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Headline: Pro-gun group uses Chicago firearms buyback program to fund shooting camp for kids

7:00am Friday, July 20, 2012
by Chad D. Baus FoxNews.com reported recently that a pro-gun group "flipped the script" on Chicago's firearms buyback program by selling old, broken rifles to the city and then using the money to buy guns and ammo for an NRA-sponsored shooting camp for kids. From the article : "Guns Save Life," based in Champaign, Ill., recently sold 60 firearms to the Chicago Police Department -- 10 of which...

Dept. of Defense again attempts to trample on Second Amendment rights of returning U.S. military troops

3:00pm Thursday, July 19, 2012
by Linda Walker If it was not enough that Marines were forced to disarm at their base at Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan this past March when Defense Secretary Leon Panetta paid a visit, I read with personal interest an article in regard to depressed returning troops recently posted at Military.com, entitled " DoD Could Renew Push to Restrict Personal Weapons ." According to the article "The...

Columbus pizza delivery driver with concealed handgun license defends against robbers

7:00am Thursday, July 19, 2012
WCMH (NBC Columbus) is reporting that a pizza delivery driver shot at two people who attempted to rob him on Monday evening. From the article : According to police, the Padova's Pizza Delivery driver was delivering a pizza when two men armed with shotguns approached him, in the 3000 block of Hatfield Dr., at about 11:45 p.m. Monday. The driver, who was licensed to carry a gun, told the men to...

BATFE Modifies Shotgun Import Ban Study, Still Gets It Wrong

3:00pm Wednesday, July 18, 2012
In January 2011, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released its "Study on the Importability of Certain Shotguns." Using the unconstitutional and oft-abused "sporting purposes" test as justification, BATFE concocted a list of ten popular shotgun features and determined that "shotguns containing any of these features are not particularly suitable for nor readily adaptable to...

Are environmentalists' anti-gun policies to blame for wildfires in the West?

7:00am Wednesday, July 18, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The headlines have echoed across the country: "Guns blamed for starting wildfires in parched West" According to the Associated Press, officials believe target shooting or other firearms use sparked at least 21 wildfires in Utah and nearly a dozen in Idaho. Shooting is also believed to have caused fires in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. In Utah, the AP says Republican Gov. Gary...

Tough love for the outdoor community: "You people need to figure out who your enemies are and you better do it right quick."

3:00pm Tuesday, July 17, 2012
by Rich Grassi Editor, The Tactical Wire Without descending into the current political morass of charge/counter-charge, extremist vs. extremist, agenda and charisma driven politics, I think it's time for a block of voters to coalesce - the people of the outdoors. Yes, it sounds like interest group politics. Extremist whack-job pseudojournalists who exist only in the NYC-DC Bubble and on our TV...

Attorney General Mike DeWine uses occasion of annual ice cream social to publicly announce support for HB495

7:00am Tuesday, July 17, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The many gun owners who accepted Buckeye Firearms Association's invitation to thank Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) for his work for gun owners in the AG's office by joining him and wife Fran at their Greene County home for an Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social on June 24 enjoyed more than an old fashioned country picnic complete with ice cream and homemade pies. During comments made...

Fast and Furious will prove worse than Watergate

3:00pm Monday, July 16, 2012
by Tim Inwood A few days ago Obama spokesman Jay Carney tried to tie Bush era operations like Wide Receiver with Operation Fast and Furious. If you watch something other than MSNBC you would know there is little in common between the Bush era operations and what Obama/Holder did. The fact is, in the other cases they were run like any other classic police show set up you have ever seen. Whether it...

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