By Jim Irvine

With the passage of HB347 last year, the Governor’s threat of a veto coming to fruition, and the culmination of a veto override, we all learned some lessons about how the political process works, and how we worked within that system.

Judging by the results, we won. So we were good enough, but there is always room for improvement. In this article I will discuss some things we did right. Tomorrow I will chronicle some areas where we can improve.

What Buckeye Firearms Association did right:

We were there. Sometimes showing up is 90% of winning. Buckeye Firearms leaders were at every committee meeting, and every vote for HB347. We met with legislators, expressed concern over some issues, and praised progress on others. We relayed your feedback to keep the legislature in touch with their grassroots constituents. Your personal calls and letters gave strength to our statements.

We answered questions, sometimes doing extensive digging to find them. We proved to those that matter that we are more than a web site and a few members; we are a trusted source of information and ideas. We are an asset to them and are true to our word. We earned respect that we will build upon this session and beyond.

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By John Longenecker

Huge for all Americans.

Let me say something to you right now: as a solution to social crisis, liberty is always better than takings. Always better than nearly any social program out there.

The formula for bureaucrats is interference. The measure of success on their personal score card is substituting constituent dependency on their agencies for the joy and happiness of personal independence. With me so far?

The largess of officials is a reflection of their self-indulgent, feel-good desires, often well-intentioned, sometimes hostile to the U.S., always indifferent to the real needs of people, sometimes the best thing being to leave them alone.

Government’s job isn’t to nanny people, but as executives to protect citizen rights and the nation.

The official solution to shootings, other criminal violence and various crises is always the takings, the interferences, the restrictions, and more of the self-indulgent feel-good things that pass for compassion, but which are actually indifferent to our homes and communities, namely by punishing those who didn’t do the shooting. This includes non-gunowners. Stay with me.

Gun control is one such example as something that affects not only liberty nuts, but the non-gun owners as well, more persons who didn’t do the shooting. The key is to understand how gun control figures in the entire spectrum of self-indulgent social programs imposed on all of us.

With regard to S. 388, introduced by U.S. Senator John Thune (R - S.D.) the idea is more intuitive than counter-intuitive as gun control has been.

I’m going to say now why this is huge.

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By Chris Chumita

There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are all worthy of mention.

What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens.

From a home invasion to how "unspeak" is used to take our guns, these articles should be a part of your required reading!

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