Guns in the News

NBC's David Gregory will not be prosecuted for breaking the D.C. large capacity magazine ban

3:00pm Tuesday, January 15, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Politico is reporting that NBC's David Gregory, who in inadvertently displayed the fallacy of gun bans for anyone who was watching when he violated the District of Columbia's ban on large capacity magazines, will not face charges. From the article : D.C. attorney general Irvin Nathan on Friday said he would decline to prosecute in the case involving the Sunday show host and any...

Nemerov: Toledo Blade Makes School Defense About Itself

7:00am Tuesday, January 15, 2013
by Howard Nemerov First the good news: A rural Ohio school district has decided to arm staff in order to make students safer from insane people looking for notoriety. From The Toledo Blade : Montpelier schools may be the first in Ohio to ramp up security by authorizing employees to carry weapons. The district has about 1,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade and 75 teachers in one...

Biden Says, "Critically Important to Act" on Guns - Opens Door to Executive Action [UPDATE: Obama agrees - Exec Action on guns]

3:00pm Monday, January 14, 2013
The Obama administration is seeking to institute a far more sweeping gun-control agenda than simply reinstating the failed Clinton bans on "assault weapons" and "high-capacity" magazines. While the administration seeks to ban whole classes of firearms, a working group led by longtime gun control supporter Vice-President Joe Biden is also seriously considering proposals for a national registration...

Buckeye Firearms Assn. informs Ohio mayors of proof they've been misled by Mayors Against Illegal Guns; 11 drop out - Has yours?

7:00am Monday, January 14, 2013
This article will be UPDATED as more mayors drop out. by Chad D. Baus Buckeye Firearms Association has put Ohio members of New York City Mayor Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) on notice: They were misled when they agreed to join the group, and they no longer have any excuse to claim they didn't know. In late Spring 2011, after Florida Carry, Inc. founder Sean Caranna uncovered...

Montpelier, Ohio school board decision: Staff will be armed

7:00am Friday, January 11, 2013
More than two dozen northwest Ohio teachers sign up for free concealed carry class by Chad D. Baus The Bryan Times is reporting that staff members in Williams Co., Ohio's Montpelier Schools will soon be armed. From the article : The district's board of education voted Wednesday to adopt a policy allowing certain individuals to carry concealed firearms on the premises. The decision came in the...

Media fact checker destroys Piers Morgan's anti-gun argument

7:41pm Wednesday, January 09, 2013
by Dean Rieck When some blithering idiot like Piers Morgan starts arguing for more gun control, don't you wish you had all the statistics at your fingertips so you could crush them to dust? One reporter did just that after seeing Morgan's interview with Alex Jones. Morgan insisted that England is a land of rainbows and unicorns when it comes to violent crime and that the U.S. is swimming in blood...

Ohio CHL-holder shoots robbery suspect, protects two month-old son

3:00pm Tuesday, January 08, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WBNS (CBS Columbus) is reporting that a Columbus man said that he fought back when a man tried to rob him at gunpoint in his driveway west Columbus Monday night. From the article : Kelby Smith, 34, told police he was in the driveway of the home on Crescent Drive just before 9 p.m. when he was approached by a robber. Smith said that he had his 2-month-old in a car carrier and had...

December Record Month for NICS Checks; 58.6% increase marks 31st straight month over month increase; New record also set in Ohio

3:00pm Tuesday, January 08, 2013
by Chad D. Baus According to a press release from the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the December 2012 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 2,237,731 is an increase of 58.6 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,410,937 in December 2011. For comparison, the unadjusted December 2012 NICS figure of 2,776,105 reflects a 49.7 percent increase...

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