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Residents kill two in city burglaries By Alan Morrell, John Kohlstrand and Jeffrey Blackwell Democrat and Chronicle (September 18, 2002) — Rochester police are continuing to investigate two would-be burglaries in which residents -- one, 89 years old -- fatally shot the apparent intruders...

No regret, says dweller who wonders why burglar did it By Laura Coleman Noeth noeth@gomemphis.com September 14, 2002 He hates that he killed the man who broke a window in his front door and tried to come in but, aside from sleeping lighter these days Jeffrey Armstrong says he’s put the 1993...

Ex-Marine fights off 2 intruders Greenbush man shoots attacker GREENBUSH — It took two intruders just a few minutes to learn a very valuable lesson Sunday night: Once a Marine, always a Marine. Especially if the Marine is Larry Leighton of Greenbush. After hours of searching for two men who...

Victim wrenches shotgun from carjacker By Jeremy Kohler Of The Post-Dispatch Michele Munz Of The Post-Dispatch Contributed To This Report. He tossed them his wallet. He told four angry-looking young men that they could take what they wanted: his 1996 GMC Yukon, parked in the 3600 block of...

Aristocrat hands over guns after TV claim Marcello Mega A SCOTTISH aristocrat battling a powerful law firm to restore his family’s fortunes has had to hand over his shotgun and firearms licence to police. Stuart Usher’s dispute with Edinburgh-based Brodies was the subject of last week’s...

Would violent youths trade guns for guitars? By Bartholomew Sullivan sullivan@gomemphis.com September 16, 2002 CLARKSDALE, Miss. - Eleven-year-old Jacqueline Gooch is an old hand at playing the blues. Learning the guitar has changed her life, she says. "People are noticing me now," the...

Yes, Mommy A Well-Regulated State We tell ourselves that in America we are the Free People. I wonder whether we might not better be called the Obedient People, the Passive People, or the Admonished People. I doubt that any country, anywhere, has been so regulated, controlled, and directed as...

Sharp-Shooting Kids Say They're On Target for Success By Michael L. Betsch CNSNews.com Staff Writer September 18, 2002 (CNSNews.com) - Children seeking an alternative to traditional after-school sports are turning to competitive shotgun shooting for an experience they claim is unmatched on any...

Yes, it is gun related, but you'll just have to read down a bit. I think it's worth it, though. The pie lady: Still baking after all these years 09/15/02 BURLINGTON — Alice Brown knows how to make a mean apple pie, the kind with a bulging top crust flecked with fork points and an...

Student Group Wants Campus Gun Ban Lifted By Christine Hall CNSNews.com Staff Writer September 17, 2002 (CNSNews.com) - After two armed southwest Virginia law students stopped a campus shooting rampage in January, a Second Amendment group at a northern Virginia law school decided it was time...

Taco stand owner guns down robber Second suspect in attack gets away By MIKE GLENN Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle Even though taco stand owner Roberto Quintero was badly beaten by two robbers who thought they had made a clean getaway, he still mustered enough strength to go outside, retrieve...

Owners may not get guns back By JIM DALGLEISH / H-P City Editor SODUS - None of the 36 guns seized in February at a Sodus Township home were illegal, federal authorities say, but the owners still may not get them back. Because police found less than a half-ounce of marijuana, the U.S...

Citizens Helping Arm Brentwood Officers With New Weapons Reporter: Andy Cordan On May 6th, a Brentwood bank robber stood in the middle of a crowded street and opened fire with a semi-automatic assault weapon. Police officers armed only with handguns returned fire. Eventually the suspect...

GOP Incumbent Offers NRA Escorts By Associated Press September 14, 2002, 5:18 PM EDT CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A Republican candidate for Congress is offering campaign volunteers extra protection for their forays into immigrant neighborhoods -- escorts from the National Rifle Association...

Grizzly 'comes back from dead' to attack hunter who shot it online.ie 14 Sep 2002 A hunter has been attacked by a grizzly bear he had shot and left for dead the day earlier. Larry J Miller's life was saved by his wife Brinda, who shot the grizzly dead as it tried to tear her husband...

I just received a package of 'mementos' from my dad, and found this to be rather interesting. It is a neat cross-section of information he used when he started hunting. There is a shooting book by Jack O'Connor, a book on hunting white-tailed deer in Texas by Dr. Frederick Weston, an Outdoor...

BILL OF RIGHTS RALLY in Austin, Texas!! Saturday - September 21st- 1PM to 3PM South steps of the Capitol Featuring: JEFF DAIELL, Libertarian candidate for Texas Governor. Mr. Daiell's topic will be "Freedom Week: Let's practice what we teach". He will urge the state of Texas to respect...

Rummy asked to rescue Rambo's favorite gun Dale A. McClellan, executive vice president of Special Tactical Services, displays the M-60 machine gun. His firm is working with the gun's maker, U.S. Ordnance, to win Navy approval to update the old M-60s in the fleet. The M-60 is also known as the...

Police arrest man with rifle in traffic jam By Scott E. Williams The Daily News Published September 12, 2002 HITCHCOCK — Maybe there’s a good day to do weapon maintenance beside a crowded road, but the first anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in the nation’s history is not it, a...

For Immediate Release: Contact: Alan Gottlieb (425) 454-7012 Arizona Journalists Invited To Lunch and Media Shoot The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) invite interested print and broadcast journalists to a buffet lunch and...