One Man to Become Source of Legal Handguns in DC: Residents here who buy
a gun to keep legally at home, now that the Supreme Court has overturned
the city's ban on handguns, will find that a bureaucratic maze leads
them to an unmarked door on Good Hope Road Southeast where Charles W.
Sykes Jr. does business. Mr. Sykes does not sell guns, but on Tuesday he
is expected to become the only federally licensed dealer in Washington
to serve as the transfer agent for the carefully controlled transactions
that will put guns in the hands of district residents...There may be a
few other holders of federal firearms licenses in the city, but
according to the police, he will soon be the only one to offer this
service...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/washington/01guns.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin
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RKBA Advocate Arrested at Obama Rally: A Beaver County man who regularly
wears a pistol on his hip says police violated his rights by arresting
him before a rally featuring Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack
Obama...Mr. Noble, 50, of Industry, said he wore his Glock 19 in a
holster when he entered Irvine Park in Beaver more than an hour before
Mr. Obama arrived for a campaign appearance Friday night...State police
in Beaver County referred questions about Mr. Noble's arrest to Trooper
Shawn Schexnaildre,of New Castle, who was on the security detail in the
park. He did not respond to calls for comment. Jim Gehr, agent in charge
of the U.S. Secret Service field office in Pittsburgh, said the federal
agency did not file any charges against Mr. Noble...
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08244/908415-57.stm
A gun rights group is calling on Gov. Ed Rendell to "order a halt to
unlawful police-state tactics at presidential campaign events" after a
Beaver County man was arrested Friday for openly carrying a gun near
where Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama later made an
appearance. The group, OpenCarry.org, accused state police of suspending
the right to bear arms in Beaver by arresting John Noble, 50, of
Industry. State police said Noble would be charged with disorderly
conduct for carrying a loaded, holstered and exposed 9 mm semiautomatic
because he breached a secured perimeter of a presidential candidate
rally, creating alarm and causing a breakdown in security...
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_585890.html
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Kentucky Supremes to Weigh Retroactivity for Stand-Your-Ground Law: The
Kentucky Supreme Court plans to review two cases involving the state's
new self-defense law that allows people to shoot dangerous home invaders
without fear of prosecution. The National Rifle Association had
championed the measure enacted in 2006, saying it simply codified a rule
of law already observed by judges in Kentucky and elsewhere: That people
have a right to use deadly force to defend themselves and their families
when their lives are in danger...Assistant Attorney General Perry Thomas
Ryan argued against applying the law retroactively, in a legal brief he
filed with the Supreme Court...
http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/story/509445.html
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Gustav Holdouts Turn to Knives, Guns, God: If the floodwaters rise and
trap him in his home by the Mississippi River levee, carpenter Juan
LeBoeuf plans to bust out through the roof with a knife. Bar owner Joann
Guidos has a cache of guns to protect her place from looters who roam a
city emptied by evacuations ahead of Hurricane Gustav. Window cleaner
Julio Iglesia, who plans to stay in his rented home a block from the
mighty Mississippi, is putting his faith in God...During Katrina,
Guidos' Kajun's Pub stayed open, business boomed and the bar became
something of a local landmark as well as a community center. The worst
part was the looting, not the foot of water on the bar floor. Guidos has
a pistol, a knife and an assortment of guns in her house next door to
the bar, including a sniper's rifle...
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN3135421320080831?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=22&sp=true
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Number of CPL's Rises in Washington State: ..."As a parent, I am the
first line of defense for my children," he said. "Not the police."
..Spurred by fear of a violent attack or because they have actually
survived one more Washingtonians are getting a concealed pistol license.
The license, or CPL, allows them to travel with a hidden gun among an
unknowing public. License holders jumped from about 179,000 to 258,000,
43 percent, between 2003 and 2007. The state Department of Licensing
says permit applications in Kitsap County jumped from 1,587 in 2004 to
3,339 in 2007...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_wa_pistol_packing.html
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Texas Continues Teacher-Carry Debate: ...The school board's decision
last year permitting teachers and staff to carry arms is ricocheting
across the nation and beyond, with media crews from as far as Italy
descending on this community. With Gov. Rick Perry giving an endorsement
of sorts last week, saying all districts should have the power to decide
who brings guns to schools, the issue is not likely to go away.
Supporters say the district is taking proactive steps to protect
students against the threat, unlikely as it may be, of some armed thug
coming to campus to do harm. Detractors say the district is inviting
into schools the dangers that exist outside school campuses...
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5976922.html
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Author Responds to Firearms Indictment: Author Peter Manso was indicted
on Friday by a Barnstable grand jury on gun charges. The charges are the
result of the confiscation by Truro Police of weapons from Manso's home
on Long Nook Drive. The police saw the weapons when they responded to a
burglar alarm in late December, while Manso was in California. They
returned the next day with a warrant and seized three unlicensed weapons
- a snub nose .38 revolver, a .22 caliber rifle and a Colt AR15
government carbine, an assault weapon, with a 30-round clip. Possession
of the assault weapon carries a possible 10-year prison sentence and up
to a $10,000 fine...Manso said that originally there were six charges,
charges he said were dismissed in the Orleans District Court. He said
Cape & Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe's office revived the
charges, and now he is indicted on 12 charges by the grand jury. "Who
ever heard of a jail sentence for failure to renew a gun permit?" Under
state law, he said, this is a misdemeanor and the Legislature recommends
fines...
http://www.wickedlocal.com/provincetown/news/x2045584828/Manso-fires-back-on-gun-indictment
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Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
