The following comments were submitted by Buckeye Firearms Association's Larry S. Moore to Dayton's WDTN News 2, in response to a news investigation on Dayton's problem with gun violence.

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Overall, your story was well done. I do, however, have several concerns.

First, let's call Dayton's problem what it is....a crime problem...an out of control gang problem with both criminals/gangs using guns. By themselves, without an individual bent on robbing or murder, the gun is no problem.

Secondly, the Dayton officer you interviewed seriously misspoke or intentionally mislead you and the viewing audience when addressing private sales of firearms at gun shows.

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By Chad D. Baus

Anti-gunners have been trying to make much of late out of a series of stories published last week by the Florida Sun-Sentinel, which revealed that among those who have been issued Florida CCW licenses, 1,400 were people who pleaded guilty or no contest to felonies but qualified because of a loophole in the law, 216 were people with outstanding warrants, 128 were people with active domestic violence injunctions against them, and six were registered sex offenders.

The investigation, completed just before access to the list of the roughly 410,000 persons who have been issued licenses to carry a concealed handgun in Florida was privatized under a new state law, is the exact type of protest piece that many in Ohio had predicted would come if the legislature had followed through on various attempts to close the Buckeye State's media access loophole in the 2005-2006 session.

That there are imperfections in any government program (or any human activity, for that matter) should come as no surprise. But to call into question the entire concealed carry program because the paper disagrees with less than half of once percent of licenses issued in the state of Florida is lunacy.

One New York newspaper sees this witch hunt for what it is. One Ohio newspaper does not.

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