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Manchin-Toomey anti-gun rights amendment defeated; "Assault weapons" & "high capacity" magazine bans defeated

4:31pm Wednesday, April 17, 2013

This article was updated as new information became available. by Chad D. Baus The United States Senate has failed to achieve the necessary 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster of the Manchin-Toomey amendment to Chuck Schumer's "universal background checks" bill, S. 649. The amendment, which was supported by Sen. Schumer, had been hailed by the media just last week as the best chance of...

Cops say gun control proposals do nothing to stop crime

3:00pm Wednesday, April 17, 2013

The following article was originally published by The Lima News . Republished with permission. by Greg Sowinski LIMA - A national survey of police officers show overwhelming support for the Second Amendment while opposing many federal gun control proposals they say would do little, if anything, to stop crime. Those beliefs are supported by some local officers, as well. The national survey was...

Manchin-Toomey is gun registration: "Background gun-check records are saved."

7:00am Wednesday, April 17, 2013

by Alan Korwin The so-called "background check" bill is really about gun registration -- ultimate and imminent registration of every gun and gun owner in America. The mandatory paper records are saved -- nobody denies that. Federal agents use those all the time. The electronic records have virtually no controls on them. They go into a system designed as a recording device. This bill vastly...

Compromise At What Cost?

3:00pm Tuesday, April 16, 2013

by Jim Shepherd With the United States Senate now moving toward the eventual passage of legislation that is more anti-gun owners than anti-crime, anti-gun legislators and the media are starting to celebrate another baby-step toward their ultimate goal: disarmament of the private citizen. That sounds fatalistic, but even as New York Governor Cuomo calls proposed compromise legislation a "sell-out...

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The “Pro-Gun” provisions of Manchin-Toomey are actually a bonanza of gun control

7:00am Tuesday, April 16, 2013

by Dave Kopel The Toomey-Manchin Amendment which may be offered as soon as Tuesday to Senator Reid's gun control bill are billed as a "compromise" which contain a variety of provisions for gun control, and other provisions to enhance gun rights. Some of the latter, however, are not what they seem. They are badly miswritten, and are in fact major advancements for gun control. In particular: 1. The...

Senate bill would turn law-abiding gun owners into felons

3:00pm Monday, April 15, 2013

A new bill would make it a crime to "transfer" your gun to a spouse for more than seven days. by Dave Kopel Public-opinion polls about "universal background checks" for gun sales show widespread support. While President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg talk about "gun sales," the actual legislation moving through Congress aims to regulate far more than sales. It would turn almost every gun owner into a...

Gun show protest cancelled after Buckeye Firearms Assoc. highlights organizer's status as a convicted rapist

7:00am Monday, April 15, 2013

by Chad D. Baus On Friday, Dayton's FOX affiliate reported that Jerome McCorry had planned to stage another protest outside the Bill Goodman Gun & Knife Show at Dayton's Hara arena. What they did not report, as is frequent in news coverage of similar protests staged by McCorry in the past, is that McCorry is a convicted rapist . Quite obviously, we believe that part of McCorry's past should...

Sex offender to stage another protest demanding that law-abiding citizens disarm

10:54am Friday, April 12, 2013

by Chad D. Baus WRGT (Dayton FOX) is reporting that a protest is being planned for Saturday's Bill Goodman Gun and Knife Show at Hara Arena. The article reports that protest is being organized by Rev. Jerome McCorry. What the article fails to report, as is all too common with Dayton media outlets, is that McCorry is a registered sex offender . From the article : "We'll be out on Saturday to march...