BRIAN HOWEY: 83 percent of Hoosiers support gun background checks

There’s always something in Howey Politics Indiana polling that raises at least one eyebrow, and sometimes both.

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EDITORIAL: Coats' vote was for less safety

Shame on U.S. Sen. Dan Coats for voting against the improved public safety that expanding background checks prior to gun sales would bring.

RICH JAMES: Coats dances to NRA's tune this time

Indiana Sen. Dan Coats sold his soul last week.

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BRIAN HOWEY: Use common sense with guns

For the life of me, I don’t see how expanded background checks for gun purchases is an assault on the 2nd Amendment. Yet that is the phrase we hear over and over from the Indiana congressional delegation.

EDITORIAL: Expand background checks to limit violence

An Indiana House committee on Tuesday approved a plan that would require each of the state's public schools to have an employee packing heat on the premises during school hours. Those legislators' response to the problem of guns in schools is to require guns in schools. Seriously.

BRIAN HOWEY: Political gun battle comes to Indiana

Four months after the horrific Newtown massacre and five months after Indiana witnessed a $51 million U.S. Senate race, the political TV ads have returned.

Common Sense Patriots rally draws Second Amendment supporters to Valpo

VALPARAISO | The price of liberty is to be eternally vigilant, William Morgan told those gathered Saturday at a Second Amendment support rally.

PHIL WIELAND: Putting presidential oath under the gun

It's only 35 words carefully crafted by the Founding Fathers as part of the Constitution and uttered by fewer than four dozen men during our nation's history.

RICH JAMES: Commissioners, not NRA, run Lake County

Starting today, Times readers will see a new columnist, Rich James, on A3 on Sundays and Wednesdays, in the spot formerly occupied by the late Mark Kiesling's columns.

Push for gun limits in Illinois will wait until spring

SPRINGFIELD | A push to ban semiautomatic weapons in Illinois fizzled again Sunday.

10 Illinois counties say they want concealed carry

CHICAGO | Residents in some Illinois counties sent a message to lawmakers this week: Give citizens the right to carry concealed weapons.

BRIAN HOWEY: The attempted sale of Indiana’s Senate seat

In a U.S. Senate race engulfed by obfuscated national special interest money, Democrat Joe Donnelly charged that the seat is being “sold.”

GUEST COMMENTARY: It's time to get serious with criminals

Anti-firearms laws fail to reduce violent crime, rape and murder; however, liberals blame firearms for the deed of the criminal.

Valpo lawmaker seeks order in state's riot of license plates

INDIANAPOLIS | If Forrest Gump were to survey the backs of Hoosier vehicles he might say an Indiana license plate is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get.

NRA will spend $100,000 in next month to support Mourdock for U.S. Senate

INDIANAPOLIS | The National Rifle Association will spend at least $100,000 on advertising and send more than 1 million letters urging Hoosiers to support State Treasurer Richard Mourdock in Indiana's Republican U.S. Senate primary.

NRA ad endorsing Mourdock over Lugar

The National Rifle Association is taking to the airwaves to urge Hoosiers to support State Treasurer Richard Mourdock over U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar in Indiana's Republican U.S. Senate race.

BRIAN HOWEY: Why Indiana Dems are in bed with Mourdock

In the television age of Indiana politics, no incumbent U.S. senator has ever faced a credible challenge in a primary. Thus, Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock's challenge to U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar in the May 8 GOP primary is breaking new ground.

PHIL WIELAND: For once legislators stepped away from the plates

The Indiana Legislature has adjourned, so let's look back at its accomplishments and wonder if this is one disaster even ServPro couldn't make look like it never happened.