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This is it! The final week of the ill-conceived "assault weapons" ban. Get on the phone today (Tuesday) and make your view on this issue known. It's late in the fourth quarter, and we're ahead by 28. But as any New Orleans Saints fan knows, this is no guarantee of victory. We cannot let up right now, especially considering the all-out assault that the anti-gun lobby will unleash this week.

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Middletown Press (Aug 29) CROMWELL, CT. -- Police are requesting new service weapons, after a series of mechanical malfunctions that have raised concerns about officers? safety -- and the safety of the public. The department currently uses Smith & Wesson 9 mm handguns. But Police Chief Anthony J. Salvatore said those weapons are now nearly 17 years old. "You?ve got to understand that we fire

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Yuma Sun, (Sept. 5) Yuma County Probation Officer Anita Salisbury shot an enraged armed man who was threatening to kill his former manager. With her partner Martin Mendez providing cover, Salisbury had ordered the man several times to drop the handgun but he wouldn't, so she fired her 9 mm sidearm through the glass office window. The man fell to the floor as the glass shattered and the terrified

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Kansas City Star (Sept. 6) When Jackson County refused to issue concealed-weapons permits this summer, Peter Blake-Ward saw an opportunity he couldn't pass up. Since June, the Arizona gun instructor has come to Kansas City twice, teaching a $100 weekend course that can get all of his 50 students ? even those from Jackson County ? concealed-weapons permits. The catch: The permits are from Utah.

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Dallas Business Journal (Aug. 31) Reynolds and Reynolds Co. (NYSE: REY) has sold a 102,257-square-foot building with acreage at 1010 Avenue J East in Grand Prairie, to gun wholesaler RSR Group Inc., the companies said Monday. Details of the sale were not released. Dayton, Ohio-based Reynolds and Reynolds, which says it sold the site of its former automotive forms facility due to a

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The Herald Press (Aug. 29) CROMWELL -- Police are requesting new service weapons, after a series of mechanical malfunctions that have raised concerns about officers? safety -- and the safety of the public. The department currently uses Smith & Wesson 9 mm handguns. But Police Chief Anthony J. Salvatore said those weapons are now nearly 17 years old. "You?ve got to understand that we fire

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This story isn't just "Down Under", it's ass backward Central Western Daily (Aug. 25) ORANGE Police had their weapons competency put to the test yesterday near Orange in a combined compulsory training session and coaching for firing under special conditions. Canobolas Local Area weapons trainer Senior Constable Brenden Turner supervised the testing and training sessions which have to be attended

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SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER (Aug. 27) Dave Reichert, King County sheriff and Republican congressional candidate, recently told a group of Second Amendment advocates that he supports letting the federal ban on assault weapons expire. His position shocked community activists with whom he had worked closely in the past to establish and promote gun-violence prevention programs. It is also at odds

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Chicago Daily Herald, (Aug. 21)Woodridge won't back ban on assault guns A resolution urging Congress to renew and strengthen the federal ban on assault weapons has been rejected by Woodridge village trustees. The board's 4-2 vote this week was disheartening to the trustee who sponsored the initiative, but not surprising. "One of my campaign promises was to enact an assault weapons ban for

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Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (Aug 20) The Muscogee County marshal has raised $9,500 from private donors to buy each of his deputies new guns. Marshal Kenneth Suddeth purchased 15 Glock .45-caliber pistols. The guns cost about $365 each with trade-ins. The rest of the money will be used to buy new holsters and magazines for the guns, Suddeth said. Suddeth made his announcement at a press conference

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Washington Times (Aug. 16 The federal assault-weapons ban, scheduled to expire in September, is not responsible for the nation's steady decline in gun-related violence and its renewal likely will achieve little, according to an independent study commissioned by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). "We cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation's recent drop in gun violence.

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The Union Leader (Aug. 17) DUNBARTON--A Concord attorney accidentally shot herself in the leg while attending a firearms course yesterday. Penny Dean was not hurt badly when she fired her handgun while attempting to put it in a gun holster she was wearing. Dean was taking an advanced shooting course offered by the Concord-based Lethal Force Institute at the Pioneer Sportsmen shooting range on

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Source: American Daily Who could possibly oppose continuing a ban on "plastic" guns? Referencing threats of terrorist sneaking plastic guns onto airplanes, last week Senator Ted Kennedy called renewing the legislation "clearly necessary in today's America." Yet, despite broad support in the past from both the NRA and gun-control groups, it was a bad law, providing placebo cures for imaginary ills

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South China Morning Post--Aug. 10, 2004 Arroyo's claim of press freedom scorned after third reporter in nine days shot dead The police chief in the Philippines said journalists would be allowed to carry firearms after a radio reporter was gunned down in the third such killing in nine days and the fifth this year. But many journalists are not waiting for official sanction, they are already

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Mid-Day Mumbai, India --A ug. 9 The Special Protection Unit (SPU), which looks after the security of VIPs and politicians is finally being trained to handle sophisticated Glock pistols. This is a consequence of the Mid Day report on July 5, that the pistols were lying unused in godowns. A few months ago, the Maharashtra police bought 300 Glock pistols, at a cost of Rs 1 lakh each. But most of

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Rangemaster Newsletter, August 2004 As of July 12, Ohio has entered into a reciprocal agreement with Tennessee on Handgun Carry Permits. A Tennessee permit is now valid in Ohio. This brings to 27 the number of other states which honor a Tennessee permit. One major Eastern state which does not is Pennsylvania. I go to Pennsylvania a couple of times a year to teach, and I am covered there by my

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The Spectator Newspapers, NJ - Jul 29, 2004 WOODBURY -- A former Deptford Township police officer who was shot during a scuffle when a fugitive took his pistol claims in a civil lawsuit that a defect in the gun's holster allowed the shooter to grab his gun. Former Deptford police Sgt. Steven B. Kummer filed a civil complaint in Superior Court on Tuesday against the companies -- Safariland

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Picayune Item, MS - Jul 13, 2004 JACKSON (AP) - The Mississippi Highway Patrol is buying new weapons after a survey showed 90 percent of its troopers choose Glock weapons over their standard-issue Smith & Wesson handguns. The troopers who tested the .40-caliber Glock pistol saw their accuracy scores rise and deemed it easier to fire than the Smith & Wesson 40/46 guns the state Highway Patrol has

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Mid-Day Mumbai, India - Jul 4, 2004 Three months ago, Mumbai police bought 300 sophisticated Glock pistols, each costing more than Rs 1 lakh. Most of them are still lying in the godowns. Reason: the cops simply refuse to pick the gun, saying they have been given no training in the use of the "ultra-delicate" weapon. Of the 300 Glocks, 160 have been set aside for the Special Protection Unit (SPU

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