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In February 2005, Erik Zettergren came home from a party after midnight with his girlfriend and another couple. They had all been drinking heavily, and soon the other man and Mr. Zettergren’s girlfriend passed out on his bed. When Mr. Zettergren went to check on them later, he found his girlfriend naked from the waist down and the other man, Jason Robinson, with his pants around his ankles. Enraged, Mr. Zettergren ordered Mr. Robinson to leave. After a brief confrontation, Mr. Zettergren shot him in the temple at point-blank range with a Glock-17 semiautomatic handgun. He then forced Mr. Robinson’s...

A Fruitvale man whose guns were returned to him Tuesday wants a court to invalidate the search warrant under which they were taken 10 months ago. Bill Martin, owner of A-1 Repossessions, also wants about $50,000 of his legal bills paid. Martin watched from above, about 75 yards away, on the Riverside Parkway walkway Tuesday morning as Mesa County Sheriff’s Department officials transferred the weapons from one truck to another truck that he hired to transport the weapons. Martin’s wife, Shelley, and a gunsmith who is familiar with the weapons oversaw the transfer, which took place inside the gated employee...

THE Supreme Court last month voided Washington, DC's extreme gun ban as a violation of the Second Amendment. Now, across America, public defenders and other lawyers for rapists, robbers and murderers are filing motions contending that their vicious clients have a Second Amendment right to have guns. If this were correct, the Second Amendment would be a very bad thing. Happily, it's not so. The high-court opinion vindicated the constitutional right of ordinary, responsible law-abiding adults to have a handgun to protect their families, homes and themselves. It also flatly stated that this right does not apply to criminals. Federal...

The Supreme Court's historic decision on the Second Amendment could make millions of felons eligible to own guns. Under current federal law, the vast majority of felons are prohibited from so much as touching a gun or ammunition, on pain of punishment of up to 10 years in prison. Some legal experts now say that the constitutionality of that law, known as the "felon in possession" law, was deeply undermined by the Supreme Court's decision Thursday in District of Columbia v. Heller. In that case, the court held that the Second Amendment gives individuals the right to keep a handgun...

ACLU sees a violation of a Sikh's rights. Official says the headgear could hide a weapon. The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the Yuba County Sheriff's Department on behalf of a Sikh asylum seeker who says his religious rights are being violated because jail officials refuse to let him wear a turban at all times. Harpal Singh Cheema, 47, an Indian national, was detained by immigration authorities in 1997. He has been held at the Yuba County Jail since September 2002. "It's troubling that he has been detained for as long as he has and, at the same time,...