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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- PLEASE FORWARD THIS ALERT TO YOUR FRIENDS AND ENEMIES ALIKE! DO NOT LET THIS ALERT DIE - PASS IT ON! GUN OWNERS ALLIANCE !!ALERT!! Chris W. Stark - Director P.O. Box 16441 Colorado Springs, Colorado, 80935-6441 Ph. 1-719-391-0943 http://www.GunOwnersAlliance.com e-mail: Director@GunOwnersAlliance.com 27 June 2004 ++++++++++++++++++ "ASK THE RABBI" by R. Mermelstein IS BACK!!! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (Subscribe/UnSubscribe instructions at the bottom of this alert) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Copyright © 2004 by R. Mermelstein and Gun Owners Alliance. Republication permitted ONLY if this e-mail alert is left intact in its original state. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dear RKBA Friends and supporters, We Welcome an...

CHARLESTON (AP) -- Hundreds of machine gun owners plan to meet at a remote, abandoned strip-mine site near Shinnston this weekend to shoot their weapons. ''We call it 'Thunder in the Hills,' '' said Frank Watson, the event's promoter. ''Basically, it's a chance for machine gun owners to spend three days shooting lead and shooting the bull.'' Billed as a ''shoot and show,'' the event is open to owners of all types of automatic firearms. Military buffs will get a chance to see everything from the British-made Lewis gun of World War I to the M-60 now used by the...

It's not every day that presidential candidates take up arms as part of their campaigns, but that's what happened April 28, when two candidates for the Libertarian Party's nomination for president had a "shoot-out" in Dallas, Texas. Michael Badnarik and Gary Nolan, two of the leading candidates for the LP presidential nomination, had a shooting match as a fundraiser for ballot access in Texas -- where the LP must gather 45,540 valid signatures to get on the ballot across the state in November. The event raised some money for the ballot access effort, with about 30 people showing up to...

I HATE APRIL FOOLS day... It's the one day out of the year I've learned to not read any website ever... from Drudge, to my tinfoil favorite Art Bell... though I guess it's just Coast to Coast now... I don't trust anyone when it's the 1st of april. Information gathering crawls to a halt... etc. etc. etc. So, in response to April Fools Day, I'm gonna spend all day in my cubicle and play BUSH SHOOT OUT! If you haven't played it you should. It's a nice relaxing way to spend a day when the internet is so full of...

Last Updated: Saturday, 20 March, 2004, 17:02 GMT Russia snares smuggled bear paws Bear paw is a delicacy in parts of China Russian customs officers have arrested a Chinese truck driver they say was trying to smuggle several hundred severed bear paws into China from Siberia. Guards at Ussuriysk border point were taken aback by the large amount of animal parts found hidden in sacks in the back of the truck, Russian Channel One TV said. As well as some 800 bear paws and bear pelts, officers found thousands of Siberian weasel and sable skins, grey squirrel and pheasant carcasses....

The Houston Area Texans are having our semi-annual, quarterly, or whenever we get around to it, shoot out this Saturday at the Bullet Hole Rifle Range in San Antonio! The shooting will start at noon and dinner will be served about six or whenever I get the steaks done.THE GUEST OF HONOR WILL BE NONE OTHER THAN THE TEXAS TERMITE! Logan will be there about six to eat his steak so all of you who have wished they could see this little dynamo, here's your chance! Go out of San Antonio on Highway 90 West until you see the "San...

Corner Shot is a new weapon system designed for urban combat which enables the user to observe and engage a target from behind a corner without exposing any body parts. The highly technological system was officially unveiled in late December 2003 in Israel and is already being used by some of the world?s elite Special Forces. Corner Shot attaches to most handguns currently used by Special Forces, for example the GLOCK, SIG SAUER, CZ or BERETTA. It includes a small, high-resolution camera and monitor, which can observe and view a target from various vantage points. The detachable video camera...

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Police: Homeowner Didn't Have To Use Deadly Force Shooter Says 2 Men Tried To Rob Him POSTED: 9:54 AM CST January 13, 2004 UPDATED: 5:49 PM CST January 14, 2004 GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas -- Police now say they think a shooter in Grand Prairie did not have to use deadly force. FeedRoom Homeowner Fatally Shoots Men SURVEY A Grand Prairie homeowner, with a concealed handgun license, says two men stormed his home and forced him to withdraw cash. He says he felt his life was in danger before he fatally shot them. Should he have been arrested on capital murder...

RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) - Lifelong rancher Charlie Jaure has seen cattle lose parts of their tails to the cold on occasion. He'd never seen them bitten off by wolves. That is, until shortly after Christmas, when Jaure lost two of his cattle to wolves north of Wamsutter. Another two were hurt badly and up to a dozen lost their tails, he said. ''I thought maybe they froze their tails,'' Jaure said. ''I got to looking, and it was all at the top of the tail.'' His wife, Kathleen, said the bones were left crushed and mangled. ''We're messing with a...

OK folks, here it is... everyone's favorite... an "I need FReeper opinions on a new gun" thread! Hooray! Here's the lowdown: I have $1,200 and I think I'm going to blow it on a new rifle. From the bit of looking into it his will be what folks call a "battle rifle". I'm thinking about .223 or .308 but I'm certainly open to other suggestions. I really can't spend anything over $1,200 even though I would like to. I can't get too crazy here. Any suggestions you would have, are greatly appreciated. I know everyone loves a good "gun thread"!...

Pastor kills attacker on rampage Assaults mount until bullets stop Jacksonville man at LR church BY ANDY DAVIS ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE A string of violent attacks Tuesday afternoon ended when a pastor shot and killed a man who attacked him and his sonin-law with a fireplace poker after breaking into an east Little Rock church. Corey Adams’ 15 minute rampage began about 3 p.m. outside the management office of an apartment complex near The House of Prayer of the Apostolic Faith at 1400 E. 10th St. Before he was killed, Adams, 30, robbed and struck an acquaintance, attacked a pest control...

Bizarre Mugabe move has ecologists up in arms Sunday Argus (SA) Date posted:Mon 8-Sep-2003 Date published:Sun 7-Sep-2003 Conservationists in Zimbabwe are rallying international support to protest against the latest bizarre move by President Robert Mugabe's regime - an order to shoot thousands of buffalo at private conservancies "to contain foot-and-mouth disease" By Basildon Peta Conservationists in Zimbabwe are rallying international support to protest against the latest bizarre move by President Robert Mugabe's regime - an order to shoot thousands of buffalo at private conservancies "to contain foot-and-mouth disease". The conservationists say the order is not only "stupid", but it would...

<p>FREMONT -- A 41-year-old Fremont man whose dog was shot by police officers when they forcibly entered his house looking for marijuana plants has a prescription from his doctor to use pot and a certificate from the Oakland Cannabis Cooperative allowing him to grow and possess it, according to documents obtained by ANG Newspapers. Robert Filgo and his wife, Yvette Filgo, 38, were arrested Tuesday night after seven police officers served a search warrant at their Niles home and found 79 plants in the back yard and garage.</p>

<p>A Fairfax County, Va., judge ruled yesterday that jurors may hear testimony from two Supermax prison officers who say that teen-age sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo bragged to them about killings, shootings and other near-attacks after he was arrested last fall.</p> <p>At a hearing in July, the correctional officers testified that two days after his arrest Oct. 24, Malvo, then 17, began revealing details about the random shootings that gripped the Baltimore-to-Richmond, Va., corridor during three weeks in October.</p>

Grand jury indicts 2 Cuban pilots, military leader in fatal shoot-down of Brothers planes BY LARRY LEBOWITZ AND TERE FIGUERAS llebowitz@herald.com Two Cuban MiG pilots and the head of the island's air force were indicted Thursday by a Miami federal grand jury for the 1996 fatal shoot-down of two Brothers to the Rescue planes. The indictment, unsealed around 1:30 p.m., accused brothers Alberto Pérez Pérez and Francisco Pérez Pérez, the MiG pilots, and Brig. Gen. Rubén Martínez Puente.. The three are charged with conspiracy to commit murder and four counts of murder -- one for each of the South Florida...

A row has broken out in Australia's Queensland state following reports that police there used photographs of real-life people, including Aborigines, during target practice. The police minister in the northeastern state, Tony McGrady, has ordered an inquiry after the Channel Seven television report. The broadcaster said Queensland's counter-terrorism squad used 28 pictures or mug shots, including those of two Aborigines, in training exercises. Civil rights activists reacted with outrage but police maintained they had done nothing wrong. "It's absolutely disgraceful in that it reinforces prejudices," said Cameron Murphy, secretary of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties. "We've got a serious...

New evidence suggests that a war crime may have taken place in Baghdad on April 8. That morning, Taras Protsyuk, a Ukraine-born cameraman employed by Reuters, was standing on the 15th-floor balcony of the Palestine Hotel. José Couso, an employee of the Spanish news company Telcinco, was filming from a balcony one floor below. Suddenly a U.S. tank less than a mile away fired a single round at the hotel, hitting the 15th-floor balcony. Protsyuk was found lying on his back, unconscious. Couso was hit by debris. Both died soon afterward. Now, Couso's relatives have asked a judge to extradite...

<p>SPARTA - A black bear swatted a 2-year-old boy outside his family's home Tuesday afternoon, police said.</p> <p>Mark Tregidgo suffered a bump to the head but was otherwise uninjured in the 1:19 p.m. incident, Police Sgt. Russell Smith said.</p> <p>The 150-pound, 4-year-old female bruin was shot and killed by police shortly afterward, Smith said. The frightening incident, although extremely rare, is expected to strengthen calls for a statewide bear hunt.</p>

AGHDAD, Iraq, May 13 — United States military forces in Iraq will have the authority to shoot looters on sight under a tough new security setup that will include hiring more police officers and banning ranking members of the Baath Party from public service, American officials said today. The far more muscular approach to bringing order to postwar Iraq was described by the new American administrator, L. Paul Bremer, at a meeting of senior staff members today, the officials said. On Wednesday, Mr. Bremer is expected to meet with the leaders of Iraqi political groups that are seeking to form...