15-Year-Old Cleared In Home Defense Shooting: Prosecutors in North
Carolina have decided that a 15-year-old was acting in self-defense when
he fatally shot a 19-year-old who broke into his home and assaulted him
and an 18-year-old female companion.
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050708/NEWS01/50708003/1001
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Grand Jury Clears Wife Who Killed Husband: In an unusual case, a New
York grand jury tossed out murder charges against a woman who fatally
shot her husband in the back.
http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/?ArID=139244&SecID=33
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Pistol-Permit Office To Expand Hours: Erie County NY will expand the
operating hours of its pistol-permit office.
http://www.wivb.com/Global/story.asp?S=3572371&nav=0Rapbvvt
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Some May Seek Gain In Gun Buy-Back: West Palm Beach (FL) police realize
that some people may buy cheap handguns at pawn shops in order to profit
from a local buy-back program.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pguns08jul08,0,7515127.story?coll=sfla-news-palm
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Jury Weighs Fate Of Former Officer: A former lieutenant with the Houston
(TX) PD is charged with murder in the furtive-movement shooting of a
stalker. The man was stalking the officer because the officer had had an
affair with the stalker's wife.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3257524
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Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
