TX: Man kills 2 burglars in 3 weeks: "A Ledbetter-area business owner fatally shot a suspected burglar Sunday morning -- the second time in three weeks that he killed an intruder, Dallas police said. James Walton, owner of Able Walton Machine & Welding in the 2000 block of Chalk Hill Road in West Dallas, was alerted to the intruder when his motion sensor system activated about 9 a.m. Sunday, police said. Mr. Walton, who also lives at his business, went downstairs with a shotgun and fired at a man who had broken in. The intruder was later identified by police as Jimmy Gannon of Ferris. Police said Mr. Walton also noticed another man outside Sunday. Mr. Walton shot and wounded that man. He escaped, but a witness eventually led police to him. The man, whom police did not immediately identify, was questioned by officers Sunday afternoon. Mr. Gannon, 37, was taken to Methodist Dallas Medical Center, where he died. Police said Mr. Walton is allowed to protect his property."


North Dakota: Jurors acquit man charged in shooting: "A Ward County jury says "not guilty" in the case of a Minot man who paralyzed another man in a shooting. The jury deliberated for about three hours on Wednesday in the case of 65 year-old Robert Hurt of Minot. Hurt shot 37 year-old Michael Moran after an early morning argument outside of Hurt`s northwest Minot home on December 16th, 2006. Three bullets hit Moran, and he ended up paralyzed from the waist down. Hurt`s attorney argued that it was self defense, that his client feared for his life and he was trying to protect his two sons, who were home at the time. State`s Attorney and Prosecutor John Van Grinsven says Hurt had plenty of time to call police before shooting Moran but the jury thought otherwise. Hurt was facing an aggravated assault charge, a Class B felony."


CA: Schwarzenegger signs victim disarmament bill: "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the Crime Gun Identification Act over the weekend, and that means gun sellers by 2010 -- if there are any left in the state by that time -- will have to use 'microstamping' technology on every semiautomatic pistol they sell. ... critics say the bill is back-door gun control. The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association of the firearms industry, accused Gov. Schwarzenegger of betraying law-abiding gun owners, retailers and hunters by signing the bill."