Woman Is First to Register Handgun in DC: ..."They looked at me and
thought, 'She doesn't fit the profile of someone coming in with a gun,'
so they left me alone and I walked right past them," said McVey, who was
the first and only person to register a handgun Thursday when she
entered the station with her Ruger .357 Magnum in a blue plastic bag
around 1 p.m..."The cops were professional, polite and courteous," McVey
said. "A couple of them remarked what a nice gun it was." McVey found
the cops very encouraging of her gun ownership. "I asked them, 'Do you
mind good people owning guns?' " she said. "One said, 'It will help make
our job easier.' " (I don't think Chief Lanier agrees with the officer's
opinion.)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1496295~First_to_register_handgun__owner__doesn_t_fit__profile.html
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DC Hoops: ...It gets worse: In order to legally register your handgun in
the District, you'll be required to make five separate trips to the
Metropolitan Police Department, and at least two separate trips to a
federally licensed firearms dealer. Good luck trying to do it on your
lunch hour. It's not only possible, it's almost a guarantee that anyone
attempting to exercise their constitutional rights in the District would
have to use a week of vacation time to jump through the hurdles the
local politicians put in place. It's almost a certainty that those
wanting to become legal gun owners will have to spend more time at the
police station than someone arrested for violating the District's gun
laws...
http://www.nranews.com/blogarticle.aspx?blogPostId=422
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Will Congress Act in Time?: ...The D.C. City Council has imposed a very
burdensome system of gun registration. Only a handful of states have any
registration and none has a system as complicated as that of the
District. There is a solution to this tyranny. Congress can pass H.R.
1399, the "District of Columbia Personal Protection Act." The bill,
which is supported by the NRA and has 247 co-sponsors, would repeal the
D.C. handgun ban and the storage requirement which prohibits keeping a
firearm ready for self-defense in the home, two of the provisions found
to be unconstitutional in the Heller decision. Moreover, it would repeal
the D.C. registration system, which is burdensome in its own right and
serves as a vehicle for even more restrictions and skewed definitions.
H.R. 1399 would restrict the D.C. Council's authority to impose undue
restrictions upon residents' Second Amendment right. It also would
repeal the ban upon semi-automatic firearms, conforming the District's
law to federal legislation. It would repeal various restrictions on
ammunition and the District's "Strict Liability Act," which allows
manufacturers of certain types of guns "to be held strictly liable in
tort, without regard to fault or proof of defect."
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulWeyrich/2008/07/21/a_persistent_threat_to_second_amendment_rights
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S&W to Offer Heller Commemorative Revolver: The Second Amendment
Foundation (SAF) and Smith & Wesson have partnered to create a
commemorative revolver designed to recognize the historical significance
of the District of Columbia vs. Heller decision and to acknowledge the
six original plaintiffs that united to challenge the gun ban in
Washington, D.C. As part of the project, an engraved Smith & Wesson
Model 442 revolver will be presented to each of the six plaintiffs -
Shelly Parker, Tom Palmer, Gillian St. Lawrence, Tracey Ambeau, George
Lyon and Dick Heller - for their key roles in working to protect the
Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Smith & Wesson will make
the commemorative revolver available for consumer purchase in Fall 2008
and will direct a portion of the proceeds to the Second Amendment
Foundation to acknowledge the organization's pivotal role in the Heller
case and its ongoing efforts to preserve the Second Amendment rights of
U.S. citizens... (Inasmuch as the Heller decision only appears to apply
to keeping a revolver in the home, I have to wonder about the wisdom of
selecting an Airweight model for that role. Arguably, the choice of a
five-shot revolver increases the likelihood that it will fit the hands
of women.)
http://www.saf.org/viewpr-new.asp?id=272
..Gun dealers will start selling the revolver this fall, with some
profits going to the Second Amendment Foundation, a pro-gun legal-action
group that is teaming with Smith & Wesson on the project...Some see the
special pistol as a shrewd move by Smith & Wesson to target gun
enthusiasts, especially those who may still be sore about the company's
2000 adoption of gun-safety measures to settle a federal lawsuit. That
controversial capitulation sparked a National Rifle Association boycott...
http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view/2008_07_22_A__38_special_edition_Pistol_to_mark_legal_win/
Photos:
http://www.guntalk.com/site88.php
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Chicago, Where "Police Power" Is "Caprice Power": ...Illinois' 1970
Constitution provides gun grabbing counties and city councils with an
invaluable mechanism so as to create two strata of gun rights in
Illinois. One strata that would pass muster south of I. 80 in the more
crimson part of Illinois, and another that would enable the northern
regions of Illinois to infringe upon the second amendment rights of the
law-abiding citizenry in cities like Evanston, Wilmette, and Chicago.
The clause that enables such constitutional mischief is that pesky
"subject only to the police power" in the Illinois Constitution's
Article 1, Section 22 of the Bill of Rights...
http://cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/mayor-daleys-chicago-where-police-power-is-caprice-power,1398/
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Election 2008 and the RKBA: ...The gun issue may play a bigger role in
the 2008 race between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain. The US Supreme
Court's 5-to-4 decision in June that the Second Amendment protects an
individual's right to own a gun puts the focus on gun control in two
ways. First, the ruling shows that the court is evenly divided and just
one new appointment could alter future rulings on gun control. Second,
and perhaps more important, the decision may set the high court as the
arbiter for a series of individual gun cases in coming years - who can
have which weapons and where...So what are Americans' attitudes toward
gun control when looking through the lens of Patchwork Nation's 11
community types? It turns out that more people seem to show sympathy for
Obama's views - especially in battleground communities that may be key
in November...
http://www.csmonitor.com/patchworknation/csmstaff/2008/0721/obama%E2%80%99s-views-on-gun-control-align-with-battleground-areas/
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Long Island Gun Owner Sues Prohibitionist Congresswoman: An outspoken
Long Island gun owner's home was raided by Nassau County detectives, who
seized two dozen weapons he lawfully owns just one day after Rep.
Carolyn McCarthy's office made a 911 call about him. Freeport resident
Gabriel Razzano claims he was targeted in the spring raid for his
"unpopular" political beliefs. He's now filed a $5 million federal
lawsuit against the Nassau PD and McCarthy, charging they joined forces
to strip him of his guns unconstitutionally...
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07212008/news/regionalnews/gun_seizure_lawsuit_120836.htm
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Man Jailed for Gun in University-Owned Hotel: An Albany man who came to
town for a conference was arrested on a felony charge and jailed for
more than 18 hours because he had a gun in his hotel room. Eric Dewayne
Baylis, 45, said he didn't know that the hotel was owned by the
University of Georgia, which put him in violation of a state law
forbidding weapons within school safety zones. Baylis, a maintenance
worker with the Albany Housing Authority, was attending a four-day
conference for the Georgia Housing Authority and Redevelopment
Authority, held at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education
Conference Center & Hotel on South Lumpkin Street. His employers made
the lodging arrangements and he had no idea the hotel is owned by UGA...
http://onlineathens.com/stories/071808/news_2008071800326.shtml
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Firearm-Permit Applications Surge in Connecticut Suburb: ...The crimes
turned Cheshire, called the "Bedding Plant Capital of Connecticut," from
a town where many residents didn't bother to lock their doors to a place
where people are increasingly buying guns...Gun permit applications in
Cheshire, located 14 miles north of New Haven, jumped substantially
after the Petits were attacked. There were 81 completed applications
last year, more than double the 33 in 2006. Fifty-nine of the
applications from last year were filled out after the crimes, police said...
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080721/D9224Q280.html
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Open-Carry Demonstration in Idaho: daho members of a group that
advocates for the right to openly carry handguns in public are turning
heads by touring Zoo Boise while packing guns on their hips. Ten members
of OpenCarry.org were allowed into the zoo Saturday after some initial
confusion at the entrance about whether it was legal to bring an
unconcealed handgun inside. Group member Carol Schultz of Nampa says:
"Coming to the zoo was something we could do together, like any family
would." Schultz says she's never without her handgun that she keeps in a
holster attached to a heart-studded belt. Zoo visitor Alex Lundgren of
Boise questioned the group's decision to bring firearms. He says: "Legal
and appropriate are two different things."
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jjjAJ_MpHfq4BdalJb3lG07cMswgD921S3880
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Armed Clergyman Opens Fire Again: A Christian missionary whose book
"Shooting Back" describes his encounter with heavily armed terrorists
who attacked his church in 1993 and how he repelled them by firing back
with his .38 special once again fought off an attempted hijacking by
returning fire. The latest attack came while Charl van Wyk of Frontline
Fellowship ministries in Cape Town, South Africa, was traveling to
record a radio program with creation science lecturer Philip Stott
during the Reclaiming Africa for Christ Biblical Worldview Summit...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69951
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GOA Starts Olofson Relief Fund: The Gun Owners of America have launched
a campaign to help support the family of a man sentenced to 30 months in
jail for a rifle that misfired. Officials with GOA today announced they
will be working to generate support for the wife and three children of
David Olofson, on whom WND has reported in the past, while a
GOA-orchestrated appeal of his conviction proceeds. "Not only is Gun
Owners of American representing Olofson during his appeal, we have set
up an Olofson relief fund so that his wife and mother of their three
young children will be able to keep making her mortgage and car
payments," Larry Pratt, chief of the organization, said in an editorial
provided to WND...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=70249
Olofson Writes from Prison:
http://westernrifleshooters.blogspot.com/2008/07/vanderboegh-if-not-then-our-republic-is.html
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Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
