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Headline: Maryland scraps gun "fingerprint" database after 15 failed years

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, November 23, 2015

The Baltimore Sun reported recently that, after millions of wasted tax-payer dollars, the State of Maryland has officially decided that its 15-year effort to store and catalog the "fingerprints" of thousands of handguns was a failure. From the article : Since 2000, the state required that gun manufacturers fire every handgun to be sold here and send the spent bullet casing to authorities. The...

Ohio's Traditional Deer-Gun Hunting Season Begins Nov. 30

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Friday, November 20, 2015

Youth only weekend to be held Nov. 21-22 COLUMBUS, OH – Deer hunting is an extremely popular activity for sportsmen and women statewide and Ohio’s white-tailed deer continue to provide hunters across the state with excellent opportunities for success as they head out into the field. Ohio’s deer-gun season opens Monday, Nov. 30 and not only provides opportunities for outdoor sports enthusiasts,...

AP fact-checks Hillary Clinton's debate comments on guns, and guess what?

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, November 20, 2015

The Associated Press - not known either for its conservative or pro-gun rights leanings - was recently forced to admit that Hillary Clinton wildly inflated statistics on so-called "gun violence" to support her extremist gun control stance. From the article : CLINTON: "Since we last debated in Las Vegas, nearly 3,000 people have been killed by guns. Two hundred children have been killed. This is...

Election Day: Guns Win - AGAIN

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Thursday, November 19, 2015

GOP should spotlight issue or voters will go hunting next fall and skip polls As this column reported a few weeks ago, the Democrats are betting big on gun control for this election cycle. That’s good news for GunVoters, that minority of us who, while perhaps not being one-issue voters, don’t trust a politician who doesn’t trust us with a gun. Republicans, however, seem oblivious to the...

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Hamilton Co. sheriff: FASTER Saves Lives training "long overdue"

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, November 19, 2015

One day after Cincinnati's CBS affiliate, WKRC, aired a report noting that more than 40 Ohio schools now authorize and train teachers to carry guns to protect students in class, the news station sat down with Hamilton County sheriff Jim Neil to gauge his reaction after he viewed the video. The reaction was as positive as it is for many others who are first exposed to the Buckeye Firearms...

Wasserman Schultz Orders Democrats to Embrace Gun Control

3:00pm Wednesday, November 18, 2015

At the Florida Democratic Party Convention, held October 30-November 1, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz claimed, “The Florida Democratic Party is back and better than ever.” Also back, it would seem, is the national party’s misguided emphasis on gun control. Speaking at a convention event held at the Walt Disney World Yacht and Beach Club Resort, Wasserman Schultz...

FoxNews.com & UK's Daily Mail documents success of Buckeye Firearms Foundation's FASTER Saves Lives program

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, November 18, 2015

FoxNews.com and British newspaper The Daily Mail are informing their international audiences of the success of Buckeye Firearms Foundation's FASTER Saves Lives program. From FoxNews.com : Dozens of school districts in Ohio now allow teachers who have conceal-carry permits to pack heat on the job. In several cases, boards of education have been pressed into adopting the policy by parents concerned...

House passes Sub HB 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) [UPDATE: Vote Tally]

by Jim Irvine

6:41pm Monday, November 16, 2015

Sub. HB 48, sponsored by Ron Maag (R-Lebanon), passed the Ohio House of Representatives today with a 68-29 vote. The bill is now headed to the Senate for further consideration. HB 48 makes several critical changes to Ohio firearms laws. Currently it is against the law to possess a firearm on school property. There is an exemption for license-holders “immediately in the process of picking up or...