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LTE: School shootings illustrate need for gun ban

12:05am Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Let us never forget that gun grabbers are out there, just waiting for the right opportunity... October 15, 2006 Columbus Dispatch As if the world isn’t experiencing enough senseless violence, we are once again seeing a spate of school shootings in the United States. Every single one of these shooters was mentally deranged or a social misfit who believed the only solution to his problem was to...

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NRA and the Redemption of Congresswoman Pryce

12:05am Tuesday, October 17, 2006

by Linda Walker Last Saturday, the NRA sponsored a "Mix and Mingle" in the central Ohio area. The purpose of the mix and mingle is to gather like minded grassroots individuals together, to help teach them how to become better grassroots volunteers, how to work on candidate campaigns and also to introduce the attendees to an NRA endorsed candidate. Katrina Ruminski and Ryan Irsik, both Grassroots...

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Do anti-gun legislators deserve support simply because they're Republican?

12:05am Monday, October 16, 2006

By Chad D. Baus & Ken Hanson Buckeye Firearms Association has always described itself as a non-partisan political action committee. Yet in recent days, PAC Chairman Jim Irvine has been in conversation with a reader who takes exception to the endorsement of Democrats. (For an excellent article on the NRA's endorsement of Democrats in national races, click here ) In a bit of ironic timing, as...

LTE: Schools are easy targets

12:10am Friday, October 13, 2006

October 10, 2006 USA TODAY In the article “ ‘A horrendous crime scene,' ” the crucial sentence was, “Police believe that he chose the school because it was an easy target.” Schools are not “gun-free” zones; they are killing zones because we insist that no one inside is armed. Feel-good programs only encourage attacks. We've seen many times that police do not arrive in time (News, Tuesday). The...

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Op-Ed: There Is No Such Thing As An Illegal Gun, Part III: Let The Heavens Fall

12:05am Friday, October 13, 2006

This the third of a three part series featured at Buckeyefirearms.org. By John Longenecker In Part II , I wrote about how powerful officials can abuse citizens my making an example of them unjustly, emphasis on unjustly on the analogy of a cat producing a mouse from elsewhere just to prove she’s performing. I called the idea being a dead mouse. You don’t become a dead mouse at the hands of...

Ken Blackwell: ‘He sticks to his guns, so to speak’

12:10am Thursday, October 12, 2006

By Larry S. Moore A recent headline in the (Dover-New Philadelphia) Times Reporter pronounced: “He sticks to his guns, so to speak’: Blackwell brings campaign trail through rifle club” Blackwell taking his message to gun owners and organizations is not new. The first time I heard and met Ken Blackwell was at the Ohio Gun Collectors Banquet, probably in 2004. He was already a member of the...

Headline: Apprentice licenses soar among youth

12:05am Thursday, October 12, 2006

The Cleveland Plain Dealer's is D'Arcy Egan reporting that there are a lot of new hunters afield this fall. According to Egan, sales of the new apprentice hunting license are soaring. There have been 2,134 of the special licenses sold to new hunters since the licenses became available last spring, and 1,784 purchased since Aug. 23. The majority have been bought by youth hunters. The apprentice...

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President Bush Signs NRA-backed “Disaster Recovery Personal Protection” Measure

12:05am Wednesday, October 11, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, October 09, 2006 Fairfax, VA- President George W. Bush signed into law the prohibition of confiscation of legal firearms from law-abiding citizens during states of emergency. This action became necessary following practices by local officials in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. This new law was part of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations...