I'm not ordinarily a channel surfer, but stuck in a hotel room recently, I tuned in to Dallas SWAT. It's a video ride-along with SWAT teams in various parts of the country — this one was in Detroit. I've seen scarier things on TV in the past few years from the September 11 attacks to the Waco horror. But this one was scary because it was so routine. Detroit cops working with the Secret Service served a search warrant against the house of someone accused of — get this — identity theft!
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Hilarious Video: Personal Gun Free Zone
The folks at the Fox Half Hour News Hour have done a wonderful spoof that points out the stupidity of "Gun Free Zones."
The video is fast becoming an internet phenomenon as it is e-mailed around the world.
View it here and be sure to send your friends here to watch it too.
Just click below to view the video.
Parker Heads to SCOTUS
(Manassas, VA, July 17, 2007) The Mayor of Washington DC, Adrian Fenty, yesterday announced that the District is indeed going to appeal the “Parker” case to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The original deadline for filing an appeal was August 7, but the District has requested, and will likely be granted, a 30 day extension for preparing their appeal.
There has been much speculation as the August deadline has drawn closer that DC would choose not to appeal the case for fear of strengthening the precedent set when the Federal Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the District’s long-standing gun prohibition laws were a violation of individual rights protected
OSHA Running for Cover
In response to the flood of concern and criticizm from gun activists, OSHA today dramatically backed away from proposed new regulations which would have made manufacture, storage, and sale of ammunition, primers, powders, and pecussion caps virtually impossible.
Here's what NSSF had to say about the situation:
“Parker” Analysis
“Parker” Headed to Supreme Court
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Sesame Street/NRA-ILA Contribution Tie-In
Something for the "Oh, for pity's sake!" file from the Philadelphia Daily News. What I love is the way the newsies twist it around to where Elmo's threatening someone…
NRA -Sesame Place tie draws gun-foes' fire
By GLORIA CAMPISI
campisg@phillynews.com 215-854-5935
Put the gun down, Elmo.
That's the war cry of gun-control advocates after learning that a National Rifle Association Web site is offering discounted tickets to Sesame Place and other kid-friendly theme parks – in return for donations to the NRA's political arm, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA).
"This is a very strange thing, the connection between guns, the NRA and Sesame Place," said Bryan Miller, executive director of Ceasefire NJ. "It looks to me like a PR nightmare."
"There is no conflict of interest by having the theme-park tickets available," said NRA spokeswoman Ashley Varner.