Good-Samartian Shooting At New Mexico Wal-Mart: A female employee at a 
Wal-Mart store in Albuquerque was stabbed by her ex-husband. The stabber 
was then shot fatally by a customer, who appears to have been licensed 
to carry concealed. Not mentioned yet in news reports is that the good 
samaritan could conceivably face a felony charge for carrying a firearm 
in a business where alcohol is sold.

http://www.krqe.com/expanded.asp?ID=11737
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Other Wal-Mart Shooter Stopped Medication: A man who fatally shot two 
employees in a Phoenix-area Wal-Mart parking lot a few days ago had a 
long history of mental illness and had stopped taking his medication for 
schizophrenia four months ago.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0826sister26.html
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Workplace Gun Bans Cost Lives: Commenting on the battle over the 
Oklahoma law that would block employers from banning firearms in 
employees' vehicles parked on company lots, John Lott and April Dabney 
look at the actual evidence.

http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.23059/pub_detail.asp
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Most Workplace Homicides Are Robbery-Related: The NRA-ILA looks at 
another set of statistics and finds that most workplace homicides are 
not committed by disgruntled employees or estranged intimate partners.

http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=181
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Bringing A Fork To A Gunfight, Sort Of...: A Louisiana man who tried to 
simulate a handgun with a fork, in order to rob a convenience store, 
ended up taking a few lumps from a baseball bat wielded by the clerk. 
Both combatants dropped their weapons when a customer fired a warning 
shot into the ground.

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050825/APN/508250816&cachetime=3&template=dateline
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Ex-Husband Dies After Shootout: A Louisiana man who broke into the home 
of his ex-wife lost a gunfight with another man who was in the home. 
Note that after being hit with several rounds, he fled to his car, then 
drove off before dying.

http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050825/NEWS01/508250333/1002
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Strange Case In Texas: A tiny woman who fatally shot her abusive 
boyfriend has been acquitted of murder charges even though she initially 
let her 9-year-old son claim that he had fired the fatal shot.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3325090
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Virginia County Backs Off Firearm-Discharge Amendment: Protesting 
citizens appear to have discouraged Prince George County supervisors 
from tightening restrictions on the discharge of firearms.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15089201&BRD=2271&PAG=461&dept_id=462946&rfi=6
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Interesting Road-Rage Case: An Oregon truck driver may have learned a 
valuable lesson about not confronting aggressive drivers after a young 
motorist used a left-turn lane to pass him just before a traffic signal. 
When the trucker walked up to the other vehicle, stopped at the light, 
the driver pointed a pistol at him. The driver faces several criminal 
charges and has had his CWP suspended pending the outcome of the case.

http://www.newsregister.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=197518
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NYPD Deploys .50's On Helicopters: The NYPD has purchased a few Barrett 
.50-caliber rifles and has mounted at least three of them on helicopters.

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_237170039.html
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Why Did You Move There?: Some neighbors are complaining about the noise 
from the Everett WA police range. Home buyers were warned about the 
range when they purchased homes in the Forest Preserve, city spokeswoman 
Kate Reardon said.

http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/05/08/25/100loc_gunrange001.cfm
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South African Licensing Law Is Disguised Disarmament Scheme: Police 
admit that no new firearm licenses have been issued in West Cape 
province since the new licensing law took effect and only 15 licenses 
have been renewed. Chairperson of the South African Gunowners' 
Association in the Western Cape, Thomas Eastes, said matters seemed 
abysmal in the rest of the country too.

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1758060,00.html

-- 
Stephen P. Wenger

Firearm safety - It's a matter 
for education, not legislation.

http://www.spw-duf.info



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