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Compromise At What Cost?

3:00pm Tuesday, April 16, 2013

by Jim Shepherd With the United States Senate now moving toward the eventual passage of legislation that is more anti-gun owners than anti-crime, anti-gun legislators and the media are starting to celebrate another baby-step toward their ultimate goal: disarmament of the private citizen. That sounds fatalistic, but even as New York Governor Cuomo calls proposed compromise legislation a "sell-out...

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The “Pro-Gun” provisions of Manchin-Toomey are actually a bonanza of gun control

7:00am Tuesday, April 16, 2013

by Dave Kopel The Toomey-Manchin Amendment which may be offered as soon as Tuesday to Senator Reid's gun control bill are billed as a "compromise" which contain a variety of provisions for gun control, and other provisions to enhance gun rights. Some of the latter, however, are not what they seem. They are badly miswritten, and are in fact major advancements for gun control. In particular: 1. The...

Senate bill would turn law-abiding gun owners into felons

3:00pm Monday, April 15, 2013

A new bill would make it a crime to "transfer" your gun to a spouse for more than seven days. by Dave Kopel Public-opinion polls about "universal background checks" for gun sales show widespread support. While President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg talk about "gun sales," the actual legislation moving through Congress aims to regulate far more than sales. It would turn almost every gun owner into a...

Gun show protest cancelled after Buckeye Firearms Assoc. highlights organizer's status as a convicted rapist

7:00am Monday, April 15, 2013

by Chad D. Baus On Friday, Dayton's FOX affiliate reported that Jerome McCorry had planned to stage another protest outside the Bill Goodman Gun & Knife Show at Dayton's Hara arena. What they did not report, as is frequent in news coverage of similar protests staged by McCorry in the past, is that McCorry is a convicted rapist . Quite obviously, we believe that part of McCorry's past should...

Sex offender to stage another protest demanding that law-abiding citizens disarm

10:54am Friday, April 12, 2013

by Chad D. Baus WRGT (Dayton FOX) is reporting that a protest is being planned for Saturday's Bill Goodman Gun and Knife Show at Hara Arena. The article reports that protest is being organized by Rev. Jerome McCorry. What the article fails to report, as is all too common with Dayton media outlets, is that McCorry is a registered sex offender . From the article : "We'll be out on Saturday to march...

Study: "Universal" background checks not likely to reduce gun crime; Reps. Heard & Patmon push UBC bills in Ohio anyways

7:00am Friday, April 12, 2013

Using 20-year-old data, President Obama recently claimed that as many as 40 percent of gun purchases take place without a background check (Remarks by the President, March 28, 2013). He suggested that requiring background checks for all gun purchases will reduce gun violence by keeping dangerous people from acquiring firearms. To determine if the 40 percent estimate is accurate today,...

Headline: Second Amendment - Right to bear arms in action

3:00pm Thursday, April 11, 2013

by Chad D. Baus The Canton Repository recently visited three of the ten Stark County, Ohio companies licensed to manufacture firearms, and published an excellent follow-up article. From the article : Inside a plain-looking single-story green building near Meyers Lake, Dennis DeVault and his employees have outfitted competitive trap and clay shooters across the country for 23 years. From the...

Senate may vote today to end private sales at gun shows and online; Sen. Portman "undecided" if he'll join filibuster

7:00am Thursday, April 11, 2013

[UPDATE: Sen. Rob Portman joins 31 Senators voting against moving the bill to the floor. Filibuster attempts proved unsuccessful, however, as 16 other Republicans including John McCain voted with the anti-gun rights majority. Portman said he hasn't seen the specific language of the Toomey-Manchin amendment described below, and thus could not yet say whether or not he could support it. by Chad D...