GUNS IN THE NEWS, May 11.

Please follow the rules that you've seen posted here before.

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/news/510_shooting.html

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Video clip says he won't face charges. The clerk has an Ohio CHL. Chalk one up for the good guys.

In California a store clerk doesn't need a permit, just permission from the business' owner.

It has never come up.

"McALESTER, Okla. - Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols was pursuing his gun show business when prosecutors allege he was helping Timothy McVeigh plan the bombing that killed 168 people, according to witnesses at Nichols' state murder trial.
Defense attorneys offered testimony Monday about Nichols' involvement in gun shows and his activities prior to the April 19, 1995, bombing as they stressed a key point in their case - that Nichols was trying to build a life and a business, not a bomb.
James Shirley of Sierra Vista, Ariz., said he met Nichols at a March 18, 1995, gun show in Manhattan, Kan., where Nichols bought a Glock pistol, holster and other accessories for $600 or $700. Shirley said he lived in Salina, Kan., at the time.
Gun show promoter Patricia Gragg of Topeka, Kan., testified that Nichols paid a $75 deposit for two tables at another gun show planned for the last weekend of April 1995. Nichols, arrested as a material witness two days after the bombing, did not show up, Gragg said.
Gragg testified she used off-duty police officers as security at her gun shows, but that no background checks were performed to determine if weapons offered at the shows were stolen."

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/8639252.htm

Yeah, gun nuts have just the nicest playmates....

"Rigby-AP -- An accidental shooting has left a one-year-old girl with a bullet wound from a large caliber handgun.
Officials at Rigby aren't releasing the girl's name. But they say it happened on Friday at the girl's home.
The mother was home with her three children when it happened.
Police say a five-year-old boy found the 44-caliber gun and was playing with it when it went off, hitting the infant in the back.
The victim was taken to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, where she underwent surgery. A detective called the injury severe."

http://www.kbcitv.com/x5154.xml?ParentPageID=x5155&ContentID=x51828&Layout=KBCI.xsl&AdGroupID=x5154&URL=http://localhost/apwirefeed/d82g5oqo0.xml&NewsSection=StateHeadlines

Quick...what right wing lobbying group that has odious nutcase Grover Norquist on its board publishes a gun magazine for kids?

"SPRINGDALE - Police were investigating a fatal shooting Monday night near West Kemper Road and Rose Lane.
Police confirmed that one person was dead.
Officers responded to residence near at the intersection about 7:50 p.m. for a report of shots fired and discovered the victim.
Numerous bullet shell casings were found at the scene. "

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/05/11/loc_loc4ps.html

"LITHONIA, Ga. - DeKalb County police are investigating a Tuesday morning shooting that left a man dead and a woman wounded.
Officers went to a house after getting a 911 hang-up call around 2 a.m. An officer knocked on the door and heard gunshots.
Sgt. T.S. Hunt said authorities found the woman with a gunshot wound to the face. She was taken to a hospital. The man was found dead inside the house, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound."

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/8639080.htm

"(New Paltz - AP) — Police are looking for suspects connected with a shooting after a SUNY New Paltz fraternity party.
University police say one of the victims, 20-year-old Gilbert Thomas, is hospitalized in stable condition after being shot below the waist early Sunday. Police say 19-year-old Glenn Knapp was grazed in the hand by a bullet and was treated and released.
The incident happened shortly after 2 a-m Sunday outside the student union building on the New Paltz campus. University Police Chief Raymond Bryant said the party was a non-alcoholic event sanctioned by the college and the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity."

http://www.wrgb.com/news/regional/regional.asp?selection=article_10300

"WASHINGTON - Two brothers have been arrested in the death of an 8-year-old girl, who was killed when a stray bullet from a drive-by shooting shattered a window of the house where she sat watching television.
The brothers were shooting at some pedestrians, whom they believed responsible for broken windows of a car belonging to a family member of the brothers, police said. A bullet shattered the window of the house and killed the girl. Her aunt was wounded. "

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040511/ap_on_re_us/child_shot_1

You might recall that fuckwit Orrin Hatch, at the behest of our idiotic gun lobby, was trying earlier this year to put more guns on the streets of D.C.

"Authorities said it all started with a call to 911 about a fight near Saint Patrick Street. Police said when they arrived the fight was over but people at the scene told police one of the men involved went to get a gun. That's when police said they heard shots coming from Saint Patrick Street.
Police claim they saw a man with a gun and tried to get the weapon away from him. The man then shot himself in the head during the struggle, according to officials. "

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040511/lo_wtae/2199832

Yes, guns attract just the nicest folks...

"Lovell "Artie" Wheeler, the alleged white supremacist who was arrested last year for stockpiling gunpowder in his Southeast Baltimore home, filed a $100 million federal lawsuit yesterday against the federal law enforcement agencies and Baltimore Police Department that he says held him as a "political prisoner."
In a complaint they prepared themselves, Wheeler and his wife, Elizabeth Wheeler, 73, said authorities violated their constitutional rights and targeted them because of their views.
"They made a big to-do about so-called hate literature in my house," Lovell Wheeler said.
Lovell Wheeler, 61, was arrested July 1 after detectives and federal agents searched his house and found about 80 pounds of improperly stored gunpowder, hundreds of firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition. "

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/yahoo/bal-md.wheeler11may11,0,3018184.story?coll=bal-newsaol-headlines

What law(s) is he accused of violating?

There is no federal law requiring any specific means of storing gunpowder, nor any state or federal law limiting the amount of ammunition or number of firearms a person can own.

And there is no law against possessing "hate literature".

There are federal laws governing the amount and the storage of black powder.

http://www.atf.gov/pub/fire-explo_pub/xqanda.htm

Looks like amounts over 50 pounds are subject to federal storage regs.

Perhaps the article is leaving out information.

That's exactly the sort of humhole likely to have a small arsenal. Bet he can spout every bit of gun nut propaganda we hear here from memory.

What a wonderful utopia Benchley fantasizes about.

Bet he's got that Diane Feinstein photo printed out and can recite the horseshit that goes with it from memory...

"A 26-year-old man was shot last night in East Baltimore and died a short time later at Johns Hopkins Hospital, police said.
About 9:25 p.m., officers found the victim, Eugene Streeter of the 1700 block of E. 25th St., lying in the 1900 block of E. Fayette St., bleeding from a wound to the head, said Detective Gary Niedermeier.
Streeter died 30 minutes later at Hopkins, Niedermeier said."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/crime/bal-md.slaying11may11,0,7790979.story?coll=bal-local-headlines

"FORT WORTH - Two teen-agers were wounded and a 1-year-old girl was slightly injured when shots were fired from a car as it passed a north side house Monday night.
Investigators were looking for a white four-door Dodge Neon, police said.
When officers arrived at the house in the 3200 block of Northwest 28th, they found a 19-year-old and a 17-year-old with serious injuries, Grady said.
"The 1-year-old, thank God, was only grazed on the forehead," he said."

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/8638730.htm

"An Indianapolis man was shot and killed Monday afternoon on the Near Northside.
Ryan O. Jones, 24, 2200 block of Groff Avenue, was declared dead at Wishard Memorial Hospital. He had been shot just before 6 p.m. Monday."

http://www.indystar.com/articles/6/145468-3596-103.html

"An Indianapolis man went on trial Monday for unleashing what prosecutors called a barrage of bullets at police officers trying to catch him.
In December 2002, prosecutors say, Anthony Keith Brown fired at least 34 shots from a high-powered rifle, wounding Indianapolis Police Officer Linda Jackson. Jackson was shot in the hip during the shootout near the intersection of Sherman Drive and 32nd Street.
"He chose a weapon of war to fire at these police officers," Marion County Deputy Prosecutor John Keiffner said during opening arguments. Keiffner said the powerful bullets ripped through vehicles and could have easily pierced an officer's armored vest."

http://www.indystar.com/articles/7/145336-3617-009.html

"A man died Monday night after he was found in the trunk of a car in Hollywood with fatal gunshot wounds, according to police.
Hollywood police found Fletcher Runyon, 53, of Fort Lauderdale, in a parking lot in the 1800 block of Adams Street at around 9:30 p.m. with gunshot wounds to the upper torso, Hollywood police spokesman Det. Carlos Negron said.
Runyon was still alive when officers arrived, and they immediately transported him to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, where he died, Negron said."

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/8639805.htm

"HERNANDO BEACH - What started as a heated domestic argument turned ugly Sunday after a Hernando Beach woman tried to shoot her live-in boyfriend, authorities said.
Tina M. Seeland is accused of aiming a rifle at her boyfriend's chest and squeezing the trigger. After the .22-caliber firearm misfired, Alec Brusca ran as Seeland tried to shoot him a second time, the report said. Several people wrestled the rifle away from the 35-year-old, perhaps saving the man's life.
The Sheriff's Office arrested Seeland at the home she shares with Brusca at 3404 Minnow Creek Drive at 11:17 p.m. Sunday. "

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/05/11/Hernando/Witnesses_wrestle_rif.shtml

"A Jeannette woman faces a preliminary hearing this week on allegations that she tried to kill another woman.
Deborah Platt, 47, of 317 1/2 Division St., is to appear Thursday before District Justice Mary DiClaudio, of Jeannette, on charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, receiving stolen property, recklessly endangering another person and owning a firearm despite being a former convict.
Jeannette police allege that Platt fired one shot at Carla Maloy, 35, also of 317 1/2 Division St., shortly after 5:30 a.m. Sunday on Division Street."

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/westmoreland/s_193507.html

Brandon Buchan, 21, an English student at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, bid for the MP3 player on eBay, the Star Phoenix newspaper said.

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The package, sent by courier, was labelled as containing an MP3 player.

"I was really shocked to see it was a gun," Mr Buchan told the newspaper.

more...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3703321.stm

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