Prohibitionists Bemoan National-Park Carry: ...Now, state laws on gun
possession and concealed carry are in force when you enter national
parklands. For example, if you have a valid Texas Concealed Handgun
License, or an out-of-state license recognized by Texas, you may carry
your concealed handgun when visiting Big Bend National Park. As usual,
anti-rights proponents bleated their gloom-and-doom prognostications...
Helmke must be ignoring years of FBI crime data: Violent crime and
murder rates are lower in right-to-carry states: Those with liberalized
laws regarding law-abiding citizens' ability to carry concealed handguns
in public. Worse for Brady, the Centers for Disease control reports that
in Brady's favorite states, where concealed carry is banned or severely
restricted, the average firearms homicide rate in 2006 (latest data
available) was 24.6% higher than in right-to-carry states. Worst yet for
Brady, eight years of FBI Supplemental Homicide Reports (2000-2007) show
that the use of handguns to commit murder is lower in right-to-carry
states than in right-restricted states, 47.9% to 52.8%, respectively. No
matter the dataset, they all point to the same truth: concealed carry
makes Americans safer... (Nemerov lives in Texas, where open carry is
not yet legal but, in a state such as Arizona, open carry is also legal
in national parks and, under Arizona law, requires no permit.)
Seattle TV Station Misinforms: Whoever at KING 5 News in Seattle put
together the accompanying video discussing the change in law that takes
effect today in national parks is either: a) a bonehead, or b)
deliberately trying to mislead the public regarding the effect of this
new law. (Upon reflection, I HOPE it is the former). The video includes
an opening shot of somebody loading an AR-15 rifle in a gravel pit
(presumably from an earlier story KING did on the Sultan gravel pit
closure) and firing a round. Note to KING: That is NOT what this new
law allows, and you should know it. I was interviewed by KING's Roberta
Romero Sunday, during which I'm pretty certain it was mentioned that
this change does not allow target shooting or hunting in the parks. This
simply allows park visitors to legally carry loaded firearms for
personal protection. (I wrote about this here last week.) Veteran
reporter Romero seemed to understand all of this quite well, so someone
over at KING evidently decided the video needed to be jazzed up with the
image of a semiautomatic rifle being discharged. That's a discredit to
Romero, who has always seemed very competent and thorough, and very
misleading to the public...
http://www.examiner.com/x-4525-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2010m2d22-KING-5-deception-Guns-in-national-parks-rule-change-does-NOT-include-target-shooting
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Another Look at Brady Grades: ...Right now, there is a post by a blogger
named Don Surber circulating widely around the internet. Don has
cleverly compared the homicide rates in some of the states getting low
Brady scores with states getting high Brady scores. Consider the
following comparison: Utah, the state with a zero rating, has only 1.5
homicides per 100,000 citizens. Less than half of those homicides are
firearm related. California scores the highest according to the Brady
report with a whopping 79. But they have 5.83 murders per 100,000, which
is a rate nearly four times higher than Utah. Over 2/3 of the homicides
in California are firearms related. I can just hear liberals saying
"People in Utah don't need guns. There's hardly any murder in their
state." Few probably make the connection between lawful gun ownership
and low crime rates. Remember, these are the people who, in the 1990s,
said that "despite the low crime rate, prison populations are higher
than ever." Back then they just could not connect the dots and figure
out that crime was down because the criminals were locked up. It all
goes back to ideology. Liberals refuse to believe in deterrence theory
because to do so admits to the fallen nature of man. To them, man is
inherently good, not evil. Moreover, he is perfectible. The liberal is
willing to die to preserve his vision of himself and others. And he
wants you to die for his vision, too...
http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2010/02/23/ideology_to_die_for?page=full
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More on the DC-Carry Lawsuit: The Washington Post has an interesting
profile of longtime libertarian activist and fighter for gun possession
rights, Tom Palmer. Palmer was one of the original plaintiffs in the
Heller case, which vindicated the Second Amendment by overturning D.C.'s
ban on handgun ownership. (Palmer was booted from the case for technical
standing reasons before it reached the Supreme Court.) Palmer is now one
of the plaintiffs in a new legal challenge to still-existing D.C. laws
that prohibit the public carrying ("bearing," as in "the right to keep
and bear arms") of your gun in D.C... As Tim Lynch, who like Palmer
works at the Cato Institute, explains, "Most criminal attacks occur
outside the home (around 87%) and the criminals are armed and always
have the advantage of choosing when they'll strike - and that's usually
when there are no cops around." Thus, if the right to defend yourself
against assault should be honored by the U.S. government, there is
little reasonable justification for restricting that right to only the
home. And there is no civilized right more basic than self-defense;
indeed, to make such defense more efficient and wide-ranging is one of
the only legitimate reasons for government at all, thus making
localities' attempts to bar its citizens from practicing the right
effectively particularly pernicious... (Heller was originally known as
Parker. Of the original plaintiffs, Heller was the only one granted
standing because he was the only one who actually had a handgun to
register with DC Metro PD, in order to take it home lawfully. He had
intentionally taken a job as a special police officer, the DC term for
an armed security officer, in order to legally possess that gun while
working in DC.)
http://reason.com/blog/2010/02/22/guns-not-just-for-the-home-any
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Wyoming House Passes Unlicensed-CCW Bill: The Wyoming House of
Representatives on Monday passed legislation under which a permit would
no longer be required to carry a concealed weapon in Wyoming. If passed,
Wyoming would become the third state, after Alaska and Vermont, to allow
conceal-carry without a permit. The bill, House Bill 113, passed 42-15.
It now advances to the Senate, where it will be taken up as soon as the
end of the week. But although the bill has Senate sponsors, Senate
Majority Leader Jim Anderson, R-Glenrock, said the proposal will
"probably be received with more scrutiny on the Senate side" than in the
House. Under the bill, anyone who meets the current requirements to
obtain a concealed-weapons permit from the state would be allowed to
carry a concealed weapon - except that proof of firearms training would
no longer be required. If the legislation passes, Wyoming would still
issue concealed-weapons permits to residents, as such permits are needed
for Wyoming residents to carry a concealed weapon in several other
states... Anderson said following concerns expressed by law enforcement
officials and others, there will likely be attempts in the Senate to
restore some firearms training requirements and lengthen the six-month
residency requirement in the bill. Senators will also likely try to
merge HB113 with a second concealed-weapons bill in the Senate that
attempts to clarify Wyoming law dealing with reciprocity with other
states, he said. If those issues are addressed, and the two bills are
merged, "we'll come forth with something that will be acceptable,"
Anderson said.
http://www.trib.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/article_00ea5d76-819c-5a50-a6dc-fed5a5c9fa35.html
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The Sky Will Fall in Virginia!: Virginia lawmakers are expected to pass
a bill that would allow anyone with a concealed-carry permit to bring
their guns to restaurants that serve alcohol. Restaurant patrons may
soon be allowed to bring concealed weapons along when they go out to
eat. Restaurant managers do not like it because they don't expect most
customers to embrace the idea of bullets and booze. But the combination
is exactly what will be allowed in Virginia if Senate Bill 334 passes.
"I just don't think there's any reason for it to tell you the truth,"
said Manny Caralivanos, Kelly's Tavern. "I think it could drop business
down considerably because families won't want to come out if they think
there are people running around with a gun on them." Virginia law
already allows for that - but guns have to be openly carried. Senate
Bill 334 would overturn a ban on concealed carry enacted 15 years ago...
Virginia is one of only nine states that does not allow concealed-carry
at restaurants serving alcohol... And there could be other issues for
restaurants because the bill allows only people who are not drinking to
carry their concealed weapons... The bill has passed twice before, but
was vetoed by former Governor Kaine. Governor McDonnell is expected to
sign off on the bill this time around. (As I understand current law,
Virginians who carry openly are not prohibited from consuming alcohol
while doing so. The new law will allow them to cover the gun in exchange
for a promise not to consume alcohol in a restaurant or bar after having
done so. If a permittee breaks that promise, it's his violation, not the
establishment's.)
http://www.wtkr.com/news/wtkr-senate-bill-guns-bars,0,1085466.story
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Wisconsin May Relax Restrictions on Hunters: Gun laws seem to be a hot
topic right now across Wisconsin. Over the weekend, gun proponents held
a demonstration in Sussex, alleging police harassed someone openly
carrying a gun inside a restaurant that doesn't prohibit firearms. Also,
the state Senate Tuesday will take up a bill that would allow hunters to
carry uncased guns that are not loaded, in their vehicles. WUWM's LaToya
Dennis has more. Under current Wisconsin law, guns have to be unloaded
and in a case before legally being transported in a vehicle. But, if
Democratic Senator Russ Decker has anything to do with it, that law will
soon change. Decker introduced the bill that members of the Senate are
taking up. "What Senate Bill 222 does is, it allows guns to be uncased
that are unloaded, during the times that you have a valid hunting
license. It could be a half hour before the season starts, or a half
hour after the season," Decker says. Decker says the reason for the
proposed change is pretty straightforward. "Many times a hunter will get
out to his friends' vehicle and the doors will be locked or his case
will be in a different vehicle, so then they're in a quandary, what
they're gonna do," Decker says... "It's really important to understand
that this bill doesn't change a single thing about who can and can't get
a firearm. It doesn't change concealed carry, outside of the hunting
area. You still can't carry a gun into a school, into a grocery store.
You still can't go into a hospital or anything like that. Bill 222 does
not apply to handguns. It specifically must be 26 inches in length,"
Hopper says. But some open carry advocates would like to see handguns
included in this legislation. Nik Clark is President of Wisconsin Carry
Incorporated. "I open carry every where I go that it's legal to do so.
So when I go to the grocery store, when I go to the doctor's office,
when I go to the hardware store I always carry. Every time I get to a
parking lot, I have to stop pull the gun case out of the car, take the
gun out, load the gun while I'm standing in the parking lot and then put
it in my holster. So that's a lot of extra handling of the gun," Clark
says...
http://www.wuwm.com/programs/news/view_news.php?articleid=5782
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More Tennesseans Go Armed: Tennesseans are packing heat in higher
numbers these days. The number of people in Tennessee with permits to
carry handguns increased by 23 percent from January of 2009 to January
of this year. In the Tennessee counties of the Tri-Cities region, the
average increase of permit holders in the past year was 24 percent,
according to the Tennessee Department of Safety. Ken Potter attributes
this increase to multiple shooting events in the news. He teaches hand
gun carry permit classes in both Carter and Unicoi Counties, and says
those stories always elicit the same response, a desire for
self-defense. "Generally we notice that after some atrocious or horrific
crime has been committed a mass shooting or something of that nature
than we notice a lot of people come to school to get the gun permit,"
said Potter. (Video provides more details.)
http://www2.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/tennesseans_packing_heat_in_higher_numbers_these_days/41936/
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What a Difference a Sheriff Can Make: Across the U.S., most public
universities ban students and faculty from carrying concealed handguns
on campus. Colorado State University has, up until now, been one of the
few exceptions to this rule. But now, campus leadership wants to change
the policy, and that's not sitting well with students and local gun
rights advocates. The university's board of directors voted to pass a
ban on carrying concealed weapons last year. At a news conference on the
Fort Collins campus earlier this month, Terry Tyan, of the advocacy
group Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, says the ban - which has yet to be
finalized - would violate Colorado's concealed-carry law. She says that
if the university continues to try to ban firearms, the school would be
answered with a lawsuit. The region's county sheriff, Jim Alderden, says
if the CSU policy is put into place, he will not jail anyone found
guilty of violating it. "What CSU is trying to pass is a policy,"
Alderden says. "And their position is that the university policy trumps
state law and the U.S. Constitution." Alderden says school policy should
not trump state law. But under Colorado law, campuses do have the
authority to implement weapons control policies. And the university's
spokesman, Brad Bohlander, says that most other campuses in the state
already have these policies... (This is the sort of adherence to the
oath of office that is being pushed by former Graham County [AZ] sheriff
Richard Mack -
http://www.usa1911.com/scm/index.)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123858348
What seemed like common sense to some is nothing less than an assault on
the US Constitution to others, which is why a governors meeting at
Colorado State University today to approve a ban on students bearing
concealed weapons on its main campus in Fort Collins is likely to be
rowdy. Preventing bloodshed is the first thing on the board's mind. It
is three years since the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech that took the
lives of 32 students and staff and just under two weeks since Amy
Bishop, a professor at the University of Alabama, allegedly shot six of
her colleagues, killing three of them. Yet there has been such a
push-back against the plan that the board may defer a decision today to
await further public comment. The proposed change in the rules has
reignited emotions about the place of guns in American culture. It is a
debate that gets snarled in the conflicting logic of gun ownership
rights and the simple notion that bullets and blackboards don't mix...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/colorado-students-fight-for-gun-rights-1907393.html
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Oops, Wrong House: A 33-year-old female intruder was shot in the chest
this weekend and jailed when she broke a house window and stuck her head
through the hole after the resident had warned that he had a gun, San
Bernardino County [CA] sheriff's officials say. The gunfire erupted
Saturday along the 10300 block of Maple Lane. The resident had phoned
deputies, saying someone was trying to break into his home,
investigators said in a written statement. "The victim yelled at the
suspect and advised he had a gun," according to the statement. "The
suspect broke the front window ... then stuck her head through the
broken window. Fearing for his safety and the safety of his family, the
victim fired." Deputies found Jennifer London suffering from a bullet
wound in her chest. "The suspect was transported to Arrowhead Regional
Medical Center where it was determined the bullet went through her chest
and out the side without striking any ... vital organs," investigators
wrote. "London was released to the ... deputies." ... (Note that a shot
to the chest is not necessarily immediately incapacitatingnor fatal.)
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_W_webshot.24ac5dd.html
http://www.examiner.com/x-18149-SelfDefense-Examiner~y2010m2d22-Armed-homeowner-stops-violent-home-invader
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Eight Years Later...: Former NBA star Jayson Williams faces sentencing
Tuesday for a shooting that happened eight years ago in New Jersey.
Williams is scheduled to appear in court in Somerville. He's expected to
get 18 months in prison after pleading guilty last month to aggravated
assault in the February 2002 death of hired driver Costas Christofi.
Williams was acquitted of aggravated manslaughter in 2004 but convicted
on four counts of covering up the shooting. His sentence for those
convictions will run concurrent to the assault sentence. When he pleaded
guilty, Williams had faced a retrial on a reckless manslaughter count.
Witnesses testified Williams snapped a shotgun shut in the bedroom of
his New Jersey mansion after a night of drinking. The gun went off,
hitting Christofi in the chest. (From a 2004 report on the trial: "We
went back and forth over that for over a day,'' Mr. Clark said of the
debate about recklessness versus negligence. In the end, eight jurors
decided the shooting was either negligent, or accidental because the gun
malfunctioned. Four jurors determined it was reckless, Mr. Clark said.
He said he was among the four who voted for conviction.)
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/nation/ex-nba-star-jayson-williams-faces-sentencing-for-fatal-shooting-of-hired-driver-in-2002-85040477.html
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Rule One, Two, Three Reminder: Last night NewsChannel 5 told you about
what appeared to be an accidental shooting east of Great Falls [MT].
Today, with a victim remaining in critical condition, we are reminded of
the importance of firearm safety. Initial reports came in just before
6:30 last night that a female accidentally shot her husband while
handing him a gun. The victim was transported to Benefis Hospital by
Mercy Flight and as of this morning, he remains in critical condition.
Accidents like these are tragic but can be prevented by following some
simple safety guidelines... (The Rules -
http://www.spw-duf.info/safety.html.)
http://www.kfbb.com/news/local/85000852.html
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Unintended Consequences?: An internal police report warned of potential
"public safety" dangers stemming from its Bushmaster rifle - a month
after innocent teenager Halatau Naitoko was accidentally shot dead on an
Auckland motorway... Problems first emerged in 2006 after a study of 18
rifles, according to an email from the New Zealand Police National
Armoury to police headquarters in Wellington. The email, written by a
firearms expert, speculated that rifle barrels were being damaged
because of sound suppressors that had been fitted to reduce noise,
allowing police to comply with health and safety laws. Without the
suppressors, the noise of the rifles was excessive - but the
sound-dampening attachment also forced material back into the barrel of
the rifle when a bullet was fired. Further studies in April 2007 found
the rifle barrels were also suffering from the type of ammunition used
in training, and a lack of cleaning. Yet police documents show no action
was taken until February 2009, when a new report asked for $130,000 to
buy new rifle barrels and other equipment to fix the problem. The report
stated that the problem posed "a risk to public and police safety".
Police bosses were told that risks also included an inability to carry
out proper firearms training for frontline staff and recruits... (I'm
not sure what the most prevalent fish is in New Zealand but this doesn't
smell right. On the one hand we have what appear to have been
inappropriate suppressors installed due to politically correct
health-and-safety laws, Then we have lack of cleaning. Somewhere in
between we have a lack of training, which would appear to have been the
most likely cause for shooting the wrong person.)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10627500
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Barrett Receives NRA Award: Ronnie Barrett, founder and CEO of Barrett�,
a company world-known for providing high-end firearms, optics,
ammunition and training, will be awarded the 2010 Golden Bullseye
Pioneer Award from NRA Publications. The Golden Bullseye Pioneer Award,
first presented in 2007, spotlights exemplary achievement by individuals
who were responsible for the development, introduction, and promotion of
equipment that has made a profound and enduring impact on the way
Americans shoot and hunt. Executive Director of NRA Publications, Joe H.
Graham, wrote that Ronnie Barrett was "the unanimous choice of a
seven-member selection committee acting on behalf of the NRA members
nationwide whose experiences at the range and in the field have been
enriched by Barrett Firearms' products and services and...commitment to
innovation, quality, value and customer service." ... (While Barrett
deserves recognition for popularizing the use of the .50 BMG cartridge,
I would really like to see him receive an award for telling the State of
California that he will no longer sell his rifles to any public agency
in that state, so long as the state maintains its ban on their sale to
private citizens. If more firearm and ammunition manufacturers would
follow suit, California's legislators might have to reconsider some of
the infringements they continually impose on the RKBA.)
http://www.ammoland.com/2010/02/22/ronnie-barrett-winner-of-2010-golden-bullseye-pioneer-award/
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From AzCDL:
By now many of you have begun receiving responses from Senators Pierce
and Tibshraeny about their votes to support the Cheuvront amendment,
making it a class 4 felony to not check citizenship during a private
firearm sale. First we want to compliment the Senators for taking the
time to respond to the over 500 emails they received over the weekend.
However, we will continue to oppose the Cheuvront floor amendment to SB
1102.
Think about this for a minute. For years there has been a constant
drumbeat, mainly from Democrat legislators, to oppose all attempts to
allow state and local law enforcement officers to enforce federal
immigration laws, and civilian border watchers are demonized for
reporting illegal border crossings. Now those same legislators, who
want to hamstring local law enforcement, are eager to transform everyday
citizens into de facto immigration agents when they privately sell a
firearm. Does that make sense to you? Could there be another motive,
like ending the private sales of firearms?
Regulation of gun shows has been a Brady Center priority for years.
Ultimately, what the Brady Bunch wants is the total elimination of gun
shows, but requiring any regulation of private sales is an acceptable
first step:
http://www.bradycampaign.org/xshare/bcam/stategunlaws/scorecard/2010releases/AZ.pdf.
The text of the Cheuvront amendment creates a new "misconduct involving
weapons" violation for "selling or transferring a firearm at a firearm
show without requiring the purchaser or transferee to provide proof of
citizenship" and defines both "firearm show" and "proof of
citizenship". A violation of this paperwork error would be a Class 4
felony crime, just like child abusers, drug dealers, kidnappers and
arsonists.
Note that we aren't just talking about purchases here. A "transfer" is
just letting another person take possession of a firearm. Is that
foreign looking guy about to pick up a gun on your table to look over?
Handing your pistol to your buddy at the show so he can check it out?
Better check for ID first, or you're a felon.
"Firearm show" is defined as "an event that is sponsored, whether for
profit or not, by an individual, national, state or local organization,
association or other entity devoted to the collection, competitive use,
sporting use or any other legal use of firearms and either of the
following applies: (a) ten or more firearm exhibitors are participating.
(b) a total of twenty-five or more pistols or revolvers are offered for
sale or transfer."
"Proof of citizenship means any of the following: (a) an Arizona driver
license or nonoperating identification license issued after October 1,
1996. (b) a legible photocopy of a birth certificate that verifies
citizenship and supporting legal documentation, including a marriage
certificate, if the name on the birth certificate is not the same as the
person's legal name. (c) a legible photocopy of pertinent pages of a
United States passport identifying the person. (d) United States
naturalization documents. (e) the person's Bureau of Indian Affairs card
number or tribal treaty card number. (f) a legible photocopy of a driver
license or nonoperating identification license from another state within
the United States if the license indicates that the person has provided
satisfactory proof of citizenship. (g) a legible photocopy of a tribal
certificate of Indian blood or tribal or Bureau of Indian Affairs
affidavit of birth."
Let's think about a few of these details for a moment. We are not only
talking about the traditional "gun show," where we take the family to
the fairgrounds and look at the wares on display from the vendors, where
most are licensed dealers required by federal law to perform background
checks. No, if an "individual" decides to sell "twenty-five or more
pistols" that her late husband collected over the course of a lifetime,
she'd better be ready to check the citizenship status of everyone who
comes looking to buy one, or it's off to jail she goes, along with the
drug dealers and child beaters.
How about that proof of citizenship? Arizona issues driver licenses to
legal resident aliens. So how does it qualify as proof of citizenship?
How are you to know the difference? Isn't profiling a bad thing? Then
why are these legislators encouraging it? How about those other
proofs? I don't know about you, but I don't have the foggiest clue what
most of those documents actually look like. Someone could print one up
in his basement that morning, and I would be none the wiser. Is the
same government that would make me a felon for not checking for these
documents going to bear some responsibility for educating me as to what
I'm supposed to be checking for?
While the Senators are correct in stating that Arizona businesses must
check the citizenship status of all employees, there are a few details
they neglect to mention. One is that employers have access to a federal
database to do such checks. Another is that is if businesses are
discovered to have hired an illegal alien, they are subject to the loss
of their business license. There are no criminal penalties involved.
They certainly aren't risking seven years in prison and a felony record.
Despite all the folderol about stopping the flow of guns across the
border, the reality is that making felons out of people who are
conducting a perfectly legitimate activity (i.e. the private sale of
firearms), one that has taken place in this country for hundreds of
years without any of this nonsense surrounding it, will do absolutely
nothing to solve the crime problem, either in Mexico or in Arizona.
It sure does go a long way towards killing a good bill (SB 1102) that
would restore the right of the people of Arizona to keep and bear arms
any way they choose, just as the Founders intended. Almost makes you
wonder if that was the plan all along, doesn't it?
That's why this is very much a rights issue, not an immigration issue.
If it was an immigration issue, there are plenty of immigration bills
out there that they can attach this nightmare to.
Now, for some good news!
SB 1153, the knife preemption bill, passed in the Senate Third Read
today (February 22, 2010) by a vote of 20-9 with one member not voting.
It has been transmitted to the House.
SB 1168, the firearms preemption bill, passed out of the Senate
Judiciary Committee today by a vote of 4-3 with a recommendation for
passage by the full Senate.
In related news, SB 2543, the House version of the firearms preemption
bill, passed out of the House Military Affairs and Public Safety (MAPS)
Committee on February 17, 2010, by a vote of 7-1 with a recommendation
for passage by the full House.
Both firearms preemption bills will be reviewed in their respective
Rules Committees before proceeding to Committee of the Whole (COW) debates.
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Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
The tactics and skills to use a firearm
in self-defense don't come naturally
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