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Stand-Your-Ground Law Debated In Aftermath Of Florida Shooting:
Attorneys emphasize that there is very little "bright line" law; most
legal issues come down to interpretation of "facts and circumstances."
The facts and circumstances of a fatal shooting, since Florida's
stand-your-ground law took effect, are in as much dispute as the law itself.
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060804/NEWS0111/608040365/1075
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Lawyers, Campaign Contributions And The RKBA: Howard Nemerov points out
that legislators who receive the most money from lawyers and law firms
are the most likely to vote to infringe the RKBA.
http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=22914
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One More Look At Fish Sentencing: Article provides a few more insights
into the case of the retired Arizona teacher who has been sentenced to
ten years in prison for the fatal shooting of a man who attacked him on
a hiking trail.
http://www.paysonroundup.com/section/frontpage_lead/story/24609
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Self-Defense Shooter Freed From Prison: An Ohio man, convicted of murder
at the age of 18, in what appears to have been a case of self-defense,
has been freed from prison after serving nine and a half years of a
ten-year sentence. The charge was reduced to manslaughter after an
investigation by a gubernatorial commission. The deceased, who had
stabbed the teenager's brother in the chest three times, then turned the
knife on him, was a relative of a state senator.
http://www.wwaytv3.com/Global/story.asp?S=5238967
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Ohio Prohibitionist Lets Cat Out Of The Bag: Toby Hoover, who attempted
to block licensed CCW in Ohio with a lawsuit, claimed, "The majority of
Ohioans oppose secretly carrying hidden loaded guns in public." Now she
castigates both gubernatorial candidates for competing to present the
most gun-friendly image to that alleged majority.
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article3221.html
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Rule One, Rule Two Reminder: A Minnesota police officer fired a round
through a wall while drawing and dry-firing in his hotel room in St.
Cloud, where he and other officers were training. (Rule One: All
firearms are always loaded. Rule Two: Never let the muzzle cross
anything you're not prepared to shoot.)
http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_216071112.html
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The Other Side Of Gun Buy-Backs: A gun "buy back" staged this week by
the Detroit, Mich. police was so successful that it ran out of money,
and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA)
is concerned that it may have allowed some criminals to successfully get
rid of their murder weapons.
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=70316
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Kids Draw The Darndest Things: BATFE asked the children of its employees
to draw pictures of what they thought their parents do at work. One
winning drawing in the contest could be interpreted as a reminder of the
raid on Waco.
http://www.reason.com/0607/artifact.shtml
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BATFE Director Resigns: Amid an investigation into inappropriate
spending on his own office and of an unusually expensive trip to London,
Carl Truscott has resigned as director of the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003176833_atf05.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/05/washington/05atf.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/04/AR2006080401341.html
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BATFE Arrests Former Milwaukee Officer: A former police officer, accused
in a beating case, is in federal custody after attempting to purchase a
machine gun and a handgun. It is illegal for him to purchase firearms
because he currently faces three other felony charges, including calling
in a bomb scare to his former police district station.
http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/9632845/detail.html
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JPFO On Jewish Federation Shootings: It's been nearly a week since the
tragic July 28 shooting spree at a Seattle Jewish center which left one
dead and several injured (
http://tinyurl.com/emwer ). Undoubtedly, "gun
control" advocates will start crawling out of the woodwork in short
order to use this atrocity to lobby for yet more restrictions on
firearms ownership. Sadly, many of these advocates will be members of
the Jewish community...
http://www.jpfo.org/alert20060802.htm
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Aussie Security Officer Acquitted: A female Australian security officer
has been acquitted by a jury of murder and manslaughter charges in the
fatal shooting of a robber who had beaten her with a "knuckleduster."
(Long-term list members may recall reports of the incident when it
occurred.)
http://www.news.com.au/sundaytelegraph/story/0,,20025610-5005941,00.html
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
