John Lott vs. DOJ Heller Brief: ...Factually, there are many mistakes in
the DOJ's reasoning: As soon as a rifle or shotgun is unlocked, it
becomes illegal in D.C., and there has never been a federal ban on
machine guns. But these are relatively minor points. Nor does it really
matter that the only academic research on the impact of trigger locks on
crime finds that states that require guns be locked up and unloaded face
a five-percent increase in murder and a 12 percent increase in rape.
Criminals are more likely to attack people in their homes, and those
attacks are more likely to be successful. Since the potential of armed
victims deters criminals, storing a gun locked and unloaded actually
encourages crime...
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmIyM2ZlMDhkOTFkMTc5ZGZhMjU0ZDE4N2QzN2U2YzM=
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New York AG Files Heller Brief: ...Mr. Cuomo's brief is, in effect, an
effort to limit any damage to the relatively strict handgun regulations
in New York and some other states that might result from a Supreme Court
decision favoring private gun ownership. The brief argues that the
Second Amendment does not limit the power of state governments to
regulate gun ownership...
http://www.nysun.com/article/69412
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Parking-Lot-Storage Bill Fast-Tracked In Georgia Legislature: A
contentious gun bill that's pitting the business wing of the Republican
Party against the National Rifle Association is moving swiftly through
the state Senate. The chamber's Rules Committee is set to hold a hearing
on the measure Tuesday and it's expected to reach a floor vote by the
end of the week, the Legislature's first back in session.
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/251/story/221259.html
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Obtaining A Kansas CCHL: This has been the hardest part. Buying a
handgun was odd, but it wasn't particularly hard. Taking a shooting test
to qualify for a concealed handgun permit was a bit nerve-wracking, but
at the end of the day it wasn't anything to lose sleep over. But the
paperwork - it's always the paperwork that gets you...
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/jan/14/concealed_guns/
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Kansas City Hosts Shooting Range: ...The shooting range has been in the
building long before it became a center for pick-up basketball games,
dance classes and other Parks and Recreation programs. Originally, the
old brick building was an armory, said Tim Laurent, facility operations
supervisor for Parks and Recreation...
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/jan/14/community_building_houses_firing_range/?city_local
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Pro-CCW California Sheriff Resigns: Sheriff Michael S. Carona of Orange
County resigned Monday to focus on his legal defense against federal
charges that he traded his office for hundreds of thousands of dollars'
worth of cash and lavish gifts...Mr. Carona appointed an assistant
sheriff, Jack Anderson, to administer the department until the county
Board of Supervisors convenes on Jan. 29 to name a replacement to fill
out his term. (Despite his apparent failings, Carona made Orange County
about as close to shall-issue as California law allows.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/us/15sheriff.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-carona15jan15,1,4553199,full.story?coll=la-headlines-california
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Mainstream Media Ignore San Francisco Ruling: On January 9, a California
appeals court struck down San Francisco's 2005 ban on handguns, citing
that local governments lack authority under California law to enact such
a ban...Yet while the San Francisco Chronicle's Bob Egelko covered the
story on January 10, I'm having trouble finding any coverage elsewhere
in the media. When searching Nexis, I found no coverage of the San
Francisco gun ban story in the New York Times, L.A. Times, Washington
Post, nor broadcast networks ABC, CBS, or NBC...
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/01/14/san-francisco-handgun-ban-overturned-msm-yawn
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An Epidemic Of One Or Two?: Assault weapons are leaving a bloody trail
of violence in South Florida - and one of the most telling statistics
about the trend is this number: one. Of the 69 police officers killed
with firearms in the United States last year, only one was shot with an
assault weapon, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers
Memorial Fund. So far this year, the nation has seen only one
assault-weapon police fatality. Both were in South Florida.
http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/378546.html
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Oops, Wrong House: Police are investigating a shooting on the Southside
that left one man dead. Jacksonville Sheriff's Officers say the shooting
happened at a home on Ivey Road Sunday night. Authorities say Gary Gene
Wright, 25, called 911 and told them he'd shot someone. Wright told
police he believed the man tried to break into his house.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/news-article.aspx?storyid=99868
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Growth Threatens New York, New Jersey Ranges: ...Decades ago, most
outdoor shooting ranges and gun clubs in the New York City suburbs were
on the outskirts of towns. But as development pushes ever outward, more
people than ever live near shooting ranges, and sometimes in homes built
on land that used to be occupied by shooting ranges, raising quality of
life, safety and environmental issues. Ranges and gun clubs cater to
riflemen, skeet shooters, pistol practitioners, marksmen and law
enforcement officials. In northern New Jersey, the shuttering of some
shooting ranges has left many police officers in the lurch...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/13Rgunranges.html?pagewanted=all
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Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
