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[more] What else happened today

1951 — American criminologist and gun-grabber debunker Gark Kleck was born. 1999 — Col. Charles 'Boots' Askins, American lawman, US Army officer and writer, passed away at age 90 at his home in San Antonio after a lengthy illness. 2000 — Defense lawyers challenge the admissibility of the illegally obtained evidence in the trial of Canadian John Paul Bardoscia. 2002 — Operation Anaconda begins in in Afghanistan's Shah-i-Kot Valley. The battle would see Canadian snipers Arron Perry and Rob Furlong both break Carlos Hathcock's longstanding record for the longest sniper kill in history. 2004 — With sunset of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban on the horizon, gun grabber Senator Dianne Feinstein (a California Democrat) attached a ten-year extension to the 1994 ban to the Senate's Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. With the Feinstein amendment, the bill was taken out behind the barn and shot, 8-90. 2010 — SCOTUS begins hearing oral arguments in the case of McDonald v. Chicago