Taser Clarification: A list member has brought to my attention that the 
original Tasers were classified as firearms in California because they 
used a primer to propel the dart. Since the newer ones use a compressed 
gas, the are no longer classified as firearms in that state.
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Poor Choices For President: Commentary looks at the top-polling 
candidates for president in 2008 and finds only Condoleeza Rice has been 
a consistent exponent of the RKBA.

http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article3493.html
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Prohibitionists Lobby For Virginia Bill: Eleven-year-old Kailey Leinz 
says closing the so-called gun-show loophole would make her and her 
classmates feel safer...Kailey's mother, Martina, is the communications 
director of the Northern Virginia chapter of the Million Mom March, 
which supports gun control.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&%09s=1045855935264&c=MGArticle&cid=1149192670269&path=!news!politics
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New Jersey Blames Neighboring States For Violent Crime: Carefully 
selected law-enforcement officials argue that the reason that New 
Jersey's "strict gun control laws" fail to deter violent crimes is 
because criminals obtain firearms in neigboring states.

http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk1NyZmZ2JlbDdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5NzA1ODQ3OSZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTM=
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Mexico Blames American Firearms For Drug-Related Violence: According to 
this article, curiously published just after a Democratic majority takes 
over both house of Congress, Mexican authorities are blaming the sunset 
of the federal ban on cosmetically impaired weapons for the misuse of 
firearms by Mexico's drug gangs. (I have always been under the 
impression that the "gun of choice" of Mexico's drug gangs was the real, 
full-auto AK-47.)

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0116americanguns0116.html
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An Education On Ohio CCW: An economics professor and his wife get around 
to taking the course to qualify for an Ohio CHL. Unfortunately, they 
left with the impression that, "My wife and I will probably never have 
the need to carry a concealed weapon, as there is nothing worth stealing 
in our cars or our home."

http://www.timesgazette.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=142097
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Texas 51% Rule: Texas law bars firearms in businesses that derive 51% or 
more of their income from the sale of alcohol consumed on the premises. 
A patron at a Texas bar spotted a man sneaking around, prompting him to 
go out to his truck for his handgun. When the man followed him and 
attempted to rob him with a simulated handgun, the bar patron fatally 
shot him .

http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou070115_ac_almedahomicide.40fd4af8.html
http://www.houstonist.com/archives/2007/01/15/armed_and_harml.php
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17th Century Law Does Not Address Dangers Of Modern Gun Ownership: An 
English-speaking commentator of unknown nationality denounces the 
American RKBA.

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=339967&rel_no=1
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Meanwhile, Stateside...: An American cartoonist tries her hand at verbal 
commentary and unleashes a non sequitur attack on the NRA.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_martha_r_070115_are_the_nra_s_warm_a.htm 


-- 
Stephen P. Wenger

Firearm safety - It's a matter 
for education, not legislation.

http://www.spw-duf.info



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