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Florida Parking-Lot Bill Still Stalled In Committee: Two of the
Republican party's biggest supporters are facing off in a duel over a
bill to let employees leave their guns in locked cars at work. And Rep.
David Simmons again wasn't able to avert the showdown Wednesday between
business owners and gun activists.
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/14106903.htm
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Alabama Stand-Your-Ground Bill Stalled In Committee: The House vote on
the bill, which would expand the situations and places people may use
deadly force when they feel threatened, was postponed after Republicans
and several black Democrats filibustered the bill.
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/legislature.ssf?/base/news/114241797892730.xml&coll=1
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Pro-RKBA Bills Introduced In Pennsylvania: One bill would ban firearm
registries, such as that maintained by the state police. The other would
remove the requirement to retreat before resorting to deadly force
outside the home.
http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=4632108&nav=5ka4
Related Articles:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06074/670326.stm
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_433382.html
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Virginia Approves Permitless Carry In Glove Compartment: Licensed gun
owners can now keep a firearm locked in the glove compartment or some
other locked container inside their car without a concealed weapons
permit under provision adopted by the legislature last week. (Article
fails to state the effective date of this law.)
http://www.zwire.com/site/tab5.cfm?newsid=16307928&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506096&rfi=6
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Tennessee Bill Would Shift Background Checks To FBI: Currently the
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation charges a $10 fee to run the
background check for firearm purchases. The FBI's NICS does not charge a
fee.
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060315/NEWS0201/603150389/1009/NEWS
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Local Control Of CCW Proposed In Ohio: In direct opposition to the
pre-emption portion of HB 347, a state senator has introduced a bill
that would authorize local governments to ban licensed CCW.
http://peoplesrights.org/articletemplate.asp?id=148
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New Orleans Admits Stockpile Of Confiscated Firearms: A Second Amendment
group calls it a "stunning reversal." After denying it for months, the
City of New Orleans on Wednesday admitted that it does have a stockpile
of firearms seized from private citizens in the days following Hurricane
Katrina.
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=62434
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200603\CUL20060316b.html
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Dog Incident Leads To Fatal Shooting: A trailer park owner in Texas went
to check on why one of his tenant's pit bull had chased his
step-grandson. The man ended shooting both the dog and the dog's owner
after he was attacked by each of them. (Could this incident have been
handled by local animal-control officers?)
http://216.87.159.39/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=10778
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Oops, Wrong Store: A 15-year-old robber was shot fatally as he and two
companions sought to rob a store in Trenton NJ. The area newspaper is
seeking to make an issue of the fact that the revolver used by one of
the store's employees was not purchased in compliance with that state's
prohibitive restrictions on firearms.
http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/base/news-1/114241410569320.xml&coll=5
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From GOA:
U.S. House Will Vote Soon on Whether to Ditch John McCain's Internet
Regulations
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, March 15, 2006
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote, as early as Thursday, on
legislation introduced by Texas Congressmen Jeb Hensarling and Ron Paul.
This bill (H.R. 1606) will exempt the Internet from regulation under
federal "electioneering" laws.
Unless the Hensarling-Paul bill is successful, many major blogs and web
sites could be shut down for 60 days before any general election -- and
for 30 days prior to any primary -- making it much more difficult for
groups like Gun Owners of America to criticize anti-gun candidates.
How did we arrive at such a dismal state?
You may remember that, a half-decade ago, Senator John McCain (R-AZ)
pushed a McCain-Feingold bill which, as enacted, prohibits organizations
from engaging in major "broadcast communications" which even mention a
candidate in a favorable or unfavorable light within 60 days of a
general election (30 days of a primary).
Senate Republicans rolled over -- and George Bush signed the bill --
based on the assumption that the Supreme Court would surely save them
from their unconstitutional legislation. But, in McConnell v. Federal
Election Commission, 540 U.S. 93 (2003), the Supreme Court, by a
five-to-four decision, upheld McCain-Feingold, almost in its
entirely.
To its enormous credit, the conservative Federal Election Commission
(FEC), in the wake of the McConnell case, moved to narrowly interpret
the statute -- exempting the Internet entirely from McCain-Feingold. But
in Shays v. Federal Election Commission, 337 F.Supp.2d 28 (D.C., 2004),
a federal judge ordered the FEC to regulate the Internet.
The FEC is doing everything in its power to minimize the impact of the
Shays ruling.
But, there is certainly a danger that, if Hensarling and Paul are
unsuccessful in exempting the Internet from FEC regulation, many major
blogs and web sites will be construed to be engaged in "electioneering
communications" because they praise or criticize candidates. And, if
this happens, they could be shut down for 60 days prior to an election
-- or, at least, subject to a "gag rule" on what they are allowed to say.
ACTION: Contact your congressman. Ask him to vote for H.R. 1606, a bill
to exempt the Internet from McCain-Feingold. Time is short, so please
CALL rather than e-mail your representative. (You can use the sample
text below to help direct your comments.) The toll-free number to call
your representative is 877-762-8762. If you can't get through, the
Capitol Switchboard number is 202-225-3121.
----- Sample phone text -----
The U.S. House of Representatives will soon vote on H.R. 1606, a bill by
introduced by Texas Congressmen Jeb Hensarling and Ron Paul to exempt
the Internet from regulation under federal "electioneering" laws.
Unless the Hensarling-Paul bill is successful, many major blogs and web
sites could be shut down for 60 days before any general election -- and
for 30 days prior to any primary.
Please support H.R. 1606.
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
