No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.19/231 - Release Date: 1/16/2006 Shall-Issue CCW For Delaware?: Legislation has been introduced to move Delaware from being a very restrictive may-issue state to shall-issue. Article includes an account of one attorney's battle to get licensed under the present system. http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060115/NEWS/60115005/-1/NEWS01 --- Virginia Senate Panel Kills Gun-Show Bill: For the fourth consecutive year a bill to mandate background checks for private-party sales at gun shows has been rejected in Virginia's legislature. http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&%09s=1045855935241&c=MGArticle&cid=1128769346616&path=!news!vaapwire --- Seattle Proposes "Crime Gun Program Coordinator": The City of Seattle plans to hire a "Crime Gun Program Coordinator" who, from all indications, will be "nothing more than a bureaucrat whose job will be to create and advocate gun control schemes under the guise of stopping criminal misuse of firearms," the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today. http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=59315 --- Border Patrol Agent Faces Straw-Purchase Charges: A Border Patrol agent in Texas has been indicted on two charges for purchasing a pistol for a Mexican national who intended to smuggle it into Mexico. http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/politics/13637719.htm --- Visit NYC Or Learn Firearm Safety?: Students at a Christian academy in Alabama experience an "interim week" to transition back into the school routine following the holiday break. This year's choices included a teacher-led trip to New York City and a course in firearm safety. http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/politics/13637719.htm --- Canada - Pro-RKBA Professor To Speak In Vancouver: Professor Gary Mauser will speak on Wednesday, January 18, at a Fraser Institute policy briefing in Vancouver, on "Guns and Gangs in Canada: What Should We Do?" (Mauser is one of the few Canadian intellectuals who has taken a stand against Canada's increasing restrictions on firearm ownership.) http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2006/16/c2418.html -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .