Guns in the News

Letter to Sandusky Register Editor Matt Westerhold

12:10am Monday, July 02, 2007
We know it was far from the only one mailed to Editor Matt Westerhold, but the Sandusky Register has finally published a single letter to the editor about their irresponsible release of private information on CHL-holders on their website: Cost some business After years of advertising my rental units and selling numerous items in your classifieds, the Sandusky Register has chosen to list my name...

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? (Who will guard the guardians?)

6:05pm Tuesday, June 26, 2007
In a recent editorial , the Sandusky Register argued that ALL government information should be public and appears to support the idea that government shouldn’t be able to keep some information private. This argument is a red herring, designed to mask an anti-gun political agenda that involves targeting citizens who have a legal concealed handgun license (CHL) by publishing their name, age, and...

Another gun on ''gun-free'' college campus

12:05am Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Late last week, the Associated Press reported that police had found a loaded gun in the car of a man accused of threatening a woman on the Shawnee State University campus in Portsmouth, Ohio. What the AP did NOT note is that this was yet another example of how impotent gun ban laws are at stopping violent criminals. Click 'Read More' for the story. From the target=_BLANK>story: Portsmouth...

Sandusky Register Editor Matt Westerhold Declares War on Gun Owner Privacy

3:06pm Monday, June 25, 2007
By John Salyers and Chad D. Baus In spite of many state legislators, county sheriffs and even Governor Strickland himself attempting to talk sense into him, Sandusky Register Editor Matt Westerhold has launched an all-out assault on the privacy and security of over 2,600 concealed handgun license holders in several Northern Ohio counties. Citing a phantom "right to know", Westerhold, editor and...

Plain Dealer: Seniors feel safer when they carry gun

12:05am Thursday, June 21, 2007
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that about 12 percent of all concealed handgun licenses issued since 2005 by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office have been to people 60 and older, and that in April of this year, 14 percent of licenses issued by the Cuyahoga Sheriff's Office were to the elderly - the highest monthly total of CHLs given to that age group since August 2004, when the law was...

ESPN Networks to Air College Shotgun Competition

12:05am Thursday, June 14, 2007
NEWTOWN, Conn. — ESPNU and ESPN2 will televise the 39th Annual ACUI Intercollegiate Clay Target Championships, exposing the networks' millions of viewers to the action and excitement of the shooting sports. ESPNU, with major sponsorship from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), will televise the competition throughout June and July. ESPN2 will air the finals of the international skeet...

Another innocent life saved with gun after attempted mugging

5:36pm Saturday, June 02, 2007
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that a man with a concealed handgun license shot at an armed robber who was among a group of four teenagers who tried to mug him. From the story: Raphael L. Owens, 24, told police that the group approached him about 11:30 p.m. near the Elmore Avenue and South Portage Path. One of the youths pointed a chrome-plated gun at him and demanded his cell phone,...

Anti-gun Plain Dealer readers upset over politician's pro-gun conversion

12:10am Thursday, May 24, 2007
On Tuesday, May 15, Plain Dealer columnist Phillip Morris published a story detailing State Rep. Michael DeBose's mugging and subsequent conversion experience to a pro-gun point of view. There appear to be a few Plain Dealer readers who - much like DeBose before that fateful night - have likely never experienced a violent attack, yet think they know better than DeBose about how to survive one...

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