Sentence In Unusual Shooting: A Tohono O'odham man has been sentenced to
20 years in prison for fatally shooting a fellow tribal member in a
dispute over who was the better medicine man. Tohono O'odham is one of
nine of Arizona's 21 reservations that informed me that they honor the
Arizona CWP but only 0.18% of Arizona's CWP holders identify themselves
as Indian.
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/metro/89039.php
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Logic In A Gun Magazine? Handguns magazine let's Michael Bane challenge
IDPA's emphasis on tactical reloads. My former teaching partner used to
say, "You're gonna run out of time before you run out of ammo."
Personally, my first and second reloads would consist of drawing another
gun.
http://www.handgunsmag.com/tactics_training/treload_061604/
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County Supervisors Compromise On Noise Ordinance: The supervisors of
Nelson County VA were racing to enact a noise ordinance before a state
law would have precluded their ability to regulate noise from shooting
ranges. Following protests, their ordinance now provides an exception
for firearms discharged at commercial ranges. (I find it hard to see
what the supervisors have actually accomplished.)
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784463915&path=!news&s=1045855934842
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When Guns Are Outlawed...: Article from Texas contends that restrictive
firearm laws in Mexico have only created a black market in firearms.
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_more.php?id=66588_0_10_0_M
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If Firearms Are Only for Hobby...: The mayor of Toronto (the one in
Canada) is calling for all privately held firearms to be stored in one
central location. "It would just put all the firearms in one place so
they could all be stolen at one time," said Eric Greer of the Ontario
Arms Collectors Association. "That would be a wonderful thing."
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/toronto/story.html?id=6bd4b477-9334-4132-8181-e5bafead1b47
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Nuclear Plant Guards Need More Training: Article draws mostly from a GAO
report - the protection forces at nuclear plants need to evolve in to a
special-forces model. (See blog entry for August 17.)
http://jimkouri.mensnewsdaily.com/blog/kouri/
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From John Farnam:
15 Aug 05
Info on training, from a friend and student who is a guard at a nuclear
plant:
"We had three weeks of firearms training in pistol and rifle. It could
have easily been condensed into four days, but bureaucratic clog
stretches it out, ad nauseam. Our instructors were competent, but they,
like everyone else in this industry, are hamstrung by corporate grasseaters.
'Clearing barrels' populate the landscape like horsecrap! We are
forever unloading. We are trusted to carry weapons on property, but
nowhere else, and we're not trusted to clean them. Rifles are shared,
and have (you'll love this term) a 'general' zero, supposedly at 100m,
but we never get a chance to verify that.
They value us only so far as we fulfill some bureaucratic requirement,
but they hate us as people and consider our lives and health utterly
inconsequential. No effort is made to conceal that sentiment.
Glocks all worked fine. Rifles are a mixture of Colts and Bushmasters.
Colts ran fine. Bushmasters didn't."
Comment: Several weeks ago we had two, active Secret Service Agents in
an Urban Rifle Course at a military base in VA. Both were assigned to
the personal protection detail of a high-profile politician. Both had,
of course, received training, but both expressed the sentiment that all
their instruction was designed to prepare them to competently protect
someone else. The nuclear industry is obviously not much different.
Little was said, and there was apparently little concern, about them
personally or their good health. So, they had decided to come to us in
order to learn how to competently protect themselves!
/John
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
