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They don't carry pistols or wear 10-gallon hats. But Connie Waters and a group of ministers say they are outlaws. Waters is a member of the Outlaw Preachers, an interdenominational group of ministers whose common belief in "radical inclusivity" has them on the outs with mainstream Christian churches. But in some cases, she said, Christian theology could benefit from a rule-breaker.
MADISON (AP) - The state Senate Thursday overrode Gov. Jim Doyle's veto of a bill that would let Wisconsin residents pack pistols, clubs and knives in their pockets. The fate of the state's 133-year-old ban on concealed weapons now rests with the state Assembly, which plans its own override try on Tuesday. The vote likely will hinge on six Assembly Democrats who broke party lines and voted with Republicans to pass the bill in December.
WEST Virginia has 1.8 million people, of whom more than 1.4 million are adults. State Police say about 60,000 of those adults - around 4 percent - have permits to carry loaded pistols hidden in their pockets. We can't understand why 4 percent have a strange craving to walk around with secret guns, armed to kill as they mingle among regular folks and families. Many among the 96 percent might be nervous if they knew. The pistol-carriers say they're doing it for self- defense - but that seems unreal, because most people live their entire lives without being attacked.
HERE'S a simple test to determine where you stand on gun control: Q: Should convicted violent criminals be allowed to carry pistols or assault weapons?
NORTH HAVEN -- Guns and writing romance novels? No, this meeting is not about the life of Ernest Hemingway or the death of Hunter Thompson. It is, however, the Connecticut Romance Writers of America meeting noon Saturday, which will feature National Rifle Association member Nick Errede, to speak about firearms from a writer's perspective. Errede will follow the group's 11 a.m. membership meeting at the Holiday Inn, 201 Washington Ave. Errede has presented an NRA safety program to hundreds of Connecticut residents wishing to obtain state permits to carry pistols and revolvers. This meeting will be a little different for him, however, as he will speak in a workshop designed for writers. The meeting will only contain information about the use of firearms in regard to fiction writing.
Since 2000, Kanawha County has issued 13,272 five-year permits to carry concealed pistols, according to Lt. Rick Rose in the sheriff's department. Cabell County has issued perhaps 4,000 in that period. Statewide, the grand total probably is over 100,000. Presumably, all those West Virginia pistol-packers carry hidden guns because they think it makes them safer. But a new federal study concludes that people with concealed pistols are four times more likely to be shot than unarmed people.
DAILY MAIL STAFF WILLIAMSON - Mingo County is a place where the barber likes to call his neighbors family and the carry-out owner likes to keep two loaded pistols behind the counter.
In the great traditions of the Old West, California deputizes bounty hunters to help enforce its environmental laws. But these deputies, who get to keep a quarter of any penalties they recover for the state, carry briefcases rather than pistols, and their critics say their tactics amount to legalized extortion. All it takes to win a settlement from a private company is a little research -- to identify even a trace amount of a toxin in, say, office supplies or a parking lot -- and some threatening legal boilerplate. Extracting settlements in these cases, an appeals court judge wrote last year, is "absurdly easy." Jerry Brown, the state's former governor and now its attorney general, intends to bring some order to the situation. He started by picking a fight last month with the state's le...
TUESDAY, the U.S. Supreme Court took a historic step. It agreed to rule for the first time whether the Constitution's Second Amendment - the right-to-bear-arms guarantee - allows individuals to carry concealed pistols, or whether it authorizes guns only for "a well-regulated militia" as its language implies. Arguments on the controversial question probably will be presented early next year, with a decision expected by summer. It promises to be a landmark ruling with long-lasting effect on America.
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