Sunday, July 24, 2016
Followup LA: No Charges for Mark Gaspard in Celestino Shooting
A Pointe Coupee Parish grand jury on Friday declined to indict a 25-year-old Batchelor man who was facing a manslaughter charge for fatally shooting the man who had threatened to kill his fiancée's sister.
Mark Anthony Gaspard, 8328 La. 418, Batchelor, shot Mario Celestino in the head Feb. 15 in Innis outside the home of Gaspard's fiancée.
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IN: Man Fires Warning Shots at Intruders
While on the phone with 9-1-1 dispatchers, the caller said they had fired warning shots to scare off people trying to get into their house.
Authorities arrived and located all parties involved.
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KS: Second Amendment Rights Restored to Public Employees on 1 July
Public employees will be able to travel the streets of Wichita and other Kansas cities with concealed firearms starting Friday.It is hard to see why school employees should be singled out for discrimination. Why should children be chosen as a group that must remain undefended? The answer to this question comes from the strategy of those who oppose an armed population. The premise was pushed that more guns equal less safety. It sounds somewhat plausible on its face. But the statistics and facts do not back it up.
Empowering state and municipal workers to conceal and carry on the job is one of many new laws passed by the Legislature that take effect July 1.
Among others: a shortening of the time someone can receive welfare, transparency reforms and a ban on use of tanning beds by people under 18.
HB 2502 will enable public employees, except school employees, to conceal and carry on the job without any gun safety training. They were already allowed to carry in public office buildings in most cases, but this change enables them to carry weapons when they go out into the community on official business.
The number of guns in America have nearly doubled while the number of murders have fallen over the last 22 years (1993 to 2014. Expressed as rates, the per capita number of guns has increased by 33% (.89 to 1.176) while the murder rate has decreased by 54% (9.8 to 4.5), per 100,000.
The argument that more guns means more gun accidents does not hold for fatal gun accidents. The rate of gun accidents has dropped by 91% (1.84 to .16 per 100,000) while the per capita number of guns has tripled (.351 to 1.148)(1945 to 2013).
That leaves suicides, which most people do not see as a significant issue, as there are numerous substitute methods. The percentage of suicides with guns has decreased by 16% while the per capita number of guns has increased by 56% (1981 - 2014).
School employees have been singled out because anti-Second Amendment stratigists claim "its for the children" and conflate adults who have guns with children having access to guns. It is an easy slip of logic for those who do not examine the issue closely. The long term strategy is to teach children that guns are bad. They are so bad, that we do not allow them in schools.
It is not working. When children grow up, they want to try things they have been deprived of. Millennials are not adverse to guns.
The concealed carry movement swept the country over the last 30 years. The number of people with carry permits increased geometrically. At the same time, accidents with guns, murders with guns, and the percentage of suicides with guns have all fallen. Records kept on carry permit holders show that they are far more responsible than non-permit holders.
Legislatures have responded to grass roots pressures by restoring more and more Second Amendment rights that were infringed during the "progressive" era.
Public employees are one of that last groups to regain their rights, because they were one of the most easily stripped of them. A mere change in the terms of employment was required. No legislation needed to have been passed.
With members of the public armed, often visibly, public employees asked why they should be deprived of their rights. No one can reasonably explain why, so their rights are also being restored. Numerous counties have preceded Kansas in restoring these rights; I expect other states will follow.
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Saturday, July 23, 2016
MO: Armed 77-Year-Old Woman Drives off two Burglars
HILLSBORO, Mo. (KMOV.com) – Two burglars in Jefferson County found
themselves staring down the barrel of a shotgun held by an elderly woman
and are lucky to be alive to tell about it, police say.
Early in the morning on July 17, a 77-year-old woman heard a noise in her house in the area of Rock Creek Road and Highway 30, detectives say.
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Early in the morning on July 17, a 77-year-old woman heard a noise in her house in the area of Rock Creek Road and Highway 30, detectives say.
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More on AK: Palmer Home Invasion Shooting
PALMER, Alaska - Authorities say a Palmer man was shot after two suspects broke into his home by crawling through a window early Thursday morning. Alaska State Troopers say the homeowner confronted the two men with a gun. Troopers say the homeowner was shot in the arm by one of the intruders.
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TX: Elderly Armed Homeowner Shoots Man to stop Home Invasion
An elderly man said he was forced to shoot an intruder who was attempting to break into his home despite warnings to go away.Police said the man and his wife were at the home on Autumn Dew on the Northwest Side shortly before 10 a.m. when a man in his 40's tried to break into the house.
The couple called 911 and yelled demands at the intruder to stop.
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SC: Great Grandmother Beaten in Home Invasion, Accesses Gun, Shoots Attacker
According to the report, the burglary happened Sunday around 9 p.m. Ring said her neighbor was at her home when the suspects rushed inside.
She said her neighbor, a 78-year-old man, tried to stopped them and was severely beaten. The woman said her 9-year-old foster daughter and infant great-granddaughter were at home with her when the incident occurred.
"They pulled the drawers out and threw them over the bed while the kids were standing in the corner of the bedroom," Ring said.
She added the the male suspect pushed her to the floor, but she managed to get up and make it to her bedroom where she kept a gun.
"I said, 'You want to play with guns?'" Ring said as she demonstrated how she pointed the weapon at the suspects.
Ring said when she shot the suspect, he fell against the refrigerator in the kitchen and both took off.
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OH: Open Carry at the RNC: Exactly as Expected. No Problems
Open carry in Cleveland Ohio at the Republican National Convention has been hyped by those that want to disarm the population. A scam petition was created to open carry inside the convention floor. It was run by a "progressive" to create problems for Second Amendment supporters. It did not last for long or fool many. The Quicken Loans location is a private concern.
Then the head of the Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association published a hysterical rant about how the Constitution need not apply. He wanted the citizenry disarmed. From cnn.com:
"We are sending a letter to Gov. Kasich requesting assistance from him. He could very easily do some kind of executive order or something -- I don't care if it's constitutional or not at this point," Stephen Loomis, president of Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association, told CNN. "They can fight about it after the RNC or they can lift it after the RNC, but I want him to absolutely outlaw open-carry in Cuyahoga County until this RNC is over."Governor Kasich showed much more class and understanding of limited government, the separation of powers and Constitutionally protected rights. He said no, he did not have the power to do so.
Senator Sherrod Brown (D) Ohio, thought the Governor could do something, after all it was an emergency! At least when he was talking to the Police Union. From cleveland.com:
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Sen. Sherrod Brown has joined the call for Gov. John Kasich to suspend Ohio's open carry law during the Republican National Convention this week.Open Carriers showed up, just as they promised. They did not bother anyone, they caused no trouble. They simply exercised their Constitutional rights. From qz.com:
"I would hope that the governor would listen to the police union and suspend conceal and open carry in Ohio, in Cleveland, during this convention," Brown said in an appearance in Cincinnati, as reported by BuzzFeed.
Standing with their legs wide apart, their holstered guns on their hips or thighs, a handful of Donald Trump supporters decided to assert their Second Amendment rights at the America First rally in Cleveland’s riverside Settlers Landing Park on July 18, the first day of the Republican National Convention–just like they promised they would before the event.
From npr.org:
Clayton Allen, 21, walked right up to the 8-foot fence surrounding the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.Open carriers at the RNC worked out exactly as Second Amendment Supports predicted. No problems. No one shot. Not one open carrier arrested. Governor Mary Fallin from Oklahoma reitterated what Governor Kasich had stated earlier. From cnn.com:
He drove from Kentucky and he stood out from the crowd because he had a handgun strapped to his hip.
"I open-carry all the time," Allen said. "The Republican convention would not be the exception."
The Governors probably had to say that they took the Police Union President's concerns seriously. I suppose it it the political thing to do. But there really were no concerns that deserved serious consideration. Open carry has been legal in Ohio since it was a state. It has never been a problem. It has been done in 90% of the states without a problem. Open carriers are far more law abiding than the general population. They are just people who are serious about standing up for their rights.
Near the end of the Convention, the Police Chief, who did not make a big deal about open carry, was questioned. From fox8.com:
As for the issue of Ohio's open-carry law, the chief said that it really hadn't been an issue at all. "Nobody’s been arrested or has challenged the things we asked them to do," he said.That was what was expected by people who understand the reality of open carry in the United States. That was what happened. And that is the way that it should be. The Constitution means things. Rights are not to be done away with by executive orders. Ordered liberty supports and protects civilizaiton, it does not threaten it.
The are many things for police to be worried about in todays society. Open carry is not a serious concern.
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Friday, July 22, 2016
VA: Man Breaks Through Locked Door, is Shot
Deputies from the Frederick County Sheriff's Office responded to a home on Klines Mill road around 4.A.M Thursday for reports of and unwanted man in on someone's porch.
When the deputies got there, officials said the man ran around to the back of the house, and forced his way through a locked door.
Once the intruder was inside, the resident shot him, authorities said.
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SC: Domestic Defense Man Shoots Son to Stop Arson
Multiple media outlets reported that 31-year-old Felton Wayne Swindler doused himself with gasoline and tried to set himself and the house on fire Tuesday morning. Richland County Sheriff's spokeswoman Brittany Scott says Swindler's father shot him to prevent the fires.
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Followup MS: No Charges for Armed Person who Shot Aggressive Auto Burglar
"This individual that was shot is an alleged suspect involved in an auto burglary at this location," said Commander Tyree Jones. "At some point in the cause of the auto burglary, a business or worker at this location approached the individual armed with a handgun advising him to stop."
Police say at that point the teen didn't stop and instead lunged at the armed business owner.
"At some point there was a struggle between the victim and the individual armed with a gun and the victim was shot," added Commander Jones. "We have detained for questioning at this time the individual that shot the 17 year old. He is at police headquarters being interviewed as we speak."
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Doublespeak: Columnist Claims Protecting the Second Amendment Diminishes the First
In a column In the Tampa Bay Times, a writer makes the claim that a law to protect the Second Amendment diminishes the First Amendment. It is a stretch. The statute, passed by the Florida legislature in 2011, makes it illegal for local governments to pass regulations and ordinances dealing with guns, gun possession, anything to do with guns. The law was passed because politicians in large urban centers persistently ignored the previous preemption law. Local ordinances and regulations created a patchwork of firearms law to entrap any Floridians who exercised their Second Amendment rights.
The columnist referred to a St. Petersburg Councilwoman, Lisa Wheeler-Bowman, who wanted to pass a resolution supporting a special legislative session dealing with restricting Second Amendment Rights. She was told that such a resolution, because it dealt with guns, might be illegal. It might subject her to fines or a lawsuit. It probably would not, but there was a remote possibility.
The preemption statute did not interfere with her First Amendment rights at all. It hindered her power to pass a resolution, to take official action as member of a governmental body. The First Amendment does not protect governments. It protects people. She can talk about the Second Amendment all she wishes. Governments have powers. People have rights. From tampabay.com:
When City Attorney Jacqueline Kovilaritch alerted Wheeler-Bowman to the potential ramifications of passing even a non-binding resolution related to firearms, she said she decided to pull the discussion from today's agenda.Passing resolutions about guns may or may not be covered under the preemption law. If politicians want to talk about guns, they can talk about guns all they want. Using their governmental power to legislate about guns has been placed out of bounds by the Florida legislature, and for good reason.
This isn't the first time common sense has been stifled by this NRA-supported law. This was the same law that cops around the state once said left them powerless to shut down backyard gun ranges.
Our government is meant to be limited in its power. That is what checks and balances are all about. Local governments are not supposed to infringe on Constitutionally protected rights. It is reasonable and responsible for state governments to protect those rights.
When I tuned into the St. Petersburg City Council, there was a woman reading a statement calling for more restrictions on Second Amendment rights. Her First Amendment rights did not seem impaired at all. "Progressives" deliberately confuse individual rights with government powers. Limiting government power does not limit individual rights.
Governments are frequently attacking the First Amendment rights of Second Amendment supporters. California forbids gunshops to display a picture of a handgun outside of the shop. In several cities, Second Amendment supporters have had to sue city governments to allow advertising for firearms on city venues. Alan Korwin recently won one of these lawsuits in Phoenix. Local government representative and anti-Second Amendment activists applied political pressure to force an airport to take down an advertisement for guns in Columbia, SC.
In Texas, three anti-Second Amendment professors claimed that exercising Second Amendment rights (even while concealed!) inhibited their First Amendment rights. Having First Amendment rights does not mean that you can infringe on others rights because you suffer from a phobia. If someone is afraid of crowds, they may refrain from speaking in front of one. The people in the crowd's right to assembly is not restricting their First Amendment right. The person's own phobia is.
Limiting government power is designed to protect individual rights. Limiting the power of local governments to infringe on the Second Amendment does not limit the First Amendment right of any individual.
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Followup CT: Murder Charge Dropped against Man with Carry Permit
Twenty-six-year-old Kenneth Reid had turned himself in to police March 28. He told investigators he shot 34-year-old Larry Williams of New Britain in self-defense after Williams pulled a shotgun on him during an arranged sale of Reid's sunglasses. Reid has a valid firearms permit.
The Hartford Courant reports that prosecutor Vicki Melchiorre told a judge Wednesday in Hartford that evidence reviewed by the state in the case is consistent with Reid's self-defense claim.
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Thursday, July 21, 2016
NV: Armed Victim Wounded in Gunfight
The shooting happened about 4:45 a.m. after two men approached the victim in his vehicle in the parking lot of the hotel near Harmon Avenue and Paradise Road, police said.
The men tried to rob him with firearms, but the victim pulled out a gun of his own and shot at them, police said.
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NV: Armed Customer Shoots, Kills 1 of 2 Assailants
When the attackers directed their attention to the patron, the victim pulled out a gun and exchanged fire with the attackers, police said. One of the attackers died at the scene, and the armed employee was grazed in the head, police said.
The other attacker, who was not wounded, sped away in a gold Cadillac Escalade, which was spotted by officers about a mile north on Flamingo Road, McGrath said.
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Anti-Second Amendment Groups Seek Camouflage to Sell Infringments
Those who seek to disarm the public have always had a hidden agenda. In the middle and early 60's the assault was more open. With each new assault the public grew more educated and the fallacies of the anti-Second Amendment arguments were exposed. As public support waned, those who hate an empowered public, have grown more desparate and more disingenuous.
In 1976, Pete Shields was open about his desire for a general confiscation:
"The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced and sold in this country. The second is to get handguns registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition – except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors – totally illegal."In the 1970's, the idea that England and Wales had low crime rates because of gun restrictions seemed plausible. Then we learned that crime rates had risen as more and more controls were applied. Each new push for more infringements has been met with data and facts showing the lack of rationality behind the hatred of an armed population.
The latest push is for "Universal Background Checks" (UBCs). UBCs are a precursor to the registration that Pete Shields desired. Any legislation that allows for background checks without recording gun serial numbers and personal data is shot down by those who push UBCs.
Politico reveals the preparation for another round of "rebranding"; changing labels without changing the product. From politico.com:
With that in mind, representatives from a broad mix of progressive groups sat around a table last week at the Washington offices of Global Strategy Group, where they received a tutorial on how — and how not — to talk about guns. Leading the lesson were top officials from Americans for Responsible Solutions PAC, the campaign wing of the group Giffords and Kelly founded after the Sandy Hook massacre.When Peter Ambler is talking about "data-tested" ideas, he is not talking about restrictive gun legislation that has been tested and found to reduce crime. That hasn't happened. I supect he is talking about polling data and focus groups that are aimed at finding what combinations of words work best to trick people into voting for something they otherwise would not.
For example, groups seeking tighter gun laws have been trying to get away from the “gun control” label since well before ARS started testing for a new messaging strategy last year. Better options, they say, are “gun violence prevention” and “preventing gun tragedies.”
"We've stepped away from a debate about guns that was sort of postured pro-gun or against-gun,” said Peter Ambler, the PAC’s executive director, “into one that’s centered around data-tested ideas like the background checks that we know increased public safety and save lives, but don't sort of disapprove of the individual gun owner and don't disapprove of the responsible use of firearms in society.”
And while Hillary Clinton promised to “keep taking on the NRA” in October, she should maybe stop, according to ARS’ findings, and instead take on the “gun lobby.”
These strategies can work in the short term. But people in today's data savy environment can determine who is lying to them pretty quickly. It doesn't take long to develop a sense of credibility or a reputation for dishonesty.
The NRA has developed a general reputation for credibility. Wayne LaPierre added much to that credibility when he said that it takes a "good guy with a gun" to stop "a bad guy with a gun".
The obvious truth of that statement is illustrated with each additional terrorist attack, be it a jihadist with a truck in Nice or one with a rifle in Orlando.
The Anti-Second Amendment plotters are a tiny percentage of the population. They are funded by those with deep pockets. That money can buy a lot of air time, and may sway critical voters in some elections.
Long term education is the key. An educated electorate does not fall for these word games.
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MA: AG Decides to Dictate Gun Law
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The Attorney General of Massachusetts, Maura Healy, has decided that she can dictate law without recourse to the legislature or the courts. She has decided to unilaterally change the definition of what is and is not an "assault weapon" in the law.
Crimes committed with all rifles are exeedingly rare in Massachusetts. 2014, is the lastest year we have records for in the FBI Uniform Crime Report. In 2014, no murders with rifles of any kind, let alone "assault weapons" were recorded in Massachusetts.
Yes, you read correctly. Zero. Ziltch. Nada. If there had been a single crime committed in Massachusetts with one of the rifles that AG Healy does not like, she would have shouted it to the world. She did not. In 2014, there were 3 murders recorded with hands and feet, and 34 recorded with cutting instruments in the State of Massachusetts.
Before the ineffective Clinton "Assault Weapon" ban expired in 2004, Massachusetts enacted a virtually duplicate law at the state level. There is no indication that the state law was any more effective than the failed Clinton law. The law has been in force in Massachusetts for over 30 years now.
But AG Maura Healy doesn't like the law. She claims that it is not restrictive enough. There have been virtually no problems with these firearms in Massachusetts, and minimal problems nationwide (there were only 248 murders committed with *all* rifles in 2014, out of 11,961 total murders.
The state that had the most murders with rifles was California, with 40 in 2014. California has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation, particularly restrictive of so called "assault weapons".
Healy could lobby the legislature to amend the law. She might succeed. Massachusetts is notoriously irrational when it comes to weapons laws.
But she is impatient. She is not willing to use due process. From the bostonglobe.com:
That will end now. On Wednesday, we are sending a directive to all gun manufacturers and dealers that makes clear that the sale of these copycat assault weapons is illegal in Massachusetts. With this directive, we will ensure we get the full protection intended when lawmakers enacted our assault weapons ban, not the watered-down version of those protections offered by gun manufacturers.Her assertions are absurd. They could have been alleged anytime in the last 20 years. They would have been thrown out of court because they do not describe what the law clearly states. There is a reason that the silly "assault weapon" ban was sun set. The academic research is clear. It did nothing to measurably reduce crime, or crime with the particular rifles mentioned, in part because the numbers of those rifles used in crime were already incredibly low. Any small, non-measurable reduction was offset by switching to other weapons that were not banned.
The directive specifically outlines two tests to determine what constitutes a “copy” or “duplicate” of a prohibited weapon. If a gun’s operating system is essentially the same as that of a banned weapon, or if the gun has components that are interchangeable with those of a banned weapon, it’s a “copy” or “duplicate,” and it is illegal. Assault weapons prohibited under our laws cannot be altered in any way to make their sale or possession legal in Massachusetts.
Healy's argument is absurd. She states that the rifles she has an irrational distaste for have no use in civilian hands.
They are weapons used to commit mass murder. And they have no business being in civilian hands.Then why are they in the hands of most police departments in the United States?
Police *are* civilians. They are not military. If they need these incredibly useful and versatile self defense tools, then so do responsible and peaceful citizens.
These type of rifles are particularly well suited for use by self organized citizen militias in time of societal break down. In America, citizens self organize in times of natural disaster or "man made" emergencies.
Healy is getting her 15 minutes of fame. There will likely be little followup when a court strikes down her dictatorial decree as unlawful.
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Draft NIJ Specifications for "Smart Gun" Released for Comments
In January of 2016, the office of the press secretary of the White House issued a memo directing the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security to promote research into "Smart Gun" technology. From the memo:
The Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security (departments) shall, to the extent practicable and permitted by law, conduct or sponsor research into gun safety technology that would reduce the frequency of accidental discharge or unauthorized use of firearms, and improve the tracing of lost or stolen guns.The memo resulted in a report. The report included a plan to implement the research asked for by President Obama. The first part of the plan was for firearm experts to develop a draft list baseline specifications for service guns that would incorporate the advanced technologies. From the report:
Step 1: Experts in firearms technology prepare draft list of specifications. As a first step, the federal government will assemble a team of experts in firearms technology to prepare a draft list of baseline specifications. Starting in April 2016, DOJ and DHS will convene a working group, led by NIJ and comprised of representatives from federal law enforcement agencies, to identify operational needs. As part of this process, the working group will engage with firearms experts at state and local law enforcement agencies, and will consult with other relevant stakeholders, such as firearms manufacturers. (This work will also build on an effort, already underway within DHS, to determine basic common requirements. 10) The working group intends to complete draft specifications by July 15, 2016.The draft specifications(pdf) were completed on schedule and released on 15 July. Public comments may be made until 5 p.m. Eastern time on 13 September, 2016.
How to Respond and What to Include: The draft baseline specifications document can be found here: http://nij.gov/topics/technology/firearms/pages/welcome.aspx. To submit comments, please send an email to gunsafetytechnology@usdoj.gov. Please indicate the page number, section number, and the line number associated with each comment. Comments may also be provided as a markup of the Word document. Please provide contact information with the submission of comments. Address comments to Mark Greene, Office of Science and Technology, National Institute of Justice.The experts in the working group did a good job. The produced a worthwhile document. To illustrate their expertise, here are the requirements listed for the additional "smart gun" (they do not use that term) security device:
4.18.1The specifications for pistols are much more comprehensive and detailed than the above. My initial emailed comments were bounced back by the email server.
Pistols shall have an integrated “lock-out” security device as a permanent part of the pistol that disables the firing control system except when in the control of authorized individuals.
4.18.2
The security device shall be understood to include any externally worn items, such as rings, wristbands, or tokens that perform functions associated with the security device.
4.18.3
The security device shall include a programmable authorization system that can be set to allow one or more operators to fire the pistol.
4.18.4
The security device shall not inhibit the operator from firing in either hand, one-handed or two-handed, with and without gloves, in any orientation.
4.18.5
The security device shall not alter the normal operation of grasping and firing the pistol as a pistol of the same design that is not equipped with the security device.
4.18.6
The security device shall not increase the time required by the operator to grasp, draw from a holster, and fire the pistol as a pistol of the same design that is not equipped with the security device.
4.18.7
The security device shall not emit audible sounds or visible signals.
4.18.8
If the security device may be susceptible to electromagnetic interference, either intentional or unintentional, the device shall be equipped with countermeasure detection technology that permits the operator e susceptible to electromagnetic interference, either intentional or unintentional, the device shall be equipped with countermeasure detection technology that permits the operator to fire the gun when an attempt to block the authorization process is detected.
4.18.9
The security device shall covertly indicate when the pistol is ready to fire.
4.18.10
If the security device uses batteries, the batteries can be rechargeble but shall be replaceable.
4.18.11
Low power to the security device shall be indicated covertly with sufficient time to safely take action.
4.18.12 If the security device malfunctions, it shall default to a state to allow the pistol to fire.
4.18.13
The security device should be easy for an operator to quickly reset or disengage if there is a malfunction.
It is likely a temporary glitch in the system.ErrorThe address "gunsafetytechnology@usdoj.gov." in the "To" field was not recognized. Please make sure that all addresses are properly formed.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
CO: Armed Employee Shoots Bear in Restaurant
Skico spokesman Jeff Hanle said the company had been in contact with Parks and Wildlife about the bear prior to Saturday’s incident, as well.
Employees tried to scare the bear away Saturday sometime between 7 and 8 a.m. with no success, he said.
“Eventually it charged our employees, and one of them was armed,” Hanle said, noting the worker had the firearms because the bear had shown aggression on previous visits.
Hanle said the bear broke through a locked door at the Sundeck.
“It had broken into a locked freezer before,” Hanle said. “It seemed adept at getting in.”
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