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AP: Stings on Ohio gun shops questioned

12:05am Monday, February 12, 2007

The Associated Press is reporting federal officials believe private investigators hired by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to conduct undercover sting operations on gun shops in Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia could be breaking the law, and the dealers caught making illegal sales in the stings will not face criminal prosecution. From the story: “Although a decision has...

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Fear the guy with 3000 lb weapon, not the concealed one

12:15am Friday, February 09, 2007

By Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch recently published a graphic enumerating data involving arrests of aggressive drivers in 2006 (click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized graphic). href="http://www.dispatch.com/2007/02/05/aggressivedrivingarrests.gif" target="_blank"> src="http://www.dispatch.com/2007/02/05/aggressivedrivingarrests.gif" height=150 width=134 border=0 align="right">...

Hannity ask Giuliani the right questions on guns

12:10am Friday, February 09, 2007

On Monday, February 5, 2007, Republican Presidential hopeful (and, according to polls, frontrunner) Rudy Giuliani appeared on FOXNews' "Hannity & Colmes" . To his credit, co-host Sean Hannity grilled Giuliani on some of the controversial issues upon which the former mayor finds himself in opposition to the GOP base. A partial transcript, devoted to their discussion on gun issues, follows. As...

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Kevin DeWine Makes Bid for Deputy Chairman, Ohio Republican Party

12:10am Thursday, February 08, 2007

By Larry S. Moore Since the November 2006 elections many political pundits have wondered about the future direction and leadership of the Ohio Republican Party (ORP). More than a few columns were written conjecturing whether ORP Chairman Bob Bennett would step down or not. Many gun owners hoped Bennett would be gone. It is now known that Bennett intends to stay for another term but has laid the...

Op-Ed: Second Amendment Freedoms Aided the Civil Rights Movement

12:05am Thursday, February 08, 2007

February 6, 2007 By Ken Blackwell Townhall.com Prominent and indispensable among our rights is the "right of the people to keep and bear arms." Second Amendment rights, never to be infringed, were posited by our nation’s founders as among the most essential tenets of the free and just republic they sought to establish. The empowering freedom of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is...

Petition Congress to create a John Moses Browning holiday

12:10am Wednesday, February 07, 2007

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...

WDTN's ''Getting the guns'' far short of complete story

12:10am Tuesday, February 06, 2007

The following comments were submitted by Buckeye Firearms Association's Larry S. Moore to Dayton's WDTN News 2, in response to a news investigation on Dayton's problem with gun violence. The entire TV broadcast can be viewed by clicking here . Overall, your story was well done. I do, however, have several concerns. First, let's call Dayton's problem what it is....a crime problem...an out of...

Editorial analysis: New York Sun logic vs. Toledo Blade emotion

12:05am Tuesday, February 06, 2007

By Chad D. Baus Anti-gunners have been trying to make much of late out of a series of stories published last week by the Florida Sun-Sentinel, which revealed that among those who have been issued Florida CCW licenses, 1,400 were people who pleaded guilty or no contest to felonies but qualified because of a loophole in the law, 216 were people with outstanding warrants, 128 were people with active...