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Ohio's Squirrel Hunting Season Begins Sept. 1

4:00pm Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Ohio's squirrel hunting season opens Sunday, Sept. 1, when many hunters will go to the woods with the opportunity to take as many as six squirrels per day, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). Ohio's squirrel season is a longtime tradition for many hunters. Ample hunting opportunities are available for fox, gray, black and red squirrels. This is an excellent time to take...

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What about the .22 Magnum?

8:00am Tuesday, August 27, 2013

by Greg Ellifritz After last week's article about using the .22 for self defense, I was deluged with queries about my self defense recommendations concerning the .22 Magnum cartridge. For those of you unfamiliar with the cartridge, HERE is a blog post from Cheaper Than Dirt about the round's history and capabilities. I'm quite fond of the .22 magnum round. The first handgun I ever owned as a kid...

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CO gun control law backfires; Gun "buyback" cancelled due to "universal" background checks

3:00pm Monday, August 26, 2013

by Chad D. Baus KOAA (NBC Colorado Springs) reported recently that anti-gun rights organizers have had to cancel a so-called gun "buyback" at the request of Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle, who says Colorado's new gun laws would make it nearly impossible to comply. From the article : Pelle says a strict law that went into effect July 1 requires buyers to go to a licensed firearms dealer and...

911 calls detail last moments of woman’s life in Kenton murder

8:00am Monday, August 26, 2013

Editor's Note: I have listened to the audio tapes. They are absolutely heart-wrenching. If ever there was a reason to abandon the "dial 911 and wait" mindset, this is it. (Note too that no one in the news media have jumped on this terrible event as a reason to ban knives.) by Greg Sowinski The call to 911 made by a woman who would be stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend minutes later began in a...

Gun Crimes Plummet Even As Gun Sales Rise

4:00pm Friday, August 23, 2013

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has released a new infographic designed to counter the false impression many Americans have that gun-related crime has increased over the past 20 years, even though it has actually fallen dramatically. Fifty-six percent of Americans think crime with firearms has increased, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. However, data show that...

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Using the .22 for Self Defense

8:00am Friday, August 23, 2013

by Greg Ellifritz Since my handgun stopping power study was published last month in American Handgunner Magazine, I've received several questions from readers about my data. I expected to be castigated by all the big bullet aficionados for reporting honest data about the "mouse gun" calibers. That wasn't what I received. All the email that I got was from .22 advocates telling me that I...

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Op-Ed: Illegal Mayors

4:00pm Thursday, August 22, 2013

by C. D. Michel Incarcerating Michael Bloomberg may be the next news ironic item. If only! New York Mayor Bloomberg, America's self-appointed gun control financier and front man, established the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG). The group's typically innocuous and benign sound bites actually conceal an aggressive and extreme agenda, some rather disastrous shenanigans (such as a Keystone...

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Nanny Bloomberg’s War on the Constitution

8:00am Thursday, August 22, 2013

by Jeff Knox About a month after the US Senate voted down a series of gun control amendments back in April, an article in the New Republic magazine boldly declared "This is How the NRA Ends: A Bigger, Richer, Meaner Gun Control Movement has Arrived." The article was a long diatribe regurgitating much of the stale tripe and distortion we've been hearing from the anti-rights movement for decades,...