No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.2/356 - Release Date: 6/5/2006 Colorado Supremes Uphold Denver "AWB": Colorado's Supreme Court has ruled that despite a state pre-emption law, Denver can continue to enforce some local firearm restrictions, such as a ban on cosmetically impaired firearms and those of "inferior quality." http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9322012/detail.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/us/06brfs-brief-003.html?_r=1&oref=slogin --- NYC Would Treat Gun Offenders Like Sex Offenders: Criminals convicted of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree in New York City would have to register and update their addresses, similar to sex offenders, under a law proposed by city officials on Monday. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--cityguns0605jun05%2C0%2C371737%2Cprint.story --- Ohio CHL-Holder Caught in Catch-22: Recently, a concealed handgun license holder was pulled over in Oregon, Ohio (near Toledo) after leaving a gas station. He was ordered out of his vehicle by police conducting a "felony traffic stop." The man had been complying with Ohio law, which specifies that handguns may not be concealed inside a vehicle. http://www.ohioccw.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3613&Itemid=83 SAF vs. NOPD: Second Amendment Foundation is calling on the US Attorney General to intervene to prevent further seizures of legally owned firearms, in the event of another disaster, by the New Orleans Police Department. http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=66951 http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/6/5/165303.shtml?s=ic --- BATFE Investigating NYC Investigators: A sting by investigators for the City of New York, targeting out-of-state gun dealers for permitting "straw purchases," has drawn the interest of the BATFE. But in an added twist to this story, the BATFE has also started looking into the actions of the investigators who made the gun buys, The Associated Press reported last week. http://www.registerbee.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Common%2FMGArticle%2FPrintVersion&c=MGArticle&cid=1149188189408&image=drb80x60.gif&oasDN=registerbee.com&oasPN=%21news%21opinion --- Delaware County Joins M&P Bandwagon: New Castle County PD is trading in its older S&W 9mm pistols for the new M&P pistol in the same caliber. http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060605/NEWS/606050349/-1/NEWS01 -- Trinidad Fishermen Ask For Firearms: "Trinidad fishermen are sitting ducks at sea because we do not carry firearms," one fisherman told the meeting at the weekend arranged by the Fisheries Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources to collect data to formulate a fisheries policy for Trinidad. http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=160960314 --- South African Farmer Arrested For Shooting Knife-Wielding Burglar: A 60-year-old North West farmer has been arrested after he allegedly shot dead a man who had broke into his shop at Mamogaleskraal near Brits. The second of two burglars had attacked him with a knife. http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1945812,00.html -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .