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August sees 13.5% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 15th straight month over month increase

7:00am Monday, September 12, 2011
The August 2011 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 815,858 is an increase of 13.5 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 718,971 in August 2010. For comparison, the unadjusted August 2011 NICS figure of 1,300,433 is an increase of 20.2 percent over the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,082,360 in August 2010. This marks the fifteenth straight month...

Op-Ed: The Soft‑on‑Crime Roots of British Disorder

3:00pm Friday, September 09, 2011
by Joyce Lee Malcolm In a civilized society people would be allowed to defend themselves with guns, not baseball bats. As wild gangs of youths burned homes, shops and cars and severely beat anyone who tried to stop them last week, English people tried to defend themselves. Their desperation triggered a 5,000% increase in purchases of baseball bats from Amazon. This is a sad symbol of the failure...

Governor Rick Perry an 'egotistical extremist?' I don’t think so!

3:00pm Tuesday, September 06, 2011
by Linda Walker Yes, I must confess, I am on the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence's email list. There, I said it! "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." Sun Tzu, Chinese general & military strategist (ca. 500 BC) To my horror, amazement, shock and a wealth of other instantaneous emotions, I read the following email from the Brady Campaign that popped into my email inbox...

A look at the GOP's 2012 Presidential field from a gun rights perspective

7:00am Tuesday, September 06, 2011
by Chad D. Baus In 2008, there was much discussion about gun rights during the Republican Presidential primaries. Although there were a number of Republican candidates who had a strong pro-Second Amendment record, the party eventually settled on a candidate with an extremely spotty record on the Second Amendment (as well as other issues important to the conservative base). The end result was that...

Journalist exploits Ohio media access loophole to expose elected officials who have obtained concealed handgun licenses

7:00am Thursday, September 01, 2011
by Chad D. Baus Jessica Heffner, a staff writer for The Middletown Journal , has used a provision in Ohio law to compile and publish a list of elected officials in the Buckeye State who have obtained concealed handgun licenses. Under O.R.C. § 2923.129 (B) (1), Ohio law specifically states that the CHL list is confidential - not a public record: "The records that a sheriff keeps relative to [...

Where’s the media outrage over Fast and Furious?

3:00pm Wednesday, August 31, 2011
By Tim Inwood After discovering that a friend had no idea what I was talking about when mentioning "Operation Fast and Furious" and "Project Gunrunner," I find myself disgusted with the lousy job the press has done covering this major scandal. CNN is usually on in his workplace, yet he had no clue. In the past, minor issues like Valerie Plame became huge national scandals. However, what might...

Canton officer who threatened to execute concealed handgun license-holder now under investigation for THIRD violent outburst

3:00pm Tuesday, August 30, 2011
by Chad D. Baus Officer Daniel Harless, who is currently under investigation for threatening to execute a concealed handgun license-holder during a traffic stop, and for a separate incident in which he threatened to send the suspects "to the grave" if they moved, adding, "I will shoot you in the face and I'll go to sleep tonight," is now also under investigation for a THIRD incident which was...

Society of Professional Journalists ethics committee chair takes dim view of advocacy journalism at Columbus Dispatch and beyond

7:00am Tuesday, August 30, 2011
by Chad D. Baus In the wake of a series of articles, entitled "Overrun by guns" , written by Theodore Decker and published in The Columbus Dispatch in late May, I exposed the fact that the articles were bought and paid for by the anti-gun rights Joyce Foundation, and were in fact written with the goal of having a "major public policy impact" on gun violence in Ohio. In that article, I noted that...

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