No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.7/409 - Release Date: 8/4/2006 Stand-Your-Ground Law Debated In Aftermath Of Florida Shooting: Attorneys emphasize that there is very little "bright line" law; most legal issues come down to interpretation of "facts and circumstances." The facts and circumstances of a fatal shooting, since Florida's stand-your-ground law took effect, are in as much dispute as the law itself. http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060804/NEWS0111/608040365/1075 --- Lawyers, Campaign Contributions And The RKBA: Howard Nemerov points out that legislators who receive the most money from lawyers and law firms are the most likely to vote to infringe the RKBA. http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=22914 --- One More Look At Fish Sentencing: Article provides a few more insights into the case of the retired Arizona teacher who has been sentenced to ten years in prison for the fatal shooting of a man who attacked him on a hiking trail. http://www.paysonroundup.com/section/frontpage_lead/story/24609 --- Self-Defense Shooter Freed From Prison: An Ohio man, convicted of murder at the age of 18, in what appears to have been a case of self-defense, has been freed from prison after serving nine and a half years of a ten-year sentence. The charge was reduced to manslaughter after an investigation by a gubernatorial commission. The deceased, who had stabbed the teenager's brother in the chest three times, then turned the knife on him, was a relative of a state senator. http://www.wwaytv3.com/Global/story.asp?S=5238967 --- Ohio Prohibitionist Lets Cat Out Of The Bag: Toby Hoover, who attempted to block licensed CCW in Ohio with a lawsuit, claimed, "The majority of Ohioans oppose secretly carrying hidden loaded guns in public." Now she castigates both gubernatorial candidates for competing to present the most gun-friendly image to that alleged majority. http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article3221.html --- Rule One, Rule Two Reminder: A Minnesota police officer fired a round through a wall while drawing and dry-firing in his hotel room in St. Cloud, where he and other officers were training. (Rule One: All firearms are always loaded. Rule Two: Never let the muzzle cross anything you're not prepared to shoot.) http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_216071112.html --- The Other Side Of Gun Buy-Backs: A gun "buy back" staged this week by the Detroit, Mich. police was so successful that it ran out of money, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) is concerned that it may have allowed some criminals to successfully get rid of their murder weapons. http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=70316 --- Kids Draw The Darndest Things: BATFE asked the children of its employees to draw pictures of what they thought their parents do at work. One winning drawing in the contest could be interpreted as a reminder of the raid on Waco. http://www.reason.com/0607/artifact.shtml --- BATFE Director Resigns: Amid an investigation into inappropriate spending on his own office and of an unusually expensive trip to London, Carl Truscott has resigned as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003176833_atf05.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/05/washington/05atf.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/04/AR2006080401341.html --- BATFE Arrests Former Milwaukee Officer: A former police officer, accused in a beating case, is in federal custody after attempting to purchase a machine gun and a handgun. It is illegal for him to purchase firearms because he currently faces three other felony charges, including calling in a bomb scare to his former police district station. http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/9632845/detail.html --- JPFO On Jewish Federation Shootings: It's been nearly a week since the tragic July 28 shooting spree at a Seattle Jewish center which left one dead and several injured ( http://tinyurl.com/emwer ). Undoubtedly, "gun control" advocates will start crawling out of the woodwork in short order to use this atrocity to lobby for yet more restrictions on firearms ownership. Sadly, many of these advocates will be members of the Jewish community... http://www.jpfo.org/alert20060802.htm --- Aussie Security Officer Acquitted: A female Australian security officer has been acquitted by a jury of murder and manslaughter charges in the fatal shooting of a robber who had beaten her with a "knuckleduster." (Long-term list members may recall reports of the incident when it occurred.) http://www.news.com.au/sundaytelegraph/story/0,,20025610-5005941,00.html -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .