By Ken Hanson and Jim Irvine

As we previously reported, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson recently announced a crime crackdown program that is apparently intended to crackdown on crime rather than guns. This is a welcome change from prior “crackdowns,” and we wish Cleveland the best with their new program.

Previously Mayor Jackson, together with his unpaid public relations firm the Cleveland Plain Dealer, had lamented the demise of Cleveland’s Assault Weapon Ban (AWB). As the Plain Dealer said in a recent editorial entitled "Gun laws need to be strengthened and enforced to keep criminals disarmed", “Cleveland had a tough assault-weapons ban until the state's concealed-weapons law invalidated it. That's simply wrong.” Wow, tough talk, the Plain Dealer must know something the rest of us missed, right?

So Buckeye Firearms Association submitted a Public Records request to Mayor Jackson in order to get to the bottom of the crime wave caused by the ready availability of “assault weapons.” As we reported in The truth about Cleveland’s “Assault Weapon Ban” - Part I, after several months, Cleveland produced a grand total of three cases where people had been charged with violating the AWB during Jackson’s administration. These three cases revealed far more about an administration that is soft on gun crime than about inanimate objects causing their woes. This series of articles will examine each of these three AWB cases.

By Chad D. Baus

In coverage of the most recent Democrat presidential debate in Nevada, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and other media claim Democrat presidential hopefuls beat a serious retreat on their support for gun control .

Even if true (actual transcripts cast doubt on these claims), does anyone really believe their positions won't revert to form if elected?