Second Wind For The Second Amendment: Jacob Sullum takes on The New York
Times and The Washington Post for their hypocritical reports on the
federal appeals court ruling that the DC gun ban violates the RKBA, as
protected by the Second Amendment.
http://reason.com/news/show/119106.html
Letters To The Washington Post On Parker et al. v. District of Columbia:
Four letters are published, presenting opposite points of view.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/12/AR2007031201202.html
Commentary From Wisconsin:
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=577011
Does The Ruling Offer Hope To Chicago?:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19780
National Review Symposium On The Ruling:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzVlYTU4NmFmMzI3MDkxMzg0MjUwZDVmY2YxM2I5YmU=
From "Constitutional Scholar" Jesse Jackson:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/jackson/293890,CST-EDT-jesse13.article
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Congressional Bill Would Overturn DC Gun Ban: Rep. Mike Ross introduced
legislation last week that would repeal a decades-old gun ban in the
District of Columbia, just a day before a federal appeals court struck
down the existing law. (If passed, such a bill could conceivably keep
Parker et al. v. District of Columbia from being appealed to the Supreme
Court.)
http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2007/03/13/WashingtonDCBureau/341032.html
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Ohio CCW Reform Takes Effect: HB 347, the Ohio CCW-reform bill took
effect today. One result is that motorists with CHL's no longer have to
expose their handguns when entering their motor vehicles...
http://www.ohioccw.org/content/view/3837/83/
Related Article:
http://www.centralohio.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/BE/20070313/NEWS01/703130316/1002
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Marion Hammer On Parking-Lot Storage: The woman who is credited with
Florida's landmark CCW reform uses the pages of a Texas newspaper to
argue why employers have no right to ban storage of firearms in vehicles
parked on company lots.
http://www.star-telegram.com/242/story/34125.html
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Georgia Debates Parking-Lot-Storage Bill: Getting ready for next week's
resumption of the '07 session of the Legislature, the National Rifle
Association has sent out a - nearly, but not quite literally - call
to arms in support of Senate Bill 43, which would permit employees to
keep guns in vehicles parked on company property.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/politicalinsider/entries/2007/03/13/nra_turns_up_heat_on_gunsinpar.html
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Illinois Gun Owners Protest Legislative Attacks: Gun owners from across
Illinois will be descending on the state capitol on Wednesday to express
their opposition to slew of gun control bills being pushed by Chicago
mayor, Richard Daley.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=ind_focus.story&STORY=/www/story/03-13-2007/0004545031&EDATE=TUE+Mar+13+2007,+09:01+AM
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Virginia Newspaper Removes List Of CCW Permitees: The Roanoke Times
removed an online database of state residents who are licensed to carry
concealed weapons after what the paper termed "a firestorm of
criticism," the Times reported Tuesday. "The list, published as part of
an opinion column about open records that ran Sunday in the newspaper's
New River Valley Current section, was taken down Monday afternoon out of
concern that it might include names that should not have been made
public," the paper reported.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003557356
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NYPD Officer Will Sue To Regain Duty Gun: A New York City police
officer, who was one of the group that fired shots at Amadou Diallo,
will be asking a federal court to tell the NYPD to return him to full
duty and return his handgun.
http://www.nysun.com/article/50367
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Smith & Wesson Posts Record Profits: Sales for the third quarter ended
January 31, 2007 were $53.9 million, which was 39.5% higher than sales
of $38.6 million for the comparable quarter last year...Pistol sales
growth of 59.5% for the third quarter of fiscal 2007 was driven by
several factors, including continued strong sales of the Military &
Police (M&P) line to law enforcement agencies and to consumers.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-13-2007/0004544819&EDATE=
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
