Guns in the News

Hundreds gather at events around the state to express support for gun rights

3:00pm Tuesday, February 26, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Hundreds of Ohioans who love the Constitution joined thousands upon thousands at more than 100 "Day of Resistance", or .223 rallies, events in all fifty states to express their support for the Second Amendment on Saturday, February 23. From The Washington Times : Gun-rights advocates pulled off a coordinated 50-state protest over the weekend with little time and even less money,...

Ex-sheriff says there is precedent for fighting federal gun laws

3:00pm Thursday, February 21, 2013
The following article was originally published by The Lima News . Republished with permission. by Bob Blake Don't like the gun control measures being sought by President Barack Obama? Think there's nothing that can be done about it? Think again. That's the message a former Arizona sheriff is bringing to people nationwide. Sheriff Richard Mack knows a thing or two about what it takes. After the...

Op-Ed: The truth on background checks

3:00pm Wednesday, February 20, 2013
by John Lott Gun control "deserves a vote," President Obama said time and again in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday. Sadly, the measure Congress is most likely to pass — beefed-up background checks — may cause more harm than good. First, checks obviously won't do anything about gun crime in cities like Chicago or New York, which revolves almost exclusively around illegal guns. But they...

The Exasperating Gun Control Debate

7:00am Wednesday, February 20, 2013
by Rand Lennox Recent school shootings have again reignited the gun control debate. With The Debate occurring so often, one would think that participants would move their arguments away from emotion and toward fact. But they do not. Effective debating demands a thorough knowledge of both sides of an issue. Nonetheless, gun control debaters persist in their ignorance of firearms and firearms law...

Op-Ed: Obama's proposals won't reduce gun violence

3:00pm Tuesday, February 19, 2013
by John Lott Warning that we need to "get weapons of war and massive ammunition magazines off our streets," in his State of the Union, Obama kept repeating congress must vote on the three types of gun bills he supports. The most obvious thing that was left out of the talk was that none of the laws now being proposed would have done anything to stop the various attacks that Obama cited as...

Raging (Pointlessly?) Against The Machine

7:00am Friday, February 15, 2013
by Jim Shepherd [On Tuesday], Olympic Arms became the latest company to tell the state of New York they were fired as a customer. The dismissal began with a clear enumeration of the firing offense: exceeding the authority granted to the government of New York by its citizens and violation of the Constitution of the United States. Those offenses led Olympic Arms president Brian Schuetz to announce...

Ohio Sen. Kris Jordan (R) introduces bill that would bar new local/federal/ international gun bans from being enforced in Ohio

3:00pm Thursday, February 14, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WTVG (ABC Toledo) is reporting that State Senator Kris Jordan (R-19th District) has introduced Senate Bill 36, legislation that he says would keep Washington from running wild over the constitutional right to own a gun. From the article : The president's 23-point gun control plan includes items such as how to do a background check, how states can share information if a gun is lost...

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