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| Hiding their anti-gun positions is a key strategy for politicians who want to take away our rights and Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign knows it. That`s why he shows little concern that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are not talking about new gun laws. |
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| Georgia and more than 18 other states have similar versions of a "defense of habitation" law, sometimes known as the Castle Doctrine law. |
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| In a May 6 Times editorial, "Concealed-carry guns have no place on college campuses," readers were told students (faculty, staff, etc.) should not be permitted to carry defensively on a college campus because they`re likely to "make things worse." But this raises a serious question; given that the shootings at Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois, and even the smaller-scale shooting at a Louisiana technical college took place entirely at the discretion of mass murderers, how can wrenching control of the situation away from them possibly make things worse? |
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| They became the first judges in more than a half-century to say the Second Amendment protects an individual`s right to own guns. They are prominent appeals court judges appointed by President Reagan in the 1980s -- the products of an unprecedented, meticulous and often controversial screening process that transformed the politics of judicial nominations. |
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| Cedar Rapids Police Lt. Kenneth Washburn said the department is studying the possibility of requiring the all stores who purchase used firearms to submit lists of used guns they buy and of the people they buy them from, just as the department requires pawnshops to do with everything they buy. |
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| As business lobbyists learned this spring, don`t mess with Marion Hammer. Hammer has been the National Rifle Association`s lobbyist in Tallahassee for more than three decades. Credit her with the intense, three-year push for the controversial guns-to-work bill that the Republican Legislature and Gov. Charlie Crist made law this session. |
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| Measured in real dollars, the impact pheasants have on South Dakota`s local economies is simply staggering. Pheasant hunters spent $219 million in South Dakota last year, and though not all of that money came from out-of-state hunters, much of it surely did. |
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| The potential risk of lead poisoning from high-velocity bullets, whether to carrion-eating condors in the Grand Canyon or to food bank patrons in the Midwest, is the subject of a scientific conference next week. |
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| Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during the upcoming trial of a gun shop owner who was sued by the city. While trials are often tightly choreographed, with lawyers routinely instructed to not tell certain facts to a jury, a gag order on a section of the Constitution would be an oddity. |
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| If you doubt the transformational power of Barack Obama, consider the change that he’s affected on Hillary Clinton. The New York Senator came into the 2008 race with a nearly perfect anti-gun rights voting record, following her White House tenure on behalf of the most aggressively anti-Second Amendment administration in American history. |
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| By the time Hillary Clinton figured out how to beat Barack Obama, it was too late. When she began the race in 2007 thinking she was in for a coronation, she claimed the center in order to position herself for the real fight, the general election. She simply assumed the party activists and loony left would fall in behind her. |
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| Postcards with a picture of a handgun and children as targets started appearing in mailboxes and on windshields in a few central Lake County towns this week. The postcards, distributed by representatives of the Brady Campaign, a national gun control advocacy group, criticize Republican state Rep. Sandy Cole of Grayslake for voting against legislation that would require background checks on all handgun sales. |
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| In a sad effort to exploit the death of a police officer to advance their anti-gun agenda, Mayor Nutter and Gov. Rendell called upon Congress to enact a new bun ban. But the most important thing for residents in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania is to ask their governor and their mayor why career criminals are on the streets. |
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| The Metropolitan Police Department has joined other major U.S. cities in arming patrol officers with assault rifles to protect them against criminals with high-powered weapons, weeks after being released from a federal program that monitors the use of excessive force. |
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| "Ohioans should have the ability to use force and, if necessary, deadly force to defend themselves and their family against a violent intruder in their home, writes Senator John Carey. "That belief is the genesis behind an important bill passed by the Senate in recent weeks. Senate Bill 184, legislation I am proud to cosponsor, would establish Ohio`s `Castle Doctrine.`" |
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| Demand for concealed handgun licenses has risen nearly 40 percent in Texas in a year, an increase being attributed to many factors, even presidential politics. |
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| Right now Illinois and Wisconsin are the only two states in the U.S. that entirely outlaw citizens carrying concealed firearms. But two Winnebago County board members are pushing a proposal to change that, starting with Winnebago County. |
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| The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is forging ahead with its "Hunting with Hounds in Virginia: A Way Forward" study designed to examine the issue of hunting with dogs. |
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| A measure supporting residents` right to own guns is under consideration in some area counties. A group of gun-rights advocates is bringing the non-binding resolution before county boards across the state. The measure would affirm citizens` Second Amendment protections in order to send a message to state lawmakers. |
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| Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, will address the National Rifle Association`s annual convention at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville on May 16. |
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| Even with their flawed assumptions exposed, what is especially insidious is that gun control does not work. The results of their policies are abject failures. Whether in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, New York or Chicago, gun control does not work. |
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| With the other party still waist-deep in its presidential nomination fight, John McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, has been quietly courting the white working-class Democrats who have proved elusive for Barack Obama, his most likely rival in the fall. |
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| John McCain steps out of his comfort zone Tuesday to address his judicial philosophy, a hot-button matter for social conservatives that encompasses abortion, guns and gay rights -- all topics on which Sen. McCain has rankled the right. |
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| A week after a Colorado state agency refused to ban shooting white-tailed prairie dogs, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday it will study the rodent to determine if it should be protected as an endangered species. |
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| While anti-gun Governor Ed Rendell is once again trying to use a tragedy caused by a violent criminal as an excuse to take away firearms owners` rights, it turns out once again that the true culprit is a repeat offender violent criminal and the failure of the criminal justice system that paroled him. |
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| Virginia`s Crime Commission will study the issue of private sales at gun shows -- but already has made clear it will not issue any legislative recommendations as a result of its findings. That has upset some of the usual suspects in the gun-control wars, including those who favor closing an ostensible loophole. What good, they ask, is a study without recommendations? The question assumes the study would reach the same conclusions they already have. But what good is a study whose outcome is known in advance? An unbiased study very well might refute arguments in favor of tighter restrictions. |
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| Hikers who want to leave their daily lives behind sleep next to strangers in shelters, and many trade their real names for trail names. They sometimes can walk two or three days to find a town or a phone. While leaving society behind is refreshing, being alone in the woods also can be terrifying. |
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| The irrational hatred of firearms by anti-gun activists in the UK seems to know no bounds, including banning Olympic competitors from training. |
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