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The defendant, John W. Magaw, exercises executive authority over the BATF and is responsible for all actions, failures to act, and refusals to act by the officers, agents and employees of BATF within the scope of their official duties.
Magaw, in refusing to permit the entry into the United States of firearms ammunition feeding devices which are clearly outside the purview of the ban imposed by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, are arbitrary and capricious and without foundation in law.
Magaw, in refusing to permit the entry into the United States of unserviceable curio cannons pursuant to 18 U.S.C. section 925(d)(2), are arbitrary and capricious and without foundation in law.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Robert Magaw
Magaw felt he could hold the fort and, if necessary, evacuate his men to the other side of the Hudson and safety.
Colonel Robert Magaw Place was named in the 1980s to honor this war hero by the Washington Heights and Inwood Historical Society.
Magaw Place is the site of the driveway to the estate of James Gordon Bennett, who bought the property on which the site of Fort Washington is located.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Robert-Magaw   (443 words)

  
 Robert Magaw (1838-1790)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Robert Magaw was born in Ireland in 1738.
In 1774, Robert Magaw was a Carlisle representative to the Provincial Convention, but soon turned his attention to military duty, In June of the following year he was commissioned a major in Thompson's Regiment, which arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts as one of the first units outside of that colony to rally to the Revolutionary cause.
Robert Magaw died in 1790 and is buried at Meeting House Springs near Carlisle.
chronicles.dickinson.edu /encyclo/m/ed_magawR.htm   (253 words)

  
 Robert Magaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Magaw (1738-1790) was a lawyer from Carlisle, Pennsylvania who served as a Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Robert was born in Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland and brought to Maryland by his father.
While nominally a prisoner on parole, Magaw met and courted Marritje Van Brunt (1762-1803) of Kings County, New York.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Magaw   (252 words)

  
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But No-Draw Magaw, still the ATF director, interpreted this law in an amazingly broad fashion — one that betrayed his persona as a gun-grabbing activist rather than a responsible public official serving the best interest of the taxpayers and under the authority of the U.S. Constitution.
Magaw expressed the opinion in writing to at least one member of Congress that "schools," in the case of the "Gun Free Zones Act," included "home schools" that are operated under state law.
In other words, Magaw decided it was against the law for home-schooling families to own guns and equally illegal for gun-owners to home-school.
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 1919 MaGraw Home moved   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It is the house known for the last century as the MAGAW homestead, on East Twenty- first street just north of Avenue J, but built by Jerome VAn NUYSE, one of the Dutch burghers of the Flatbush district.
Col. Robert MAGAW, whose parents were from the north of Ireland, was an attorney at Carlisle, Pa., at the outbreak of the Revolution.
MAGAW and equipped with modern conveniences, with proper respect for its original atmosphere.
www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /People/1919.Magaw.html   (336 words)

  
 Amazon.com: magaw
The spirit of 1775: A letter of Robert Magaw, major of the Continental Riflemen, to the gentlemen of the Committee of Correspondence in the town of Carlisle,...
Robert Magaw, the defender of Fort Washington: Major in Colonel William Thompson's "Battalion of Pennsylvania Riflemen", the first troops from the...
Robert Magaw,: The defender of Fort Washington, major in Colonel William Thompson's "Battalion of Pennsylvania riflemen"...
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 GunWeek.com
Magaw, formerly head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), was following the lead of anti-gun Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta and Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge.
Magaw, interviewed on the Fox cable channel on May 22, insisted it was the pilot’s job only to fly the plane.
Joining Magaw, Mineta and Ridge in their opposition to armed pilots was the airline industry, which clings to the contention that guns in the cockpit have risks beyond those faced by a terrorist.
www.gunweek.com /2002/magaw0610.html   (862 words)

  
 Clearing the Way for Real Airport Security by Robert W. Tracinski -- Capitalism Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Magaw and others raised a series of petty and hysterical objections to armed pilots.
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, Magaw's boss and the man who is still in charge, has a similar record from his days in Congress.
Magaw and Mineta would rather have F-16s blow passenger jets out of the skies than recognize that even a single civilian has the right to use a gun in self-defense.
www.capmag.com /article.asp?ID=1739   (973 words)

  
 WebRoots Library U.S. History
Robert Magaw, whose name appears second, was colonel of the Sixth Pennsylvania regiment during the Revolution.
His distinguished son, Robert J. Walker, United States Senator from Mississippi, elected in 1835, and Secretary of the Treasury under President Polk, was born at Northumberland in 1801, and probably rose to as high political position as any other native of Northumberland county.
Samuel Roberts, who qualified as deputy attorney general for Northumberland county, July 16, l800, resided at Sunbury, and practiced in the courts to some extent prior to that date, was born in Philadelphia, September 8, 1763, and admitted to the bar of that city in 1793.
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 Pilots ready to fight ban on cockpit guns / Congress considers legislation overruling Bush
John Magaw, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, said his agency decided after months of debate that only federal air marshals who undergo rigorous firearms training should be allowed to carry guns on the plane.
Magaw said Tuesday that he is still considering whether to allow pilots and flight attendants to use nonlethal weapons, such as stun guns.
Magaw said he wants to install video cameras in planes to allow pilots to see the cabin.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/05/22/MN195835.DTL   (919 words)

  
 History of WaHI: Robert Magaw - Washington Heights & Inwood Online
The citadel was known as Fort Washington and the soldier was Robert Magaw.
On October 25, 1780, Magaw was freed in an exchange and was later made Colonel of the 6th Pennsylvania Battalion.
On the southeast wall of the Parish House of the Fort Washington Collegiate Church is a plaque honoring Magaw.
www.washington-heights.us /history/archives/000576.html   (505 words)

  
 The American Revolution (Fort Washington)
His attention returned to Fort Washington which the American commander in chief had left garrisoned under Col. Robert Magaw after a general rebel evacuation of the island.
Edward Matthew were to approach from across the Harlem River on the east, and Percy was to strike from the south.
Washington would soon make his winter headquarters in New Jersey for a number of reasons, one of which was to protect the invaluable forges and furnaces in the northwestern part of the state.
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 Battle of Fort Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Along with Fort Lee located just across the river in New Jersey the twin forts were responsible for protecting the lower Hudson from British warships during the campaign around New York in the summer and autumn of 1776.
The fort was held by around 2,900 Continental Army troops and militia under the command of Colonel Robert Magaw.
During the fighting on and around Manhattan, the American army commanded by General George Washington for whom the fort was named, was forced to withdraw northward, leaving both Forts Washington and Lee isolated.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Washington   (419 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / Fort Washington
Nevertheless Colonel Robert Magaw, commanding the fort, and his superior, Nathanael Creene, were exuberantly optimistic, and Washington reluctantly agreed to stand and fight.
Magaw refused, and that night thirty British flatboats laden with troops slipped past the guns of the fort into the Harlem River.
The British had summoned Col. Magaw to surrender, and were preparing their batteries to play on the fort, when Col. Magaw thought it best to surrender the post, which he did accordingly, between two and three thousand men becoming prisoners.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1974/4/1974_4_57.shtml   (1560 words)

  
 FEMA:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
FEMA Acting Director John W. Magaw said President Bush authorized the assistance under an emergency declaration issued this afternoon following a review of the agency's analysis of the state's request for federal assistance.
Immediately after the declaration, Magaw designated 18 counties eligible for federal funding to pay part of the cost for emergency protective measures undertaken as a result of the storms.
Magaw named Robert Colangelo of FEMA to coordinate the federal assistance in the affected areas.
www.fema.gov /news/newsrelease_print.fema?id=5845   (274 words)

  
 United States Secret Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1968, as a result of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, Congress authorized protection of major presidential and vice presidential candidates and nominees (Public Law 90-331).
The movie was a reinterpretation of an older television show, The Wild Wild West, in which Robert Conrad and Ross Martin played early Secret Service agents.
After the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968, the Service's mandate was altered futher to include protection of presidential candidates.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Secret_Service   (2736 words)

  
 GenBook67
The justices of the peace who presided on that session were Robert Cluggage, Robert Hanna, William Lochrey, William McConnell, William Proctor Jr and George Wilson.
Robert Galbraith, Robert Magaw, Philip Pendleton, Andrew Ross, David Sample and James Wilson were admitted and sworn in as attorneys to practice in Bedford County.
The names of five residents were recorded with the intention to be recommended to the governor of the province for approval to keep a tavern in the county.
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 15122.com HISTORY Duquesne, PA
The executors named were his sons, Robert and Samuel Cochran, and with certain restrictions he bequeathed to his youngest sons, John S. and William Cochran an equal divide of his estate.
Robert Patterson, at his death, bequeathed his farm of 187 acres to his four daughters, a great portion of which still remains their names.
A beautiful grove at that time, covered a considerable portion of Robert Patterson's farm in Duquesne, and the association was particularly impressed with it.The grove, it might be stated, had been used for camp meeting purposes off and on for many years prior to this time.
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 HSP Manuscript Guide: 1600-1699
Robert Waln's active support of protectionism is evident in correspondence, 1832, with Charles J. Ingersoll and Benjamin B. Howell on new tariff laws being considered in Congress.
Robert Henderson was a merchant of Philadelphia and American partner of the firm of [William] Gardner & Henderson of Glasgow, Scotland, trading as Robert Henderson & Company in Philadelphia.
Robert Lincoln Sinclair was a Philadelphia bookkeeper who immigrated from Ireland and became a United States citizen in 1858.
www2.hsp.org /collections/manuscripts/1600.htm   (7332 words)

  
 The Sentinel Online : Archives : News
Washington stayed with Col. Robert Magaw, a Carlisle lawyer who began his practice in town in the 1760s, noted Dan Monken, president of Historic Carlisle and master of ceremonies at the dinner.
A one-time prosecutor for the British, Magaw was one of the first to enlist when the Revolution began.
The Magaw marker is the sixth wayside marker sponsored by Historic Carlisle.
www.cumberlink.com /articles/2004/02/23/news/news01.txt   (944 words)

  
 History of Bedford and Somerset Counties"
Within ten days after the news of the battle of Bunker Hill had reached the province of Pennsylvania, her first rifle battalion was ready to take the field.
Colon el William Thompson, of Carlisle was placed in command, and, of the eight companies composing the battalion, the one commanded by Captain Robert Cluggage was formed of Bedford county men.
Robert Magaw, of Carlisle, the first attorney admitted to practice in Bedford county courts, also served as the first major of the battalion.
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 Revolutionary War Records for the Lehmann Boys
Active service in Capt. Peter Decker's Company, Col. Robert Magaw, 5th Pennsylvania Battalion 1776 stationed at Ft. Washington, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed 1 May 1818.
1 May 1818, Anthony Lehman, age 65, soldier of the Revolutionary War, stated at the Court of Common Pleas in York, Pennsylvania, that he enlisted in Carlisle in the (Reg't) commanded by Col. Robert McGraw, Lt. Col.
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 Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal | Local News
The American commander was a Pennsylvania rifleman named Col. Robert Magaw, a backcountry lawyer before the war.
Magaw sent a message across the Hudson to Nathanael Greene, his commanding general at Fort Lee on the Jersey shore.
Magaw's answer to the British summons ended: "actuated by the most glorious cause that mankind ever fought in I am determined to defend the post to the very last extremity."
www.projo.com /news/content/projo_20060608_nglive12.1cf482af.html   (1912 words)

  
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Wife: Marritje <Rutgert> Van Brunt Magaw (Rn=2459)
Robert Magaw <Daniel> McCarthy (b 1798) (d 1800)
Robert <Van Brunt> Magaw (b 10 Jun 1817) (bp 6 Jul 1816) (m 1844) [Alice Davenport]
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 James W. Phillips - The Sources of the Original Dickinson College Library
Turning them over, as one is apt to do at first opening, by letting the leaves fly from under my right thumb, I stopped at last in the second volume, No. 114, and read it, and that directing me back to No. 95, I was more than ordinarily taken with them.
The senior Norris' book-collecting proclivity is perhaps reflected in those items of the College collection which were formerly in the libraries of Sir Robert Clayton, one-time Lord Mayor of London, of Gilbert Burnet, Lord Bishop of Salisbury, and of Robert Uvedale, English schoolmaster and horticulturist.
The libraries of these English collectors were sold by booksellers during the elder Norris' lifetime and were probably bought by either himself, his son, or his friend, James Logan, on one of their several visits to London.
deila.dickinson.edu /norris/phillips.html   (3046 words)

  
 Art Poster Print - Gates of Dawn - Artist: Robert Magaw- Poster Size: 27 X 36 - SHOP.COM
Art Poster Print - Gates of Dawn - Artist: Robert Magaw- Poster Size: 27 X 36
Robert Magaw:Gates of Dawn 27 X 36 inches.
All other designated trademarks, copyrights and brands are the property of their respective owners.
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 Magaw, Robert Posters / Allposters Art Prints Posters Artists > M > Magaw, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Magaw, Robert Posters / Allposters Art Prints Posters Artists > M > Magaw, Robert / ALLPOSTERS.COM
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We feature over two centuries of artists and major art movements which influenced the history of art throughout the world, from the Hudson River School of landscape painting through American Impressionism, Illustration and the decorative arts, American folk art, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.
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 Path Thru Forest Robert Magaw
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