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Mother Appeals In Suit Over Mistaken Shooting Of Officer: This is an old 
case but one I emphasize because it teaches the importance of not having 
a gun in your hand when encountering police officers. (See my posted 
comments about reholstering at 
http://www.spw-duf.info/emperor.html#reholster.)

http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2006/01/19/mother_of_slain_police_officer_files_appeal/
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Ammo Expert Testifies In Murder Trial: In the wake of revelations about 
the unreliability of positive gunshot-residue tests, prosecutors in 
Minnesota brought in a witness from Olin's Winchester division to 
explain why Win-Clean ammunition did not leave the usual residue on the 
hands of the man accused of murdering a police officer.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/13654907.htm
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Mistaken JAG Ruling Handicaps Army Snipers: An Army JAG officer in Iraq 
mistakenly ordered sniper units to stop using ammunition loaded for 
accuracy with Sierra Match-King bullets because she failed to recognize 
that its open tip is a manufacturing artifact, not a functioning 
hollowpoint. (In fact, while the US generally follows the guidelines of 
the Hague Conference, the Hague Conference only applies to declared 
wars. See http://www.thegunzone.com/hague.html.) Scroll to the bottom of 
the linked page and continue on page 2.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060119-112132-3551r.htm
http://www.ambackforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=31111
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Government Regulation May Have Helped Close Winchester: In an industry 
with narrow profit margins, export sales count but "this has become 
harder and harder to do because of the Defense Trade Control directorate 
at the Department of State."

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/1/20/171358.shtml?s=lh

A Different Perspective:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/21/nyregion/21winchester.html
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New York County Bans Replica Guns: Rockland County has banned imitation 
and toy guns that look like real firearms. Opponents of the measure 
expressed concern that criminals may paint muzzles of real guns Day-Glo 
orange, to confuse police.

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060120/NEWS03/601200395/1019
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Missing-Gun Report Imperils Tax For More Cops: The report that the Long 
Beach (CA) police department could not account for more than one-fourth 
of its shotguns may result in the failure of a sales-tax measure to fund 
more officers. While the department claims to have located 50 of the 85 
missing shotguns, no mention is made of the missing .38 Special revolvers.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-shotguns21jan21,0,4939403.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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L.A. Times vs. Sheriff Carona: The Los Angeles Times continues its 
campaign against Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona. Not mentioned in the 
article is the Times policy of driving from office southern California 
sheriffs who issue CWP's to common citizens.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-carona21jan21,0,431281,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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Rule Five Reminder: A supervisory Federal Air Marshal had his service 
pistol and credentials stolen from his parked car, where he left them to 
enter a restaurant. (Rule Five: Maintain control of your firearm.)

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/6278876/detail.html
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Suspicious Activity Reminder: Bruce Mandelblit reprises a checklist of 
activity that might indicate a terrorist action.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/1/20/190823.shtml?s=lh
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British Police Add Insult To Injury: Police confiscated a shotgun from a 
70-year-old farmer over concerns that he might use it to shoot thieves. 
He had just lost hundreds of yards of irrigation pipe. The farmer says 
he will move to the US, where he will be able to own a firearm.

http://icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200berkshireheadlines/tm_objectid=16602070&method=full&siteid=50102&headline=farmer-robbed---and-police-confiscate-his-shotgun-name_page.html 


-- 
Stephen P. Wenger

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

http://www.spw-duf.info



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