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U.S. to Add 5,000 Armed Air Marshals
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"The Bush administration is shuffling its homeland security operation to make 5,000 more armed agents available to protect commercial flights."

"The reorganization will combine the air marshal's program with the customs and immigration security programs so agents in both can be cross-trained and used for aviation security, officials said. This will allow the government to put extra agents on airliners when officials believe they are being targeted by terrorists."

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Homeland security fascist Tom Ridge would rather jump through a billion bureaucratic hoops than allow trained, law abiding citizens to carry their firearms aboard.

Pro-Gun Advocates Say Gun Control Group Proves Their Point
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"A Second Amendment rights group said Thursday that information publicized by a gun control group proves the pro-gun argument that regulating the behavior of law-abiding citizens does little or nothing to prevent crimes committed by outlaws using firearms."

"Americans for Gun Safety (AGS), a pro-gun control group that promotes itself as the voice of moderation in the Second Amendment debate, issued several press releases in mid-August decrying the 'Nation's Leading Gun Trafficking States' and listing the 10 worst offenders."

" 'Illegal gun traffickers have figured out that the feds simply don't enforce the gun laws on the books,' said AGS Policy and Research Director Jim Kessler in one such press release. 'When you combine shoddy federal enforcement and lax firearms laws, it makes Mississippi a gun runner's paradise.' "

Did Michael Moore deceive Academy?
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"Michael Moore, winner of the 2002 Oscar for Best Documentary for his controversial 'Bowling for Columbine,' failed to meet submission requirements of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a WorldNetDaily investigation reveals."

"While critics of the filmmaker and author have called on the academy to investigate whether Moore fabricated scenes in the movie, it also appears he misled the academy about the film's eligibility on purely technical grounds."

Firearm Facts 2003 (NRA fact sheet) Submitted by: Newslinks Admin	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
A fact sheet provided by the NRA that includes everything from quotes by the founding fathers vis-�-vis the Second Amendment to cited research by John Lott, Joyce Malcolm and others.

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"The numbers of privately owned guns, gun owners, and Right-to-Carry states have risen steadily and are now higher than ever. Meanwhile, the nation's violent crime rate has decreased every year since 1991 and is now at a 23-year low, the annual number of deaths involving firearms has decreased very year since 1993, and firearm accident deaths have decreased almost every year for decades." ...

PA: Westmoreland County Eagle Shooting Case Solved (Game Commission Report)
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"As a result of assistance provided to WCO Toward by the Pennsylvania State Police, Game Commission Southwest Region Dispatcher Garry Radar and the public, the individual who shot the eagle was identified as Shannon Stacey Binda, 36, of Jeannette." ...

"Based upon an interview with Mr. Binda, WCO Toward and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agent Bill Anderson agreed that Binda would be assessed $4,000 in fines and restitution. In addition, Binda waived his right to contest a three-year loss of hunting and furtaking privileges, and he forfeited his shotgun to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He recently met with Game Commission officers and Agent Anderson at the Southwest Region office to settle the charges against him." ...

"This was a case of an individual mistakenly identifying a mature bald eagle as a roosting turkey,"

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What the release omits is that Binda is a Policeman. How does one mistake a Bald Eagle for a Turkey? Why did Binda get off easy?

PA: Policeman keeps job despite eagle shooting (another report)
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"Mr. Binda panicked when he realized what he had done. While he did not come forward to report his mistake, he was very cooperative when we confronted him with our evidence. He expressed remorse and said he just wanted to put the whole thing behind him."

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Translation: this officer of the law tried to hide his crime, and when he no could no longer deny it, he admitted to it and got special treatment and the privilege of retaining his job, which consists of enforcing laws, which he apparently has trouble following himself.

NY: Libertarians blast politicians in handling the Northeast Blackout
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"Members of the Libertarian Party of New York have labored to set the record straight about the power system in the days following the region-wide power blackout on August 14. LPNY Chair John Clifton has questioned why so many officials felt compelled to make ill-considered statements, such as the initial erroneous speculation that a lightning strike in Niagara caused a grid failure that spread to 21 power plants."

"Likewise shaky, said Clifton, was the rush of many to blame 'deregulation' for the transmission failure, 'as it's far more accurate to say that utilities were re-regulated under the sham reforms of the last decade,' with no net decline in total government involvement. 'It's as if the politicians are suffering from a mental power failure, to match the electrical one New Yorkers experienced,' he charged."

South Africa: Gun Owners Shooting in the Dark As Licence Rules Change
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"Prospective gun owners are being turned down for vague reasons. Those legally involved in the gun business say they have not been informed of the proper requirements, and they are determined to find out why about 70% of applications are being rejected. Special Writer Estelle Ellis reports."

"Applying for a firearm licence in South Africa is like playing soccer without knowing the rules."

"This is what gun-law expert Martin Hood said about the new, stricter system for firearm applications that, in the past three months, has seen a majority of licence applications turned down by the Central Firearm Registry, and on appeal."

CA: High Desert gun owners no longer can shoot at Hodge Road
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"It used to be that if you owned a gun in the High Desert and didn't want to pay for target practice, you could go to an area just west of Interstate 15 between Victorville and Barstow and blast away to your heart's content."

"Not anymore."

"Dozens of signs scattered around the Hodge Road site greeted Dan Harley, a recreational shooter from Apple Valley, when he ventured there last month to do some shooting. The signs warn people not to shoot there and to stay off the land."

FL: Former Officer Allegedly Steals From Crimeline
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"A former Orlando police officer was arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing nearly $60,000 meant to help solve Crimeline cases."

"Charlie Worrell is accused of stealing the money and using it for child support, his credit card payments and his car. The money was supposed to be used to pay informants to turn in criminals.
Worrell faces fraud, money laundering and grand theft charges. He was booked and released on $5,000 bond."

South Africa: Cops deny gun quota rumours
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"The SA Police Service on Tuesday denied claims that it intends imposing a quota system on the issuing of firearms licences."

"This comes after media allegations that national police commissioner Jackie Selebi had attended a meeting where it was decided that 80% of licence applications would be refused."

"Spokesperson Selby Bokaba said the claims were not true because each application was considered on its own merits."

SC: Gun cases increase in South Carolina
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"The number of gun cases referred to federal prosecutors in South Carolina has increased from a few dozen five years ago to several hundred."

"Cases handled by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives resulted in 116 convictions, twice as many as in 1998."

" 'When someone with multiple violent convictions is sentenced to a substantial amount of time in federal prison, the community has to be safer,' said Strom Thurmond Jr., the U.S. attorney for South Carolina."

"Pat Dumais, agent in charge for the ATF offices in Columbia and Florence, has eight agents in Columbia, up from four when he took the job four years ago."

SD: Gun Safety A Must For Hunters
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"The 2003 mourning dove hunting season that opened Monday is the first in a long line of hunting seasons set for the region."

"The first shots of that first season should remind hunters yet again that the sport can be fun and challenging when firearms are used safely -- and it can be deadly when they are not."

"Laws in South Dakota and Nebraska require those under age 16 to pass a safety course before they are allowed to hunt."

NY: Oswego County to Allow 'Gun Amnesty' Registrations in September
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"Oswego County is conducting a 'gun amnesty' program during the month of September that will allow residents to register their unregistered pistols without penalty. The gun amnesty program is a collaborative effort of the County Clerk's Office, Sheriff's Department, and the office of County Court Judge James McCarthy."

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It is also a program that will allow criminals who have used firearms to commit crimes to safely and securely dispose of their weapons without having to worry that they will be caught.

UK: Toy gun sparks police alert
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"Armed police were deployed to Nuneaton town centre after CCTV operators spotted a man wielding a weapon which was later identified as a toy gun."

"Warwickshire Police said a 21-year-old man had been advised about his behaviour after the incident near to the bus station."

"A force spokesman confirmed that staff monitoring CCTV cameras had spotted the man carrying what appeared to be a small hand gun." ...

"An officer approached the man, who fully co-operated with police and surrendered the device, which turned out to be a child's toy gun."

UK: Police Probe After Gun Shot Report
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Police launched an investigation yesterday following reports of a gun being fired at a house in Craigton Avenue, Inverness. The occupants of the house reported the incident at 11.15pm and two men, one wearing a rucksack, were spotted fleeing from the scene before officers arrived. A police spokeswoman said no one was injured and a "positive line of inquiry" was being followed. Officers were last night carrying out door-to-door inquiries.

Australia: Three shot in overnight incidents
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"Two people were shot at in separate incidents overnight, police said today, and a third was recovering in hospital after being shot by police."

"Police said the first incident occurred in the state's far south-west about 7.45pm (AEST), when a Mitsubishi sedan pulled into a service station on the Stuart Highway at Balranald." ...

"A second man, aged 19, was this morning under police guard at Mildura Base Hospital, after sustaining a stomach wound during a scuffle with police."

"The spokesman said the 19-year-old allegedly threatened Victorian police with a firearm, and was injured when an officer discharged his weapon." ...

"Meanwhile, police have called for any witnesses to a shooting in Sydney's west about 10pm last night."

Solomon Islands: More police arrested in Solomon Islands
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The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands has arrested more of the country's police officers.

The Acting Solomons' Police Commissioner, Ben McDevitt, says three special constables have been charged.

He says two face charges of sexual assault offences while the third is accused of threatening police with a firearm.

The arrests are part of efforts by the Australian-led mission to reform the Solomons' police force, while restoring law and order.

UK: Traveller 'shot in family feud'
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"A row between two rival traveller families ended with a man being shot repeatedly, a court heard."

"Three men, of Park Lane, Finchampstead, have been charged with attempted murder after Irish traveller Paul Cash was left with a pellet lodged in the brain, it was claimed."

"John Smith, his son James and their friend William Price, are all alleged to have turned shotguns on Mr. Cash as he sat in the backseat of a car and shot him at close range."

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More incidents that aren't supposed to happen when guns are banned, right?

UK: Skinhead jailed for raping house sitter
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"A skinhead was jailed for life when he was convicted of tying a man up with electrical flex and raping him twice at gunpoint."

"Bradley Subosits, 23, loaded a gun in front of his victim, pistol whipped him and threatened to kill him if he cried out during the brutal sexual attack."

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Yet another victim of gun control laws in Britain. Just lay down and wait for it to be over -- all in the name of public safety.

IL: Why are Mayor Daley, Supt. Cline Now Quiet About Crime Gun Owned by Cops? Asks Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
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"After politicizing the tragic Aug. 27 shooting spree at Windy City Core Supply in Chicago, both Mayor Richard Daley and Acting Police Supt. Phil Crane-who blamed the crime on the availability of guns-are now strangely silent following revelations that the murder weapon had been previously owned by two Chicago police officers, both of whom failed to register the gun with the city as required by law."

"The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today accused the city of making the only registered owner of the pistol, a 58-year-old homeless man, into a scapegoat in the case. " ...

A Terrorist's Confession
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"There are terrorists in this country."

"I know this to be fact. I am a terrorist." ...

"What am I doing?"

"Quite simply, I'm typing and sharing my thoughts. This is my crime."

"Who am I terrorizing? Those who are being terrorized are the multitude of politicians and agents who compose government, and they're being terrorized by the growing multitude of websites, mailings, and hushed conversations in every conceivable location as we terrorists expose government's rapidly collapsing 'house of cards'." ...

Professional Paranoid
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"The United States -- despite all the efforts of the FedGov to enslave it -- is still the most free society in the world. No doubt our freedoms will continue to be curtailed, but for the moment, there is nothing to prevent terrorists from existing."

"Nor, frankly, should there be anything to prevent their existence. In a free society, one of the accepted dangers is that it's possible for individuals to harm one another. The great lie about laws is that they exist to prevent behavior that would cause harm. In fact, laws exist to punish or exact restitution from individuals who've already harmed others. The only way to PREVENT harm is a total police state in which individuals are allowed no freedom whatsoever."

Feinstoning Ahhnolt! Feinstein Meets Waxman
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"But the real fun is seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger�s big government tax-and-spend left-liberalism as the basis for attacking Grayout Davis�s big government tax-and-spend left-liberalism, who is in turn being attacked by Feinstein�s big government tax-and-spend left-liberalism. And now the kicker: Senator Dianne Feinstein carries a gun in her handbag for protection from evildoers, but wants gun control for the rest of US. Ain�t that rich? And she�s attacking poor Ahhnolt for acting out violence with guns on the screen!"

"Say what?! What about confessed Gun Nazi Sylvester Stallone? What about all of his Rambo Mussolini movies garroting, shooting, burning and pulverizing evildoers and obviously right-wing Republican extremists and Bush voters? Herr Duce Stallone wanted the 1968 Nazi Gun Control Act for Americans expanded to allow for house-to-house searches by United States Federal Gestapo and United States Federal Police to confiscate them all. Does that include the guns that he and his fellow Hollywood buffoons playact with all the time as well? How about all the guns they secretly own and just forget to mention? Them too?"

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"There isn't trouble in the states that have conceal-carry laws. These are law-abiding citizens. These are good people. The criminals, the bad people, are not going to go and get a permit."

IL: State OK for mine project blasted
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"Though Gov. Rod Blagojevich has cut hundreds of millions of dollars in spending for roads, prisons and other projects, the governor has announced the state will spend $1.8 million to buy nearly 1,200 acres of a former Southern Illinois strip mine to build the world's largest trapshooting complex."

PA: Police officer fined for shooting bald eagle in Bell
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"A Jeannette police officer paid a fine and restitution totalling $4,000 for shooting and wounding a bald eagle last spring in Bell Township.
Officer Shannon S. Binda, 36, of Jeannette, received undisclosed disciplinary action, according to Jeannette Police Chief Carl Shifko, who declined to specify the penalty against Binda." ...

"The shooting on private property adjoining Beaver Run Reservoir in Bell affected the first nesting pair of bald eagles in the county in more than 100 years. The adult male was shot with a shotgun in late April during the spring wild turkey hunting season."

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"A Friday evening bank robbery ended in a Fair Oaks back yard with one suspect shot after confronting an armed homeowner, another suspect arrested and money floating in a swimming pool."

The Walking Wounded
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"It's all coming to a head folks. Socialism doesn't work in any of its forms-we've all seen it. And we've also seen that the only thing that does work is unfettered Capitalism. So we all should have known it was just a matter of time. What's going to kill this government is not a popular revolution, but sheer financial insolvency. Now don't get me wrong-it's not going to be bloodless. I wish it were, but we all know how viscous and bloody minded the feral politician/bureaucrat is when he's in a panic and trying desperately to grasp whatever power he's got left."

NV: Nevada Campaign Protests Ashcroft's Visit
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"The Nevada Campaign to Defeat the Patriot Act (NCDPA) is astounded by the blatant attempt of the federal government to appropriate local law enforcement from the communities and citizens they serve."

"As grassroots opposition against the USA PATRIOT Act grows United States Attorney General John Ashcroft is using taxpayer dollars to visit Nevada as well as other states in an attempt to shore up dwindling support for the USA PATRIOT Act and related extra-constitutional executive orders passed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks."

CA: SB489: The Further Deterioration of the 2nd Amendment
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"The California legislature is well on its way to passing SB489. If enacted into law, SB489 would deem 'unsafe' any semi-automatic handgun that does not have a 'loaded chamber' indicator and 'magazine disconnect' feature on it. That covers basically every semi-automatic handgun in existence today."

"One might infer that the intent of this bill is to prevent 'accidental shootings' from occurring by handlers of semi-automatic handguns who claim that they thought the firearm was unloaded."

"Keep in mind that in order for such 'accidental shootings' to occur, three things have to happen. 1) The firearm must be loaded. 2) The operator of the firearm must point it at a person. 3) The operator of the firearm must pull the trigger."

VA: Cantor sketches views on guns
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" 'It�s the criminal � not the gun � that commits the crime,' said Cantor, adding that he does not own a gun."

" 'You will never stop criminals from having the guns, but you ought to let law-abiding citizens have the ability to defend themselves in situations where they feel it�s needed,' he said."

"Advocates of gun control often assert that more guns equates to more crime. In his opinion, that�s simply not the case."

" 'Israel has the highest rate of gun ownership of any country in the industrialized world, but the lowest homicide rate,' he said, adding, 'Other than the bombings and things like that. I�m against the criminal, not the gun.' "