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 The Brady bunch has released its annual scorecard rating states based on how strict their gun laws are. The scorecard is a very useful tool to help rights groups understand how their state compares to others on a liberty scale; more points = less liberty.
Alaska, link Arizona and Utah have all achieved the coveted Zero Points/Zero Stars on the Brady scale and are now competing to see which state will be the first into negative numbers – which is possible through bonus points. Arizona and Alaska can reach a -2 point score by protecting carry rights on campuses of state colleges and universities. Utah already has such protections, but could achieve a -2 score by adopting constitutional (permitless) concealed carry as Alaska and Arizona have. Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, North Dakota and Oklahoma all came in with just 2 points apiece and all have a real shot at beating the leaders into negative numbers with the right combination of reforms.-[source]
 A man searching for buried treasure with a metal detector found a box of live grenades instead.
This happened about a mile away from the Bush and Beeline Highways.
The box wasn’t tampered with and authorities were called immediately.
“He found a box that actually said grenades on it..and we’re going to investigate to find out exactly what was in there,” said Chris Hegstrom of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office. “It looks like it may be from the mid ’80s…if they’re actually grenades.”
At this time there are no traffic restrictions.-[source]
 Can the president kill an American simply because the person is dangerous and his arrest would be impractical? Can the president be judge, jury and executioner of an American in a foreign country because he believes that would keep America safe? Can Congress authorize the president to do this?
Earlier this week, U.S. Attorney General Herr Erich Holder attempted to justify presidential killing in a speech at Northwestern University law school. In it, he recognized the requirement of the Fifth Amendment for due process. He argued that the president may substitute the traditionally understood due process — a public jury trial — with the president’s own novel version of it; that would be a secret deliberation about killing.
Without mentioning the name of the American the president recently ordered killed, Holder suggested that the president’s careful consideration of the case of New Mexico-born Anwar Al-Awlaki constituted a substituted form of due process.-[source]
 A US drone killed at least eight militants Friday when it fired two missiles on a vehicle in Pakistan’s tribal badlands near the Afghan border, security officials said.
The attack took place in the Shaktoi area of South Waziristan, part of the tribal belt that Washington considers a global hub of Taliban and al Qaeda militants.
“A drone fired two missiles on a vehicle. At least eight militants were killed,” a senior security official said. “It is not immediately clear if some important target was hit in the missile strike.”-[source]
Virginia Tech’s president Friday defended the university’s actions during a 2007 campus attack that left 33 people dead in the worst shooting spree in modern US history.
Charles Steger took the stand Friday in a wrongful death trial commenced by parents of two of the shooting victims.
The parents claim Virginia Tech officials might have prevented the deaths of their children and others if they had issued an earlier warning after the first lethal shootings committed by gunman Seung-Hui Cho.
Cho murdered two students in a dormitory on the morning of April 16, 2007, before perpetrating the worst of his rampage hours later. The massacre only ended after Cho committed suicide.
Steger testified Friday that he was informed about the dormitory murders shortly after 8:00am, after classes had already started for the day and nearly an hour after the shootings occurred, WTKR-TV reported.
He said he was told by Virginia Tech’s police chief the shootings were “domestic” and did not pose a threat to students.-[source]
 A San Diego County man accused of firing a cannon-like device that killed his girlfriend has been charged with murder.
District attorney’s spokesman Steve Walker said 39-year-old Richard Fox pleaded not guilty Thursday in the death of 38-year-old Jeanette Ogara.
Fox was also charged with exploding a destructive device and child endangerment, because the couple’s sleeping 4-year-old daughter was in the trailer. She escaped unharmed.
Prosecutors say Fox was drinking with Ogara and friends Tuesday in the town of Potrero when he went outside and ignited the homemade mortar device, sending shrapnel into the trailer that struck Ogara in the chest. Fox injured his leg.
Superior Court Judge Charles Ervin set bail at $3.5 million. If convicted of all charges, Fox faces life in prison without parole.-[source]
 A knife-wielding shoplifter was shot and killed inside a store in the Woodbridge Center shopping mall this afternoon after holding a person hostage, authorities said.
The shooting occurred at about 5 p.m. inside the Hollister store in the Sears section of the mall, The Star Ledger of Newark reported.
The newspaper, citing a source, said the alleged shoplifter was confronted by mall security guards.
That’s when the shoplifter pulled out a knife and held a person hostage.
A Woodbridge police officer, who arrived at the store, shot the suspect dead.
It was not immediately known if the cop was on-duty or not at the time.-[source]
A man armed with two semiautomatic handguns entered the lobby of a psychiatric clinic at the University of Pittsburgh on Thursday and opened fire, killing one person and wounding several others before he was shot dead, apparently by campus police, the mayor said.
Six people were wounded by the man’s gunfire, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said. A seventh suffered unspecified injuries but wasn’t shot, officials said.
The mayor stopped short of confirming the gunman was fatally shot by at least one University of Pittsburgh police officer who responded. But he confirmed “police acted admirably and did engage in gunfire.”-[source]
 The Second Amendment Foundation is delighted that the Washington State Supreme Court has unanimously denied the City of Seattle’s petition for review in the case of Winnie Chan v. City of Seattle, information pills a legal action brought by SAF, remedy the National Rifle Association and five individual plaintiffs.
The decision affirms the state’s long-standing preemption law and two lower court rulings, thus preventing the city from banning firearms from city parks property.
It was the third straight loss for the city, which had first attempted to ban firearms from park facilities under former Mayor Greg Nickels, in open defiance of Washington State’s model preemption statute. Following its initial loss in King County Superior Court, the city, under Nickels’ successor, Mayor Mike McGinn, appealed its loss to the State Court of Appeals. That court also ruled unanimously against the city, which petitioned the state high court last year for review.
“We are proud that the State Supreme Court panel, led by Chief Justice Barbara Madsen, unanimously rejected Seattle’s flagrant attempt to override state law and violate the civil rights of citizens living in or visiting the city,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “Mayor McGinn and the City Council should be ashamed that they pursued this pipe dream in an effort to turn the city into a banana republic. By letting the appeals court ruling stand, other anti-gun officials in city and county governments are on notice that they simply cannot ignore state law.-[source]
Whether fueled by speculation of gun control or because of supply hoarders, some Killeen-area retailers are seeing an ammunition shortage.
“It’s been busy for quite some time, but in the last month, I’ve noticed that when I call the distributors, there’s really nothing available,” Guns Galore Manager David Cheadle said.
The director of the National Rifle Association’s Texas affiliate said many gun owners perceive President Barack Obama’s administration as a threat to gun ownership.
“A lot of (the shortage) is driven by fears of Second Amendment rights being taken away or eroding,” said Steve Hall, the association’s executive director. Obama has remained mum on the subject but “he has definite known members in his Cabinet that are gun control supporters.”-[source]
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