Utah: Even a picture of a gun is incorrect: "A poster featuring members of the Kanab High School football team decked out in camouflage bullet-resistant vests, military helmets, khakis and holding a variety of automatic weapons and a high-powered rifle is destined to become a collectors' item. On Friday the principal said the posters will be pulled back from the businesses where they were distributed this week and replaced with a toned-down version. 'No more guns,' declared Doug Jacobs of the poster featuring seven senior-class members of the football team. The photo was meant to show determination and toughness. ... The new poster, printed Friday, pictures members of the team dressed in their red-and-white uniforms. Team members try to outdo the previous year's poster in conveying a sense of toughness, said Jacobs. Last year's poster featured team members dressed like Cowboys -- the team's nickname. They also wore guns, but it did not raise eyebrows."


North Carolina: Weapons counseling stays in bill: "The House decided Wednesday to keep a new policy on advising domestic violence victims about carrying a gun, rejecting Gov. Mike Easley's request to nullify a law he signed a few days ago. The law requires court clerks to give victims information on applying for a concealed weapon permits. Advocates for domestic violence victims wanted something akin to a repeal because they think it's a bad idea to encourage domestic violence victims to get weapons. ... Victims advocates had hoped Easley would veto the bill. Instead, he signed it and his office worked with House leaders to change it. But a bill that would have repealed the section of the new law pertaining to notifying victims about the weapon permit was defeated, 49-57. ... Rep. Mark Hilton, the Conover Republican who sponsored the law, objected to a last-minute change after the legislature had already approved the idea overwhelmingly. 'Simple educational information is all we're asking for,' Hilton said. 'This bill would gut what we're trying to do.' The gun-rights group Grass Roots North Carolina pushed for the law."