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School safety – what teachers tell us about your kid’s school

9:40am Thursday, December 12, 2013

by Jim Irvine Saturday, December 14, 2013 marks the one year anniversary since a coward murdered his mother, stole her gun and her car, then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where he brutally murdered his mother, six school employees and 20 innocent children before committing suicide. Buckeye Firearms Foundation recently surveyed school employees to find out what has...

Op-Ed: Women the 'Holy Grail' of gun rights movement

3:00pm Wednesday, December 11, 2013

by Raquel Okyay Women seeking to arm themselves and their daughters are figuring out that guns are not 'taboo' but a powerful means of protection. "Women are the holy grail of the Second Amendment movement," said Skip Coryell nationally recognized firearm expert and author of the newly released The Shadow Militia. The Second Amendment will stand or fall depending on the way women vote, he said. "...

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Survey shows nearly two dozen Ohio schools authorize carrying of guns to improve kids' safety

9:41am Wednesday, December 11, 2013

by Jim Irvine Saturday, December 14, 2013 marks the one year anniversary since a coward murdered his mother, stole her gun and her car, then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. There he broke a window through which he entered the school, murdered several administrators then walked down the hallway and shot teachers before killing a classroom full of children. All told...

Ohio Hunters Harvest more than 75,000 Deer during Weeklong Gun Season

3:00pm Tuesday, December 10, 2013

COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio hunters checked 75,408 white-tailed deer during the weeklong gun hunting season, Dec. 2-8, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). "With the muzzleloader season and almost two months of archery hunting yet to come, Ohio hunters have many more opportunities to harvest a deer," said Scott Zody, chief of the ODNR Division of Wildlife. Hunting is the best and...

November 2013 firearms sales checks second-highest on record

7:00am Tuesday, December 10, 2013

The November 2013 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,308,100 is a decrease of 14.2 percent compared to the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,525,177 in November 2012. For comparison, the unadjusted November 2013 NICS figure of 1,805,759 reflects a 9.6 percent decrease from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,997,703 in November 2012. NSSF-adjusted NICS for...

U.S. Rep. Bob Latta Introduces New Sportsmen's Act, HR 3590

3:00pm Monday, December 09, 2013

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industries, today noted that Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus (CSC) Co-Chair Bob Latta (R-Ohio) has introduced HR 3590, a new bipartisan version of the Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act of 2013. Earlier this year, Latta and...

That Odd Duck, Ohio: Self-Defense as an Affirmative Defense (Kind Of)

7:00am Monday, December 09, 2013

by Andrew Branca Of the 50 states in the US, 49 of them require the State to disprove a defendant's claim of self-defense, beyond a reasonable doubt. Ohio, on the other hand, requires that the defendant prove self-defense by a preponderance of the evidence. Why is Ohio Such an Odd Duck on the Burden of Proof for Self-defense? To understand this curiosity it is necessary to cover a little history...

Op-Ed: The gun grab - How ‘zero tolerance’ school policies ignore common sense

by Kelsey Osterman

3:00pm Friday, December 06, 2013

By now, you've heard the stories: Florida boy suspended for pointing his finger like a gun. Rhode Island student suspended for bringing quarter-sized gun keychain to class. West Virginia middle schooler arrested for wearing a National Rifle Association t-shirt. Coast-to-coast, it seems our nation's schools have grown so gun-shy that every implementation of a "zero tolerance" policy entails a...