Montana House Reverses Itself On Stand-Your-Ground Bill: The House, under pressure from law enforcement groups, reversed itself on a proposed law that would let residents brandish a firearm if they felt threatened. The proposal also would have clarified law to specify that gun owners don't have to retreat from a would-be assailant before shooting in self defense. http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/02/23/news/state/24-guns.txt --- Utah Debates Vehicle-Storage Bill: <>Senators debating a gun bill on Thursday agreed on at least one thing: It's a big deal. The legislation would allow someone to have a gun in a vehicle while on someone else's property, even if the property owner otherwise bans firearms. It passed its first Senate vote 22-7. It must pass one more vote before going to the state House of Representatives. http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/211390/4/ http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660198027,00.html --- Compromise May Give Arizona Anti-Confiscation Bill: Arizonans are on the verge of finally getting some legal protection against having their guns seized by the government...The measure is similar to a bill Napolitano vetoed last year. But it includes a new provision that would permit government officials to order the movement of stores of ammunition "out of the way of dangerous conditions." http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/170395 --- Meanwhile, In Missouri...: Some gun advocates are concerned a flood, earthquake or other emergency could wash away gun-owner's rights. Bills that already have cleared House and Senate committees would bar state and local officials from restricting the lawful possession of a gun...Bills in the House and Senate have each been approved by separate committees. The House measure must still clear the House Rules Committee while the Senate measure has already been added to the consent calendar of noncontroversial bills that are not expected to prompt significant debate. http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007702240385 --- Kansas Mayor Seeks Stiffer Gun Law: ...Currently, Lawrence has an ordinance that makes it illegal to possess a firearm within 200 feet of a drinking establishment unless the person has a state-issued concealed carry permit. But the city law doesn't include a mandatory jail sentence. Instead, it gives the municipal court judge the latitude of sentencing a person from zero to 365 days in jail. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/feb/22/mayor_seeks_stricter_gun_law/?city_local --- Pennsylvania Couple Sues To Continue Using Backyard Range: Richard Seruga makes his own bullets for the guns he used to enjoy firing at his backyard range. Now, he wants a federal jury to let him use them again outside his home, in an enclave of Lower Saucon losing its rural characteristics to suburbia. http://www.mcall.com/news/local/bethlehem/all-b1_4serugafeb23,0,7151793.story?coll=all-newslocalbethlehem-hed --- Zumbo Fiasco Draws National Attention: The Washington Post, one of the nation's most liberal propaganda machines, seems to have been set back on its heels by the rapidity of the end of Jim Zumbo's career as a result of his attack on the sporting use of military-style rifles. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/23/AR2007022301709.html --- Rule Two Reminder: A firearms instructor with a Pennsylvania sheriff's department shot himself in the hand while preparing to clean a 9mm pistol he had been testing. (Rule Two: Don't let the muzzle cross anything you're not prepared to shoot.) http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17882046&BRD=1672&PAG=461&dept_id=33380&rfi=6 --- Rule Five Reminder: Blood droplets around the body of a 14-year-old boy who was shot to death with a lawmaker's gun show the boy could have shot himself, an investigator said at a coroner's inquest Thursday. No charges have been filed in the shooting death of Louis Farrell, who lived next door to state Sen. Robert Regola and was friends with the Republican lawmaker's 16-year-old son, Bobby. (Rule Five: Maintain control of your firearm.) http://www.azstarnet.com/news/170511 --- California Hunting Ranch Bans Lead Bullets, Shot: The president of California's largest private game preserve announced Friday that he would ban the use of lead bullets on the 270,000-acre Tejon Ranch because he's convinced that the ammunition is poisoning the endangered California condor. Some leading environmentalists hailed the voluntary ban, saying that they hoped it would provide momentum for a statewide prohibition on the bullets. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-condor24feb24,1,6972104.story?coll=la-headlines-california http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070223005601&newsLang=en --- Guns Don't Kill People, "Gun Control" Kills People: Joanne Eisen, David Kopel and Paul Gallant describe the "ethnocide" being waged on a Ugandan tribe in the name of UN-sanctioned disarmament. http://reason.com/news/show/118708.html --- DHS At Work: A Christian missionary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who wrote a book, Shooting Back : The Right and Duty of Self-Defense, about his armed response to a Muslim terrorist attack on his church there, may lose his visa to visit the US after having told authorities that he intended to sell copies of the book on a speaking tour here. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54375 -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .