Jenny Palmer, 28, was asked for her ID at the checkout after she went to the retailer's Derby store to buy the £1.50 item. "I'm only two years off my 30th birthday and hardly look like I'm going to go out and physically harm someone," she said.

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On the last date of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2008 spring session, justices declared by a 5-4 decision in D.C. v. Heller that, yes, the Second Amendment does secure an individual right to keep and bear arms.

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After a three-year legal battle over the unconstitutional confiscation of lawfully owned firearms, the City of New Orleans has agreed to settle a law suit by the National Rifle Association (NRA).

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The state law giving Ohioans the right to carry concealed weapons, even in parks, overrules a city's ability to regulate firearms, the state Supreme Court said yesterday in a ruling that wipes out local gun ordinances. The court's 4-3 decision struck down a Sandusky County city' …

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Cities and counties may not restrict the right of Ohioans to carry firearms, a divided state Supreme Court ruled this morning. In a 4-3 decision, the court struck down a ban on carrying concealed weapons in public parks by the city of Clyde, a small town in northwestern Ohio.

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The man whose lawsuit overturned Washington's handgun ban has successfully registered his revolver, ending a more than 30-year wait to keep the weapon in his home.

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Following the lead of at least two other Chicago suburbs, the City of Evanston has repealed its handgun ban in the wake of the June U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled blanket prohibitions of handguns in the home for self-defense violated 2nd Amendment rights.

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What happens when a Middle Eastern-looking man and a young black man walk into a LongHorn with loaded pistols on their belts? "Welcome to LongHorn, will it just be the two of you?"

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Officials of the city government in Washington, D.C., on Monday proposed a new measure that would allow handguns to be in a ready-to-use condition only for prompt reactions to threats of "immediate harm" within the home.

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In a newly filed lawsuit in federal court in Chicago, two gun rights organizations and four individuals asked that the Second Amendment be extended to block strict gun laws at the state and local level.

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SCOTUS Upholds "Individual Rights" Interpretation of the 2nd Amendment

In a decision delivered today, the Supreme Court ruled on DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ET AL. v. HELLER [warning: PDF], and settled a 127 year old question on whether the 2nd Amendment protects an individual right to own firearms.

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If there is no such thing as a gun show loophole, why are the anti's and the politicians pushing so hard to enact anti-gun show legislation? Well....

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[T]he 911 operator still has not grasped what is occurring on the other end of the line.

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I will be brief. Yesterday, I was contacted by a Mr. Paul Jon Henke, who handles "new media" relations for Fred Thompson, the tallest Republican presidential candidate who is also an actor. Mr.

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And what, pray tell, is an R-15? Why bless your universally legal 5-round magazine, it's a black rifle made by Remington, except that it's not finished in black, but finished Advantage Max-1 HD camo.

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This past Friday, Rudy Giuliani and a number of other republican candidates spoke to the NRA's Conference on American Values. Giuliani's appearance was strange beyond words. It was rather like Rosie O'Donnell speaking at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study.

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Its 46 Pages, get ready for a long read.

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As 7 p.m. approaches, the high-desert sunlight lingers with a golden hue and 80 degree warmth, favoring the people who pull their vehicles into the downtown lot by the Lamphouse Theater.

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Willie Lee Hill, 93, told police he saw the robber while in his bedroom Wednesday night. Hill confronted the man and was struck at least 50 times, police said. He was knocked unconscious.

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