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Mayors Conspire Against RKBA: The conference of big-city mayors,
convened by New York's Mayor Bloomberg and Boston's Mayor Menino, has
concluded. The two organizers said the mayors needed to use every tool,
from crackdowns on irresponsible gun dealers to new gun-tracing
technologies, because federal authorities had abdicated their
responsibility.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/nyregion/26guns.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060426/NEWS/604260322/1002/EDUCATION05
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0426guns0426.html
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NSSF Barred From Mayors' Conference: The National Shooting Sports
Foundation had requested the opportunity to attend the conference of
big-city mayors about the criminal misuse of firearms. "Are they
mayors?" asked Stu Loeser, Bloomberg's press secretary, dismissing the
request out of hand.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/67502.htm
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Florida Bill Would Protect Right To Carry During Disasters: If you have
a permit to carry a gun in the state of Florida, your right to carry
could not be blocked by the state following a disaster like a hurricane,
under a measure passed unanimously Tuesday by the Florida House and now
awaiting Senate approval.
http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_115160250.html
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Anti-Confiscation Bill Passes Louisiana House: House Bill 760 would
forbid law enforcement from confiscating firearms from law-abiding
citizens during times of civil disorder.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/2687716.html
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Stand-Your-Ground Bill Passes Oklahoma Senate: A bill to expand legal
protections to people who shoot or use other deadly force when
threatened or attacked easily passed the state Senate on Tuesday. The
state House, which approved the bill earlier on a 96-2 vote, will now
vote on the Senate-passed bill in a procedural move necessary before it
goes on to Gov. Brad Henry to be signed into law.
http://www.kotv.com/main/home/stories.asp?whichpage=1&id=103094
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California Tax-Exemption Bill Tabled For Now: A bill to exempt
firearm-safety devices from sales and use taxes has been placed in
"suspense file," for later consideration. (The bill, supported by the
NRA, could conceivably serve to create an additional from of identifying
firearms owners when they claim the exemption; California does not
currently require the registration of long guns unless they were
classified as "assault weapons.")
http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=8578
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Oops, Wrong House: Burglars in Houston returned to a house for a safe
they had failed to take on their first attempt. In the ensuing gunfight,
one of the burglars was killed when he was shot above the level of his
ballistic vest. The second fatality is described as a visitor yet the
article offers no evidence that she was not some sort of accomplice.
(Note the use of the ballistic vest. One advantage of placing handgun
rounds in the pelvic area as that vests generally don't extend that low.
One of the arguments for a .223 carbine over a shotgun for home defense
is that .223 rounds will penetrate soft body armor but have low
penetration of building materials.)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/fortbend/news/3816874.html
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Bringing A BB Gun To A Gunfight: Two Florida teenagers realized the
error of their ways when they pointed some sort of pellet pistol at the
victim of their burglary attempt. They quickly left the home when the
retired Air Force sergeant drew his own gun. Police are checking the
abandoned pellet pistol for fingerprints.
http://www.wftv.com/news/8951722/detail.html
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"Warning Shot" May Bring Felony Charge: An 87-year-old Florida man may
be charged for using his .32-caliber revolver to fire a shot into the
ground to scare off a black bear that was headed toward a group of
children in his neighborhood.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/orl-bearshot2506apr25,0,4294646.story?coll=sfla-news-florida
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Good Tactics?: An elderly Montana woman had an unexpected visitor walk
through her unlocked door. After he ignored her questions, Friesen said
she went into her bedroom, pulled out a gun and called 911. Friesen
remained in her room patiently waiting for sheriff's deputies to
arrive. "It wasn't as frightening as it would have been if I didn't
have the gun," she said.
http://www.ravallirepublic.com/articles/2006/04/25/news/news02.txt
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No Prosecution For Improper Firearm Storage: The San Bernardino County
District Attorney's office has decided not to file charges, under
California's improper-firearm-storage statute, against the the
stepfather of a teenager who used the man's .22 rifle to kill himself.
(Improper storage of a firearm that results in harm when it is misused
by a minor is a felony in California.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rbriefs26apr26,1,1245240.story?coll=la-headlines-california
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Does BATFE Play Local Politics?: A local official in Michigan, who is
involved in a political dispute, may face arrest after federal agents
confiscated firearms in a safe at her home. Her husband is a convicted
felon and presumably did not have access to her safe. (I seem to recall
that this is the same approach used by a major radio talk-show host to
keep firearms in his home despite a felony conviction resulting from the
Watergate affair.)
http://www.mlive.com/news/sanews/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1146057721280470.xml&coll=9
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Spokane Firearms Dealer Loses FFL: BATFE has yanked the FFL of Spokane's
largest firearms dealer, citing the absence of paperwork for a total of
eight firearms sold there over the past 20 years.
http://www.kxly.com/news/index.php?sect_rank=2§ion_id=560&story_id=1900
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Whose Role To Fight Crime?: Additional commentary from John Longenecker
emphasizes the role of citizens in fighting crime as it occurs.
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/04/25/nation-of-laws-means-a-nation-of-law-enforcement/
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L.A. Times Continues Campaign Against Orange County Sheriff: The
presence of a revolver owned by an Orange County reserve deputy in the
home of a controversial figure who is a convicted felon has given The
Los Angeles Times one more opportunity to attack the relatively loose
CWP-issuance policies of Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona. (Years
ago, the same paper mounted a campaign to drive a San Diego County
Sheriff Duffy from office because he also issued CWP's fairly freely.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ferrari26apr26,0,7459610.story?coll=la-home-headlines
--
Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
