Heller Decision to Be Announced Today: The U.S. Supreme Court is
expected to rule Thursday on whether the District will be able to keep
its controversial gun ban. Mayor Adrian Fenty and other top city leaders
plan a noon news conference to react to the court's decision. Today is
the last day the high court will issue decisions from arguments it heard
this term. The gun control case is being watched closely by lawyers on
both sides, because it is likely to have a national effect...
http://www.nbc4.com/politics/16703852/detail.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062502712.html?hpid=topnews
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Federal Judge Fails to Block Florida Parking-Lot-Storage Bill: A federal
judge declined on Wednesday to stop Florida's new guns-at-work law from
taking effect on Tuesday. The law, which Gov. Charlie Crist signed in
April, will allow employees possessing concealed-weapons permits to keep
guns in their vehicles while parked on their employer's premises. Not
only will employers not be able to stop them, they won't be able to ask
whether an employee has a gun in his or her car, either...Chief District
Judge R. Hinkle said he was neither granting nor denying the injunction,
but other obligations and the need to research the case further will
probably prevent him from ruling before mid-July, he said.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/jun/26/na-judge-wont-stop-guns-at-work-law/
Judge Calls Law "Stupid": A new Florida law intended to prohibit public
and private employers alike from banning guns locked inside cars in
their parking lots is so badly written it's "stupid," a federal judge
declared Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle declined, however,
to rule on a request for a preliminary injunction before the law takes
effect next Tuesday...The law, thus, doesn't apply to a business that
doesn't have any workers with a concealed weapon permit, Hinkle said. He
said that means one business may have to comply, while another next door
is exempt. "Stupid isn't it?" he asked while questioning an attorney for
the state...
http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/062508/D91HDU500.shtml
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West Virginia Expands CCW Reciprocity: West Virginians with concealed
weapons permits can now legally carry a hidden handgun in about 20
states. Last year, the Legislature gave the state attorney general's
office the task of working out concealed weapons agreements with other
states. Prior to the legislative action, only two other states -
Virginia and Kentucky - recognized concealed weapons permits from West
Virginia. "My directive is to reach agreements with as many states as
possible," said Tom Smith, managing deputy attorney general in charge of
the push...
http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200806240538
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Armed Residents Patrol Charlotte Streets: Armed neighbors are now
patrolling the Central Avenue business district in response to a
shooting and three armed robberies at nearby businesses... The
Neighborhood Watch Alliance, started by Scott Yamanashi, includes
nightly patrols from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Yamanashi says there are up to 20
members who wish to remain anonymous. Nearly all, he says, have conceal
and carry permits and take their handguns with them during their
patrols. "It's the pattern of crime, the brazenness of criminals and me
getting shot, which may have culminated into this movement," Yamanashi
said. He was shot in the arm earlier this year while breaking up an
armed robbery at the Snug Harbor Bar...
http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/stories/wcnc-062508-mw-armedneighbors.3c476709.html
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NRA Supports Blackwater's California Training Facility: ...The NRA
recently sent an e-mail encouraging its members to urge San Diego
leaders to support Blackwater's indoor naval training center. San Diego
city officials had said the project needed further review. But a federal
judge ordered the city to issue a permit allowing the center to open.
The city did but is also appealing that ruling. The NRA's Andrew
Arulanandam says the group's support for the project should be no
surprise. "If you look at the history of the NRA, the NRA was founded
for this very purpose and that is to provide training for our men and
women in uniform." (Good point - the NRA was founded precisely to
improve the marksmanship skills of potential soldiers after the
relatively poor showing by Union troops in the War Between the States.
It was not founded to defend the RKBA.)
http://www.kpbs.org/news/local;id=12073
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Bloomberg Target May Settle in NYC: ...First, on June 2, the very
morning that his case was to be heard in court, Wallace threw in the
towel, convinced that he wouldn't get a fair trial from a judge he
considered too biased. And second, even more surprisingly, by the time
he decided not to show up in court, Wallace - a gun-loving, rock-ribbed,
Second Amendment-quoting Georgian - had fallen in love with the city
he'd vowed to fight to his "last breath." He's even thinking of moving
here permanently... (My understanding is that Wallace is appealing his
case to a higher court, after deciding that it was not worth the legal
fees to go to trial against before the obviously biased Jack Weinstein.)
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0826,gun-ho-for-new-york,478520,1.html
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Women's Intuition: ...When a man and a woman enter a room, the female
will immediately notice the people in the room - who is happy, who is
not, which couples are not getting along, who is trying to score with
who, who is tired, who doesn't want to be there. The male will scan the
room, unconsciously noting the entrances and exits, then he will look
for familiar faces and potential enemies; he will notice a burnt-out
light bulb or a loose piece of flooring. Why? Because both male and
female brains are hard-wired to look for and react to different
stimuli... (This is a good article about mental awareness.)
http://www.lawofficer.com/news-and-articles/columns/Brantner-Smith/womens_intuition.html
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Comment Online on National-Park Carry: ...The U.S. Department of the
Interior has issued a proposed rule to eliminate, once and for all, this
prohibition on Right-to-Carry in national parks and wildlife refuges.
NRA is leading the effort to change this policy and we are very close to
winning this important battle. Not surprisingly, anti-gun and
anti-hunting extremists are contorting the facts to try to continue this
prohibition of self-defense. They are launching e-mail broadsides in an
all-out push for their supporters to oppose this common sense measure.
(Read a recent HSUS attack e-mail here:
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/US_2008_parks_poaching/explanation).
These new rules cannot take effect until after a period of public
comment. And make no mistake; our opponents are aggressively ramping up
their efforts to try to convince the Secretary of the Interior to
reverse his decision. To combat this effort, you must take a few moments
to submit comments on this issue by June 30, 2008, by going to this web
site:
http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=SubmitComment&o=090000648053d497
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Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
