Supreme Court Punts on D.C. Gun Ban

The U.S. Supreme Court this morning declined to take action on D.C.'s appeal of an appellate court decision last March striking down its ban on handguns. Linda Greenhouse provides background: Both sides in a closely watched legal battle over the District of Columbia’s strict gun-control law are urging the Supreme Court to hear the case. If the justices agree — a ...

Neal Boortz May Be Pulled from Virginia Radio Station

David Grant reports for the Collegiate Times that nationally syndicated talk show host Neal Boortz' show may be pulled from Pulaski, Virginia's WFNR AM for some controversial remarks he made in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings. Boortz echoed a theme expressed by many that the victims were “standing in terror waiting for (their) turn to be executed.” ...

Alabama ‘Militia’ Raided for Stockpiling Weapons

Federal agents raided a ragtag collection group of tent dwellers calling themselves the "Alabama Free Militia" and arrested them for conspiring to make a firearm. Raids that resulted in the arrests of six alleged militia members and the seizure of hundreds of hand grenades and bullets were "much ado about nothing," a defense lawyer said Friday. A cache of ...

Miss America 1944 Stops Thief with Her .38

Venus Ramey, Miss America 1944, may need a walker but that doesn't stop her from running down would-be thieves. Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle's tires and stop an intruder. Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky ...

PSA: School Shootings Are Very Rare Events

I just thought that after reading this story, the above needed to be said. Another Scare Rattles Va. Tech Campus BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Virginia Tech students still on edge after the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history got another scare Wednesday morning as police in SWAT gear with weapons drawn swarmed Burruss Hall, which houses the president's office. The threat of suspicious ...

Would Armed Campuses Be Safer?

Glenn Reynolds argues in a column in today's NY Daily News that we'd be safer if only more of us carried guns. In fact, some mass shootings have been stopped by armed citizens. Though press accounts downplayed it, the 2002 shooting at Appalachian Law School was stopped when a student retrieved a gun from his car and confronted the shooter. Likewise, ...

Jumping the Gun

Washington Times assistant national editor Robert Stacy McCain takes ABC News' Brian Ross and Dana Hughes to the woodshed for using the tragic

Virginia Gun Laws

From page A1 of today's Washington Post:   Guns Worn In Open Legal, But Alarm Virginia On July 2, Fairfax County police received a 911 call from a Champps restaurant in Reston. Six men are seated at a table, the caller said. They're all armed. Dispatchers quickly sent four officers to the scene. The officers were "extremely polite" and were hoping that ...