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Wietfeldt, Heiden Win Trap Championships at 2009 Shotgun Junior Olympic Championships

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The 2009 Shotgun National Junior Olympics came to a close on August 1 with Collin Wietfeldt (Hemlock, Mich.) and Rachael Heiden (Clinton, Mich.) earning titles in the Trap event.

Wietfeldt shot 121 out of 125 targets in the match and shot 23 targets in the final to finish in first place with 144 total hits. Jake Turner (Richland, Wash.), who recently won the junior event at the 2009 USA Shooting Shotgun National Championships and came in second in the open category, finished in second place with a total of 142 targets at the JOs. Kevin Bockerstett (St. Charles, Mo.) finished right behind Turner in the third spot with 141 hits. Weitfeldt also won the High Male Overall SCTP honor.

Heiden, who is the bronze medalist from the 2009 ISSF World Cup in Cairo, won first place for the women easily by nine targets. Heiden shot a match score of 116, a final of 22 for a total of 138 targets. Janessa Beaman (Elbert, Colo.) and Ashley Carroll (Solvang, Calif.) were tied with 129 targets at the end of the final and Beaman earned second place in a shoot-off hitting two targets to Carroll’s one target. Carroll finished in third place and also earned the SCTP’s High Female Overall award.

Other top finishers in the Trap event include:

Junior Men

• J2 First Place – Matthew Gossett, 118
• J2 Second Place – Dustin Anderson, 117
• J2 Third Place –Garrett Walters, 116
• J3 First Place – Austin Odom, 114
• J3 Second Place – Roy Chavalitlekha, 100
• J3 Third Place – Daniel Mahaney, 98

Junior Women

• J2 First Place – Brandi Hobbs, 107
• J2 Second Place – Miranda Wilder, 104
• J2 Third Place – Rickelle Pimental, 101
• J3 First Place – Jeni Clark, 99
• J3 Second Place – Holly Hodge, 93

Approximately 200 junior shooters participated in the International Skeet, Double Trap and Trap events at the 2009 Shotgun JOs. Juniors qualified for the event by winning their State Junior Olympic Championships, or by shooting a qualifying score.

Complete results from the 2009 Shotgun National Junior Olympic Championships can be found at www.usashooting.org

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9th Circuit Giving Gun Case Another Look
Without reason the 9th has, apparently, decided to legislate from the bench…

California - -(AmmoLand.com)- The 9th Circuit Court is taking up the Gun Case that was responsible for the split in appellate courts and was allowing PRO GUN Rights groups to take the argument for incorporating the 2nd Amendment to the supreme court.

As reported on LAW.com:

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals just agreed to host another shootout over gun rights.

The court decided Wednesday to review en banc a panel ruling that had significantly broadened Second Amendment protections by applying them to state and local governments. This holding, arrived at by Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain, is at odds with other rulings from around the country — including one penned by 2nd Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

The 9th Circuit panel had still upheld an Alameda County, Calif., ordinance that forbids a gun show at a public fairground. Thus neither side had asked for en banc review.

“I suppose they were both afraid of what could happen,” said Arthur Hellman, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Hellman speculated that pro-gun control forces on the 9th Circuit may be seeking to resolve the circuit split now, which would relieve some of the pressure on the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in.

O’Scannlain found that the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S.Ct. 2783, should allow the right to bear arms to be treated as one of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment — and thus binding on state and local governments.

“The crucial role this deeply rooted right has played in our birth and history compels us to recognize that it is indeed fundamental, that it is necessary to the Anglo-American conception of ordered liberty that we have inherited,” he wrote in April.

However, where the D.C. statute at issue in Heller forbids guns in the home, O’Scannlain recognized the need to regulate firearms in “sensitive places” like a fairground with 4,000 people milling around. Judge Ronald Gould and Senior Judge Arthur Alarcon, who were both picked by Democrats, voted with O’Scannlain, a Reagan appointee.

“The recognition of the individual’s right in the Second Amendment, and its incorporation by the Due Process Clause against the states, is not inconsistent with the reasonable regulation of weaponry,” Gould wrote in a concurrence.

Attorneys involved in the case reacted cautiously to Wednesday’s order. San Jose, Calif., solo Donald Kilmer Jr., who represents the plaintiff gun show promoters, struck an optimistic tone.

“Perhaps the liberal members of the court will want to interpret the Second Amendment liberally,” he said.

Alameda County Counsel Richard Winnie referred questions to outside counsel T. Peter Pierce, of Richards, Watson & Gershon in Los Angeles.

“It’s the county’s position that the panel did not need to reach the issue of whether the Second Amendment is incorporated to apply to state and local governments,” Pierce said. “It’s the county’s hope that that’s what attracted the court’s attention.”

Added Pierce: “It’s our fervent hope the en banc call was not to review the constitutional validity of the ordinance.”

En banc arguments are slated for the week of Sept. 21 in San Francisco. The case is Nordyke v. King , 08 C.D.O.S. 4634.

It is just a guess, but I am thinking they want to reason their way out of this split to remove the option of appealing it to SCOTUS and keeping the 2nd amendment from being incorporated to the people.

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