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Cache & Carry
Dubuque Telegraph-Herald ^ | 29 nov 2015 | WILLIAM GARBE

Posted on 11/29/2015 5:53:04 AM PST by rellimpank

Nineteen-year-old Katherine Beatham cannot wait to buy a gun.

The mother of two from Maquoketa, Iowa, already started saving up. She was browsing the selection of firearms at the Big Bore Enterprise Gun Show in Maquoketa last weekend. As soon as she turns 21 and takes a safety course, she plans to buy one.

"I'm just not going to be walking around, some poor old defenseless lady with two kids. Not in today's society," she said.

Beatham comes from a military family and started shooting at about age 5. She said she is a pretty good shot with a handgun but that she unfortunately cannot own or carry a gun due to her age.

When Beatham becomes of age, she -- like all Iowans who seek a permit -- will be given a background check. If she passes, she will join the more than 225,000 residents in the state who have been issued non-professional permits to carry weapons since 2011.

That year, a key change in the state's gun laws made it easier for applicants to successfully acquire a permit to carry.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: banglist; iowa; rkba
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To: mad_as_he$$

It allows you to say later, “I only meant to shoot him in the kneecap! But I was so upset that my aim must have been off. And that is how he took five to the torso and as he was falling that must have been when he took two to the head. That is what must have happened officer!”


21 posted on 11/29/2015 10:27:33 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: rellimpank

While she’s waiting to turn 21, it sounds like she should be looking for a husband and father for her two kids.


22 posted on 11/29/2015 3:22:24 PM PST by newgeezer (It is [the people's] right and duty to be at all times armed. --Thomas Jefferson, 1824)
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To: newgeezer

I’m not sure what guy would want to take on all that baggage.


23 posted on 11/29/2015 3:44:04 PM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Second mistake - talking to the cops after a shooting. That is what lawyers are for. In most states if you are justified in shooting you are justified to kill.


24 posted on 11/30/2015 4:47:32 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("It gets late early around here..." Yogi)
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