New CCW Bill To Debut In Wisconsin: While a lawsuit is pending over
release of the actual draft of the bill, it appears that the major
change from last year's version is to shift the background checks and
issuance to the state's Department of Justice.
http://journaltimes.com/articles/2005/09/29/local/iq_3704556.txt
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NYPD - 77 Shots, 3 Hits: New York City police officers chased a suspect,
who was shooting at them, through two housing projects, firing 77 shots
of their own. The suspect was hit three times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/29/nyregion/29shot.html
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Common Sense On Campus: A student at the University of Oregon counsels
against legislative overreaction to an incident involving a CHL-holder.
http://www.dailyemerald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/09/28/433a5fa5b6d9d
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Natural Rights In Paradise: DRGO's Tim Wheeler notes the increase in
sales of firearms in Hawaii and points out that a shall-issue CCW bill
will be introduced in next year's legislative session (Scroll down for
the posting with the above title.)
http://www.azdps.gov/ccw/tsa.asp
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Transporting Firearms On Aircraft: The Arizona DPS CWP Unit has posted a
page on flying with firearms.
http://www.azdps.gov/ccw/tsa.asp
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Portrait Of A Prohibitionist: Article profiles Jon Rosenthal, a
Massachusetts real estate developer turned anti-RKBA propagandist.
http://www.weeklydig.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/article.view/issueID/3613d31c-1a53-4c0a-ba45-13c0d75a742a/articleID/13baa8b3-5c5e-4420-ba38-6ac57b4cada9/nodeID/8ea67746-b4d9-4901-88ec-65210e243151
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International Prohibitionists Disappointed: Rebecca Peters and her crowd
failed to their goal earlier this month at a World Summit held in New York.
http://www.iansa.org/un/world-summit-2005.htm
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NEWS RELEASE
COMPASS' DEPARTURE AS NEW ORLEANS CHIEF 'RIGHT, BUT NOT ENOUGH,'
SAYS SAF
BELLEVUE, WA - The abrupt retirement announcement Tuesday by New Orleans
Police Superintendent Eddie Compass was "the right thing to do, but not
enough," said Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) founder Alan M. Gottlieb.
"While the departure of Chief Compass may begin a healing process that
needs to occur between the police and law-abiding gun owners whose
firearms were arbitrarily seized in the days after Hurricane Katrina,"
Gottlieb said, "there are many unanswered questions about who actually
issued the order to confiscate guns, and the public has a right to know.
New Orleans police officers, visiting officers from other jurisdictions
and peace officers in surrounding parishes didn't just collectively
dream up that confiscation effort.
"It was almost laughable," Gottlieb noted, "that right after SAF and the
National Rifle Association joined forces in federal court to
successfully stop the gun seizures, Mayor Ray Nagin's office scrambled
to distance itself from the statements made by Compass and Deputy Chief
Warren Riley that only police would be allowed to have guns, and that
everyone else would be disarmed. It is disturbing that Nagin so quickly
named Riley as interim chief."
Gottlieb acknowledged that the gun confiscations were merely the "last
straw" in terms of Compass' final weeks as police chief. Under his
watch, New Orleans saw its murder rate climb, and there were continuing
problems of corruption within the department. Topping it off, he
observed, were the desertions of officers from their posts, and reports
that some officers even participated in the looting that followed Katrina.
"Yet, the problem remains," he said, "that nobody has admitted to being
the source of the disarmament order. If it was Ray Nagin, he needs to
come clean, although he's been so busy trying to blame every other
Katrina failure on everybody else, it is doubtful he would ever admit
issuing an order to take everyone's guns. If it was Chief Compass, then
he ought to say so. If that order came from somewhere else, such as the
governor's office or the state office of emergency services, Louisiana
residents are entitled to that information.
"SAF and the NRA went to court to make sure this kind of thing never
happens again," Gottlieb stated. "Finding out who is responsible for
originally issuing the order is paramount. Leadership takes backbone. I
don't see much of either right now in New Orleans."
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
