A Valentine's Day Massacre (Of The Constitution): Mark Alexander 
dissects Carolyn McCarthy's bill to reintroduce and expand a federal ban 
on cosmetically impaired firearms. (Note, article continues on second page.)

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/MarkMAlexander/2007/03/02/a_valentines_day_massacre_of_the_constitution
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Debate As North Dakota Stand-Your-Ground Bill Heads To Senate: North 
Dakota law already says people have no duty to retreat from attack 
within their homes or places of work, a University of North Dakota law 
professor says. HB 1319, which has passed the House and is awaiting 
hearing by the Senate, would remove current language saying the use of 
deadly force is not justified if it can be avoided...

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2007/03/02/news/local/doc45e83dbfd0ca1356773282.txt
http://www.bismarktribune.com/articles/2007/03/01/news/update/doc45e74d7e38f4c582206982.txt
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Meanwhile, In Texas...: The Dallas Morning News editorializes in support 
of the bill to remove the requirement that crime victims fearing for 
their safety on their own property "retreat" before responding with 
deadly force. (It's not clear why the writer needed to disavow "assault 
weapons" in the same editorial.)

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-castle_02edi.ART.State.Edition1.43fd88e.html
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Kansas Bill Would Prohibit Local CCW Bans: A Sedgwick County state 
senator defended a bill to pre-empt local gun ordinances at a House 
committee hearing Thursday. Sen. Phil Journey, R-Haysville, told a 
largely sympathetic Federal and State Affairs Committee that cities and 
counties had gone too far in regulating gun carrying by 
concealed-weapons permit holders. "The permit holder from Johnson County 
won't know what the rules are when they go to Dodge City or Wichita," 
Journey said.

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/legislature/16816913.htm
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Arizona Governor Vetoes Self-Defense Bill: Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed 
a bill Friday afternoon that would have granted a new trial for Harold 
Fish, who was convicted of murder after shooting a man on a hiking 
trail. A 2006 law made it easier for defendants to argue self-defense in 
court, but the Legislature this year wanted to make sure the law was 
retroactive and applied to Fish's case. (Napolitano is a former prosecutor.)

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0303B1-newsupdate0303.html
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/171829
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Oregon City Adopts Airsoft Ban: It's official: Airsoft guns and other 
realistic looking toy firearms are prohibited in Beaverton's public 
places. The City Council passed a new ordinance Monday night regulating 
the use and possession of replica firearms in public.

http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=117277370404510400
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Another "Outdoors Writer" Exposed: Legal scholar David Hardy looks at 
Bill Schneider, author of "NRA Destroys Longtime Friend," and finds that 
he is a shill for the phony American Hunters and Shooters Association 
and the equally phony GunGuys blog.

http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2007/02/false_colors_op.php
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Large Ammo Cache Ignites In Fire: Firefighters responding to a house 
fire in a Norco CA neighborhood were greeted with a dangerous surprise: 
gunfire. Lots of it. Authorities on Thursday found a cache containing 
more than 1 million rounds of ammunition and 75 firearms, ranging from 
small handguns to assault rifles, throughout the burning home and in a 
shaft and tunnel under the garage. (While ammunition can detonate in a 
fire, it "fires" at much lower velocity than it would if it were 
supported by a firing chamber. I suspect that even some firefighting 
personnel don't understand the difference between black powder and 
smokeless powder.)

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ammo3mar03,1,6136155.story?coll=la-headlines-california
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/171810
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Rule Five Reminder: A SWAT team in Colorado is missing an MP5 submachine 
gun after the vehicle of a team member was burglarized in the parking 
lot of a sports grill as the team spent a night out together. 
(Insufficient information is provided to tell whether the firearm was 
secured in a locked mount of any sort. Rule Five: Maintain control of 
your firearm.)

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/11139393/detail.html

-- 
Stephen P. Wenger

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

http://www.spw-duf.info



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