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Ruckus in Virginia: Council Attempts to Restrict Backyard Pest Shooting
1 October 2008
Associated Press
CULPEPER, Virginia — When Mayor Pranas Rimeikis walked into the council chamber and saw it filled with armed men — guns tucked inside jackets, guns on hips, some people packing their heat so openly they "looked like Pancho Villa" — he knew his town had inadvertently touched the third rail of far-exurban politics.
Varmints. And the shooting thereof.
During the past two months, a proposal that sounded obvious to the new police chief — prohibiting Culpeper... (GunPolicy.org)