South Carolina: Gun stops road rage: "Slow driving led to a confrontation between a 22-year-old Citadel student and an unidentified man involving a baseball bat and a pistol on Hilton Head Island on Thursday afternoon, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff's Office incident report. The student, who was lost, had been driving slowly on Beach City Road looking for a doctor's office when he pulled into a parking lot to look at a map, according to the report. A man driving a Porsche pulled in behind him and approached him carrying a baseball bat. The man was yelling about the student's driving. The student pulled a Glock 23 pistol from his glove box and got out of his car, the report stated. The man with the bat put his hands up, returned to the Porsche and drove away. The student called the sheriff's office from his parents' Hilton Head home. He was not charged in the incident."


IL: Group wants no gun control: "A group of residents is asking a Lake County Board committee to sponsor a resolution that would oppose any future gun control legislation. While generally declaring their support of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, members ... expressed reservations about the proposed action. James Stewart, a Waukegan resident and supporter of the statewide Pro 2 Amendment Resolution movement, said he believes it is important for Lake County to join the 82 other Illinois counties that have passed the resolution. 'It is designed to tell state legislators that local governments 'Oppose the enactment of any legislation that would infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms," according to Stewart."


IN: Gun control ordinance shot down in Mishawaka: "Passion about protecting fellow citizens swayed Mishawaka City Council to vote 5-4 against a weapons ban ordinance. The ban was actually proposed by Mishawaka Mayor Jeff Rea and City Attorney Cory Hamel. It would've prohibited all weapons from four buildings frequented by the public: Mishawaka City Hall, the police station, the Battel Center, and Mishawaka Utilities main building."


Interest groups and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: "It is fair to say that one or two cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court stand out each term. I think it is evident that this term's most salient case is District of Columbia v. Heller. In that 5-4 decision, the Court struck down the District of Columbia's ban on the possession of privately owned handguns within District limits. In so doing, the Court clarified the meaning of the Second Amendment for the first time in almost 70 years by endorsing an individual right to keep and bear arms.In addition to providing an excellent example of a test case, the Heller decision is also significant for understanding the primary method of interest group litigation: the amicus curiae ('friend of the court') brief."