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Crime drops as more Americans carry guns

by Gerard Valentino

7:00am Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Editor's Note: The following op-ed was published by the Cleveland Plain Dealer . Republished by permission of the author. A rebuttal written by Mrs. Toby Hoover, entitled "Promoting weapons everywhere fosters culture of fear", was also published . At this point in the debate over the role of guns in America, only the mainstream media and zealots cling to the false hope of gun control. Few, if any...

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More People “Prohibited” by SCOTUS

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Tuesday, April 29, 2014

The Supreme Court of the US came down with a decision in March that effectively expands the base of people prohibited from purchasing or possessing firearms in this country. In a unanimous decision in the case US v. Castleman , the Court ruled that the law banning possession of firearms by anyone ever convicted of any crime of violence against a spouse or significant other – often referred to as...

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Robbed and kidnapped, Ohio man pulls own gun and shoots attacker

by Chad D. Baus

11:00am Tuesday, April 29, 2014

The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that a man was robbed, then kidnapped, was able to pull his own handgun and shoot his attacker. From the article : A man who told police that he shot a robber in the neck on the Hilltop on Friday evening claims he was abducted at gunpoint and was being driven to a cash machine to withdraw money, Columbus police said yesterday. Police identified the dead man as...

Op-Ed: Murder Motivation - Why Most of America is Immune to Gun Violence

by Chuck Michel

3:00pm Monday, April 28, 2014

What was your motivation for the murder you committed yesterday? If you can't answer that, then you are in the 99.996% of the population that also assassinated nobody. When it comes to guns, we already know that the largest cluster of gun deaths (61%) are suicides, and that suicide is a mental health problem than no gun or magazine ban prevents. The next largest cluster are gun crimes (35%), with...

ATF Bans More Ammo

by Jeff Knox

7:00am Monday, April 28, 2014

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has declared that Russian 7N6, 5.45x39 rifle ammunition is “armor piercing handgun ammunition,” and therefore illegal for importation into the US. The ammunition has been widely available in the US for decades and was originally designed for the AK74 service rifle, a smaller, lighter adaptation of the AK47. The “handgun ammunition” label...

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Headline: The pistol-toting 'Angel of Mercy' that saved a driver from an angry Detroit mob

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Friday, April 25, 2014

Recently, WJBK (Fox Detroit) published a moving interview with a woman who got her pistol and chose to intervene in a racially-charged mob attack on a driver whose car had struck a child who ran in front of his car. From the article : Almost one week has passed since the brutal attack of a driver in Detroit who stopped to help a little boy he had accidentally just hit with his car. In a bankrupt...

Justice Stevens’ Dishonest Diatribe Against the Second Amendment

by Jeff Knox

7:00am Friday, April 25, 2014

In a recently released book, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens calls for fundamental changes to the founding document of the United States. As a way of ginning up buzz about the book, the judge’s publicists gave a particularly controversial excerpt to the Washington Post for publication. That section deals with the former Justice’s opinions on “reforming” the Second Amendment...

The BATFE's "rubber band ruler"

by Jim Shepherd

3:00pm Thursday, April 24, 2014

After the ATF's raid on a pair of California gun companies, many in the firearms industry -myself included- wondered just what changed the ATF's collective mind what morphed unfinished polymer AR-style rifle lowers into finished-and unregistered "guns". It was a matter of no small amount of speculation. The speculation wasn't unfounded. It wouldn't be the first time the BATFE had suffered a...