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The Tusayan Ranger District of the Kaibab National Forest has issued a draft plan for managing off-highway vehicle (OHV) use. OHV use will be restricted to those roads and trails designated in the plan, depending on which management alternative is selected following public review and comment. Tusayan Ranger District offers four plan alternatives for managing OHV use. Alternative 1 is the status quo and is used as a baseline to compare the changes to be made in OHV use by the other alternatives. Alternatives 2 and 3 allow motorized big game retrieval up to a mile off of a designated road or trail. Alternative 4 allows no such exemption for hunters using OHVs for game retrieval. Comments on the plan are being accepted until August 30th and can be emailed to comments-southwestern-kaibab-tusayan@fs.fed.us. The plan can be found online by going to http://fs.usda.gov/goto/kaibab/projects and look for the Tusayan Travel Management Project. If you have questions about the plan or need additional information, you may call 928-635-5649.

According to The Korea Times, the Obama administration has blocked efforts by the South Korean government to sell over a hundred thousand surplus M1 Garand and Carbine rifles into the United States market. These self-loading were rifles introduced in 1926 and 1941. As rifles, they are especially well-suited to community defense in an emergency, as in the cases of community defense following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

When Canada`s auditor general tabled her December 2002 report, she set her sights on Ottawa`s controversial gun registry program. Sheila Fraser blasted the federal government for exceeding its estimated budget, saying that by the time the smoke cleared and all gun owners and their guns were registered, the program would have cost taxpayers more than $1 billion. Opposition critics were quick to point out that figure is 500 times more than the original $2-million estimate.

A Falklands veteran has accused North Wales Police of jeopardising his pest control business by limiting the terms of his gun licences. Alan Bennett, a weapons expert who served 25 years with the Welsh Guards, claims to need high-calibre rifles to stalk prey that range from deer to predators of rare birds.

In 1989, Virginia passed its first-in-the-nation state instant check statute.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was at a strip mall in north Philadelphia on Tuesday to help Rep. Joe Sestak (D Pa.) appeal to independents in his run for Senate.

The agenda item is more about housekeeping and keeping current with state law than it is denying gun owners their right to bear arms. Item No. 24 of today's agenda reads: Consideration of an order banning the carrying of handguns within the premises of various county owned and leased buildings, parks and other facilities submitted by county legal. At first glance, the order would appear to ban handguns from all county facilities. Actually, the order would ban weapons at facilities that house courtrooms, which already are gun-free zones.

A Calgary man has been sentenced to six months in jail for failing to report a registered handgun was stolen from his home nearly three years ago.

The head of the Canadian Firearms Program, who is a strong supporter of the long gun registry, is quietly being bounced out of the position, CBC News has learned.

Some people say “Don't mess with Texas," now the phrase may be “Don’t mess with El Paso.” Instructors at El Paso Community College said more people are getting concealed handgun licenses. "They want to protect their families and their homes," said law enforcement training academy instructor Ernest Wade.

Bowing to pressure to conform to state law, the City Commission on Monday night struck down a gun ban in the festival contract to allow holstered guns in plain sight at the event Sept. 3-6.

Moorhead police want it to be illegal to carry a replica gun in public. Officers say it will protect them and others who may be threatening with the fake guns. Police chief Dave Ebinger told the city council it's hard to tell whether the gun is a real firearm or not and that officers are forced to treat the replicas as though they are real. The chief also questions whether people with criminal records should be allowed to have replicas, since they are not allowed to have the real thing.

After being the victim of a violent crime, Raymond E. Woollard became one of a select few Maryland residents to receive a license to carry a concealed handgun. But to Woollard's surprise, Maryland State Police denied his request last year to renew the permit, saying they thought the danger to his life had passed. The agency said it was "because I hadn't been attacked" again, Woollard said in an interview. "They said, 'If you have any problems, you let us know.' "

Erik Scott rarely left home without a gun tucked in his waistband. Concerned about his safety while on call at night to service the pacemakers he sold, Scott decided this year to join more than 34,000 Clark County residents who have obtained concealed weapon permits.

Gun restrictions will loosen, allowing concealed weapons in some churches and near most schoolyards and permitting firearms at state parks and historic sites.

Does the metro area have 530 acres for a $22 million mega sized shooting complex? The state Department of Natural Resources is about to find out. The DNR has invited metro cities, counties, townships and park boards to offer possible sites by Sept. 7 for what would be the state's largest complex offering indoor and outdoor sport shooting.