The firearm industry understands that women are a prime consumer demographic for guns and firearm accessories, from specialty holsters and concealed carry undergarments to firearm bling. Taking the "girls with guns" specialty market even further, some firearms now come in shades of pink, blue and lavender.

Guest columnist Jennifer E. Smith Thorne is the Executive Director of Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence , a statewide non-profit founded in 1995 and dedicated to preventing gun violence through education, advocacy, and public awareness. She writes in opposition to HB 234, which deals with gun regulations.

People say that it's the third time that's the charm. Italian armsmaker Beretta had better hope they're right.

The bill, which is scheduled for a hearing Thursday in the Assembly Committee on Judiciary, would allow permit holders to bring concealed firearms on to college campuses, K-12 schools, daycare centers and non-secure parts of airports. Similar proposals were heard during the last two legislative sessions.

Let's say you love someone after developing a deep appreciation her many wonderful qualities. But over time, her actions and words leave you with the sinking feeling that she is changing.

The Second Amendment Foundation recently announced it was financially backing a township man in his fight against the state's "justifiable need" law to carry a handgun. "That's actually very important because financially it will allow the case to go all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court if it is allowed to get that far," said Israel Albert Almeida, the suit's namesake.

A proposed ammunition ban from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has local gun enthusiasts upset, saying the ban is a violation of their second amendment rights. The ATF wants to ban 5.56 mm ammunition used is AR-15 rifles and handguns.

Second Amendment activists rallied Saturday at the Statehouse, three days after the Senate voted to bar anyone convicted of a high-level domestic violence crime from possessing guns. About 100 people gathered outside the capitol holding signs, flags warning Don't Tread on Me and even a pitchfork.

The House version of HB-114 Repeal Gun Free Zones that passed in the House 42-17 has been tossed out, and the Senate Education Committee ' substituted ' a counterfeit bill in its place. In an unprecedented bypassing of parliamentary rule, a simple three page pro-gun bill was exchanged for fourteen pages of gun control.

When Adolph Hitler and his National Socialist Party seized power in Germany in the 1930's, he was well aware that he could not permit citizens to be armed with firearms, and he continued gun control programs instituted by the Weimar Republic beginning in 1918, and instituted his own programs and orders to seize firearms from German citizens, and from the people in countries that the Nazis occupied during the war.

Lawmakers are firing back at a proposal by the Obama administration to ban one of the most common bullets used with the popular AR-15 rifle, with more than 100 members of Congress signing a letter opposing the move on ammo. Word of the proposal by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to ban .223 M855 "green tip" ammunition came out on Thursday and prompted an immediate backlash from sportsmen.

A federal court has rejected a challenge to California's gun safety law, possibly paving the way for a requirement that new guns mark the bullets they fire so they can be traced. The ruling on Wednesday was a defeat for two gun rights groups that argued the Unsafe Handgun Act violated the constitutional right to bear arms.

Dr. Richard Peddicord, one of the authors of a $25,000 environmental assessment report on the property, was scheduled to present to the council on Thursday night but was unable to make it to the Cape due to weather conditions. Peddicord, an expert on environmental issues affecting recreational, law enforcement and military shooting ranges, is based in Heathsville, Virginia.

Today's New York Times front page has a headline story about how the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has launched a not-so-subtle proposal to ban a certain .223-caliber cartridge; a controversy that has been burning across Internet blogs and caused Hornady Manufacturing to yesterday alert gun owners to write letters of opposition. Long story short: Second Amendment activists are convinced this is a backdoor effort by the not-so-lame duck Obama administration to push a gun control agenda that it cannot get through a Republican-controlled Congress.

National Police Agency says it will now look into toughening gun control laws following three more gun-related murders this week by a second gunman. Police forensic teams examine the scene of a fatal shooting and arson attack at a convenience store in Sejong, South Korea.