Obama Reveals Ban Plans: "As president, Barack Obama would repeal the
Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement
to access important gun trace information, and give police officers
across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the
illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that
respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns
away from children and from criminals who shouldn't have them. They
support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country
childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons
Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on
our streets." (This plank is about three-fourths of the way down the page.)
http://origin.barackobama.com/issues/urbanpolicy/
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CCRKBA Calls for Senate Vote: The Citizens Committee for the Right to
Keep and Bear Arms is today calling on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
(D-NV) to allow a House-approved bill on the District of Columbia's gun
law to face an immediate Senate vote. "Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
and 46 of her colleagues have asked Sen. Reid to do this before the end
of the 110th Congress," noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, "but we
think this vote needs to occur before the Nov. 4 election. It should be
openly debated and subjected to a roll call vote. "Senator Reid has
provided cover to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the past on a gun
vote," he noted, "and that's got to stop right now. Particularly, Sen.
Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, need to cast an on-the-record
vote - and I don't mean 'present' - on a gun rights bill..."
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ccrkba-urges-sen-reid-allow/story.aspx?guid={3D878705-AF03-4EA8-8208-E1D38455FB66}&dist=hppr
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NRA Disputes FactChecks Impartiality: ...There's another possible
explanation behind FactCheck's positions. Just last year, FactCheck's
primary funding source, the Annenberg Foundation, also gave $50,000 to
the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence for "efforts to reduce gun
violence by educating the public and by enacting and enforcing
regulations governing the gun industry." Annenberg made a similar grant
for $100,000 in 2005.
http://www.nraila.org/
Related Articles:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,427347,00.html
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmQ4ZTRiZGNkMTIwNTczODI5NjZlZDE0MjMyNDcxNDA=
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That Familiar Refrain: "We make it too easy for dangerous people to get
dangerous weapons," Helmke said. "There are only a few national gun
control laws on the books, and even those have loopholes. This leads to
senseless gun violence devastating the lives of tens of thousands. We
know we will have a partner in Bob Roggio in fighting for sensible gun
laws to protect you, your family and your community."
http://www.bradycampaign.org/media/release.php?release=1021
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NYC Pays for Security Camera for Virginian Gun Store: New York City will
pay to install a better security camera system in a Virginia gun store
that will make other changes to its sales practices, resolving a lawsuit
the city filed two years ago. The city will pay for buy a computer log
for The Bob Moates Sport Shop of Midlothian, Va., that will alert sales
clerks when a person attempting to buy a gun has made previous purchases
of weapons linked to crime. The store will buy its own equipment to help
spot fake IDs. Both sides said they were happy with the resolution...
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=723265
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Georgia Sheriff Testifies Weapon Ban Confusing: Oconee County sheriff's
deputies are hard-pressed to decide whether they're dealing with a
criminal when they get a call that someone is carrying a concealed
weapon where they shouldn't be, Sheriff Scott Berry said Tuesday. The
state's ban on firearms at public gatherings is too ambiguous, Berry
told a panel of state senators conducting a wholesale review of the
state's gun laws...
http://onlineathens.com/stories/092408/new_336041973.shtml
Related Article:
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2008/09/23/georgia_gun_laws.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13
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Illinois County CCW Proposal Appears to Fizzle: The end work of a group
charged with drafting a resolution to give county residents the
concealed carry rights passed a proposal that probably won't do much to
that effect. The Winnebago County Board's concealed carry subcommittee
unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday night that essentially allows
the sheriff to hire auxiliary deputies. But that's a power the sheriff
already has according to state statute. The key difference, committee
chairman Tom Owens said, is"encouraging him to utilize that to the
fullest extent that he can." Still, the practical result won't give
residents who want to carry firearms in the county what most probably
believe they would get if a concealed carry resolution passed...
http://www.rrstar.com/communities/x121728302/Winnebago-County-Sheriff-upset-over-gun-plan
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Pennsylvania Woman Seeks Return of Carry Permit: Officials in
Pennsylvania have revoked a woman's concealed-weapons permit because
other parents complained that she was carrying her loaded handgun at her
daughter's soccer games. Meleanie Hain said she's fighting the
revocation by the Lebanon County sheriff. Hain lost the permit and got a
warning from local soccer officials after a game on Sept. 11. Sheriff
Michael DeLeo said openly carrying a weapon to a youth soccer match
shows a lack of judgment. Hain told the Lebanon Daily News she has
always openly carried a firearm without any problems in the past. And
her lawyer, Robert Magee, said that while Pennsylvania requires a permit
for a concealed firearm, it doesn't require a license to carry one
openly except in Philadelphia.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26872812/
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Oops, Wrong Store: A clerk at a 7-Eleven stood up to a robber, police
said, and shot him dead. An 18-year-old man was attempting to rob the
convenience store near East 27th Street and Van Brunt Boulevard at
gunpoint when one of the two clerks in the store pulled out his own gun
and shot the man, police said. hen officers arrived at the store, which
is across the street from a police station, they found the teen dead
behind the counter, shot once in the neck...
http://www.kctv5.com/news/17544862/detail.html#-
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Suspicions Confirmed: Regarding my comment that I doubted that the
California sporting goods store that lost about a dozen handguns in a
robbery allows its employees to be armed, a list member replies: "I am a
former employee of Turners in Orange. Turners prohibits store employees
from carrying firearms at work even if you have a valid CCW for the
state. For being a gun store that advocates second amendment rights it
did a good job of keeping that right from its employees."
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Finland Could Ban Privately Owned Handguns: Finland's prime minister has
called for gun laws to be tightened after a school shooting that left 11
people dead. Matti Vanhanen said Finland should consider banning private
handguns. On Tuesday Matti Juhani Saari shot nine students and a teacher
at a college in the western town of Kauhajoki, before turning his gun on
himself. He had been questioned by police a day earlier after posting on
the internet a video clip of himself at a shooting range, but was not
detained...
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/97654.php
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gGJMd71ugtSNgSqJF0u97Se2oNGAD93D08AG0
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/world/europe/25briefs-APLEDGETOTIG_BRF.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin
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Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
