CCRKBA On Mayors' Anti-Gun Conference: The highly-touted "summit" of an
anti-gun mayors' association today in Washington, D.C. appears to be all
rhetoric and no real solutions to violent crime in America, the Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today (January 23).
http://www.ccrkba.org/pub/rkba/press-releases/dc.mayors.summit.htm
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Kansas CCW Success Story: ...Two suspects were holding up the owner of
the store, Dean Yee, with a handgun. A man in the store, 57-year-old
Michael Mah, drew a firearm and told one of the suspects to drop his
weapon before shooting the 17-year-old. Mah had a valid concealed carry
permit from Oklahoma.
http://www.wibw.com/news/headlines/5297376.html
http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/5328302.html
http://www.ohioccw.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3802&Itemid=83
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Did Publication Of A List Of CHL-Holders Produce This Burglary?: An Ohio
couple was the victim of an apparently well planned burglary in which
unknown suspects removed a door from its hinges in order to load a safe
containing about 20 firearms, ammunition and cash into a waiting vehicle.
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article3506.html
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Costly Refresher Training To Be Introduced For Armed Pilots: Worried
that pilots' handgun skills may be eroding, federal security officials
are launching a refresher training program next month. Armed pilots must
attend a two-day mandatory course at a training facility near Atlantic
City three to five years after getting their guns...Pilots said the
refresher course was a good idea but could prompt some to leave the program.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/23/AR2007012301529.html
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Rule Five Reminder: A probationary deputy sheriff in Arizona was fired
after his girlfriend apparently used his department-issued pistol to
commit suicide, following a fight between the pair. (Rule Five: Maintain
control of your firearm.)
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/165958
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Police Union Settles With California City Over Range Contamination:
Ending a five-year legal skirmish that pitted Huntington Beach against
its police union, city officials announced Tuesday that the union and
other agencies would help pay to decontaminate a portion of Huntington
Beach Central Park used for a quarter-century as a firing range.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gunrange24jan24,1,4763515.story?coll=la-headlines-california
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Oregon City Likely To Restrict Firearm Replicas: The Beaverton City
Council appeared Monday night to support a proposed ban on replica guns
in public places. Beaverton police requested the ordinance after a
series of incidents in which officers drew their guns on teenagers
holding what looked like real firearms. The ban is focused on airsoft
guns, which shoot plastic pellets.
http://www.oregonlive.com/metrowest/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/metro_west_news/116953536415740.xml&coll=7
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Night-Vision Devices To Be Marketed Via NRA: Latest-generation
night-vision devices have often been restricted for sale to government
agencies. Now a California firm has signed a marketing deal with the
NRA, which will include advertising in NRA magazines and an NRA Life
Membership with every purchase. (No price for the NVD is quoted. If
memory serves, Cameron Hopkins used to edit American Handgunner magazine.)
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070123/latu003.html?.v=74
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From GOA: The first major anti-gun bill of the new Congress has already
been introduced, and it could prove to be the most serious threat to the
Second Amendment we face under the new congressional leadership. On the
first full day of the new Congress, anti-gun Rep. Carolyn McCarthy
introduced H.R. 297, the most massive expansion of the Brady law since
it passed in 1993.
http://www.gunowners.org/a012307.htm
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Israel Hastens Vote On Castle-Doctrine Bill: The Knesset Committee has
exempted MK Yisrael Katz's proposed law protecting those who kill
intruders from the usual waiting period prior to a vote. The law would
establish that someone who shoots a thief or intruder in self-defense
cannot be charged with murder.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=120094
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
