Ohio Cites Vow Court Fight Over Pre-Emption: Ohio's big cities plan to
head to court to block the component of recently passed HB 347, which
strips them of their home-rule authority to maintain local restrictions
on firearms.

http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/cleveland/index.ssf?/base/news-28/1166379254190230.xml&storylist=cleveland
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New York Gun Owners Upset That Names Are Published: The Journal News
published a list of more than 30,000 handgun owners in Westchester and
Rockland counties, as part of "Falling Through the Cracks," the paper's
Dec. 10 report that found that thousands of registered handguns were
unaccounted for because there is no system to secure the weapons of
permit holders who die.

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061217/NEWS01/612170348/1018/NEWS02

Legislators Jump On Board: In response to The Journal News article, a
few state legislators are calling for stricter record-keeping for New
York State pistol licenses.

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061217/NEWS01/612170345/1018/NEWS02
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South Dakotans Lead In Carry Permits: More than 41,000 South Dakotans
have permits to carry handguns or conceal them in their cars - the
highest rate per capita in the nation, an Argus Leader analysis shows.
Records show that 7.4 percent of South Dakota adults had such a permit
as of June 30. Next closest are Indiana and Pennsylvania, with 6.4
percent of adults licensed to carry a handgun.

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061217/NEWS/612170334/1001

Related Articles:

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006612170339
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061217/NEWS/612170336/1001/NEWS
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NYPD To Return To Revolvers? A community activist calls on the NYPD to
reduce the ammo capacity of their 9mm pistols or return to six-shot
revolvers. (LASD approved optional .45's as the only means to get
deputies to voluntarily reduce the ammo capacity of their pistols.)

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/480740p-404554c.html
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Wrong House, More Details: Article from last Thursday offers more
details about the young Ohio woman who shot two home-invaders who broke
into her home and began beating her boyfriend. One of the intruders died
at the scene.

http://dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/12/14/20061214-A1-02.html
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Ruger Trims New Hampshire Operations: Citing a drop in firearm sales for
itself and the entire firearm industry, Ruger is offering voluntary
buyout packages to senior employees, changing its pay structure and
selling off some property in New Hampshire to help cut costs. (Ruger
makes its revolvers, shotguns and all rifles except police carbines in
New Hampshire. With Colt virtually out of the revolver business and S&W
having destroyed its legendary revolver trigger actions, it would be a
shame for Ruger to reduce revolver production.)

http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2006/12/17/gunmaker_offering_buyouts/
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Free NRA Program For High-School Students: The National Rifle
Association is now accepting applications for the 2007 NRA Youth
Education Summit, a free summer program for high school sophomores and
juniors.

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061215/FALLON01/612150364/1029/FALLON
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LaPierre vs. Bloomberg: Wayne LaPierre calls for the BATFE to "enforce
existing laws" in order to shut down NYC's Mayor Bloomberg's extra-legal
program to catch out-of-state FFL's making straw-purchase sales.

http://www.nranews.com/blogarticle.aspx?blogPostId=98
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From The Firearms Coalition:

NRA Candidate Surveys Now Posted

We have had a number of inquiries about the NRA Candidate Survey we
reported on in the latest Hard Corps Report and The Knox Report in
Shotgun News.

Copies of the survey are also posted there at:
http://firearmscoalition.org/links/

At issue is a statement in survey question 6. that NRA does not oppose
expanding "Instant Checks" to include private sales at gun shows.  This
was a fall-back position adopted by NRA back in 1999 when a very bad gun
show bill was looking inevitable. We contend that NRA needs to revert
back to a principled position on this issue, not start from a
compromise, "fall-back" position.

NRA also repeatedly declares their full support for all of the current
restrictions on machine guns and such.  This even though Wayne LaPierre
promised to work to repeal the ban on new machine guns that he allowed
to be attached to Volkmer-McClure back in 1986.  He has never taken any
steps to follow through on that promise and now NRA is stating its
unqualified endorsement of the laws as they exist.  This is a problem.

The latest Hard Corps Report is now available on our site:
http://firearmscoalition.org/HCR/current.pdf

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Stay up to date with the most current information on the fight to
preserve gun rights by joining the Firearms Coalition an receiving the
Hard Corps Report every other month.
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South Africans Fight Back: This is what it has come to - while two
would-be robbers lay dying in the street outside a Joburg restaurant
this week, their potential victims looked on and laughed... But the
police warn people not to take the law into their own hands...

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20061216094637499C802638


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Stephen P. Wenger

Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.

http://www.spw-duf.info