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Ohio sportsmen see 13% increase in white-tailed deer harvest during gun season

12:05am Thursday, December 11, 2008

COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio hunters took 116,798 white-tailed deer during the state's popular, weeklong deer-gun season, which ran December 1 through 7, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. In 2007, hunters killed a preliminary total of 103,195 deer during the same time period. A total of 178,838 deer have been harvested so far this season when combining the...

KEEP CALLING: No amendments, no vote on HB450 (Armed Services 18-21 gun rights restoration) Wednesday

5:08pm Wednesday, December 10, 2008

COLUMBUS POLICE SPOKESPERSON: ARMING OUR SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN AKIN TO ARMING "GANGBANGERS" In opposition testimony on December 11, Columbus Police Sgt. and legislative liaison Mike Weinman suggested that HB450 would "give cart blanc to gangbangers who will threaten police officer safety." Representatives from Buckeye Firearms Association and the Ohio Rifle and Pistol Association offered proponent...

Columbus Dispatch editorial parrots gun grabbers' new pitch to Obama

12:10am Wednesday, December 10, 2008

By Jeff Riley In an editorial published on Sunday November 30th, 2008 the Columbus Dispatch agitates for "closing" private sales loophole for gun owners. Interesting timing, given a Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence-issued press release on the same date, addressing the same topic. You can read the Dispatch editorial, which chides Congress as having "failed" to enforce background checks on "...

Early Brady Plans Revealed; Push to end all private sales tops list

12:05am Wednesday, December 10, 2008

EDITOR'S NOTE: When reading the following op-ed, keep in mind Brady Campaign spokesman Peter Hamm's comment on Monday that gun owners who are purchasing firearms in advance of the Obama's inauguration are "stupid" . By Alan Korwin "Universal background checks for EVERY gun sold in this country." Plenty of gun-ban speculation is flying. I have this quote direct from Sarah Brady in a letter...

URGENT: Time running out for passage of HB450 (Armed Services 18-21 gun rights restoration)

7:44pm Monday, December 08, 2008

In what has become an all too familiar story each lame duck session, it is once again necessary to ask Ohio gun owners to call their state Senators and encourage their support for a pro-gun bill that will otherwise die at the end of the legislative session on December 31, 2008. Time is running out for Rep. Bruce Goodwin's House Bill 450, which passed the Ohio House more than six months ago with...

All Politicians are not the Same - an Interview with Representative-elect Seth Morgan

12:10am Monday, December 08, 2008

By Gerard Valentino Buckeye Firearms Association Chairman Jim Irvine is fond of saying that all politicians are not the same, despite people’s belief to the contrary. As proof that not all politicians are the same, Buckeye Firearms Association has set up interviews with pro-gun legislators, and other elected officials who believe strongly in the right to bear arms. In this installment we...

Why America’s gun owners are justifiably up in arms

12:05am Monday, December 08, 2008

By Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman From the prospect of an incoming president and vice president with decidedly anti-gun-rights voting records, to a liberal West Coast mayor determined to ban firearms by “executive order” without benefit of city council or legislative review, American gun owners have good reason to doubt the sincerity of Liberal Democrats now in control of Congress and soon to...

U.S. Interior Dept. rules in favor of concealed carry in national parks

4:20pm Friday, December 05, 2008

BELLEVUE, WA – Today’s announcement that the Interior Department has amended its rules and will henceforth allow licensed concealed carry in national parks was hailed as a victory for the Second Amendment by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. “No longer will American citizens be required to leave their right of self-defense at the gates of a national park,” said CCRKBA...