I have a one word comment for this: ASININE!
The city of Fort Worth is shutting down its school system for 10 days in an effort to stop the spread of swine flu, even as top U.S. leaders warn parents not to take children whose schools are closed to daycare or their workplaces since doing so would offer the same potential for the virus to spread.
via Fort Worth Shutters All Schools; WHO Warns of Likely Pandemic – washingtonpost.com.
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The folks from ammunition accountability are at it again this year. Although this piece of legislation keeps dying every time it is proposed, they are trying again. There tag line of saving lives one bullet at a time is comical at best. The system has many conceptual problems, including increasing the manufacturing cost of ammunition, as well as local, state and federal agency administrative cost. The thought that one could track a criminal through a registered bullet is a little far fetched.
What makes one think if criminals steal guns, and deface serial numbers on guns, they will not do the same for ammunition?
From WND:
Group asks states to track citizens’ ammo
Organization claims it is ’saving lives 1 bullet at a time’
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2008 WorldNetDailyLegislation to trace ammunition is pending in several states, and many gun owners are concerned that it is just another attempt by anti-gun groups to violate citizens’ Second Amendment rights.An organization known as Ammunition Accountability is pushing to make coding technology mandatory across the nation. Its website claims it is a group of “gun crime victims, industry representatives, law enforcement, public officials, public policy experts, and more” who are “saving lives one bullet at a time.”
If states pass the legislation, manufacturers will be required to laser etch a serial number into the back of each bullet and the inside of cartridge casings, a patented process developed by Seattle, Wash., resident Russ Ford and his business partners, Steve Mace and John Knickerbocker.
According to Seattle Weekly, the men couldn’t find an ammunition manufacturer to agree to stamp bullets, so they hired a lobbyist to push for state legislation to require the laser coding. They launched the Ammunition Accountability website and successfully introduced bills in the following 18 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee and Washington.
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This is great news for all of us who enjoy the outdoors.
U.S. Department of the Interior – Office of the Secretary – www.doi.gov – News Release
Date: December 5, 2008
Contact: Chris Paolino
202-208-6416WASHINGTON, D.C. – Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Lyle Laverty today announced that the Department of the Interior has finalized updated regulations governing the possession of firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges. The final rule, which updates existing regulations, would allow an individual to carry a concealed weapon in national parks and wildlife refuges if, and only if, the individual is authorized to carry a concealed weapon under state law in the state in which the national park or refuge is located. The update has been submitted to the Federal Register for publication and is available to the public on www.doi.gov.
Existing regulations regarding the carrying of firearms remain otherwise unchanged, particularly limitations on poaching and target practice and prohibitions on carrying firearms in federal buildings.
“America was founded on the idea that the federal and state governments work together to serve the public and preserve our natural resources,” Laverty said. “The Department’s final regulation respects this tradition by allowing individuals to carry concealed firearms in federal park units and refuges to the extent that they could lawfully do so under state law. This is the same basic approach adopted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the United States Forest Service (USFS), both of which allow visitors to carry weapons consistent with applicable federal and state laws.”
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Hell must have truly frozen over: the Star Telegram [AKA the Startle Gram] ran a positive story on firearms. It is great to hear this gentleman finally got a family heirloom back in his possession.
This story is a good reminder for all of us to keep an updated list of our firearms and their serial numbers.
Mystery solved: Woman on WWII vet’s gun ID’d
Posted on Sat, Aug. 30, 2008
Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler spent much of early Friday morning on the phone, talking to people about the Case of the Dark-Haired Beauty on the .45 Pistol.But none of the callers could answer Fowler’s questions about the seized weapon — who was the woman in the photos beneath the pistol’s custom plexiglass grips and who was the gun’s owner?Then, about mid-morning, an emotional Jim Morris called from his home in Stephenville with a story about a Nebraska girl who met a young officer from Texas and sent him off to fight the Germans.
Within a few hours, the case was solved.
“I have no doubt it’s his pistol,” Fowler said. “It’s a great ending to a mystery.”
Morris, 62, can hardly believe that he opened his morning Star-Telegram and saw his father’s service weapon and his mother’s picture, in the hands of the Parker County sheriff. He had all but given up hope he would see it again.
“Nothing in this world that I owned had more sentimental value to me,” he said. “That gun meant the world to me. It means the world to me. I was in tears when I read that article.”
Last October, someone stole three guns from Morris’ house, including his father’s .45-caliber Army pistol. He filed a police report with Stephenville but did not have the serial numbers.
Two months later, sheriff’s deputies in Parker County seized the weapon while executing a search warrant at a house near Azle. But because the serial number wasn’t in a crime database, they didn’t know to whom it belonged. They put it in a property room, where Fowler — a history buff — found it this month and renewed a search for the rightful owner.
Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, James L. Morris — born in Palestine, reared in Maypearl — dropped out of the Texas Tech University engineering program and enlisted in the Army. The Army sent him to officer candidate school in Virginia.
There he met Velma Cashatt, a girl from Harrison, Neb., who had gone to Washington, D.C., to work for the government during the war.
They married before he shipped out with the 82nd Engineer Combat Battalion, which landed at Omaha Beach two weeks after D-Day. Morris served as the battalion’s executive officer and later its commanding officer as the unit fought through France and Germany in 1944 and ’45, including the Battle of the Bulge.
“He got to see a lot of the horrors of that time,” his son said.
The custom, plexiglass hand grips came from the windshield of a crashed German bomber.
“His men took that windshield out and made those grips for his weapon,” Jim Morris said. “They really admired him.”
His father died last September at the age of 89. His mother died in 2005.
About 10 years before his father died, Jim Morris, a retired Navy chief petty officer, asked him for the gun. After losing it for nine months, he plans to drive to Weatherford on Tuesday to retrieve it and thank Fowler.
“I never thought I would see it again,” he said. “My son will get it when I pass away.”
Fowler, for his part, isn’t quite done with the case.
“I expect I’ll be filing charges of possession of stolen property on the guy who had it,” he said.
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Good to see another one of the Chicago suburbs give up on the futile gun bans. Hopefully if enough suburbs give up on gun bans then the leaders of the Communist Party of Illinois will give up their hold on Chicago.
Updated 7/29: Morton Grove repeals landmark gun ban
July 29, 2008
By Nick Katz nkatz@pioneerlocal.comMorton Grove trustees Monday threw out the village’s historic handgun ban.
But Trustee Georgianne Brunner, the only one to vote against the repeal, said she may be back with a proposal to require Morton Grove residents to register guns with the village.
The 5-1 vote repealing the 27-year-old ban on possession of handguns in the village came in a packed council chamber while news cameras clicked and a large number of reporters scribbled.
Unlike the usual village board meetings, Monday’s was covered by radio, television, daily newspaper and national wire service reporters as the village joined some other Chicago suburbs that have or plan to repeal similar bans.
Morton Grove gained national attention in 1981 when the handgun ban, the first in the nation, was approved during a series of contentious meetings that brought out both supporters and opponents of gun control.
The measure, challenged by local lawyer Victor Quilici, withstood a court challenge and was upheld by a U.S. Court of Appeals. The U.S. Supreme court declined to hear an appeal of that decision.
But in a June 26 ruling in a Washington D.C. case, District of Columbia v. Heller, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld, in a 5-4 vote, the right to have handguns at home for protection. It also said that regulations such as requiring that guns be disassembled or have trigger locks are unconstitutional.
The NRA-ILA Site Updates also chimed in on this subject
After court ruling, towns rush to repeal gun bans
In 1981, this quiet northern Chicago suburb made history by becoming the first municipality in the nation to ban the possession of handguns. Twenty-seven years later, Morton Grove has repealed its law, bowing to a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June that affirmed homeowners` right to keep guns for self-defense.
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