NRA Calls For Boycott: To kick off its campaign to block employers from banning firearms in vehicles parked in company lots, the NRA has called for a boycott of Conoco-Phillips, one of the companies suing to block implementation of a law that would do that in Oklahoma. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-nra2aug02,0,2564250.story?coll=la-home-nation http://www.newschannel6.tv/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=8436 --- How Can They Tell?: I have often been frustrated by those who explain how they only carry serious firearms if they're going to x, y or z, but settle for something minimal (or don't carry at all) in "low-threat" situations. A Mesa AZ man was stabbed to death while taking out the garbage. http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=45472 --- Here We Go Again...: Two Minnesota churches are going to court again, to sue over Minnesota's second-edition shall-issue CCW law - they claim that the requirement for specific signage to ban firearms in their churches infringes their rights. http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5537282.html --- Parliamentary Front for the Right of Self-Defense Lobbies in Brazil: A group of Brazilian legislators seeks to convince their countrymen that the government is barking up the wrong tree with the referendum to ban the further sale of firearms to private citizens. http://internacional.radiobras.gov.br/ingles/materia_i_2004.php?materia=234059&q=1&editoria= -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .