Guns in the News

Long Island Police: Use of Illegal Guns Increasing

12:10am Tuesday, September 27, 2005
An article in New York's Newsday Magazine Friday detailed how one gun was used by as many as five criminals in at least four shootings, and on how the black market for such guns is alive and well in spite of the state's oppressive gun control laws. In a parking lot outside a club in Ronkonkoma, a Bay Shore man, Todd Cincinnati, was shot in the buttocks after telling a stranger not to lean on his...

LA Times: Bearing Arms, Braving Insults

12:06pm Monday, September 26, 2005
The Los Angeles Times' coverage of the 20th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference shows how having such a national conference in a place with heavy gun control laws can envigorate gun rights activists who are fighting in the local trenches. Paul Wilder avidly defends the right to bear arms, and he's heard all the insults. Crazy, trigger-happy, gun nut -- to name a few. Standing outside a hotel ball...

Public accountability needed...over the rabid anti-gun media

10:36am Friday, September 23, 2005
The Willoughby News-Herald, a newspaper which has exhibited its bigotry against law-abiding gun owners in the past by banning classified advertisements of firearms, has published an editorial opposing a portion of HB347 that would allow battered women, stalker victims, and others who have reason to fear for their lives a way out of having their names and counties of residence published in the...

AP glosses over erroneous report with ''major change'' headline

10:06am Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Just four days after Associated Press reporter John McCarthy published an error-filled story claiming that, when introduced, Rep. Aslanides' sweeping firearms law reform legislation would "hide lists of gun permit-holders", the news service has published a follow-up story that glosses over the error. Bill introduced with major change JOHN McCARTHY Associated Press A bill making changes to a law...

Letters to Editor Correct False Reporting on Firearms Legislation

10:38am Tuesday, September 20, 2005
On September 14, the Middletown Journal published an editorial in which it repeated false assertions made by an Associated Press reporter about Rep. Jim Aslanides' new firearms law reform legislation. The newspaper has now published two letters to the editor which seek to correct their false reports and/or assertions. Sept. 20, 2005 Middletown Journal I am writing to correct an assertion made in...

Associated Press botches initial coverage of Aslanides' firearms legislation

12:05am Friday, September 16, 2005
Despite advance warning and follow-up notice, writer refuses to correct errors In the hours after we broke the story that Rep. Aslanides would be introducing a sweeping firearms law reform bill, Associated Press writer John McCarthy began making phone calls to prepare a story. Early in his interview with Buckeye Firearms Association Chairman Jim Irvine, it became obvious that McCarthy had not...

Canada backs off ''Blame America'' campaign over increasing gun crimes

6:00am Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Canada's Ottawa Citizen is reporting that Canadian officials are distancing themselves from earlier attempts by the Mayor of Toronto to blame America for a recent gang-related gun crime wave in that city. From the story: Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan says there's no evidence of an increase in gun smuggling into Canada, and that it is too simplistic to blame Toronto's recent spate of gun...

LTE: Assault-weapons ban won’t fix city’s many problems

12:00pm Thursday, August 25, 2005
August 20, 2005 Columbus Dispatch I write in regard to the decision from the National Rifle Association to move its convention because of the assault weapons ban. Since Mayor Michael B. Coleman was elected, Columbus has slowly but steadily been going downhill. Unemployment and job losses are at a record high, violent crime, including robbery, thefts and burglaries, are up dramatically and in some...

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