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Join Jim and Sarah Brady and President Clinton for the 10th Anniversary of the Brady Bill Please join us in commemorating the 10th anniversary of this landmark legislation at a Forum and reception on Thursday, December 4, 2003, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D. C. Ten years ago, President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Bill into law. Since it’s passage, the Brady Law has prevented over 1 million prohibited purchasers from buying guns by requiring them to undergo a background check. America is safer because if this law. We think this is reason to celebrate! The Forum will...

Jill Stanek held the "Baby Malachi" sign in front of Speaker Madigan and Leader Daniels' offices in the spring of 2002 For the next few weeks, IllinoisLeader.com will be featuring some of Jill Stanek's "Best of the Best" columns as she focuses a block of time this summer on writing a manuscript for an upcoming book. For two weeks beginning July 9, the Pro-Life Action League is hosting a two-week Truth Tour in Chicago. For more information on the Chicago tour, call 773-777-2900.OPINION -- A “Truth Tour” is an organized event that typically stretches over two weeks. Pro-lifers post...

Their  Event Starts at Noon try to get there between 11-11:30 AMHere's the chant "Hey Hey Ho Ho, Come pick up your Garafalo".http://njpeaceaction.org/events/ritterdinner.pdfhttp://www.njpeaceaction.org/New Jersey Peace Action's 46 th Annual Dinner Featuring: Former Chief UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq SCOTT RITTER Sunday, May 4th 2003 at 12 Noon - 4 PM  Friar Tuck Inn, Cedar Grove, NJ 691 Pompton Avenue, Cedar Grove, NJ 07009 (973) 239-4500 (973) 239-3150 (fax) map Scott Ritter joined the armed forces after college. He worked as a military intelligence officer in the 1980s in the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. A former major in...

<p>Terrorists are on the loose in New Jersey and some have been secretly locked up, the state's anti-terror czar said Wednesday night as U.S. forces massed to depose Iraq's Saddam Hussein.</p> <p>"Yes," said the state counter-terrorism chief, Sid Caspersen, on New Jersey 101.5 FM radio when asked if terrorists were afoot in the Garden State.</p>

Support the Citizens' Self-Defense Act THIS IS A CONSERVATIVE ALERT: ISSUE: Recently, we alerted you to yet another instance of an over-zealous prosecutor pressing charges against a homeowner that used a gun to protect his family against a home invader. Unfortunately, this happens more than anyone cares to admit. Now, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) has introduced HR 648, "The Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2003", to counter these mis-directed prosecutions and blatant violations of American citizens' Second Amendment rights. HR 648 was introduced to "protect the right to obtain firearms for security, and to use firearms in defense of self, family,...

The opposite ends of the political spectrum are coming together over the war on terror, but not in the way Attorney General John Ashcroft may have wanted. Some conservative groups are finding common ground with organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Bill of Rights Defense Council, expressing concerns about the effect that the USA Patriot Act and a possible follow-up law, the Domestic Security Enhancement Act, could have on civil liberties. Liberal critics have directed much of their worry at what they saw as an attack on immigrants' rights in the Patriot Act, the massive measure...

<p>GUILDERLAND, N.Y. — Officials at a mall where a man was arrested for refusing to remove an anti-war T-shirt asked Wednesday that trespassing charges against him be dropped.</p> <p>Police said managers from Crossgates Mall called and asked that the complaint against Stephen Downs be withdrawn. Police Chief James Murley said he would support the mall's decision.</p>

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court plunged into the gun debate Tuesday, agreeing to decide whether the government can keep secret information on some gun purchases and crimes, including details of database checks like those used to track weapons in the sniper case. The Bush administration, backed by the National Rifle Association and a police group, claims that confidential records are needed to safeguard investigations and protect people's privacy. Critics say the administration's policy keeps the public in the dark about gun violence and how well crime-fighters are doing. At issue for the Supreme Court is the scope of a...

Items Banned by 1994 Airline Rules Items Banned by 1994 Airline Rules The Associated Press Nov. 11 — Items listed in a 1994 airline industry manual that passengers were forbidden to carry beyond airport checkpoints:Ammunition Axes Box cutters Brass knuckles Carbon dioxide cartridges Dynamite Fireworks Gasoline Gun powder Hammers Hand grenades Hunting knives Mace Meat cleavers Oxygen tanks Paint Pepper spray Pistols Plastic explosives Radioactive materials Revolvers Rifles Starter pistols Swords Tear gas Toy transformer robots (forms toy gun) Toy weapons Among items allowed past checkpoints:Baseball bats Darts Hockey sticks Knitting needles Letter openers Pocket utility knives (less than four-inch...

<p>And onward they come, like a pack of happily violent completely misinformed all-American barrel-stroking sycophantic wolves, but without the all the grace or beauty or mythology or intelligence.</p> <p>Salivating at the sound of a rifle shot and cooing at the sight of a Glock .357 and cheering at the spectacle of crusty enfeebled leader Charlton Heston as he struggles with both weakened arms to raise a rifle over his head one last time and croak the group's adorably macho little mantra, "From my cold, dead hands!" Awww.</p>

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) -- Questioning of the two sniper suspects was halted when federal agents took custody of the pair, possibly preventing investigators from obtaining information about the shooting spree, a local law enforcement source complained Wednesday. The dispute was one of the very earliest clashes among prosecutors over which jurisdiction would take the lead role in pursuing a case against John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17. After a three-week manhunt covering the entire Washington region, Muhammad and Malvo were arrested Oct. 24 at a Maryland rest stop on a federal charge and were questioned that morning...

NATIONAL GUN CONTROL FREAKS HAVE LAUNCHED THEIR FREE MEDIA BASED ATTACKS ON AMERICAN SEMI-AUTO RIFLE GUNOWNERS!! CSPAN2 LIve SIMULCAST now! Saying he is a former "Marine and U.S. Congressman from Montgomery County, Maryland", Michael Barnes of the Brady Campaign to ban guns just declared that M16-like semiautomatic .223 rifles similar to what the shooter used "have no place in civilian hands". Michael Barnes just claimed that semi-auto black rifles are mainly being sold to "criminals." Bushmaster, AR-15 owners especially should take note! Jon Cowan, "Americans for Gun Safety" Executive Director is now blabbing about "centrist, moderate positions" on "gun safety."...

The rumour, gravely reported here yesterday on one of the all-talk radio shows, was that among the bumper stickers spotted on the white van whose driver was arrested in a dramatic high-risk takedown just hours earlier was one for the National Rifle Association. It was not much later that the same station was gaily trumpeting the news that the arrested man, and another taken into police custody about the same time along the same commercial strip, were but illegal workers, one from Mexico and the other from Guatemala, who are either the unluckiest or stupidest men in America -- innocents...

Police Arrest Witness Accused Of Lying To Sniper Investigators Falls Church Man Faces 6-Month Jail TermFairfax County Police have arrested and charged Matthew Dowdy, 37, of Falls Church, Va., for allegedly making false statements to police.Dowdy was arrested Friday afternoon, one day after police said his account of Monday night's sniper shooting outside the Home Depot store had been discredited.He is charged with "knowingly and willfully make(ing) a materially false statement or representation to a law enforcement officer who is in the course of conducting an investigation of a crime by another". He faces up to six months in jail.Dowdy's...

Pro-gun protester wins lawsuit Cops ticketed driver en route to home of Columbine victim A self-described "political agitator" who was cited for several traffic violations as he prepared to protest outside the home of a Columbine victim won a $20,000 settlement from two sheriff's deputies in a civil-rights lawsuit. Duncan D. Philp, 45, accused Jefferson County sheriff's deputies Kirk Beaulieu and Donald Estep of violating his constitutional rights protecting him from unreasonable search and seizure and guaranteeing him due process. Philp's attorney, Vincent Todd, also alleged that Beaulieu and Estep pulled Philp over, detained him and ticketed him as...

CSGV Statement on Sniper Shootings in DC Metropolitan Area The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence extends its sympathies to the recent shooting victims and their families in the Washington, DC region. These sniper shootings have shattered our community's sense of well-being and safety. We live here, and like everyone else in this region, we are hoping the police will quickly capture the shooter. We do not know exactly the type of gun used in the shooting, nor do we know how the shooter obtained the gun. However, we do know that there are tools that could potentially help law enforcement...

Appeals court says gun seizure by Wayne police was proper JENNIFER V. HUGHES The Wayne Police Department had the right to revoke a township man's firearms ID card and seize his weapons even though he had never run afoul of the law with his guns, according to an appellate court ruling handed up Thursday.Four DWI convictions over the past 20 years proved to be a problem for Thomas Whitney, the court ruling said."I don't go drinking with a gun. I use them for sport," said Whitney, 43, who works in construction. He said he is a National Rifle Association member...

WHAT: FReeper Augustus Alzona is forming a slate of nineteen true conservative Republican activists to take over the current local central committee in Montgomery County, Maryland, and then later, work with fellow, state central committee members statewide to gain effective control (by conservatives) over the Maryland Republican Party.  WHY: As most of you who have been keeping up with Republican Party politics over the last four-year election cycle (now ending) know, the Maryland State GOP continues to be basically controlled by so-called "moderates." This phenomenon has also applied to the locally elected party central committee here in Montgomery County over...

CNSNews.com) - The celebration of a homosexual pride event at the Justice Department on Wednesday is drawing fire from family groups, who oppose what they call "the use of taxpayer funds to sponsor an event that promotes sexual behavior." After the Commerce Department withheld official sponsorship of a similar event on its premises - and President Bush turned down a request by a government employee group to recognize June as "Gay and Lesbian Pride Month" - family groups expressed disappointment that the Justice Department, under conservative Attorney General John Ashcroft, gave the go-ahead for the celebration. Robert Knight, director...

<p>No jurisdiction in the United States works as doggedly to disarm citizens as does the District of Columbia, our nation's capital and on-again, off-again murder capital. Sure, the city council grudgingly legalized pepper spray in 1993 (provided, of course, that it's properly registered). But that brief concession to self-defense hasn't led to any revision of the District's gun laws, which are still among the most restrictive in America.</p>