Virginia Tech Students Organize For Campus Carry: Soon after Virginia Tech's mass shooting, some George Mason University students formed a group to do something about guns on campus: They want the right to carry them. Andrew Dysart, who heads George Mason University Students for Concealed Carry, said the group aims to overturn a university policy that prohibits students and faculty members from carrying firearms on campus. About 45 students have signed up since organizers began pulling the group together in late April, he said. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/12/AR2007061202408.html --- Federal "AWB" Bill Still Pending: In 1994, the Clinton administration enacted the Assault Weapons Ban, outlawing 19 different guns. It had a ten-year sunset clause and expired in 2004. But now it is again going through Washington as House Resolution 1022. Doc Blanchard of Doc's Gun Barn says this bill makes a good chunk of his inventory illegal....The bill bans most semi-automatic rifles and shotguns. It also prohibits certain accessories like folding stocks, threaded barrels, detachable magazines, and pistol grips. This time, it specifies 65 different types of weapons - many the NRA says are used for sport and hunting. http://www.kpvi.com/Global/story.asp?S=6661859 --- BATFE Lacks Agents To Patrol Gun Shows: Federal authorities do not have enough agents to regularly patrol gun shows, a major source for U.S. weapons used in Mexico's drug wars, a top official said Thursday during a visit to the Mexican capital. (BOHICA) http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0615guntrafficking0615.html --- Bloomberg Lies: The text of the Tiahrt Amendment states in part that "no funds appropriated under this or any other Act ... may be used to disclose part or all of the contents of the Firearms Trace System database maintained by the National Trace Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ... to anyone other than a Federal, State, or local law enforcement agency or a prosecutor solely in connection with and for use in a bona fide criminal investigation or prosecution ..." http://www.nranews.com/blogarticle.aspx?blogPostId=249 --- Ohio Convert Completes CHL Training: An Ohio legislator who had opposed licensed CCW, along with his wife and ten member of his church, recently completed the training required to receive a Concealed Handgun License. Rep. Michael DeBose changed his views after being targeted in an armed robbery. http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article3797.html --- Pizza Hut Fires Manager For Shooting Armed Robber: A Pizza Hut manager in Florida was fired for shooting at armed robbers whom he felt were still a threat to him and his employees after he had surrendered the money. (Must watch video clip for details) http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=3475534&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1 --- Clerk To Face Charges After Killing Robber: No explanation is offered as to why Dallas-area police intend to file charges against a grocery-store clerk who prevailed in a fight against a shotgun-armed robber. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/061407dnmetsuspect.79d37a.html --- Oops, Wrong House: The Sallisaw OK woman who shot and killed her ex-husband early Friday morning after he broke into her home and assaulted the woman and her boyfriend with a bat may have thwarted her ex's alleged plans to kill her after police discovered that the man allegedly brought a bag of butcher knives into the woman's home. http://www.sequoyahcountytimes.com/articles/2007/06/14/news/fronth.txt --- Rule Five Reminder: A small-town police chief in Kentucky was murdered by an arrestee whom he had cuffed with is hands to the front. Deputy Greg Adams said Lacy often kept a second gun between the seat and console in the front. Adams speculated that the extra gun could have slipped to the back, but State Police officials handling the investigation wouldn't comment on that theory. (Rule Five: Maintain control of your firearm.) http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0615policechief0615.html --- San Francisco Chronicle Praises The NRA: ...The NRA-backed measure would require states to automate their lists of criminals and mentally ill people who are proscribed from buying firearms in an effort to get them to the background-check system in a timely manner. State records about the mental problems of Virginia Tech shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, never reached the FBI...We thank the NRA for helping make it happen. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/06/15/EDGKOP3GB71.DTL --- From GOA: Wednesday started out as a routine day in the U.S. Congress, with Representatives attending congressional hearings, meeting with constituents, perhaps devising clever new ways to pick our pockets. At 8:30 in the morning an email went out to House Republicans indicating that a gun control bill, recently introduced by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), was on the Suspension Calendar (normally reserved for "non-controversial" bills). Many Representatives didn't see that email until it was too late. Less than three hours later, the bill passed by a voice vote. The bill in question, H.R. 2640, is a massive expansion of the Brady Gun Control law, the subject of many previous alerts by Gun Owners of America... http://www.gunowners.org/a061407.htm -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .