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Kentucky boy buys & brings gun to "no-guns" high school; Media fret about where he met the seller

8:00am Friday, October 18, 2013

by Chad D. Baus On Friday, October 11, a 15 year-old Kentucky boy brought a pistol to his high school. According to media reports, the boy never pulled the gun, but instead showed it to other students about two hours before Friday night's homecoming game. The boy's friends quickly informed their coaches and he surrendered the weapon and ammunition to school officials with no dispute. Several days...

Outrage(s) of the Week

4:00pm Thursday, October 17, 2013

Regular readers know that we report with great frequency on a veritable parade of ridiculous cases involving over-zealous school officials and their over-the-top enforcement of "zero-tolerance" rules. Well, here we go again. This week, we have not one, but four outrageous incidents of ridiculously enforced zero-tolerance policies to report. So, depending on your perspective, either the bar you...

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Akron police chief: Background checks won't work to stop criminals, and "gun buybacks are a farce"

8:00am Thursday, October 17, 2013

by Chad D. Baus Last month, lost in the news media's attempts to blame law-abiding gun owners (and a rifle that wasn't even used) for a crazed man's attack on the Washington Navy Yard, came a report from the City of Akron, where Police Chief James Nice offered a very public explanation of why background checks, no matter how stringent, are never going to prevent criminals from obtaining them...

Abusing Amendment I to attack Amendment II

4:00pm Wednesday, October 16, 2013

by Tim Inwood On September 18th I was concerned Sarah Brady had briefly taken control of my local newspaper, considering the editorial cartoon and AP article that looked and sounded like propaganda straight from the Brady Campaign, an organization that never misses an opportunity to attack our Second Amendment rights. The article quoting rabid anti-gun politicians like Obama, Feinstein and anti-...

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Portman To White House: U.S. Will Not Be Bound By U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

8:00am Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Washington, D.C., October 15, 2013 – Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman joined a bipartisan group of 50 U.S. Senators, including Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), in reiterating to President Obama that the Senate overwhelmingly opposes the ratification of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) and will not be bound by its obligations. "The U.S. cannot and will...

Headline: Suspect Shot in Alleged Home Invasion to be Taken Off Life Support

4:00pm Tuesday, October 15, 2013

by Chad D. Baus WSAZ (NBC Huntsville, WV) is reporting that a man who was critically injured after investigators say he was shot while he was breaking into a home in Portsmouth (OH) last Sunday evening has been taken off of life support. From the article : The shooting happened at a home in the 1000 block of 23rd Street around 9:30 p.m. Portsmouth Police say Keith Richards, 31, of Portsmouth,...

The Tallest Tale: U.K. Crime is Down…NOT

8:00am Tuesday, October 15, 2013

by Paul Gallant, Sherry Gallant, Alan J. Chwick, andJoanne D. Eisen On September 10, 2013, Piers Morgan, a British journalist and TV host in America on CNN, interviewed Emily Miller, author of Emily Gets Her Gun...but Obama wants to take Yours , and Opinion Page Senior Editor for the Washington Times . Miller, a Washington D.C. resident, "gained national attention for her 'Emily Gets Her Gun'...

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Firearms Industry Praises Bipartisan Introduction of 2013 Sportsmen's Act in U.S. House

4:00pm Monday, October 14, 2013

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industries, today praised the bipartisan House leadership of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus (CSC) for introducing the Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act of 2013. CSC Co-Chairs, U.S. Reps. Bob Latta (R-Ohio) and Bennie...