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Minnesota Stand-Your-Ground Bill Expected Next Year: Judges in Minnesota 
have long recognized a right to self-defense, particularly in defending 
one's home. Two legislators say they want to incorporate that 
recognition into state law and further reaffirm that it includes the 
same protections for anyplace that citizens have a right to be.

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/14501132.htm
http://www.startribune.com/587/story/413272.html
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TSA Watch List Ensnares Government Officials: Article discusses the 
problems of people, including government officials and servicemen with 
high-level security clearances, have as a result of mistaken listing on 
terrorism "watch lists." Yet, prohibitionists in Congress want to block 
firearm sales to people on such lists.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70783-0.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2
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California Man Cleared In Self-Defense Shooting: A Healdsburg man has 
learned that the district attorney's office has ruled that his fatal 
shooting of a man who took the shooter's wife hostage at gunpoint was 
justifiable. Assistant district attorney Larry Scoufos decided Tuesday 
that it didn't matter that the intruder's weapon turned out to be a 
pellet pistol.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/politics/14497593.htm
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Oops, Wrong Neighbor: Three armed men, fleeing a home they had just 
invaded, made the mistake of opening fire on a neighbor who had been 
summoned for help. One of the robbers is dead, one is in custody and the 
third is being sought.

http://www.local10.com/news/9158243/detail.html
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14499074.htm
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Good Thing She Had The Dogs: An Arizona woman who received a visit from 
a rabid mountain lion says, "I made a leap for where I usually keep a 
rifle. Unfortunately, I had just removed all my firearms to a secure, 
locked area in anticipation of some friends coming to visit with their 
child that next weekend, and my rifle wasn't there."

http://www.paysonroundup.com/section/localnews/story/23269
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What Caliber Is That Finger?: Police in Mesa AZ have tentatively 
identified the shooter in the road-rage death of a motorist on a freeway 
back in December. (Note that the shooting occurred after the dead 
driver"Flipped the bird" at the occupants of another vehicle.)

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=64825
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Girl Scout Shooting Program: Girl Scout leaders in a town in Michigan 
decided to emulate a Boy Scout program and have been introducing the 
girls to sporting clays.

http://www.mlive.com/sports/fljournal/index.ssf?/base/sports-1/114675241756450.xml&coll=5
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Canada's Conservatives To Disable Firearm Registry: Sources say the 
federal government will announce a one year amnesty for gun owners who 
fail to register a firearm, or if they let their license expire. The 
government will waive the payment of any fees and it will refund the 
fees paid by gun owners in recent months. Until the registry is 
eliminated, responsibility for it will move from the public safety 
minister, to the RCMP.

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=61509d9e-0a4b-4481-ae33-900da829b6b0&k=70914
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Canada's Conservatives To Get Tough On Crime: Canada's minority 
Conservative government will attempt to revise the nation's 
criminal-justice with a set of measures to put more people in jail and 
keep them there longer if they commit drug, gang, or gun crimes or 
reoffend while on parole.

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=4801b0b1-8347-44c8-8078-2c99b0022231&k=58050 


-- 
Stephen P. Wenger

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

http://www.spw-duf.info



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