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BARRY COUNTY, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – A Barry County homeowner says he took matters into his own hands Monday morning and shot a man he claims was trying to break into his home. The incident happened around 7:00 am Monday morning on Boyson Road near 9 Mile Road in Orangeville. Investigators with the Barry County Sheriff's Department are looking at whether the shooting is actually self defense. The homeowner says he shot an intruder, but deputies are looking at who should be charged. “We have to sort out was it self-defense or was it something criminal that either party had...

The people of Detroit are taking no prisoners. Justifiable homicide in the city shot up 79 percent in 2011 from the previous year, as citizens in the long-suffering city armed themselves and took matters into their own hands. The local rate of self-defense killings now stands 2,200 percent above the national average. Residents, unable to rely on a dwindling police force to keep them safe, are fighting back against the criminal scourge on their own. And they’re offering no apologies. “We got to have a little Old West up here in Detroit. That’s what it’s gonna take,” Detroit resident Julia...

Michigan - -(Ammoland.com)- Senate Bill 58 was introduced by Senator Green early last year and co-sponsored by Senators Kowall, Brandenburg, Colbeck, Casperson, Emmons, Jansen, Moolenaar and Robertson. It is currently sitting with the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill would eliminate the so-called “Pistol Free Zones” for CPL (Concealed Pistol License) holders. As readers of this column may recall, I often refer to the “Pistol Free Zones” as “Mass Murderer Empowerment Zones.” This is because the list includes several places where mass killings have occurred. As any thinking person knows, the only effect of any “gun free zone” that is not...

CNN) - Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann denied reports that she was negotiating an endorsement of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Bachmann, who suspended her presidential campaign last month, said on Wednesday that she is not ready to back a candidate. "I know there was a lot of speculation earlier today. Governor Romney had gone to Minnesota. People were putting out rumors that I was going to be endorsing. I am not," she said. "I'm not in negotiations to do an endorsement, so I want to make that absolutely clear. I have absolutely no plans to do that."

DEARBORN, Mich. (WJBK) - A woman is in the hospital after witnesses say she was assaulted at a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant in Dearborn over the weekend. Family members tell FOX 2 the woman was celebrating her grandson's seventh birthday Sunday afternoon when she asked patrons at a nearby table to clean up their language. "She said, 'please don't use that language with children,'" said the victim's daughter told. "They told her to 'shut the f--- up and turn around.'"

Nearly 300 airmen of the Michigan National Guard returned to Selfridge Air National Guard Base after deployment to Afghanistan. One after the other nearly 300 airmen from the Michigan Air National Guard emerged from a narrow hallway at Selfridge Air National Guard Base into a sea of people gathered to welcome friends, family and loved ones home Monday evening after a four-month deployment to Afghanistan. The airmen, members of the 127th Wing of the Michigan Air National Guard, were met with warm embraces, and countless hugs and kisses from those who longed for their safe return during their 120-day deployment....

Ronnie Dee Mixon had broken into a home in Warren, Michigan, when he was shot by the home owner, a retired police officer. Mr. Mixon was on parole for three home invasions in 2009 and 2010. The police chief said that breaking into a home is a very dangerous thing to do, and that he would discourage it. It appears that the retired police officer was justified and that no charges will be filed agains him. He is 63 years old.

DETROIT - Police are looking at security camera video from a wild double shooting on Detroit's west side Wednesday. It happened at family owned Legends Coney Island at West Davison and Linwood Wednesday morning. A man on his way to work was waiting for his order at 2:30am, when a young man wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt over his head ran in to rob the customer. That robber failed to see the back of the man’s jacket marked "SECURITY." He chose to rob a victim who is an armed security guard. Still, the robber shot the man in his legs....

The Democratic senator who savaged Jon Corzine at a high-profile Capitol Hill hearing this week had another reason to go hard on her former colleague — she recently pressed him for campaign contributions but didn’t get any. “She would literally call once every two or three weeks,” one Corzine intimate said of Sen. Debbie Stabenow (DMich.). “She called all the time.” Stabenow, chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, had blasted the former senator and New Jersey governor Tuesday for his failure to explain what happened to $1.2 billion in missing customer money from his bankrupt firm, MF Global. “This isn’t...

One of any man’s worst nightmares became reality for a home invasion suspect in Flint last month. The 28-year-old Flint man was trying to force his way into a home after banging on the door and falsely identifying himself as police when he was shot by the homeowner, who told police the suspect was reaching into his pocket for what he thought was a gun. The bullet went through the suspect’s hip and into his most private of parts. When officers arrived and asked the injured suspect what happened, he replied “Figure it out yourself,” according to police reports. “To...

The “take” so far from Michigan's forced unionization of supposed home health care workers for the Service Employees International Union is $28 million. That tally is going up on a monthly basis. The overwhelming majority of these dollars can be used for almost anything the SEIU desires, including advertising, issue advocacy, lobbying, get out the vote efforts and other political purposes. According to the Michigan Department of Community Health, the amount of "dues" taken out of subsidy checks that go to "home health care workers'” checks and passed on to the SEIU so far is as follows: 2007: $5,040,263 2008:...

Michael Smith and I have just filed an amicus brief that I drafted for Arming Women Against Rape & Endangerment (AWARE) in the Michigan Second Amendment stun gun case, People v. Yanna. As I noted in April, a Michigan trial court had struck down the Michigan stun gun ban on Second Amendment grounds; the case is now on appeal to the Michigan Court of Appeals. I quote below the body of the argument in the brief, minus the footnotes; but if youÂ’re interested in the issue, you might just want to read the PDF. The brief is built on the...

Archbishop Allen Vigneron of Detroit Detroit, Mich., Dec 2, 2011 / 03:08 am (CNA).- Responding to decades of depopulation in Detroit and other declines in Catholic numbers, an advisory council for the Archdiocese of Detroit has proposed closing nine parishes and merging 60 parishes into 21.The recommendations were formed through the parishes themselves and reviewed and amended by the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council, a group of mostly lay advisors.“The recommendations are not in themselves the final plans for the future of the Archdiocese of Detroit, although they are serious and well-researched proposals,” the archdiocese said Nov. 30.Archbishop Allen Vigneron of...

DETROIT (WJBK) - A pair of would-be burglars pick the wrong house to rob on Detroit's West Side. Neighbors tell Fox 2 two men tried to break into a home on the 9000 block of Coyle Friday afternoon. As it turns out, that home belongs to a retired Detroit Police officer. Neighbors say when the suspects broke into the home, the man fired his gun, killing one of the suspects. The other suspect managed to run away and is still on the loose. Friends of the retired officer tell us he spent 27 years on the force. "We've been neighbors...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) - Police in Kalamazoo arrested a man who they say robbed a former classmate at gunpoint. Public safety officers were called around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday to a home in the 500 block of E. Kalamazoo Avenue. They arrived and talked to the victim who said his business partner got a long gun and came to help fend off the suspect. The suspect ran from the scene after stealing some of the victim's property, including his car keys, police said. The victim identified the suspect as a former high school classmate. Police were able to track down where...

Good news for Michigan residents who have licenses to carry concealed pistols -- they will soon be able to carry their guns into neighboring Wisconsin. In an odd twist, they will be able to do it even before Wisconsin residents. Wisconsin's concealed carry law goes into effect on November 1. The new law will have reciprocity agreements with 25 states, including Michigan, according to Examiner.com. Wisconsin will not start issuing permits until after the law goes into effect, and it's not known how long that process will take. That means Michigan residents will be able to legally carry a gun...

A FEW weeks ago, Katy Butler, 16, updated her status on Facebook with an enthusiastic shout-out for Google+, the social network’s latest rival. “Oh my God Google! I love it! I was signing up for Google+ and they asked me my gender and the choices were male, female or OTHER!!!!! Oh ya Google!” Katy, a high school junior in Ann Arbor, Mich., first encountered “other” as a gender option at a meeting of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and Allies (LGBTQQA) in seventh grade. “For those of us in the nonconforming gender community, it is great to see Google...

DETROIT, Mich (WXYZ) - Police say a thief who tried to rob the Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society on Detroit's east side was shot and killed by an 88-year-old employee who had his own gun. Officers say the 53-year-old suspect forced his way into the clinic after it closed on Saturday. He then roughed up the 88-year-old World War II veteran and demanded money. The 88-year-old is believed to be the clinic's doctor. However, police say the victim grabbed his own gun and fired two shots, killing the suspect. The man does have a permit to carry the gun. Even though police...

A grizzly bear killed a Michigan man whose body was found by hikers last week in Yellowstone National Park, officials said Monday. The victim was identified Monday as John Wallace of Chassell, Mich.

DETROIT — About 100 gun owners are expected to openly wear their weapons during a picnic at Detroit's Belle Isle park. Gun rights proponent Rick Ector says Sunday's event is intended to raise awareness to the legality of carrying handguns openly in Michigan if rules are followed.

The Justice Department has agreed to end its investigation into an international financial network with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and a Saudi prince in a settlement in excess of $30 million, sources tell the Investigative Project on Terrorism. But DOJ officials refuse to release a copy of the settlement or make any comment on it. "Unfortunately, we're unable to provide anything in connection with this matter," DOJ spokesman Charles Miller wrote in response to a query Aug. 16. He did not contest the existence of the settlement with the Islamic Investment Company of the Gulf (IICG). Repeated attempts to...

<p>DETROIT (WJBK) - Darrell Standberry said he's had a CCW for years and has never once fired his gun, but that all changed at a gas station on Detroit's west side Monday night.</p> <p>"(It's) like my American Express card. I don't leave home without it," he said.</p>

"The price of organic food is kind of through the roof," said Julie Bass. So, why not grow your own? However, Bass' garden is a little unique because it's in her front yard. "We thought it'd be really cool to do it so the neighbors could see. The kids love it. The kids from the neighborhood all come and help," she said. UPDATE: Story becomes internet sensation around the world, click here.>> Bass' cool garden has landed her in hot water with the City of Oak Park. Code enforcement gave her a warning, then a ticket and now she's been...

A two-part series on the ten-year history of reformed concealed carry in Michigan contains some blistering information about the gun prohibition lobby that ought to raise cheers among anyone who has had to explain what’s wrong with the folks at Washington CeaseFire. The reports appeared this weekend in the Detroit Free Press, a newspaper not known for being particularly friendly toward the Second Amendment, not unlike the Seattle Times or Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Those newspapers were split on Initiative 676 in 1997 (the P-I surprisingly opposed, the Times supported) the roundly-rejected, gun control measure that was pretty much the Titanic maiden...

"As soon as I opened the door, somebody grabbed me and took me outside and put me on the grass," Tossa said. "The first thing I thought was they were terrorists who want to kill me because I served in Iraq." The DEA agents were executing a search warrant. “I kept asking, what’s going on?” he said. “And they held my neck to the ground so I can’t talk.” According to the report, the DEA was executing a search warrant for Tossa’s landlord’s son, who apparently uses Tossa’s one-story house’s address for mailing. “Before they raid any house, they should...

The “Holy Doorman” of St. Bonaventure’s The Story of Venerable Solanus Casey By: Diane Morey Hanson When the doorbell of St. Bonaventure Monastery in Detroit rang, it sounded sharp and clear, like the clanging of a school bell. And if it rang in the wee hours of the morning, it nearly always startled the thirty or so residents out of their sleep. But for more than twenty years, one man hurried to open the heavy carved oak doors: Fr. Solanus Casey, “the porter of St. Bonaventure”—the humble, compassionate, healing priest who may one day be the first American-born man...

CORUNNA — A lawyer representing two Morrice area men and their late father’s estate has filed an appeal with the Michigan State Court of Appeals after a 35th Circuit Court judge threw out part of their lawsuit against the Shiawassee County Sheriff’s Office over the seizure of various weapons from the father’s home in 2007. The sons allege the Sheriff’s Office continues to illegally hold weapons they claim they have a legal right to. They also are suing the Sheriff’s Office for violation of their Second and 14th Amendment rights and for monetary damages. Todd and Troy Binkley, together with...

A case involving a 2008 protest by ‘radical queer’ activists at a Delta Township church comes to an end Gay rights activists who gained national attention when they disrupted Sunday morning services at Mount Hope Church in 2008 have reached an agreement that has ended the church’s suit against them. The agreement bans 13 of the protesters from entering the church, 202 S. Creyts Road in Delta Township, without permission and requires them to pay a total of $2,750 in damages. The church is also known as the Church of the Flags. The agreement also blocks the 13 protestors from...

DETROIT (WJBK) - Two guys walked in to a very busy Gents Barbershop at about 5:30 p.m. Friday on Whittier at Stratman on Detroit's east side. One with a gun said, "You know what time it is." What the two bad guys didn't know was two customers were legally carrying handguns. A man in a chair getting a cut took advantage of pulling his gun under the cover of the smock. When one bad guy said, "Why you stalling? Empty your pockets," he then fired a shot into the floor of the barber shop. That's when the customer in the...

Companies are making holsters designed for bras and skirts, and pistols small enough to go unnoticed. And where you live has a lot to do with how many might be in use. About one in six concealed weapon holders in Michigan is a woman, according to state police records kept since a new law 10 years ago made it easier to carry concealed guns. But just as a Booth Michigan analysis found there are wide differences among counties in the number of license holders per capita, so too are there disparities among the sexes. In Wayne County, 22 percent of...

WYOMING, Mich. (WZZM) - On July 1, it will be ten years since the Michigan Concealed Pistol Law took effect, and currently 270,000 state residents have a permit to carry a pistol. "I feel much better about going out in public," says permit holder Mike Visser at Silver Bullet Firearms in Wyoming. "I feel I am able to take an active role in the safety of my family and prevent and sort of violent attack." The concealed pistol law makes Michigan a "must carry" state. It means anyone who wants a concealed pistol permit can have one if they are...

DETROIT — The federal government on Monday awarded Michigan roughly $200 million toward a high-speed rail project that within three years is expected to shave 30 minutes off of a trip from Detroit to Chicago. The grant was part of a 15-state, $2 billion disbursal that ties into President Barack Obama’s broader goal of connecting 80 percent of Americans to high-speed rail in 25 years. The majority of Michigan’s funding will go to the development of a 135-mile, high-speed stretch between Dearborn and Kalamazoo, part of the federally designated “high-speed corridor” between Detroit and Chicago. Maximum speeds on the stretch...

FLINT (WJRT) -- (05/04/11) -- UPDATE -- A 16 year old who was shot by a homeowner as he entered her house has died. The shooting happened at around noon Tuesday in the 1900 block of Roselawn near Cloverlawn. Family members say their mother, in her late 50s, told them a kid was climbing through the window and she warned him she had a gun. The incident ended with her shooting the intruder. Neighbors say they heard some shots, and feared the woman who lives in the house got hit. They quickly learned she was fine, but the person trying...

Detroit Archbishop, Dearborn Police Chief Haddad, & Assistant Prosecutor Robert Moran Bow to Islam In the wake of the recent persecution of Pastor Terry Jones, I would like to take a look at the surrounding players and their pro-Islamic, anti-American actions. First we will start off with another weak Christian “leader”, the Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron. Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron joined with a group of religious leaders in opposing a Florida pastor’s plan to hold an anti-Muslim rally during Holy Week. “It is possible for an interfaith community of believers to live in peace and liberty, and to...

The sign outside the ballroom was matter-of-fact: "Unsigned $20. Signed $15. No Haggling." That matter-of-fact sign was next to a matter-of-fact pile of books, which sat on a matter-of-fact folding table. And sitting behind it was a matter-of-fact man, whom you might walk right past without so much as a glance. That's too bad, because he could become the next President of the United States. The man was Michigan Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, and he was signing copies of his new book, "Seize Freedom! American Truths and Renewal in a Chaotic Age," outside the Conservative Principles Conference in Des Moines late...

BAY CITY — When a Bay City party store worker wore a “stun gun” on the job for personal protection, he was charged with a crime. In a written opinion, 18th Circuit Court Judge Joseph K. Sheeran dismissed the weapons charge facing 41-year-old Dean S. Yanna on the basis that the law violates Yanna’s Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

BAY CITY — When a Bay City party store worker wore a “stun gun” on the job for personal protection, he was charged with a crime. A Bay County judge ruled today, though, that the Michigan law prohibiting possession of stun guns is unconstitutional. In a written opinion, 18th Circuit Court Judge Joseph K. Sheeran dismissed the weapons charge facing 41-year-old Dean S. Yanna on the basis that the law violates Yanna’s Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Sheeran concluded that because state law bans, rather than regulates, stun guns and Tasers, it violates the Second Amendment. archey...

The Michigan State Police have started using handheld machines called "extraction devices" to download personal information from motorists they pull over, even if they're not suspected of any crime. Naturally, the ACLU has a problem with this. The devices, sold by a company called Cellebrite, can download text messages, photos, video, and even GPS data from most brands of cell phones. The handheld machines have various interfaces to work with different models and can even bypass security passwords and access some information.

This is what the recession looks like in a country that’s decided to disinvest in public education. Reuters reports that Robert Bobb, the emergency financial manager appointed to address the Detroit’s bleeding public school system, has decided to send notices to all 5,466 unionized public school teachers. And 250 administrators will get layoff notices as well.

PROGRESSIVE WANTS TO RESCUE MOTOR CITY WITH SEX AND DRUGS Could Detroit become America’s version of Amsterdam? As far as oft-mayoral candidate Geoffrey Fieger is concerned, why not give it a shot? Feiger, who gained notoriety as Jack “Dr. Death” Kevorkian’s attorney, believes that legalizing pot and prostitution would attract young people to Detroit, which would turn the decaying city around “in five minutes.” “I could turn it around in five minutes. I’d shovel the snow and I’d clean the streets and parks. Then, I’d tell the police department to leave marijuana alone and don’t spend one dime trying to...

Former Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land will spend the next couple of weeks considering a 2012 challenge to U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing. The Byron Center Republican, speaking today after former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra announced he would not seek the position, said: “I'm truly, deeply concerned about the overspending in Washington, D.C., and what that means for our children and grandchildren. I'm going to spend the next couple of weeks seriously looking at this.” She said Hoekstra, R-Holland, obviously would have been a strong candidate. “Pete Hoekstra was a great congressman and he would have made an excellent...

Herman Cain speaking to tea party in Lansing, Michigan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-mWa4g_0vk

Several months ago, Education Action Group published a scathing exposé on the Wisconsin Education Association Council-affiliated WEA Trust, a union-contrived insurance entity that is forced upon the majority of Wisconsin schools during collective bargaining negotiations. It is difficult to determine the extent to which the union benefits from this cozy arrangement, but judging by a similar set-up in Michigan, the union is likely doing very nicely. In Michigan, the state’s largest teachers union (the Michigan Education Association) owns MESSA, a health insurance company used by the vast majority of public schools in the state. MESSA has a reputation for...

An Oak Park couple is suing the Applebee’s restaurant chain after their toddler was inadvertently served a margarita instead of apple juice. Taylor Dill-Reese and Dominic Wilson filed a lawsuit in Oakland County Circuit Court seeking in excess of $25,000 in damages after their 15-month-old son, Dominic Wilson Jr., consumed alcohol on Friday at the Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar on 14 Mile in Madison Heights. “We’re asking for some accountability,” said Southfield attorney William Stern, representing the parents and the boy. “This could have turned out very badly.” The boy’s parents had ordered him a kid’s meal – a...

Online PR News – 11-April-2011 –Rick Ector, owner of the Internet blog "Legally Armed In Detroit" (LAID), is organizing an Open Carry dinner on Thursday, April 21, 2011. It will be held at the Elias Brothers Restaurant on East Jefferson Avenue in downtown Detroit at 6pm. Over 50 handgun toting patrons are expected to attend and participate in the event. In the state of Michigan, it is legal for a person 18 years of age to display his own registered pistol in a completely visible holster without a special permit, as long as he does not venture into a state...

Noise pollution. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! When it comes to firearms, it comes with the territory. Why anyone does not have the ability in Michigan to suppress the ear-damaging noise of guns is beyond me. But, if you attach a sound suppressor to your firearm in this state, you’d be guilty of a felony, unless you have a Title II firearms license for machine guns, sound suppressors and destructive devices. Recently, Washington state has allowed its citizens the option of using sound suppressors on firearms and, believe it or not, even the state sheriffs and police chiefs...

A man police describe as "troubled" allegedly broke into Flint City Hall on Sunday and vandalized the inside of the building. Police responded to a call at City Hall and found the windows in the front door broken. Inside the building, police found signs of vandalism, according to a news release. Police found the male suspect in the bathroom. "We found the suspect in the bathroom washing his hands. We have no reason to believe that anyone else is involved," Police Chief Alvern Lock said in the statement. "We are still investigating, but right now everything points to just an...

She should be. She is the Chair of the Agriculture Committee in the Senate, the most liberal Senator of all 100, and she votes with environmentalists 100% of the time. Which of these things don't go together? The National Farm Bureau is very opposed to the ever-increasing power of the EPA, and they are more pro-active about it than ever before. But then, the strangulation of farming interests and industry by the EPA created that friction. Yet Stabenow probably believes she has covered all of her bases in her cover amendment to the small business bill. She delays the EPA...

In a notable victory for the freedom of speech, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled that Detroit's SMART bus system must run my religious liberty bus ads offering help to people wishing to leave Islam safely, without having to live in fear. This victory has been a long time coming. SMART initially refused to run my ads back in the spring of 2010. Despite the desperate need for resources for Muslims under threat for leaving Islam, the city of Detroit refused to run our freedom campaign on the Dearborn and Detroit buses. In May of that year, my...

US Judge Rules for Muslim Defector Bus AdsBy DAVID N. GOODMAN Associated Press Updated: Friday, 01 Apr 2011, 10:40 PM EDT DETROIT (AP) - A group that says it helps Muslims quit their faith has won a court order against Detroit's regional transit system for rejecting bus ads that ask, "Fatwa on your head? ... Leaving Islam? Got questions? Get answers!" U.S. District Judge Denise Page Hood granted a preliminary injunction Thursday against the bus system, which was sued last year by the American Freedom Defense Initiative. The advocacy group says the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation violated the...