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		<title>Tasers Near Approval in Michigan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Michigan&#8217;s CPL holders could use an electro-muscular disruption device, such as a Taser, for self defense. The legislation would also require authorized dealers to provide training to CPL holders on the use and risks of Tasers.  More here&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Detroit Homeowner Takes a Bite out of Crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An intruder kicked in the side door of a Detroit home and came looking for trouble.  He got his wish at the hands of an armed woman, who took him out of the gene pool.  No charges will be filed and the story&#8217;s here&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>No Right to Self Defense, Judge Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Late Friday, a federal district court in Illinois wrongly ruled that the Second Amendment does not protect a right to carry firearms for self-protection outside the home. The NRA funded this challenge to Illinois&#8217; ban on citizens&#8217; ability to carry firearms legally outside their homes and businesses for self-defense, and will also be supporting an immediate appeal to the Seventh]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Bill Introduced</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the second time in as many weeks, a national Right-to-Carry reciprocity bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate. &#160; On March 20, U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) introduced Senate Bill 2213, the &#8220;Respecting States&#8217; Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.&#8221;  NRA strongly supports this measure.  Under this self-defense bill, an individual who has met the requirements for a]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Courts Split on Right to Carry Firearms Outside the Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This from the NRA: Unquestionably the hottest issue in Second Amendment litigation today is whether the Second Amendment protects a right to carry firearms outside the home for personal protection—and if so, what might be the limits on that right. Until recently, far too many courts have wrongly claimed that because the Supreme Court’s decisions in District of Columbia v.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>National Right to Carry Legislation in Senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, March 13, U.S. Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) introduced S. 2188, the “National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2012.”  The bill is the Senate companion to H. R. 822, which was approved by the U. S. House last November by a vote of 272-154. S. 2188, like H.R. 822, would allow any person with a valid state-issued]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>John Lott on the Second Amendment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some insightful perspectives on crime in D.C. before and after the gun ban and the Heller decision.  Chicago never went back to the &#8220;Old West&#8221; days, as had been predicted.  The facts are here&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Twin Pro-Gun Rulings Issued</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pro-gun groups won a pair of legal decisions yesterday.  A federal court in Maryland ruled that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms extends beyond the home and that citizens may not be required to offer &#8220;a good and substantial reason&#8221; for obtaining concealed carry permits. The case, Woollard v. Sheridan, was brought in 2010 by the Second]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>14-Year Old Shoots Intruder Saving Himself and Sister</title>
		<link>https://thinkingafield.org/2012/01/14-year-old-shoots-intruder-saving-himself-and-sister.html</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Police in North Carolina report that a 14-year-old boy armed with a shotgun fatally shot an intruder attempting to break into his home while he and his sister were alone.  Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082698/Boy-14-kills-intruder-Michael-Henderson-gang-FOUR-men-try-break-house.html#ixzz1ileT0egK]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Move to Allow New Hampshire Residents Concealed Carry without Permits</title>
		<link>https://thinkingafield.org/2012/01/move-to-allow-new-hampshire-residents-concealed-carry-without-permits.html</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Hampshire could become the fifth state in the U.S. to allow citizens to carry concealed pistols without permits.  The governor threatens to veto the bill if it makes it to his desk.  More here&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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