Penny Dean and Your Rights

<img src="http://cmsimg.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=BK&Date=... align="right" height="240">I’m the mayor of one of the largest cities in the Hudson Valley, just 90 minutes north of New York City.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit handed gun rights advocates a major victory today by invalidating San Diego, California’s requirement that conceal-carry permits only be issued to those gun owners who have a “good cause” to carry a concealed gun in public. According to local officials, “one’s personal safety is not considered good cause.” In his opinion for a divided three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit, Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain rejected the local government’s approach as an unconstitutional infringement on the Second Amendment.

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In the early morning hours of June 27, 2013, a team of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies pulled up to the home of Eugene Mallory, an 80-year-old retired engineer living in the rural outskirts of Los Angeles county with his wife Tonya Pate and stepson Adrian Lamos.

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From http://www.droneshield.org/technology/:

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DroneShield is a low-cost, easy-to-use device that detects the presence of nearby drones (including RC helicopters, quadrotors, etc) and issues alerts via email, sms, and a flashing light. The goal is to help preserve privacy from low-cost remote-control air vehicles with video cameras.
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BROOKLYN PARK, Md. —Police in Anne Arundel County are working to find some guns that were stolen from an unmarked police car on Friday.

Authorities said the officer parked his car in front of his home in Brooklyn Park on Thursday, and when he returned to it Friday, the guns were gone.

The officer said the driver's side door and trunk were left open.

Investigators said a Colt 223 rifle and a Sig Saure [sic] SRT .40-caliber service weapon were taken, as well as ammunition and a ballistic vest.

The items had been secured in the trunk of the vehicle.

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While responding to a Tuesday night rollover accident in Chula Vista, Calif., a police officer and firefighter got into a dispute over where the fire engine should park. It ended with the uniformed firefighter in handcuffs.

The California Highway Patrol officer reportedly ordered the firefighter, identified as Jacob Gregoir, to move the fire engine off the center divide or he would be arrested. As he worked the scene and checked the overturned car for more victims, he reportedly told the unidentified officer that he would have to check with his captain.

That’s when the officer decided to detain the firefighter instead.

<img src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_296w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/201... align="right">DAYTON, Ohio — Shooter and victim were just a pair of pixels, dark specks on a gray streetscape. Hair color, bullet wounds, even the weapon were not visible in the series of pictures taken from an airplane flying two miles above.

<img src="http://teapartyeconomist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/SWAT.jpg" align="right">A Jacksonville homeowner thought she may have been robbed Sunday, but realized instead her home had been altered by a SWAT team.

Deborah Franz was told to leave her home by police during a standoff with her neighbor over the weekend. According to WTEV-TV, Franz overheard loud fighting next door, and then saw SWAT team members swarm the street.

“The cop goes ‘You all need to leave, you can’t be in your house,’” Franz told the station.

Major technology firms have released new data on how often they are ordered to turn over customer information to the government for secret national security investigations, resulting in the collection of data on thousands of Americans.

That release came after the companies were freed by a recent legal deal with government lawyers.

Quote of the day by Dianne Feinstein..........

<blockquote>Dianne Feinstein: "All vets are mentally ill in some way and government should prevent them from owning firearms."</blockquote>

Yep, - she really said it on Thursday in a meeting in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee...

and the quote below from the LA Times is priceless. Sometimes even the L.A. Times gets it right.