West Virginia Expands CCW Reciprocity: West Virginians who have concealed weapons permits can now legally carry their firearms in eight other states, and residents of those states can do the same in the Mountain State. Attorney General Darrell McGraw announced today that he has entered into a concealed handgun reciprocity agreement with Pennsylvania. (One can only hope that the WV AG's office has a better count of all the states that recognize the WV permit than the author of this article.) http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/9259056.html --- Wisconsin Governor Calls For More Infringements: The Governor is out with a new set of gun control initiatives, but one group says those proposals won't do much to reduce crime. The Governor on Tuesday unveiled legislative initiatives largely aimed a ending gun-related violence in Milwaukee. However, Wisconsin Pro-Gun Movement director Jim Fendry says they won't really solve the problems facing the state because most only impact people who buy guys legally. (Wisconsin remains one of two states with no statutory provision for legal CCW.) http://www.wrn.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=8A43BB8D-F39D-9E96-A3BC350B79CDC688 --- Brady Bunch Blogs Against Parker Decision: Today, as the deadline approaches for the District of Columbia's brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of its petition to overturn the recent Parker opinion striking down the District's handgun ban, the Legal Action Project of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence posted the third installment in its online critique exposing the flaws in the Parker decision. Parker remains the only Federal Appeals Court decision in American history to strike down a gun law as a violation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. (If the U.S. Supreme Court accepts the District's upcoming appeal, the case will be renamed District of Columbia v. Heller.) http://bradycampaign.org/media/release.php?release=919 --- Surprise For DC Delegate: Washington, D.C.'s congressional delegate, Eleanor Norton, has been a longtime gun-control supporter. Frankly, she hasn't met a gun ban she didn't like. So Norton attended a hearing on the D.C. gun ban intent on lecturing the crowd about the need to keep the gun ban in place. She was more than surprised to find that her district is full of NRA members and citizens who want their Second Amendment rights restored. http://www.nranews.com/blogarticle.aspx?blogPostId=293 --- Thompson Attacks Giuliani Over NYC Firearm Restrictions: "When I was working in television, I spent quite a bit of time in New York City," Thompson wrote, according to The Hill newspaper. "There are lots of things about the place I like, but New York gun laws don't fall in that category...Now, the same activist federal judge from Brooklyn who provided Mayor Giuliani's administration with the legal ruling it sought to sue gun makers, has done it again. Last week, he created a bizarre justification to allow New York City to sue out-of-state gun stores that sold guns that somehow ended up in criminal hands in the Big Apple." http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/8/21/224847.shtml?s=ic http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/us/politics/22rudy.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin Related Commentary: http://www.kxmb.com/News/Nation/155073.asp --- Self-Defense Claim Key In Arizona Trial: No one denies David Rene Garcia emptied his .45-caliber semiautomatic into Alexis Samaniego in December 2004. The question is whether Garcia acted in self-defense. The jurors who will answer that question heard opening arguments in Garcia's trial Tuesday afternoon in Pima County Superior Court. http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/197613 --- Guns Don't Commit Crimes...: According to Bureau of Justice statistics, between 1976 and 2005, blacks, while 13 percent of the population, committed over 52 percent of the nation's homicides and were 46 percent of the homicide victims. Ninety-four percent of black homicide victims had a black person as their murderer. Blacks are not only the major victims of homicide; blacks suffer high rates of all categories of serious violent crime, and another black is most often the perpetrator...So here's the question: Should black people accept government's dereliction of its first basic function, that of providing protection? My answer is no. One of our basic rights is the right to defend oneself against predators. If the government can't or won't protect people, people have a right to protect themselves. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/08/22/liberal_views,_black_victims?page=full&comments=true http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57259 --- Stolen Elvis Pistol Recovered: It all began last Tuesday, when a thief who probably has never even eaten a peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich pilfered Elvis' gun from a museum across the street from Graceland...But, by pure luck, the gun was recovered and turned in to police Monday. Seems one Travis Brookins was cleaning the portable toilets behind the Elvis After Dark museum last Thursday when he found what he thought was a toy gun, dropped into that horrendous muck. http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/aug/21/21elvisnu/ http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4128364&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1 --- New Hampshire State Police Choose S&W M&P 45: Smith & Wesson Corp. yesterday said it received an order for 500 of its Military and Police .45-caliber pistols from the New Hampshire Department of Safety. The M&P45 pistols will be issued to officers in the New Hampshire State Police and Highway Patrol divisions and will replace Sig Sauer P220ST .45-caliber pistols made by Sigarms Inc., of Exeter, N.H. The New Hampshire agency said the M&P45's enhanced ergonomics, magazine disconnect safety, and ease of maintenance were primary factors in its decision. (The magazine-disconnect safety is optional on agency guns.) http://www.masslive.com/business/republican/index.ssf?/base/business-1/11876837305370.xml&coll=1 --- Norway Requires Some Students Be Armed: Hundreds of thousands of students had their first day of school on Monday. Some of them had to learn to carry guns and be prepared to shoot - polar bears. Students on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard aren't allowed to leave their village without a shotgun and ammunition. That's because hungry polar bears can be behind every swing on the island. http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1948234.ece --- Is That A Gun Or Are You Just Glad To See Me?: A robber who held up a bookmaker's shop in Leicester with his girlfriend's vibrator has been jailed. Nicki Jex, 27, of Braunstone, Leicester, hid the sex toy in a carrier bag pretending it was a gun, Leicester Crown Court heard. The