Corrections:
1. Tennessee v. Garner, the case in which the Supreme Court set
limits on when police can shoot at fleeing felons, was decided in
1985, not 1972. The shooting which triggered the case took place
October 3, 1974.
2. A list member has informed me that "Magnum grade shot in the fine
sizes, 7 �, 8 and 9, contains 5% antimony and 1% arsenic."
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Majority Of Americans Support RKBA: Nearly two-thirds of Americans say
they believe the Constitution guarantees each person the right to own a
gun, according to a poll released Sunday. In all, 65 percent said they
thought the Constitution ensures that right, and 31 percent said it did
not... Men and people living in rural areas were most likely to say the
Constitution guarantees the right to own a gun. Nearly three quarters of
men (72 percent) said they believed so, versus 26 percent who did not.
More than half (58 percent) of women said they believed so, versus
slightly more than a third (35 percent) who did not...
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/16/guns.poll/index.html?eref=yahoo#cnnSTCText
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With Heller Pending, DC's AG Resigns: D.C. Attorney General Linda Singer
resigned yesterday, as lawyers in her office prepare to defend the
city's 30-year-old ban on handguns before the Supreme Court. Mrs.
Singer, whose office has handled appeals in the case since a federal
court struck down the gun ban in March, informed Mayor Adrian M. Fenty
of her decision in person yesterday. Her resignation is effective Jan. 5.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20071218/METRO/169957112/1004
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This Student Gets It: ...The founders chose the words ''the people'';
the same as in the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth amendments.
Constitutional scholars agree that there is absolutely no doubt these
restrictions on government were designed to protect individuals...Had
the drafters wanted to acknowledge the right to keep and bear arms for
anyone other than individuals, they would have undoubtedly written that
it is the right of ''the militia'' to keep and bear arms. With wisdom
and conviction, they did not. It is also important to note the mindset
of the framers when they were drafting the Constitution. They wanted to
ensure that the people would have the means to protect themselves
against an oppressive and tyrannical government and also against
criminals...
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_7747447
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Senators Push To End Gun Ban In National Parks: U.S. Sens. Mike Enzi and
John Barrasso have joined with 45 colleagues in the Senate in pushing to
allow gun owners to carry their firearms into all national parks and
wildlife refuges. Among the Wyoming Republicans' allies: Montana
Democratic Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester. Forty-seven senators signed
a letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne on Friday asking him to
lift restrictions that prevent citizens from carrying their readily
accessible firearms onto lands managed by the National Park Service and
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The effort is being led by Sen. Mike
Crapo, R-Idaho. The letter noted that Park Service and Fish and Wildlife
Service rules apply even to citizens with valid concealed weapons permits.
http://www.trib.com/articles/2007/12/18/news/wyoming/95cafdcb5063e7de872573b5000172c2.prt
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Open Carry Gains More Coverage In Utah: When Brian Nelson first got his
permit to carry a concealed weapon about seven years ago, he worried
about whether his gun was concealed enough. "When I first got my permit,
I was hesitant to carry it, thinking, 'Is it showing?' " he said. That
didn't last long, and now the Layton salesman usually makes no effort at
all to conceal it. The gun sits at the ready on his hip, the black
holster standing out in contrast to putty-colored slacks. It's always
loaded. A reinforced metal snap keeps the gun in its holster as he
shops, works or meets his wife for dates...
http://www.standard.net/live/news/121180
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Nebraska Debates More Infringements: ..."What's amazing to me is that
with all the shootings from Columbine down to Westroads, there's been no
national discussion about gun control," said Nebraska State Sen. Brad
Ashford of Omaha. Ashford, chairman of the Legislature's Judiciary
Committee, hopes to start a state conversation. He is proposing
legislation that would require gun owners to report lost or stolen guns
to police. Robert Hawkins, 19, used an AK-47-style assault rifle he took
from his former stepfather's house to kill eight and wound three before
killing himself in the Westroads Mall on Dec. 5.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10211325
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California Legislator Honored By Brady Bunch: The California Chapters of
the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence today announced that State
Assembly Member Mike Feuer is the recipient of the 2007 "Gun Violence
Prevention Legislator of the Year" for his leadership on AB 1471 -- the
Crime Gun Identification Act of 2007. Assembly Member Feuer was the
author of AB 1471 and the bill was signed into law by Governor
Schwarzenegger in October. (That would be the bill to increase the cost
of semiautomatic firearms by requiring that they microstamp fired cases.)
http://bradycampaign.org/media/release.php?release=951
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Oops, Wrong Victim: An undercover deputy shot and wounded one of two
would-be robbers who tried to hold him up at gunpoint Monday evening in
a suburban West Palm Beach apartment complex, Palm Beach County
sheriff's spokesman Pete Palenzuela said...The deputy, whose name has
not been released, was in plain clothes and "conducting an
investigation" at the Cinnamon Terrace apartment complex when the two
allegedly tried to rob him. One pulled a handgun, Palenzuela said...
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2007/12/18/s6b_shoot_1218.html
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Oops, Wrong House: A Minneapolis police SWAT team kicked in the wrong
door yesterday during an early morning raid, prompting the man of the
house to grab his gun and open fire on the officers who entered the
house. "He took out his shotgun and he said if they are bad guys I'll
shoot, I'll scare them away," Dao Khang, the brother of the homeowner,
Vang Khang, tells the Star Tribune. "He fired first, he told me it was
two shots." Dao Khang says his brother was trying to protect his wife
and six children. No one from the family was hit during the exchange of
gunfire. Vang hit two officers, but the Pioneer Press says they were
protected by ballistic vests and helmets.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/12/minn-man-shoots.html
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Dec17/0,4670,OfficersShot,00.html
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Controversial Texas Shooting In Hands Of DA: A controversial case
involving a neighbor accused of shooting suspected burglars is being
reviewed by the Harris County district attorney's office, KPRC Local 2
reported Monday. The Pasadena Police Department turned over all its case
files, consisting of about 50 pages, in preparation for review by a
grand jury, which will decide if homeowner Joe Horn will face any charges.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/14875508/detail.html
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The Plot Thickens In Another Texas Shooting: A man who fatally shot a
burglar coming in a window of his west Harris County home said the dead
man may already have been shot at, possibly by another neighbor. "There
were bullet holes in my back fence," Damon Barone said Monday from his
home in the 3400 block of Cascadia. Barone said he fired four shots at
Steven Dunbar, who was found shoeless after he died halfway into
Barone's master bedroom window around 2 a.m. Friday. But Barone said he
does not believe any of his shots could account for the bullet holes in
his backyard fence.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5384332.html
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Unusual Shooting In New Hampshire: A Londonderry firefighter shot and
killed his wife in the driveway outside their home Sunday afternoon
after she fired a shotgun at him and continued to confront him with the
weapon in her hand, state prosecutors said yesterday...Newbury Police
Chief Robert Lee said the investigation "appears to be leaning toward" a
determination that Gary Dion acted in self-defense...
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Home+quarrel+ends+in+death&articleId=fb7f51e7-c2c9-4f6e-b31e-cca6db096d76
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Democrats Try To Ban Hunting On California Island: Congressional
Democrats are moving to repeal a law passed by Republicans last year
that would have allowed trophy hunts opposed by the National Park
Service to continue on a Southern California public island. Language in
a year-end spending bill moving through the House and Senate this week
would restore the terms of a federal court settlement requiring
nonnative deer and elk herds to be removed from Santa Rosa Island by
2011, and private hunts now run there to end.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/216719.php
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Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
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