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Op-Ed: Assault Weapons Ban Was Useless Anyway

3:46pm Monday, September 13, 2004

September 10, 2004 Los Angeles Times by John R. Lott With the federal assault weapons ban sunsetting on Monday at midnight, the gun-control movement has a lot to fear, but not what most people think. Despite claims that letting the 10-year-old ban on some semiautomatic weapons expire will result in a surge in gun crimes and police killings, the fact is that letting the law expire will probably...

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Crime at 30-year low; DOJ has trouble figuring out reason

11:48am Monday, September 13, 2004

In a September 13, 2004 Associated Press story on a newly released Justice Department report, the Associated Press reported the nation's crime rate last year held steady at the lowest levels since the government began surveying crime victims in 1973. According to the study, the 2003 violent crime rate - assault, sexual assault and armed robbery - stood at 22.6 victims for every 1,000 people age...

NRA Ads Focus on Kerry Gun Rights Record

11:01am Monday, September 13, 2004

September 8, 2004 Associated Press (click here for complete story) WASHINGTON - The National Rifle Association mocks John Kerry's attempts to portray himself as friendly to hunting and other gun sports, putting the Democrat in its sights with a $400,000-a-week television ad buy in several presidential battleground states. "There's a 20-year record he's trying to run away from," said NRA chief...

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Toledo's NBC24 goes against wishes of 88% of viewers, publishes CHL list

by Chad D. Baus

10:33am Monday, September 13, 2004

On Thursday, September 9, NBC24 (WNWO Toledo) republished a list of Lucas County CHL-holders on its website. The list had previously been published by the Toledo City Paper. In a statement published with the list of 650 names , the television station openly admits to violating the will of the Ohio General Assembly: "...the law says those permits are not public record. Only the media and law...

Secretary of State Blackwell Addresses Group

10:32am Monday, September 13, 2004

The following story, authored by Larry S. Moore, was published Friday, September 10, 2004 in the Greene County Dailies (Xenia Gazette, Fairborn Daily Herald, Beavercreek News). Republished with permission of the author. POWELL, OH - Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell was the keynote speaker for the Ohioans For Concealed Carry 'Party In The Park' over the Labor Day Weekend. Blackwell...

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SAF condemns ABCNews fraud in report on AWB sunset

8:43am Monday, September 13, 2004

September 9, 2004 - The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) today called on ABC News anchor Peter Jennings and correspondent Bill Redeker to admit the network distorted fact during a report on the end of the so-called "assault weapons" ban that aired Wednesday evening, Sept. 8. During that segment, video footage from the North Hollywood bank robbery shootout in March 1997 showed the robbers firing...

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DDN: Woman uses BB gun to scare off intruders

5:02pm Sunday, September 12, 2004

The Dayton Daily News is reporting today that a 23-year-old woman used a BB gun to scare would-be burglars away from her Bath Twp. farm house last Thursday. The newspaper states that "Jessica Shafford said she was reading poetry at 2:30 p.m....when two men pulled up to the property. One of the men went to the rear of the house and began to remove a screen window." Shafford told the DDN she got...

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Editorial: Elyria winged by its wild shot at keeping guns out of city parks

3:59pm Sunday, September 12, 2004

September 10, 2004 Lorain Morning Journal The decision by Elyria City Council to specifically ban concealed handguns from the city's parks carries no penalties. That makes it unenforceable, and Police Chief Mike Medders says it won't be enforced. Even if it's a symbolic statement against guns, as Mayor Bill Grace suggested, it's a bad move. Unenforced and unenforceable laws only breed contempt...