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Entries from June 2008

MARTA Takes Aim At GA Gun Owners

June 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

From GeorgiaCarry.Org:

Please use caution on MARTA!
Those of you who live in the Atlanta area know that MARTA is the local mass transit agency. It operates both buses and trains. GeorgiaCarry.Org previously informed you in a GCO Update that it was working in conjunction with MARTA (at MARTA’s invitation) to develop an agreed policy [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Crime/Law · Georgia · Government · Guns

All People Have The Right To Live Without Fear

June 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

From 11Alive:

The right to hike — it’s the mission friends of slain hiker Meredith Emerson have undertaken. Emerson’s friends have founded a non-profit organization called Right To Hike that will give hikers a device that could mean the difference between life and death.
“We want to make sure that this doesn’t happen to anyone again — [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Gun Free Zone · Guns

SCOTUS Affirms Heller

June 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

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Tags: Crime/Law · Guns

A Framework Of A Leftist Government

June 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

For the first time in U.S. history, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that individual Americans have the right to own guns for personal use, and struck down a strict gun control law in the U.S. capital.
The landmark 5-4 ruling marked the first time in nearly 70 years the country’s high court has addressed whether [...]

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You Are Known By The Company You Keep

June 29th, 2008 · Comments Off

From a little-read article on USAToday:

A judge in Ohio says the state’s method of putting prisoners to death is unconstitutional because two of three drugs used in the lethal injection process can cause pain.
Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge said Tuesday the state’s lethal injection procedure doesn’t provide the quick and painless death required [...]

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Tags: Government · Terrorism · The Left

Gun Rights Ruling May Change Chicago Law

June 28th, 2008 · Comments Off

From cbs2chicago:

U.S. Sen. John McCain said Thursday that the Supreme Court ruling in favor of gun ownership showed that the Chicago handgun ban has “infringed on the constitutional rights of Americans.”
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee called the ruling a “landmark victory for Second Amendment freedom in the United States.”
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Gun Owners Against Obama

June 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments

According to the 1998 Illinois State Legislative National Political Awareness Test of July 2, 1998, Obama also supports the banning of all semi-automatic weapon sales and transfers.

When most people hear “semi-automatic weapon” they picture a machine gun pouring out hundreds of rounds per minute, killing untold thousands of children, elderly, and puppies. But the [...]

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When Does ‘Semiautomatic’ Mean ‘Machine Gun’?

June 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

From The Violence Policy Center, one of the most effective anti-gun hysteria brokers in Washington:

The [Supreme] Court’s ruling today [on DC v Heller] does not appear to affect the District’s [of Columbia] ban on “machine guns,” which under DC law includes any gun “which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily converted or [...]