Fenty's Gun Follies: ...The bottom line is that Mr. Fenty is gambling
resources and political capital on an even shot at protecting an
ineffective policy. A Supreme Court ruling will validate or strike down
laws in places like New York City, Chicago and numerous Chicago suburbs,
but it won't improve life for the mayor's constituents.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070719/EDITORIAL/107190003/1013
What John Longenecker Would Tell The Supremes:
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/07/18/parker-v-dc-if-i-could-speak-to-the-supreme-court/
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New Hampshire Supremes Rule RKBA Can Be Restricted: The state Supreme
Court ruled Wednesday that the state Constitution's right to bear arms
can be restricted and regulated. "As numerous courts in other states
have recognized with respect to their state constitutional right to bear
arms ... the New Hampshire state constitutional right to bear arms 'is
not absolute and may be subject to restriction and regulation'," the
court ruled.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070719/NEWS/707190400
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New Jersey Scam: Politicians in New Jersey are once again pushing a
one-gun-a-month scheme. But it's already hard to get one-gun-a-year in
that state! But the fact is, even without this law, if you want to buy a
handgun in New Jersey, you'll have to jump through three to six months'
worth of hoops as it is.
http://www.nranews.com/blogarticle.aspx?blogPostId=273
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SAF Calls For Firing Of Reporter: The Second Amendment Foundation today
sent a letter to Martin Baron, editor of the Boston Globe, asking that
Globe columnist Steve Bailey be fired for his acknowledged participation
in the straw purchase of a handgun in New Hampshire about two years ago.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-18-2007/0004628063&EDATE=
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NYC Loses Round In Confrontation With Attorney: A judge has stayed the
efforts of the NYPD to revoke the pistol permit of a civil-rights
attorney who was arrested following a confrontation with officers.
http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/brooklyn/2007/07/18/2007-07-18_court_allows_lawyer_to_keep_gun_after_ar.html
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Interesting Account: A sidebar to an article about the state of the
local shooting range in Payson AZ describes how one of the reporters
developed her fear of firearms and how a well organized trip to the
range helped overcome it.
http://www.paysonroundup.com/section/frontpage_lead/story/29648
Meanwhile, In Michigan...:
http://hub.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070718/NOISE05/707180310
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Oops, Wrong House: A suspected burglar was shot during an attempted
break-in at a Tempe home Tuesday afternoon. Two males in their 20s
knocked on the door of a home in the 1500 block of South River Drive,
near Price and Broadway roads, at about 12:30 p.m. There were two people
home at the time. One looked through the peephole but chose not to
answer the door when he didn't recognize the suspects. He later heard
the suspects forcing their way into the home and grabbed his handgun...
http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/0717tr-burglary-CP.html?&wired
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Oops, Wrong Motel: A motel clerk shot and critically wounded a masked
man early Tuesday during an apparent armed robbery in North Charleston.
Christopher Robert Barr, 34, told police that a man in a ski mask ran
into the lobby at America's Best Inns & Suites on Fain Street about 1:20
a.m., pointed something at him and demanded money, according to a police
report. But the clerk had a gun as well...
http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/jul/18/would_be_robber_picks_wrong_motel_gets_s10827/
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Dim Bulb Award: A 19-year-old South Carolina man picked the wrong time
to shoot at two brothers, opening fire just as they got ready to do some
target practice, police said. Antoine Robinson was shot once in the arm
during the shootout around 4:15 p.m. Monday, Beaufort County deputies said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070718/ap_on_fe_st/odd_shooting_practice_shootout
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Let Me See If I've Got This Straight...: Belleville Police Sgt. Jon
Brough is suing the manufacturer of the tactical shield he was carrying
when shot and left blind in a home raid last fall...The shield, of the
type used by riot police, was carried by the officer and protected his
body. He was shot in the face. (My students get taught that, unlike
concealment, cover can be partial and that the parts of your body that
project beyond cover can still be shot.)
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisnews/story/087E9857C8A5BC198625731C0010B093?OpenDocument
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Is It Really The Guns?: Baltimore Police Commissioner Leonard Hamm has
resigned, an official said yesterday, as the worrisome homicide rate
rises...The city's long-running struggle with violent drug crime appears
to have intensified. Baltimore has recorded 176 homicides this year,
putting the city on pace to have 300 homicides in a year for the first
time in seven years.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070719/METRO/107190059/1004
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Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder And Suicide?: In an article
recently summarized in the NRA's First Freedom magazine, Don Kates and
Gary Mauser compare various countries and fail to find any
cause-and-effect relationship between availability of firearms and the
rates of murder and suicide.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
