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Dems Demonstrate Ignorance While Questioning Alito: Among the questions 
that demonstrated that they had not grasped the salient points of his 
rulings, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, accused Judge Alito 
of determining in the case of U.S. v. Rybar that Congress doesn't have 
the authority to regulate the sale of machine guns. (Alito had merely 
stated that the government was not standing on the right legal ground in 
the case in question.)

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060109-115632-2722r.htm

More Details:

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/blog-detail.php?id=11404
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New York Woman Wants All Firearm Laws Federalized: The founder of 
Mothers Against Guns wants Congress to establish a gun task force to 
study the gun laws on the books; abolish all state gun laws; and enact 
one federal law.

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-diar0108,0,3396489.story?coll=nyc-moreny-headlines
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Tennessee Firearm Dealer Named In Federal Lawsuit: A Chattanooga firearm 
dealer is one of 41 named in a federal lawsuit by the City of New York.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060109/NEWS03/60109002/1001/NEWS
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Illinois Governor Promises To Reduce FOID Backlog: The Blagojevich 
administration announced Monday it will hire additional workers in an 
attempt to eliminate a backlog of gun owner identification cards. (These 
cards are required to purchase and own firearms and ammunition in Illinois.)

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2006/01/10/news/103314.txt

ISRPA Press Release:

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=59002
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Newsman Latest Victim Of DC Gun Ban: CCRKBA's Alan Gottlieb says a 
veteran newsman has died, all because criminals know citizens in the 
nation's capitol cannot fight back.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=59027
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Oops, Wrong Apartment: As details emerge in the fatal shooting of a man 
who broke someone else's apartment, The Los Angeles Times seeks to blame 
the resident of the apartment for the drunken confusion of the intruder.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-intruder10jan10,1,494485.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Slightly Different Version: Soto entered by removing a front window 
screen and forcing the window open.

http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3379473
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Choice Of Magnum Issue In Tennessee Shooting: The son of a county 
attorney, who fired his father's .357 Magnum revolver to escape alleged 
gang members, should be convicted of second-degree murder for firing the 
"extremely powerful" weapon indiscriminately in the direction of a 
crowd, according to a special prosecutor.

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_78360.asp
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Gap In Colorado's Castle Law?: A bar owner in Denver is facing a 
criminal charge of first-degree aggravated assault after shooting an 
intruder who was breaking into the Funky Buddha at 4 a.m. If it had been 
his own home, he would have been covered by the Homeowners Protection 
Act, which provided legal protection to homeowners and residents who 
felt that a person was threatening them.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3383926
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If Only There Were No Guns...: A San Francisco Chronicle reporter who 
has used handguns in self-defense concludes, "If none of us had had guns 
-- most particularly, those handy little handguns -- all these 
confrontations would have simply involved yelling, fists or perhaps knives."

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/08/CMGQIF5VTD1.DTL
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Canada - Stuck On...Gun Smuggling: Curious logic: since there is only 
one handgun manufacturer in Canada, virtually all the illegal weapons 
were either made or sold in the United States. However, the percentage 
of smuggled guns used in crime is probably far below the 50-per-cent 
mark, one well-placed law enforcement source suggested.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20060107/GUNS07/TPNational/Toronto
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UN To Review Progress On Gun Trafficking: "The problem is a long-term 
one," Nobuyasu Abe, the Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, 
said at the start of the preparatory session for the Review Conference 
to Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons, which 
will be held in New York from 26 June to 7 July 2006.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=17124&Cr=small&Cr1=arms

-- 
Stephen P. Wenger

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

http://www.spw-duf.info



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