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Colorado Supremes Uphold Denver "AWB": Colorado's Supreme Court has
ruled that despite a state pre-emption law, Denver can continue to
enforce some local firearm restrictions, such as a ban on cosmetically
impaired firearms and those of "inferior quality."
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9322012/detail.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/us/06brfs-brief-003.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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NYC Would Treat Gun Offenders Like Sex Offenders: Criminals convicted of
criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree in New York City
would have to register and update their addresses, similar to sex
offenders, under a law proposed by city officials on Monday.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--cityguns0605jun05%2C0%2C371737%2Cprint.story
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Ohio CHL-Holder Caught in Catch-22: Recently, a concealed handgun
license holder was pulled over in Oregon, Ohio (near Toledo) after
leaving a gas station. He was ordered out of his vehicle by police
conducting a "felony traffic stop." The man had been complying with Ohio
law, which specifies that handguns may not be concealed inside a vehicle.
http://www.ohioccw.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3613&Itemid=83
SAF vs. NOPD: Second Amendment Foundation is calling on the US Attorney
General to intervene to prevent further seizures of legally owned
firearms, in the event of another disaster, by the New Orleans Police
Department.
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=66951
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/6/5/165303.shtml?s=ic
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BATFE Investigating NYC Investigators: A sting by investigators for the
City of New York, targeting out-of-state gun dealers for permitting
"straw purchases," has drawn the interest of the BATFE. But in an added
twist to this story, the BATFE has also started looking into the actions
of the investigators who made the gun buys, The Associated Press
reported last week.
http://www.registerbee.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Common%2FMGArticle%2FPrintVersion&c=MGArticle&cid=1149188189408&image=drb80x60.gif&oasDN=registerbee.com&oasPN=%21news%21opinion
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Delaware County Joins M&P Bandwagon: New Castle County PD is trading in
its older S&W 9mm pistols for the new M&P pistol in the same caliber.
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060605/NEWS/606050349/-1/NEWS01
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Trinidad Fishermen Ask For Firearms: "Trinidad fishermen are sitting
ducks at sea because we do not carry firearms," one fisherman told the
meeting at the weekend arranged by the Fisheries Division of the
Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources to collect data to
formulate a fisheries policy for Trinidad.
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=160960314
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South African Farmer Arrested For Shooting Knife-Wielding Burglar: A
60-year-old North West farmer has been arrested after he allegedly shot
dead a man who had broke into his shop at Mamogaleskraal near Brits. The
second of two burglars had attacked him with a knife.
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1945812,00.html
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
