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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:51:23 GMT
House Bill 571, which was introduced by Joe Uecker, 66th District Representative, and is co sponsored by 30 other representatives, would amend section 2923.126 of the Ohio Revised Code. The law would not allow private employers to prohibit a concealed carry permit holder from storing the employee's handgun in a locked motor vehicle on the employer's premises. Any current employer policy prohibiting such would have to be amended.
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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:50:41 GMT
Hundreds of signs across Lee County that proclaim guns are banned at parks, beaches, along canals and at other areas are being changed to comply with state law.
The state allows guns at these locations if the gun owner has a concealed carry permit.
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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:49:44 GMT
Gun sales have been on the rise in Augusta, particularly to women.
"Over the last year, it's been on pretty much a daily basis," said Eddie Walden, the owner of Waldens. "We'd see (women) before, but not on a daily basis."
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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:48:50 GMT
Proposition 109, if approved in November, would preclude legislators from making changes in hunting laws, at least by themselves. Instead, they would have to put them on the ballot and ask voters to modify what Proposition 109 would make a state constitutional right to hunt.
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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:48:50 GMT
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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:48:06 GMT
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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:48:06 GMT
Just about everyone knows Alabama's football season began Saturday. But the state has another season that also started Sept. 4.
The sound of shotguns thundered across the Alabama countryside as dove season opened up throughout most of the state. Even though it's officially still summer, it was the opening salvo of an autumn rite that consumes many Alabama sportsmen for the next six to eight months. But it's also an economic engine that provides a welcome influx of cash to much of West Alabama.
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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:47:20 GMT
Jack Layton has a plan for the gun registry a compromise all Canadians can live with. He wants to drop the criminal prohibition for first time non compliers, drop registration fees and respect native treaties and the privacy rights of all gun owners. Sadly for Layton, his plan is a fiction, a farce. His proposal to save the gun registry requires him to introduce a compromise bill, which will then need to be debated, read three times, approved by the Senate and then given Royal Assent ...all in the two days before the registry's fate will be decided. Of course, Layton an intelligent, seasoned politician knows his plan doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of working. But that's OK. Because he doesn't intend for it to succeed. It's just a political ploy.
The ploy is aimed not at the government or even the other opposition parties, but at a third of his own caucus the 12 NDP MPs who voted against keeping the registry last time and who are expected to do the same this month. Layton knows that these 12 NDP members, representing rural ridings where the registry is despised, cannot support the registry as is and hope to be re elected.
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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:46:33 GMT
Manitoba MP Candice Hoeppner's bill C 391, designed to eliminate the long gun registry, has become an extraordinary political football. Most, if not all, hunters and law abiding firearms owners ask the common sense question, "Does the long gun registry actually stop crime?" Those who support the registry often respond with emotion; "Well, if the many millions spent on the long gun registry just save one life it will be worth it."
Common sense Canadians reason more lives would be saved if the funds spent on the long gun registry were put into dealing with the root causes of crime plus more effective policing.
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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:45:31 GMT
The recent departure of three MPs from Parliament and the possible resignation of a fourth in the coming days could play a pivotal role in a vote this month on whether to scrap the federal gun registry.
A squeaker result is expected on Sept. 22, with Tory backbencher Candice Hoeppner predicting that "one or two votes will make the difference" in the outcome of a move to kill the contentious database.
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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:44:29 GMT
A cash saving proposal to stop home visits for some shotgun licence renewals has been slammed as 'horrendous' by anti gun campaigners.
Plans to halt some home visits for the five yearly certificate renewals as part of the growing collaboration between Bedfordshire Police and Hertfordshire Constabulary will be put forward later this month.
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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:42:27 GMT
Coroner David Crerar has recommended the Government review the Arms Act -- including revisiting a suggested ban on military style semi automatics -- as part of his findings into the deaths of Molenaar and Senior Constable Len Snee last May.
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:19:41 GMT
A lot of things have changed in the federal government since President Harry S. Truman put his famous "the buck stops here" sign on his desk.
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:18:16 GMT
This week, NRA's Freedom Action Foundation (NRA-FAF) launched the 2010 "Trigger the Vote" campaign, featuring its Honorary Chairman Chuck Norris in a new series of advertisements.
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:17:14 GMT
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a press release August 27th announcing that it had rejected a petition filed by radical environmental groups to have lead ammunition banned under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
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