First Nebraskans Can Expect Carry Permits In About Two Weeks: Concealed 
handgun applications were issued for more than 60 Nebraskans during the 
first day under a new law Wednesday. It will be about two weeks before 
those first applicants can legally carry concealed weapons. The Nebraska 
State Patrol said it expects many more applicants.

http://www.ketv.com/news/10670049/detail.html
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Maryland City Recognizes LEOSA: The Ocean City Council approved a 
measure on Wednesday that will allow retired police officers to carry 
concealed handguns. The Council acted, at the request of the police 
department, to accept the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004.

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070104/NEWS/70104007
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NRA To Seek Compromise Parking-Lot Storage Bill In Georgia: The Atlanta 
Journal Constitution "reports" that the NRA is sponsoring a bill this 
session that would allow employees to keep firearms in their automobiles 
on company parking lots. This time, to avoid provoking big corporations, 
the bill would exempt companies that have their parking lots secured by 
gates and fences. Opposition from corporations did the bill in last year.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/politicalinsider/entries/2007/01/04/another_fight_over_who_control.html
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RAND Corporation To Review NYPD Firearms Training: Responding to the 
shooting death of an unarmed Queens man by police officers nearly seven 
weeks ago, New York City's Police Department has commissioned a 
six-month independent review of its firearms training, of instances in 
which officers have fired their guns and of the phenomenon of so-called 
contagious shooting, the department's top official said yesterday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/05/nyregion/05police.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
http://www.localnewswatch.com/benton/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=40042
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Taking Tear Gas To A Gunfight: A robber in Tennessee, who is reported to 
have also been armed with a pistol, sprayed an armored-car courier with 
some sort of chemical spray, only to get shot and seriously wounded by 
the courier.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/local/article/0,2845,MCA_25340_5256278,00.html
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A Peace-Lover Gets A Gun: So how does a peace-loving, anti-war female 
wind up with a Smith and Wesson .38 Special and a membership in the 
National Rifle Association? Partly because I'm a country-girl at heart 
and partly because I believe in Americans' rights to defend themselves...

http://newsbyus.com/more.php?id=6627_0_1_0_M
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ATK Lands DHS Ammo Contract: Alliant Techsystems has received a series 
of contracts to supply the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 
with a variety of small-caliber ammunition. (ATK is the parent company 
of Federal, Speer and CCI and operates the Lake City and Radford Army 
Ammunition Plants under government contracts.)

http://www.techweb.com/showPressRelease.jhtml?articleID=X567357

Scottish Paper Decries Draft NRA Publication: The Scotsman Runs a brief 
article about the pamphlet "Freedom in Peril," including a quotation 
from prohibitionist Josh Sugarmann. (Readers comments tend to support 
the American concept of the RKBA.)

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=21212007

-- 
Stephen P. Wenger

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

http://www.spw-duf.info



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