Notes from the Resistance...
As the bug-eyed deputy to Griffith, Knotts carried in his shirt pocket the one bullet he was allowed after shooting himself in the foot. The constant fumbling, a recurring sight gag, was typical of his self-deprecating humor.Constable Elizabeth Roth, 34, was on duty at Wetherill Park police station when the man, who was known to police, jumped the counter about 6.30am (AEDT) today and snatched her pistol.I have a great way to prevent this from ever happening again.
The man turned the weapon on Constable Roth, who was working alone in the south-western Sydney station, shooting her once.
Federal agents have revoked the firearms license of a prominent Baltimore County gun shop.
Valley Guns, of Parkville, is owned by Sanford Abrams, who is a National Rifle Association board member.
Still, he returned for the 2005 festival with his third film, Dear Wendy, in which he directed a von Trier screenplay about Americans and their firearms, starring Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) as a teenager who writes a love letter to his gun.
A car prowler got away Tuesday night with the badge and gun of a Clackamas County deputy.There must be something about that superior training the "only ones" receive that causes stuff like this to happen. In all my years of gun ownership, I'd have never thought to leave my stuff sitting in my unattended car for all the world to see. I guess that's the difference between us ordinary people and professionals...
The sheriff's office says the off-duty deputy parked outside a dance studio on Lake Drive in Milwaukie. She went inside on personal business, apparently leaving her purse, containing her badge, gun and other items, in plain view inside the car.
President Yoweri Museveni's legal adviser was pictured on Friday armed with an automatic pistol during a fracas over voting in the northeast of the country...The independent Monitor newspaper said its photographer John Emojong was beaten by Odoi after he took the picture, and then arrested by police officers under the lawyer's command...Elsewhere in Tororo district, the Monitor said Museveni's legal assistant "fired bullets, assaulted people and hunted down suspected Kenyans, who turned out to be Ugandans".What are we fighting to bring to the world?
Doctors can continue asking patients whether they own and safely store firearms.I'm likely to start another debate like the one that's going on over here, but I fear a state with the power to tell a doctor what he can or can't ask a patient more than I fear a doctor asking me about guns.
The Senate Education and Health committee, known for defeating controversial bills, voted down legislation that would have made it unlawful to routinely ask patients about firearms.
Rep. Dan Zwonitzer, R-Cheyenne, said he owns guns and enjoys shooting. However, he said Wyoming is among the top states in the country in terms of gun-related deaths by population and said the state doesn't need legislation to encourage more people to carry guns.
Zwonitzer quoted the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states in part that a "well-regulated militia" is necessary to the security of a free state. He said he wouldn't have a problem with the bill if it specified that members of the Wyoming National Guard have a right to carry weapons.
Failed to answer NRA-PVF candidate questionnaire, often an indication of indifference, if not outright hostility, to gun owners’ and sportsmen’s rights.
Police have charged a 41-year-old man with firearms possession after he allegedly fired a homemade gun in a block of flats in South Yarra last night.Time for another law. We must do something about the home armory loophole!
The National Rifle Association, sensing trouble on its proposed bill in the state Legislature that would require employers to allow workers to have guns in their cars in company parking lots, offered some unusual compromises Wednesday:Lock up you safety facilities, separate but equal facilities, and permission.
* Creating gun rooms at work and having workers check their weapons when they arrive.
* Separate parking lots for gun owners.
* Making it OK to carry in the car, as long as you tell your boss.
Last week I brought you the story of Mark Edward Marchiafava, whose unlawful arrest by Gonzales, La. police and subsequent confiscation of his property raised the ire of Liberty Zone readers. This morning, I'm gratified to tell you that Mark took a trip to Gonzales yesterday and retrieved both his weapon and his bail money.
A local rapper was killed in December when a gun went off inside his mouth, but it remains unclear whether the death was an accident, suicide or murder.
Before the gun was discovered at the jail, it was apparently in the suspect's boot while he rode in a police car, while he was questioned at police headquarters and while he was being booked at the Wake County Jail.
"I still don't think it makes any sense for all of us to be packing guns in our pocketbooks and our cars," said St. Louis Alderman Lyda Krewson, who was widowed in 1995 by an armed carjacker and who lobbied against the law. "We just have a situation where there are more guns on the street."
The mother of the two women gunned down at a family barbecue has called for a public inquiry into the use of firearms and how to protect the public from them.What, like make them more illegal? And note the complaint that authorities did not arrive for more than an hour after the incident--while people were mortally wounded and with children in the house.
