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Boston Globe: SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—Smith & Wesson is manufacturing a commemorative revolver in honor of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that backed the right of individuals to own guns for self-defense.
The Springfield-based gun maker announced Monday it would present engraved Model 442 revolvers to the six plaintiffs in the lawsuit that led to the high court's June 26 decision striking down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia.
The commemorative revolvers, made in partnership with the Second Amendment Foundation, will be sold in the fall, with a portion of sales going to the pro-gun legal group.
Smith & Wesson said the gun's right-side plate will be engraved with the words "D.C. vs. Heller" on a scale of justice, which is tipped toward Heller. "Second Amendment" and "The right to keep and bear arms" will appear below the scale.
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Boston Herald: OAK BLUFFS - Several tourists circled a table set up in Post Office Square to protest the annual shark hunt that makes its home here.
They were glancing at the huge posters, smaller blue shark magnets and buttons when one closed in and grabbed a magnet, picking it up by just a corner.
“Would you like to sign our petition to stop the shark hunt?” said Katheryn Krullberg, a campaign manager with
The Humane Society of the United States. “Let’s hope this is the last year.”
Despite the name, the animal rights organization is not affiliated with dog and cat shelters or spaying and neutering programs, but works instead to advance animal rights causes such as reducing consumption of eggs, beef, chicken and pork in order to save animals.
And the whack jobs at HSUS are it again....
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Boston Globe: Police arrested 10 people and seized weapons ranging from a MAC-11 machine pistol to semiautomatic handguns as well as bags of marijuana and $69,500 in cash during a series of gang raids Friday in Lowell.
Now tell us again how illegal possession of drugs and illegal possession of firearms aren't nearly always related with one another? When any High School student can purchase any drug they want - we've lost the war on drugs. We've lost the war because people are too afraid to report these purchases and continue to live in fear in their own neighborhoods. It's nice to see a small victory every once in awhile however.
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It shouldn't have come as any surprise that the District of Columbia decided that it can and will continue to all but completely disarm its law-abiding citizens -- not even when it's less than three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled otherwise.
After all, this is the same D.C. that was home to the most restrictive firearms laws in the country -- until the Court struck them down. The same D.C. that banned its law-abiding citizens from possessing any handgun. The same D.C. that forced its law-abiding citizens to keep the few firearms they could possess both unloaded and disassembled or locked at all times. In other words, the same D.C. that has disarmed its law-abiding citizens for decades despite achieving the title of "murder capital of the United States" and other dangerously dubious distinctions.
Nevertheless, it's disheartening -- actually downright disgusting -- that the Mayor, the City Council and the Attorney General of our nation's capital would flagrantly flout a constitutional decision from the highest court in the land -- not to mention bragging about it to the media. But that's exactly what happened earlier this week.
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The Boston Globe and one of its columnists, James Carroll, have sunk to a new low. In a screed against open carry, Carroll makes the claim that our sense of shame comes from our earliest ancestors and their use of weapons for hunting. Carroll claims the earliest exercise of religion was the result of this shame, which in his words, "spawned post-hunt rituals of sacrificial atonement, the genesis of religion." Gun owners, he argues, "forgo the primordial shame the weapon still generates." I've gotta tell you, I've seen a lot of columnists blame law-abiding gun owners for almost every one of society's ills, but this is the first time I've ever seen original sin laid squarely at our feet.
The truth is, of course, that there is no shame in hunting, and our ancestors knew that. Without the hunt, humans would not have survived. I'm not an anthropologist, but I'd be shocked if the post-hunt rituals of the earliest humans were based on atonement, rather than thanksgiving.
There's no shame in being a gun owner, either. James Carroll might not be a writer for an independent Boston newspaper if it weren't for a ragtag band of citizens who took on the British. I suggest that Carroll take a drive out to Bunker Hill, Lexington and Concord to think about history. Our Founding Fathers didn't relish having to use arms to gain their freedom, but they certainly weren't ashamed of the guns they owned and used.
It's another pathetic attempt to demonize gun owners, and I'm sure we'll see many more now that the Heller decision has been released. After all, we know the gun control crowd can be pretty shameless themselves.
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