The mayor described new tactics including a gun offender registration system, similar to one required for sex criminals, in which gun offenders would have to register and update their addresses with law enforcement. Bloomberg also said he would lobby to make criminal possession of a loaded gun a felony with a minimum prison sentence of 3 years. Both proposals would have to be pushed through the state Legislature."Enemy."
A police officer accused of pointing his gun at a suspect to force him to confess during voluntary questioning at a police box has been arrested, law enforcers said.Ah, gun-free Japan, where only the Samurai class bear arms in the service of their feudal lords...
A lawmaker accidentally discharged a handgun in his General Assembly office in Richmond...Delegate John S. Reid...was ejecting the bullet cartridge when the gun went off, he said.And I'm sure his finger was nowhere near the trigger.
A National Rifle Association-backed bill that would force businesses that sell hunting and fishing licenses to help register customers to vote cleared its first legislative hurdle Wednesday."Force"?
My son, Johnnie, is only 12 years old but he has been pestering my husband and me for several years to buy him a gun. My husband had his fill of rifles in the army, and for a long time I told Johnnie that “I wouldn’t have a gun around the house. They are too dangerous."Stop right here a moment. You've seen these kinds of letters before, haven't you? You know where this is going, right?
Last summer Johnnie bought a pistol from one of his playmates at school and managed to find some bullets to shoot in it. The gun went off in his pocket, and badly burned the side of his leg but thank goodness didn’t actually hit his leg or his foot. Our physician made out a routine gun-shot wound report which was sent to the police station, and they sent a policeman around to check up on the “shooting.”
He is now a real friend to our family, because after seeing Johnny and talking with him, he bought us a copy of your magazine with a story on “When to Buy Your Son A Gun.”Yes, this is an actual letter. It appeared in the January 1956 issue of GUNS Magazine, now available for free download.
I want to thank writer Harvey Brandt for that story. It has literally changed our whole lives and really opened my eyes to how harsh and unfeeling my attitude must have seemed to my son. He now has a gun, a proper .22 rifle and he is shooting on a boys team which is supervised by the Police Athletic League. He shoots well, and my husband has promised to take him hunting next year with a real rifle for big game. Things are going fine at home, and the rusty revolver he bought at school reposes in my desk drawer as a reminder—not a reminder to Johnny, but a reminder to me—of how serious our neglect of our son might have been, if the police officer and Harvey Brandt hadn’t knocked on our door.
Mrs. Jane P. Perkins
Los Angeles, Cal.
This is the world I grew up in (I was three going on four when this was published). These are the attitudes I remember.Vin Suprynowicz's The Black Arrow has been nominated for the Libertarian Futurist Society's 2006 Prometheus Award, honoring the best libertarian novel of 2005. The Black Arrow is one of nine books nominated for the award this year. (The deadline for nominations is February 15th.)
The Black Arrow, Vin's first novel, peers 30 years ahead into our future to predict the havoc and hazards caused by government run amok -- when people who've grown fed up with brutality and tyranny are finally willing to fight to take back their freedom. Themes in The Black Arrow are often eerily and sometimes tragically reminiscent of recent headlines. Vin's long and energetic career as a noted (or notorious?) libertarian journalist has stocked his impressive literary arsenal with an endless supply of factual outrages to draw from. Characters and scenes in The Black Arrow ring true, especially to readers of Vin's previous books, Send In the Waco Killers and The Ballad of Carl Drega.
Police say the 41-year-old Singler then ran outside the store and shot himself. Investigators say Singler apparently brought ammunition for the weapon with him.The planets must be going through a phase or something--first the judge, then Uncle Hiccup and now this...
A Colombian man who tried to startle his nephew from a bout of the hiccups by pointing a gun at him, accidentally pulled the trigger and killed him.Sounds like we need to disarm you and me to keep tragedies like this from ever happening again.
"You could be a leader in the community," Greenspan said. "All those guns that's why Desmond is gone now, because of all those guns."Good Lord.
A bill (HB1) expanding the circumstances in which deadly force may be used in self-defense is pending in the Alabama Legislature...One opponent is Arthur Hayhoe, executive director of the Florida Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. He told the Times the Alabama bill could cause trouble if passed "I call it the 'right-to-commit-murder' bill."And I call that a damned lie, Arthur.
Directors of the Twin City Rod & Gun Club were shocked in December when notified their nonprofit organization had to pay a state sales tax on memberships and fees.The bureaucrats [Sean--note the spelling :)] just keep sticking us, don't they? That's because they believe they won't have to endure any personal consequences.
CANADIAN voters have rebuked Prime Minister Paul Martin and his centre-left Liberal Party, tossing them out after 13 years in power.
The new leader, Stephen Harper, the head of the Conservative Party, will be one of Canada's youngest prime ministers when he is sworn in later this week. He is 46.
05-365 SEEGARS, SANDRA, ET AL. V. GONZALES, ATT'Y GEN., ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. The Chief Justice took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
Between 1998 and 2002, when he was fired, Brown committed oral copulation, sodomy and other lewd acts on the boys, using force on more than 30 occasions...Officer Friendly, I presume...?
Military-style assault weapons of the kind wielded by Henry have been showing up in increasing numbers since Congress and President Bush allowed federal ban on the guns to expire in late 2004. They did the bidding of the National Rifle Association, and it's all but certain that innocent blood will be spilled because of the blind irresponsibility of the NRA and its agents in Washington.This is why the Brady Campaign doesn't need to have that many members--the media does its job for them.
The Vatican representative called upon the United Nations to consider the possibility of negotiating a legally binding instrument on the international arms trade, based on the principles of international law, and in particular on the question of human rights and humanitarian law.I don't suppose the Vatican representative would like to make sure his own house is in order first?
I don't care personally if some governmental agency listens to our family's phone calls 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We have nothing to hide. The surveillors may expire from boredom, but that would be their problem.--Pat BooneThat's quite a difference in philosophy between "conservative" and "liberal," wouldn't you say?
The only individuals whose privacy would have been infringed by the bill would have been the privacy of people with something to hide from the police - people who arm themselves and then become a threat to public safety.--Brady Campaign
Elected officials and community members gathered in Center City to try and stop the escalation of violent gun use in Philadelphia. It is an effort many are hoping will save hundred of lives.This was definitely not supposed to happen.
"If you and your prosecutors stick to the simple, proven model of Richmond, the murder rate in Philadelphia will decline and your citizens will be safer."
Hargreaves admits to being "devastated by the news" that the gun had been involved in a homicide and almost as devastated by the fact there is now a warrant out for his arrest for unsafe storage of those weapons -- despite the fact they were stored in a 771-kilo concrete-and-steel safe and that it took the industrious thieves two days using blowtorches and sledge hammers to gain access to it...Another example of "gun control" giving criminals the advantage.
On July 23 of that year, one month after the on-duty murder of 25-year-old Const. Todd Baylis, Ontario became the toughest place in North America to buy ammunition as Bill 181 went into effect, requiring all ammunition retailers to keep records of all transactions -- the name and age of the purchaser, his or her address, the date and time, the type of identification used, plus any serial number and the type and quantity of ammunition purchased...
"They can be photocopied by a clerk running with a bad crowd. They can be sold for a price. Those books, quite often, are simply left on the counter," he says.
Record levels of gun crime are being blamed on the fact that more people than ever are carrying firearms as fashion accessories.Bloody 'ell! You mean "gun control" doesn't work?
Mexicans are being invited to exchange their weapons for computers under a quirky new idea to curb rampant crime in Mexico City.Well, this'll have absolutely no effect on violent crime, but it does sound like a great incentive for "authorities" to trade in confiscated weapons...
Authorities in one of the city's 16 districts are offering a new computer, out of 150 donated by a charitable foundation, for each gun handed in.
State troopers who fix tickets as favors — even for someone who gives them gifts — are not breaking the law, the Knox County prosecutor has determined for Gov. Phil Bredesen.That Lord Acton--him plenty smart fella.
At most jobs, on-the-job conduct that gets an employee arrested will usually stop the paycheck, at least for the duration of the incarceration. However, if that individual is a Washington State Patrol employee sworn to uphold the law, the paycheck is delivered to the jail, it seems.Why? Because no one is accountable. Because there are no consequences. Because it's not their money and what happens doesn't affect them. Because they can.
Michael Idland was on administrative reassignment and drew his full Washington State Patrol (WSP) salary during the 17 months he spent in the King County Jail for molesting women during routine traffic stops. Why did the agency that is supposed to enforce our state laws reward an officer for breaking those laws?
Another dark cloud hangs over the Easton Police Department tonight, as a new report finds city cops regularly break the rules when it comes to the safety of their guns.Yeah, common sense gun handling is kinda like quantum physics in its incredible complexity. No wonder only a highly-educated and select few are trustworthy enough to be armed.
The findings come just 10 months after an officer was shot and killed inside the department's headquarters.
Ottawa city's gun amnesty hasn't even started but police have already raked in dozens of firearms, including at least one that's about 200 years old."Dozens" is "raking in"?
One-third of the guns collected were missing essential working parts, and most were several decades old, such as the only semi-automatic pistol in the haul, an 80-year-old German Walther .380, a rusty antique breechloader from the 19th century, and two old-style revolvers of the 'Saturday night special' design.Rest easy, Ottawa. The orcs have been defanged. Your salvation from "gun violence" is at hand.
Police also raked in a number of shotguns, hunting rifles and BB guns.
"State law authorizes law enforcement to keep a record of every handgun sold or transferred in the state, but the state does not keep any records on the sale of rifles or shotguns. Handgun sale records are maintained by state law enforcement for use in gun tracing and related criminal investigations, and to make sure they are not possessed by individuals who are not legally allowed to have them. Which of the following most closely represents your opinion?This is a probe. And it got sent to a trendy LA constituency, so it's also designed to be a self-fulfilling prophecy and pretext. The bastard just won't stop attacking.
a. California should retain records on the purchase of rifles and shotguns because that would help law enforcement solve crimes related to the criminal use of on these weapons -- it does not make sense to exempt rifles and shotguns from record keeping if law enforcement is already keeping records on handgun purchases.
b. I am not in favor of law enforcement having records on persons who own rifles and shotguns.
c. We should make sure our existing firearms laws are working before we consider more gun legislation.
d. Other, please comment _____________________ "
Police tell us when Rollman went to put the gun away after investigating the noise, it went off and the bullet hit his son in the hip.Dang--another one of those self-animating guns. I'm sure Mr. Rollman's finger was nowhere near the trigger, or the reporter would have surely written the account that way.
"We don't know if the gun range has caused the drop in attendance (at the park)," Bartsch said.Uhhh...maybe they're all at the gun range.
He said the decrease in visitors occurred at the park, golf course, nature center and farm center.
Gun lobbyists are fuming because the state police have been slow at processing FOID applications. State law requires that be accomplished in 30 days. But callers to the state police bureau that handles FOID cards get a recording that says it may take eight weeks. A gun owner is in technical violation of the law if his card expires before a new one arrives in the mail...Translation: We force you to comply with a process we can't perform, so it must be your fault.
Gun owners want better service? Hike the FOID card fee.
Deputy Commissioner Richard Ross is now head of internal affairs, and will retain his title as the city's gun czar.I repeat a question I've asked before: Why "czar"?
A jail security officer was placed on administrative leave after a woman visitor got past an X-ray machine carrying a gun, leading to the closure of two Clayton County courts on Wednesday...."She got as far as the lobby and was called back because she didn't fit the dress code. Her arms were exposed or something," the sheriff said.No, her arms weren't exposed. Hence the lockdown.
Technical problems have once again delayed the national firearms register, nine years after it was first proposed..."‘If the Home Office really is incapable, over a period of eight years, of computerising something as straightforward as a few hundred thousand firearms records, then it does suggest that they do not have a hope of making a success of the introduction of the national identity card scheme,"’ he said.Eight years?
Hip-hop star 50 CENT has dismissed accusations his movie GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' glorifies violence and gun crime, insisting the film is being unfairly singled out for criticism.It is unfair. Where's the "community" outrage over this?
Even if the gun was real, the officer could have shot Penley in a non-fatal area.Poor Heather Forgione. She had my attention up until that point, what with her talking about "simple communication and common sense," and all.
The idiot evidently prefers people being stabbed to death by those who do not share his share his sheeplike bent.
A statement from New Scotland Yard said: "Mr Eastman is extremely upset about the article.
"He does not recognise the quotes attributed to him and does not condone anyone carrying a knife or a weapon of any kind."
Over the weekend, an attorney for the family said Penley's father told him that he contacted law enforcement before the boy was shot to tell them that his son did not have a gun and that he only had a pellet gun, Local 6 News reported.If that's the case, then the outcome can't be judged unreasonable. When I posted this, press accounts were very different, citing the boys father, a brother and a classmate all corroborating police and school authorities being told.
However, phone records obtained by the FDLE showed authorities did not make contact with the dead boy's father until about 45 minutes after the boy had been shot, according to a report released Tuesday.
Brooks, too, is not new to controversy. He’s been widely known as one of the city’s most flamboyant activists for over a decade and is a convicted sex offender.I guess if I was a predatory pervert, I'd want to make sure my victims--and those able to avenge them--were disarmed, too.
Since passing its "shoot first, ask questions later" law last year, the state of Florida has been derided by the international press, become the subject of an ad campaign that warns visitors not to "shout or make threatening gestures" at the natives, and provided fodder for amused bloggers, pundits and late-night comics. (What's the Sunshine State's new motto? "Florida: Don't make us come up there.'')Translation: British and French journalists' opinions should be a deciding factor in which rights the government allows you to enjoy. A handful of mentally ill loons passing out propaganda leaflets at Orlando airport should be a deciding factor in which rights the government allows you to enjoy. And Hollywood and other media elites making snotty comments to the amusement of their worshippers should be a deciding factor in which rights the government allows you to enjoy.
Jane Creba, 15, was browsing the Boxing Day sales with her older sister when she started crossing the street to look for sneakers. She stepped into a spray of gunfire between rival teenage gangs in the middle of the busy downtown shopping district.A Google news search yields no fewer than 31 pages of hits for the term "Jane Creba."
Just Samurai? Isn't that racist?UPDATE:It might help if I gave you the link to her comments on the WaPo gun ban proposal.
Substitute "brick" for "sword" and "bashed" for "stabbed."
A U.S. border patrol agent is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Del Rio, Texas, on federal charges that he illegally purchased a pistol for a Mexican national who intended to smuggle the weapon into Mexico, according to U.S. investigators.What did Plato ask?
Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said the 25-year-old police officer allegedly hired out his service pistol for R150 to three hijackers.And remember, South African citizens, the police say you must register your guns to keep things like this from happening.
Lawmakers know all this and know as well that handguns -- however exalted they seem to be in America -- should not be in general circulation. Political long shot that it may be, a national ban on the general manufacture, sale and ownership of handguns ought be enacted. It would not pacify kids or adults with violent tendencies, and it might not curb general criminal activity markedly. But it might well save thousands of lives. Handgun exceptions could be made for federal, state and local law enforcement and military agencies; collectors of antique firearms; federally licensed handgun sporting clubs with certain safety procedures; security guard services; and licensed dealers, importers or manufacturers that are determined to be meeting those needs.Like the man said: Molon Labe!
British lawmakers are being urged to ease a ban on handguns so Britain`s champion shooters can train for the Olympics.I guess they can do it there if they want--they have "nobility" and commoners.
"If police catch you carrying a weapon you could be arrested and prosecuted. But isn't that better than being unable to protect yourself and losing your life? The police can't be everywhere and the sentences handed down by the courts are often far too lenient."Yep--as the truism goes, better to be tried by twelve than carried by six...
Harold M. Clemens of Roxbury writes on his Ghetto Uprising that, as well-intentioned as the state's tough gun-ownership laws are, it might be time to relax them so residents of violence-prone neighborhoods can protect themselves.Relax 'em? Hell, it's past time to repeal 'em. But this is, as our opponents are wont to say, "a good first step."
The family of a 13-year-old Florida boy shot by police say officers were told the gun he held was not real.Why should authorities have taken their word for it? They're only "civilians." And you know how they lie.
Ralph Penley said when he arrived at the Millwee Middle School in suburban Orlando on Friday morning, he told Seminole County Sheriff`s deputies his son Christopher only had a replica pistol, CNN said. The boy`s younger brother says he told school officials the same thing.
Greenwood police are investigating the disappearance of several firearms from the department's inventory...The guns were stored in a vault or locker in the department's main headquarters building and were discovered missing Jan. 6, Harris said...He said the weapons were securely stored and access was controlled.Right. That's why they're MISSING!
The Remington 12-gauge shotgun had been issued to Lemay by the Sheriff's Office, Buchanan said. It's Lemay's responsibility to keep the gun locked up, and Buchanan said he considered it to be secure because it was inside the trunk.At least his "710" cap isn't missing...
But all the thief needed to do to get the shotgun was to slip his hand inside the car and lift a lever to pop open the trunk.
A township police officer is facing more than 11 years in prison...a Morris County Grand Jury handed up the indictment against Kevin J. Lassiter, 43. He was indicted for possessing a weapon for an unlawful purpose on Sept. 5 and aggravated assault for allegedly holding a gun to the head of his wife'’s cousin when she tried to intervene in the dispute between Lassiter and his wife at Lassiter'’s home.See, you and I can't be trusted with guns because we might go off the deep end...
Lassiter was charged with assaulting his wife by pushing, punching and grabbing her by the throat...
There is nothing quite like punching someone in the head and having it sound like a ripe melon.His "favorite quote"? Boy, you could see this one coming a mile away:
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations of their women. - Conan the BarbarianIn a post titled "More Holiday Cheer," he describes a recent arrest that elicits a chorus of admiring comments, including:
Hey Man - Happy New Year! Congrats on catching that bastard. Put a pink tutu on him and throw in the cell with the friendly chaps.What's even more disgusting, the prison rape advocate isn't even a cop. But he expresses a sentiment promoted by no less an "authority" than California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, who had this to say about a man who hadn't (at the time) even been charged with a crime, let alone convicted:
I would love to personally escort [Enron CEO Ken Lay] to an 8-by-10 cell that he could share with a tattooed dude who says, 'Hi, my name is Spike, honey.'Lockyer, of course, says you have no right to own a gun, and if his cop minions catch you with one he doesn't approve of, they'll do their best to throw you into a population of "Spikes".
Now, let's go out on a limb and say that this was actually a viable idea. How does a criminal, who doesn't want his firearm found, circumvent this system? Two ways: remove the battery or wrap the antenna with aluminum foil. If you don't believe me, try it with your cell phone. That's all; he's done.Gun Law News has two recommendations for the idiot Boston councilman who wants to mandate GPS chips in guns.
So, in summary, please consider these two recommendations. Not only will you save yourself the appearance of complete stupidity, you will save gun bloggers time as well.
Is this some kind of bust?Hey, Pam, at least if I eat KFC, I won't get Hepatitis C...
Yes, very nice...
The Long Beach Police Department is missing more than a fourth of its shotguns and an unknown number of revolvers, officials said Thursday.See, that's why we need to register your and my guns--to keep stuff like this from happening.
An Oklahoma police chief has been charged with second-degree rape of a 15-year-old girl, reportedly spending nights with the teenager before taking her home and then giving her mom, the city's librarian, a lift to work.Two questions come to mind:
Durrett patted White down before he placed him in the patrol car, Sheriff Mike Cleveland said. The sheriff said he didn't think White was handcuffed.If this is what happened, that's damned sloppy police work, deputy. You're lucky it wasn't you who got shot.
Police arrested a 27-year-old man after he allegedly reported his gun stolen, but then found it in his car.Now what did we all learn from this?
I was reading a story about Cory Maye.I like it. Of course, the mandate would need to be done at the state level, since there's no delegated Constitutional authority for the fedgov to involve themselves in this. But it's an interesting speculation, if for no other reason than to throw the police statist's arguments back in their faces.
You might remember it. A young black man in Mississippi with no criminal record and an 18 month old daughter has cops invade his home during the middle of the night. It hasn't been determined whether or not they identified themselves, but Corey thought them to be intruders and fired at them. He ended up killing the Sheriff's son. Turns out they'd raided the wrong duplex. They were looking for marijuana, they didn't find any in his duplex. In any case, I had an epiphany. Let me explain.
Cops have nothing to hide, right? The government and political pundits tells us we shouldn't worry about surveillance if we have nothing to hide.
So, therefore, I propose making law enforcement officers wear cameras that can record audio and video while on duty. This would cut down on them screwing around, possible corruption, excessive force, etc. There'd be penalties if they deliberately tampered with it. At the end of each day they have to turn in the cameras. If there's any complaints against them, the video is reviewed by a civilian panel on that particular day on the incident that a complaint was received about.
I mean, cops are supposed to be the most upstanding and law-abiding of us all, right? Therefore, they shouldn't have anything to hide. Cameras are so small these days they could fit one on 'em just fine without any problems. It would avoid these type of situations and create accountability. They don't have anything to hide...do they?
"Senator, I'm not being reviewed for a position as an editorialist; I'm being reviewed for a position as a Supreme Court Justice. How complicated is it for you to understand that my personal opinions have NO BEARING on how I would rule on a question of law?
Anyone who wants to purchase a handgun in Maryland must attend this course. The course consists of classroom instruction only. NO HANDGUNS ARE PEMITTED [sic].
North Shore prosecutors' efforts to crack down on individuals, especially gang members, who use illegal firearms coincides with the opening of two Boston gun court sessions..."Introducing a gun as evidence goes a long way to getting a defendant to plead guilty," Suffolk District Attorney's spokesman David Procopio said.Note the lead paragraph said "individuals, especially gang members..."
The Swiss government on Wednesday recommended to parliament that all gun owners must obtain a permit...As soon as the accord comes into effect, unauthorized possession will be considered an infringement of the law.This is a sad development. While many areas of firearms possession won't be affected (yet), the precedent has been set for further encroachment. And note how the concern is for infringement of laws, not infringement of rights.
Houston Texans reserve running back Tony Hollings appeared in court today to face a gun charge.See, he should have had an armed escort and no license, and actually gotten in to an accident. Then he wouldn't have been arrested.
Hollings, 24, was arrested in Houston on Jan. 3 and charged with unlawfully carrying a gun with a suspended driver's license. Hollings was stopped for speeding.
