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The company he keeps: John McCain names Mike DeWine as Ohio campaign chair

12:05am Wednesday, February 21, 2007

By Chad D. Baus Little more than three months after the anti-gun incumbent Mike DeWine lost the support of his conservative base and was tossed out of office, the Associated Press is reporting that Republican Senator John McCain has decided DeWine is the perfect man to lead his Presidential campaign in Ohio. They make quite a pair.

Big changes at the OGCA for 2007

12:10am Tuesday, February 20, 2007

By Tim Inwood The Ohio Gun Collectors Association is celebrating 70 great years in 2007. As a part of this they have decided to make a big change for the rest of the year for the guests of OGCA members. For the past 70 years guests could not buy or sell firearms at an OGCA show. That all changes starting in March. It is however a limited time opportunity. As a guest you can now bring in guns to...

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One gun used to kill in ''gun free'' zone; another used to stop the madness

12:05am Tuesday, February 20, 2007

By Chad D. Baus On Tuesday, February 13, it happened again. This time, the scene was a Utah shopping mall, and not unlike many other recent attacks like this, the perpetrator was a Muslim . I am often drawn to write on these types of stories as they happen. But since February 13 was also the day of the Blizzard of 2007, I was otherwise preoccupied, and decided that since information about the...

Passing good legislation - Lessons learned, Part I

11:49am Wednesday, February 14, 2007

By Jim Irvine With the passage of HB347 last year, the Governor’s threat of a veto coming to fruition, and the culmination of a veto override, we all learned some lessons about how the political process works, and how we worked within that system. Judging by the results, we won. So we were good enough, but there is always room for improvement. In this article I will discuss some things we did...

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Concealed Carry Of Weapons Superior To Taking Weapons, Part II: S. 388 is Huge

11:47am Wednesday, February 14, 2007

By John Longenecker Huge for all Americans. Let me say something to you right now: as a solution to social crisis, liberty is always better than takings. Always better than nearly any social program out there. The formula for bureaucrats is interference. The measure of success on their personal score card is substituting constituent dependency on their agencies for the joy and happiness of...

Cleveland court decides to control guns, not criminals

12:10am Monday, February 12, 2007

By Ken Hanson According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer , the Cleveland Municipal Court has launched a program that they think will help clear up some 25,000 outstanding warrants and get guns out of criminal hands. The scheme calls for known, wanted criminals to walk into a police station, turn in a gun, and walk out without posting bail for their outstanding warrants. Far be it from us to rain on...

AP: Stings on Ohio gun shops questioned

12:05am Monday, February 12, 2007

The Associated Press is reporting federal officials believe private investigators hired by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to conduct undercover sting operations on gun shops in Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia could be breaking the law, and the dealers caught making illegal sales in the stings will not face criminal prosecution. From the story: “Although a decision has...

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Fear the guy with 3000 lb weapon, not the concealed one

12:15am Friday, February 09, 2007

By Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch recently published a graphic enumerating data involving arrests of aggressive drivers in 2006 (click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized graphic). href="http://www.dispatch.com/2007/02/05/aggressivedrivingarrests.gif" target="_blank"> src="http://www.dispatch.com/2007/02/05/aggressivedrivingarrests.gif" height=150 width=134 border=0 align="right">...