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Sub. HB 142 (Modify LEO Notification) scheduled for vote in House

by Chad D. Baus & Jim Irvine

3:00pm Monday, October 23, 2017

Substitute House Bill 142 (Modify LEO Notification), sponsored by Representative Scott Wiggam (R-Wooster), has been scheduled for a vote in the House of Representatives tomorrow, October 24. As originally introduced, HB 142 sought to eliminate the requirement that, when detained for a law-enforcement purpose, a concealed handgun license (CHL) holder must "promptly inform" an approaching law...

Let's talk about what REALLY reduces violent crime

by Dean Rieck

7:00am Monday, October 23, 2017

Whenever there's a violent crime involving a gun, the response from gun control advocates is predictable. They always say, "let's talk about more gun laws." High-capacity magazine bans. Assault weapon bans. Universal background checks. No gun zones. Ammo taxes. Microstamping. You name it, gun control groups want it. The problem is, their proposals seldom have any relationship to the crime they're...

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SHOCK: Persons obtain 26 firearms without background check

3:00pm Friday, October 20, 2017

According to so-called "common-sense" gun control extremists like Mark Kelley's "Americans for Responsible Solutions," all we have to do to keep criminals from gaining access to firearms is to mandate that a background check be done before all transfers of firearms. Pass "universal" background checks, we're told, close the "gun show loophole," we're told, and we can stop mass shootings! Indeed,...

Gun Control Group Sues Slide Fire Solutions

by Jim Shepherd

7:00am Friday, October 20, 2017

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence has joined Las Vegas law firm Eglet Price in a class-action lawsuit against Slide Fire Solutions, LP, alleging the company "negligently" manufactured and marketed their "device" that "enabled the killer to turn the country music festival into a war zone." Mass murderer Stephen Paddock used several of the slide fire stocks on his rifles to commit the nation...

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New Bipartisan Bump Stock Bill Would Actually Ban All Semi-Automatic Rifles

by Sean Davis

7:00am Thursday, October 19, 2017

A new gun control proposal in Congress that is being pitched as a bipartisan bump stock ban would actually ban all semi-automatic rifles in the United States, according to an analysis of the proposed bill. The legislation, which was drafted by Rep. Carlos Curbelo, a Florida Republican, never bans bump stocks by name. Instead, the proposal bans any person from possessing or making any part that...

Why regulating or banning bump stocks is wrong

by Jim Irvine

7:00am Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Since the massacre at the country music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada there has been an enormous amount of attention given to bump stocks and the politics of regulating or banning them. If you care about human life, this is the wrong thing to focus on – no matter how you feel about firearms or the Second Amendment. Nearly 60 people died. Well over 500 more were injured. Some of the victims will...

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2Adoc.com Will Connect Patients with Gun-Friendly Providers

by Dr. Arthur Przebinda

7:00am Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Patients want to trust their provider to not make mistakes and to not lie to them. Unfortunately, when it comes to guns, medical organizations have not been living up to that expectation. Medical associations have been insinuating an anti-gun political agenda into the patient-doctor relationship for decades. Patients are routinely being asked about gun ownership. Worse, many physicians commit...

To the Editor: Schools Safer with Trained Staff

3:00pm Monday, October 16, 2017

The following letter to the Columbus Dispatch editor was published in response to a Dispatch "news" article entitled " Why does nothing ever change after mass shootings? " I respond to the Oct. 3 Dispatch.com article “Why does nothing ever change after mass shootings?” If the definition of “nothing” is simply repeating the same pathetic sound bites about “rapid-fire weapons” or “hidden loaded...