth Walker's attorney argues against self-defense claim in Breonna Taylor shooting Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Romines found issue with the self-defense claim without it going to a jury. "The other thing about that is self-defense claims are presented at trial. You get indicted, and you got a claim of self-defense. You present it to a jury, and a jury decides if there is reasonable doubt you acted in self-defense. In this case, they just (decided) they did and let it go," he said.

Amy Coney Barrett a Clear 2nd Amendment Backer
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The Second Amendment is hanging in the balance, and Trump�s Supreme Court nomination this Saturday will determine its fate. All of Trump�s likely nominees � 7th Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett, 11th Circuit Judge Barbara Lagoa and 4th Circuit Judge Allison Jones Rushing � would likely be strong on this issue. But Barrett has the clearest record, having actually ruled on such cases. Barrett is also the most feared by liberals, some of whom concede that she has �a topnotch legal mind.�

HI: Right to Carry Gun in Public Debated at Ninth Circuit
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Arguing before an 11-judge en banc panel Thursday, Katyal explained that Hawaii state law and the County of Hawaii�s regulations do not limit open-carry permits to security guards. He cited the Hawaii Attorney General�s 2018 guidance stating that an applicant can obtain an open-carry permit by demonstrating �a need to carry a firearm for protection that substantially exceeds the need possessed by ordinary law-abiding citizens.�

TN: DA's office clears vehicle owner in Kroger gas station shooting - it's ruled justified
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Local prosecutors have cleared a vehicle owner who fired shots during what authorities have described as an attempted carjacking at a Kroger gas station this week. Police have said the man shot and wounded one of the people trying to steal the vehicle and killed a second, a 16-year-old.

An arrest affidavit filed in the case says the vehicle owner, Terry Thompson, told police that an assailant pointed a gun at him during the incident and that he opened fire in return. An attorney for Thompson described it as a matter of self-defense.

CO: The Future Of Your Second Amendment is At Risk in this Election
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This upcoming election is crucial to the future of the Second Amendment and the ability of all Americans to keep and bear arms. The Colorado State Shooting Association asks you to take action by urging your members, family, and friends to register and vote for pro-gun candidates on November 3rd.

The stakes couldn't be higher: The anti-gunners have made clear that they will, among other things, ban so-called �assault weapons,� criminalize private firearm transfers, bankrupt the firearm industry, and even require federal gun owner licensing and registration. These efforts will cripple our right to self-defense.

Who is Amy Coney Barrett? Breaking down past rulings from the potential Supreme Court nominee Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are 2 comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
The Verify team spoke with two legal experts to gain insight on the most meaningful legal cases considered by Amy Coney Barrett, the front-runner to be nominated by President Donald Trump as the replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Specifically, the Verify team digs into cases on gun rights and abortion.

What the Media Won�t Tell You About Gun Sales and Swing States
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With the hotly contested 2020 presidential election just weeks away, and featuring two candidates who could not be further from one another when it comes to their views of the Second Amendment, the final call could come down to a handful of votes in a handful of �swing states.�

What constitutes a battleground state differs from strategist to strategist, but most would include Arizona, Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as too-close-to-call states.

A Trump-packed court means more guns, fewer rights and less health care
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For almost everyone in America, life has changed this year. It's about to change much more.

The federal government that resides in our nation's capital has a (well-deserved) reputation for inefficiency, profligacy and turgid responses to emergencies. But the upcoming change in the Supreme Court, coupled with immense changes in how federal agencies have been altered in the last four years, will affect the lives of most Americans in ways they might not have considered.