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Judge Will Rule If Florida's Self-Defense Law Is Retroactive: In a
motion reminiscent of the Hal Fish trial in Arizona, the attorney for a
Florida businessman is asking that the recent stand-your-ground statute
be applied retroactively.
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/stories/20060821/localnews/118903.shtml
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How Can You Tell When A Politician Is Lying?: Firearm prohibitionist
Josh Sugarmann, posting at The Huffington Post, reveals that John McCain
has hired former NRA lobbyist James Jay Baker to clean up his image with
gun owners. "McCain's 'gun problem' stems from two issues: his
successful campaign to enact the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform
package and his failed Congressional efforts to regulate all sales at
gun shows..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/john-mccains-gun-proble_b_27717.html
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Columbus NE To Maintain CCW Ban: City officials in Columbus have decided
to keep a local law in place which bans carrying concealed weapons of
all kinds with city limits. The action was in line with a request by
Police Chief William Gumm to leave the ordinance unchanged.
http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/08/21/44e9d70e12c34
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Carry Permits Sought In Kansas: In less than two months since the
passage of the CCW law, over 900 people have applied for permits and at
least one trainer reports a waiting list for the required course.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/15329045.htm
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Why Libertarians Oppose Carry Permits: "A right cannot be licensed or
permitted. A license/permit can be granted/ revoked at any time, at the
will of the government that granted the license/permit or by a higher
form of government...if you have a CCP, then you own at least one weapon
and with a state permitting licensing system and the federal government
acknowledging it. Then the federal government will not have to go
through a lot of paper work to start it's confiscation of all weapons
when the mood hits them."
http://www.jpfo.org/ccwlie.htm
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National CCW Reciprocity A Trojan Horse: "...What I fully expect will
happen, if the federal government dictates that states must accept
concealed carry permits from foreign states, is that anti-gun states
will raise a cry that "reasonable minimum standards" should be applied
to the issuance of carry permits."
http://yannone.blogspot.com/2006/06/federal-concealed-carry-reciprocity.html
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Gun Owners Defeat Proposed Town Ordinance: Montville (CT) Mayor Joseph
Jaskiewicz is withdrawing a proposed ordinance regulating target
shooting. About 175 people attended a town council meeting last week in
opposition to Jaskiewicz's proposal.
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060821/NEWS01/60821008
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California Candidates Both Back RKBA: The current congressman, who has
an A+ rating from the NRA, is facing a Democrat challenger who is also
appealing to gun owners. (Note, this is a rural district.)
http://www.auburnjournal.com/articles/2006/08/20/news/top_stories/03guns20.txt
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"He's One Of The More Intelligent Officers": An auxiliary police officer
in Massachusetts has lost his firearms permit after fabricating a story
about an intruder in his parent's home, to justify firing two rounds
from his pistol. He will keep his auxiliary-police position although the
loss of his firearm permit may cost him his day job.
http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=77361
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Oops, Wrong Apartment: A North Carolina man is in critical condition
from a gunshot after forcing his way into an apartment and attempting to
restrain the resident.
http://www.newsobserver.com/145/story/477636.html
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Big-Name Training: Heckler & Koch and Blackwater announced today the
formation of a joint training program. Blackwater HK International
Training Services will develop and teach high-level firearms, tactical,
and armorer's courses that use renowned Heckler & Koch weapons.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-21-2006/0004419063&EDATE=
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It's The Guns...: In an effort to crack down on violent crime in New
Orleans, the federal government announced it is "reestablishing" a gun
hotline, which allows citizens to report the illegal use and possession
of firearms around the clock.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200608/NAT20060822c.html
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When Guns Are Outlawed...: While they may not use them that frequently,
Japanese gangsters have never lacked access to firearms. Tokyo police
recently arrested a crime boss whose gang allegedly spearheaded an
operation to smuggle guns and explosives from the Philippines into Japan.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060822a7.html
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
