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Ohio House and Senate Candidates Endorsed!

Submitted by jirvine on Thu, 07/13/2006 - 23:16.

Buckeye Firearms Association is proud to endorse 43 candidates for State Representative and two for State Senate!
These candidates want to go to Columbus to fight for your rights for the next two years. If we each give two days to help them get there, we will be rewarded with a legislature who understands your concerns and will work with us to address them. All politicians are different, and none will agree with your views 100% of the time, but each of these candidates has earned our endorsement and respect.
If you have not yet volunteered, or are not sure of your district, you can volunteer and we will contact you with that information.
Click on 'Read More' for the endorsement links.

Ohio House Endorsements

Ohio Senate Endorsements

Buckeye Firearms will continue to endorse good candidates leading up to the November 7 elections, but these excellent candidates need your help now to ensure we have a legislature that will help us reform Ohio’s outdated firearms laws and restore your rights.
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Open records should not extend to gun owners' private information

Submitted by cbaus on Thu, 07/13/2006 - 07:35.

by Chad D. Baus

Gun owners used to finding themselves diametrically opposed to the media when it comes to the topic of concealed handgun license records being publicly accessible might be surprised to find themselves in agreement with much of a recent editorial by Akron Beacon Journal's Managing Editor Mizell Stewart III, entitled "Government records laws benefit us all".

From the editorial:

    Government in the sunshine.

    That is the notion that our government should operate in the open -- and that a representative democracy depends on citizens who have access to the chambers where decisions are made and the information those decisions are based on.

    Journalists spend an awful lot of time defending the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press, and rightly so. But the right of citizens to petition the government for redress of grievances is just as important.

    Think about that right this way: In the absence of open records and open meetings, you would likely have no idea what to petition the government for.

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