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The Burlington Free Press Friday, November 6, 2009 www.burIingtonfreepress.com 7C Court hears arguments over Mass. gun-storage law self-defense. Prosecutors argued in legal briefs that the Second storage law, it is virtually impossible for homeowners to quickly access a gun for FRIDAY EVENING properly storing a 12-gauge shotgun and a semiautomatic hunting rifle. A Lowell District Court judge dismissed the charges, citing a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a handgun ban in Washington, D.C.

In District of Columbia vs. Heller, the Supreme Court found that the Second Amendment gives people the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense in their homes. The court also tossed out a D.C. requirement that firearms be equipped with trigger locks or kept disassembled. Middlesex County prosecutors argued Thursday that the Massachusetts law requiring guns to be secured in a locked container or equipped with safety de vices when not under an owner's control is less restrictive than the D.C.

law. "The purpose of the (Massachusetts) statute is to keep the firearms out of the hands of unauthorized users," Assistant District Attorney Loretta Lillios said. She cited the case of Liquarry Jefferson, an 8-year-old Boston boy who was accidentally killed by his 7-year-old cousin in 2007 after the boys found a loaded 9 mm handgun in a dresser in Liquarry's home. Groups representing gun owners argued that the state's requirement that guns be locked up defeats the purpose of self-defense. Edward George an attorney for the Gun Owners' Action League, said that under the Massachusetts gun back porch of the building.

The building houses six apartments, but fire officials say they are not sure how many tenants lived there. No other injuries were reported. The cause of the fire is under investigation. From wire reports New York Briefs of the victim, but neighbors told authorities that it was a male tenant. Firefighters responded to the blaze shortly before 8:30 p.m.

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62 Cyclades island 63 -pitch Softball TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: 1 Ch Holiday Art Skew Give the gift of art! Affordable Fine Art by local artists oil, acrylic watercolor paintings, pen and ink drawings, colored pencil drawings, collage art, photography, prints and cards, jewelry, handpainted wood signs, copper sculpture and mixed media. Milton Grange Hall, Route 7, Milton Saturday, November 7, 2009 from 9 am to 4 pm By Denise Lavoie The Associated Press BOSTON Gun control proponents argued before the state's highest court Thursday that a Massachusetts law requiring gun owners to lock weapons in their homes saves lives. Gun advocates pointed to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling holding that people have a constitutional right to keep weapons for self-defense. The case involves a Bille-rica man whose mentally disabled son allegedly shot at a neighbor with a BB gun.

The 18-year-old showed police where his father kept other unlocked guns. Under the Massachusetts safe gun-storage law, the youth's father, Richard Run-yan, was charged with im Syracuse teen sentenced for false confession SYRACUSE, N.Y. A Syracuse teenager has admitted falsely confessing to police that he was the sniper responsible for killing a man as he walked out of his home in January. Ja-Le Johnson pleaded guilty Thursday to criminal facilitation and hindering prosecution. The 16-year-old Johnson will be sentenced Nov.

23 to two to six years in prison. Johnson was originally charged with murder after telling police he fired the deadly shot from the attic window of his home that killed Casimir Snyder, 47, across the street. But authorities said ballistics evidence did not match fohnson's claim and they charged then-15-year-old Shawn Rhines with the killing. Rhines, now 16, is serving 10 years to life in prison after pleading guilty in April to second-degree murder. Ex-Weatherman to speak at John Brown event LAKE PLACID, N.Y.

A four-day symposium commemorating the 150th anniversary of abolitionist John Brown's burial at his Adirondack farm will include a former leader of a violent 1960s radical group as a featured speaker. Organizers of the event "John Brown Coming Home" say activist and Northwestern University law professor Ber-nardine Dohrn will be among the panelists discussing Brown's legacy during the Dec. 5 session in Lake Placid. Dohrn was a founder of the Weathermen, a group that carried out bombings at several government sites in the early 1970s. No one was injured.

Brown was buried at his farm just outside Lake Placid six days after he was hanged Dec. 2, 1859, for treason for leading a raid on the federal arsenal at what is now Harper's Ferry, W.Va. Watertown apartment fire kills tenant WATERTOWN, N.Y. Authorities say a person is dead after a fire in his northern New York apartment. Fire officials in Watertown have not released the identity November 7 You can go anywhere, i Find yourself I here.

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