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Emails expose what gun owners have long suspected: "Fast & Furious" was a plot aimed at making the case for tougher gun laws

7:00am Thursday, December 08, 2011
CBS News is reporting that internal emails obtained by the news organization show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation "Fast and Furious" to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales. From the article : In Fast and Furious, ATF secretly encouraged gun dealers to sell to suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels to go...

Hunting Is Safer Than Golf and Most Other Activities (Not to Mention Football, Basketball and Soccer)

3:00pm Wednesday, December 07, 2011
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Don't let anyone tell you otherwise: Hunting with firearms is safe; in fact, hunting with firearms is one of the safest recreational activities in America. With hunting season in full swing across the country, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the firearms industry, has compiled data that shows hunting ranks third in safety when compared to 28...

Hearing for Canton police officer who threatened to execute concealed carry licensee postponed again

7:00am Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Officer Daniel Harless is still receiving paid time off, even after running out of sick days by Chad D. Baus The Canton Repository reported recently that a hearing for Officer Daniel Harless, the Canton police officer who was caught on dash cam video berating an Ohio concealed handgun license-holder and threatening to execute him, has been postponed yet again. The article also reveals that...

Coshocton County Leads 2011 Ohio Deer-Gun Harvest

3:00pm Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Hunters still have a weekend of deer-gun hunting, December 17-18 COLUMBUS, OH- Ohio hunters took 90,282 white-tailed deer during the state's popular, week-long deer-gun season, which ran November 28 through December 4, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. In 2010, hunters checked a total of 105,034 deer during the same time period. "Hunters clearly...

The death of common sense: Now even a purse decorated with the small image of a gun can get you in trouble with the TSA

7:00am Tuesday, December 06, 2011
A Jacksonville, FL television station is reporting that the Transportation Security Administration stopped a 17 year-old girl at the security gate and caused her to miss her flight because the design of her purse contained the small shape of a revolver molded in plastic. From the article : "It's my style, it's camouflage, it has an old western gun on it," [Vanessa] Gibbs said. But her preference...

CCW Permit Holders Have Better Carriage Protocol Than One Federal Law Enforcement Agency

3:00pm Monday, December 05, 2011
On November 1, 2011, Marcus Flagg, President of Federal Flight Deck Officers Association (FFDOA) testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee, Chaired by Senator Joeseph Lieberman (D-CT). Mr. Flagg did an excellent job addressing problems with the TSA in general and the FFDO program in particular, as well as explaining the importance of a multi-layer...

Headline: Shootings prompt personal protection

7:00am Monday, December 05, 2011
WUPW, Toledo's Fox News affiliate, is reporting that more people are considering carring a concealed handgun in the wake of two violent encounters. From the report : "Frightening that you can't go out in public without having to worry about your safety.late at night,” said Derek Mungons, who lives a few blocks from one of the shooting incidents. Mungons is glad he got a conceal-carry permit. A...

Ohio's restaurant & car carry law in effect for two months, but where is the carnage?

3:00pm Friday, December 02, 2011
By Jim Irvine It has been two months since concealed carry in restaurants became law in Ohio and onerous car carry rules were removed. Once again the anti-gun editorial boards and fear mongers were wrong. Carrying a "hidden gun," as the "guns in bars" -types like to call it, is proving to be no more dangerous than the "hidden" car keys carried by the same person in the same establishment. It was...

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