Virginia Tech Students Organize For Campus Carry: Soon after Virginia
Tech's mass shooting, some George Mason University students formed a
group to do something about guns on campus: They want the right to carry
them. Andrew Dysart, who heads George Mason University Students for
Concealed Carry, said the group aims to overturn a university policy
that prohibits students and faculty members from carrying firearms on
campus. About 45 students have signed up since organizers began pulling
the group together in late April, he said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/12/AR2007061202408.html
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Federal "AWB" Bill Still Pending: In 1994, the Clinton administration
enacted the Assault Weapons Ban, outlawing 19 different guns. It had a
ten-year sunset clause and expired in 2004. But now it is again going
through Washington as House Resolution 1022. Doc Blanchard of Doc's Gun
Barn says this bill makes a good chunk of his inventory illegal....The
bill bans most semi-automatic rifles and shotguns. It also prohibits
certain accessories like folding stocks, threaded barrels, detachable
magazines, and pistol grips. This time, it specifies 65 different types
of weapons - many the NRA says are used for sport and hunting.
http://www.kpvi.com/Global/story.asp?S=6661859
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BATFE Lacks Agents To Patrol Gun Shows: Federal authorities do not have
enough agents to regularly patrol gun shows, a major source for U.S.
weapons used in Mexico's drug wars, a top official said Thursday during
a visit to the Mexican capital. (BOHICA)
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0615guntrafficking0615.html
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Bloomberg Lies: The text of the Tiahrt Amendment states in part that "no
funds appropriated under this or any other Act ... may be used to
disclose part or all of the contents of the Firearms Trace System
database maintained by the National Trace Center of the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ... to anyone other than a
Federal, State, or local law enforcement agency or a prosecutor solely
in connection with and for use in a bona fide criminal investigation or
prosecution ..."
http://www.nranews.com/blogarticle.aspx?blogPostId=249
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Ohio Convert Completes CHL Training: An Ohio legislator who had opposed
licensed CCW, along with his wife and ten member of his church, recently
completed the training required to receive a Concealed Handgun License.
Rep. Michael DeBose changed his views after being targeted in an armed
robbery.
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article3797.html
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Pizza Hut Fires Manager For Shooting Armed Robber: A Pizza Hut manager
in Florida was fired for shooting at armed robbers whom he felt were
still a threat to him and his employees after he had surrendered the
money. (Must watch video clip for details)
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=3475534&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1
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Clerk To Face Charges After Killing Robber: No explanation is offered as
to why Dallas-area police intend to file charges against a grocery-store
clerk who prevailed in a fight against a shotgun-armed robber.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/061407dnmetsuspect.79d37a.html
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Oops, Wrong House: The Sallisaw OK woman who shot and killed her
ex-husband early Friday morning after he broke into her home and
assaulted the woman and her boyfriend with a bat may have thwarted her
ex's alleged plans to kill her after police discovered that the man
allegedly brought a bag of butcher knives into the woman's home.
http://www.sequoyahcountytimes.com/articles/2007/06/14/news/fronth.txt
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Rule Five Reminder: A small-town police chief in Kentucky was murdered
by an arrestee whom he had cuffed with is hands to the front. Deputy
Greg Adams said Lacy often kept a second gun between the seat and
console in the front. Adams speculated that the extra gun could have
slipped to the back, but State Police officials handling the
investigation wouldn't comment on that theory. (Rule Five: Maintain
control of your firearm.)
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0615policechief0615.html
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San Francisco Chronicle Praises The NRA: ...The NRA-backed measure would
require states to automate their lists of criminals and mentally ill
people who are proscribed from buying firearms in an effort to get them
to the background-check system in a timely manner. State records about
the mental problems of Virginia Tech shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, never
reached the FBI...We thank the NRA for helping make it happen.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/06/15/EDGKOP3GB71.DTL
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From GOA: Wednesday started out as a routine day in the U.S. Congress,
with Representatives attending congressional hearings, meeting with
constituents, perhaps devising clever new ways to pick our pockets. At
8:30 in the morning an email went out to House Republicans indicating
that a gun control bill, recently introduced by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy
(D-NY), was on the Suspension Calendar (normally reserved for
"non-controversial" bills). Many Representatives didn't see that email
until it was too late. Less than three hours later, the bill passed by a
voice vote. The bill in question, H.R. 2640, is a massive expansion of
the Brady Gun Control law, the subject of many previous alerts by Gun
Owners of America...
http://www.gunowners.org/a061407.htm
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
