West Virginia Expands CCW Reciprocity: West Virginians who have
concealed weapons permits can now legally carry their firearms in eight
other states, and residents of those states can do the same in the
Mountain State. Attorney General Darrell McGraw announced today that he
has entered into a concealed handgun reciprocity agreement with
Pennsylvania. (One can only hope that the WV AG's office has a better
count of all the states that recognize the WV permit than the author of
this article.)
http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/9259056.html
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Wisconsin Governor Calls For More Infringements: The Governor is out
with a new set of gun control initiatives, but one group says those
proposals won't do much to reduce crime. The Governor on Tuesday
unveiled legislative initiatives largely aimed a ending gun-related
violence in Milwaukee. However, Wisconsin Pro-Gun Movement director Jim
Fendry says they won't really solve the problems facing the state
because most only impact people who buy guys legally. (Wisconsin remains
one of two states with no statutory provision for legal CCW.)
http://www.wrn.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=8A43BB8D-F39D-9E96-A3BC350B79CDC688
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Brady Bunch Blogs Against Parker Decision: Today, as the deadline
approaches for the District of Columbia's brief to the U.S. Supreme
Court in support of its petition to overturn the recent Parker opinion
striking down the District's handgun ban, the Legal Action Project of
the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence posted the third installment in
its online critique exposing the flaws in the Parker decision. Parker
remains the only Federal Appeals Court decision in American history to
strike down a gun law as a violation of the Second Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution. (If the U.S. Supreme Court accepts the District's
upcoming appeal, the case will be renamed District of Columbia v. Heller.)
http://bradycampaign.org/media/release.php?release=919
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Surprise For DC Delegate: Washington, D.C.'s congressional delegate,
Eleanor Norton, has been a longtime gun-control supporter. Frankly, she
hasn't met a gun ban she didn't like. So Norton attended a hearing on
the D.C. gun ban intent on lecturing the crowd about the need to keep
the gun ban in place. She was more than surprised to find that her
district is full of NRA members and citizens who want their Second
Amendment rights restored.
http://www.nranews.com/blogarticle.aspx?blogPostId=293
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Thompson Attacks Giuliani Over NYC Firearm Restrictions: "When I was
working in television, I spent quite a bit of time in New York City,"
Thompson wrote, according to The Hill newspaper. "There are lots of
things about the place I like, but New York gun laws don't fall in that
category...Now, the same activist federal judge from Brooklyn who
provided Mayor Giuliani's administration with the legal ruling it sought
to sue gun makers, has done it again. Last week, he created a bizarre
justification to allow New York City to sue out-of-state gun stores that
sold guns that somehow ended up in criminal hands in the Big Apple."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/8/21/224847.shtml?s=ic
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/us/politics/22rudy.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin
Related Commentary:
http://www.kxmb.com/News/Nation/155073.asp
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Self-Defense Claim Key In Arizona Trial: No one denies David Rene Garcia
emptied his .45-caliber semiautomatic into Alexis Samaniego in December
2004. The question is whether Garcia acted in self-defense. The jurors
who will answer that question heard opening arguments in Garcia's trial
Tuesday afternoon in Pima County Superior Court.
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/197613
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Guns Don't Commit Crimes...: According to Bureau of Justice statistics,
between 1976 and 2005, blacks, while 13 percent of the population,
committed over 52 percent of the nation's homicides and were 46 percent
of the homicide victims. Ninety-four percent of black homicide victims
had a black person as their murderer. Blacks are not only the major
victims of homicide; blacks suffer high rates of all categories of
serious violent crime, and another black is most often the
perpetrator...So here's the question: Should black people accept
government's dereliction of its first basic function, that of providing
protection? My answer is no. One of our basic rights is the right to
defend oneself against predators. If the government can't or won't
protect people, people have a right to protect themselves.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/08/22/liberal_views,_black_victims?page=full&comments=true
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57259
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Stolen Elvis Pistol Recovered: It all began last Tuesday, when a thief
who probably has never even eaten a peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich
pilfered Elvis' gun from a museum across the street from
Graceland...But, by pure luck, the gun was recovered and turned in to
police Monday. Seems one Travis Brookins was cleaning the portable
toilets behind the Elvis After Dark museum last Thursday when he found
what he thought was a toy gun, dropped into that horrendous muck.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/aug/21/21elvisnu/
http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4128364&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
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New Hampshire State Police Choose S&W M&P 45: Smith & Wesson Corp.
yesterday said it received an order for 500 of its Military and Police
45-caliber pistols from the New Hampshire Department of Safety. The
M&P45 pistols will be issued to officers in the New Hampshire State
Police and Highway Patrol divisions and will replace Sig Sauer P220ST
45-caliber pistols made by Sigarms Inc., of Exeter, N.H. The New
Hampshire agency said the M&P45's enhanced ergonomics, magazine
disconnect safety, and ease of maintenance were primary factors in its
decision. (The magazine-disconnect safety is optional on agency guns.)
http://www.masslive.com/business/republican/index.ssf?/base/business-1/11876837305370.xml&coll=1
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Norway Requires Some Students Be Armed: Hundreds of thousands of
students had their first day of school on Monday. Some of them had to
learn to carry guns and be prepared to shoot - polar bears. Students on
the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard aren't allowed to leave their village
without a shotgun and ammunition. That's because hungry polar bears can
be behind every swing on the island.
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1948234.ece
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Is That A Gun Or Are You Just Glad To See Me?: A robber who held up a
bookmaker's shop in Leicester with his girlfriend's vibrator has been
jailed. Nicki Jex, 27, of Braunstone, Leicester, hid the sex toy in a
carrier bag pretending it was a gun, Leicester Crown Court heard. The
manager at Ladbrokes in Narborough Road handed over more than �600 in
cash when he pointed it at her on 27 December 2006, the court heard.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/6955496.stm
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Brits Fire Railroad Security Officer For Defending Passengers: A rail
guard has been fired for defending commuters from a violent fare dodger.
Paul Yarwood, 44, came to the rescue after a drunken passenger abused
travellers and threatened staff with a broom at Colchester station. But
bosses at rail company One Railway sacked him for gross misconduct,
claiming CCTV showed him headbutting the man.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=476707&in_page_id=1770
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Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
