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NRA vs. Brady Bunch - Who Serves America?: Commentary compares history
and track records of both organizations, along with their contributions
to our nation. (Teflon was used on KTW armor-piercing handgun bullets to
reduce wear on the bore from their steel jackets. S&W developed the
Nyclad line of ammunition with Nylon-coated bullets, to reduce airborne
lead on indoor ranges. When S&W got out of the ammunition business, they
sold the rights to Federal, which subsequently discontinued it about two
or three years ago.)

http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/malven/2005/11/nra-and-gun-owner-versus-brady.html
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Mental Preparedness, Second Priority: Those who are familiar with my
website or my book will recall that I list the mental preparedness to
use deadly force, when appropriate, second only to mental awareness in
the priorities for personal safety and survival. Please assess the level
of mental preparedness of the man who is now paralyzed in one leg after
his encounter with the shooter in the Tacoma mall.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/5363616p-4853200c.html
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Rule Four Reminder: A Mississippi man is awaiting a hearing by a grand
jury in the fatal shooting of an apparent burglar on his front porch.
According to a relative, the homeowner has stated that he did not intend
to kill the man and simply fired to scare off two men who tried to kick
in his door. (Rule Four: Always be sure of your target and what's beyond
it.)

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051128/NEWS/511280352/1002
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Olin Foundation To Close: The John M. Olin Foundation is shutting down
after 52 years of service. Some will recall that John Lott spent several
years as an John M. Olin Fellow or Professor at different universities.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/28/113010.shtml
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The "Gun Death" Fraud: A Canadian scholar argues that the term "gun
death" is "distracting." In particular, he focuses on methods of suicide
in Canada.

http://www.ncpa.org/newdpd/dpdarticle.php?article_id=2570
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From JPFO:

ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization

November 28, 2005

JPFO ALERT: COULD SCIENCE PROVE YOU GUILTY
           OF A CRIME YOU DIDN'T COMMIT?

In a criminal trial, we might be skeptical of the testimony of an
eyewitness or a psychologist. But when a forensic scientist or lab
technician takes the stand, we take notice.

So do juries.

But should anyone accept "scientific" testimony at face value? And more
importantly, are police and prosecutors putting innocent citizens
through hellish ordeals on the basis of many different varieties of
questionable "evidence"?

Last week, the journal _New Scientist_ dropped the latest bombshell.
They gave us one more huge reminder that government scientists and
technicians are just as fallible
as anyone, and that "scientific evidence" may not be what it seems.

The new revelations are particularly important to gun owners.

SCIENCE THAT ISN'T

In the last eight years, serious doubts have been cast on the
reliability of fingerprint evidence and the honesty and competence of
FBI lab work. More recently, JPFO has exposed incompetence and lack of
standards in the ATF's firearms testing. (See links below.)

Now _New
Scientist_(http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18825274.300)
tells us that "gun-shot residue" (GSR) used to "prove" that a person
fired a gun in an attack may not actually be GSR at all. And even if it
is, it didn't necessarily come from firing a gun!

Read the article. You'll learn, among other things, that:

* False GSR can get on a person's hands when they handle fireworks,
certain industrial tools, or brake linings. (Apparently mechanics are
particularly susceptible to being accused of firearms-related crimes.)

* Even when GSR actually is GSR, traces on a person's hands don't mean
they fired a gun or committed any crime. The background amount of GSR
found in a crime lab, for
instance, may be greater than that found on a defendant's hands!

* One of the best places to get GSR on your hands is -- this is ironic
-- the back seat of a police car.

Furthermore, there are no consistent standards for determining whether
traces on a person's hands are actually GSR, or what concentrations of
genuine GSR are required to prove anything at all.

Finally, the article doesn't say it, but it's probable that virtually
every recreational shooter is frequently covered with genuine -- but
entirely innocent -- gun-shot residue.

CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS

We have written before that prosecutors are increasingly concerned more
with their "stats" -- their conviction percentages -- than with actual
justice.

Couple this with the vast number of new crimes constantly being created
by governments and with the outrageous mandatory minimum sentences for
anyone convicted of a "gun crime," and you have a recipe for disaster.

Furthermore, with programs like Project Safe Neighborhoods actively
seeking to prosecute "gun crimes" (including the most non-violent acts)
no gun owner is safe. If a jury hears that we have gun-shot residue on
our hands or that our fingerprints were found at a crime scene, they
don't know enough to question the "facts."

The "expert" from the government says it's true. And the "scientific
evidence" says it's true. And so off to prison we go ... for five or 10
or 15 years, or a lifetime.

In a culture that truly respected the Bill of Rights -- a culture where
laws were few and understandable, a culture where government was limited
and not given so much automatic, unthinking respect -- abuses like this
would be few and far between. Prosecutors would not have such awesome
power. Independent agencies would have a stake in making sure that
science was truly scientific. And far fewer innocent people would be
dragged into court in the first place.

We need to improve the science behind forensics. We need more honest
prosecutors and police departments. But above all, we need a Bill of
Rights culture -- a culture that
values individual rights and seeks _true_ justice for all.

A Bill of Rights culture is something only you and I can create, one
awakened mind at a time.

- The Liberty Crew

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Unreliable evidence from the FBI crime lab
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fedagencies/april97/fbi_4-15a.html

Casting doubts on the reliability of fingerprinting
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/986340.stm

Malfeasance and lack of standards at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms, and Explosives
http://www.jpfo.org/batfearticles.htm

The State vs. the People by Claire Wolfe and Aaron Zelman (This book
contains information on prosecutorial malfeasance and its role in the
police state.)
http://www.jpfo.org/tsvtp.htm

Mandatory minimum sentences for "gun crimes" -- One catastrophic case
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3212708


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Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.

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