Samoa, American Samoa
Samoa Police Commissioner 'Shocked' Guns Were Smuggled to Him
Samoa News
22 Nov 2008
Samoa Police Commissioner, Papalii Lorenese Neru, began giving evidence, or, testimony, before the Commission of Inquiry in Samoa last Friday Nov. 15, 2008, which continued yesterday and is likely to continue for another day at least, reports Samoalive. The inquiry in Samoa probes the alleged smuggling of guns from American Samoa to Samoa on-board the Samoa police patrol boat MV Nafanua. The guns were allegedly transported on the Nafanua during the 2008 Flag Day festivities, when the Samoa police attended the Flag Day as guests and performers. Local police detective John Cendrowski, who conducted an investigation into the alleged guns smuggling that... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US 'Gun Sale Boom' Touted by Gun Lobby Was Just Regular Annual Blip
Portland Press Herald (Maine), Opinion
22 Nov 2008
Thursday's front-page headline screamed, "Gun sales shoot way up." The article that followed was long on spin but short on fact. The reader was asked to believe that the supposed jump in gun sales can be attributed directly to the election of Barack Obama and the fear of increased gun restrictions. A spokesman for Cabela's confirmed this fear because he had seen "a lot of chatter on the Internet." Yes, there is a lot of chatter on the Internet from fringe groups who are indeed all up in arms over the idea of President-elect Obama. But this is the chatter of extremists who view any and all gun laws as unconstitutional. This is the chatter of... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Supreme Court Cops It for Wandering Into Gun Policy, As With Abortion
Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St Paul), Column
22 Nov 2008
WASHINGTON -- Of conservatives' few victories this year, the most cherished came when the Supreme Court, in District of Columbia vs. Heller, held for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms. Now, however, a distinguished conservative jurist argues that the court's ruling was mistaken and had the principal flaws of Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 abortion ruling that conservatives execrate as judicial overreaching. Both rulings, says J. Harvie Wilkinson, suddenly recognized a judicially enforceable right grounded in "an ambiguous constitutional text." Writing for the Virginia Law Review, Judge Wilkinson of the 4th U.S. Circuit... ( gunpolicy.org )
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