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Advertising Strategies from Americans for Responsible Solutions
When it comes to Gifford’s gun ban group, you don’t have to guess what their strategy:
Democratic Rep. Ron Barber, who succeeded Giffords in her Arizona district, lost his race despite more than $2 million spent by ARS. And perhaps the group’s most high-profile act of 2014 was to run a TV ad The Arizona Republic‘s editorial board
Gun Notification Bill Violates Privacy
Does your family have a right to know if the cops have returned the guns they confiscated from you? 49 senators in Washington State voted unanimously that they do.
Senators voted 49-0 Friday morning in favor of a bill named for Sheena Henderson, who was shot to death by her husband in a murder-suicide at Spokane’s Deaconess Hospital in July 2014. A few weeks before the shootings, police had seized Chris Henderson’s gun after a suicide attempt, but he had reclaimed it from Spokane police without his wife being notified.
Under the measure family members would be able to request police notification before a person with a history of mental health issues or domestic violence gets guns back that police have taken away.
The bill next goes to the House for consideration.
Concealed Gun Licenses Drop in Ohio
Less people are getting licenses to carry a gun in Ohio, after several years of the number constantly speaking. In Wall Street terms, this is a readjustment. It’s not that gun ownership is becoming less popular, we’ve simply hit a bubble for a while, and as the article points out, those who already have licenses and renewing them at a greater number than before.
The number of new concealed carry handgun licenses issued in Ohio dropped for the first time in several years, according to a report issued Thursday by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine.
Data provided by Ohio’s county sheriffs showed 58,066 new licenses were issued in Ohio in 2014 compared with a record 96,972 in 2013. However, more people were renewing licenses — 52,146 licenses were reinstated last year compared with 48,370 in 2013.
Fifty-seven temporary licenses also were issued for a grand total of 110,212, according to the report from DeWine’s office.
The attorney general’s office does not track the total number of active concealed carry licenses, so it’s not clear how many people can legally conceal guns statewide.
In Crawford County, 236 new licenses were issued in 2014 — a drop from 562 issued in 2013, according to DeWine’s report.
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Gun Control Fails in Korea
South Korea has strict gun laws, here’s how they work.
A gunman has shot and killed three people before he was found dead at a home in a city near the capital Seoul in the second such incident in two days.
Shooting incidents are rare in South Korea, which tightly controls gun possession, and the two deadly shootings this week will likely trigger a debate on whether the country should tighten its control on hunting weapons that can be legally owned.
A police official from Hwaseong City, who didn’t want to be named, citing office rules, said the victims included a policeman who was one of the first officers to arrive at the scene. The official said the suspect is believed to be the brother of one of the victims, whose wife was also dead.
Police said the murder weapon was believed to be a hunting gun. The gunman had retrieved the gun from a nearby police station about an hour before the morning shooting, the police official said.
South Koreans can obtain licenses for shotguns and air rifles for the purpose of hunting animals, but they are required to keep the weapons at police stations and use them only during legal hunting periods. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the suspect owned the gun or...