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Tuesday, October 22, 2002

Maryland Gun Record Scandal

True to form, Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who has cynically sought to exploit the recent sniper attacks ...

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Monday, October 21, 2002

Firing Blanks On Ballistic Prints

The sniper spree in the D.C. area has spawned calls for "ballistic fingerprinting" of firearms. Sen. Charles Schumer, ...

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Monday, October 21, 2002

"Smart Gun" Effort Gripped By Debate

New Jersey is homing in on legislating this image of a personalized handgun--a concept likely years away from ...

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Monday, October 21, 2002

Background Check Snafu Embarrassing For Townsend

With the Washington-area sniper putting gun control at the top of the agenda, Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend`s ...

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Monday, October 21, 2002

"Ballistic Fingerprinting" -- The Maryland Example:Costing Taxpayers Without Benefiting Law Enforcement

In 2000 Maryland became the first state to require that new handguns must be "ballistically fingerprinted" before they ...

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Friday, October 18, 2002

The Gun-Control Exploitation Society

Gun-control opportunists have wasted no time exploiting the serial sniper shootings as if on a mission to undermine ...

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Friday, October 18, 2002

The Next International Right

The past century was one of barbarism and mass murder, one in which the world stood by while ...

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Friday, October 18, 2002

Milk Protest Turns Sour

Scottish police had to break up an animal rights, anti-milk protest when schoolchildren in Aberdeen pelted activists with ...

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Thursday, October 17, 2002

Joint Statement On Ballistic "Fingerprinting"

Wayne LaPierre Executive Vice-President National Rifle Association & Chris W. Cox Executive Director, National Rifle Association - Institute ...

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Thursday, October 17, 2002

Anti-Gun Propaganda On Showtime

On October 13, Showtime aired a movie, Bang Bang You`re Dead, about school violence. The movie ostensibly is ...

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Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the "lobbying" arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.