W.E.G.
Member
VA-ALERT: VCDL Update 8/5/08
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Van Cleave
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:34 AM
Subject: VA-ALERT: VCDL Update 8/5/08
VCDL Update 8/5/08 - "Defending your right to defend yourself"
1. Southwest VA VCDL Picnic scheduled!
2. Membership - onward and upward
3. VCDL bumper sticker in Afghanistan
4. Police encounters: knock & talk and searches
5. RPV calls for repeal of NPS gun ban
6. Who needs a gun in a restaurant?
7. Heller, others challenge semi-automatic ban
8. Woman gun owner sues DC Mayor Fenty
9. Police release horrific cold-blooded robbery/murder video in order
to find suspect
10. Dems seek deal with NRA on DC gun laws
11. Online petition in DC to repeal semi-auto ban
12. Morton Grove handgun ban: another one bites the dust
13. Chicago lays out handgun legal strategy
14. LTE: Semi-automatic guns are not assault rifles
15. Who needs a gun in a church? (TN)
16. Unitarian Universalists: if only we could've banned guns
17. TN sheriff appointing citizens as "Special Church Deputies"
18. SF Mayor blames NRA for triple homicide by illegal alien
19. DHS chairman may pursue federal firearm restrictions at airports
20. Who needs a gun on a bus? (Canada)
21. Washington Post writer a novelist too
22. Gun shows and events!
**************************************************
1. Southwest VA VCDL Picnic scheduled!
**************************************************
Mark your calendars! EM Al Steed has organized a VCDL picnic in Salem
on Saturday, October 11th.
It will be held at Longwood Park, Main Street, Salem from 5 PM until
10 PM.
The picnic shelter can hold 60 to 70 people and is lighted.
A menu and more details, including the names of speakers, will follow
in future updates.
To RSVP for the picnic, send an email with your name and the number of
people in your party to:
[email protected]
**************************************************
2. Membership - onward and upward
**************************************************
A thread on OpenCarry.org on joining VCDL has a theme that I like -
getting our members to sign up ONE NEW person. Just finding that ONE
new member would DOUBLE our size in no time!
Those of you who get these alerts and who aren't yet members - please
think about joining up so our membership numbers are as high as
possible. The General Assembly session starts in January - not very
far away anymore. :-(
Here is a link to the thread:
http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/forum54/14113-1.html
And here's the link to join VCDL:
http://www.vcdl.org/join.html
**************************************************
3. VCDL bumper sticker in Afghanistan
**************************************************
Guns do indeed save lives, as one of our brave VCDL members serving in
Afghanistan reconfirmed with excellent photos. Luckily, he was not
hurt in the vicious fighting that broke out shortly after the pictures
were taken.
Godspeed to all the brave Americans serving in Iraq and Afghanistan:
http://tinyurl.com/5cqgvw
**************************************************
4. Police encounters: knock & talk and searches
**************************************************
A few members emailed me after last week's update to say that I should
explain more about VCDL's opposition to "knock and talk" encounters
with police. The sentiment was that VCDL might look anti-police or
that police generally aren't trustworthy.
I agree - many may be new here and have missed other such discussions.
VCDL is most certainly NOT anti-police. I am ex-law enforcement
myself and am extremely proud of the six years of service I provided
in Texas years ago and was proud to be counted amongst law
enforcement. We have many law enforcement officers as members and
have been supportive of them.
The problem is that one has to remember that police officers are SWORN
to uphold the law. Thus, if they are in your house having a
conversation and they notice something illegal, then they MUST act.
Anytime you invite a police officer into your house, you are putting
them in a position where they might have to arrest you should they see
anything improper.
Now, I know that you are thinking: "But I am a good guy! I have
nothing to hide. The police will see nothing wrong in my house (or
car, or boat, etc.). So let them come in!"
There might be nothing illegal that you KNOW about.
Here's a true story to make my point:
Right after September 11, 2001, one of our members, who was a courier,
was directed to deliver a part to a nuclear power plant.
The member wasn't a dummy. He knew that security would be tight to
the point of paranoid, so he unloaded his concealed handgun, left it
in plain view on his seat, parked well back of the guard gate, and
walked up to the guard gate unarmed.
Indeed there was a young state trooper at the gate, in addition to
normal security. The trooper noticed the EMPTY shoulder holster and
asked the VCDL member if he had a gun. The VCDL member answered
truthfully that he did back in his car.
The trooper went the the member's car and proceeded to "read him the
riot act." However, the officer was out of line as the member was
doing nothing illegal.
Then the officer asked, "Can I search your car?"
The member thinking that he was a good guy and had absolutely nothing
to hide, said, "Sure!"
Bad, bad, bad mistake.
The officer searched the inside of the car and then popped the trunk.
The officer looked in the trunk and then stood up and advised the
permit holder to put his hands behind his back and he arrested the
permit holder.
The shocked permit holder asked what the officer had found.
The officer said, "You have a bolt cutter in the trunk. That is
considered a burglary tool in Virginia. I am charging you with
possession of burglary tools AND felony attempt to sabotage a nuclear
power plant!"
The member (and most of you, I'll bet) had no idea that having bolt
cutters in your trunk was a crime! Remember, the law books can cover
a huge amount of space in a library. Buried in those books are laws
against more things than you can possibly imagine!
The member went straight to PRISON for THREE DAYS, until he could be
arraigned.
In the end ALL charges were dropped, but the member was out some
serious money, lost many night's sleep, and lost his job.
There would have been similar results if the member had a teenage
child who had hidden some drugs in the trunk, unbeknownst to his or
her parents. The unsuspecting parent lets the police search the trunk
and WHAMO - off to jail.
Let me put it this way. If I said to you that I had a casino and the
BEST you could do if you played absolutely perfectly was BREAK EVEN,
would you come to my casino?
NO.
That is the same arrangement you have when you let the police search
your car or step into your house during a "knock and talk." The best
you can do is to NOT get arrested. The worst you can do is go to jail
for something you didn't even know was illegal.
Are all police bad and not to be trusted? Of course not! But
remember that they are sworn and they may incorrectly believe you have
something to hide and thus ask if they can search your car or come
into your house. If they see something and you have given them
permission to look, you're in a lot of trouble.
**************************************************
5. RPV calls for repeal of NPS gun ban
**************************************************
EM Dennis Fusaro writes:
The Republican Party of Virginia has posted the grassroots resolution
passed at the recent statewide convention calling for the repeal of
the National Park Service gun ban on its website. It is on the right
side of the home page under "Resources." [PVC: Dennis, VCDL VP Jim
Snyder, and others attended the Republican Convention and pressed for
this issue to be adopted!]
http://www.rpv.org/
**************************************************
6. Who needs a gun in a restaurant?
**************************************************
Thanks to Dale Welch for the link. But how can this be? The Virginia
Restaurant Association is always assuring the General Assembly that
such things don't happen!:
http://tinyurl.com/6phpp8
nbc12.com
Vienna Inn worker injured in stabbing
Associated Press - July 26, 2008 9:05 PM ET
VIENNA, Va. (AP) - Police have arrested a Vienna man who allegedly
stabbed an area restaurant worker.
Police say they received a call about 2:45 a.m. Saturday from an
employee of Vienna Inn on Maple Avenue, reporting he had been
assaulted. Officials found the 38-year-old man bleeding and took him
to a local hospital, where he was in intensive care.
Police say 21-year-old Jaimea Espinal of Vienna has been charged with
aggravated malicious wounding in the incident.
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7. Heller, others challenge semi-automatic ban
**************************************************
http://tinyurl.com/6etbvv
washtimes.com
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Heller, others challenge semi-automatic ban
David C. Lipscomb (Contact)
Three D.C. residents backed by one of the country's most influential
pro-gun organizations Monday filed a challenge to the District's ban
on semi-automatic handguns. The plaintiffs said city officials are
flouting a recent Supreme Court decision that struck down the city's
32-year-old gun ban.
Lead attorney Stephen P. Halbrook and the National Rifle Association,
which is financing the case, say the District's definition of a
machine gun is too vague and unfairly prohibits residents from using
the guns for home defense.
"D.C. has stuck to its position that semi-automatic guns are machine
guns," Mr. Halbrook said. "It's a crazy definition of machine gun."
The plaintiffs in the case, filed in U.S. District Court, include Dick
Anthony Heller, the respondent in the case of District of Columbia v.
Heller that addressed the city's ban.
The others are Amy McVey, the first D.C. resident to register a
handgun after the ban was struck down, and Absalom F. Jordan Jordan
Jr., a plaintiff in Seegars v. Ashcroft. The case challenged the
Justice Department on the gun ban at about the time Mr. Heller was
involved with the lower court Parker v. District case in 2003.
Gun rights advocates pounced immediately on the District's law against
semi-automatic handguns after the June 26 ruling by the Supreme Court.
The city's law defines a machine gun as "any firearm which shoots
automatically or semiautomatically more than 12 shots without
reloading."
The definition prohibits the majority of semi-automatic handguns
regardless of how many rounds they are designed to hold because they
can theoretically hold modified higher-capacity magazines.
Gun advocates say the District should revise the definition to use
wording closer to the federal definition of a machine gun, which
requires a gun to be capable of firing more than one shot with a
single trigger pull.
D.C. interim Attorney General Peter J. Nickles said he expected the
lawsuit but thinks the District's definition of a machine gun is
acceptable and intends to fight the challenge.
"I don't think you can satisfy the Heller folks unless you have a law
or regulation that says you can keep a loaded handgun in your home at
all times," he said. [PVC - So, what's wrong with that? Nickles can
do that today in his home in Virginia, but he doesn't want District
residents to have the same right. I guess Nickles and the District's
leadership believe that District residents are so savage and
irresponsible that they should be kept as second class citizens.]
NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanadam said restrictions on handguns leave
residents at a disadvantage and will not prevent crime.
"The biggest losers are the law-abiding residents of the District of
Columbia," he said. "The laws are not going to stop the criminals."
D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson, at-large Democrat, introduced bare-
bones emergency legislation July 1 to outline the District's new rules
on registering handguns. The council passed a heftier, updated version
July 15, and gun registration began two days later. That bill is in
effect for 90 days while the council works on permanent legislation.
Mendelson spokesman Jason Shedlock said Mr. Mendelson reviewed the
complaint and intends to address concerns about the District's gun
laws when the council returns from recess in September. However, he
still has the option to convene a special session of the council's
public-safety committee.
"It raises a number of important points that he wants to address
quickly over the next few months," Mr. Shedlock said. "The emergency
legislation was not meant to be comprehensive. It was meant as a
stopgap."
The plaintiffs are also challenging the rule that allows the chief of
police to set the cost of registration, which Mr. Halbrook says
improperly gives the chief power over who is allowed to exercise their
Second Amendment right.
The complaint also challenges the District's safe-storage provisions
that require handguns to be disassembled or trigger locked and
unloaded until they are being used against a "threat of immediate
harm." Gun advocacy groups say the provision leaves residents
susceptible to attack while they are trying to prepare their weapons.
**************************************************
8. Woman gun owner sues DC Mayor Fenty
**************************************************
Well, all I can say to Amy McVey is, "YOU GO GIRL!!!" She's now suing
DC Mayor Fenty over his trying to dodge the U.S. Supreme Court's
ruling on DC vs Heller:
http://tinyurl.com/6hsj2z [PDF]
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
DICK ANTHONY HELLER, ))
ABSALOM F. JORDAN, JR., and )
)
AMY McVEY, )
)
Plaintiffs )
)
v. ) CIVIL ACTION NO.
)
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA )
)
and )
)
ADRIAN M. FENTY, Mayor, )
District of Columbia, ))
Defendants )
COMPLAINT
(For Declaratory Judgment, Injunctive Relief, and Writ of Mandamus)
1. This is an action to vindicate the right of residents of the
District of Columbia to to keep and bear arms under the Second
Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees the
right of law-abiding citizens to keep commonly-possessed handguns,
including semiautomatic pistols, and other firearms in the home for
immediate defense of their families and other lawful purposes. Parties
2. Plaintiff Dick Anthony Heller is a resident of the District of
Columbia and a citizen of the United States. 2
3. Plaintiff Absalom F. Jordan, Jr. is a resident of the District of
Columbia and a citizen of the United States.
4. Plaintiff Amy McVey is a resident of the District of Columbia and a
citizen of the United States.
**************************************************
9. Police release horrific cold-blooded robbery/murder video in order
to find suspect
**************************************************
Member Jeff Buchanan writes:
Reason #999,998,525,488 to carry a concealed handgun....(as if we
needed another)
Yes, she was murdered. First, she is shot in the upper right arm;
notice the wound as it appears on her biceps and her verbal response
to the pain. I think her screams are the worst I've ever heard. The
fatal gunshot to her head was edited out so the video could be used by
the local news in an attempt to ID the perpetrator. Gun-grabbers claim
concealed carry is unnecessary if we'll just comply with the
criminals' demands and give them want they want; tell that to her
recently-widowed husband.
[PVC: CAUTION - This is very graphic! But I think you should realize
what kind of monsters are walking our streets. The only way you will
live if you are unlucky enough to run into a creature like the one in
the video is if you are armed and take action.]
http://tinyurl.com/568nez
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10. Dems seek deal with NRA on DC gun laws
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Why does the word "deal" and "NRA" always make my antenna go up? We're
going to have to look at the bill VERY closely.
http://tinyurl.com/68tyxe
thehill.com
Reps. Tanner and Dingell seek to strike deal with NRA
By Mike Soraghan
Democratic lawmakers and leaders are hoping to work out a compromise
as early as this week with the National Rifle Association (NRA) on
legislation to further loosen gun laws in the District of Columbia.
Reps. John Tanner (D-Tenn.) and John Dingell (D-Mich.) are working
with the gun-lobbying group to head off a discharge petition filed
last week that would bypass committee to bring a D.C. gun bill
directly to the floor.
"Dingell and Tanner are going to negotiate a compromise with the NRA
and then show it to the leadership," said a Democratic aide….
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11. Online petition in DC to repeal semi-auto ban
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-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Van Cleave
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:34 AM
Subject: VA-ALERT: VCDL Update 8/5/08
VCDL Update 8/5/08 - "Defending your right to defend yourself"
1. Southwest VA VCDL Picnic scheduled!
2. Membership - onward and upward
3. VCDL bumper sticker in Afghanistan
4. Police encounters: knock & talk and searches
5. RPV calls for repeal of NPS gun ban
6. Who needs a gun in a restaurant?
7. Heller, others challenge semi-automatic ban
8. Woman gun owner sues DC Mayor Fenty
9. Police release horrific cold-blooded robbery/murder video in order
to find suspect
10. Dems seek deal with NRA on DC gun laws
11. Online petition in DC to repeal semi-auto ban
12. Morton Grove handgun ban: another one bites the dust
13. Chicago lays out handgun legal strategy
14. LTE: Semi-automatic guns are not assault rifles
15. Who needs a gun in a church? (TN)
16. Unitarian Universalists: if only we could've banned guns
17. TN sheriff appointing citizens as "Special Church Deputies"
18. SF Mayor blames NRA for triple homicide by illegal alien
19. DHS chairman may pursue federal firearm restrictions at airports
20. Who needs a gun on a bus? (Canada)
21. Washington Post writer a novelist too
22. Gun shows and events!
**************************************************
1. Southwest VA VCDL Picnic scheduled!
**************************************************
Mark your calendars! EM Al Steed has organized a VCDL picnic in Salem
on Saturday, October 11th.
It will be held at Longwood Park, Main Street, Salem from 5 PM until
10 PM.
The picnic shelter can hold 60 to 70 people and is lighted.
A menu and more details, including the names of speakers, will follow
in future updates.
To RSVP for the picnic, send an email with your name and the number of
people in your party to:
[email protected]
**************************************************
2. Membership - onward and upward
**************************************************
A thread on OpenCarry.org on joining VCDL has a theme that I like -
getting our members to sign up ONE NEW person. Just finding that ONE
new member would DOUBLE our size in no time!
Those of you who get these alerts and who aren't yet members - please
think about joining up so our membership numbers are as high as
possible. The General Assembly session starts in January - not very
far away anymore. :-(
Here is a link to the thread:
http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/forum54/14113-1.html
And here's the link to join VCDL:
http://www.vcdl.org/join.html
**************************************************
3. VCDL bumper sticker in Afghanistan
**************************************************
Guns do indeed save lives, as one of our brave VCDL members serving in
Afghanistan reconfirmed with excellent photos. Luckily, he was not
hurt in the vicious fighting that broke out shortly after the pictures
were taken.
Godspeed to all the brave Americans serving in Iraq and Afghanistan:
http://tinyurl.com/5cqgvw
**************************************************
4. Police encounters: knock & talk and searches
**************************************************
A few members emailed me after last week's update to say that I should
explain more about VCDL's opposition to "knock and talk" encounters
with police. The sentiment was that VCDL might look anti-police or
that police generally aren't trustworthy.
I agree - many may be new here and have missed other such discussions.
VCDL is most certainly NOT anti-police. I am ex-law enforcement
myself and am extremely proud of the six years of service I provided
in Texas years ago and was proud to be counted amongst law
enforcement. We have many law enforcement officers as members and
have been supportive of them.
The problem is that one has to remember that police officers are SWORN
to uphold the law. Thus, if they are in your house having a
conversation and they notice something illegal, then they MUST act.
Anytime you invite a police officer into your house, you are putting
them in a position where they might have to arrest you should they see
anything improper.
Now, I know that you are thinking: "But I am a good guy! I have
nothing to hide. The police will see nothing wrong in my house (or
car, or boat, etc.). So let them come in!"
There might be nothing illegal that you KNOW about.
Here's a true story to make my point:
Right after September 11, 2001, one of our members, who was a courier,
was directed to deliver a part to a nuclear power plant.
The member wasn't a dummy. He knew that security would be tight to
the point of paranoid, so he unloaded his concealed handgun, left it
in plain view on his seat, parked well back of the guard gate, and
walked up to the guard gate unarmed.
Indeed there was a young state trooper at the gate, in addition to
normal security. The trooper noticed the EMPTY shoulder holster and
asked the VCDL member if he had a gun. The VCDL member answered
truthfully that he did back in his car.
The trooper went the the member's car and proceeded to "read him the
riot act." However, the officer was out of line as the member was
doing nothing illegal.
Then the officer asked, "Can I search your car?"
The member thinking that he was a good guy and had absolutely nothing
to hide, said, "Sure!"
Bad, bad, bad mistake.
The officer searched the inside of the car and then popped the trunk.
The officer looked in the trunk and then stood up and advised the
permit holder to put his hands behind his back and he arrested the
permit holder.
The shocked permit holder asked what the officer had found.
The officer said, "You have a bolt cutter in the trunk. That is
considered a burglary tool in Virginia. I am charging you with
possession of burglary tools AND felony attempt to sabotage a nuclear
power plant!"
The member (and most of you, I'll bet) had no idea that having bolt
cutters in your trunk was a crime! Remember, the law books can cover
a huge amount of space in a library. Buried in those books are laws
against more things than you can possibly imagine!
The member went straight to PRISON for THREE DAYS, until he could be
arraigned.
In the end ALL charges were dropped, but the member was out some
serious money, lost many night's sleep, and lost his job.
There would have been similar results if the member had a teenage
child who had hidden some drugs in the trunk, unbeknownst to his or
her parents. The unsuspecting parent lets the police search the trunk
and WHAMO - off to jail.
Let me put it this way. If I said to you that I had a casino and the
BEST you could do if you played absolutely perfectly was BREAK EVEN,
would you come to my casino?
NO.
That is the same arrangement you have when you let the police search
your car or step into your house during a "knock and talk." The best
you can do is to NOT get arrested. The worst you can do is go to jail
for something you didn't even know was illegal.
Are all police bad and not to be trusted? Of course not! But
remember that they are sworn and they may incorrectly believe you have
something to hide and thus ask if they can search your car or come
into your house. If they see something and you have given them
permission to look, you're in a lot of trouble.
**************************************************
5. RPV calls for repeal of NPS gun ban
**************************************************
EM Dennis Fusaro writes:
The Republican Party of Virginia has posted the grassroots resolution
passed at the recent statewide convention calling for the repeal of
the National Park Service gun ban on its website. It is on the right
side of the home page under "Resources." [PVC: Dennis, VCDL VP Jim
Snyder, and others attended the Republican Convention and pressed for
this issue to be adopted!]
http://www.rpv.org/
**************************************************
6. Who needs a gun in a restaurant?
**************************************************
Thanks to Dale Welch for the link. But how can this be? The Virginia
Restaurant Association is always assuring the General Assembly that
such things don't happen!:
http://tinyurl.com/6phpp8
nbc12.com
Vienna Inn worker injured in stabbing
Associated Press - July 26, 2008 9:05 PM ET
VIENNA, Va. (AP) - Police have arrested a Vienna man who allegedly
stabbed an area restaurant worker.
Police say they received a call about 2:45 a.m. Saturday from an
employee of Vienna Inn on Maple Avenue, reporting he had been
assaulted. Officials found the 38-year-old man bleeding and took him
to a local hospital, where he was in intensive care.
Police say 21-year-old Jaimea Espinal of Vienna has been charged with
aggravated malicious wounding in the incident.
**************************************************
7. Heller, others challenge semi-automatic ban
**************************************************
http://tinyurl.com/6etbvv
washtimes.com
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Heller, others challenge semi-automatic ban
David C. Lipscomb (Contact)
Three D.C. residents backed by one of the country's most influential
pro-gun organizations Monday filed a challenge to the District's ban
on semi-automatic handguns. The plaintiffs said city officials are
flouting a recent Supreme Court decision that struck down the city's
32-year-old gun ban.
Lead attorney Stephen P. Halbrook and the National Rifle Association,
which is financing the case, say the District's definition of a
machine gun is too vague and unfairly prohibits residents from using
the guns for home defense.
"D.C. has stuck to its position that semi-automatic guns are machine
guns," Mr. Halbrook said. "It's a crazy definition of machine gun."
The plaintiffs in the case, filed in U.S. District Court, include Dick
Anthony Heller, the respondent in the case of District of Columbia v.
Heller that addressed the city's ban.
The others are Amy McVey, the first D.C. resident to register a
handgun after the ban was struck down, and Absalom F. Jordan Jordan
Jr., a plaintiff in Seegars v. Ashcroft. The case challenged the
Justice Department on the gun ban at about the time Mr. Heller was
involved with the lower court Parker v. District case in 2003.
Gun rights advocates pounced immediately on the District's law against
semi-automatic handguns after the June 26 ruling by the Supreme Court.
The city's law defines a machine gun as "any firearm which shoots
automatically or semiautomatically more than 12 shots without
reloading."
The definition prohibits the majority of semi-automatic handguns
regardless of how many rounds they are designed to hold because they
can theoretically hold modified higher-capacity magazines.
Gun advocates say the District should revise the definition to use
wording closer to the federal definition of a machine gun, which
requires a gun to be capable of firing more than one shot with a
single trigger pull.
D.C. interim Attorney General Peter J. Nickles said he expected the
lawsuit but thinks the District's definition of a machine gun is
acceptable and intends to fight the challenge.
"I don't think you can satisfy the Heller folks unless you have a law
or regulation that says you can keep a loaded handgun in your home at
all times," he said. [PVC - So, what's wrong with that? Nickles can
do that today in his home in Virginia, but he doesn't want District
residents to have the same right. I guess Nickles and the District's
leadership believe that District residents are so savage and
irresponsible that they should be kept as second class citizens.]
NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanadam said restrictions on handguns leave
residents at a disadvantage and will not prevent crime.
"The biggest losers are the law-abiding residents of the District of
Columbia," he said. "The laws are not going to stop the criminals."
D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson, at-large Democrat, introduced bare-
bones emergency legislation July 1 to outline the District's new rules
on registering handguns. The council passed a heftier, updated version
July 15, and gun registration began two days later. That bill is in
effect for 90 days while the council works on permanent legislation.
Mendelson spokesman Jason Shedlock said Mr. Mendelson reviewed the
complaint and intends to address concerns about the District's gun
laws when the council returns from recess in September. However, he
still has the option to convene a special session of the council's
public-safety committee.
"It raises a number of important points that he wants to address
quickly over the next few months," Mr. Shedlock said. "The emergency
legislation was not meant to be comprehensive. It was meant as a
stopgap."
The plaintiffs are also challenging the rule that allows the chief of
police to set the cost of registration, which Mr. Halbrook says
improperly gives the chief power over who is allowed to exercise their
Second Amendment right.
The complaint also challenges the District's safe-storage provisions
that require handguns to be disassembled or trigger locked and
unloaded until they are being used against a "threat of immediate
harm." Gun advocacy groups say the provision leaves residents
susceptible to attack while they are trying to prepare their weapons.
**************************************************
8. Woman gun owner sues DC Mayor Fenty
**************************************************
Well, all I can say to Amy McVey is, "YOU GO GIRL!!!" She's now suing
DC Mayor Fenty over his trying to dodge the U.S. Supreme Court's
ruling on DC vs Heller:
http://tinyurl.com/6hsj2z [PDF]
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
DICK ANTHONY HELLER, ))
ABSALOM F. JORDAN, JR., and )
)
AMY McVEY, )
)
Plaintiffs )
)
v. ) CIVIL ACTION NO.
)
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA )
)
and )
)
ADRIAN M. FENTY, Mayor, )
District of Columbia, ))
Defendants )
COMPLAINT
(For Declaratory Judgment, Injunctive Relief, and Writ of Mandamus)
1. This is an action to vindicate the right of residents of the
District of Columbia to to keep and bear arms under the Second
Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees the
right of law-abiding citizens to keep commonly-possessed handguns,
including semiautomatic pistols, and other firearms in the home for
immediate defense of their families and other lawful purposes. Parties
2. Plaintiff Dick Anthony Heller is a resident of the District of
Columbia and a citizen of the United States. 2
3. Plaintiff Absalom F. Jordan, Jr. is a resident of the District of
Columbia and a citizen of the United States.
4. Plaintiff Amy McVey is a resident of the District of Columbia and a
citizen of the United States.
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9. Police release horrific cold-blooded robbery/murder video in order
to find suspect
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Member Jeff Buchanan writes:
Reason #999,998,525,488 to carry a concealed handgun....(as if we
needed another)
Yes, she was murdered. First, she is shot in the upper right arm;
notice the wound as it appears on her biceps and her verbal response
to the pain. I think her screams are the worst I've ever heard. The
fatal gunshot to her head was edited out so the video could be used by
the local news in an attempt to ID the perpetrator. Gun-grabbers claim
concealed carry is unnecessary if we'll just comply with the
criminals' demands and give them want they want; tell that to her
recently-widowed husband.
[PVC: CAUTION - This is very graphic! But I think you should realize
what kind of monsters are walking our streets. The only way you will
live if you are unlucky enough to run into a creature like the one in
the video is if you are armed and take action.]
http://tinyurl.com/568nez
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10. Dems seek deal with NRA on DC gun laws
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Why does the word "deal" and "NRA" always make my antenna go up? We're
going to have to look at the bill VERY closely.
http://tinyurl.com/68tyxe
thehill.com
Reps. Tanner and Dingell seek to strike deal with NRA
By Mike Soraghan
Democratic lawmakers and leaders are hoping to work out a compromise
as early as this week with the National Rifle Association (NRA) on
legislation to further loosen gun laws in the District of Columbia.
Reps. John Tanner (D-Tenn.) and John Dingell (D-Mich.) are working
with the gun-lobbying group to head off a discharge petition filed
last week that would bypass committee to bring a D.C. gun bill
directly to the floor.
"Dingell and Tanner are going to negotiate a compromise with the NRA
and then show it to the leadership," said a Democratic aide….
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11. Online petition in DC to repeal semi-auto ban
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