By Chad D. Baus

The Akron Beacon-Journal recently reported that Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence president Paul Helmke addressed the Akron Roundtable on May 21.

The story notes that Helmke delivered his usual misleading statistics and hyperbole to the not-for-profit speakers' forum...along with a couple of accidental admissions that point to the fact that his organization's gun control strategy can never succeed.

By David Kopel

Last week, President Obama signed a bill which, besides changing credit card laws, says that in National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges, the laws about gun carrying will be the same as in the host state. So in Colorado, for example, you will be allowed to carry a concealed handgun in Rocky Mountain National Park, if you have a state-issued concealed carry permit. In Vermont's Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, you can carry at will, since no permit is required for carry in the rest of Vermont. In New Jersey's Gateway National Recreation Area, you will need a permit, and since almost no-one in New Jersey except retired police is ever granted a permit, almost no-one will be able to carry there.

The law goes into effect nine months hence, as do the changes in credit card laws.