Once Again, OSHA vs. Ammo: The Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) has proposed new rules that would have a dramatic
effect on the storage and transportation of ammunition and handloading
components such as primers or black and smokeless powder. The proposed
rule indiscriminately treats ammunition, powder and primers as "explosives."
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3145
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56556
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Just Not In New York City...: Republican presidential candidate Rudy
Giuliani, a strong proponent of gun control during his years as New York
mayor, told a Southern audience Friday that he supports the
constitutional right to bear arms..."It doesn't matter if I believe in
it or not - and I do - it is the Second Amendment," Giuliani said. "I'm
a strict constructionist. The Second Amendment says you have an
individual right to bear arms."
http://www.townhall.com/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ContentGuid=842eb602-bdbb-479b-8a1b-7ae71bada2b4
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More Musings On Parker: I've read this article from the Harvard Law
Bulletin and am still not sure if it really says much, other than
crediting the NRA for crafting a case it actually opposed. Oh, yeah, and
Sandra Froman, Harvard Law alumna and past president of the NRA, has a
clear shot down her driveway, all the way to the road.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/bulletin/2007/summer/feature_3.php
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Chicago Ain't Tennessee: A woman visiting Chicago from Tennessee was
arrested yesterday morning after attempting to visit the Skydeck of the
Sears Tower with a loaded gun in her purse...Before we continue, we
ought to point out that, provided you have a permit, carrying a loaded,
concealed weapon in Tennessee is perfectly legal. The 56-year-old woman
did in fact have said permit. But as anyone who loves barbecue will tell
you, Chicago ain't Tennessee...
http://chicagoist.com/2007/07/06/totin_at_the_to.php
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Warrantless In Philadelphia: Last week, District Attorney Lynne Abraham
and Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson announced the Philadelphia Gun
Removal Program, in which adult residents can give cops permission to
search their home for illegal handguns. If a gun is found, no one will
be charged - unless it can be connected to a crime.
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/8349471.html
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Kalashnikov, "I Sleep Well": "I sleep well. It's the politicians who are
to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence,"
Kalashnikov said Friday at a ceremony marking the birth of the rifle,
whose initials stand for "Avtomat Kalashnikov." It was before he started
designing the gun that he slept badly, worried about the superior
weapons that Nazi soldiers were using with grisly effectiveness against
the Red Army in World War II.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103AP_Russia_Kalashnikov.html
Related Book Review:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/06/28/bohod123.xml
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Rule One Reminder: An Ohio police officer who had a shotgun thought to
be loaded with blanks fired the weapon in a training exercise, spraying
birdshot and injuring three officers, authorities said...The officer who
fired the weapon aimed at the floor - a practice that is required for
training exercises. The birdshot ricocheted off the floor and hit the
others officers in their lower legs and abdomens, Lee said. (Rule One:
All firearms are always loaded.)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19546279/from/ET/
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FATS Training Therapy For Amputees: ...Recently, American therapists
found that what many wounded troops wanted most was to use their weapons
again. This was particularly true with those who had lost limbs...Two
years ago, a program was begun, using a firearms simulator, to enable
wounded troops, especially amputees, to see if they could regain their
weapons skills. They could, and felt a lot better because of it.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmoral/articles/20070704.aspx
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Aussie Police Find Guns In Gun Store!: A 48-year-old man is being
questioned over the seizure of more than 310 firearms at a Wagga Wagga
gun shop, police say. The guns and "a significant amount of ammunition"
were allegedly found after a search warrant was executed on the Murray
Street shop in the southern NSW city.
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=397976
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Canadian Long-Gun Registry A Failure: The Fraser Institute has released
a study on the effectiveness of the long gun registry in Canada. SFU
Professor and Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute, Gary Mauser, is
the author of the report "Hubris in the North, the Canadian Firearms
Registry." He concludes the firearms registry has failed in its primary
goals to reduce violent crime and suicide rates.
http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/6409/3/firearms+registry++has+failed+in+its+primary+goals
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From SAF: The Missouri Legislature passed, and the Governor signed into
law "Stand Your Ground" legislation. As part of its coverage, MSNBC
performed live interviews with Alan Gottlieb three times. We have videos
online of two of these interviews for your viewing pleasure. Watch as
our intrepid hero Alan Gottlieb dukes it out with Paul "I don't know it,
therefore it doesn't exist" Helmke, Chairman of the Brady Campaign to
Empower Criminals.
http://www.saf.org/
http://www.saf.org/default.asp?video=3
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From JPFO: Our June 27 alert, "Is the NRA On Its Knees to Please?" (
www.jpfo.org/alert20070627.htm ) resulted in a large number of responses
from our readership. Overwhelmingly, the emails agreed with our stance
that compromise is not an effective tactic...
http://www.jpfo.org/alert20070706.htm
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NRA-ILA Alerts: Alerts for the various states are posted on the NRA-ILA
website:
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/State/
--
Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
