According to the Indiana Daily Student paper on March 1st: A 21-year-old IU student was arrested after he used a loaded handgun to assault a man at Kilroy’s Sports Bar early Saturday morning. Bloomington police Sgt. Jim Batcho said officers arrived at the bar around 2:45 a.m. Saturday and walked down an alley where they [...]
(We are pleased to post the following commentary from Hoosiers Concerned About Gun Violence in response to the Indy Star’s investigative report about Indiana’s broken and flawed CCW permit system). The Indy Star’s exceptional investigative report, “Should these men have been allowed to carry a gun?†on Oct. 11, should force state lawmakers to reform [...]
An article from the Indianapolis Star by Jon Murray on Jan. 19th reported a huge victory for gun violence prevention advocates, and the residents of Gary, Indiana, as the last and final lawsuit against the gun industry can now proceed to trial. As advocates and the city of Gary seek to hold the gun industry [...]
This tragedy is yet one more example as to why we need to re-think gun ownership, especially for parents who keep weapons at home where there are children. As we have said before, having both a gun and a child at home is a deadly combination. In the wake of a tragedy like this one, [...]
An op-ed in the Indianapolis Star by Marilyn Bull, medical director with the Indiana Partnership to Prevent Violent Injury and Death, takes aim at Indiana’s high rate of gun ownership and urges families to reconsider keeping a gun in the home. The recent tragic shootings of three helpless and innocent children — two of them [...]
A grisly shooting that left 2 moms and their babies dead last night shocked the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and law enforcement officials. According to the Indy Star: Gina Hunt, 24, and Andrea Yarrell, 24, were holding their babies when the suspects fired multiple shots into the four victims at a Near Northside home, police [...]
Brady Center News Release For Immediate Release: 10-29-2007 Contact Communications: (202) 289-7319 Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence Indianapolis, IN – In a landmark ruling with nationwide implications, the Indiana Court of Appeals today ruled that the City of Gary’s lawsuit against gun manufacturers may proceed to trial. The 3-0 Court ruling held that the [...]
Indiana, flooded with firearms because their gun laws are so loose, is trying to recruit its citizens to help them do what can be done to stop gun violence there. They’re trying to catch felons with firearms, and they’ve set up a fund and a program to collect and reward tips that lead them to [...]
We don’t have much to say about this one, but we thought it was so funny, we just had to share it with you. This is from a gun store in Indiana named Don’s Guns. He doesn’t want to make any money, he just loves to rent guns! *cue crazy face of death laughing* Cracks [...]
Indiana is the latest state to experience a drive to close the heinous gun show loophole. While most Americans agree that all firearms purchases should have a background check (and at least a little bit of paperwork) involved, there is one way that anyone can still purchase a firearm completely legally without a background check: [...]
Last week, we posted about the Violence Policy Center’s latest report that placed Pennsylvania number one on the list for black homicide rates in America. And while they were number one, Pennsylvania isn’t the only state with loose gun laws on that list– Indiana placed third, and the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette says that’s unacceptable. [...]
Robert Greenwood is an Indiana man who made a mistake. In fact, he made more than just one. After accidentally shooting himself while hunting in a field, the police found they had something else they wanted to ask him about. On Nov. 17, Robert Greenwood staggered out of a Marshall County field with a .12-gauge [...]
An editorial in today’s Indy Star lays it out straight: “Too many guns, too much violence.” Luiz Martinez was shopping inside a sporting goods store Saturday afternoon, two days before Christmas, when gunmen entered the Westside business. The robbers told the 62-year-old Martinez and a store clerk to lie on the floor. When Martinez hesitated, [...]
The Governor of Indiana, standing next to the gun extremists at the NRA, is planning to announce a new law that will allow firearms into Indiana’s state parks. That’s a terrible idea, because firearms are unsafe no matter who’s holding them. The NRA wants people to believe that they need weapons in parks to “protect [...]
We should all know by now how the NRA does concealed carry. First, they suggest a CCW law with lots and lots of exceptions– no guns in schools, government buildings, or public parks, training required, sheriffs “may issue” the permits, a permit expiration of only a year or two. Then, once that’s passed, and all [...]
Yet another task force is going to be created, this time for snipers in Northern Indiana. At what point will we stop wasting money on creating task forces, and start making laws that actually prevent crime? Federal and local law enforcement officials on Monday announced the formation of a multi-agency task force to investigate what [...]
Another sniper shooting in Chicago– police are saying this is the seventh shooting by a person they say is a growing threat. A 57-year-old school employee driving to work on Cline Avenue had his rear passenger window shattered in what Lake County (Ind.) Sheriff’s police are investigating as a seventh sniper shooting Thursday morning. Wendell [...]
Finally, a new law in Indiana has passed granting anyone who passes a one time exam a lifetime handgun permit. State Police Superintendent Paul Whitesell announced details of House Enrolled Act 1176 at a news conference Wednesday, saying the law will streamline the process to get a permit for law-abiding gun owners. His agency oversees [...]
A funeral Mass was held for six of the seven members of the Albarran family in Indianapolis, killed during a botched robbery. With various members of law enforcement looking on, the Reverend Michael O’Mara delivered a message that preached against the death penalty for the two alleged killers now in custody. Marion County Prosecutor Carl [...]
After we reported on the slaying of the Albarran family in Indiana (in which two men, Desmond Turner and James Stewart, are accused of killing seven family members, including three children, during a botched robbery), we got three or four emails from gun guys saying basically that if that family had had a gun to [...]
WNDU-TV in Indiana has a three-part look at “License to Murder” laws coming to Indiana and Michigan. It’s pretty short, and they don’t go too in-depth on it, but one thing is clear: the laws we have in place right now already let you shoot to kill when your life is threatened. And that’s the [...]
Add Indiana to the list of states where murder became just a little more legal. The Governor there has signed the NRA’s “License to Murder” bill, removing all responsibility, civil or criminal, from anyone who pulls a trigger there when they “feel threatened.” Gov. Mitch Daniels has signed into law a bill specifying that a [...]
The Truth, a local paper in Elkhart, Indiana, has written yet another editorial attacking loose gun laws there after a Chicago gang member was able to buy the assault weapon that killed a little girl. It’s a distinction Hoosiers should be ashamed of, but Indiana evidently is a great place for criminals to quickly and [...]
Two seperate pieces have appeared over at Indystar.com, and both of them focus on how Indiana guns are contributing to Chicago violence. The first details exactly how a gang member got the AK-47 that he used to kill one of those two girls in Chicago. Relaxed gun laws are making Indiana a go-to location for [...]
The NRA keeps pushing the License to Murder bill in all 50 states, despite the fact that it all but encourages violence. -In Kentucky and Indiana, the NRA echoes its line about the bill: that it supposedly only codifies the right to self-defense in this country. The Kentucky House and Senate have each passed a [...]
Two followups about where the guns came from in recent shootings. -The AK-47 assault weapon used to kill 14-year-old Starkesia Reed in Chicago didn’t come from Illinois at all, but from Indiana. Six months before he allegedly killed 14-year-old Starkesia Reed in a spray of automatic gunfire, gang member Carail Weeks went to Indiana to [...]
First the Wyoming gun lobby wants to leave their concealed carry permits at home, and now the gun lobby in Indiana is pushing for a lifetime concealed carry permit! It’s a good thing that the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence released its 2005 Gun Violence Prevention Report Cards before the Indiana legislators passed a [...]
Updates are coming quick on the “Shoot First” epidemic the NRA is spreading around the country. The “Shoot First” law (also known as “Make My Day” or “Deadly Force”) is a deadly little piece of legislation that makes murder legal. Yup, you read that right. What “Shoot First” does is take away any responsibility of [...]
More gun trading going on, but it’s the good kind: Baptist ministers in Indiana are offering groceries and clothing for guns. Anyone who turns in a firearm to Gary police can take the receipt to one of a series of Baptist revivals and exchange it for one of the vouchers. Pastor Dwight Gardner of Trinity [...]
10 years ago, Albert Hall, now 68, was convicted of molesting two relatives over several years. Because he was convicted of a felony, he was not allowed to own weapons in the United States. And yet, when authorities searched his house after a fire, they found more than 200 weapons in his possession, more than [...]
Dan Carpenter writes a column for the Indianapolis Star about a new program in Indiana schools called “EKG”– “Educating Kids about Gun Violence.” Like almost all gun education programs for kids, it tries (usually unsuccessfully, especially in the case of the NRA’s kids program) to educate kids about the dangers of weapons, but still ignores [...]
Here’s an infuriating story for your Thursday morning. When he was 15, Matthew Comfort killed a man with four other teenagers. And now, out of jail for eight years, he wants to carry a gun. No longer a felon in the eyes of the state, Comfort’s voluntary manslaughter conviction was expunged from his record when [...]
The South Bend, Indiana Police Department is one of a few districts across the country using a new bullet identification system to connect crooks with the weapons they’ve used. The matching work begins at the crime scene when investigators collect casings, bullets or firearms as evidence. Each gun that passes through the police department is [...]
This from WNDU in South Bend, IN. A South Bend teen is recovering Sunday night after police say he was accidentally shot in the stomach. It happened on North Blaine Avenue on the west side of South Bend. When police arrived, they say a 13-year-old boy had been shot once in the stomach by his [...]
It seems like just yesterday we were telling you about criminals taking advantage of loose gun laws to “legally” purchase guns for illegal means. Oh wait, it was just yesterday! And now, a grand jury in Fort Wayne, IN, has indicted a couple for doing just that. Howard Jessup, 64, and Tina Dulaney Jessup, 38, [...]
Neighbors heard gunshots Monday night in the Indianapolis suburb of South Gladstone. When police showed up, they found 44 year old David Brown stabbed, and his 15 year old son Harley fatally shot and 12 year old daughter Ashley wounded. Today the Indiapolis Star has revealed more details, and detectives are saying that Brown shot [...]
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