Supremes Will Accept Or Reject Heller Case Soon: In the coming weeks District officials will find out whether a Court of Appeals decision that found the city's gun laws unconstitutional will stand or whether the U.S. Supreme Court will take up Mayor Adrian Fenty's appeal. According to SCOTUSBlog, the justices of the Supreme Court will debate whether or not to take the case on November 9. Should they choose to, the two sides would argue before the court in February or March; otherwise, by mid-November city officials would be faced with the unenviable task of re-writing the District's restrictive gun laws to square with the decision handed down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Circuit in March. That decision found that the city's ban on handguns was unconstitutional. http://dcist.com/2007/11/02/dc_gun_laws_mov.php Related Article: ...The conventional reason that the Supreme Court often relies upon in agreeing to hear a dispute, including a constitutional controversy, is present in the Heller case: the federal appeals courts are split on what the Second Amendment means. Moreover, in an unusual twist, the District of Columbia's own highest court, the local Court of Appeals, disagrees with the D.C. Circuit on the question, so the conflict is vivid in Washington... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/preview-the-second-amendment-case/ --- Tennessee CCW Stats Analyzed: ...Knoxville, Chattanooga, Nashville, and Memphis all show a striking pattern of a low permit rate within the city limits and much higher permit rates in the suburbs around them. The permit rates in the suburban areas were also generally higher than those in rural areas...If permit-holders are anything like the people who live around them, they probably tend to be white, and middle-to-upper-middle-class. They would also generally tend to own their own homes, where they'd live with their families... http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=50782 http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=50829 --- Hillary - Driver Licenses For Illegals, No CWP's For Citizens: New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton supports giving drivers' licenses to illegal aliens, but she opposes right-to-carry statutes that provide concealed carry licenses for law-abiding American citizens and others who are here legally, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,214669.shtml --- Pennsylvania Students Learn Firearm Safety: ...Gun safety is a lifelong learning experience for children in the Yough School District. The district starts with the basics, but by the time many of the kids graduate from high school, they've spent quite a bit of time on the gun range... http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/14486175/detail.html And Eddie Eagle Helps Out: Eddie flew into the Yough School District Thursday to reinforce a message about gun safety that teachers have been telling the students this year. "Tell Eddie what we learned," Paul Yackovich said to the kindergarteners. "Stop. Don't Touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult," they screamed in unison. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/westmoreland/s_535844.html --- Microsoft Supports Anti-Hunting Organization: Microsoft is dodging sportsmen's outcries over the corporation's donation to the largest anti-hunting organization in the United States. It is routing sportsmen's protests to an e-mail inbox where they can be deleted with the click of a mouse. The software giant is refusing to connect sportsmen who object to the company's $100,000 donation to the Humane Society of the United States via telephone to a live representative. Instead, receptionists will only give hunters' rights advocates an e-mail address for a customer service agent. http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article4027.html --- Bill Would Require Taping Of BATFE Gun Tests: ...The gang at BATFE - which was somewhat under control during the administration of Attorney General John Ashcroft - ramped up their assault on gun owners while Attorney General Alfredo Gonzalez was in office. The abuse committed by these agents increased to levels not seen since the oppressive days of the Jimmy Carter presidency... (I think that JPFO may deserve some credit in this struggle too.) http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/2007/11/gun-owners-of-americas-latest-on-atf.html --- NRA-ILA Alerts: Alerts for the various states are posted on the NRA-ILA website. http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/State/ -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .