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Meltzer: Value of armed citizens By Robert Meltzer / Guest Columnist Monday, October 28, 2002 We're going to do a little thought experiment here. So, what I want you to do is read the following paragraph, then close your eyes and picture the scene, and then answer the question that follows...

Copyright 2023 Financial Times Information All rights reserved Global News Wire Copyright 2023 Philippine Daily Inquirer Philippine Daily Inquirer October 2, 2023 SECTION: 25 LENGTH: 629 words HEADLINE: MMDA WANTS 'TANOD' ARMED BY DECEMBER BYLINE: Christian V. Esguerra and...

A dog-shoots-man story Associated Press Published Oct 24, 2002 DOG25 MOBRIDGE, S.D. -- Accidental gunshot wounds are common during South Dakota's pheasant hunting season. And now a Minnesota man is recovering from a shotgun blast to the ankle that was set off by a dog. It happened...

(DE) Woman is slain on Concord Pike during rush hour Woman is slain on Concord Pike during rush hour Stabbing witnessed by rush-hour drivers By RYAN CORMIER Staff reporter 10/22/2002 As rush-hour motorists looked on, a Wilmington woman was stabbed to death Monday evening by her husband on...

Fort Worth officer shoots self in hand By Deanna Boyd Star-Telegram Staff Writer FORT WORTH - A Fort Worth police officer was accidentally shot in the left hand Tuesday morning when a gun discharged as he was disassembling it to clean at the department's firing range. The 43-year-old officer...

AAP NEWSFEED October 24, 2002, Thursday SECTION: Domestic News LENGTH: 314 words HEADLINE: Fed: Sporting Shooters welcome review of gun laws DATELINE: CANBERRA, Oct 24 BODY: The Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (SSAA) today welcomed a review of national hand gun laws and...

Sometimes, it's more than 'just a gun' As the days begin to shorten dramatically and jackets return from their summer banishment, thoughts are turning to the rites of fall. Central to these rituals is the crisp "snick" of a rifle bolt closing like an antique safe or the satiating clatter of a...

Burglary suspect takes a bullet below the belt Sloane Stephens Cox @PensacolaNewsJournal.com A gunshot wound to the groin foiled an apparent burglary at a west Pensacola apartment Sunday morning. Joshua David Beard, 19, of the 7900 block of Beulah Road has been charged with armed burglary...

ARM THE PEOPLE - NOW! By: Jeff Head Arm the people. That is the answer, not only for the current environment, but for crime in general. The founders of this great Republic knew this, and they enumerated it in clear language in our constitution. Use surplus M-14's or M-1's for long guns and...

Marines choose M-16A4 as infantry rifle By Mark Oliva, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Thursday, October 24, 2002 The Marine Corps chose a new infantry rifle, and it’s not the short assault rifle with which the Army equipped soldiers in the Afghan campaigns. Marine Corps Systems...

BILL WHITE: GUN GROUPS SEE STEADY BLEED INTO MILITIAS; DOMESTIC UNREST STILL GROWING IN UNITED STATES When agents of America’s US Marshals surrounded the Indiana Baptist Temple, accusing the church and its parishioners of violating US tax laws by refusing to pay social security taxes on...

Behind the pistol, view is different First I shot a baby in a crib. Then I blew apart my neighbor's fence. All but one of the bad guys got away. Me, I got killed. Three times. And I thought about King County Deputy Mel Miller. I spent an hour the other day in something close to his...

The 'gun-control freak' gets trigger-happy Friday, October 18, 2002 Tony Norman I'm a gun-control freak," my wife said, skinning chicken at the kitchen counter the other night, "but I'm glad that woman shot him. He got what he deserved, and I think it's very funny." The "that woman" my...

Forum Addresses Holes in Texas' Concealed Carry Law By DAVID ROGERS Jerry Patterson and Suzanna Gratia-Hupp, the principal Senate and House sponsors of the Texas Concealed Carry law, met with over one hundred supporters of gun rights at a recent open forum at the New Braunfels Civic Center...

Mom fights off carjacker Suspect arrested after victim fought to protect her daughter from attacker By MELISSA RIDGEN, CALGARY SUN A desperate carjacking suspect learned the hard way not to mess with an angry mom protecting her child. A bloodied suspect was arrested during the noon hour at...

Gun cache traced to police officer Lawrence sergeant is placed on leave By Associated Press, 10/19/2002 REMONT, N.H. - A Massachusetts police officer who kept sniper rifles and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition in a storage facility had no business possessing the items, his boss said...

Bow-and-arrow hunter kills man trying to steal his car By ROMA KHANNA Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle A would-be car thief died Friday after he was shot by the car's owner, a camouflage-clad hunter toting a bow and arrow, police said. The thief was moments from a clean getaway when the...

Online gun dealer fined $200,000 for sales in N.Y. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (October 18, 2002) — ALBANY — A Georgia-based online and mail-order weapons retailer will pay a $200,000 fine for selling more than 4,500 illegal weapons to New York customers over the past three years, Attorney...

Examining the link between video games and the so-called “Beltway Sniper” Scott McCollum October 18, 2002 As of Thursday night, all the major cable TV news networks have ran some kind of story about how the so-called “Beltway Sniper” could possibly be a trained killer due to his...

Copyright 2002 Financial Times Information All rights reserved Global News Wire Copyright 2002 Philippine Daily Inquirer Philippine Daily Inquirer October 19, 2002 SECTION: 16 LENGTH: 1451 words HEADLINE: LEYTE WARTIME TALES REFUSE TO DIE BYLINE: Vicente S. Labro, Dulag, Leyte...