By Chris Chumita

There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio than 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 another anti-gunner running for president to the Tattoo Gypsy commenting on CCW, these articles should be a part of your required reading!

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A fitting tribute to a great American gun designer and patriot

By Tim Inwood

The other day while perusing the pages of The High
Road I learned that a petition is being circulated to create a
national holiday and postage stamp to celebrate the
life of John Moses Browning.

Interesting idea -
an uphill battle will lie ahead of that, I thought to myself. I
can see the anti-gunners fighting this idea tooth and
nail. The idea of honoring the life of a gun maker
would truly cause them to have a conniption. Perhaps
the very reason to pursue this, I thought.

No, not the
having a conniption part, but the idea of paying homage to the
legitimate and much needed talent of America’s gun
designers and manufacturers.

No matter how the
anti-gunners try to vilify and defame the American gun
makers, it must be remembered the private gun industry
arms the “Arsenal of Democracy”, and we need them to
protect our country. Such recognition for one of them
would be a point of pride. A tribute to how we need
such genius, not just in our past, but for all time.
Getting such recognition through Congressional
approval will indeed be the battle. However, given the fact that Congress
has spent time on such trivial tripe over the years, demanding they recognize the contributions of
John Browning should not be considered unreasonable.
After all the man designed some of the best weapons
that protected the Republic in the nineteenth,
twentieth and even the opening decade of the twenty-first century. That is indeed a feat. But there again,
so is getting something through Government red
tape…something I know a fair amount about...

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By John Longenecker

It’s good to see the right kind of bill moving through Congress.

U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) has introduced S. 388 – the equivalent of H.R. 226 – which is a national Right-To-Carry bill for reciprocity for state carry licensees for concealed weapons. In short, any person with a valid concealed carry permit issued by a state would be recognized to legally carry in any other state. The bill would require states to officially recognize each other’s carry permits just like nationwide recognition of your driver’s license.

Imagine: carrying your concealed weapon wherever you travel.

Because law enforcement derives its authority from the people, and for other compelling reasons, I’d like to suggest that citizens be recognized to carry wherever police can be summoned, including churches, schools, public buildings, airports and civil aircraft. Any exclusion of this is..well, exclusionary and unreasonable. There can be no such thing as restrictions on places where citizens may carry, yet police may when police operate on the authority given them by the people.

The Houston Chronicle, January 27, 2007, reports that nearly 260,000 persons in Texas alone legally carry concealed weapons. Large numbers are not unusual. Alaska and Vermont don’t even require a permit to carry a concealed handgun, and hundreds of thousands more nationwide carry their weapons legally. Some of your neighbors may have a CCW permit you aren’t aware of.

Why not?

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