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Should unelected officials be allowed to order the confiscation of some or all guns and ammunition in the United States? This is the question posed by Sen. Jon Corzine (D., N.J.) and Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D., R.I.), in their proposed Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act. As one might suspect, the bill is about neither firearm safety nor consumer protection, but is an especially clever stratagem by the gun-prohibition lobby. The Kennedy-Corzine bill would give the Treasury Department and the courts nearly unlimited powers to restrict firearms manufacture and sales, and to confiscate guns. *snip* The social problem with guns...

After a decade-long effort, law-abiding citizens of Ohio will now be able to legally carry firearms for protection of themselves and their loved ones, the NRA reports in a recent news alert to its members. On Jan. 8, Gov. Bob Taft (R) signed legislation making Ohio the 37th Right-to-Carry (RTC) state. The Right-to-Carry issue had long been debated in the Ohio Legislature, and many past attempts had been stalled or killed. HB 12, the RTC legislation, had languished for weeks while Taft threatened a veto. But on Jan. 7, the bill was passed in the state's House and Senate by...

Subject: NSSF Bullet Points - Vol. 4 - No. 32, Courtesy of NSSF and Davidson's Vol. 4 No. 32 August 11, 2003 With a combined score of 903 broken targets among the five pre-teen teammates, the Ogden Gun Club Rookie trap team heads home with their national championship trophy. Youth Participation Great at The Grand! Teams from California, Illinois, Nebraska and Utah walked off with national titles as a record 920 youth participants from 35 states competed at the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) Trap Nationals August 7-9 at the Grand American World Trapshooting Championships. The young competitors, who now make up 15...

Fake gun lands costumed 6th grader five-day suspension Wednesday, March 19, 2003 By KEN TH0RBOURNE Eleven-year-old Daniel Treskunov was under the impression that creativity was called for. For a picture-taking session held on Friday, March 7, students in Treskunov’s sixth-grade photography class in Renaissance School were asked to “dress up.” “‘Wear a costume,’” Treskunov recalled his teacher as saying. On Monday, Treskunov told The Times that his first inclination was to dress as a skateboarder, but it snowed that morning and he didn’t want to change into short pants. Treskunov’s next decision, to dress as a bank robber, led...