Plain Dealer editorial on restaurant carry offers proof of the power of grassroots gun groups

by Ken Hanson, Esq. Saturday April 23, 2011 marked a personal milestone for me. On this day, I personally became enough of a pain-in-the-ass to The Cleveland Plain Dealer that my name earned search meta-tag status on Cleveland.com. In a hysterical (in both the "funny" sense and "foaming at the mouth, chewing the carpet" sense) editorial column, Plain Dealer columnist Brent Larkin lamented the...

Letter-writers provide facts on restaurant carry legislation to Columbus Dispatch readers

by Chad D. Baus Newspapers across the state have responded to the Ohio Senate's overwhelming, bi-partisan passage of SB17 (Restaurant & Car Carry Rules Fix legislation) with the typical 'Chicken Little' cries that we have come to expect from the biased media. In an editorial entitled " Cold beer, hot lead go together...how? " The Cleveland Plain Dealer 's Connie Schultz, wife of anti-gun U.S...

Legislation to Protect Gun Owners' Rights, Reform Oversight of Federally Licensed Firearms Dealers Introduced in Congress

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Congressman Jason Altmire (PA-04) has joined with U.S. Congressman Steve King (IA-05) to introduce legislation that will clarify regulations and remove unnecessary restrictions on federally licensed firearms dealers and importers in the United States. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) Reform Act would modernize and improve the BATFE by...

CBS: Gun shop owner expressed concerns early on in "gunwalker" scandal

CBS News is reporting that damning, newly-obtained emails show that a key gun shop owner made explicit concerns in writing last year in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms' "gunwalking" scandal. From the report : Starting in late 2009, ATF allegedly directed an undetermined number of Phoenix-area gun shop owners to go ahead with sales of thousands of assault rifles and other weapons to...

Buckeye Firearms Association's Joe Eaton discusses restaurant carry legislation on Cincinnati's 700WLW

On April 15, Buckeye Firearms Association Region Leader Joe Eaton was invited to discuss passage of SB17 by an overwhelming, veto-proof margin in the Senate with 700WLW's The Big Show host Bill Cunningham. Eaton did a superb job of explaining what the legislation will and won't do for concealed handgun license-holders in restaurants that serve alcohol, and also addressed the disappointing delay...

Mugging of Plain Dealer employee and subsequent commentary offers lesson in mindset

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. - Proverbs 22:3 by Chad D. Baus On March 30, a Cleveland Plain Dealer employee was mugged in an isolated parking lot Wednesday night shortly after he left his office around 9:30 p.m. There is little doubt doubt, given the history of The Plain Dealer 's editorial animosity toward the practice of concealed...

Buckeye Firearms Association's Jim Irvine on The Sound of Ideas

Buckeye Firearms Association Chairman Jim Irvine was a studio guest on WCPN's The Sound of Ideas on Thursday, April 21 at 9:00 AM Eastern. Jim discussed SB17 (Restaurant & Car Carry Rules Fix) with a panel of guests that will also include: Toby Hoover, Executive Director, Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence Mayor Michael Coleman (D), Columbus State Sen. Tim Schaffer (R-31) Every weekday at 9:...

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