Congress has now adjourned to start the Summer District Work Period and will return after Labor Day.  During this Summer District Work Period, your Senators and Representative will be back home in their states and districts. Many lawmakers use this time to hold town hall meetings, and take questions from their constituents.  These meetings offer a [...]

Friday, August 07, 2009

The United States Senate recently voted on an amendment that would have allowed Right-to-Carry permit holders to carry in all other states that also grant carry permits.  The amendment, sponsored by Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and David Vitter (R-La.), won a significant majority of votes, 58 to 39, but failed to reach [...]

EDINBURG – The clerk warned Alejandro Salinas about the suspicious men who had been hanging out in front of the convenience store for the past hour.
He told Salinas to be careful as he went back out to his Chevrolet Z-71 pickup truck, that he had just filled at the Aziz Convenience Store about 11 a.m. Saturday.
Salinas walked [...]

The silence from Dubuque County Attorney Ralph Potter’s office after the shooting death of a Dyersville, Iowa, man on Nov. 29 might have some justification, according to one university law professor.
But as the county attorney’s office sorts through a controversial death investigation to determine whether force was justified, a recent analysis shows self-defense laws present [...]

Oakland
Killing ruled in self-defense: A 27-year-old man wounded in a Dec. 22 exchange of gunfire with a man police said he was trying to rob has died, authorities said Wednesday.
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Police in Memphis say a gunman firing a pistol beside a busy city street was subdued by two passers-by who were also armed.
No one was hurt during the incident that apparently began with a minor traffic accident, but one passing car was believed hit by a bullet.
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The owner of a gun shop in the Washington suburb of Manassas, Virginia, Conatser said sales have doubled or tripled since this time last year.
On Saturday, he said, he did as much business as he would normally do in a week.
“I have been in business for 12 years, and I was here for Y2K, September [...]

Nearly two-thirds of U.S. voters (63%) say Barack Obama is more likely than John McCain to restrict an individual’s right to own a gun, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
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By Diana Hefley
Herald Writer
A Snohomish County jury today ruled that the man who fatally shot a Kirkland teen at a Halloween party last year did not commit a crime.
However, the panel also made clear they didn’t believe the killing was justified as an act of self defense.
Jurors acquitted Bryce Fortier of second-degree murder. They also [...]

Refused to sign the brief supporting an individual Second Amendment right in the Heller case.
Against Right-to-Carry. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 4/2/08; Chicago Tribune, 9/15/04)
Director, Joyce Foundation—one of the most anti-gun foundations in America. (Politico)
I think it’s a scandal that this president [Bush] did not authorize a renewal of the assault weapons ban.”  (Illinois Senate Debate #3: [...]