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Squirrel Season Offers Hunters Preparation For Fall Hunting

3:00pm Friday, August 20, 2010

Season Begins September 1 and runs through January 31 Ohio's squirrel season will open on September 1, providing hunters with an opportunity to take as many as six squirrels each day, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. A long-time tradition for many hunters, Ohio's squirrel season offers ample hunting opportunities for fox and gray squirrels across...

Buckeye Firearms Association's Ken Hanson awarded the 2009 "Jay M. Littlefield NRA-ILA Volunteer of the Year Award"

7:00am Friday, August 20, 2010

John Hohenwarter-NRA, Gov. Strickland, Ken Hanson-BFA at the signing of Ohio's Castle Doctrine law The "Jay M. Littlefield NRA-ILA Volunteer of the Year Award," presented annually by the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), is an honor that recognizes an NRA member who demonstrates exceptionally meritorious activism in defense of the Second Amendment and serves...

Poachers Pay $7794.00 for Illegally Taking One Deer

3:00pm Thursday, August 19, 2010

Two Seneca County men were sentenced in July for the illegal taking of a deer in the 2009 deer hunting season, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Restitution of $4625 was ordered paid by Judge Mark Repp of the Tiffin Municipal Court. The revised restitution law went into effect March 2008 and allows the ODNR Division of Wildlife to seek an increased...

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Investigative report proves failure of Chicago's gun control policies

7:00am Thursday, August 19, 2010

By Gerard Valentino The Chicago Sun-Times is running an investigative report on the 59 hours of violence that took place over an unforgettable April weekend in 2008. When the dust settled, 40 Chicagoans were added to the countless victims of the unrelenting violence that has long plagued the city. While Mayor Richard Daley blames guns, and gun dealers, for his inability to stop the carnage, The...

NSSF provides $231,796 in grants to shooting ranges, including one in central Ohio

3:00pm Wednesday, August 18, 2010

The National Shooting Sports Foundation has awarded grants totaling $231,796 to nine shooting facilities through its Range Partnership Grant Program. New marketing strategies designed to motivate individuals, particularly youth and inactive shooters, to go target shooting and hunting dominated this year's winning proposals. "With target shooting participation at a record high, this is the perfect...

Crime victim persecuted for being gun owner

7:00am Wednesday, August 18, 2010

by Tim Inwood It used to be in this country that if you were arrested for a crime you were presumed innocent until trial. Now if you are a crime victim you may be perceived as a criminal if you are a gun owner. After reading an article about a burglary in the Land of Lincoln, my blood went to a slow boil. In the wee hours of an August morning, Rockford (IL) police were called by the victim's...

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BFA endorsee circulating letter requesting co-sponsors for "Parking Lot Firearm Legislation"

3:00pm Tuesday, August 17, 2010

State Representative Joe Uecker (R-66), a multiple-time past and present endorsee of Buckeye Firearms Association, is circulating a letter inviting colleagues to sign on as co-sponsors to a bill that would seek to "permit a concealed carry licensee who is an employee of a private employer to store the employee's handgun in a locked motor vehicle while parked on premises owned or leased by the...

State Supreme Court to hear preemption case October 12

7:00am Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Earlier this month, the Ohio Supreme Court announced that it will hear oral arguments for an important gun rights case, City of Cleveland v. State of Ohio , on October 12, 2010. The case came about after the Ohio General Assembly voted to override Governor Bob Taft's veto of HB347 - Ohio's "preemption" law - which codified R.C. 9.68, ensuring that firearms laws would be uniform throughout the...