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Here It Comes: …The case highlights a major obstacle facing the United States as it tries to meet a demand from Mexico to curb the flow of arms from the states to drug cartels. The federal system for tracking gun sales, crafted over the years to avoid infringements on Second Amendment rights, makes it difficult to spot suspicious trends quickly and to identify people buying for smugglers, law enforcement officials say. As a result, in some states along the Southwest border where firearms are lightly regulated, gun smugglers can evade detection for months or years. In Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, dealers can sell an unlimited number of rifles to anyone with a driver's license and a clean criminal record without reporting the sales to the government. At gun shows in these states, there is even less regulation. Private sellers, unlike licensed dealers, are not obligated to record the buyer's name, much less report the sale to the A.T.F… Federal agents say about 90 percent of the 12,000 pistols and rifles the Mexican authorities recovered from drug dealers last year and asked to be traced came from dealers in the United States, most of them in Texas and Arizona… (Clearly, a demand from Mexico outweighs our on Constitution.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/us/15guns.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all
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From Which American Gun Shop Was This Purchased?: A woman was arrested guarding an arsenal that included an anti-aircraft machine gun - the first weapon of its kind seized in Mexico, police said Tuesday. The arsenal belonged to a group linked to the powerful Beltran Leyva drug cartel, federal police coordinator Gen. Rodolfo Cruz said. It also included ammunition, five rifles, a grenade and part of a grenade launcher. Mexican drug cartels, battling a fierce crackdown by soldiers and federal police, have increasingly gotten hold of higher-powered weapons, even military-grade arms such as grenades and machine guns. That has left police - particularly state and municipal forces - grossly outgunned, and many officers have quit following attacks. Cruz said the confiscated .50-caliber, anti-aircraft machine gun can fire 800 rounds per minute and is capable of penetrating armor from more than 5,000 feet. Police on a routine patrol Monday found the gun fitted atop an SUV at a house in northern Sonora state. Authorities did not release any other details about the gun, including its make, where it was manufactured, or where it was sold… The ATF says the grenades are mostly smuggled in through Central America, and have been traced back to the militaries of many countries, from South Korea to Spain and Israel. Some may be leftovers from the Central American civil wars…
ttp://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2009/04/15/news/world/20090415_world_194531.txt
Police in Mexico have seized an anti-aircraft machine gun in the state of Sonora, near the US border. They also found ammunition and other heavy weapons. A woman has been arrested. The seizure took place two days before US President Barack Obama is due to visit his Mexican counterpart, President Felipe Calderón. High on the agenda of the talks between the two will be the bloody drug war currently being waged, mainly with US weapons, by the Mexican drug cartels. Mr Calderón has made ending the drug war the spearhead of his term in office. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has promised him both financial and material aid to accomplish his goal. It is also in the interests of the US to curb the violence of the drug gangs as it often spills over the border into the United States.
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/6258148/Mexican-police-seize-antiaircraft-gun
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ABC Lies Exposed: "If I only had a gun," ABC's recent segment of "20/20," treated viewers to a biased and deeply flawed "study" promoting the opinion that armed citizens are incapable of stopping active killers in mass homicides. On Monday, "Myths of Armed Self-Defense" exposed "20/20's" fallacy of the omnipotent killer, noting that personality characteristics of such killers actually make them more, not less, vulnerable to armed defense. Today, we discuss the advice "20/20" gave viewers unfortunate enough to find themselves in active killer scenarios…
http://www.examiner.com/x-2698-Charlotte-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m4d15-Armed-selfdefense--The-Stopwatch-of-Death
New information has surfaced about the depth of bias that surfaced on ABC's 20/20 hit piece that aired Friday, April 10 with Diane Sawyer as the host. The National Shooting Sports Foundation revealed Monday that it had been "asked numerous times by 20/20 Senior Producer Muriel Pearson to participate in the story, but understanding the piece was a set-up, we refused." NSSF is a firearms industry umbrella group that offers education about firearms safety and programs including "Don't Lie for the Other Guy," aimed at helping the industry deter illegal straw purchases. Its biggest annual effort is the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show, a huge exhibition of new products in the shooting, hunting and law enforcement fields…
http://www.examiner.com/x-4525-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m4d14-ABCs-antigun-bias-revealed-in-2020-antigun-hit-piece?cid=exrss-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner
Do you think it's a good idea to be armed during a mass shooting? Diane Sawyer and the producers of ABC's 20/20 aren't so sure. In fact, on Friday, April 10, 2009, Sawyer spent a full hour trying desperately to prove how dangerous guns are and how ordinary people can't possibly defend themselves with firearms. The show's snarky title: "If I Only Had A Gun." Slanted information filled the report, seemingly pulled from the press releases of the Brady Campaign, with not a single dissenting opinion. The most egregious slight of hand was a rigged experiment that struggled to show why having a gun would do you no good in a Virginia Tech style mass shooting… (I believe that's "sleight" of hand.)
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/6631
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The Beat Goes On: Gun sales in Rhode Island spiked during 2008 to their highest level in at least a decade as firearms purchases in the state mimicked a national trend. The surge continues in 2009 as gun sales in Rhode Island are on track to rise nearly 50 percent, to 13,000 firearms. Politics and economics are the prime causes, say gun dealers and others. "I'm hearing two things," said Pawtucket police Chief George L. Kelley III, president of the Rhode Island Police Chiefs Association. "The first is [people] are afraid the president may change some of the laws, and the second is the economy." Longtime gun owners agreed with Kelley. "A year ago I would have leaned toward [saying] people were reverting back to putting sustenance on the table," said Dennis Etchells, president of the Federated Rhode Island Sportsmen's Clubs, an association of about 20 hunting and fishing clubs in the state. "Now a lot of it has to do with the current presidential administration. The firearms industry exploded after the election; a lot of people fear their Second Amendment rights will be taken away." …
http://www.projo.com/news/content/BZ_GUN_SALES_UP_15_04-15-09_B9DTTJS_v122.28ed6df.html
Fred Calcagno has owned American Sportsman, a gun shop in East Rochester for 22 years. But since Barack Obama became president he's noticed a spike in business. "Since the election sales have been up because across the country, people are nervous that there are going to be more restrictions on fire arms." He estimates sales have jumped between 10 and 25% in the last six months. "There's a huge demand across the country and firearms, manufacturers are back-ordered so long that distributors cant get items to sell," says Fred Calcagno. News 8 has also discovered more people are carrying concealed weapons locally. In Monroe County, gun permits are up. From January to April of 2008, there were 511 applications. This year, that number is 634. That's an increase of almost 20 percent…
http://rochesterhomepage.net/content/fulltext/?cid=84292
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Open-Carry Suit Filed in Wisconsin: Today civil rights attorney John Monroe filed a federal lawsuit against West Milwaukee and it's police force for gross abuses of power against a man solely because the man was legally carrying a holstered gun. A copy of the lawsuit can be found here. The complaint alleges that police illegally detained, harassed, and arrested Jesus Gonzales without cause in violation of the federal constitution. Further, the complaint alleges that police unlawfully demanded Gonzales' social security number in violation of Section 7 of the Federal Privacy Act, arguably a felony under the Social Security Act at 42 USC 408. Mr. Gonzales was never actually tried in court, but the complaint alleges that the police have refused to return the property confiscated from Mr. Gonzales. OpenCarry.org's co-founder John Pierce, a law student at nearby Hamline University in Minneapolis, MN where open carry is also legal, says that "the police have no more power to confiscate openly carried handguns that they do to confiscate openly carried cell phones." In Wisconsin, like most states, citizens can openly carry handguns in public without any permit. Recently a Wisconsin judge ruled that mere open carry of holstered handguns is not "disorderly conduct" in Wisconsin…
http://www.examiner.com/x-2782-DC-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m4d14-Breaking-News-Federal-civil-rights-lawsuit-filed-against-West-Milwaukee?cid=exrss-DC-Gun-Rights-Examiner
The Complaint:
http://www.jpfo.org/pdf02/complaint.pdf
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Pennsylvania Governor Calls for More Infringements: Prodded by the shooting deaths of police officers in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Gov. Ed Rendell will ask lawmakers today to enact a series of measures to control gun violence. The Democratic governor will detail his proposal at a Harrisburg news conference. Previewing the measures in Pittsburgh yesterday, Mr. Rendell recalled the memorial service last week for the three Pittsburgh police officers gunned down in Stanton Heights. Noting that any number of legislators had attended similar events during years of increasing gun violence, he argued that those lawmakers could pay a more effective tribute to fallen officers by enacting common-sense gun control laws… Mr. Rendell has advocated gun control measures in Harrisburg in the past with little success. In particular, he has called for a limit of one gun purchase a month to curb the problem of straw dealers who legally purchase guns but then resell them on the black market… (As I recall, Poplawski bought all of his firearms through legal channels.)
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09105/962854-53.stm
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Maine Committee Rejects Gun-Show Infringement: A gun control bill supported by the father of one of the students killed at Columbine High School was rejected by a legislative committee Monday in favor of a voluntary measure. The Legislature's Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee voted down a bill sponsored by Rep. Anna Blodgett, D-Augusta, that would have required unlicensed and private gun dealers to perform instant background checks at gun shows. "I think I did as much as anybody could do for that bill," Blodgett said. Last week, Tom Mauser - whose son, Daniel, was one of 15 people killed in 1999 at the Colorado high school - traveled to Maine to urge legislators to support the bill. Blodgett said that, despite weeks of hard work, the bill faced tough opposition from gun rights groups. "This is not against anybody except the people who shouldn't own the guns," she said. The committee rejected Blodgett's bill and two other gun-related bills…
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/6200525.html
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Ohio Could Eliminate Permit Requirement: Representative John Adams (R-78) of Sidney, Ohio has introduced House Bill 129. The bill is identical to Adam's HB225 from 2007, and substantially similar to HB91 from 2005 and HB559 from 2004, the latter two having been sponsored by Representative Tom Brinkman. HB129 would repeal many of the onerous provisions of our current concealed carry law and allow law abiding citizens to carry concealed without a license. Alaska-style CCW is an exciting possibility for gun owners in Ohio. It shows Rep. Adams is in touch with the most conservative of the gun owner base/constituency. It is an important philosophical position. Vermont and Alaska already allow citizens to carry concealed handguns without a license, but all other states require a license (CHL) to carry a concealed handgun. Like Alaska, this bill would leave the license in place so that people who travel outside Ohio can have a license to take advantage of the many states that already honor Ohio's license…
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/6627
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Ohio County Backs Off from Gun Ban: Last week, the northeast Ohio county of Summit announced they were considering passing an ordinance to prohibit county workers from carrying firearms while working or doing county business, even while in personal vehicles. At the time, it was stated that the reason for the proposed ban was "liability purposes", according to Jason Dodson, chief of staff for County Executive Russ Pry. Councilwoman Gloria Rodgers, who has stated she is planning to obtain a concealed handgun license, immediately came out in opposition to the proposal, calling it unnecessary and reminding that "people have a right to protect themselves." Tom Morneweck, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 1229 which covers county employees, stated that the Union has no opposition to employees being legally armed and questioned whether banning in personal vehicles would even be within the county's authority…
http://www.examiner.com/x-2206-Cleveland-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m4d14-Summit-County-backs-off-on-employee-gun-ban-proposal
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Alaska Congressman Supports RKBA: Rep. Don Young was packing heat at a public meeting, and the crowd fully supported it. Young addressed the Second Amendment Task Force, a gun rights group, Monday in Fairbanks. Young went straight to the meeting from the airport so he didn't have a gun with him. But he gladly strapped on a borrowed holster with a Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum in it. He said "this feels pretty good," and posed for pictures with group members. About two dozen people in the restaurant audience also had handguns holstered at their sides. Young is a strong supporter of gun rights and praised the group's goals. He said, "You can't have all the other parts of the Constitution unless you have the Second Amendment."
http://www.aksuperstation.com/news/local/42985712.html
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Colorado Congresswoman Opposes "AWB": Last month, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama administration intends to push for the reauthorization of the federal assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004. However, the administration is meeting resistance from many within its own party, including Colorado Congresswoman Betsy Markey. In the Fort Collins Coloradoan, Markey said: "I am a staunch supporter of Second Amendment rights. I believe it is a mistake to deny constitutional rights to all Americans because of the misdeeds of a few." A statement like Markey's fails to see compromise in the complexities of the gun control debate, and it thwarts common-sense efforts to keep the most dangerous weapons out of the hands of criminals and extremists…
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20090414/OPINION04/904140326/1014/OPINION
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Oops, Wrong Terrier: A 26-year-old man shot three Pit Bulls who were allegedly attacking his dog, killing two, Thursday afternoon. The incident occurred around 12:30 p.m. in the 5100 block of Pritchard Drive. According to Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office spokesman John Fortunato, the man said that his girlfriend alerted him to the fact that their dog was being attacked by other dogs and he went into his rear yard and found three Pit Bulls mauling his pet. Fortunato said the suspect told officers that he tried to chase the dogs away, but when that didn't work, he shot his gun at them, killing two of the dogs and causing the other one to flee. The resident retrieved his injured Terrier and transported it to a local veterinarian for treatment. No charges were filed against the resident involved.
http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl040909tppitbulls.bb86c906.html
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Unusual Seizure: Assault rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition, electronics and a number of other stolen goods were seized Tuesday in connection with a crime syndicate that was busted last week, law enforcement officials said. Many of the guns were antiques and included hard-to-find firearms, such as a Tommy gun and a 30 caliber, belt fed, tripod mounted Browning machine gun worth between $20,000 and $30,000, officials estimate. The stolen goods were linked to Craig R. Erhorn, 23, who was arrested last week in connection with a number of violent home invasions, drug thefts and burglaries, Tucson police said…
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/288749
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Interesting Body Armor: Local media reported that the woman was travelling on the bus on Saturday in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia when it was held up by two armed men. The incident took place in Bahia's capital, Salvador, where 58-year-old Ivonete Pereira travelling to her summer home in the nearby town of Lauro de Freitas. Because of frequent bus attacks in the region, she hid 150 reals (£45) in 20 and 10-real notes coiled inside the left cup of her bra. When the bus passed through the Boca do Rio neighborhood, the robbers suddenly announced their intention. A shoot out ensued with a police officer on the scene and a stray bullet hit Miss Pereira. Her bra was stuffed with just enough cash to absorb most of the impact, although she still had to be taken to hospital to have the bullet removed. A retired police sergeant was shot dead during the clash with the assailants, who managed to escape.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/5152632/Bra-saves-womans-life-in-robbery-shooting.html
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You Just Might Be a Right-Wing Extremist…: What and who exactly are President Obama's homeland security officials afraid of these days? If you are a member of an active conservative group that opposes abortion, favors strict immigration enforcement, lobbies to protect Second Amendment rights, protests big government, advocates federalism or represents veterans who believe in any of the above, the answer is: You…
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/04/15/you_might_be_a_radicalized_right-wing_extremist_if%E2%80%A6?page=full
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/dhs_rightwing_extremism_and_in_1.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/us/15guns.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all
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From Which American Gun Shop Was This Purchased?: A woman was arrested guarding an arsenal that included an anti-aircraft machine gun - the first weapon of its kind seized in Mexico, police said Tuesday. The arsenal belonged to a group linked to the powerful Beltran Leyva drug cartel, federal police coordinator Gen. Rodolfo Cruz said. It also included ammunition, five rifles, a grenade and part of a grenade launcher. Mexican drug cartels, battling a fierce crackdown by soldiers and federal police, have increasingly gotten hold of higher-powered weapons, even military-grade arms such as grenades and machine guns. That has left police - particularly state and municipal forces - grossly outgunned, and many officers have quit following attacks. Cruz said the confiscated .50-caliber, anti-aircraft machine gun can fire 800 rounds per minute and is capable of penetrating armor from more than 5,000 feet. Police on a routine patrol Monday found the gun fitted atop an SUV at a house in northern Sonora state. Authorities did not release any other details about the gun, including its make, where it was manufactured, or where it was sold… The ATF says the grenades are mostly smuggled in through Central America, and have been traced back to the militaries of many countries, from South Korea to Spain and Israel. Some may be leftovers from the Central American civil wars…
ttp://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2009/04/15/news/world/20090415_world_194531.txt
Police in Mexico have seized an anti-aircraft machine gun in the state of Sonora, near the US border. They also found ammunition and other heavy weapons. A woman has been arrested. The seizure took place two days before US President Barack Obama is due to visit his Mexican counterpart, President Felipe Calderón. High on the agenda of the talks between the two will be the bloody drug war currently being waged, mainly with US weapons, by the Mexican drug cartels. Mr Calderón has made ending the drug war the spearhead of his term in office. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has promised him both financial and material aid to accomplish his goal. It is also in the interests of the US to curb the violence of the drug gangs as it often spills over the border into the United States.
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/6258148/Mexican-police-seize-antiaircraft-gun
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ABC Lies Exposed: "If I only had a gun," ABC's recent segment of "20/20," treated viewers to a biased and deeply flawed "study" promoting the opinion that armed citizens are incapable of stopping active killers in mass homicides. On Monday, "Myths of Armed Self-Defense" exposed "20/20's" fallacy of the omnipotent killer, noting that personality characteristics of such killers actually make them more, not less, vulnerable to armed defense. Today, we discuss the advice "20/20" gave viewers unfortunate enough to find themselves in active killer scenarios…
http://www.examiner.com/x-2698-Charlotte-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m4d15-Armed-selfdefense--The-Stopwatch-of-Death
New information has surfaced about the depth of bias that surfaced on ABC's 20/20 hit piece that aired Friday, April 10 with Diane Sawyer as the host. The National Shooting Sports Foundation revealed Monday that it had been "asked numerous times by 20/20 Senior Producer Muriel Pearson to participate in the story, but understanding the piece was a set-up, we refused." NSSF is a firearms industry umbrella group that offers education about firearms safety and programs including "Don't Lie for the Other Guy," aimed at helping the industry deter illegal straw purchases. Its biggest annual effort is the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show, a huge exhibition of new products in the shooting, hunting and law enforcement fields…
http://www.examiner.com/x-4525-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m4d14-ABCs-antigun-bias-revealed-in-2020-antigun-hit-piece?cid=exrss-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner
Do you think it's a good idea to be armed during a mass shooting? Diane Sawyer and the producers of ABC's 20/20 aren't so sure. In fact, on Friday, April 10, 2009, Sawyer spent a full hour trying desperately to prove how dangerous guns are and how ordinary people can't possibly defend themselves with firearms. The show's snarky title: "If I Only Had A Gun." Slanted information filled the report, seemingly pulled from the press releases of the Brady Campaign, with not a single dissenting opinion. The most egregious slight of hand was a rigged experiment that struggled to show why having a gun would do you no good in a Virginia Tech style mass shooting… (I believe that's "sleight" of hand.)
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/6631
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The Beat Goes On: Gun sales in Rhode Island spiked during 2008 to their highest level in at least a decade as firearms purchases in the state mimicked a national trend. The surge continues in 2009 as gun sales in Rhode Island are on track to rise nearly 50 percent, to 13,000 firearms. Politics and economics are the prime causes, say gun dealers and others. "I'm hearing two things," said Pawtucket police Chief George L. Kelley III, president of the Rhode Island Police Chiefs Association. "The first is [people] are afraid the president may change some of the laws, and the second is the economy." Longtime gun owners agreed with Kelley. "A year ago I would have leaned toward [saying] people were reverting back to putting sustenance on the table," said Dennis Etchells, president of the Federated Rhode Island Sportsmen's Clubs, an association of about 20 hunting and fishing clubs in the state. "Now a lot of it has to do with the current presidential administration. The firearms industry exploded after the election; a lot of people fear their Second Amendment rights will be taken away." …
http://www.projo.com/news/content/BZ_GUN_SALES_UP_15_04-15-09_B9DTTJS_v122.28ed6df.html
Fred Calcagno has owned American Sportsman, a gun shop in East Rochester for 22 years. But since Barack Obama became president he's noticed a spike in business. "Since the election sales have been up because across the country, people are nervous that there are going to be more restrictions on fire arms." He estimates sales have jumped between 10 and 25% in the last six months. "There's a huge demand across the country and firearms, manufacturers are back-ordered so long that distributors cant get items to sell," says Fred Calcagno. News 8 has also discovered more people are carrying concealed weapons locally. In Monroe County, gun permits are up. From January to April of 2008, there were 511 applications. This year, that number is 634. That's an increase of almost 20 percent…
http://rochesterhomepage.net/content/fulltext/?cid=84292
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Open-Carry Suit Filed in Wisconsin: Today civil rights attorney John Monroe filed a federal lawsuit against West Milwaukee and it's police force for gross abuses of power against a man solely because the man was legally carrying a holstered gun. A copy of the lawsuit can be found here. The complaint alleges that police illegally detained, harassed, and arrested Jesus Gonzales without cause in violation of the federal constitution. Further, the complaint alleges that police unlawfully demanded Gonzales' social security number in violation of Section 7 of the Federal Privacy Act, arguably a felony under the Social Security Act at 42 USC 408. Mr. Gonzales was never actually tried in court, but the complaint alleges that the police have refused to return the property confiscated from Mr. Gonzales. OpenCarry.org's co-founder John Pierce, a law student at nearby Hamline University in Minneapolis, MN where open carry is also legal, says that "the police have no more power to confiscate openly carried handguns that they do to confiscate openly carried cell phones." In Wisconsin, like most states, citizens can openly carry handguns in public without any permit. Recently a Wisconsin judge ruled that mere open carry of holstered handguns is not "disorderly conduct" in Wisconsin…
http://www.examiner.com/x-2782-DC-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m4d14-Breaking-News-Federal-civil-rights-lawsuit-filed-against-West-Milwaukee?cid=exrss-DC-Gun-Rights-Examiner
The Complaint:
http://www.jpfo.org/pdf02/complaint.pdf
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Pennsylvania Governor Calls for More Infringements: Prodded by the shooting deaths of police officers in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Gov. Ed Rendell will ask lawmakers today to enact a series of measures to control gun violence. The Democratic governor will detail his proposal at a Harrisburg news conference. Previewing the measures in Pittsburgh yesterday, Mr. Rendell recalled the memorial service last week for the three Pittsburgh police officers gunned down in Stanton Heights. Noting that any number of legislators had attended similar events during years of increasing gun violence, he argued that those lawmakers could pay a more effective tribute to fallen officers by enacting common-sense gun control laws… Mr. Rendell has advocated gun control measures in Harrisburg in the past with little success. In particular, he has called for a limit of one gun purchase a month to curb the problem of straw dealers who legally purchase guns but then resell them on the black market… (As I recall, Poplawski bought all of his firearms through legal channels.)
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09105/962854-53.stm
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Maine Committee Rejects Gun-Show Infringement: A gun control bill supported by the father of one of the students killed at Columbine High School was rejected by a legislative committee Monday in favor of a voluntary measure. The Legislature's Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee voted down a bill sponsored by Rep. Anna Blodgett, D-Augusta, that would have required unlicensed and private gun dealers to perform instant background checks at gun shows. "I think I did as much as anybody could do for that bill," Blodgett said. Last week, Tom Mauser - whose son, Daniel, was one of 15 people killed in 1999 at the Colorado high school - traveled to Maine to urge legislators to support the bill. Blodgett said that, despite weeks of hard work, the bill faced tough opposition from gun rights groups. "This is not against anybody except the people who shouldn't own the guns," she said. The committee rejected Blodgett's bill and two other gun-related bills…
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/6200525.html
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Ohio Could Eliminate Permit Requirement: Representative John Adams (R-78) of Sidney, Ohio has introduced House Bill 129. The bill is identical to Adam's HB225 from 2007, and substantially similar to HB91 from 2005 and HB559 from 2004, the latter two having been sponsored by Representative Tom Brinkman. HB129 would repeal many of the onerous provisions of our current concealed carry law and allow law abiding citizens to carry concealed without a license. Alaska-style CCW is an exciting possibility for gun owners in Ohio. It shows Rep. Adams is in touch with the most conservative of the gun owner base/constituency. It is an important philosophical position. Vermont and Alaska already allow citizens to carry concealed handguns without a license, but all other states require a license (CHL) to carry a concealed handgun. Like Alaska, this bill would leave the license in place so that people who travel outside Ohio can have a license to take advantage of the many states that already honor Ohio's license…
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/6627
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Ohio County Backs Off from Gun Ban: Last week, the northeast Ohio county of Summit announced they were considering passing an ordinance to prohibit county workers from carrying firearms while working or doing county business, even while in personal vehicles. At the time, it was stated that the reason for the proposed ban was "liability purposes", according to Jason Dodson, chief of staff for County Executive Russ Pry. Councilwoman Gloria Rodgers, who has stated she is planning to obtain a concealed handgun license, immediately came out in opposition to the proposal, calling it unnecessary and reminding that "people have a right to protect themselves." Tom Morneweck, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 1229 which covers county employees, stated that the Union has no opposition to employees being legally armed and questioned whether banning in personal vehicles would even be within the county's authority…
http://www.examiner.com/x-2206-Cleveland-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m4d14-Summit-County-backs-off-on-employee-gun-ban-proposal
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Alaska Congressman Supports RKBA: Rep. Don Young was packing heat at a public meeting, and the crowd fully supported it. Young addressed the Second Amendment Task Force, a gun rights group, Monday in Fairbanks. Young went straight to the meeting from the airport so he didn't have a gun with him. But he gladly strapped on a borrowed holster with a Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum in it. He said "this feels pretty good," and posed for pictures with group members. About two dozen people in the restaurant audience also had handguns holstered at their sides. Young is a strong supporter of gun rights and praised the group's goals. He said, "You can't have all the other parts of the Constitution unless you have the Second Amendment."
http://www.aksuperstation.com/news/local/42985712.html
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Colorado Congresswoman Opposes "AWB": Last month, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama administration intends to push for the reauthorization of the federal assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004. However, the administration is meeting resistance from many within its own party, including Colorado Congresswoman Betsy Markey. In the Fort Collins Coloradoan, Markey said: "I am a staunch supporter of Second Amendment rights. I believe it is a mistake to deny constitutional rights to all Americans because of the misdeeds of a few." A statement like Markey's fails to see compromise in the complexities of the gun control debate, and it thwarts common-sense efforts to keep the most dangerous weapons out of the hands of criminals and extremists…
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20090414/OPINION04/904140326/1014/OPINION
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Oops, Wrong Terrier: A 26-year-old man shot three Pit Bulls who were allegedly attacking his dog, killing two, Thursday afternoon. The incident occurred around 12:30 p.m. in the 5100 block of Pritchard Drive. According to Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office spokesman John Fortunato, the man said that his girlfriend alerted him to the fact that their dog was being attacked by other dogs and he went into his rear yard and found three Pit Bulls mauling his pet. Fortunato said the suspect told officers that he tried to chase the dogs away, but when that didn't work, he shot his gun at them, killing two of the dogs and causing the other one to flee. The resident retrieved his injured Terrier and transported it to a local veterinarian for treatment. No charges were filed against the resident involved.
http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl040909tppitbulls.bb86c906.html
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Unusual Seizure: Assault rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition, electronics and a number of other stolen goods were seized Tuesday in connection with a crime syndicate that was busted last week, law enforcement officials said. Many of the guns were antiques and included hard-to-find firearms, such as a Tommy gun and a 30 caliber, belt fed, tripod mounted Browning machine gun worth between $20,000 and $30,000, officials estimate. The stolen goods were linked to Craig R. Erhorn, 23, who was arrested last week in connection with a number of violent home invasions, drug thefts and burglaries, Tucson police said…
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/288749
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Interesting Body Armor: Local media reported that the woman was travelling on the bus on Saturday in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia when it was held up by two armed men. The incident took place in Bahia's capital, Salvador, where 58-year-old Ivonete Pereira travelling to her summer home in the nearby town of Lauro de Freitas. Because of frequent bus attacks in the region, she hid 150 reals (£45) in 20 and 10-real notes coiled inside the left cup of her bra. When the bus passed through the Boca do Rio neighborhood, the robbers suddenly announced their intention. A shoot out ensued with a police officer on the scene and a stray bullet hit Miss Pereira. Her bra was stuffed with just enough cash to absorb most of the impact, although she still had to be taken to hospital to have the bullet removed. A retired police sergeant was shot dead during the clash with the assailants, who managed to escape.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/5152632/Bra-saves-womans-life-in-robbery-shooting.html
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You Just Might Be a Right-Wing Extremist…: What and who exactly are President Obama's homeland security officials afraid of these days? If you are a member of an active conservative group that opposes abortion, favors strict immigration enforcement, lobbies to protect Second Amendment rights, protests big government, advocates federalism or represents veterans who believe in any of the above, the answer is: You…
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/04/15/you_might_be_a_radicalized_right-wing_extremist_if%E2%80%A6?page=full
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/dhs_rightwing_extremism_and_in_1.html
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