More Than 113,000 Oklahomans Licensed To Carry: According to information
released by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the number of
Oklahomans with a permit to carry a concealed weapon is rising. OSBI
officials say more than 113,000 conceal-carry permits have been issued
in Oklahoma since the Self-Defense Act went into effect in 1996.
http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=6006506
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Georgia House Committee Approves RKBA Bills: The first bill limits the
governor's powers to confiscate weapons during a state of emergency. The
second bill deals more with the everyday - it says anyone who is over
21, and not a felon, ought to be able to carry a gun in any part of
their car without getting a permit first.
http://www.11alive.com/news/politics_govt/article_politics.aspx?storyid=91301
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Oops, Wrong House: A burglar in Pennsylvania is hospitalized with a
gunshot wound after he made a threatening move toward an 82-year-old
homeowner who had warned him to remain still as the homeowner phoned the
police.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_490463.html
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How Easily This Stuff Spreads: A newspaper in Buffalo NY reprints an
editorial from the Philadelphia Inquirer that shows a lot of feeling but
very little knowledge or understanding of history and the Constitution.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20070129/1026863.asp
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Meanwhile, In Baltimore...: The editor of The Baltimore Examiner takes
on a freshman state senator for introducing a bill to restrict ownership
of cosmetically impaired firearms. "Why? Because of all the pointless,
feel-good, propaganda-based deception legislation foisted on the public,
this is one law that actually can cause harm..."
http://www.examiner.com/articlePDF.cfm?articleID=534495
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A Familiar Song - From Hungary: The health ministry is planning to amend
the law on carrying firearms: Everyone who keeps a gun at home would
have to undergo psychological examinations at regular intervals. The
planned amendments have been submitted to the authorities...Hungarian
hunters say the new regulation would be irrational and humiliating to them.
http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/hungarian_he/?cHash=52a47b3621
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
