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Maine town to take symbolic vote on mandatory gun ownership DURHAM, Maine (Reuters) - Residents of a Maine town are expected to vote on Monday on whether each household should be required to own a firearm, a decision that has thrust the tiny town of Byron into the heated national debate on gun control. The vote is scheduled to take place on Monday evening in a potentially rancorous annual town meeting for the rural western Maine town's 140 residents, and will be largely symbolic. The town's head selectman says the vast majority of households in Byron already have at least one gun, and a requirement to possess guns and ammunition would be unenforceable because Maine law bars municipalities from legislating on firearms. "It was never my intention to force anyone to own a gun who doesn't want to. My purpose was to make a statement in support of the Second Amendment (to the U.S. Constitution)," said head selectman Anne Simmons-Edmund, who proposed the ordinance and said it would be put for a vote on Monday. The December shooting rampage that left 26 people dead at a Connecticut elementary school has reignited the national debate over guns. In response, some states have been prompted to tighten gun laws, while other states have sought to keep federal gun measures from being applied within their borders. Byron is not the only town to mull such a measure. Last week, selectmen in the Maine town of Sabbatus, about 60 miles from Byron, voted against putting a similar proposal before town residents. In Georgia, a city leader in Nelson has proposed an ordinance calling on every head of household to have a gun as a way to keep crime down in the city of 1,300 residents, which employs only a single police officer. The Nelson city council is expected to vote on the gun ownership ordinance on April 1. In Byron, Simmons-Edmund, who is also a police officer in nearby Dixfield, said the measure also reflects community concern about the remote area's rising crime rates, which she said have nearly tripled in the last year. Not all in the town were supportive of the move. "It gives new meaning to the term `March Madness," said Byron resident Philip Paquette, who has spent the past three decades as a Merchant Marine. "She is infringing on the rights of townspeople. I'm a hunter and own guns, and I have a right to. People also have a right not to own guns." As for Simmons-Edmund, who says she got the idea after a suggestion from her father and fellow Byron resident Bruce Simmons. "Five days ago, I would have predicted this article would pass," Simmons-Edmund said. "But we've gotten so much media attention, nothing would surprise me. This town has never been so closely scrutinized. It's up to the residents to decide now. And if they shoot it down, I am totally fine with it."

I did not see this posted yet.....We lost another from our cause. RIP Wayne Bengston Kills Sportsman Channel Host Gregory Rodriguez Before Killing Himself 89 2812 Get Crime Alerts: Video, Gregory Rodriguez Shot, Sportsman Channel, Wayne Bengston Gregory Rodriguez, Wayne Bengston Shot Gregory Rodriguez, Cable Host Dead, Celebrity Deaths, Montana Crime, Mug Shots, Crime News HELENA, Mont. — A northwestern Montana man shot and killed the host of the Sportsman Channel show "A Rifleman's Journal" in an apparent jealous rage while the TV personality was visiting the shooter's wife, police said Friday. Wayne Bengston, 41, then beat his wife, took his 2-year-old son to a relative's house and drove to his home about 25 miles away in West Glacier, where he killed himself, Whitefish Police Chief Bill Dial said. "It's pretty much an open-and-closed case. Homicide and suicide," Dial said. Police identified the shooting victim as Gregory G. Rodriguez, 43, of Sugar Land, Texas. Bengston's wife told police that Rodriguez was in town on business and visiting her at her mother's house in Whitefish when her husband showed up Thursday at about 10:30 p.m. Rodriguez and the woman, who works for a firearms manufacturer in the Flathead Valley, met at a trade show and struck up a casual relationship that police do not believe was romantic, Dial said. She and Rodriguez were sitting at the kitchen table, talking over a glass of wine, when Bengston entered the house and shot Rodriguez, Dial said. He then beat his wife on the face and head, most likely with the pistol, he said. She was treated at a hospital and released. "I think it was a jealous husband, but this is all conjecture," Dial said. After the shooting was reported, Flathead County sheriff's deputies found Bengston's truck parked in his driveway. Efforts by a police SWAT team to contact Bengston inside the house were unsuccessful, and officers found his body with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police said. Besides appearing on TV, Rodriguez was the founder and CEO of Global Adventure Outfitters. According to the company's website, he was an editor at Shooting Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Petersen's Hunting, Guns & Ammo and Dangerous Game. He was a mortgage banker before founding Global Adventure Outfitters and has hunted in 21 countries, the website says. "A Rifleman's Journal" tracks Rodriguez's hunting travels to exotic locations, according to a Sportsman Channel description. He has a wife and two children, it says. A woman who answered the phone at Global Adventure Outfitters confirmed that Rodriguez had been in Montana but said the organization would not be making a statement at the time. Bengston worked for the U.S. Forest Service, Dial said.

yes it was great to meet you guys there, Thanks for the hard work

I have seen guys take pics of there gals at heritage guild easton w/ permission

does it look like this? http://7.62x54r.net/...ID/ammo010e.jpg or this

Guy reached out and talked me thru my noobness of changing my handguard Thanks bro!

ALL FIXED, it does fit just was doing it wrong Thank you Old School for the help !

thanks guys, turns out I bought wrong one, so I'm putting in WTS/WTT section

im such a noob !

oh hell $45 dollars down the drain.. the hanguard is 1/8 to long and does'nt have taper on both ends i bought the wrong one

lol never mind i got it it was really stuck

i tried with the tool and its doesnt come apart

I was not gonna upgrade any features on my Windham but decided to try and change out my handguard to a 2 piece quad rail, I picked one up @ Oaks and now upon further inspection the one on my rifle looks to be a 1 piece handguard. What will it take to change it?

but the drones might......lol j/k

still wainting for mags from glockstore, for almost 2 months

yeh the beef sticks over by sarco table are gooooood!

its satire like the onion

here is the line @ 2:15pm friday and it doubled by 3pm @ opening

i believe the extension is from the day they would expire,

yes nics for every sale, of course the 7.62x39 was wolf and x54 was $200 for 880 I did see alot of nice rifles, I was dissapointed the mosin guys crates were empty, he did say sat he was gonna have a crate of hex, I'm thinking of going back today since I wont have to rush and get back for a poker tourney I got in @ 3 and out at 5 and had to rush thru in order to be in East brunswick by 7:45 I did stop @ NJ2AS and dropped some cash in the donation jar on my way out and met few of the fellas volunteering.

Pmags ranged from 30-50

was busy and high prices for some things, certain stuff was going fast and lines at a few vendors were insanely long

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