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Jan. 2 Neal Knox Update -- Happy New Year.
Josey1
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Jan. 2 Neal Knox Update -- Happy New Year. Some new gun laws kicked in yesterday around the country, including one in California requiring dealers to sell one of 45 state-approved safety locks with each gun unless the buyer has a gun safe at home. My former state of Maryland has copied California's law requiring handgun buyers to sit through a video on gun safety. The new Maryland law is not for all guns and it's not a two- hour video, as some of the national press have reported, but it does have its silly aspects. The Maryland State Police video is 45 minutes, considerably less than the two-hour maximum allowed by law. However, the Maryland Firearms Dealers Association obtained state approval for a 14-minute nuts and bolts video. About the only exceptions for watching the video are active cops, honorably discharged military and someone holding an extremely rare Maryland carry permit. Bill Schneider at Atlantic Guns in Rockville said my Virginia carry license, NRA range officer/instructor card, or the fact that I'm a court-qualified "firearms expert" won't work -- not that this Virginian can any longer buy handguns from his family's firm (as I did many times while living in Maryland).
Yesterday marked one year for the Oregon gun show background check law, which has reduced the number of private gun sellers. The law's supporters equate that decline with "saving lives by keeping guns out of the hands of felons." That's the theory. But I have yet to see one survey of convicted felons that shows any of them having had any trouble obtaining a gun, regardless of the law.
Chicago, one of the cities with some of the most restrictive laws in the nation, a state firearms license, plus registration and virtual prohibition of handguns, is winding up 2001 with the most murders in the nation -- though it's the third-largest city. The Chicago murder rate per 100,000 citizens, about 23, is far higher than New York City's claimed 8 per 100,000, but far below Washington, D.C.'s 40 per 100,000. D.C., where all guns are registered, none are legally sold, and handguns are banned, often leads the nation in the race for "Handgun Murder Capital." The Gun Control Act of 1968 was supposed to stop the illegal importation of illegal guns into such tight law cities by imposing five-year felonies for taking a gun into the District from high- crime, strict-law Maryland or low-crime, "moderate-law" Virginia. It didn't.
On the last day of 2001 an Illinois appellate judge, put into office by Mayor Richard Daley's machine, ruled that a lawsuit blaming gunmakers for a policeman's death on "public nuisance" grounds could proceed. Legal experts said the decision will allow a renewal of the city's lawsuit against gunmakers. The gun was originally purchased in full compliance with state and federal laws then illegally transferred to a gang member who killed the officer.
NBC Dateline last night reported on deaths in hospitals, part of the 100,000 or so "medical misadventure" deaths caused by physicians and other health care providers. Five years after the death of a healthy six-year old, which the Florida hospital admitted was due to their obviously stupid operating room procedures (Medicoes normally bury their mistakes), the hospital accreditation organization hasn't required what should be an obvious fix. The President of the American Medical Association, whose platform is elimination of guns -- although the number of gun murders, suicides and accidents is perhaps a third the number of accidental deaths caused by his profession -- was not heard from.
Surprise. Rosie O'Donnell is holding fundraisers for Janet Reno, one of several possible opponents for Florida Gov. George Bush. http://www.nealknox.com/alerts/msg00075.html
Yesterday marked one year for the Oregon gun show background check law, which has reduced the number of private gun sellers. The law's supporters equate that decline with "saving lives by keeping guns out of the hands of felons." That's the theory. But I have yet to see one survey of convicted felons that shows any of them having had any trouble obtaining a gun, regardless of the law.
Chicago, one of the cities with some of the most restrictive laws in the nation, a state firearms license, plus registration and virtual prohibition of handguns, is winding up 2001 with the most murders in the nation -- though it's the third-largest city. The Chicago murder rate per 100,000 citizens, about 23, is far higher than New York City's claimed 8 per 100,000, but far below Washington, D.C.'s 40 per 100,000. D.C., where all guns are registered, none are legally sold, and handguns are banned, often leads the nation in the race for "Handgun Murder Capital." The Gun Control Act of 1968 was supposed to stop the illegal importation of illegal guns into such tight law cities by imposing five-year felonies for taking a gun into the District from high- crime, strict-law Maryland or low-crime, "moderate-law" Virginia. It didn't.
On the last day of 2001 an Illinois appellate judge, put into office by Mayor Richard Daley's machine, ruled that a lawsuit blaming gunmakers for a policeman's death on "public nuisance" grounds could proceed. Legal experts said the decision will allow a renewal of the city's lawsuit against gunmakers. The gun was originally purchased in full compliance with state and federal laws then illegally transferred to a gang member who killed the officer.
NBC Dateline last night reported on deaths in hospitals, part of the 100,000 or so "medical misadventure" deaths caused by physicians and other health care providers. Five years after the death of a healthy six-year old, which the Florida hospital admitted was due to their obviously stupid operating room procedures (Medicoes normally bury their mistakes), the hospital accreditation organization hasn't required what should be an obvious fix. The President of the American Medical Association, whose platform is elimination of guns -- although the number of gun murders, suicides and accidents is perhaps a third the number of accidental deaths caused by his profession -- was not heard from.
Surprise. Rosie O'Donnell is holding fundraisers for Janet Reno, one of several possible opponents for Florida Gov. George Bush. http://www.nealknox.com/alerts/msg00075.html