Guns in the News

Dozens of Ohio Schools Change Gun Policies to Defend Students

7:00am Monday, December 30, 2013
by Jason Hart Dozens of school districts across Ohio made some allowance for handguns on campus in the year following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, a recent Buckeye Firearms Foundation (BFF) survey found. "There are at least 20 different school districts in Ohio that have authorized individuals such as teachers, administrators and parents to carry firearms in...

Op-Ed: Blowing Smoke

3:00pm Friday, December 27, 2013
by C. D. Michel The only thing cigarettes and guns have in common is that they both produce smoke. But if a pack of duplicitous San Francisco lawyers gets their way, your guns will soon be classified as a public health hazard and regulated like seat belts and Marlboros. On November 14th, 2013 the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence (LCPGV) held a public meeting that was streamed live to fellow...

Headline: Cleveland pays out settlement in gun lawsuit, will review law over weapon seizures

7:00am Friday, December 27, 2013
by Chad D. Baus How do you turn a $400 gun into almost $7,000? Have it confiscated by the City of Cleveland. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reporting recently that Cleveland has agreed to give Derrick Washington his gun back and pay $6,750 in a settlement over a federal lawsuit that drew outrage from gun-rights advocates over the police department's seizure of Washington's weapon in a case in which...

Op-Ed: Clustered criminals habituate homicide

3:00pm Thursday, December 26, 2013
by C. D. Michel Nearly 50% of all gun homicides involve only 4% of inner city gangsters. This is common, but not widely publicized, knowledge. It's a fact deliberately underemphasized by the Brady Campaign, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, and other gun ban advocates at the Happy Acres Home For the Terminally Bewildered. But a recent study by a sociology...

To make schools safer, arm trained and trusted employees

3:00pm Monday, December 23, 2013
Editor's Note: The following op-ed was originally published by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Republished with permission of the author. by Kevin O'Brien Karl Pierson didn't fit the profile. He wasn't a certified loser. He wasn't a wallflower. He didn't spend 18 hours a day locked in his room battering his brain with death metal. He was a Boy Scout. He was a member of the Arapahoe High School debate...

Lessons from another school shooting

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Monday, December 23, 2013
While we still don't know all the details, it is possible to learn from early reports on a school shooting near Denver. We can look at what worked and what did not. Those who care to make schools safer will choose to copy aspects that worked. Unfortunately our recent survey shows that many school officials have chosen to ignore the life-saving lessons and leave untold thousands of children at...

To the Editor: Views change on response to shootings

3:00pm Thursday, December 19, 2013
The following letter to the editor of the Columbus Dispatch was submitted by Ken Hanson, Buckeye Firearms Association's Legislative Chair and published on December 12, 2013. On Dec. 14, 2012, a deranged coward entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and committed 26 murders. Saturday's anniversary gives our nation a moment to reflect upon what happened that day. As someone who has...

Washington Post: "In Ohio, momentum favors gun rights movement"

7:00am Wednesday, December 18, 2013
by Chad D. Baus An article published in our nation's capital on December 11 documents the progress made by gun rights activists in Ohio in 2013. From the Washington Post : This year, more than 82,000 new concealed-carry weapons licenses were issued in Ohio through September — more than any full year since the system was enacted in 2004... ...Ohio is not alone: By the end of October, 11 states had...

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