--Chad Love

Citing an infringement of citizens' Second Amendment rights, a federal appeals court has struck down the city of Chicago's ban on gun ranges.

From this story on Bloomberg.com:
A Chicago law banning firing ranges in the third-largest U.S. city probably harms gun owners’ Second Amendment rights and must be temporarily blocked, a federal appeals court ruled.

The Chicago-based court’s decision today comes in a case challenging a city ordinance restricting handgun possession to inside the home, mandating an hour of range training as a prerequisite to gun ownership and barring those ranges from operating within its borders. The Responsible Gun Ownership Ordinance was passed by the city council after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Chicago’s outright ban on civilian handgun possession in 2010.

--Dave Maccar

Texas isn’t the only state has recently tried to pass a bill allowing college students to carry concealed handguns on campus, citing the Virginia Tech shooting as a strong reason. A similiar bill was shot down in Louisiana before opponents even got a chance to speak.

From this story on TheNewsStar.com:
A House committee Wednesday shot down a controversial bill that would have allowed guns on college campuses.

Wooton, the chairman of the House Criminal Justice Committee, declared handgun permit holders “the safest individuals in this nation.”

--Dave Maccar

While students at the University of Iowa  are being trained to survive a violent incident while unarmed in response to the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings and similar incidents, Texas is taking a different approach.

More than half the members of the Texas House have signed on as co-authors of a measure directing universities to allow concealed handguns for students and teachers. With 38 public universities and more than a half-million students in the Lone Star state, that’s a lot of potential firepower.

Those supporting the measure argue that examples of gun violence on campuses show the best defense against a gunman is students who can shoot back.

From this story in the Huffington Post:
Texas is preparing to give college students and professors the right to carry guns on campus, adding momentum to a national campaign to open this part of society to firearms. More than half the members of the Texas House have signed on as co-authors of a measure directing universities to allow concealed handguns. The Senate passed a similar bill in 2009 and is expected to do so again. Republican Gov. Rick Perry, who sometimes packs a pistol when he jogs, has said he's in favor of the idea.

--Chad Love

An Oklahoma City woman with a concealed-carry permit used her husband's gun to shoot and kill two neighborhood dogs that were attacking her dog.

From this story on the newsok.com:
Charolotte Maughan was too flustered to find her gun, so she grabbed her husband's. “It's a 9 mm,” she said. “I had said to him, ‘We need to go to the range and let me practice with this gun.' I didn't know if I could shoot it. Well, I can.” She walked out of her southwest Oklahoma City home, told the crowd to step back and shot and killed two dogs attacking her family's dog. “I didn't know what else to do,” she said. Maughan was not cited, but the owners of the two attacking dogs were.