UK: Police get new shoot-to-kill powers: "Scotland Yard's 'shoot to kill' strategy has been widened to include other offences such as kidnapping, stalking and domestic violence, The Independent has learned. However, the decision to shoot a suspect in the head without the marksman giving a warning would only be used under exceptional circumstances, one of the country's most senior police chiefs said yesterday. The Operation Kratos shoot-to-kill policy was adopted to deal with suicide bombers but a review has identified other types of crimes in which a firearms officer could shoot to kill without issuing any challenge."



Anti-gun U.N.: "The United Nations is trying to ban guns again. The latest "small-arms treaty" seeks to abolish the right of any citizens to own virtually any kind of firearm. In the United States, such an effort would strike at the heart of the Constitution�s Second Amendment. Recently appointed U.S. diplomat John Bolton has already stated his view on this activity, as quoted by NRA Executive Wayne LaPierre in The American Rifleman, �The United States will not join consensus on a final document that contains measures contrary to our constitutional right to keep and bear arms.�"



NRA's new leader shoots holes in stereotypes: "As a Jewish woman and Harvard-educated lawyer who practiced law in Los Angeles, Sandra Froman admits that, at least on paper, she doesn't seem a natural choice to lead the National Rifle Association (NRA). But the Second Amendment, she says, is all about empowerment. 'I've never met a gun I didn't like,' says Froman, 55, a California native who moved to Tucson in 1985. "I shoot pistols, rifles, black-powder rifles." Froman became the newest president of the almost four million-strong NRA in April, immediately presenting a different face for an organization whose vibe has been almost reflexively white and male. Jewish, female, lawyerly and Left Coast is about as unstereotypical as it gets for an NRA leader. But when it comes to gun politics, Froman is as NRA as they come. 'Firearms in America today represent freedom,' Froman says. 'They represent the ability to defend yourself individually, and they represent the ability to defend yourself as a country.'"