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Brady Campaign Loses Lawsuit Against Armslist - Again

3:00pm Wednesday, August 20, 2014

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled in favor of the firearms classified website Armslist on Tuesday when it held that, as a matter of law, Armslist could not be liable for the criminal acts of a person who illegally acquired a firearm using the Armslist website. Alex Vesely, with the support of the Brady Center’s Legal Action Project, sued Armslist on behalf of his...

Dayton news media highlight Temporary Emergency License option for concealed carry

by Chad D. Baus & Jim Irvine

7:00am Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Recently, WKEF (ABC Dayton) and WRGT (Fox Dayton) aired a report on Ohio's temporary emergency license, which has been part of the state's concealed carry law since it was originally passed in 2004. The reports were published in response to passage of a similar law this summer in Kentucky. In the wake of these reports, Buckeye Firearms Association Treasurer Joe Eaton was invited to be an in-...

Bloomberg outfit pressures Ohio-based Kroger to ban guns; Company says "we trust our customers"

3:00pm Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg's gun control group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America has launched yet another campaign to try and pressure a corporation into banning guns in its retail outlets. The astroturf group claims they are responding to "recent demonstrations by open carry activists in Kroger stores in Ohio and Texas." While they have claimed success in cases involving...

Headline: Ivy Leaguer plagued by stalker may drop out over school’s anti-gun policy

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, August 19, 2014

FoxNews.com is reporting that a 20-year-old Dartmouth student says she may have to give up her Ivy League dream and drop out of school because the prestigious college won't allow her to carry a gun -- to protect herself against a predator. From the article : Taylor Woolrich, a junior, says Dartmouth administrators told her they won’t let her carry a gun on campus, even though she lives in fear of...

Op-Ed: Brain Dead Broke

by Chuck Michel

3:00pm Monday, August 18, 2014

Who knew that when she claimed to be “dead broke” Hillary Clinton was talking about her moral and intellectual disabilities. During a CNN sponsored campaign advertisement cloaked as a “town hall meeting”, Hillary Clinton – an obvious Democrat candidate for President in 2016 – had a few nasty things to say about gun owners. Clinton opined that gun owners, and those who take constitutional mandates...

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HSUS - leading the attacks on lead ammo

by Larry S. Moore

7:00am Monday, August 18, 2014

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is at it again. Well, truthfully, they never really stopped. They are just attempting to re-energize their base by attacking hunters and gun owners. The largest animal rights anti-hunting organization in the U.S., and possibly the world, has filed a petition with the Department of the Interior demanding legislation to stop the use of lead-based...

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Bloomberg video proves need for equalizer

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Friday, August 15, 2014

Imagine you’re a single mother of a small child. You’re 5’2”, 125 lbs. You and your young son are alone in your home one afternoon when your abusive ex-husband shows up at your door – 6’, 180 lbs – demanding that you give him the child. You have a restraining order against him, but he has chosen to ignore that and is violently pounding on your front door as he yells at you to open the door and...

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Obscure commission considers "modernizing" Ohio constitution on right to bear arms

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, August 15, 2014

Does the "right to bear arms" section of Ohio's consitution need to be "modernized?" Some members of the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission (OCMC) think so. I recently came across an article published by the Gongwer News Service in June, in which it was reported that the obscure panel's Bill of Rights and Voting Rights Committee had reversed course on a planned vote to recommend to the...