Pennsylvania May Not Honor Non-Resident Permits: It is being reported that Pennsylvania may not be honoring non-resident Concealed Handgun Licenses any longer. As Ohio does not have reciprocity with our neighbor to the east, many CHL holders (including this author) has received a New Hampshire or other non-resident license that allows us to carry in PA. http://www.ohioccw.org/content/view/3888/83/ --- Florida Counties Want Defendants To Surrender CWFL's: Prosecutors in Palm Beach County are taking steps to join other South Florida counties in forcing people charged with violent crimes to surrender their concealed weapon licenses. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pguns06jun06,0,6990837.story?coll=sfla-news-palm --- Open-Carry Case Dismissed In Ohio: ...You may recall that on May 30, 2006, Mr. Sayers was open carrying two handguns while patronizing a Sunoco gas station. He paid for his purchase, cleaned his windshield, and checked the oil level in his car. At some point during this activity, a "concerned citizen" took it upon himself/herself to jump to wrong conclusions and call 911 to report a "man with a gun" even though Mr. Sayers had not done anything threatening or menacing...(This is one reason that many of us consider CCW to be a wiser tactical option than open carry.) http://www.ohioccw.org/content/view/3887/83/ --- Misinformed Moms Cancel Virginia Meeting Over Videotaping: ...Before it started, organizers asked two men associated with the Virginia Citizens Defense League wanting to videotape the meeting to sign a handwritten contract promising to use any "photographic representations" recorded for private use only. One of them refused, and the meeting was canceled, said Hartnett, a Burke resident. http://www.timescommunity.com/site/tab5.cfm?newsid=18437593&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=511686&rfi=6 --- Arizona Firearm-Storage Bill Heads Back To Senate: <>The House on Monday approved a bill to let a person take a gun into a public event or building if the operator doesn't provide individually locked storage spaces for weapons. The House's 32-23 vote sent the bill (SB1251) to the Senate to consider changes made in the House. Senate passage would send the bill to Gov. Janet Napolitano. (This bill applies to government-owned facilities, not private property.) http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/53613.php Related Editorial: http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/186214 --- University Of Utah Still Seeks Firearm Limits: A University of Utah task force formed to examine campus security initially will focus on policies prohibiting guns in hearing rooms and restricting concealed-weapons-permit holders in dorms...U. President Michael Young proposed the 12-member, cross-campus task force after this year's Legislature passed a law that allowed concealed-weapons carriers to bring guns on campus, but allowed students to select non-carrier roommates in campus dorms. In exchange, the U., which had previously lost a case in the Utah Supreme Court to ban guns from campus, dropped a pending federal lawsuit. http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_6071928 --- Texas Man Cleared In Bus Shooting: The deadly shooting of an unarmed man on a Metro bus two months ago was justified, a prosecutor said after a grand jury declined to indict the shooter, because the man appeared to be a threat. But the man's family said the recent decision to drop the murder charge was an "outrage." (Note the reference to the disparity in the size of the two men - it's not clear if this was cited as a legal issue, disparity of force, which could justify deadly force against an unarmed assailant.) http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4865492.html --- California Gun Shops On High Alert: Gun-store owner Robert White isn't taking any chances that he's going to end up on the wrong end of a loaded weapon. That's why White, who runs an independent firearms and weapons store called White's House of Fire, has taken extraordinary safety measures in the store he's operated since 2003. For example, service is by appointment only and customers must have their identification and their handgun safety certification card ready... http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_6080104 --- Gun-Banning Mayors Challenged In Arkansas: Report by a TV station quotes a local gun-shop employee and a Congressman who oppose the call by Mayors Against Illegal Guns to rescind the Tiahrt amendment and open BATFE trace data to cities who wish to sue firearm manufacturers. http://www.todaysthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=46984 --- History Of Gun Control, Part 1: Sandra Froman uses her weekly column to reprise the exposure of Michael Bellesiles' fraudulent Arming America by Clayton Cramer (author of Armed America) and goes on to date the beginning of American restrictions on the RKBA to New York's Sullivan Act, in 1911. (Having read Armed America, I would say that restriction and regulation of the RKBA go back much earlier.) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56047 --- Columnist Wants Pink Guns Banned: We've seen gun bans based on cosmetic features before, but Harry Jaffe of the Washington Examiner wants to go one step further: He wants to ban certain colors of firearms. Specifically, Jaffe thinks that pink guns need to be banned... http://www.nranews.com/blogarticle.aspx?blogPostId=243 --- Florida Boy Faces Felony Charges For Rubber-Band Gun: An 11-year-old Ocoee boy was arrested for playing with a toy gun. Police said the arrest was necessary, because it was a safety issue...The incident started Sunday afternoon, when the 11-year-old was riding in his dad's pickup near Clarke Road and White Road in Ocoee. Someone driving nearby called police after they said the boy pointed what looked like a real gun out the window. The victim told police she was afraid for her life. http://www.wftv.com/news/13448349/detail.html --- Aluminum Foil Only Blocks Alien Thought Rays: A man seeking to fly from Miami to Honduras is facing charges for an undeclared firearm that was detected in his luggage by X-ray. The revolver and a box of .38 ammunition, which was also located inside the suitcase, had been wrapped in aluminum foil. http://www.local10.com/news/13440076/detail.html --- New Zealand Gun-Shop Owner Finally Cleared In Shooting: The co-owner of a New Zealand gun shop, who shot a suicidal man who was threatening him with a machete, has finally had dismissed the charges that he illegally possessed the pistol he used inside his own place of business. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10444165&pnum=0 http://www.stuff.co.nz/4085909a10.html --- From JPFO: In conjunction with Red's Trading Post, JPFO will be premiering our newest documentary _The Gang_ in Red's home town of Twin Falls, Idaho. A movie many don't want you to see, _The Gang_ exposes the abuses of the BATFE, from entrapment to racial discrimination to institutional perjury... http://www.jpfo.org/alert20070606.htm -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .