Georgetown Law-Militia UPDATE 10/25/07 1. Law-Militia meeting TODAY, i.e., Thursday, 25 Oct., 12 noon, in room 437 2. Law-Militia in the news! 3. Pro-gun D set to defeat an anti-gun R for a VA Senate seat & tip control of the VA Senate to Ds! 4. Students for Concealed Carry hold empty holster protests across the United States 5. George Washington University students forming .Colonial Militia. 6. How to learn about & keep track of gun rights issues? ************************************************** 1. Law-Militia meeting TODAY, i.e., Thursday, 25 Oct., 12 noon, in room 437 ************************************************** Complexity of Federal Gun Law! Join us for a meeting of the Georgetown Law-Militia! Thursday, Oct. 25th, 12-1 PM, location: McDonough 437 Practicing Virginia Attorney Richard Gardiner, the one time criminal defense counsel for Senator Jim Webb's Chief of Staff in a matter of a loaded handgun brought into the US Capitol, will speak about the complexity of federal gun laws, including the tendency of the ATF to issue regulations with questionable basis, e.g., broadly defining "mental defectives" within the meaning of the Gun Control Act of 1968, triggering a loss of gun rights for life for all affected persons. Pizza and drinks will be served. NOTE: Spread the word among your friends and classmates here at GULC! Requests to add email addresses to the Law-Militia list will be honored! ************************************************** 2. Law-Militia in the news! ************************************************** a. Hasa Kingo, Gun Rights Group Holds Inaugural Talk, Georgetown Law-Weekly, Oct. 2-8, 2007 (attached). -- b. Blog of the Legal Times http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2007/09/new-militia-gro.html September 27, 2007 New Militia Group at Georgetown Law Center Georgetown University Law Center has a new student group called the Georgetown Law-Militia. The group.s mission is to foster .greater awareness of legal issues concerning the right to keep and bear arms and the human right of self-defense.. At the Militia.s inaugural meeting this afternoon, attorney Alan Gura of Gura & Possessky spoke about his work as lead counsel for the plaintiffs in Parker v. D.C.- the case that successfully challenged the District.s handgun ban in March. Gura told a group of about 30 Law Center students that .the Second Amendment is really not all that mysterious.. He says he is confident the U.S. Supreme Court will decide to review the case, and that he is .looking forward. to arguing before the court. The group.s president, third-year law student Mike Stollenwerk, is an active gun-rights advocate. He helped found a website called opencarry.org that maps out where in the U.S. people can carry unconcealed firearms legally, and at what age, and he was inspired to form the Militia by the gun ban case. Stollenwerk has a concealed handgun permit in Virginia, and a license to carry firearms in Pennsylvania. .What good is a gun if you can.t carry it?. he says. Read more about the Georgetown Law-Militia in next week's Legal Times. -- c. Legal Times print edition reported on Sept. 29, 2007 at http://tinyurl.com/2dffkx [subscription required] as follows:A