Governor Signs Texas Castle-Doctrine Bill: Governor Rick Perry's office
said on Tuesday that he had signed a new law that expands Texans'
existing right to use deadly force to defend themselves "without
retreat" in their homes, cars and workplaces.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/3/27/213247.shtml?s=us
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Bill Would Block Access To Texas CHL Records: A renewed attempt to block
the public's access to concealed handgun permit records has emerged this
legislative session in a bill by Rep. Patrick Rose, a Dripping Springs
Democrat. Similar legislation failed in previous years. "The bill is
important because the steps that law-abiding Texans take to protect
themselves and their families should be issues of private concern," Rose
said.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/election/ci_5527531
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AFL-CIO Backs NRA On Florida Parking-Lot Bill: The issue was whether
employees have the right to keep guns in their cars at work, and the
National Rifle Association got help from an unexpected ally at a
committee hearing Tuesday: the AFL-CIO labor union. The business
community strongly opposes the new NRA-supported legislation, but that's
no surprise, said AFL-CIO spokesman Rich Templin, who said big business
wants sweeping new property rights.
http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBTU5T5TZE.html
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It Can't Happen Here...: A Memphis newspaper uses some vague logic to
oppose a bill that would ban confiscation of legally possessed firearms
during declared emergencies. If the legislation is merely superfluous,
as implied, no harm would accrue from its passage and the governor
should not veto it.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/editorials/article/0,2845,MCA_25348_5444142,00.html
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California Poised To Ban Lead Bullets For Hunting: ... Last month, the
California Department of Fish and Game staff recommended that hunting
with lead bullets be banned everywhere in the California condor range, a
vast area of about 20 counties that extends from the Bay Area to Los
Angeles and takes in parts of the Tehachapi Mountains...
http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_5537685
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Webb Denies He "Gave" Aide His Pistol: "I have never carried a gun in
the Capitol complex and I did not give the weapon to Phillip Thompson,
and that's all that I think I'll say," Webb told reporters. "Everyone
here knows that I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, that I
have had a permit to carry a weapon in Virginia for a long time, and I
believe that it's important - its important for me, personally, and for
a lot of people in the situation that I'm in, to be able to defend
myself and my family."
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/webb-says-he-did-not-give-aide-his-gun-2007-03-27.html
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/3/27/213407.shtml?s=ic
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/27/AR2007032701179.html
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Oops, Wrong Body Shop: Burglars who crashed through the garage door of a
body shop in Texas erred in opening fire on the owner, who had arrived
to check why the alarm had gone off. One of the intruders was shot in
the head. Police said he remained in "very, very critical condition" at
Baylor University Medical Center at midday Tuesday. (Dallas police no
longer respond to burglar alarms.)
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/localnews/news8/stories/wfaa070327_wz_burglarshot.6585b54.html
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Interview With Clayton Cramer: The Washington Times interviews Clayton
Cramer, who initiated the fight to expose the fallacy of the Bellesiles
book Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture and has
countered it with a truly researched book of his own, Armed America: The
Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie
