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  • ATTN: Law Enforcement Officers SUPPORT S.253 / HR 218

    07/29/2003 5:26:18 AM PDT · by davidosborne · 84 replies · 3,735+ views
    David C. Osborne ^ | 29 July 2003 | David C. Osborne
    This Act may be cited as the `Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2003'. SEC. 2. EXEMPTION OF QUALIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS FROM STATE LAWS PROHIBITING THE CARRYING OF CONCEALED FIREARMS.
  • The Cop Revolt Against Gun Control

    10/23/2003 4:36:27 PM PDT · by Richard Poe · 59 replies · 2,101+ views
    RichardPoe.com ^ | October 23, 2003 | Richard Poe
    AN ALL-OUT REVOLT against gun control may be brewing among rank-and-file police officers. In my last column, "Gray Davis’ Cop-Killing Gun Law," I revealed that anti-gun zealots such as Sarah Brady and Ted Kennedy have found a new enemy: cops. No longer content to disarm ordinary citizens, gun prohibitionists now want to strip off-duty and retired police of the right to keep and bear arms. Reader reaction to my column was mixed. Virtually every correspondent favored gun rights, but many expressed disdain for the rights of police. "Maybe when their CCW [Concealed Carry Weapon] rights are stripped away they will...
  • Gray Davis' Cop-Killing Gun Law

    10/08/2003 4:03:52 PM PDT · by Richard Poe · 57 replies · 4,786+ views
    RichardPoe.com ^ | October 8, 2003 | Richard Poe
    GRAY DAVIS is gone. But his destructive legacy lives on. In the final weeks before his ouster, Davis used what dwindling power he had to hamstring California’s legal and political system for years to come. He made over 260 last-minute judicial and state commission appointments. Davis also quietly signed into law one of the most far-reaching handgun bans in the nation on September 24 – a law which threatens to send many California police officers to their graves. Police and sheriffs all over the state pleaded with Governor Davis not to sign SB 489. But he ignored them. The law...