Pennsylvania Soccer Mom Seeks $1 Million for Revoked CWP: A Lebanon woman yesterday sued a county sheriff who revoked her concealed-weapons permit after she upset fellow parents by wearing her holstered pistol to her 5-year-old daughter's soccer game. Meleanie Hain alleges in a suit filed in a Harrisburg federal court that Lebanon County Sheriff Michael DeLeo violated her Second Amendment right to carry a gun and prosecuted her maliciously when he took away her permit in September. Hain was joined in the lawsuit by her husband, Scott, who contends that he has lost his wife's "companionship, consortium, society and services" as a result of the harm she has suffered. They are seeking a judgment in excess of $1 million to cover damages that include emotional distress and financial injury for Hain's lost income and attorney fees... http://www.ldnews.com/lebanonnews/ci_11070294 http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=743406 --- Pittsburgh Passes Stolen-Gun Ordinance: Pittsburgh City Council gave its first approval today to legislation requiring that anyone report a lost or stolen firearm report that within 24 hours or potentially face a $500 fine. The 6-1 vote, with two abstentions, sets up a final vote likely next week, which would send the legislation to Mayor Luke Ravenstahl for his signature or veto, and then potentially to the courts, where similar measures have been challenged. "Who really cares about it being unconstitutional?" said Councilwoman Tonya Payne, a supporter. "This is what's right to do, and if this means that we have to go out and have a court battle, then that's fine ... We have plenty of dead bodies coming up in our streets every single day, and that is unacceptable." ... http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/08329/930426-100.stm --- Easton Rejects Stolen-Gun Ordinance: City council resoundingly defeated a measure Tuesday that would have required the owners of lost or stolen handguns to report the missing firearms to police... Despite a legal opinion from the city solicitor that the law would prove indefensible in court, the mayor pressed on Tuesday with the vote. Panto even said the city wouldn't pay to defend the law should someone challenge it... The Pennsylvania Constitution gives the power to regulate legal firearms to the state, Panto said, arguing a stolen handgun is considered illegal... http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/easton/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1227676810303450.xml&coll=3 --- Georgia County Rejects Proposed Ordinance: Madison County commissioners voted 4-1 Monday night not to enact an ordinance that would have prohibited residents from firing a weapon within 300 feet of a home in the unincorporated areas of the county. At least 100 county residents, many of them wearing anti-gun-control stickers, attended the meeting to protest the ordinance. The crowd forced commissioners to move the meeting to the county's courtroom, which still did not accommodate everyone. Commissioners would violate not only the Second Amendment, but also the rights of property owners if they approved the firearms ordinance, residents said... http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/112508/new_359391293.shtml --- Disarming the Obama Administration: Every president-elect vets his incoming staff and usually that vetting begins with a lengthy questionnaire. But one question asked on Barack Obama's questionnaire is raising hackles among gun owners and fans of the Second Amendment. Question No. 59 begins: "Do you or any members of your immediate family own a gun?" ...Then again, maybe Team Obama is just checking for recent receipts so it won't be embarrassed by the discovery that one of its appointees is among the hordes of shoppers who have lately rushed to Wal-Mart to scoop up guns since Mr. Obama was elected. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122765896364158291.html --- A British View of the Run on Guns: ...It is not quite what Mr Obama meant by change, or indeed economic stimulus from the extra sales of weapons and courses, but it is one of the more revealing responses to his victory which the last few weeks have brought. It is a reminder that Barack Obama's win was not just a victory of optimism and energy over age and staleness, it was also a victory across a cultural divide, of one sort of America over another. A gun-lovin', largely rural and conservative vision of the US was clearly defeated by a brand of big city liberalism which fears or despises firearms and wants to do something about America's love affair with them... http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/americas/7749474.stm Related Articles: Missouri: http://www.semissourian.com/article/20081125/NEWS01/711252016 New York: http://libn.com/blog/2008/11/25/obama-win-fires-up-local-gun-shops/ South Carolina: http://www.live5news.com/Global/story.asp?S=9409373 Virginia: http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=322782&paper=71&cat=109 Wisconsin: http://media.www.marquettetribune.org/media/storage/paper1130/news/2008/11/25/News/Election.Triggers.Gun.Sales-3560435.shtml --- Rule Five Issue?: A German man who slept with a loaded revolver under his pillow has lost his gun license after a court ruled it to be irresponsible behavior. The 56-year-old was stripped of his license for failing to store the weapon properly, Braunschweig administrative court judge Torsten Baumgarten told Reuters Tuesday. The gun was only discovered by chance during a police inspection... Baumgarten said the ruling, which sets a legal precedent in Germany, in effect outlaws sleeping on top of a firearm - because the owner of the gun is not in control of the weapon and is therefore putting himself and others at risk... (Rule Five: Maintain control of your firearm. It's hard to see how someone could steal a firearm under your pillow while you are sleeping but leaving it there, to be found by police, would also let it be found by a burglar. While I know of a few cases where a handgun under the pillow proved to be a lifesaver, I also know of one case in which a gun owner fired such a pistol while asleep.) http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4AO6GJ20081125 --- Ireland Prepares to Ban Handguns: The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Mr. Dermot Ahern, T.D. today outlined his proposals to ban licensed handguns. The issue was raised some weeks back by Waterford Fine Gael Deputy, John Deasy who highlighted the huge increase in handguns legally held in Ireland over the past number of years. He pointed to the inconsistency in the numbers of handguns across various Garda divisions throughout the country. The Minister said the handgun ban would be included in legislation currently being prepared which will be published shortly. Minister Ahern said: "Since being appointed, I have made clear my growing concern at the number and type of handguns being licensed..." http://www.waterford-today.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4709&Itemid=10367&ed=461 --- H-S Precision Touts Horiuchi Endorsement: From Wikipedia, "Lon Tomohisa Horiuchi (born 9 June 1954), is a 1976 West Point graduate and U.S. F.B.I. sniper who was charged with manslaughter following the shootings during the Ruby Ridge standoff. The charge was dismissed and Horiuchi was later deployed during the Waco Siege..." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Horiuchi] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138289/posts -- Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .