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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09240/993804-53.stm
"Pittsburgh's short-lived ban on assault weapons, quashed by the General Assembly in 1994, is still on the city's books, and it may get new life under legislation driven by next month's G-20 summit."...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE56R49O20090728
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved President Barack Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court, all but ensuring she will become the court's first...
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http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/05/supreme_court_overturns_rule_o.php
"Posted on: May 30, 2009 9:16 AM, by Ed Brayton
The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned a landmark 1986 ruling that forbid the police from questioning suspects without their attorney present. The 1986...
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HCON 71 IH
111th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. CON. RES. 71
Expressing the Sense of the Congress that the Federal Government should not create a national database tracking firearm owners or firearm purchases.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 12, 2009
Mr. REHBERG submitted...
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HR 1303 IH
111th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1303
To require the Attorney General, through the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice, to establish a 5-year competitive grant program to establish pilot programs to reduce the rate of occurrence of gun-related...
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"Mayor Richard Daley said today that Chicago will host a "gun conference" next month to look for ways to beef up gun laws and get guns off the streets.
The mayor said he would bring in leaders from across the country and people who have lost loved ones to gun violence. He said the...
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"(CNSNews.com) – India’s strict gun laws are partly to blame for the success of the terrorist attack in Mumbai, according to the head of an Indian gun rights group and a U.S. expert who has examined the impact of gun laws on crime and terrorism.
Abhijeet Singh, founder of Indians...
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This thread was created in response from another thread in which we were thinking of having an OC get together. We're thinking during Spring 2009 sometime, perhaps with some media coverage. Details TBD...
Who's in?
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"Tragically, over the Thanksgiving holiday, the world was reminded how evil and cruel people can be. According to emerging accounts of the events in India, about a dozen well-armed and devastatingly well-trained terrorists laid siege on the city of Mumbai, killing almost two...
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"LOS ANGELES (AP) — A program to exchange guns for gifts has brought in a record number of weapons this year as residents hit hard by the economy look under the bed and in closets to find items to trade for groceries.
The annual Gifts for Guns program wound down Sunday in Compton...
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"Next comes the social and moral collapse as desperate people do desperate things. Crime is about to skyrocket. This is why you need weapons in your home to defend your family. They’ll soon come a time when everyone will be carrying arms, laws or no laws. Your nation is in the...
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"As the holiday travel season ramps up, Greyhound Canada announced it has begun screening passengers at major terminals with hand-held security wands. The company implemented new security measures Tuesday at its Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg terminals, with other locations to...
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"A police SWAT team conducted a food raid in rural Ohio, holding an entire family at gunpoint for hours without explanation...They were not read their rights… Over ten thousand dollars worth of food was taken, including the family’s personal stock of food for the coming year. All...
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"A bill pending in the State Senate and up for committee vote 12/8 (S1774) is a bad dose of old medicine. It's a proposal to ration the Constitutional right of law-abiding citizens to own handguns beyond the existing regulatory thicket, which already slows exercise of those rights...
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"Most of my friends and associates already seem to share my core beliefs. However, it seems that lately, almost daily, I encounter someone who has no clue about Obama’s voting record regarding firearms ownership and the use of firearms, whether to put meat on your table or in...
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“The purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to allow the citizens to protect themselves from tyranny, which will certainly be enforced with government ‘assault weapons,’” one writer patiently explained to me. “Logically, that is the type of weapon that we the people should have access to...
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"Although the gun group unleashed everything in its arsenal to defeat Barack Obama and dozens of down ticket gun-control candidates, it lost by a margin as historic as the war chest it opened in an attempt to convince voters that Democrats were mortal enemies of the Second...
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"Thommen confuses the need to carry a weapon as a part of the job, with the right to bear arms. The right to bear arms was earned for all of us by our forefathers; we do not need to re-earn that right at a police academy. It is the government that must earn the right to limit our...
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"The potential for amending the Constitution is humongous," says Richard Hamm, chair of the history department at University at Albany State University of New York. Indeed, he says, the Constitution is so adaptable it could effectively cancel parts of itself out. "You could pass...