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SENATE TO VOTE ON GUN BAN & ENDING GUN SHOWS TOMORROW!!!! Last Chance For You To Make Your Voice Heard!! At noon on Monday, the U.S. Senate resumed debate on S. 1805-the "Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act" (formerly referred to as S. 659/S. 1806). On the only vote of the day, the Senate defeated the NRA-opposed Bingaman Amendment on a vote of 28-59. The Bingaman Amendment sought to gut S. 1805 by allowing anti-gun lawyers and activist judges to determine a firearm was "defective" simply because it could be "reasonably foreseen" it could be used in a crime-a...

While National Rifle Association officials have been denying that they've been orchestrating a sellout in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) -- an NRA Director -- has been working on an ammunition ban. On the Senate floor today, he introduced, discussed, defended and tried to justify the "Craig/Frist" amendment. This amendment, said Craig, is needed "to strengthen current armor piercing ammunition law." NRA's point-man in the U.S. Senate says that this is "what the law enforcement community needs." "We don't want to wipe out the hunting and sporting ammunition," said Craig. The "sporting purpose" test was used before --...

Fresh strains are threatening relations between the US and European Union after a warning from Washington against a "fortress Europe" in which it would be harder for US companies to carry out takeovers. US concerns have been raised by a new compromise version of the EU's takeover directive, which was originally intended to make takeovers easier in Europe but has been changed extensively because of Germany's objections. This comes on top of conflicts between the EU and the US over government subsidies for the US steel industry. The US has made its objections about the takeover directive known to all...

Groklaw sends a Dear Darl letter Tells SCO to expect legal action By Egan Orion: Saturday 20 September 2003, 11:33 A GROUP from the open source / free software community has put together a response to SCO CEO Darl McBride's "Open Letter to the Open Source Community". The INQUIRER is glad to print Groklaw's "Dear Darl" letter, along with their research. µ Dear Mr. McBride, Recently you wrote an "open letter to the open source community" published September 9, 2003 by LinuxWorld. This reply is from a group within the open source / free software community. Because you addressed your...

Groklaw's Open Letter to SCO's CEO Darl McBride Saturday, September 20 2003 @ 12:21 PM EDT Dear Mr. McBride, Recently you wrote an "open letter to the open source community" published September 9, 2003 by LinuxWorld. This reply is from a group within the open source/free software community. Because you addressed your letter to our community-at-large, we thought we should answer you ourselves. Our community isn't organized hierarchically like a corporation, so it has no CEO or overall leader in that sense, except that Linus Torvalds leads Linux kernel development and Richard Stallman leads the GNU Project and the Free...