In a split decision, a Cuyahoga County judge has ruled some new Cleveland gun laws are unconstitutional but has left a gun registry that riled gun-rights groups in place. Judge Shirley Strickland-Saffold found that three of Cleveland’s new gun laws put in place in April, 2015 violate a state law that gives the state overriding authority […]
On Friday, Lucia McBath, mother of slain teen Jordan Davis, joined Roland Martin on NewsOne Now to talk about the documentary 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets.…
Relatives and friends of the victims of last month’s shooting in a Charleston, South Carolina church traveled to Washington on Wednesday to demand that U.S. lawmakers vote on legislation to expand background checks on gun sales. But their chances of success are at best considered slim. Similar legislation failed a Senate vote two years ago […]
The City of Cleveland has a half dozen gun ordinances that are tougher than the state of Ohio laws, yet cannot be enforced. In 2010, a Supreme Court ruling declared that Cleveland’s home rule on gun laws should not trump the general laws for the state of Ohio. Those ordinances include: Possession of Firearms […]
Despite a last minute push to urge Gov. John Kasich to veto House Bill 495, which changes the way people can carry guns in vehicles and where vehicles with guns could park, the governor’s office says he will sign the legislation. On Sunday, the Dean of Cleveland’s Trinity Cathedral called on the governor to veto […]
WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association is suing the Obama Administration in response to a law that requires gun dealers along the Mexican border to report bulk sales of semi-automatic rifles. Enacted to make it harder for Mexican drug cartels to obtain military style weapons from America, the law requires gun merchants in Arizona, California, […]
WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association is suing the Obama Administration in response to a law that requires gun dealers along the Mexican border to report bulk sales of semi-automatic rifles. Enacted to make it harder for Mexican drug cartels to obtain military style weapons from America, the law requires gun merchants in Arizona, California, […]
