Heller May Usher in "Reasonable Regulation": The U.S. Supreme Court's
Second Amendment decision last term, with its historic affirmation of an
individual right to keep and bear arms, is being read as a harbinger of
doom by gun-control advocates, and as cause for celebration by the
National Rifle Association and its allies. In fact, it could play out
exactly the other way around. District of Columbia v. Heller may finally
open the door to sensible gun policy in the United States, and it could
be the beginning of the end for the NRA, at least as we know it today...
http://www.law.com/jsp/scm/PubArticleSCM.jsp?id=1202424712957
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Chicago Suburb Looks to Fudge Handgun-Ban Recission: The Evanston City
Council is still discussing what to do next after being "forced kicking
and screaming" to amend its handgun ban last month. The change was made
following a June 26 Supreme Court ruling, District of Columbia v.
Heller, declaring a similar ban in Washington, D.C. to be in violation
of the Second Amendment. The day after the landmark decision, the
National Rifle Association brought a lawsuit against Evanston alleging
its ban was unconstitutional. The City Council chose to change its ban
instead of fighting the potentially expensive suit, said city
corporation counsel Jack Siegel, who wrote the amendment. Now, Evanston
residents can have handguns in their home for the purpose of
self-protection, Siegel said. Other uses and other types of guns are
still prohibited...
http://media.www.dailynorthwestern.com/media/storage/paper853/news/2008/09/23/City/City-Considers.Options.After.Nra.Gun.Ban.Lawsuit-3446331.shtml
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Revenge of the Bitter Gun Owners: Last spring, after the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to
arms, Democrats hoped the decision would neutralize the gun issue.
Instead the ruling, by inviting debate over which kinds of gun control
are constitutional, has made the issue more salient. That's bad news for
Barack Obama, who the National Rifle Association says "would be the most
anti-gun president in American history." The Democratic nominee pays lip
service to Second Amendment rights while calling for "commonsense,"
"reasonable" restrictions. But Obama's sense of what's reasonable, while
common among the left-liberal politicians and activists inside his
comfort zone, may seem decidedly unreasonable to the pro-gun voters the
NRA is trying to mobilize against him...
http://reason.com/news/show/128973.html
Related Commentary:
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/all_headlines/97532
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From GOA: Your hard work is reaping benefits once again! Last week, we
told you how the U.S. House of Representatives had overwhelmingly voted
to pass a bill repealing the D.C. gun ban (HR 6842). But we also warned
you that there was not much time left in the legislative session, and
that Majority Leader Harry Reid might try to kill the bill. That's why
we asked you to petition your Senators to urge Reid for a vote in the
Senate. Well, the good news is that 47 Senators have listened to you and
have cosigned a letter addressed to the Majority Leader from Senator Kay
Bailey Hutchison. These signatures were obtained in two short days with
Senators getting ready to leave town. The bad news is that our
predictions have come true. Sen. Reid is trying to use procedural
maneuvers to keep the bill from coming to the Senate floor for a vote...
http://www.gunowners.org/a092208.htm
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Bloomberg Touts Lawsuit Settlement: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today
announced that the last of the 27 dealers sued by New York City in 2006
for public nuisance has agreed to a settlement. The final dealer to
settle, Bob Moates Sport Shop, Inc. of Midlothian, Virginia, has entered
into an agreement that closely mirrors the terms of the Responsible
Firearms Retailer Partnership, a collaborative project of the coalition
of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Wal-Mart. Key features of the
Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership include videotaping of sales
activities; a computerized system to log crime gun traces; and the
requirement that for sales flagged by the computerized system,
purchasers must fill out a declaration indicating they meet the legal
requirement to purchase a firearm...
http://snipurl.com/3tbpq
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Georgia May Relax Carry Restrictions: Georgia lawmakers are considering
allowing guns in more public places, including churches, sporting
events, and even university campuses. Religious leaders were among those
who spoke out against the possible changes Tuesday, saying churches,
temples and mosques should remain gun-free sanctuaries. The chairman of
a state Senate study committee looking at Georgia's firearms laws
cautioned that any proposed legislation was in its infancy. "We're
working toward a draft," said state Sen. Mitch Seabaugh, a Republican
from Sharpsburg...
http://www.cbs46.com/news/17544669/detail.html#-
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Ohio Open-Carry March Claims Success: The Open Carry Walk in support of
OFCC member Ed Farbrother was a huge success! Over seventy people,
ranging in age from 2-1/2 to 70 years old and from as far away as
Cincinnati, showed up on a beautiful Saturday afternoon to support
Farbrother and protest his poor treatment at the hands of the Northwood
police department. After meeting up at Central Park, the group went for
a walk around the block to the front of the police station and posed for
pictures in front of a sign reading "Freedom is Not Free", highly
appropriate for the situation at hand...
http://www.ohioccw.org/content/view/4067/53/
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Oops, Wrong House: Cleveland police are investigating a Tuesday shooting
in which a homeowner shot and killed a burglar...Stacho says 65-year-old
Lawrence Hanson was awakened by the sound of someone breaking into an
attached section of his house. When he went downstairs to investigate,
he saw signs that his house was being burglarized. Hanson returned
upstairs, got dressed and grabbed his gun. Upon returning downstairs,
Hanson confronted the burglar who fled on foot into the fenced in yard.
Hanson followed and tried to stop the burglar. Once in the yard the
burglar turned and began to move toward the home owner. Hanson told
detectives that he repeatedly told the burglar to stop and that he was
armed. Hanson stated that he feared for his life as the burglar closed
in on him. When the suspect got approximately five feet away he shot
him... (Not the best tactics - Hanson should not have left his bedroom
unarmed the first time and probably would have been better off not to
have followed the burglar into the yard.)
http://www.wtam.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=122520&article=4285051
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Oops, Wrong Store: A store clerk fatally shot a man in an attempted
robbery Monday afternoon at 27th Street and Prospect Avenue, police
said. The clerk told police that a man approached the counter of Tony's
Market about 2:25 p.m. and asked for a pack of cigarettes. As the clerk
turned to grab the cigarettes, he saw the man pulling a gun from his
waistband, he told police. The clerk grabbed a gun he had hidden near
the cigarettes and fired at the man, hitting him in the chest, according
to the police. The man stumbled out the front doors and collapsed...
http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/808979.html
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California Store Robbed of Guns: As many as 15 guns were taken at
gunpoint Monday from a hunting and fishing retailer in Redondo Beach.
The suspect walked into Turner's Outdoorsman, 2323 Hawthorne Blvd., at
10:45 a.m., and herded employees into a corner before going behind a
counter and removing weapons, police said. At one point, a struggle
broke out when an employee tried to intervene. "There was a struggle. He
(the suspect) stepped back and fired into the ceiling," Sgt. Phil Keenan
of the Redondo Beach Police Department said. The suspect put the
pilfered weapons in a duffel bag and fled on foot... (I suspect that
Turner's prohibits its employees from carrying firearms at work and
California law, coupled with L.A. sheriff's policy, pretty much ensures
that they cannot carry them away from work.)
http://cbs2.com/local/robbery.gun.store.2.823301.html
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Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
