News from The Sight M1911, Volume 179

Not a day goes by where we don't hear something about the training and deployment of First responders as if their presence somehow would change everything when evil comes to play. Calling 911 is an illusion of security that will usually deliver the false promise of safety too late. Recently, in my old neighborhood, evil did come to play. The first responders did as they are trained to do...they responded. But as is seen in almost all of these cases, the response comes too late.

http://www.suarezinternational.com/responders.html

GENERAL PATTON’S PERSONAL SIDEARMS

http://tinyurl.com/bvy4l

BEARS' DEFENSIVE LINEMAN ARRESTED ON GUN CHARGE

Chicago cops find loaded 9mm handgun in car Johnson driving

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8206109/

GUN MANUALS

A nice collection of downloadable firearms manuals

http://www.again.net/~steve/page7b.htm

JAPANESE NATIONAL IN GUN CASE GETS JAIL TERM

A Japanese national who lives in Beaverton, OR, and sold 274 inoperable guns to Japanese professionals was sentenced Thursday in federal court to 15 months in prison.

http://tinyurl.com/7zcal

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DROPS BY MORE THAN HALF

WASHINGTON - Child abuse and other forms of violence involving families fell by more than half between 1993 and 2002, in line with the decline in crime overall, the government said Sunday. Murder accounted for less than one-half of 1 percent of all family violence between 1998 and 2002.

http://tinyurl.com/87p5n

PACKING LIGHT, PACKING SMART

Essentials of Concealed Carry by R.K. Campbell

http://www.gunweek.com/2001/feature0120.html

GUN LAW DICHOTOMY

Supporters of gun control say more gun laws are needed to protect innocent Americans by restricting their access to firearms. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the anti-gunners to escape the fact that the more restrictive the gun laws, the more Americans are at put at risk.

http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/guest/2005/jed_06151.shtml

PROSECUTOR GOES 0-FOR-3 IN GUN CASES

http://tinyurl.com/d23jv

IN THE GUN FACTORY

Where America’s cheapest semi-automatics—weapons of choice for Buffalo criminals—are made

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050613/1041544.asp

STEPDAD JAILED IN BOY'S DEATH

And he ought to be

http://tinyurl.com/747nr

CALIFORNIA: SMALL CALIBER WALTHER P-22 TARGET PISTOL CLASSIFIED AS "ASSAULT WEAPON"

http://www.crpa.org/showpages.asp?pid=1139

IOWA: GUN PERMITS UP IN IOWA

Iowa State officials say the September Eleventh terrorist attacks are still a factor in the number of people applying for gun permits in Iowa. Permits to carry handguns jumped ten percent in 2001, to about 25-thousand-600, and spiked in 2003, at a record of nearly 27-thousand.

http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=3465362

MINNESOTA: WHO CAN CARRY A CONCEALED WEAPON?

The murder of 43-year-old William “Billy” Walsh re-ignited public debate about the law. His accused killer, 26-year-old Zachary Ourada, was one of nearly 26,000 Minnesotans who received permits to carry handguns.

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=99280

MINNESOTA: BELLS RINGING TODAY

Calls for Action on Gun Violence Prevention [ANTI – Brady Bunch Press Release]

http://press.arrivenet.com/pol/article.php/653837.html

NEW YORK: LUPARDO AGREES TO HELP NRA

Members of the National Rifle Association from Broome and nearby counties want state legislators to change state gun law. They want to take away the right of county judges to selectively approve "conceal and carry" permits.

http://tinyurl.com/8xvuv

OHIO: CITY LOOKS TO BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS

Columbus plan likely would face court test

http://tinyurl.com/8b7zo

http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=13&ID=228636&r=0

OKLAHOMA: HUNDREDS TURN OUT FOR SHOOT

http://www.neoshodailynews.com/articles/2005/06/18/news/news06.txt

UTAH: LEGISLATOR ARRANGES HANDGUN TRAINING CLASSES

http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_162191001.html

VIRGINIA: TECH BOARD TO VOTE ON POLICY THAT WOULD STRENGTHEN GUN BAN

The policy prohibits everyone except law enforcement from "carrying, maintaining or storing a firearm or weapon on any university facility."

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/25354.html