California Chronicle Sep 6, 2007
Crime Gun Identification Act Passed Senate Floor
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) - AB 1471, authored by Assemblymember Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) passed the Senate Floor today with a vote of 21:17. The legislation, called the Crime Gun Identification Act of 2007, requires that all new models of semiautomatic handgun are microstamped with its make, model and identification number. Microstamping, which is used to identify guns used in crimes, would be required on all new models of semiautomatic handguns sold in California after 2010. The bill, AB 1471, has the backing of the Los Angeles Police Department, the Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC), as well ...read the full article


Washington Times Sep 5, 2007
City asks high court to uphold gun ban
D.C. officials yesterday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that struck down the city's 30-year-old handgun ban. "I want to make clear that this is more than just an intellectual debate," D.C. Attorney General Linda Singer said at a press conference outside Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Northwest yesterday. "It is, for the residents of the District of Columbia, literally a matter of life and death." Mrs. Singer said she expects to hear in November whether the Supreme Court will hear the case, which could lead to the first direct ruling by the high court on the ...read the full article


Raleigh News & Observer Sep 5, 2007
Rifles at ready boost police firepower in Triangle
Garner's reputation is that of a friendly small town, but its police officers are arming themselves for extreme situations. By November, the 61 patrol officers in the southern Wake town will have high-powered military-style rifles. More police departments across the country are instituting or expanding what they call "patrol rifle" programs, in which officers have rifles within quick reach, usually in the trunks of their patrol cars. It allows them to respond quickly to a major threat, for which seconds count, without waiting for a SWAT team. Cary, Chapel Hill and Durham already have patrol rifle programs. Raleigh is considering one. Officers say the ...read the full article


Chicago Tribune Sep 5, 2007
D.C. gun case may hit Chicago
Those who would do away with Washington's near-total ban on handguns will tell you point-blank their next target: Chicago. Gun-rights advocates scored a stunning success earlier this year when a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court in Washington swept aside the District of Columbia's ban on owning handguns, which had been in place since 1976. On Tuesday, the district government appealed the decision to the Supreme Court. If the court takes the case, as many observers believe it will, it could place Chicago's handgun ban, as well as similar laws nationwide, in jeopardy. "There is reason to be concerned at this point," ...read the full article


Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 5, 2007
The Va. Tech Report
You don't need to pass college history to learn a great deal from all of the tragic mistakes made prior to the nation's worst campus massacre. An exhaustive report on the April 16 Virginia Tech killings, issued last week by Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, provides the equivalent of a course syllabus for the study of what to do, and not do, in similar life-and-death circumstances. It's the work of a review panel that included former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge. In its detailed recommendations, the panel sets out reforms that could take years and millions of dollars to achieve. Not only universities are ...read the full article


Politics NJ Aug 29, 2007
44 years later to the day, the "Dream" in Newark
Mayor Cory Booker and his team arrived in office promising youthful vigor and now they're the authority figures and the older generation of resistance-schooled Newarkers are still the fiery outsiders beating on the gates of power - even as they hold power. And Newark is still battling. In honor of the 44th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, the mayor and other city leaders revisited the Ivy Hill neighborhood in the West Ward on Tuesday evening to re-commit themselves to the fight against guns and gang violence in the wake of schoolyard executions here earlier this month that ...read the full article


Hawaii Reporter Jun 17, 2006
Showdown on global 'gun control' looming at UN June 24-July 7
In recent years the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” seem to be used interchangeably, the difference for diplomats at the United Nations (UN) seems to be whether or not the diplomats can officially call it one or the other. They like to avoid the term genocide because it seems to carry an extra measure of opprobrium that offends the governments engaged in such mass murders. Whatever you call it, the government-sponsored murder of thousands or even millions of people of one color, religion, cultural difference by another group of a different color, religion or cultural difference is the most heinous kind of ...read the full article


New York Post Mar 31, 2006
New York Mayor Comes out Blasting


Mar 30, 2006
A Focused National Strategy to Address the Scourge of Illegal Guns


Mar 30, 2006
Fighting the Problem of Illegal Guns in the States