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<title>Lobbyists Fail in First Attempt to Exempt US States from Federal Gun Law</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33266</link>
<author>Associated Press,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[HELENA, Montana — A group of states seeking freedom from federal gun laws were dealt a blow Wednesday when a federal magistrate recommended dismissal of a lawsuit launched by gun rights advocates who argue Congress has overstepped its bounds with gun control.

The magistrate sided with the U.S. Department of Justice, which says courts have already decided that Congress can set standards on such items as guns through its power to regulate interstate commerce. The... [Associated Press, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Portland, Oregon Mayor Tries Gun Control Where State Legislators Refuse</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33268</link>
<author>Oregonian (Portland),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Share When Portland Mayor Sam Adams recently proposed three new city gun laws and two changes to existing city code, he joined several mayors across the country who are trying to pass gun-control laws that state lawmakers would not -- or could not. 

"It's amazing to me the denial around the connection between inadequacy in our gun laws and gun crimes on the street. The Legislature hasn't connected those dots," Adams said. "The absence of meaningful gun law changes must... [Oregonian (Portland), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Chicago&#39;s Tough Gun Law, &#39;Key Crime-fighting Tool&#39; Rarely Enforced</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33255</link>
<author>New York Times,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mayor Richard M. Daley has long insisted that the city's restrictive gun laws — including the handgun ban that was essentially nullified recently by the United States Supreme Court — have been a key crime-fighting tool. 

But court records show that relatively few people were convicted of violating the laws, and even top city officials have questioned how useful they are in deterring crime. 

Since 1982, when the city tightened its gun ordinances to include the... [New York Times, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Radio Host Convicted of Threatening 3 Judges over Chicago Handgun Ban</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33183</link>
<author>New York Times,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A right-wing Internet radio host was convicted on Friday by a federal jury in Brooklyn of threatening three federal judges who had issued a ruling he disagreed with. 

Two previous prosecutions of the host, Harold C. Turner, ended in mistrials after jurors were unable to agree on a verdict, but the decision Friday came after less than two hours of deliberation.

Mr. Turner, 48, posted inflammatory Internet messages about the three appeals court judges who had upheld a... [New York Times, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Latest Supreme Court Appointment &#39;Significant Defeat&#39; for US Gun Lobby</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33133</link>
<author>Nation (USA),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Elena Kagan was confirmed Thursday as the 112th justice to serve on the Supreme Court bench, in a significant victory for the Obama administration and womens' rights groups—and a significant defeat for the National Rifle Association.

Kagan was approved on a 63-37 vote, earning the support of fifty-six Democrats (all except Nebraska's Ben Nelson), Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders, Connecticut Independent Joe Lieberman and five Republicans who had already announced... [Nation (USA), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>In Failure to Reject 2 Women Justices, US Gun Lobby Lost Battles, Clout</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33158</link>
<author>The Hill (Washington DC),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan presents a political conundrum to the National Rifle Association (NRA), one of the nation's most powerful grassroots lobbying groups.

Republicans lawmakers and conservative activists fear Kagan will emerge as a strong voice on the high court against gun-ownership rights.

But five Republican senators have pledged to vote for Kagan, making her a shoo-in for confirmation.

This puts the NRA in the tricky position of having to... [The Hill (Washington DC), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Appleseed Project Teaches 25,000 Americans to Shoot, Prepare for Worst</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33178</link>
<author>New York Times,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One June morning last year, Jack Dailey drove from his home in North Carolina's Piedmont country, through verdant, hilly farmland to a rifle range near the town of Ramseur. Eleven men and a woman had mustered there for a weeklong boot camp run by the Appleseed Project, a group Dailey started that is dedicated to teaching every American how to fire a bullet through a man-size target out to 500 yards. So far Appleseed has taught 25,000 people to shoot; 7,000 more will... [New York Times, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Firearm Lobbyists Challenge Maryland Law to Restrict Hidden Handguns</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33153</link>
<author>Washington Post,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The gun rights advocates who successfully challenged the District's gun laws have moved their campaign to Maryland, filing a federal lawsuit claiming that the state's weapons restrictions violate the Second Amendment.

The seven-page suit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore challenges Maryland's restrictions on handgun carry permits. Under state law, applicants must show, among other things, that they are not addicted to drugs or alcohol, don't have a... [Washington Post, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Con: US Laws Limit Right to Own Gun Without Government Interference</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33072</link>
<author>Victoria Advocate (Texas),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The right to own a gun without government interference is well-grounded in U.S. history, say some Crossroads residents.

"We have a right to bear arms," said Victoria mechanic T.J Bryant. "That right goes all the way back to the Constitution. We're allowed to protect ourselves."

Plant manager Jake Davis, of Victoria, agreed, also citing the Constitution.

"No, cities and states should not be able to do that," he said. "It's part of our Constitution, the right to bear... [Victoria Advocate (Texas), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>British Example Shows a Little Gun Control Would Be Good for America</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33044</link>
<author>Columbia Missourian (Missouri), Opinion,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[LONDON – America is known for its trendsetting.

It's the land that brought the world McDonald's, Facebook and Lady Gaga. When Americans buy into something, everyone takes notice.

But some hot items are more dangerous than others. A recent article in Marie Claire's UK edition identified one questionable craze: "Across America, firearms are fast becoming a must-have accessory."

Trend alert?

It's long been the stereotype that Brits view America as a gun-toting,... [Columbia Missourian (Missouri), Opinion, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>UN&#39;s Global Gun Trade Treaty a Risk to US Second Amendment Rights</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33041</link>
<author>Human Events (Washington),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court reaffirmed the Second Amendment during the trial of McDonald vs. Chicago. The 5-4 ruling confirmed that neither a state nor city, acting under a grant of authority from the state, could deny a person the right to possess a firearm. This was seen as a victory for gun rights activists, but with the United Nations Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) treaty looming in the near future, this fight is far from over.

The U.N. program of action concerning SALW... [Human Events (Washington), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Idaho Hidden Handgun Owner Sues to Lift Gun Ban in Nevada State Parks</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33037</link>
<author>Las Vegas Sun (Nevada),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A Colorado legal foundation has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Nevada's law that generally bans the possession of loaded guns in state parks.

Attorneys for the Mountain States Legal Foundation in Denver, along with Elko attorney Robert Salyer, filed suit in U.S. District Court for Nevada this week in behalf of Al Baker, an Idaho outdoorsman who said he was threatened with six months' jail time if he fired his gun in Nevada state parks -- even in self... [Las Vegas Sun (Nevada), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Gun Sales Tipped to Shoot Up In Wake of New US Supreme Court Ruling</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33036</link>
<author>ABC News (USA),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After a Supreme Court decision affirming the right to bear arms was handed down in June, the owners of Midwest Sporting Goods, just outside of Chicago, started noticed something any retailer would find encouraging an increasing number of customers.

With Chicago's 28-year ban on handgun ownership rendered unconstitutional, more people were coming into Midwest, in Lyons, Illinois, to exercise their Second Amendment rights, according to Noel, the store's owner. He asked... [ABC News (USA), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Strict Chicago Handgun Law Stirs Illinois Gun Owners, Dealers, Gun Lobby</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33030</link>
<author>Quincy Herald-Whig (Illinois),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Steve March, a gun buyer at Game Masters sporting goods store in Quincy, believes there is one good thing about a restrictive gun control ordinance that took effect in Chicago last Monday.

"It's got people talking about it again. It does kind of bring to light the absurdity of what they're trying to do up there," March said.

On July 2, Chicago aldermen voted 45-0 for an ordinance that restricts the use, sale and transporting of handguns within the city. They... [Quincy Herald-Whig (Illinois), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Chicago Court Upholds Gun Control, Retains Gun Ban on Domestic Abuser</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33029</link>
<author>Associated Press,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO — A federal appeals court upheld a ban on gun possession for a domestic violence offender in a ruling that several anti-violence advocates applauded Wednesday for providing some clarity after the U.S. Supreme Court's recent landmark decision on gun restrictions.

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled 10-1 on Tuesday to reinstate a southern Wisconsin man's conviction for having a gun while on probation for a misdemeanor domestic violence... [Associated Press, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>American Civil Liberties Union Fights for Right of 85yr-old to Own Guns</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33026</link>
<author>Orlando Sentinel (Florida),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[POMPANO BEACH, Florida — The American Civil Liberties Union is petitioning a court to help an 85-year-old man get his guns back from the Broward Sheriff's Office.

Yes, you read that right.

In what may be the first time, the ACLU says, it is advocating on behalf of a gun owner to get his weapons back. And they're doing so free of charge.

That the ACLU, a long-time target of conservatives' scorn, is supporting gun ownership is "a breath of fresh air," said Marion P.... [Orlando Sentinel (Florida), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>NRA Tipped to Back Democrat Harry Reid Over Republican in Arizona</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33032</link>
<author>Bloomberg (USA), Column,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some choices look easy. Between Nevada Republican Sharron Angle, an ardent believer in the constitutional right to bear arms anywhere from a national park to a corner bar, and one of Washington's most powerful Democrats, who would the National Rifle Association choose?

If you said Angle, that's the easy choice, and probably the wrong one. The NRA's political arm has yet to make endorsements, but gun owners around the U.S. are worried, with evident reason, that the... [Bloomberg (USA), Column, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Democratic Candidates in Key US States Increasingly Support Gun Lobby</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33019</link>
<author>Boston Globe,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Democratic candidates in key states are embracing gun owners' rights, winning favor from the National Rifle Association, a lobby that has long been the target of disdain from the party faithful.

In New Hampshire, Representative Paul Hodes, a Democratic Senate candidate, has an "A minus" NRA rating, potentially insulating him from progun rights attacks in a state that's big on hunting and personal liberties.

Senate majority leader Harry... [Boston Globe, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Beyond Guns: US NRA Expands Agenda to Health, Lobbying, Banking…</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33064</link>
<author>New York Times,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Fresh off a string of victories in the courts and Congress, the National Rifle Association  is flexing political muscle outside its normal domain, with both Democrats and Republicans courting its favor and avoiding its wrath on issues that sometimes seem to have little to do with guns. 

The N.R.A., long a powerful lobby on gun rights issues, has in recent months also weighed in on such varied issues as health care, campaign finance, credit card... [New York Times, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Chicago&#39;s New Gun Regulations Under Fire, Not Completely &#39;Bulletproof&#39;</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33016</link>
<author>ABC News (USA),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Bucking a national trend toward more tolerance for firearms, Chicago today begins enforcing  the toughest gun law in the nation -- and it's already under fire.

Two lawsuits have already been filed against the ordinance, which bans gun shops in the city and limits permit holders to one ready-to-fire weapon inside the home -- excluding the porch, the garage or the yard. People are allowed to own more guns, but they cannot be loaded.

Legal experts say the law is not... [ABC News (USA), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Is Chicago&#39;s Gun Law, Like Supreme Court Ruling, Missing Biblical Ethic?</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33013</link>
<author>Chicago Tribune, Blog,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is understandable that Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley would implement a new municipal gun ordinance to replace the one recently overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. But frankly, I don't think that what went into effect today (register firearms with the city, take a gun training course, and keep all but one gun locked up) will make any difference. The problem of gun violence in Chicago — and it is a huge problem — is about the proliferation of guns and not... [Chicago Tribune, Blog, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>More Guns, Less Violence Idea &#39;Entirely Without Basis&#39; in United States</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33011</link>
<author>Independent Record (Montana), Opinion,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court, through its 2008 DC v. Heller decision and its recent McDonald v. Chicago decision, has held that the Second Amendment to the Constitution confers an individual right of self-defense by firearms — and that this right constrains federal, state and local regulatory authority over the ownership and use of guns.

However, as the court's ruling in both of these cases stresses, these Second Amendment rights are not in any way more basic than others in the... [Independent Record (Montana), Opinion, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Let&#39;s Face It, Chicago&#39;s Mayor Richard Daley Wants to Ban Guns, All Guns</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33010</link>
<author>Fox News (USA), Opinion,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As always, gun control proponents say they merely want "reasonable" gun control laws. Yet, when listing the actual laws they favor, they go well beyond what most people would possibly consider "reasonable." Just look at the gun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C. that local politicians and gun control organizations such as the Brady Campaign and the Violence Policy Center have fought to protect.

Today, exactly two weeks after the Supreme Court struck down Chicago's... [Fox News (USA), Opinion, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Chicago Replaces City Gun Controls, Lobbyists Launch Instant Challenges</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/33000</link>
<author>Chicago Tribune,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As Chicago  prepares to implement its new firearms ordinance Monday, gun advocates have begun a legal assault, filing two lawsuits that constitutional law experts said could be the next round of challenges to how cities can regulate personal gun ownership.

Less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for citizens to have handguns at home, Chicago was hit with the lawsuits that target, among other things, the city's ban on gun shops, a controversial... [Chicago Tribune, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>US Gun Lobby &#39;Going to Attack Virtually Every Gun Ordinance It Can Find&#39;</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32997</link>
<author>New York Times, Editorial,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Thirteen days ago, the Supreme Court undermined Chicago's ban on handguns by applying the Second Amendment to the states, ruling that people have a right to protect their homes with a gun. Four days after that, Chicago passed another handgun restriction that edged right up to the line drawn by the court. And on Tuesday, a group of gun dealers and enthusiasts sued the city again to overturn the new law.

Bullets are flying on city streets, but the vital work of limiting... [New York Times, Editorial, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>For Every New Gun Control Law, US States Enact Three to Relax Controls</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32995</link>
<author>Age (Melbourne),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lawsuits and guns go hand in hand in America, as neatly as a Glock 9mm slides into a holster. Seemingly forever have Americans wrestled with the Second Amendment to the constitution, the 27-word clause contained in America's Bill of Rights that would appear on the face of it a relic of the 18th century.

Was its intent to grant individuals an inviolable right to possess a gun? Or was it simply a get-out for states to create "a well-regulated militia" during those... [Age (Melbourne), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>In Wake of Supreme Court Chicago Decision, US Gun Maker Shares Rose</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32994</link>
<author>Patriot Ledger (Massachusetts), Editorial,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Anyone who thinks the Supreme Court's decision on gun rights last week was an exercise for constitutional scholars – and nothing more – didn't catch what happened with the stock of gun manufacturers Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger. Like a trigger had been squeezed, their stock went up on a day other stocks went down.

The justices' 5-4 decision was a landmark one, establishing clearly that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is not a lesser right among... [Patriot Ledger (Massachusetts), Editorial, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Firearm Dealer Sues to Challenge Chicago&#39;s New Blanket Gun Shop Ban</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32993</link>
<author>Chicago Tribune,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mayor Richard Daley's newly minted ban on gun stores in Chicago is being challenged in federal court by a man who hopes to sell firearms from a Lincoln Park storefront.

Joe Franzese, who owns Second Amendment Arms in far north suburban Lake Villa, believes the gun regulation the Chicago City Council passed last week is unconstitutional. While the ordinance allows residents to own handguns, it outlaws their sale within the city, said Franzese's lawyer, Walter... [Chicago Tribune, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Georgia Minister, Gun Lobbyists Sue to Allow Hidden Handguns in Church</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32991</link>
<author>Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A Thomaston minister and a gun rights advocacy group is filing lawsuit challenging Georgia's prohibition against guns in church, a move that was predicted after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month the Second Amendment's guarantee of an individual right to bear arms applied to state and local gun control laws.

"They had indicated they would do that," Alice Johnson, executive director of  Georgians for Gun Safety, a group that supports more restrictions on weapons,... [Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Chicago Gun Dealers, Residents Sue for Right to Carry, Sell Handguns</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32983</link>
<author>Bloomberg (USA),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A Chicago Mercantile Exchange trader and three other people have joined with the Illinois Association of Firearms Retailers to sue the city of Chicago over a restrictive gun law passed by its legislators last week.

The gun-owning plaintiffs, who include a teacher's aide and a married couple, claim the new ordinance restricting handgun possession to inside the home and mandating firearms training and permitting is unconstitutional.

The measure imposes "new restrictions... [Bloomberg (USA), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Chicago&#39;s &#39;Racist&#39; Gun Laws Will Disarm Poor, Vulnerable, Black Citizens</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32979</link>
<author>Washington Times, Opinion,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Chicago's handgun ban. Gun rights groups hailed the ruling as a seminal moment in their ongoing fight to roll back restrictive gun-control legislation. As far as the National Rifle Association (NRA) is concerned, McDonald settles the matter once and for all: "This decision makes absolutely clear that the Second Amendment protects the God-given right of self-defense for all law-abiding Americans, period." Be that as it may,... [Washington Times, Opinion, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>US Supreme Court Decision on Gun Law Received With Mixed Reactions</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32977</link>
<author>Voice of America,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[New local gun laws follow a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that Americans' Constitutional right to gun ownership applies nationwide.

Legal challenges and debate continue a week after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that Americans have a right to own a gun for self defense anywhere they live. The Court said the Constitutional right to gun ownership applies nationwide, in response to a challenge of a gun ban in the Midwestern U.S. state of Illinois.

But the court also said... [Voice of America, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Wisconsin Gun Dealers Revel in Sales, Applaud Supreme Court Decision</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32974</link>
<author>Fond Du Lac Reporter (Wisconsin),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some gun merchants in the Fond du Lac area are calling a recent Supreme Court ruling a win for citizen's rights and the industry.

On June 28, the United States Supreme Court overturned a ban on guns, ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago that everyone in the city has the right to bear arms.

On its surface, the ruling appears to affect only Chicago. But on a national scale, citizens, politicians, entrepreneurs and interest groups are sharing their opinions through... [Fond Du Lac Reporter (Wisconsin), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>DC Residents Complain About Gun Unavailability Even After Court Ruling</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32971</link>
<author>National Public Radio (USA),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court ruled last week that states and localities cannot ban handguns intended for self-defense. That could overturn local bans, just the way a similar ruling two years ago ended a ban in Washington, D.C.

Hundreds of district residents have taken advantage of the new law. Still, many residents complain it's still too difficult to get a gun in the nation's capital.

Costs And Fees

The toughest thing about getting a gun in the district is finding a gun store.... [National Public Radio (USA), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>More Americans Carrying Guns in Fear of Their Lives &#39;Very Bad News&#39;</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32965</link>
<author>Sun Journal (Maine), Editorial,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Self-defense is a basic right, recognized by many legal systems from ancient times to the present day," Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority last week in a landmark decision striking down Chicago's strict firearm ban.

Indeed, self defense is about as basic a right as we have in this country, enshrined by the founders in the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

The court's decision is a victory for law-abiding citizens in places like Chicago, where even the... [Sun Journal (Maine), Editorial, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Progressive California Can Expect Many Challenges to Gun Control Law</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32966</link>
<author>Sacramento Bee (California), Column,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The list is tragically long.

Five children dead at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, 1989. Nine dead at 101 California St. in San Francisco, 1993. Nineteen wounded in the North Hollywood shootout, 1997. Four Oakland police officers shot dead, 2009.

Thousands of others have died needlessly but attracted little attention. No state has shed more blood because of gun violence than California.

And no state has done more to combat the carnage. In the past 20 years,... [Sacramento Bee (California), Column, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>NRA Declares &#39;No Reason to Trust&#39; US Supreme Court Nominee Kagan</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32963</link>
<author>Globe &#38; Mail (Toronto),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Elena Kagan did everything short of sign a covenant in her own blood to reassure gun-loving senators that she would never seek to undo a watershed Supreme Court decision extending the right to bear arms.

The Monday ruling set the tone for the repeated gun-related exchanges between Ms. Kagan and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who, that very day, began hearings to evaluate her worthiness for the country's highest tribunal.

In McDonald v. Chicago, the court... [Globe & Mail (Toronto), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Golden Age for US Gun Lovers Fuelled by NRA, &#39;Gullibility and Paranoia&#39;</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32945</link>
<author>Tyee (Vancouver), Opinion,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On Monday, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision overturning a Chicago handgun law. It was the latest in a string of moves by the courts that have made Americans' right to own firearms as secure today as they were in the days of the Wild West.

The 5-4 decision established that all Americans have a fundamental right to bear arms that constrains not only the actions of the federal government, but states and municipalities as well. It was a long-sought victory... [Tyee (Vancouver), Opinion, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Private Gun Sales, Gun Shows, Regulation and Public Safety in America</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32941</link>
<author>New England Journal of Medicine, Opinion,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In 2007, a total of 12,632 people in the United States were murdered with firearms, and it is estimated that another 48,676 were treated in hospitals for gunshot wounds received in assaults. Guns are frequently used to commit crimes in the United States, partly because they are so easy to get. This ease of access, in turn, is partially attributable to the fact that there are two systems of retail gun commerce in this country, one involving licensed gun retailers and the... [New England Journal of Medicine, Opinion, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>American Cities Reshape Gun Controls to Counter Supreme Court Ruling</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32905</link>
<author>Sydney Morning Herald,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO — American cities began wrestling with how to reshape their handgun laws after the US Supreme Court placed limits on such local ordinances.

The justices, voting 5-4 along conservative-liberal lines in a challenge to Chicago's handgun ban, ruled that cities and states must abide by the US constitution's Second Amendment on the right to bear arms. The decision strengthens the rights of gun owners and opens courthouse doors nationwide for gun rights advocates to... [Sydney Morning Herald, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Utah&#39;s Gun Law Already &#39;Constitutional&#39; - Illinois, DC, NY Are &#39;Socialists&#39;</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32930</link>
<author>Salt Lake Tribune (Utah),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Nothing that the Supreme Court did in striking down a Chicago handgun ban is likely to change life in Utah anytime soon, advocates on both sides of the gun divide said Monday.

Already, Utahns can keep handguns and carry them just about anywhere they go in the state. The Legislature has directed that guns are allowed in most public places, including the University of Utah. School zone restrictions are likely to get looser, not tighter, according to one state... [Salt Lake Tribune (Utah), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Supreme Court Decision Leaves Room for Sensible Gun Control Efforts</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32928</link>
<author>Detroit Free Press, Editorial,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[No one on either side of the gun control debate could have been very surprised by Monday's ruling in McDonald v. Chicago, in which a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court  majority all but doomed local and state efforts to ban firearms outright.

The latest ruling came just two years after a similarly divided court struck down Washington, D.C.'s, handgun ban, and there was little reason to believe the majority would be more sympathetic to a similarly restrictive Chicago gun law,... [Detroit Free Press, Editorial, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>US Faces Wave of Challenges to Gun Control in Wake of High Court Ruling</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32926</link>
<author>Financial Times (UK),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The US could see a wave of challenges to local gun-control measures after the US Supreme Court yesterday overturned a ruling upholding Chicago's 28-year-old ban on handguns - one of the country's strictest gun-control regimes - in a victory for gun-rights activists.

The US's highest court had never previously ruled whether the constitutional right to keep and bear arms applied to US cities and states. But by a 5-4 vote, the justices deemed that the second amendment... [Financial Times (UK), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Chicago Mayor Vows to Fight US Supreme Court Ruling on Handgun Ban</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32925</link>
<author>ABC News (Australia),  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A United States mayor is vowing to fight a US Supreme Court decision overturning his city's ban on handguns in the home.

Each day, 80 Americans die from gun violence. Last month 164 people were murdered in Chicago. In the majority of cases a gun was the weapon of choice.

Chicago mayor Richard Daley is convinced the figure would be higher if it was not for a ban on handguns in the home which has been in place in Chicago for the last 30 years.

"Common sense tells you... [ABC News (Australia), via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Supreme Court Chicago Decision Unsettles US State and Local Gun Laws</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32923</link>
<author>Philadelphia Inquirer,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON —  A split Supreme Court ruled Monday that Chicago's strict handgun ban violated an individual's right to own firearms, enshrined in the Second Amendment, a landmark decision that casts state and local gun laws into question.

The 5-4 ruling marks the first time the court has determined that the Constitution restricts state and municipal gun-control powers.

"Self-defense is a basic right, recognized by many legal systems from ancient times to the present... [Philadelphia Inquirer, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Supreme Court Rules Chicago, US Cities Cannot Ban Handguns at Home</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32921</link>
<author>San Francisco Chronicle,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday that Americans have a constitutional right to have a handgun at home for self-defense, even in cities that until now have outlawed handguns.

The 5-4 decision reversed a ruling that had upheld Chicago's ban on handguns and all but declared the 1982 ordinance unconstitutional. The justices ordered a federal appeals court in to reconsider its ruling.

Monday's ruling extends the reach of the Second Amendment and will open... [San Francisco Chronicle, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>Chicago Mayor Plans Strict City Gun Control After Supreme Court Decision</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32920</link>
<author>Associated Press,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO — A Supreme Court ruling finding that Americans have the right to bear arms anywhere they live almost certainly means the end of Chicago's decades-old handgun ban, but it may not make handgun ownership there much easier if the city's powerful mayor has his way.

Shortly after the high court voted 5-4 Monday along familiar ideological lines — with five conservative-moderate justices in favor of gun rights and four liberals opposed — Chicago Mayor Richard M.... [Associated Press, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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<title>US Supreme Court Gun Decision Relied on &#39;Selective&#39; Reading of History</title>
<link>http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/rss/go/32919</link>
<author>New York Times, Editorial,  via GunPolicy.org</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[About 10,000 Americans died by handgun violence, according to federal statistics, in the four months that the Supreme Court debated which clause of the Constitution it would use to subvert Chicago's entirely sensible ban on handgun ownership. The arguments that led to Monday's decision undermining Chicago's law were infuriatingly abstract, but the results will be all too real and bloody. 

This began two years ago, when the Supreme Court disregarded the plain words of... [New York Times, Editorial, via GunPolicy.org]]]></description>
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