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| The Middlesex district attorney's office argued before the state Supreme Judicial Court yesterday that a law that requires guns to be stored in locked containers or outfitted with trigger locks is valid.
But the attorney for a Billerica man charged with keeping a gun in an unlocked carrying case said the law is negated by a recent decision of the US Supreme Court.
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| Home is where we feel the safest. Or at least we should. When that security is stolen, it leaves many people, especially women, wondering how to fight back.
Pepper spray is a popular option. But these days, more and more women are turning to something much stronger.
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| The first step in getting rid of the boondoggle known as the long gun registry was taken in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
MPs voted to scrap the requirement to register individual rifles and shotguns -- a registry that has consumed more than $1 billion, been condemned for its wasteful and reckless spending by the Auditor General, and pitted urban residents against those who actually use guns as tools for hunting, sport shooting and predator control.
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| Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan, is under fire for sitting on a 2008 RCMP report on the Canadian Firearms Program, suggested staff at the national firearms registry are deliberately hiding information in order to ensure the registry's survival.
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| The National Rifle Association is pushing legislation to ban adoption agencies from asking potential parents if they have guns and ammunition in the home.
NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer said adoption agencies are violating gun owners' rights by asking about firearms in an adoption form. She said any request about gun ownership from an agency connected with government was tantamount to establishing a gun registry. |
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| Mark Peagler, owner of the Silver Spur Saloon, says his business is safer by allowing people with Right-to-Carry permits to dine in his establishment, calling it "a deterrent" to criminals looking for a place to rob.
He said businesses posting signs stating, "We do not permit firearms" would logically be more desirable targets. |
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| Cape May County Sheriff Gary Schaffer is pleased to announce that the Sheriff's Office is offering a new educational program on gun safety for children from pre K to grade 3. Sheriff Schaffer said, "The purpose of the program isn't to teach whether guns are good or bad, but rather to promote the protection and safety of children." |
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| A war of words erupted last night over the future of the ban on hunting with dogs.
Labour's rural affairs minister Dan Norris claimed hunt supporters who wanted to see the law repealed had to "get into the real world", with public opposition to the sport on the rise. |
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| NY-23: Winning Democrat Bill Owens was A-rated by NRA (as was Hoffman).
Virginia: Either Deeds (B rating) or McDonnell (A) were sure to be a big improvement over outgoing Governor Kaine. Deeds lost the NRA endorsement by supporting closing of the (non-existent) “gun show loophole.” In the Attorney General race, Republican Ken Cuccinelli (A+) handily defeated a D-rated Democrat who advertised very aggressively on the gun show issue. Incumbent Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (A+) trounced an F-rated challenger.
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| Courts in New Jersey and Illinois have concluded that the Second Amendment poses no obstacle to local governments enacting stringent anti gun laws.
Now a Maryland appeals court has followed suit. A three judge panel ruled last Thursday that the Second Amendment does not interfere with a Maryland law that generally restricts state residents from carrying handguns. |
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| The case stems from a challenge to the state law that requires stored firearms be secured in a locked container or equipped with a tamper-resistant safety device, except when "carried by or under the control of the owner or other lawfully authorized user."
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| Sandy Froman went from a life without guns to president of the National Rifle Association.
The attorney and former NRA president discussed on Tuesday the implications and future of the Second Amendment. She shared personal sentiments and her take on past and current gun control cases with law students.
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| Opponents of a long gun registry in Canada are coming close to abolishing it.
Both sides of the gun control debate believe the Conservatives now have enough Commons votes to give parliamentary approval in principle to a private member's bill to kill the registry for rifles and shotguns. |
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| After 11 years of low caliber crime fighting, shooting blanks at bad guys, backfiring financially or taking aim at all the wrong targets, the billion dollar boondoggle uncovered in 2002 by the auditor general will likely be placed on the de registration block Wednesday afternoon.
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| Mayors Against Illegal Guns, led by New York's Michael Bloomberg, is losing members after the National Rifle Association mounted a campaign against the group. |
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| So far in 2009, the number of South Carolinians wanting to carry concealed nearly has doubled over the previous year as people worry about violent crime and feel threatened by partisan politics.
As of mid-October, 28,197 new Right-to-Carry permits have been issued this year by South Carolina's State Law Enforcement Division.
It's an annual record that already has surpassed the 14,630 new permits issued in all of 2008 and by far outstrips all previous years, according to SLED statistics. |
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| It was a three year fight, and gun rights advocates won. The law even survived a legal challenge in federal court.
Those with a Right-to-Carry permit from the state of Florida are allowed to keep guns in their cars in the parking lot of their workplace.
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| In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition. The most obvious sign of their demand: empty ammunition shelves. |
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| Aliquippa Mayor Anthony Battalini proposed an ordinance that requires residents to report lost or stolen firearms. |
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| The National Rifle Association recently presented a $75,000 check to the S.C. Department of Natural Resources for the construction of three shooting ranges in the state. |
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| As the new hunting season begins today, animal rights activists are threatening to disrupt meets as "observers", as well as joining hunts undercover. |
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| Attorney General Bob Cooper says landlords can ban their tenants from bringing firearms into their property even if they have handgun carry permits. |
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| The silence that met Bartlett`s resolution regarding guns in parks was contrary to the noisy debate that spread through the suburb this summer.
The lack of a second to Alderman Emily Elliott`s motion Tuesday night regarding a ban on the weapons ended the controversial issue in the suburb without even a vote. |
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| Colleges could use discretion to ban concealed firearms from all campus buildings, but would have to allow guns in open outdoor spaces, under revisions to a bill being considered by a House committee. |
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| The National Rifle Association, is suing the city of Seattle and Mayor Greg Nickels over the new ban on guns in city parks.
They were joined by five individuals, including two Department of Corrections workers who say they need to carry their personal weapons in city parks to protect themselves against criminals. |
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| With just days to go before the election, Virginia Democrats are getting desperate. In the race to become the commonwealth's next attorney general, state Delegate Stephen Shannon is trying to tar his opponent, state Sen. Ken Cuccinelli, for purportedly giving guns to convicted felons.
We hate to break it to Mr. Shannon but this isn't going to be his Willie Horton ad. Mr. Shannon's convoluted logic goes this way: Since Mr. Cuccinelli voted against regulating the private sale of guns at gun shows, that means he supports felons having guns. Never mind that it is still illegal for felons to have guns and the senator supports that ban. |
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| A New Jersey appeals court has concluded that Americans have no Second Amendment right to buy a handgun.
In a case decided last week, the superior court upheld a state law saying that nobody may possess "any handgun" without obtaining law enforcement approval and permission in advance. |
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| New Castle County's gun laws now mesh with regulations in force at the state and national level, at least when it comes to emergency situations.
A 1960s era section of the code gave the county executive power to restrict weapons in the hands of residents during emergencies. County Council voted Tuesday to clean up language in the code by deleting a sentence that says the top administrator may impose "limitations upon the carrying or stockpiling of firearms, weapons or ammunition" during declared states of emergency. |
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