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others also read... The first step in getting rid of the boondoggle known as the long gun registry was taken in the House of Commons on Wednesday. | What's On Tap for Nov. 1 (Pocono Record)
*To submit items for What's on Tap, e-mail sports@poconorecord.com* | Scary thought (Gulf Daily News)
I read with utter amazement your news report on gun shops being licensed in a certain Gulf Country (GDN, October 18). | Coeur d'Alene Press Newspaper | CDAPress.com (Coeur d'Alene Press)
COEUR d'ALENE -- With Idaho's general hunting season around the corner, ammunition could be in short supply. Not that it hasn't been for some time now. | Ohio Bill Would Exempt Guns From Federal Rules (WCMH Columbus)
State lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow guns made and sold in Ohio to be exempt from federal firearms regulations. | More arms to bear - Sun, 25 Oct 2009 PST (The Spokesman-Review)
Thom George may have been a foreigner in North Idaho, but he wasted little time in adjusting to the area’s outdoor-oriented lifestyle. After moving to a sprawling plot of countryside south of Coeur d’Alene roughly eight years ago, the Queens, N.Y., native immediately set out with an Idahoan-inspired shopping list to obtain a few necessities: his driver’s license, a pickup truck, one golden ... | What’s On Tap for Oct. 25 (Pocono Record)
BLUE RIDGE BOWMEN The Blue Ridge Bowmen have announced their 3-D shoot schedule. The remaining shoot is Nov. 22 turkey, members only). The shoots take place in Saylorsburg and are $8 for members and $10 for non-members. Children under 16 are free if their parent is a member. | Showtime gun reality show 'Lock 'n' Load' with Josh T. Ryan misses the mark (New York Daily News)
Showtime's quirky new reality series, a scant six half-hour episodes focusing on customers at a gun shop, scores a bull's-eye for message. But as interesting television, too often it's firing blanks. |
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Strange events in a Phoenix courtroom
Caught by the security cam. While a criminal defense attorney argues a motion, a detention officer rifles thru her papers behind her back, takes one, and gives it to another officer. Here's another story.
Hat tip to Tavis Steen and Paul Huebl... | Ft. Hood: "wishing he too had a gun"
Pfc Marquest Smith, in hiding, "He lay low for several minutes, waiting for the shooter to run out of ammunition and wishing he, too, had a gun."
"Just over 5 feet tall, [officer Kimberly] Munley is an advanced firearms instructor and civilian member of Fort Hood's special reaction team. She had trained on "active shooter" scenarios after the April 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech University. She didn't wait for backup.
As Munley approached the squat, rectangular building, a soldier emerged from a door with a gunman in pursuit. The officer fired, and the uniformed shooter wheeled and charged."
At least the military will review its firearms policies,
"Private guns are not allowed on Army bases or at facilities such as the Naval Air Station Fort Worth.
Soldiers generally carry weapons on base only when there is a reason, such as a training exercise or a trip to the firing range. Personal weapons are registered with authorities on the base and stored until they are signed out."
Surprise, Brady Campaign thinks otherwise: ""This latest tragedy, at a heavily fortified Army base, ought to convince more Americans to reject the argument that the solution to gun violence is to arm more people with more guns in more places," said Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence." Whatever that's supposed to mean. | FLA: adoption agency questions prospective parents about gun ownership
Story here. | Maryland court refuses to incorporate the 2nd Amendment
News story here. The critical parts of the ruling:
"To begin, we note that there is no Maryland corollary of the federal constitutional right codified in the Second Amendment.*fn4 Furthermore, we have held previously that the Second Amendment is not applicable to the states. See Onderdonk v. Handgun Permit Review Board of Dep't of Public Safety & Correctional Services, 44 Md. App. 132, 135 (1979); see also Scherr v. Handgun Permit Review Bd., 163 Md. App. 417, 443 (2005). This is significant because it means that appellant must hang his musket, so to speak, on Heller's interpretation of the federal constitutional right. Heller filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to enjoin the city from enforcing the bar on the registration of handguns, the licensing requirement insofar as it prohibited the carrying of a firearm in the home without a license, and the trigger-lock requirement insofar as it prohibited the use of "functional firearms within the home." Heller, 128 S.Ct. at 2788. The Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment guaranteed the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation. Id. at 2797. As a consequence of this interpretation, the Court held that the District's ban on handgun possession in the home violated the Second Amendment, as did its prohibition against rendering any firearm operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense, if it is lawfully within the home. Id. at 2822.
Of more immediate concern for the issue before us, and ultimately fatal to appellant's argument, is the fact that the Heller Court reaffirmed the holding in United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875), that "[t]he [S]econd [A]mendment . . . means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress." Id. at 553. While parenthetically noting the weakness of Cruikshank's argument regarding non-incorporation of the right, the Court found that its later decisions in Presser v. Illinois, 116 U.S. 252 (1886), and Miller v. Texas, 153 U.S. 535 (1894), reaffirmed that the Second Amendment applies only to the federal government. Heller, 128 S.Ct. at 2813. Appellant can cite to only one case subsequent to Heller in which a court has held that the right established in Heller applies against state and local governments. In that decision, Nordyke v. King, 563 F.3d 439 (9th Cir. 2009), reh'g granted, 575 F.3d 890 (9th Cir. 2009), a panel of judges in the Ninth Circuit held that the right to bear arms was a fundamental right warranting substantive due process protection through the Fourteenth Amendment. However, an en banc rehearing was granted for this case in July with the express instruction that "[t]he three-judge panel opinion shall not be cited as precedent by or to any court of the Ninth Circuit." Nordyke, 575 F.3d at 890. After rehearing the case on September 24, 2009, the Court issued an order postponing judgment until the Supreme Court's disposition of three similar cases which had certiorari petitions pending.
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Even if the Second Amendment did apply, it would not invalidate the statute at issue here. CL § 4-203 provides that a person may not "wear, carry, or transport a handgun, whether concealed or open, on or about the person" or "in a vehicle traveling on a road or parking lot generally used by the public, highway, waterway, or airway of the State." CL § 4-203(a)(i), id. at (a)(ii). This blanket prohibition is modified by subsection b of the statute, which provides eight exceptions to the general rule outlined above. One of these exceptions is for possession of a gun by a person on real estate that the person owns or leases or where the person resides. CL § 4-203(b)(6). Thus, even if the right articulated in Heller, namely the right to keep and bear arms in the home for the purpose of immediate self-defense, were to apply to the citizens of Maryland, this statute does not infringe upon that right." | Canada may scrap registration of long guns
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