Ohio: Right-to-Carry bill goes to state senate
An Ohio bill would let concealed handgun permit holders bypass competency courses to renew their licenses.The measure cleared the House on a 59-28 vote on Wednesday, sending it to the Senate for consideration. The legislation was among a flurry of bills that state lawmakers passed this week ahead of their summer break.
Microstamp technology is ineffective for law enforcement
Your editorial “Getting down to brass tags” (June 14) left out a few facts that might give your readers a clearer view of the value of adding microstamping technology to pistols as a way of tracing spent shell casings found at crime scenes to a particular handgun. Independent studies by the National Academy of Science, by the University of California at Davis, and by George Krivosta of the American Society of Firearm and Toolmark Examiners concluded the technology is underdeveloped, producing inaccurate results that are easily circumvented, either on purpose or by simple use of the firearm within a few number of rounds fired. Mandates to use this technology come from its sole source inventor who stands to benefit substantially when firearm manufacturers must come to him to learn how to apply microstamping to their products. The cost of $12 per gun comes from advocates of the technology. Firearm manufacturers estimate the cost at around $200 per gun.
Ohio House Easily Passes Pro-Gun Reform Legislation
Yesterday, the Ohio House of Representatives passed House Bill 495 by a 59 to 28 vote. This important pro-gun reform legislation now goes to the state Senate for its consideration, where it will soon be assigned to a committee.
No, it is not open season on Indiana police officers
Numerous news outlets are perpetuating grossly irresponsible mischaracterizations of Indiana’s new self defense law, which results from amendments to the state’s Castle Doctrine law approved by the General Assembly last session. “Indiana law that let’s citizens shoot at police” said the San Francisco Chronicle headline. And there was this from Bloomberg News: “NRA backed law spells out when Indianans may open fire on police.” It’s open season on cops! Run for your lives, men in blue!What hysterical nonsense. And it doesn’t help that people such as Tim Downs, president of the Indiana State Fraternal Order of Police, are being quoted with such alarming predictions as, “It just puts a bounty on our heads.” No, it does not. It merely negates The Indiana Supreme Court’s incomprehensible ruling last year that “there is no right to reasonably resist entry by police.”
Seeking Nominations for 2011 NRA-ILA Volunteer Awards
The NRA-ILA “Jay M. Littlefield Memorial Volunteer of the Year Award” is an annual honor that recognizes an NRA member who demonstrates exceptionally meritorious activism in defense of our Second Amendment rights.
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