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AK: Two Alaska trapshooters return from USA Shooting competition with three medals
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Alaska trapshooters Steven Brown and Grayson Davey are headed to a pair of big international competitions after collecting medals at USA Shootings Spring Selection Match in Tucson, Arizona.

Brown captured the gold medal in the junior boys competition and Davey claimed two medals bronze in junior boys, and bronze in the open competition for mixed teams, where he was paired with Julia Stallings of Rossville, Tennessee.

By finishing in the top three in the junior boys competition, Brown and Davey qualified for two big upcoming meets the ISSF World Shotgun Championships in Lonato, Italy, where the best in the world will congregate, and the Junior World Championships in Suhl, Germany.

SC: Prosecutors drop charges against 2 in South Carolina death
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Prosecutors have dropped charges against two men in a South Carolina death more than two years ago, saying there is not enough evidence and there are inconsistent stories from the only eyewitness.

The Post and Courier of Charleston reported prosecutors in Charleston this week dropped charges against 37-year-old Davon Laval Heyward and 37-year-old Dandre Levon Middleton.

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Prosecutors say the survivor's statement against the men were "inconsistent and implausible." Prosecutors also said they could not disprove self-defense claims.

AR: Senate committee votes down new self-defense bill
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Debate on gun legislation reached a crescendo at the Arkansas State Capitol on Wednesday when a senator fervently denounced a bill that would make it easier to use lethal force in the name of self-defense.

The bill, sponsored by three Republican state senators, would remove a clause from the current law that required a duty to retreat in self-defense cases. Previous efforts to push similar stand your ground laws in the state, under both Democratic and Republican legislatures, have all failed within the past decade, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports.

Handgun that looks like a cell phone hits the market
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At the Osseo Gun Club, Kirk Kjellberg has set his sights on a pistol that hides in plain sight.

"To bring something all the way from what's in your mind to the sales floor or out to people has been a dream of mine since I can remember, said Kjellberg. So to fulfill that is fantastic for me."

Kjellberg says he came up with the idea for a cell phone pistol back in 2016 as a more discreet way for law-abiding citizens to carry a concealed weapon.

MN: Women a contributor to rise in gun carry permits Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
The number of people who hold handgun carry permits grew across the state and in every south-central Minnesota county again last year. More people applied for a new permit or to renew their permit in 2018 than in 2017 and 2015, but not as many as the peak of 2016.

UT: Bill expanding Utah's stand-your-ground law passes through Legislature Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
A bill that strengthens Utah's current code for self-defense passed the Senate today with a 18-8 vote. The bill already passed the House and will be sent to the governor. HB114 states an individual doesn't have an obligation to retreat from an aggressor and failure to retreat is not relevent to whether or not they acted reasonably.

IN: Downtown fatal shooting will not lead to criminal charges Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Immediately prior to the shooting, the driver asked Mr. Sullivan multiple times to exit her vehicle," said Michael Leffler, spokesman for the prosecutor's office. "Mr. Sullivan instigated a physical altercation in an attempt to take the drivers handgun from where she had it secured on her person." One shot went off from the handgun, killing Sullivan.

WA: Man shot after pulling fake gun on armed seller during iPhone buy Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
A deal for an iPhone turned violent late Thursday night outside a bank in Everett, sending one person to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Two men arranged to meet at the BECU at 112th St. SW and Evergreen Way just before 10 p.m. to exchange an iPhone. Everett Police say the man who was supposed to buy the phone didnt have enough cash.

NC: Bill would up pay for NC teachers who carry guns Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Some North Carolina lawmakers want to arm teachers to protect students, and they're willing to pay them more to do so. The School Security Act of 2019, filed Wednesday, would boost salaries of teachers who decide to carry a gun. The bill would require teachers to undergo training. The same bill was filed in the Senate last year and died in committee.

New Cases of Armed Citizens Stopping Criminals in February
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February has produced even more evidence that the fundamental right to keep and bear arms is not an anachronism that no longer deserves constitutional protection, but a vital tool safeguarding individual liberty.

Studies routinely indicate that every year, Americans use their firearms in defense of themselves or others between 500,000 and 2 million times. Very few of these defensive gun uses receive national publicityif they receive publicity at all.

Hawaii Democrats Want U.S. Congress to Consider Repeal of Second Amendment Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
A resolution introduced in the Hawaii Senate this week urges the U.S. Congress to "consider and discuss whether the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution should be repealed or amended to clarify that the right to bear arms is a collective, rather than individual, constitutional right."

VT: Please Attend Public Hearing on Gun Bills Next Week Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
On Tuesday, March 12, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be holding a public hearing at Vermont Technical College in Randolph Center, VT. The hearing will take place from 5:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. in Judd Hall. We strongly encourage all Vermont NRA members and gun owners to attend and make their voices heard. Again, please wear orange in solidarity with fellow gun owners.

FL: Justices delve into stand your ground change
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Two years after lawmakers approved a controversial change to the states stand your ground self-defense law, the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments about whether the change should apply to a woman charged in a shooting incident outside a Miami-Dade County nightclub.

The defendant, Tashara Love, was charged in 2015, but her case remained pending when lawmakers changed the stand your ground law in 2017. The issue before the Supreme Court centers on whether the revised law should apply to Loves case and potentially other cases that began before 2017.

Anti-gun Democrats Press for Publicly Funded Gun Control Advocacy
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One of the most infamous studies, for example, is still referenced by gun control advocates to this day as supposedly establishing that residents of a home with a firearm in it are more likely to be killed by that firearm than to use it in self-defense. But, as Dr. John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center explained at Wednesdays hearing, 86% of the homicides covered by the study were committed by means other than the residents own firearms. And, he said, researchers undercounted defensive firearm use by ignoring cases in which the assailant was not actually killed with the firearm.

Knife Control in Great Britain? Submitted by: Mark A. Taff Website: http://www.marktaff.com	There is 1 comment on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
America has its share of crime, but at least in the U.S. it has been decreasing for decades, while in Great Britain it is increasing exponentially. London has become the crime capital of the world and not just for burglaries, but also for rapes and assaults with guns and knives. And remember knives are prohibited on the streets of London and handguns are prohibited in all of Great Britain.