Taser Clarification: A list member has brought to my attention that the
original Tasers were classified as firearms in California because they
used a primer to propel the dart. Since the newer ones use a compressed
gas, the are no longer classified as firearms in that state.
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Poor Choices For President: Commentary looks at the top-polling
candidates for president in 2008 and finds only Condoleeza Rice has been
a consistent exponent of the RKBA.

http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article3493.html
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Prohibitionists Lobby For Virginia Bill: Eleven-year-old Kailey Leinz
says closing the so-called gun-show loophole would make her and her
classmates feel safer...Kailey's mother, Martina, is the communications
director of the Northern Virginia chapter of the Million Mom March,
which supports gun control.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&%09s=1045855935264&c=MGArticle&cid=1149192670269&path=!news!politics
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New Jersey Blames Neighboring States For Violent Crime: Carefully
selected law-enforcement officials argue that the reason that New
Jersey's "strict gun control laws" fail to deter violent crimes is
because criminals obtain firearms in neigboring states.

http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk1NyZmZ2JlbDdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5NzA1ODQ3OSZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTM=
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Mexico Blames American Firearms For Drug-Related Violence: According to
this article, curiously published just after a Democratic majority takes
over both house of Congress, Mexican authorities are blaming the sunset
of the federal ban on cosmetically impaired weapons for the misuse of
firearms by Mexico's drug gangs. (I have always been under the
impression that the "gun of choice" of Mexico's drug gangs was the real,
full-auto AK-47.)

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0116americanguns0116.html
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An Education On Ohio CCW: An economics professor and his wife get around
to taking the course to qualify for an Ohio CHL. Unfortunately, they
left with the impression that, "My wife and I will probably never have
the need to carry a concealed weapon, as there is nothing worth stealing
in our cars or our home."

http://www.timesgazette.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=142097
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Texas 51% Rule: Texas law bars firearms in businesses that derive 51% or
more of their income from the sale of alcohol consumed on the premises.
A patron at a Texas bar spotted a man sneaking around, prompting him to
go out to his truck for his handgun. When the man followed him and
attempted to rob him with a simulated handgun, the bar patron fatally
shot him .

http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou070115_ac_almedahomicide.40fd4af8.html
http://www.houstonist.com/archives/2007/01/15/armed_and_harml.php
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17th Century Law Does Not Address Dangers Of Modern Gun Ownership: An
English-speaking commentator of unknown nationality denounces the
American RKBA.

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=339967&rel_no=1
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Meanwhile, Stateside...: An American cartoonist tries her hand at verbal
commentary and unleashes a non sequitur attack on the NRA.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_martha_r_070115_are_the_nra_s_warm_a.htm


--
Stephen P. Wenger

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

http://www.spw-duf.info