Brazil Firearm Vote Due Sunday: Brazilians will vote this Sunday on
whether or not to ban legal sales of firearms and ammunition in that
country. The referendum does not deal with the flourishing black market
in the same items.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/20/international/americas/20brazil.html
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Gee, It's Not Just Access To Firearms: If easy access to firearms is
responsible for high homicide rates, how come there is such a disparity
in homicide rates between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, two cities on
opposite sides of the same state?
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/12938702.htm
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Eddie Eagle Hits Kern County: It looks like all kids in kindergarten in
Kern County CA will be viewing an Eddie Eagle videotape, teaching them
not to handle firearms they might find.
http://www.bakersfield.com/updates/story/5633499p-5650561c.html
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If Ignorance Is Bliss...: This time it's a nationwide drive to get
students to pledge to remain "gun-free."
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=triangle&id=3549740
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British Army Loses Another Firearm: Is there any correlation with the
negligent handling of firearms by these officers (a sergeant major is a
warrant officer in the British army) and the fact that they have grown
up "gun-free"?
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=16268729&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=army-probe-as-second-gun-goes-missisng-name_page.html
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Deputy Suspended For Warning Shot: A 15-year veteran of a Florida
sheriff's department has been suspended for firing a round into a wooden
fence to encourage a suspect to fully comply with an order to raise his
hands.
http://www.tbnweekly.com/content_articles/101905_smb-03.txt
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Manufacturer-Protection Bill Expected To Pass: Without commenting on the
conflicts between the House and Senate versions, article gives the
Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act a high chance of becoming law.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/10/19/110142.shtml
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From GOA:
Gun Control Bill Pulled Today!
-- There is still time to place your calls
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Big news! The House was scheduled to bring up S. 397 for a vote
today. But now the latest information from the House of
Representatives indicates that the bill has been postponed to
tomorrow (Thursday).
GOA remains the only group at the national level that is fighting for
a CLEAN bill to protect gun makers (H.R. 800).
It is imperative that you make your last-minute calls to the Hill in
support of H.R. 800, especially if you have not done so already.
ACTION: Please use the pre-written letter below to help direct your
contact to the Hill. Please ask your Representative to oppose S. 397
and to insist upon H.R. 800, which contains no gun control.
You are the ONLY ones in the fight to stop gun control from being
passed by Congress. We urge you to not only take action, but to
circulate this alert widely throughout the gun rights community.
You can visit the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at
http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Representative a
pre-written e-mail message such as the one below.
Or, you can call your Representative at 202-225-3121. (You can try
the toll-free at 877-762-8762, but it seems to NOT be working at this
time.)
--- Pre-written letter ---
Dear Representative:
I hope that you will do everything in your power to encourage the
House leadership to ditch S. 397 and use its own bill, H.R. 800,
instead.
S. 397 takes us dangerously close to mandatory trigger locks, and
mandatory trigger locks kill. Just ask Mary Carpenter, who has had
to live with the fact that two of her grandchildren were killed in
2000, because no one in the house could disengage the gun locking
device that kept the family from protecting themselves against a
pitchfork wielding thug.
People in the home had been trained with firearms and knew how to use
them. There was just one problem: the guns were locked up in
compliance with California state law.
Mary Carpenter will tell you -- as she has already told several
legislatures across the country -- don't encourage trigger locks...
dont require them... just stay away from them. Trigger locks kill!
Please tell the Speaker and the Majority Leader of the House that S.
397 is unacceptable to gun owners. Instead, send H.R. 800 to the
Senate so that we can have a CLEAN bill.
Sincerely,
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--
Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
