Bearing arms
By BOB PALMER – Daily Tribune Editor
Gun owners around the country made headlines earlier this month by walking into Starbucks coffee shops with a “big iron” strapped to their hips.
This exercise of the “right to carry” could not happen in Texas, unless the person packing heat also owned the Starbucks, Titus County Attorney John [...]

By JENNIFER FEEHAN
BLADE STAFF WRITER
ToledoBlade.com
Five years after it became legal for Ohioans to carry concealed firearms, more people lined up for permits than in any year since the law took effect.
A record number of permits also were issued in Michigan last year, and across the country sales of guns and ammunition soared as well. While [...]

By Mike Stuckey
Senior news editor
msnbc.com
The one-third or so of American adults who can’t obtain permits to carry concealed weapons from their home states need only look to Florida and Utah — and their mailboxes — to legally carry hidden guns.Because both states grant concealed-carry permits to non-residents and have reciprocal agreements with other states under [...]