February 5, 2003
Have the House Democrats lost their minds? Why did they elect Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a certified liberal, as their leader? Why were they obvious in sitting down during Bush`s...
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February 4, 2003
It`s more than a little ironic that many politicians who push for stringent gun-control laws now want the federal government to sit on its hands while a madman like Saddam Hussein sits...
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February 4, 2003
Using jury awards to damage the gun industry, the way they were used to bleed Big Tobacco, is the wrong way to fix what?s wrong with firearms in America. Juries and judges should resist...
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February 4, 2003
Two reports that were supposed to get to the bottom of the troubles with the Canadian government`s billion-dollar gun registry don`t answer key questions raised by the auditor general,...
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February 4, 2003
Canada`s firearms registry could cost more than $500 million over the next 10 years unless the government streamlines the program and begins collecting license and registration fees...
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February 3, 2003
Testimony by FBI experts about chemical "matches" between bullets has helped put hundreds of defendants behind bars across the country. In one Texas case, such testimony contributed...
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February 3, 2003
At Fresno State in February known advocates and practitioners of arson, vandalism, and worse will congregate for a confab called "Revolutionary Environmentalism: A Dialogue Between...
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February 3, 2003
At a time when juries hand down multibillion-dollar awards as if they were "Employee of the Month" plaques, the real news may be the seemingly rare occasions when courts take the side...
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February 3, 2003
An outside report on Ottawa`s beleaguered gun control program is expected to be delivered to the justice minister tomorrow, a government spokesman said yesterday. The program, now estimated...
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January 31, 2003
Attorney General John Ashcroft says federal gun prosecutions increased by 32% last year under the Justice Department`s 2-year-old Project Safe Neighborhoods program, and vowed a significant...
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January 31, 2003
Second Amendment experts say current gun control laws are preventing law-abiding African Americans from acting in self-defense against the illegally armed criminals that infest their...
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January 31, 2003
John Ashcroft`s political enemies mocked him for belonging to a denomination that does not allow its members to engage in dancing. As Attorney General Ashcroft has done absolutely nothing...
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January 31, 2003
The Manhattan Libertarian party launched its "Guns for Tots" campaign to protest a New York City Council bill that would make toy guns illegal in New York City. Worried about the loss...
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January 30, 2003
The technology doesn`t yet exist to enable California to track the ballistic "fingerprints" of every firearm made and sold in the state, Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Wednesday...
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January 30, 2003
Ron Dixon acted the way any of us would have -- if, that is, we had the same courage. He pointed his 9 mm and fired. Dixon shot the intruder he had found rummaging through his 2-year-old...
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January 29, 2003
The National Rifle Association is promoting tort reform in the form of a bill that would protect the firearms industry from civil liability suits when the defect less products they...
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January 29, 2003
This week, two unlikely judges shared a small moment of justice on behalf of the Second Amendment.
In Florida, Judge Jorge Labarga, of butterfly ballot fame, threw out a $1.2 million...
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January 29, 2003
Dave Butz tried golf, fishing and other leisurely pursuits to try to duplicate the thrill of an NFL game. Only one came close, and it wasn`t golf or fishing.
It was sporting clays,...
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January 28, 2003
Two months after a jury gave gun control advocates a major victory, a South Florida judge took it away Monday, tossing out a $1.2 million award to the widow of a slain schoolteacher.
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January 28, 2003
The evidence concerning gun control is unequivocal and conclusive: It hasn`t worked, just as its critics always said it wouldn`t. The reason for this is obvious: law-abiding people...
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January 27, 2003
Two related California studies to be released this week conclude that it is now impractical to catalog the ballistic "fingerprints" of every firearm in California, findings that gun-control...
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January 27, 2003
Thanks to Baltimore Circuit Court Judge John M. Glynn, justice finally prevailed Thursday, as two businessmen were acquitted of first-degree murder charges for killing a weapon-toting...
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January 23, 2003
After more than two centuries of history with the Treasury Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms on Friday will report to a new boss: the Justice Department.
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January 23, 2003
One month after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, about 40,000 people asked the Florida Department of State for an application for a concealed weapons permit, roughly 20 times...
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January 23, 2003
A British teacher sacked for allowing a student to take a 2-ft. fake gun to a photography class feels his life has been ruined, his union representative said yesterday.
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January 23, 2003
Don`t blame McDonald`s that your children are fat. So says U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet, who dismissed a lawsuit yesterday that blamed the McDonald`s Corp. fast-food chain for obesity...
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January 22, 2003
They buried World War II Marine fighter ace Joe Foss out at Arlington National Cemetery yesterday. Joseph Jacob Foss was one of the great American warriors of his generation, a man...
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January 22, 2003
Something happened in Buffalo recently that contradicts the propaganda of those who support gun control, which is the control of law-abiding people who wish to own a gun for protection...
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January 22, 2003
A new California law this year requires handgun buyers to pass a written test and show they know how to handle a gun before they can purchase it, among other requirements. But just...
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January 22, 2003
City officials in Norfolk, Va., are giving up for now on their quest to keep guns out of some public meetings. The City Council had hoped to regain some authority to regulate guns that...
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January 21, 2003
Gun-control advocates weren`t happy to see Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. win the Maryland governorship. But are gun-control laws really effective at reducing violent crime?
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January 17, 2003
Tony Martin, the British farmer jailed for shooting dead a burglar, had his application for parole rejected yesterday. The three members of the Parole Board, who met in London to review...
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January 17, 2003
Surgical teams accidentally leave clamps, sponges and other tools inside about 1,500 patients nationwide each year, according to the biggest study of the problem yet.
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January 16, 2003
A bill that would have required unlicensed dealers at gun shows to conduct background checks on people purchasing guns failed to get out of committee Wednesday. "The committee obviously...
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January 16, 2003
The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 is now before the federal courts on an expedited schedule. An initial decision is expected within weeks. The Supreme Court will take the case...
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January 16, 2003
The United States is at risk of turning into a full-fledged surveillance society where "Big Brother is watching you," says a report released yesterday by the American Civil Liberties...
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