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Mayor, Governor March For Illinois "AWB":  Mayor Richard Daley and Gov. 
Rod Blagojevich led an anti-violence march Saturday in Englewood, 
calling on legislators to ban assault-style weapons in Illinois.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-060318englewood,1,7684991.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
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Prohibitionists Blame Indiana For Chicago Violence: The usual suspects 
are blaming lax regulation of firearms in Indiana for firearm-related 
crime in Chicago.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060318/NEWS02/603180489
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Kentucky, Indiana Poised To Enact Castle Bills: "Kentucky is poised to 
join Indiana and several other states that have expanded people's right 
to shoot anyone they believe is threatening them."

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060319/NEWS0104/603190406
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Mississippi Parking-Lot Bill On Governor's Desk: A bill to allow 
employees to store firearms in vehicles parked on company lots contains 
a provision to protect the employer from lawsuits that could result from 
their misuse. This is a sensitive issue in a state that experienced a 
high-profile workplace shooting.

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060318/NEWS010504/603180341
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Prosecutors Oppose Alabama Stand-Your-Ground Bill: One Alabama 
prosecutor has gone as far as to claim that the proposed law could 
double the state's murder rate.

http://www.al.com/opinion/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/opinion/114276400150840.xml&coll=2
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Potential Confidentiality Argued In Wisconsin: Even though Wisconsin 
currently lacks legal CCW, one of the state's major newspaper seeks to 
make an issue of the fact that the last two bills to create it included 
confidentiality for permit-holders.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=409079
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Army, State At Odds Over Alaska CCW: Citing "several" incidents 
involving soldiers with privately owned firearms, the US Army command in 
Alaska is defending its policy of prohibiting service members from 
carrying firearms in a state with one of the least restrictive CCW laws 
in the nation.

http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~3271592,00.html
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More Virginia Women Arm Themselves: More women, from soccer moms to 
professionals like the ones at the Blue Ridge Arsenal gun range in 
Chantilly, Va., are packing heat for sport, self empowerment and protection.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Moms/story?id=1743105&page=1
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Ohio College Students Back RKBA: The relatively new Oberlin Students 
Rifle Association held a meeting to back reform of Ohio's CCW law.

http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/ocreview/2006/03/17/news/article8.html
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Wounded Homeowner Disarms, Kills Assailant: A Texas man already shot two 
or three times, disarmed one of four men who had broken into his home 
and fatally shot the robber. Police are seeking the other three suspects.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3733289.html

-- 
Stephen P. Wenger

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

http://www.spw-duf.info



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