May 8, 2003
A three-judge panel has produced opinions totaling 1,600 pages attempting to decipher the McCain-Feingold campaign regulation law and decide if it is compatible with this inconvenience...
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May 8, 2003
In a Brooklyn federal court, the defense wrapped up its case in a lawsuit brought by the NAACP against Smith & Wesson, Glock, and dozens of other players in the firearm industry. Cherry-picking...
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May 8, 2003
"Eight years ago, when zero-tolerance fever was sweeping the nation, this editorial page supported strong rules against campus drugs and weapons but warned against blanket policies...
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May 8, 2003
The culture wars have entered a new phase and the feds have the big guns. They`ve put the politically correct educationists on the run, overwhelming them with intellectual firepower,...
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May 7, 2003
A bill that would reclassify as livestock all deer on Iowa breeding farms and hunting preserves has touched off a debate over how best to monitor and control the potential spread of...
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May 7, 2003
Target shooters have dodged a very large bullet over the threatened closure of Cherry Creek Shooting Center, the only such facility still in operation in the Denver metro area.Read...
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May 7, 2003
Women need to defend themselves, especially single women or those with husbands overseas. And the media has a responsibility to discuss honestly the issue of gun ownership. The John...
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May 7, 2003
Lawyers representing members of the firearm industry sued by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) rested their case after a week of testimony. Lawyers...
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May 6, 2003
Government lawyers trying to keep the Norfolk farmer Tony Martin behind bars will tell a High Court judge that burglars are members of the public who must be protected from violent...
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May 6, 2003
New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer, an outspoken advocate of campaign-finance reform, has been hit with one of the biggest fines ever imposed on a member of Congress by the Federal...
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May 6, 2003
The House gave final approval Monday to a bill allowing Missourians to carry concealed handguns, sending the measure to Gov. Bob Holden, who has promised to veto it. "It`s time that...
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May 6, 2003
On May 6, Sen. John Cornyn, (R-Texas) and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee`s subcommittee on the Constitution, will convene a hearing on "Judicial Nominations, Filibusters,...
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May 6, 2003
At the West Side Rifle & Pistol Range, Manhattan`s only private firing range, the bangs of gunfire are sounds of recreation. Located in the basement of a Chelsea office building, the...
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May 5, 2003
Supporters of a bill that would allow Missourians to carry concealed guns forced the measure to Senate passage Friday by employing a rarely used procedure.
After more than 11 hours...
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May 5, 2003
A federal panel has struck down or rewrote most of the campaign finance reform law signed into law last year. "As it stands, this decision creates a favored, privileged category of...
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May 5, 2003
Gun control advocates should fear the new handgun carry law, but not for the reason that most people think. The law allows trained, law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns...
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May 5, 2003
The gun industry, demonstrating its resurgent influence over Washington politics, is on the cusp of convincing President Bush and Congress to protect it from pending and future lawsuits....
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May 5, 2003
"Cincinnati`s decision this week to drop its 4-year-old lawsuit against gun manufacturers was a good if inevitable move. We only wish they`d pulled the plug on it earlier," says the...
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May 2, 2003
In his State of the State address, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. said: "As long as gun-toting criminals roam our streets and communities, no one is safe. It`s time to bring Project Exile...
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May 2, 2003
Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), says she has drawn up a will directing that her flesh be barbecued and her skin used to make leather...
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May 1, 2003
A Democrat`s bill that would link stricter gun laws to national security concerns appears dead on arrival in the Senate, a fact that some see as evidence of the decline of the gun-control...
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May 1, 2003
A state court has said Ferndale, Mich., officials can`t keep gun owners from carrying their firearms into libraries, city halls and other municipal buildings. The ruling gives a victory...
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May 1, 2003
"The New York Times in yet another editorial rant against a Bush federal judge nominee shows why we cannot entrust the Constitution to liberals. They view it not as an institutional...
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April 30, 2003
Following the sniper attacks in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia in the early fall of 2002, gun control advocates intensified their demands that the federal government develop...
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April 30, 2003
Lawyer Stanley M. Chesley told Cincinnati City Council on Tuesday that he could not justify moving forward with the city`s 4-year-old lawsuit against the gun industry, dealing a major...
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April 30, 2003
Most of what the opponents said about the conceal-and-carry permit, and how they dressed while saying it, did not make sense. More than a few of the elected worthies wore bulletproof...
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April 30, 2003
Two women who are victims of prior criminal assaults and a representative of a pro-gun women`s organization claim they were set up by the John Walsh Show on Tuesday`s episode, which...
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April 30, 2003
Olmsted County Sheriff Steve Borchardt was cooling down from his 6 a.m. run in Rochester Tuesday when a neighbor pulled up in his pickup truck to ask how he could get his gun permit.
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April 29, 2003
It took the longest debate in memory on the floor of the Minnesota Senate, but a bill to make permits to carry handguns in public available to more people gained final legislative approval...
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April 29, 2003
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., is gearing up for another battle with the National Rifle Association.
At a press conference outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Camden on...
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April 28, 2003
Charlton Heston ended his term as president of the National Rifle Association Saturday the same way he began it, declaring his devotion to the Second Amendment and his love for the...
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April 28, 2003
Progressive Conservative leadership candidates yesterday differed on regional development grants, Air Canada and the Iraqi war--but were in solid agreement that the gun registry should...
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April 28, 2003
Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Friday tried to reassure Minnesotans that they wouldn`t be in greater danger if, as expected, he signs into law a bill that would allow more people to carry loaded,...
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April 25, 2003
Charlton Heston brought more than passion as president of the National Rifle Association: His celebrity helped amplify the group`s gun-rights message and put supporters in Congress...
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April 25, 2003
Yes, folks, today is the day. April 24th is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day®. What used to be known simply as Take Our Daughters to Work Day has now been expanded and improved...
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April 25, 2003
An Assembly bill would make it easier for senior citizens and people with disabilities to hunt on Wisconsin-owned property, but could open the lands to the stress of all-terrain vehicles.Read...
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