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USA Today: Reagan's influence lives on in U.S. courts

12:05am Wednesday, May 14, 2008

They became the first judges in more than a half-century to say the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns... They are prominent appeals court judges appointed by President Reagan in the 1980s — the products of an unprecedented, meticulous and often controversial screening process that transformed the politics of judicial nominations. Named to an influential set of 13...

Give an hour or two and advance our gun rights

12:10am Tuesday, May 13, 2008

By Scott Seibert Last week I received a call from Brian, a campaign aid for Ohio Senate candidate Jim Hughes ( http://www.vote4hughes.com/ ). His staff and a bunch of volunteers were getting together again Saturday May 10 to commence another "lit drop" [literature drop] in the Hilliard neighborhoods. I had participated in an earlier lit drop a couple weeks ago, and found it to be a very...

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Bloomberg Outrage: Asks judge to ban Second Amendment references!

12:05am Tuesday, May 13, 2008

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has moved from outrage to atrocity by asking anti-gun activist federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during a civil lawsuit trial beginning May 27 against Georgia gun dealer Jay Wallace, proprietor at Adventure Outdoors. The New York Sun reported that Bloomberg’s attorneys made the request. Alan Gottlieb, founder of the...

Lautenberg's travesty goes to the Supreme Court

12:10am Monday, May 12, 2008

By Tim Inwood For many years the United States Government could not deprive you of your rights, without due process of law and a felony conviction. However, since the passage of the Lautenberg Amendment in 1996 tens of thousands of Americans have been deprived of their right to keep and bear arms for mere misdemeanors.

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Gun Rights Week Coverage on Glenn Beck

12:05am Monday, May 12, 2008

In honor of NRA's upcoming annual meeting and his keynote address to NRA's annual banquet on Saturday May 17, Glenn Beck is holding "Gun Rights Week" on both his radio and T.V. shows. These shows will be broadcast on the Premiere Radio Network's 280 stations from 9 a.m. to noon, Eastern, and on CNN Headline News Network every night at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Each day, Glenn will feature a new gun...

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Castle Doctrine hearing & vote rescheduled for May 14

11:32am Friday, May 09, 2008

House Criminal Justice Committee Chairman Rep. John White's office has been doing a yeomans' job as he works to juggle both the House and Senate versions of Castle Doctrine legislation. The House version, HB264, has received four hearings in White's committee, and a fifth hearing and possible vote scheduled for yesterday was put off until next week, when the committee will instead take up...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. Chairman posts open letter to Justice Paul Pfeifer as another brutal crime occurs in Ohio park

9:13am Friday, May 09, 2008

"What's the need to be packing in a public park? What's the compelling need?" - Republican Ohio Supreme Court Justice Paul Pfeifer, April 9, 2008 Two weeks ago, it was a man stabbed in the face in a Toledo park at the conclusion of an evening jog. This week, it's a woman kidnapped from the Equestrian Center of the Lorain County Metro Parks’ Carlisle Reservation, raped and shot in the back before...

My new normal

12:10am Thursday, May 08, 2008

By Breda of The Breda Fallacy The state of Ohio says that I am now allowed to carry a concealed handgun. The license itself is a little plastic thing, similar to my drivers license. I keep looking at it, somewhat bemused. It bears a photo of me looking grim, some personal information, and a number that I can only assume represents my place in the line of people who have applied and been accepted...