From the Shot Show In Las Vegas
Far too much tactical and law enforcement.  The most exciting thing is Colt is reintroducing the Mustang .380.  Everyone will say it's a day late and a dollar short, but it was a great gun then and it's a great gun now.

In gun debate, education would help

Published on Concord Monitor (http://www.concordmonitor.com)

http://www.concordmonitor.com/print/235003

By Dan Williams

Created 01/19/2011 - 00:00

Monitor Board of Contributors

Responsible adults should teach kids

 

The senseless violence committed by Jared Loughner in Tucson, Ariz., is so heinous that it has given me, a Second Amendment rights advocate, cause to wonder how to balance gun rights with public safety. In trying to come to terms with the issue of gun control, I have spoken with friends, family and acquaintances whose opinions run the gamut in the last few days.

My first weapon was a BB gun that I shot at targets behind my house and on a local air rifle team. A bit later I learned to handle "real" guns from my father, an avid hunter. I took and passed a hunter safety course so that I could obtain my first license. I was also on my school's rifle team, back in the days when there were such things. All of these activities occurred under the direction of responsible adults.

I remember the first animal I killed, a snowshoe hare. I experienced a mix of emotions including jubilation and remorse. That day I witnessed firsthand the damage guns can do, a sobering experience for a 12-year-old boy.

I know my experience with guns is vastly different from others'. Many people's only experience with guns is what they see in movies, on TV and in the violent video games so popular with today's youth. Some people first experience guns during a drive-by shooting, a robbery, a murder-suicide. The way in which you learn about guns colors your thinking.

When I spoke with my 84-year-old father about guns, he reminded me that when he was growing up in Depression-era rural Alabama they were a necessary tool. Hunting and farming provided most of the food his family consumed. He acknowledged, however, that we are no longer a rural, agrarian society, and that there are some places where guns just should not be.

I then spoke to a retired cop and gun collector. He believes that virtually all criminals who commit gun crimes have something on their record or in their past that should have flagged them as people who should not have access to firearms. According to him, elected officials shouldn't write gun legislation without consulting with the law enforcement and judicial personnel who are going to have to enforce them. "We need punishments that fit crimes - that are severe enough with regard to the offense as to be a deterrent," he said. He finished our interview with the oft-repeated idea that criminals will get guns regardless of what the law says.

Next I interviewed a self-described liberal gun-control advocate. She countered the popular self-defense argument with "that's what the police are for." She believes we should not have easy access to weapons that are designed specifically to kill people - in some cases, lots of people. According to her, assault rifles and large-capacity magazines and clips should only be in the hands of law enforcement or military personnel.

Interestingly, when asked about the recent repeal of the State House gun ban, everyone I spoke with agreed that New Hampshire is taking the "open carry" thing too far. "The only two reasons I can think of for bringing a weapon into the State House would be to kill a House member or protect yourself from being killed by a House member," one person told me. I hope that I never have to read in the pages of this newspaper about either scenario occurring.

How then do we balance our Second Amendment rights with the need for public safety? To some on the extreme left, all guns should be confiscated. On the extreme right there are those who believe any Second Amendment infringement will push us over the precipice of a slippery slope, at the bottom of which is a world where only criminals have guns. Both fringe groups use fear to promote their argument.

What if we focus on education? A colleague of mine takes his criminal justice class to a local police firing range every year to learn about and shoot firearms. I'm always amazed at the positive reaction of the students and the community's support of this activity.

Children learning about guns from responsible adults in a safe environment is much better than kids becoming desensitized to gun violence by playing BlackOps at home alone.

Ultimately, the greatest weapons - both in the gun control debate and in life - are knowledge and experience.
(Dan Williams of Concord is a professional musician and educator.)

Bill would let Neb. teachers carry guns in schools

The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 18, 2011; 7:05 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/18/AR2011011805287.html

LINCOLN, Neb. -- A Nebraska lawmaker has introduced a bill to allow school administrators, teachers and security staff to carry concealed handguns in schools.

Sen. Mark Christensen of Imperial introduced the bill two weeks after a 17-year-old killed his vice principal and shot his principal before killing himself.

Christensen says he has always opposed a ban on handguns in schools, but he had no plans to introduce his bill until the shootings on Jan. 5.

He says many schools don't even let security officers carry guns, leaving students and school employees "helpless in the face of a shooter."

The National Conference of State Legislatures says 42 states and the District of Columbia have banned guns in schools, but it could not say whether any states allow them.

Sticking to their guns, pro or con
By Fredrick Kunkle and Rosalind S. Helderman/The Washington Post
Tuesday, January 18, 2011; B01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/17/AR2011011704381_pf.html
RICHMOND - Tucked into the Rev. John Hilton's shirt pocket was a miniature copy of the Gospel. Tucked into his belt was a 9mm handgun.

Hilton, whose clerical collar peeped out from a jacket showing a blaze-orange "Guns Save Lives" sticker, said there is no contradiction in carrying a Jimenez Arms semiautomatic and the New Testament, just as there is no contradiction in the idea that only by increasing access to firearms would society be a safer place.

"Even in the Bible, Christ told the disciples, 'Those who do not have a sword, let them sell their cloak and buy one,'" said Hilton, 56, an EMT who drove from Accotink, Va., to stand in solidarity with about 200 other activists lobbying the Virginia General Assembly for increased gun rights.

Many carried guns, openly or concealed, into legislative buildings, including a man who waited outside his state senator's office with a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle on his shoulder.

A short time after that rally, the Rev. Jonathan Barton, general minister of the Virginia Council of Churches, met beneath the same Bell Tower on the Capitol grounds with a much smaller band of demonstrators, including survivors of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, to call for stricter gun laws.

"Lord, we pray this day that those who turn to guns would hammer them into school textbooks," Barton said, a play on the biblical passage about transforming swords into plowshares. They urged support for a bill by Del. Patrick A. Hope (D-Arlington) that would prohibit firearms in the Capitol and General Assembly building.

Monday was Lobby Day at the Virginia General Assembly, drawing thousands of advocates who argued for a host of causes, including legalizing marijuana, repealing federal laws and their views on gun control. Environmentalists with Sierra Club stickers crowded into elevators with tea partiers, some of whom dangled tea bags or waved "Don't Tread on Me" banners. People in polarized camps traipsed the same halls, but sometimes their causes coalesced in one person, such as the fellow who wore a NORML button (for the marijuana-law reform group) next to pro-gun stickers.
But the day was often dominated by the passionate debate over guns, intensified by the mass shooting in Tucson that killed six and injured more, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.).

Last year, gun-rights backers put forward more than 60 bills, including a measure that would allow people to carry concealed firearms into places that served alcohol and another that would have repealed Virginia's limit on buying more than one handgun a month. The guns-in-bars bill passed; the repeal of one-gun-a-month did not.

This year, those supporting gun rights are working to pass HB2069, to allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons without obtaining a special license. They also lobbied for HB1732, which would require Virginia to recognize concealed weapons permits issued by other states, and HB1731, which would bar the federal government from regulating weapons manufactured and sold in Virginia.

"I've gotten some stares," said D.J. Dorer, 23, of Yorktown, who waited outside the office of Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-James City) with the AR-15. "I'm not trying to cause a ruckus. I just want to show that I can come with it and then I can go, without any problems happening."

At the rally sponsored by the Virginia Citizens Defense League, Del. L. Scott Lingamfelter (R-Prince William), who had sponsored the unsuccessful repeal last year, asked for a moment of silence for the Tucson victims.

Philip Van Cleave, the defense league's president, said that if more private citizens had been armed at the Tucson grocery store where the shooting occurred, they might have intervened, while York County Sheriff J.D. "Danny" Diggs warned that the Tucson killings could spur new gun-control efforts.

"There are going be those who try to take advantage of that tragedy and take advantage of our Second Amendment rights. Not only that - you can't even use a gun metaphor anymore," Diggs said.

Gun-control advocates, meanwhile, have renewed their push for closing the so-called gun-show loophole by requiring that all firearms buyers must undergo a background check at gun shows. Under current law, only transactions with licensed dealers require purchasers to submit to a background check. They also want to change a law permitting people to carry firearms in state legislative buildings, provided the gun owner has a concealed weapons permit. Several, however, said they were aggravated that lawmakers seem eager to enact protections for themselves that do not apply to the public.

"It sticks in my throat a little," said Andy Goddard, who heads the Virginia Center for Public Safety and whose son, Colin, survived the Virginia Tech shooting.
At their rally, gun-control advocates honored the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s lifelong ministry of nonviolent protest and noted that he had been a victim of gun violence. They wore blaze-orange stickers that read, "Background Checks Save Lives," and conducted the demonstration in a way similar to a memorial service.

Eighty roses were placed on the ground, one for each Virginia youth killed by guns in the past 12 months. In a call and response, the group recited a litany:
"Some 30,000 Americans die each year in the United States," Goddard said.
"And we grieve," the crowd answered.
"On average, 80 people are killed by guns every day, including eight children."
"And our hearts break."

Then, they lay down on the brick walkway for three minutes to symbolize those who had fallen to gun violence. Two women softly sang "We Shall Overcome."

Texans in Congress show no desire to curb guns

By RICHARD S. DUNHAM and STEWART POWELLWASHINGTON BUREAU

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7384335.html

WASHINGTON — It says a lot about the appetite for gun control in Congress that only one Texan offered any gun-related initiative in the wake of the assassination attempt in Arizona that took the lives of six Americans and seriously wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

It says even more about the Texas delegation's staunch support for the Second Amendment that the proposal by Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, would expand gun rights to permit lawmakers to carry weapons around the nation's capital.

"We don't need to spend millions on massive security details to escort everyone 24/7," said Gohmert, who has earned an "A" grade from the National Rifle Association.

"We can just allow those who have been trusted by hundreds of thousands of people and sent to our crime capital (of Washington) to protect themselves while in that federal enclave."

While the Jan. 8 Tucson massacre has prompted a nationwide debate over the sales of so-called "extended magazines" allegedly used by 22-year-old Jared Loughner, accused in the shooting spree, it hasn't done anything to increase support within the Texas delegation for any new curbs on guns or ammunition.

"We need to go to the root cause of the incident," said Rep. Gene Green, D-Houston, who has earned an "A" grade from the National Rifle Association. "It wasn't the instrument; it was the person who did it."

We 'know the ending'

Congressional opponents of gun control say there's little appetite for it on Capitol Hill.

"I don't see these bills going very far," said Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands, who receives an "A" from the NRA. "Frankly, I'm tired of politicians trying to further their agendas on the backs of victims of any tragedy."

With a solid wall of opposition to gun control among House Republicans and a bipartisan Senate majority, political observers expect little, if any, change in gun laws because of the shooting of Giffords, a strong Second Amendment supporter.

"My bet is no change in gun laws one way or the other," said University of Virginia

political scientist Larry Sabato. "We have been through the Tucson scenario many times, from assassinations to Oklahoma City to Columbine. We've seen this movie and know the ending. No change. Blue Dog Democrats and Republicans aren't going to risk the wrath of the NRA and their own pro-Second Amendment voters."

Those two factors - the NRA and pro-Second Amendment voters - have guided the gun control debate for the past 16 years, ever since Congress enacted the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act in 1993, which mandates a background check for most firearms purchases. The law took its name from James Brady, the White House press secretary wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.

In the 1994 election, dozens of supporters of the Brady law were defeated in a gun-rights backlash. Among the most prominent losers that year was Texas Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Beaumont, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee who voted against the Brady provision but was punished for allowing it to advance to the House floor for final approval.

Just eight Texas representatives - all Democrats - voted for Brady restrictions in 1994. Only one of them, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Dallas, remains in Congress today.

The other 24 Texas House members and senators, including a majority of Democrats, opposed the Brady law. Five of them continue to serve in the House: Green, Joe Barton, R-Ennis; Ralph Hall, R-Rockwall; Sam Johnson, R-Plano; and Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio.

Law expired

In the aftermath of the 1994 electoral debacle, which cost Democrats both houses of Congress, national Democratic candidates consciously shied away from action on gun control. The 1994 assault weapons ban, which outlawed 19 types of military-style assault weapons as well as large-capacity gun magazines, was allowed to expire in 2004 by a Republican Congress, despite being supported by President George W. Bush. The House didn't even conduct a vote; Senate backers of the law could muster only ten votes. Texas Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who has earned a 100 percent score and an "A+" grade from the NRA, and John Cornyn, who receives an "A" from the NRA, both voted against extending the Brady provisions.

The NRA's clout in Texas continues to grow. In the 2010 election, the association backed 11 House candidates. All were victorious.

Twenty-one of the 32 Texas House members received grades of "A" or "A+" from the NRA. Two others received a "B+" and "B."

The state's only gun-control supporters represent large urban centers: Reps. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin; Charlie Gonzalez, D-San Antonio; Al Green, D-Houston; Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston; and Johnson.

It's the shooter

The 2010 election only strengthened the hand of gun-rights backers. According to the NRA, the new Congress has gained 39 new "A" graded lawmakers and has lost 19 with an NRA grade of "F."

Despite those political obstacles, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., is pushing for legislation that would restore the ban on high capacity gun magazines. The Senate's leading gun-control advocate, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., says she is "looking at all of the options" and wants to "talk to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle about this." Activists are pressuring President Barack Obama to join the effort.

"Sensible gun laws can save lives," said Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. "Congress should move now to enact tougher restrictions on guns, ammunition, and who can legally possess them, and President Obama should help lead the way."

Such sentiments receive little sympathy in the Texas delegation, where lawmakers say that protection of individual liberty is paramount.

"It's the shooter, not the gun," said Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, who receives an "A" from the NRA. "Unfortunately, liberals want to use this tragedy to attack the Second Amendment. The academic elites, and some in Congress, would be wise not to commit more violence against our constitutional rights."

Gene Green, while opposing new gun restrictions, says the Tucson shootings could begin a useful debate about mental health issues. "If there is something we need to do that would keep firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill, I think we should do that."

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Arizona is a place where even a TV station is called KGUN

By SAM STANTON
McClatchy Newspapers

At the Frontier Gun Shop toward the east side of this city, Jim Sharrah figures he can outfit you with a quality handgun or rifle, ammunition and pretty much whatever else you need in 15 to 20 minutes.

As long as you're a resident of Arizona and at least 21 without an adjudicated history of violence or mental issues, that's about how long the entire process takes, including the background check. You can walk out with the weapon loaded and tucked inside a coat, if necessary, no permit needed.

"I grew up here," the affable 68-year-old John Wayne fan said as he listened to radio replays of President Barack Obama's Wednesday memorial speech. "Back then, you could get out of school, and just go out hunting and shooting."

Since the mass shooting Jan. 8 that killed six people and injured 13 others, including Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, a new national debate has erupted about gun control. One focus is whether laws such as Arizona's, which allowed 22-year-old Jared Loughner to purchase the 9 mm Glock allegedly used in the attack, are too lax.

But missing from the discussion is an understanding of the culture of this southern Arizona community of nearly 1 million people. People here own guns, lots of people - including Giffords, who owned the same model weapon she was shot with.

At least two of the people who helped tend to the wounded and subdue the gunman at the massacre were carrying concealed handguns, and people wearing pistols on their belts or carrying rifles in gun racks always has been a common sight here.

"I'm one of those guys you're going to have to pry it out of my cold dead fingers," said Mike Harris, a 64-year-old broker who performed CPR on two of the shooting victims while carrying a small concealed pistol.

Guns have been part of the fabric of Tucson society since the days of the Old West, and little has changed. Even the local ABC affiliate is known as KGUN-TV.

But Tucson is also known as a more moderate - some would even say liberal - enclave than the rest of this reliably red state is, and in the wake of the Jan. 8 attack some Tucsonans, including the sheriff, say there needs to be a new look at how Arizona handles gun laws.

"You can carry a gun in a restaurant and bars," Cheryl Clark, a 40-year-old financial adviser, said as she waited in line to attend the memorial service at McKale Center for victims of the tragedy. "They're talking about allowing guns in schools, in the universities, allowing professors and students to carry guns.

"I think it's a sad state of affairs that we've come to the point where we think everybody should be armed and dangerous. I mean, we are the Wild West; that's our history and our legacy."

To find that imagery, you need go no farther than Sharrah's Frontier Gun Shop, on busy

Grant Road

, directly across the street from a Boys and Girls Club and Doolen Middle School.

Frontier Gun Shop is one of 224 licensed gun sellers in Pima County.

Outside, the store sign advertises "Great Guns and Good Junk." Inside, you can find used pistols and rifles Sharrah picks up from collectors, estate sales or people who walk in wanting to sell them. Looking for a 1700s-era Irish pistol? He has one.

He also has enough cattle skulls, bridles and stuffed moose heads to outfit any self-respecting Southwestern home.

But Sharrah isn't a caricature. He's serious about gun safety and advises people to take courses before they purchase weapons. He says he always carries a concealed weapon, but he went through the state training that used to be required for that.

Arizona law now says that anyone who can legally own a gun can carry it concealed without a permit or training, a change Sharrah calls "stupid."

"I don't approve of it," he said. "I took the course. I already knew a lot, but I learned a lot from it. Mostly about safety - what to do and what not to do."

Mike Harris has similar views. The former Marine Corps drill instructor said he always carried a concealed pistol, a habit he picked up after being robbed repeatedly while he was the owner of several Sizzler steakhouses and frequently carried cash from the day's receipts.

But he considers himself a trained and knowledgeable gun owner.

Harris was at the scene of the shooting rampage because he wanted to visit a friend who works for Giffords. He arrived at the Safeway parking lot just moments after the shooting had stopped and the gunman had been detained.

Harris walks with a cane and says he's had several heart attacks, but he immediately began performing CPR on one victim, then rested when someone relieved him. Later, he turned back to start CPR on another.

He never thought of drawing his weapon, he said, because others had detained the shooter.

"Afterward, my wife said, 'What would you have done if you'd gotten there earlier?' " he said. "I would have killed him."

Harris still visualizes the carnage in the parking lot, and the physical residue of the attack.

"I was amazed at how many casings there were," he said. "I thought the guy had two guns because there were so many casings."

He notes that the suspect could have gotten a gun virtually anywhere he'd wanted to, and that gun ads run regularly in places such as the Dandy Dime, a local free shopper publication.

But Harris doesn't think the incident means tougher gun laws are needed.

Anyone who answers an ad placed by an individual offering a gun for sale can make the purchase with no scrutiny at all. Unlike at a gun shop, there's no background check; not even a check of identification is required.

"None at all," said Thomas Mangan, a spokesman for the Phoenix office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. "If you're the owner and you sell it, you're not required to do anything. The same would apply to 100 guns.

"It's like you're selling a baseball card."

Because of that, there's no way to estimate reliably how many people in Pima County own guns or how many guns there are.

Gun rights advocates will tell you that's the way it should be, that government has no right to impose restrictions on gun ownership, and that Arizona is at the forefront of protecting the Second Amendment.

"I think some of the (negative) views that exist of Arizona come from states on the East Coast and West Coast that have created gun laws that are contrary to the Constitution," said Tommy Rompel, the 29-year-old owner of Black Weapons Armory, a few miles from Sharrah's shop. "You do have a large gun culture here.

"Most of our gun customers believe in being able to protect your home yourself."

Rompel's shop sells high-end weapons, mostly custom-designed versions of the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle that can be fitted with various components for different appearances.

"Like Lego blocks for adults," he said, standing in his shop with a pistol holstered to his side.

He also sells suppressors, or silencers. He said many of his customers wanted them because they didn't care to wear ear protection when target shooting and because "they're fun."

Rompel, whose store sits in a strip mall across a street from Duffy Elementary and a block from Rincon High School, understands the perception many people may have of Arizona after the mass shooting. A crew from Al-Jazeera, the worldwide news organization based in Qatar, interviewed him a few days after the incident, and he knows what to expect.

"We're getting thrown under the bus as Arizonans because of what happened," he said.

But he and others said there were elements of life in Arizona that made gun ownership desirable and, in many cases, necessary.

Budget cutbacks have trimmed police services at the same time that illegal immigration has increased, they say, and ranchers in rural areas along the border feel the need to provide for their personal safety.

The very nature of the region makes gun ownership a must for some people, locals said. Once you leave the developed areas, the desert can be an isolated and dangerous place.

Some horseback riders and hikers carry weapons because of the omnipresent rattlesnakes and mountain lions. Other residents note that living far out can mean long response times from law enforcement.

Televised scenes of people packing pistols near the state Capitol just two days after the shooting have drawn national attention, though, as has Arizona's law

that allows carriers of concealed weapons to enter bars or restaurants that serve alcohol as long as they don't imbibe.

Gun rights supporters say that simply allows a gun owner to enjoy a meal at a nice eatery. The Arizona State Rifle and Pistol Association maintains a "CCW Cafe" page on its website to help members find restaurants that are friendly to carriers of concealed weapons, and avoid those that aren't.

But it isn't as if Tucson is some throwback town patrolled by a marshal. It's a modern city filled with public art, even on the freeway overpasses, and it boasts a major university that's home to a world-class medical school that saved Giffords' life.

Some of the state's most liberal politicians got their start here, including the late congressman and presidential candidate Morris K. Udall.

Even people who say they understand that gun ownership is part of life in Tucson wonder whether things have gone too far, though.

Mary Harris, a 70-year-old Presbyterian minister who stopped by Giffords' office last week to offer her support, said she understood that seeing guns out in public could be jarring to newcomers.

"If you haven't grown up around here, it can be quite intimidating," she said. "And there are a lot of newcomers around town. It's unnerving for them."

Harris said she understood people who felt the need to carry handguns for self-defense, especially in rural or undeveloped areas. But she'd draw the line at a six-round clip, not the 31-round style Loughner allegedly used.

"Carrying a handgun to protect yourself is one thing," she said. "Carrying an assault weapon is just unnecessary."

(Stanton reports for The Sacramento Bee.)

Gun nuts showing off near site of Ariz. slay rampage

By COLLEEN BUSH Post Correspondent

Last Updated: 7:13 AM, January 16, 2011

Posted: 3:04 AM, January 16, 2011

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TUCSON, Ariz. -- Thousands of weapons enthusiasts, many openly packing heat, crammed into an Arizona gun show chock full of high-powered rifles and semiautomatic pistols yesterday -- a mere 13 miles away from last weekend's rampage.

Despite the 4,500 who filed into the Crossroads of the West Gun Show at the Pima County Fairgrounds throughout the day, a donation box at the entrance for the six dead and 13 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, sat nearly empty.

The audacious showing came as Giffords continued her miraculous recovery, with doctors removing her ventilator by inserting a tube in her windpipe to allow her to breathe without the help of machines.

Some 7,000 people are expected to attend the two-day gun extravaganza that features more than 100 vendors hawking massive arsenals of AK-47s, assault weapons, sniper gear and ammo.

"When guns are in the news, it inspires gun owners to get out and defend their Second and First Amendment rights," said show organizer Bob Templeton, adding that turnout was higher than expected.

Several vendors offered Glocks and 33-round extended clips -- the type used by Jared Lee Loughner, 22, in his Jan. 8 shooting rampage -- although sales were average.

New York Rep. Carolyn McCarthy plans to introduce legislation this week outlawing magazines that carry more than 10 rounds.

Meanwhile, a victim from last week's massacre, Eric Fuller, was arrested yesterday after allegedly saying "you're dead" to a gun-rights supporter as the two were speaking at a forum being taped to air on ABC today, the Arizona Republic said.

And a Long Island man, James Guarnaccio, 55, was arrested for allegedly making 40 harassing calls over a two-day span to the district office of Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Queens).

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