Chicago Sweats Outcome Of Heller: ...Since 1982, Assuras reports, 
Chicago has labeled handguns as items which cannot be registered. At 
least twelve other nearby suburbs have similar policies. The only other 
major city to have such a wide-ranging ban is Washington, D.C., although 
municipalities like New York do limit ownership through a permit system. 
If the Supreme Court rules against the D.C. ban, all of those other 
policies may have to be thrown out as well. The implications of that 
have many anti-gun advocates worried...

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=027129&From=News
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Gun Control In Pennsylvania Still Means Using Both Hands: Pennsylvania's 
diversity showed itself again Tuesday in votes against gun-control bills 
in a state of hunters, sportsmen and the National Rifle Association. 
Despite a reasoned, impassioned, at times accusatory 40-minute appeal by 
Gov. Ed Rendell in a rare appearance before a legislative committee, 
efforts to limit handgun sales, to give Philadelphia its own gun laws 
and to require owners to report lost or stolen handguns all failed. The 
third measure was withdrawn after the first two were voted down. Its 
chief sponsor, Rep. Jewell Williams, D-Philly, said, "The yahoos win again.

http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071126/OPINION09/711260308/-1/OPINION21
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Obama's Wife Sees Gun Ownership As Rural Need: "And by the way, 
Michelle, my wife, she was traveling up, I think, in eastern Iowa, she 
was driving through this nice, beautiful area, going through all this 
farmland and hills and rivers and she said 'Boy, it's really pretty up 
here,' but she said, 'But you know, I can see why if I was living out 
here, I'd want a gun. Because, you know, 911 is going to take some time 
before somebody responds. You know what I mean? You know, it's like five 
miles between every house.' So the point is, though, we should be able 
to do that, and we should be able to enforce laws that keep guns off the 
streets in inner cities because some unscrupulous gun dealer is, you 
know, letting somebody load up a van with a bunch of cheap handguns or 
sawed-off shotguns and dumping them and selling them for a profit in the 
streets."

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2007/11/obama_my_wife_sees_need_for_ru.html
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Oops, Wrong Pawn Shop: Police say an Indianapolis man was shot in the 
neck Monday morning as he tried to rob an Eastside pawnshop. Nurdeen 
Anderson, 26, 500 block of Wren Lane, and a second man entered the 
Universal Gold and Silver pawn shop in the 4300 block of East 10th 
Street about 11:30 a.m., according to a police report. They were 
carrying handguns, the report said. Two of the store's employees fired 
several shots at the two men seconds after they entered the store, 
police said.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071127/LOCAL1803/711270386
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Rule One, Rule Two Reminder: A 5-year-old Sarasota County boy is 
recovering at home today after his stepfather, a police officer, 
accidentally shot him.   The incident happened at the Venice Police gun 
range Wednesday night. Investigators say Venice Police Officer Billy 
Masters was cleaning his Glock 9mm Handgun and didn't realize there was 
still a round left in the chamber. (Rule One: All firearms are always 
loaded. Rule Two: Never let the muzzle cross anything you're not 
prepared to shoot.)

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=68376

-- 
Stephen P. Wenger

Firearm safety - It's a matter 
for education, not legislation.

http://www.spw-duf.info



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