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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070429/7barone.htm Feeling Safe Isn't Safe By Michael Barone This story appears in the May 7, 2007 print edition of U.S. News & World Report Posted 4/29/07 The murders two weeks ago at Virginia Tech naturally set off a cry in the usual...

I am not a lawyer, and nothing in this posting should be regarded as legal advice. But I can read. For years, some Maryland gunowners have been under the impression that under Maryland's strict law (Section 4-203 of the criminal code) governing the transporting of handguns (without a...

Man Uses Concealed Weapon To Stop Robbery KOTV (Tulsa, Oklahoma) 4/11/2007 5:00 PM - Updated 4/11/2007 6:25 PM A citizen shoots a robber during a grocery store heist. It happened more than a year ago in the Homeland store at 91st and Memorial. The man has never shared his story until now...

Opponents of right-to-carry laws often say "we don't need any more guns on the street." I often wondered what they meant, because I keep my eyes open and I never see any guns on the street. But today I saw this story about . . . well, a gun on the street. But it was in New Jersey, a state with...

The Philadelphia Daily News runs a column called "Urban Warrior." The April 2, 2007 column appears below. Urban Warrior: Police assurances on his gear are music to DJ's ears By Chris Brennan Brian Lewis was leaving his apartment, heading to a gig as a disc jockey in January 2005, when...

The following editorial appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on March 26, 2007. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2007/Mar-26-Mon-2007/opinion/13368633.html EDITORIAL: Concealed carry permits Reciprocity bill a good idea Law-abiding Nevadans who go to the trouble and...

On March 22, the West Virginia legislature sent to Governor Joe Manchin (D) House Bill 3074. He has until April 4 to decide what to do with it (but he may not take that long). This bill makes a number of changes in the state's reciprocity law. The West Virginia Citizens Defense League has...

The following article about permits in Iowa (and Johnson County in particular) appeared in the Iowa City Press-Citizen for March 24, 2007. The article does not discuss non-resident permits, which do exist, but which are issued by the Iowa Department of Safety rather than by the sheriffs...

In Colorado, a bill that would remove recognition from all nonresident permits (including those issued by Florida and Utah) is nearing a final, decisive vote in the state House of Representatives. The bill, Senate Bill 34, has already passed the state Senate. Today (March 20), it passed the...

Stuart Taylor Jr. is a columnist for National Journal, a contributing editor of Newsweek, a commentator on legal matters on various television programs, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His commentary is generally from a liberal perspective, which makes the...

The robber described below, Riccardo Crossland, who used a pellet gun to rob a man who was walking a pit bull (the victim also turned out to be a nonresident permit holder with a .45), would be a good candidate for the Darwin Award, except that Mr. Crossland survived the encounter. Man with...

Current West Virginia law explicitly says that any valid permit "issued by" a reciprocal state renders the holder immune from the West Virginia prohibition on carrying a concealed firearm. Since Virginia is a reciprocal state, permits issued by Virginia to residents of other states (i.e...

As many of you know, Kansas has joined the concealed carry states with a law that went into effect January 1. Among other things, the law provides for recognition of a permit "issued by" any state that qualifies to be placed on a list of states that have issuance standards "equal to or greater...

This is excerpted from "City: Retired cops can't carry concealed guns," in the Chicago Sun-Times for December 12, 2005: Retired Chicago Police officers will be getting letters in the mail soon saying the city won't certify them to carry guns -- a move that angers the head of the local...

Be sure to take your blood pressure meds before you read what appears below, which is the text of a letter sent on December 6, 2005, to members of the Wisconsin legislature, by Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk (D). (Dane County is the county in which the state capital, Madison, is located.)...

http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/dec05/375788.asp Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel December 7, 2005 State Senate supports concealed guns By Steven Walters On a 23-10 vote, senators passed a bill (SB 403) that would allow residents 21 and over to carry concealed guns if they passed a...

Here's an interesting piece on a Wisconsin state legislator, Bob Turner. "When he returned home from the service, he [legally] carried a concealed gun at times on the streets of Racine....Turner said he packed heat back home because he felt naked without a sidearm." But he is opposed to the...

Is there really such a thing as a .45 revolver? Or is that like the "police officer's Glock service revolver" that I once read about in a local newspaper? WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' footprints on contentious social issues suggest a moderate position on gay rights...

Text of federal court order against gun confiscations This pertains to the lawsuit by the NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation, challenging the recent gun confiscations in and around New Orleans. On September 23, 2005, federal judge Jay Zainey of the Eastern District of Louisiana issued a...

Here is a new NRA factsheet on Senator John Kerry's record on gun issues. The most important fact on this long list is the very last one. John Kerry's Anti-Gun Record Two decades of opposing gun owners' rights in the U.S. Senate make John Kerry the most anti-gun presidential nominee in...