Maryland Women Push For Shall-Issue CCW: Maryland Shall Issue, Inc. 
notes that this Friday at noon, dozens of women are expected to show up 
for the Lawyers Mall press conference and then hearing on HB 228, a bill 
to make the process of granting concealed carry permits non-discretionary.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-07-2007/0004541561&EDATE=
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More Tennessee Women Carrying Guns: For years, Nashville real estate 
agent Kim Hoard considered toting a gun for her safety at work and while 
traveling alone with her two children, ages 7 and 10. She recently took 
action when she started getting harassing telephone calls from a man who 
saw her photo in an advertisement...

http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=43057&provider=gnews
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Vetoed Arizona Self-Defense Bill May Be Tweaked: Article provides more 
detail than the one linked yesterday about the possibility of producing 
a more palatable (to the governor) version of a bill to make Arizona's 
burden-of-proof statute for self-defense retroactive to cases pending at 
the time of the bill's passage.

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/44065.php
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California City Likely To Mandate Reporting Stolen Guns: The Thousand 
Oaks City Council has tentatively passed an ordinance requiring that 
losses and thefts of firearms be reported within 72 hours, mirroring 
ordinances in Los Angeles and San Francisco. (Apparently, no one 
questioned how such an ordinance would prevent the vicious crime 
recounted at the hearing.)

http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/co_valley/article/0,1375,VCS_166_5400310,00.html
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Terrorists Could Use .50-Caliber Weapons!: An editorial in a New Jersey 
newspaper chastises state legislators for not yet having banned 
.50-caliber rifles, ostensibly because they could be used by terrorists. 
(No mention is made of any pending legislation to ban airplanes, which 
terrorists have actually used as weapons within the boundaries of the US.)

http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzOTcmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcwODkwMzMmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxNA
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Ammunition Prices Skyrocket: An Idaho television station takes note of 
the fact that rising prices of copper and lead worldwide have raised the 
cost of ammunition, in some cases by as much as 50%, and that another 
10% rise over the next 16 months is likely.

http://www.kidk.com/news/6367572.html
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 From JPFO: Today I was handing out JPFO anti-U.N. pamphlets in front of 
the United Nations visitor's entrance. I was behaving peacefully and 
orderly, and I thought that I might be protected by the United Nations' 
"Declaration on Human Rights" and the U.S. constitution, which are 
supposed to protect political speech and free expression...

http://www.jpfo.org/alert20070307.htm
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 From AzCDL:

Your activism is working!  SB 1629, which reduces the penalty for 
carrying a concealed weapon without a permit for otherwise law-abiding 
citizens, passed the Senate Committee of the Whole (COW) on March 7, 
2007.  It's now headed for a final vote (Third Read) in the Senate 
tomorrow on March 8, 2007.

If you are not committing, or attempting to commit, a serious or violent 
crime, SB 1629 reclassifies carrying a concealed weapon without a permit 
as a petty offense.  Here is the exact wording of the proposed new 
language for ARS 13-3102.K:

"Misconduct involving weapons under subsection A, paragraph 1 or 2 of 
this section is a petty offense unless the violation occurs in the 
commission or attempted commission of a serious offense as defined in 
section 13-604 or a violent crime as defined in section 13-604.04, in 
which case the offense is a class 1 misdemeanor."

Under current law, if you have not been issued a concealed weapons (CCW) 
permit, it is a class 1 misdemeanor to carry a concealed weapon.  
Everyone is treated like a hardened criminal.  Sadly, because of a 
couple of 1994 Appellate Court decisions: