No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.11/219 - Release Date: 1/2/2006 Shall-Issue CCW For New York?: The legislative director for the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association gets a letter published in a Buffalo newspaper. http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060102/2052827.asp --- "Illegal Guns" Top Priority Of NYC Mayor: Routing the city's "scourge of illegal guns" will be the top priority in the next four years, Mayor Bloomberg pledged yesterday as he was sworn in for a second term. http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60808.htm --- Oops, Wrong Store: A teenage robber in Indiana pointed a gun at a clerk in a store and was rewarded with a bullet to the chest. He appears to have been transported to a hospital by accomplices. http://www.wndu.com/news/012006/news_47005.php --- Federally Funded Textbook Omits Second Amendment: Actually, it is in there, back in the appendix. http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0106/0106wtp-response.htm --- Buckshot Or Birdshot? Article describes the accumulation of birdshot in the appendix of an Inuit woman (X-ray included). The birdshot is presumed to have been ingested from eating game birds. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/science/03find.html --- Haitian Presidential Candidate Held On Firearms Charge: Apparently it was legal for him to be armed only so long as he was still serving in the senate. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/NASU010201.htm -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .