Northwest Ohio newspaper shows up Pulitzer-winning Plain Dealer on gun coverage

Defiance Crescent gets facts by looking past unreliable Brady Campaign anti-gun propaganda By Chad D. Baus On Wednesday, April 18, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published an article entitled “In Ohio its really easy to buy a gun.” It was immediately apparent that the writer, Plain Dealer reporter Terry Oblander, relied on incorrect information from the Brady Campaign. (I highly encourage readers to...

Op-Ed: Signs of Intelligence?

By Fred Thompson ABC Radio One of the things that's got to be going through a lot of peoples' minds now is how one man with two handguns, that he had to reload time and time again, could go from classroom to classroom on the Virginia Tech campus without being stopped. Much of the answer can be found in policies put in place by the university itself. Virginia, like 39 other states, allows citizens...

D.C. Gun Ban Update: Mayor Fenty petitions for en banc hearing

By Tim Inwood "The District of Columbia and Mayor Adrian Fenty respectfully petition this Court for rehearing en banc " With these words the Mayor of Washington D.C. launches his challenge to the D.C. Circuit Court's ruling in Parker vs. Washington D.C. , made on March 9,2007. For those of us who have fought hard to restore our Second Amendment rights, the Parker ruling was a stunning victory...

Pro-gun legislator Kevin DeWine Chosen as GOP Deputy Director

Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to report that the Ohio Republican Party State Central and Executive Committee chose State Rep. Kevin DeWine to be the state party's deputy director. Kevin DeWine, the current Speaker Pro Tempore, is a three-time endorsee of this political action committee. His voting record in the Ohio House is solid for gun-owners and sportsmen. He has co-sponsored and...

Plain Dealer victim of bad information from Brady Campaign?

Editor's Note: The following information has been distributed as a press release to Ohio media outlets in response to the information contained in the Cleveland Plain Dealer article “In Ohio it's really easy to buy a gun”. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE It appears that the Plain Dealer’s Terry Oblander relied on incorrect information from the Brady Campaign in his April 18 piece “In Ohio it's really easy...

Governor Strickland calls for Task Force on Campus Security

By Chad D. Baus In the wake of the massacre of 32 defenseless students on the 'gun free' campus of Virginia Tech, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland (D) has called for a review of safety issues on Ohio's college campuses. Though Strickland himself has a pristine record of voting to protect our Second Amendment rights, the person he selected to establish a Task Force on Campus Security is anything but...

WARNING: False information in Plain Dealer story on Ohio campus victim zones

In an article that otherwise took a very balanced, healthy look at the problem of disarming adults on college campuses, the Cleveland Plain Dealer has published some factually incorrect information. Be warned - following this information from the Cleveland Plain Dealer could get you arrested: Ohio residents with a special permit have been allowed to carry concealed weapons in public since 2004...

As predicted: Ohio gun ban extremist screams ''It's all about the guns!''

In the hours after the massacre at Virginia Tech, we predicted that "in the coming days, gun control groups like the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, the Brady Bunch and the Joyce Foundation's Gun Guys, will be calling for tighter gun control measures as a result of this massacre." It didn't take days. In fact, gun ban extremist Toby Hoover, who fronts what often appears to be a one-woman...

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