Utah: No more gun permits for foreigners
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Utah has stopped issuing concealed-gun permits to foreigners because of the rising number of applicants and the difficulty of conducting background checks.
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It is now legal to purchase many kinds of semiautomatic weapons that were for sale only to the military and police in the United States for the past ten years.
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The District today formally asked the Supreme Court to uphold the local ban on private ownership of handguns, saying the appeals court decision that overturned the law "drastically departs from the mainstream of American jurisprudence."
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A California state appeals court on Wednesday struck down a ban on the private ownership of handguns in San Francisco, one of several U.S. cities that have outlawed small firearms.
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By Jennifer Toomer-Cook Deseret Morning News  Maybe it's time, now that some 3,700 high school graduates have diplomas saying they failed the high school exit exam, for some alternatives to the Utah Basic Skills Competency Test, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. said Tuesday.
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By Suzanne Struglinski Deseret Morning News  WASHINGTON -- Utah's House members may have to get used to fewer days in Utah and more time in Washington once the new Congress starts in 2007.
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GENEVA  - Dashing the chance for almost 200,000 youngsters to get citizenship easily, voters in this Alpine country rejected two government proposals to loosen tough naturalization rules in a referendum Sunday.
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The federal ban on the sale of AK-47s and other weapons of choice for drug dealers and dangerous criminals, expired this
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The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the government may not indefinitely detain criminals who are illegal immigrants, undercutting a Bush administration policy applied to foreigners deemed too dangerous to be freed.
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An American woman with ties to the U.S. Embassy was detained at the La Paz airport for attempting to enter Bolivia with 500 rounds of .45-caliber ammunition, officials said Thursday. Donna Thi, 20, was taken into custody by Bolivian immigration officials Wednesday night.
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The Bush administration told the Supreme Court last night that, although the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to own firearms, an appeals court used the wrong standards in declaring the D.C. handgun ban unconstitutional.
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LONDON: Hundreds of skilled and talented workers from Asia, especially Malaysia and China, have given up their dreams of working legally in the United Kingdom due to the stringent entry clearance ruling.
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Amnesty International today published an open letter from Irene Khan, Amnesty's Secretary General, to EU Heads of State and governments asking them to immediately halt sales or transfers of arms to all parties in the Israel/Palestine conflict. Israel, naturally, reacted negatively to the proposal. Mark Regev, spokesman for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that an arms embargo "would leave every man woman and child in this country to face a multitude of hostile challenges that there are here. It ignores the real threats faced by the Jewish state and gives comfort to those who say Israel should be wiped off the map."
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Foreigners could have a harder time seeking asylum in the United States and illegal immigrants would be barred from getting drivers licenses under a bill approved on Thursday by the U.S. House of Representatives.
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The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill yesterday repealing most of the District's gun laws, in a vote that handed an election-season victory to gun rights groups and was denounced by the city's leaders as a historic violation of home rule.
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Australia's government calls for an end to a permit system which limits those who can visit Aboriginal lands.
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A Cache Valley egg producer will no longer pay a fine to the state of Utah for discharging wastewater from a manure-composting operation into the Cub River.