Guns in the News

Op-Ed: Disarming Pilots - Plane Foolish

3:00pm Tuesday, March 13, 2012
by Tracy W. Price In response to the 9/11 attacks, many airline pilots have been trained, deputized as federal law-enforcement officers and armed since 2003. Now the Obama administration wants to gut the program with a 50 percent cut in funding. In defense of the cut, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently told Congress the program is not "risk based," that pilots aren't the last...

Canadian dad arrested after 4 year-old daughter draws image of him with a gun

7:00am Friday, March 09, 2012
by Tom Woitovich A Kitchener, Ontario, man was arrested and strip-searched last Wednesday after his 4-year-old daughter drew a picture in school. The picture depicted him with a gun. That's right...his daughter drew a picture of him with a gun. When her teacher asked her what it was that she was drawing, she replied that she was drawing her Daddy "shooting burglars and monsters." The teacher...

Op-Ed: Disarming the Myths Promoted By the Gun Control Lobby

3:00pm Thursday, March 08, 2012
by Larry Bell As much as gun control advocates might wish otherwise, their attacks are running out of ammo. With private firearm ownership at an all-time high and violent crime rates plunging, none of the scary scenarios they advanced have materialized. Abuse of responsibility by armed citizens is rare, while successful defensive interventions against assaults on their lives and property are...

Man found with stolen gun days after weapons conviction (or "Why gun control laws are entirely impotent")

7:00am Wednesday, March 07, 2012
by Chad D. Baus WHIO (CBS Dayton) is reporting that a Dayton man, who was convicted on Tuesday, February 21 of carrying a concealed weapon without a license, was caught carrying a stolen gun just five days later. From the article : According to a Dayton Police arrest report, Mark A. Hinton, Jr., 25, was detained by security officers at Good Samaritan Hospital Sunday evening for drinking in the...

Maryland "may issue" CCW law found unconstitutional

7:00am Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Federal court finds right to bear arms not limited to home by Chad D. Baus WBZ-TV (CBS Boston) is reporting that a federal judge has ruled that Maryland's requirement that residents show a “good and substantial reason” to get a handgun permit is unconstitutional. From the article : States can channel the way their residents exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms, but because Maryland'...

The Annual Big Yawn: Brady Campaign State Gun Control Scorecard 2011

3:00pm Monday, March 05, 2012
Year after year, the Brady Campaign’s state gun control scorecards have become the laughing stock of the gun control debate for at least three reasons. First, they typically give good scores to states that have high crime rates and bad scores to states that have low rates. The Brady Campaign’s scores aren’t based on whether anyone gets murdered, raped, robbed, or beaten in any particular state;...

In Ohio, selling or providing a handgun to anyone under 21 is illegal, yet headlines claim it's easy for a child to get a gun

7:00am Monday, March 05, 2012
by Chad D. Baus Ohio Revised Code 2923.21 says it plainly - it is illegal in Ohio to sell or furnish a handgun to anyone under 21 years of age, and it is illegal to sell or furnish a firearm of any kind to a person under 18 years of age. It is also illegal to sell or furnish a firearm to another person if the seller knows or has reason to know that the firearm is intended to be provided to an...

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