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"Managing unauthorized access to firearms, particularly KIDS. Just some basic tips about securing firearms so that only YOU have access to them. Not a comprehensive safety video" A few easy to apply common sense tips to secure your firearms from little ones and ideas on dealing with their curiosity about guns.

Give Eric Michaud a can of beer (Guinness works best) and a pair of scissors and he can open just about any garden-variety padlock in seconds. This is how: During a recent interview at a North Side bar, Michaud, a prominent lockpicking hobbyist (you read it right), cut the top and bottom off a can and carved a wavy M-shape out of the middle. He then folded and refolded it in such a way that it could be inserted between the lock and the shackle. A twist and voila! The lock popped open. Making shims (as they are called in...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) - Security specialists on Sunday showed that cracking top-rated locks said to secure the US Pentagon and Britain's royal family is child's play. Marc Tobias was in a sea of hackers practicing lock picking at a DefCon gathering in Las Vegas when he easily opened Medeco's flagship lock with a paper clip and a key cut from plastic sheets in a Shrinky Dinks toy. "We think this is a pretty serious threat, and the government guys here we've been talking to agree," Tobias told AFP.

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office recommends that anyone who owns a firearm use a child safety lock if there’s any chance of children being in a home where guns are kept. The issue of children and gun safety was highlighted this week after a Washington County sheriff’s deputy and his wife were charged with child endangerment after leaving their 8-year-old child home alone with several guns laying about. At least a few of the guns were loaded and although the safeties were on, none were equipped with gun locks. Most weapons have safety locks, but Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks...

Last night while out on the town with some friends our church's office manager's keys were stolen. Replacing the locks for her apartment or re-keying them will cost her under a $100. The real problem is her car keys . . . she had only one key for her 2001 Lexus . . . the one that was stolen! Today she has learned that to get a new key for her car from the Lexus dealer will cost her $265 . . . but that is just for the ONE key and it will still not work until the car's...

A friend sent around a YouTube video of a local newscast discussing something called "lock bumping". Apparently there's an onslaught of websites dedicated to showing people how to EASILY defeat virtually any common house lock including deadbolts by doing some special cuts in standard keys and then tapping the key to open the door. I found it a VERY alarming, and wanted to share this with you all... Here are some links to check it out for yourself. This is the link to the YouTube video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr23tpWX8lMThis is a site that shows you how to do it — great for the...

Dutch television program demonstrating the technique ~snip~ were posted on various web sites. The issue has naturally concerned a good many people who have learned about it, since it seemingly shows that many of the kinds of locks typically used on residences are seemingly vulnerable to being bypassed through a fairly simple, effective technique.A "999" or bump key can be any key that fits a particular pin tumbler lock and that has been modified so that all of its cuts (or grooves) are made to the deepest allowable position as defined by each manufacturer. The term "fit" means that the...

US blocks Hariri suspects' assets A massive car bomb targeted Mr Hariri's motorcade in Beirut US President George W Bush has ordered a freeze on the assets of anyone linked to the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri. The order called for the assets to be blocked of anyone linked to the Hariri killing - or to "terrorist acts" in Lebanon in which Syria is implicated. Mr Bush said the order was based on UN findings against Lebanon and Syria. A UN probe has implicated top Syrian officials and their Lebanese allies in the February 2005 attack on...

My engineering training kicked in when I saw the NASA photographs from space of New Orleans, and of the whole Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. There is an obvious solution to the New Orleans problem. The Dutch have already demonstrated it. Take New Orleans as the first and worst example. The pumps, levees and canals intended to protect New Orleans have been controlled by local authorities. They left three of the four pumping stations dependent on the local power grid. Hellooo. The precise time those pumps are most needed is during a storm when the local power grid...

Almost half U.S. women do not mind if a man is losing his hair, but 99 percent are against comb-overs, a new survey has found. Forty-eight percent of the women in the online poll for Cargo magazine say men shouldn't even worry about hair loss, while 32 recommend going with the flow and cutting all hair off. But only 1 percent suggest hiding a balding head under a cap or a comb-over. Fifty-eight percent of the women say men look sexiest in jeans and a t-shirt, but they hate men in anything too trendy: 92 percent hated leather pants, 91...

I was sitting in my study tonight when I heard something at my front door. I already knew that my family was in bed, so I retrieved my pistol before going to investigate. As I got closer to the foyer I could hear the doorknob jingling. The motion lights were on, so I was sure that someone was trying to get into the house. I stopped at the doorway into our dining room where I had a clear view of the front door. I cocked my revolver, aimed at the door, and waited. Suddenly this swings open and this guy...

Private enterprise is honoring its commitment to properly care for the nation's locks and dams. The federal government is not. Deferred maintenance of our waterways could have a ripple effect on the region's economy and safety. Trib readers learned Tuesday in a dispatch from Sandra Tolliver that the infrastructure of the Port of Pittsburgh -- America's second largest inland port -- is living on borrowed time.

Items 1 through 14 of 14 Amendments For S.1805 1. S.AMDT.2617 to S.1805 To extend and expand the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA] (introduced 2/25/2004)      Cosponsors: 14 Latest Major Action: 2/26/2004 Amendment SA 2617 ruled out of order by the chair. 2. S.AMDT.2618 to S.1805 Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text. Sponsor: Sen Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [CO] (introduced 2/25/2004)      Cosponsors: 1 Latest Major Action: 2/25/2004 Senate amendment submitted 3. S.AMDT.2619 to S.1805 To expand the definition of armor piercing...

Senate OKs Handgun Locks Legislation 42 minutes ago Add Politics - U. S. Congress to My Yahoo! By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - A Senate agreement requiring child safety locks on U.S. handguns gave Democrats encouragement Thursday that renewing an assault weapons ban might also become part of a package to protect gun makers and sellers from gun crime lawsuits.   The GOP-controlled Senate voted 70-27 to require all handguns sold in the United States to have child safety locks, adding the measure to the legislation providing the gun industry immunity from suits when a legally...

<p>A Des Moines teenager died Wednesday from a gunshot wound to her head suffered when her boyfriend mishandled a weapon that he had been carrying for weeks, police said.</p> <p>Alexis Jordan, 16, died about 16 hours after she was shot Tuesday afternoon in her boyfriend's home at 1303 Sixth Ave. Cordara "Cory" Lewis, 16, is charged with reckless use of a firearm as an adult and involuntary manslaughter as a juvenile. He is in Polk County Jail on $100,000 bond.</p>

WEST LINN -- Sgt. Neil Hennelly of the West Linn Police Department spends his days wearing a gun. But at home, the father of two teenage boys locks it up, knowing that rules alone don't keep children safe. " 'Don't go in my dresser' might as well be, 'It's in here, come on down,' " he said. Lt. Terry Timeus of the Lake Oswego Police Department, a longtime hunter, said his first child was less than a week old when he ordered a gun safe. "It's incumbent on the parents to keep firearms locked up," said Timeus, the father of...

Bound to Misfire By John R. Lott, Jr. This week President Bush's program, Project Childsafe, begins distributing 20 million gun locks. Over 712,000 locks will be given out just in New York. It seems like such a reasonable program, who could oppose it? After all, if a gun lock can save a life, it seems a small cost. Unfortunately, despite the obvious feel-good appeal of these rules, gun locks and safe storage laws are more likely to cost lives than to save them. Many have seen the public service ads put out by the Clinton Justice Department showing the voices...

<p>COHOES, N.Y. — In its 19th-century heyday, pioneers, immigrants and cargo swarmed the Erie Canal, a bustling gateway that opened up the country's heartland and the West. When the canal faded from prominence at the turn of the past century, a myth arose that it had been destroyed.</p>

<p>In this high-tech, fast-paced world of supersonic flights and bullet trains, the long, flat barges that continue to crawl along the nation's rivers and canals seem a forgotten relic of a bygone era.</p> <p>Yet they remain an integral part of the nation's interstate commerce, transporting almost 800 million tons of cargo a year -- about 16 percent of all inter-city freight -- via a 25,000-mile waterway system.</p>

Does anyone know of a good website or post that gives statistics for gun control and how inneffective it is? I went to www.keepandbeararms.com and all I could find were statistics from 1992. Anybody know of a current website that gives these current statistics?