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Anti-gun Chicago mayor "virtually foaming at the mouth"
OHS dilemma for small volunteer bodies
Rann walks out of press conference
Victoria's gun registration regime in the line of fire Victoria's gun safety regime is under fire after a string of privacy breaches and other police gun register blunders. Shooters and traders say public safety is at risk from errors that could see information about guns fall into the wrong hands. In one of the worst examples, one person received about 80 registration certificates for a single gun. And a gun dealer was sent five application forms for a dealer's licence it had already renewed, along with a renewal for a pistol owned by an unknown person and the private details of a second shooter. In other cases the details of guns and their owners have simply vanished from the registry. Firearm Traders Association secretary Graeme Forbes said the State Government had failed to act on warnings sensitive information was leaking and ignored calls for an independent review....
Shooters Party announces candidate for upper house in SA election This is to all licensed firearms owners or participants in fishing or other outdoor recreational activities. You will be aware that on the 20th of March we have a State Election. This is the day on which, once in every four years, you can have your say as a South Australian by casting your vote to elect your representatives in both Houses of Parliament. It is an important day that will determine our future and the way of life for which we all strive. Your vote is precious - something that many of us consider is the most important thing next to our families, our friends, our health, our chosen interests, our statutory rights and our implied freedoms. We often take these things for granted - until either their removal is threatened or we become aware that they have been stolen from us by a Government that implements unjust laws, by stealth, by means of bypassing our proper Parliamentary processes.... Statement authorised by M. Hudson, 31 Yalpa St., Merino SA 5049.
Labor Party changes tack in
election build-up
Rann will give Police Commissioner power to cancel drivers licences The ALP says it will move to strip dangerous drivers of their licences permanently, if it is re-elected in South Australia on March 20. It says the South Australian Police Commissioner would have the power to permanently cancel drivers' licences. Other proposed harsher penalties include prison terms of up to five years for hoon driving offenders and longer suspensions for L or P-plate drivers who exceed the speed limit by 45 kilometres per hour or more. "What we're going to do is change the law to allow the Police Commissioner to actually suspend someone's licence for life if they're a threat to public safety...."
NFR: Radar or laser speed detectors not necessary for speeding fines Not Firearms Related: No speed camera flashed to let 18-year-old P-plater Max Thring know he had been caught speeding. Instead, a police officer used an old timing method reliant on human accuracy and gave Mr Thring a $350 fine for a speed almost 10km/h faster than he believes he was driving. The teenager is now at risk of losing his licence and plans to complain to police. “I asked him if he had caught me on a speed camera and he said no, that he’d used a timing method, but I didn’t ask more because I was nervous,” Mr Thring said. Matthew Salleh had a similar experience driving in the quiet side streets of Torrensville, but after questioning the officer he was let off with an unofficial warning. “The police car behind me said they timed me going 57km/h, but I’d only been travelling on that stretch of road for a few seconds,” Mr Salleh said. “I was between roundabouts so I don’t think I could have been speeding and, anyway, I drive like a grandma.” Police traffic training officer Paul Warren initially claimed no manual methods of speed detection were legal. However, he later revealed Mr Thring could have been fined legally using a “very old method used commonly before laser and radar”....
Duck-hunting-protestor injured at opening of Tasmanian duck season A protester has been rescued from the annual wild duck shoot on Tasmania's east coast. Police say the rescue helicopter was called about 9:00am (AEST) to retrieve a 35-year-old woman who was part of a campaign to disrupt the hunt at Moulting Lagoon....
It's a race to the polls, and does anyone care? What if they called an election and nobody cared? As Adelaide parties its way from summer into autumn, South Australian Premier Mike Rann and his Labor colleagues, suddenly facing a significant challenge from a renewed Liberal opposition, are haunted by this very question. It is a paradox. South Australia - more particularly, its capital, where three quarters of the state's citizens live - is swept up in a season of celebration. At the very time the government desperately needs voters to engage with its message that Labor has held the state together while the Liberal opposition has squandered years in leadership chaos and policy drift, the voters are merrily indulging their senses in a bacchanalia of the arts, horseflesh and fire-breathing racing cars....
Finland Parliament debates semi-auto handgun ban Finland, population 5.3. million, has 650,000 licensed gun owners, ranking it fifth in civilian gun ownership per capita behind the United States, Yemen, Switzerland and Serbia, according to the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey. But since the shootings, the country has been debating whether to introduce greater restrictions on gun ownership. Last week, a Finnish government commission set up to investigate the shooting in Kauhajoki proposed a ban on semi-automatic handguns. The commission’s report noted that Saari “used a self-loading or semi-automatic firearm, which was small-calibre but still capable of inflicting serious damage.” In addition, the commission suggested that the minimum age for owning a gun be raised from 15 to 20, and that permits be temporary and require two years of proven shooting practice. Parliament is now debating whether to go ahead with the commission’s recommendations....
South Australian voters have
74 candidates to choose from
Candidates accused of fudging facts on duck hunting Three South Australian MPs have been accused of misleading voters with their responses to a campaign against duck hunting. The Animal Liberation group has complained to the Electoral Commission that Norwood MP Vini Ciccarello, Waite MP Martin Hamilton-Smith and Morphett MP Duncan McFetridge breached the Electoral Act by claiming in letters that a ban on duck shooting in New South Wales failed to reduce the number of ducks killed. Group spokesman Geoff Russell said figures he had received from the NSW Department of Environment and Conservation showed the number of ducks killed annually in the state had fallen from 236,000 in 1988 to 25,136 in 2004. Duck shooting was banned in NSW in 1995....
[NZ] Gun owners win court
battle against police attempts to 'change the law'
Rann says sorry over
friendship with barmaid
Rann's assailant escapes conviction on assault charge The husband of the woman who alleges she had an affair with Mike Rann has pleaded guilty to assaulting the South Australian premier. Richard Wayne Phillips was placed on a good behaviour bond, but no conviction was recorded, following his appearance in the Adelaide Magistrates Court today. The estranged husband of former Parliamentary waitress Michelle Chantelois pleaded guilty to assaulting the Premier with a rolled up magazine at a corporate function in Adelaide last October....
No clear winner in election
debate
Attorney-General demands $20,000 compensation from constituent
Analyst
tips Labor to win March 20 state election
South Australian police officer charged with rape
A 24-year-old South Australian police officer has been charged with rape and suspended from duty. The officer was charged by the sexual crime investigation branch yesterday. Police refuse to provide any other details about the charge. The alleged offender is due to face court on April 23.
US Supreme Court action threatens softer handgun laws A Supreme Court action by four citizens who want the right to defend themselves against potential assault and robbery could unleash a chain reaction that overturns restrictive gun laws across the country. It comes 20 months after the highest court in the US ruled as unconstitutional similar handgun laws in Washington DC. The legal challenge touches a hot button issue in America where gun laws are constantly derided by lobbyists, such as the powerful National Rifle Association, as running counter to the constitution's Second Amendment, which enshrines the right of citizens ''to keep and bear arms''. In Virginia, legislators are also in the midst of a battle over guns, with Republicans trying to repeal a 17-year law limiting the purchase of handguns to one a month. The change would also allow Virginians to carry concealed weapons into bars and restaurants, provided the holder does not drink alcohol and has a so-called ''concealed-carry'' permit....
WA man charged after wounding teenage burglars A West Australian man has been charged with wounding a group of teenagers he hit with a pipe or a stick after they broke into his house. Detective Sergeant Tom Doyle said a 52-year-old man from Carnarvon, in WA's midwest had been charged with three counts of aggravated assault. Det Sgt Doyle said the man was asleep just before midnight on Sunday when he heard a group of seven teenagers attempting to break into his bedroom window. "Basically, seven juveniles, who happened to be indigenous kids, went around to this man's address. He was laying in bed, he was woken by people trying to get into his bedroom while he slept,'' he said. The youths, aged between 11 and 15 managed to get the flyscreen off and the man armed himself with either a stick or a pipe, Det Sgt Doyle said. He then went outside and cornered the group in an alley way, while some managed to get away over a fence....
"VIttles and shindigs"
attracts competitors from 44 states and five
countries
Canadian gun-control advocates plead with opposition to save gun registry Gun-control advocates are pleading with the opposition parties to stand united when Parliament reopens, and save the gun registry. The call came today in Montreal from a coalition that included police, women's groups, and a survivor of the 1989 Polytechnique massacre. They said they hold no hope of persuading the governing Conservatives to back down from a move to end the registry, which was set up in the wake of the massacre....
PETA opposes guide dogs, horse riding and sheep shearing They oppose guide dogs for blind people and think horse riding is cruel. Even US President Barack Obama has copped whack for swatting a fly. Now the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is turning its illogical attention to Australia's sheep industry, calling on animal lovers to boycott all wool. It reckons it's cruel to shear sheep. If the campaign wasn't so insidious and vindictive, you would laugh at its sheer dottiness. But this isn't a game. It's a well-organised PR machine.... 03-10
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Those who would deprive American citizens of the
right to protect themselves and their loved ones
against criminals who are capable of killing them,
are not handling their portending defeat well.
According to “the usual pundits,” the indications
from the recent US Supreme Court arguments in
McDonald v. Chicago are that SCOTUS is likely to
soon confirm that, for all the states in the union
and not just the District of Columbia, the right to
keep and bear arms extends to all Americans. In
Chicago, where the mayoralty seems to have become a
royal dynasty, the ferociously anti-gun mayor seems
to be virtually foaming at the mouth. Mayor Daley
says that “we” – him as well as the rest of us,
apparently – killed John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy,
and Martin Luther King. Think I’m kidding...?