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Attorney General Dann asked to settle questions on media access loophole

12:10am Thursday, September 27, 2007

By Chad D. Baus The Youngstown Vindicator is reporting that Trumbull County prosecutor Dennis Watkins has instructed the sheriff not to allow journalists to copy the confidential records of concealed handgun llicense (CHL) holders, and has asked Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann to clarify how information about those who have licenses can be released under an amendment to Ohio's concealed carry law...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc.'s Jim Irvine on FOX News

12:05am Thursday, September 27, 2007

Buckeye Firearms Association Chairman Jim Irvine was interviewed by FOX News for a story about Mayor Frank Jackson's proposal for a new state gun control law . The segment aired several times on Tuesday, September 25th in various forms. The comprehensive version aired during the 6:00p.m. evening news hour with Brit Hume. Click here to view the FOX News story online. On Wednesday, September 26th,...

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Exposed: Ohio anti-gunners' 2004 & 2005 IRS returns

12:10am Wednesday, September 26, 2007

By Chad D. Baus As I was preparing to put Buckeye Firearms Association's latest set of campaign finance report figures on this website, I was reminded of a figure who has been appearing frequently in news stories about 'Castle Doctrine' legislation - someone I haven't much cared to spend time on in the past year or so because, frankly, she hasn't much mattered. That someone is Toby Hoover, who...

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NRA-ILA's Chris Cox: NRA eyeing role in GOP primaries

12:05am Wednesday, September 26, 2007

The Washington Times is reporting that Chris Cox, Executive Director of The National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), says the group is considering stepping into the presidential campaign fray early next year during the primary season. This would mark a significant shift from years past - the NRA-ILA did not endorse President Bush in 2000 and 2004 until just a month...

Lima News: ''Who’s packing? Almost 2,000 area residents''

12:10am Tuesday, September 25, 2007

By Chad D. Baus Gun owners have a general mistrust for the mainstream media, and rightly so. Over the years, having witnessed examples of poor and/or biased journalism ranging from images of fully-automatic rifles being fired during a story about the Clinton assault weapons ban (which had nothing to do with full-autos) to editorializing about gun legislation they later admit to not even having...

Few converts for Giuliani at NRA candidate forum

12:05am Tuesday, September 25, 2007

On Friday, we reported that GOP presidential wanna-be Rudy Guiliani would be seeking support from the NRA, a group he once likened to 'extremists' , at the group's “A Celebration of American Values” candidate forum in Washington D.C.. As a follow-up to that meeting, MSNBC is reporting that Giuliani's attempts to distract pro-gun voters from his anti-gun record with a few pro-gun election year...

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Report: Joyce Fndn. anti-gunners wrote Intl. Assc. of Chiefs of Police ''report'

12:10am Monday, September 24, 2007

The mainstream media is running wild with the latest anti-gun "report", this time purported to have been completed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). But as firearms law expert David Hardy reports on his website, Armsandthelaw.com, there is far more than meets the eye when it comes to measuring the report's objectivity. Click 'Read More' for the entire story. The IACP...

In memory of Vernon Ferrier

12:05am Monday, September 24, 2007

By Tim Inwood In late August I was asked by my friend Christa Criddle to come down to speak at the September meeting of the Springfield Township Republican Party on the issue of concealed carry in Ohio. In preparing my remarks I looked back over the past several years of our battle to restore our right to self-defense in Ohio. I paused as I thought about my friend Vernon Ferrier. Vernon was one...