Law Professors Foresee Contentious Supreme Court Term: "If this case is
granted, it immediately becomes the most important case of the term,"
O'Shea said of District of Columbia v. Heller, which involves a Second
Amendment challenge to the district's law banning handguns and heavily
restricting rifles and shotguns. "The number of Americans who would
consider Heller the most important case in the last 30 years has got to
be in the millions."
http://www.journalrecord.com/article.cfm?recid=82362
Related Commentary:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/10/a-liberals-lame.html
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Mukasey's RKBA Stance Unknown: The White House would like to see Michael
Mukasey confirmed as attorney general before the Senate's October
recess. Until now, the focus has been on Mukasey's reading of the
tradeoff between civil liberties and national security - involving, for
example, the Patriot Act, warrantless surveillance and detainee
policies. Those are indeed important inquiries. But there's another
critical issue that triggers strong sentiment throughout the country on
which a Mukasey Justice Department might play a key role. Mr. Mukasey,
where do you stand on the right to keep and bear arms?
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8728
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Ron Paul To Address GRPC: Republican Presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul
(R-TX) will speak during a Saturday evening reception at this weekend's
Gun Rights Policy Conference, which opens Friday evening and runs
through Sunday in the Cincinnati, OH area at the Drawbridge Inn &
Convention Center in Fort Mitchell, KY. More than 800 gun rights
activists from across the nation have pre- registered for the event,
sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA). Participating
organizations include the National Rifle Association, National Shooting
Sports Foundation, and Gun Owners of America.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,191516.shtml
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Reporter's Belief In "Gun Control" Turns Wobbly: Tiffany Barwick and
Michael Ruschak asked the cops to protect them from Barwick's former
boyfriend. She told them he had harassed her, threatened to kill her,
bought a gun and sent an image of her riddled with bullet holes. A
Seminole deputy advised her to get a protective court order. We all know
how effective they are against the criminally obsessed. The deputy also
would send her complaint to the State Attorney's Office, which is akin
to tossing it into the Grand Canyon...
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orl-miket0407oct04,0,3733024.column?coll=orl_news_util
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National Collegiate Empty-Holster Protest: Students for Concealed Carry
on Campus seeks to organize a national protest of campus CCW bans and
offers a press release that can be used by local affiliates. "For over a
year, state law in Utah has allowed licensed individuals to carry
concealed handguns on college campuses. This has yet to result in a
single act of violence..."
http://www.douva.com/sccc/press.htm
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University Proposes Gun Ban In Student Apartments: Some University of
North Dakota students say a proposal to ban guns and other weapons in
campus apartments would infringe on their rights. UND Police Chief Duane
Czapiewski says the ban is necessary to make a consistent policy on
campus, where the carrying of concealed guns is not allowed, and to
prevent the theft of guns and the possible use of them in other crimes.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2007/10/04/news/state/140345.txt
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From GOA: First, there was Gun Owners of America and a myriad of state
gun rights organizations. Then, the Military Order of the Purple Heart
weighed in. Now, we've heard from the American Legion. The list of
groups in opposition to HR 2640 -- the Veterans Disarmament Act --
continues growing, even while Senators in our nation's capital are
continuously being BOMBARDED by thousands upon thousands of phone calls
and e-mails from grassroots gun owners like yourself.
http://www.gunowners.org/a100307.htm
Related Article: One Democratic leader suggested Tuesday that a
gun-purchasing measure prioritized after the April shootings at Virginia
Tech may move forward despite the objections of Sen. Tom Coburn
(R-Okla.), who recently blocked a push to fast-track the bill to
passage...Schumer, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy
(D-Vt.) and other Democrats are aiming for targeted changes that would
resolve Coburn's concerns, but the Democrats' caucus vice chairman
appeared open Tuesday to trying another approach...
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/coburns-block-may-change-strategy-for-gun-bill-2007-10-03.html
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It's A Matter Of Degree: Two detectives were grazed by bullets yesterday
- one of them on his forehead - while apprehending a man being sought in
a shooting after the man jumped from a second-floor window of a Bronx
apartment, the police said. Had the shots been fired from a slightly
different angle, the authorities said, the outcome could have been far
worse for the officers...Mr. Taylor broke his pelvis in the fall - but
managed to get up and start shooting a 9-millimeter semiautomatic
pistol, the police said. He fired six times, they said, first striking
Detective Gonzalez's right shin. (We already knew that head shots don't
always work. It's surprising to hear of someone with a broken pelvis
getting back on his feet, if that's what he really did.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/nyregion/04cops.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin
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Rule Five Reminder: A pilot licensed to carry a firearm left his gun in
a terminal Sunday at Syracuse's Hancock Airport, city police said. Air
Wisconsin pilot Erick Johnson, trained as a federal flight deck officer,
left on a flight at 11:45 a.m., according to police reports. About an
hour later, a custodian found his 40-caliber semiautomatic handgun in a
black shaving kit on a desk at Gate 11. (Rule Five: Maintain control of
your firearm. This is not the first incident of this sort with a
pilot/FFDO and I suspect they occur because the pilots are not allowed
to wear their holstered handguns outside the cockpit.)
http://blog.syracuse.com/news/2007/10/police_flight_officer_left_gun.html
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Not The Brightest Bulb In The Chandelier: A California homeowner who
scared off a burglar, then fired shots into the burglar's abandoned
vehicle, provides a good example of what not to tell reporters. (In
Arizona the shots at the vehicle are illegal because it is considered a
"structure.")
http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_276223741.html
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Attention Arizonans:
Reminder: Open House this Saturday to show Conceptual Design for Ben
Avery Shooting Facility Master Plan
The Arizona Game and Fish Department is hosting an open house on
Saturday, Oct. 6, 2007 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., to give the public an
opportunity to view the Ben Avery Shooting Facility conceptual design
that is part of the Ben Avery Master Plan.
The open house will be held at La Quinta Inn, 2510 W. Greenway Road,
Phoenix, Arizona.
The proposed design incorporates many of the suggestions received at
user group and focus group meetings in October 2006 and February 2007.
Personnel from the Arizona Game and Fish Department and Logan Simpson
Design will be on-hand to display maps and answer questions. There is no
formal presentation, so you can come by at any time between 10 a.m. and
2 p.m.
A map of the conceptual design is posted on the Arizona Game and Fish
Department Web site at
http://www.azgfd.gov/outdoor_recreation/basf_masterplan.shtml.
The complete draft master plan, including the conceptual design, will be
made available for public review in November.
We look forward to seeing you at the open house.
--
Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
