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Op Ed: Gun Control - AP Blames NRA for Violent Crime

12:01pm Friday, June 30, 2006
June 30, 2006 By Howard Nemerov A recent Associate Press article notes that the preliminary FBI crime report for 2005 indicates a rise in violent crime. Quoting a college criminal justice professor, the article claims the increase is due to government’s waning support of law enforcement. Even more interesting is their attempt to link this with the National Rifle Association’s increased political...

US House votes to overturn mandatory gun locks

8:29am Friday, June 30, 2006
On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to overturn a recently enacted law requiring safety trigger locks on all hand guns sold in the United States. The Republican-controlled House handed a victory to opponents of gun control by a vote of 230-191. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave argued that the added cost of the trigger locks is passed on to gun owners and that they "do not stop accidental...

Hello Help Desk? I forgot the password to my bullets.

11:12am Wednesday, June 28, 2006
First it was smart guns with secret rings and bracelets. Then came the fingerprint and palmprint technologies. Get ready for password lists and keypads on your firearms next. An article Password-protected bullets in New Scientist describes a recent patent to do just that. From the article: "The way to make firearms really safe, says Hebert Meyerle of Germany, is to password-protect the ammunition...

Senator DeWine proud to be anti-gun

12:45am Wednesday, June 28, 2006
By Jim Irvine Senator Mike DeWine has become the first U.S. Senator this campaign season to earn the endorsement of the Brady Campaign, a leading anti-gun and anti-self defense organization. Not many people have a stronger anti-gun record than DeWine’s opponent, Congressman Sherrod Brown, but DeWine can claim that dishonor. Quoting the Brady Campaigns Peter Hamm, the Cleveland Plain dealer wrote:

Time to Fix Ohio’s Gun Laws

12:05am Monday, June 26, 2006
Commentary by Larry S. Moore (This commentary has also been published at Ohio Outdoor News ) HB 347, which is stalled in the Ohio Senate, would have corrected two key problems with Ohio’s concealed carry law. However, the deficiencies in Ohio’s firearms laws go well beyond HB 347. The problems also go well beyond the scope of concealed carry and impact anyone who hunts or is a recreational...

A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing

12:05am Friday, June 23, 2006
By Chris Chumita If you can’t beat them, join them. Or at least make them think that you did. That seems to be the latest game plan of the gun-grabbers. The anti-gun and anti-hunting organizations are changing their tactics after a series of humiliating defeats at the hands of gun owners.

Summertime Fun

12:05am Thursday, June 22, 2006
By Jim Irvine Today is the first full day of summer, which is another way of saying the days are now getting shorter. Before the rain turns to snow, we have several months to enjoy some good weather and great times. Kids are out of school. It’s time to head to the beach, visit Cedar Point or Kings Island and celebrate July 4th. Many of us will travel to other states, visit our local county fair,...

Strickland statement on HB347 gains press attention; Blackwell's voice coveted

12:10am Wednesday, June 21, 2006
By Chad D. Baus Following up on Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland's statement on the Ohio "Senate's failure to act on legislation to strengthen Protections for Ohio's gun owners (HB347), the Canton Repository published further comments made by Strickland on the campaign trail this week. Following a rally marking the end of a three-day, 19-county campaign tour, Ted Strickland said...

Senator Mike DeWine makes exclusive Top-10 Anti-Gun US Senator List

by Larry S. Moore
12:05am Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Human Events Online, the National Conservative Weekly, has two new Top 10 lists. They are the Top 10 anti-gun US Senators and U.S. Congressmen . Fortunately, none of Ohio congressmen or women made the top 10 list for the US House of Representatives. On the other hand, many Ohioans will not be surprised to learn that Senator Mike DeWine appears on the list of US Senators . Perhaps the only...

Ted Strickland goes on offense; highlights gun bill stalled in Senate

12:15pm Monday, June 19, 2006
More than a year ago, when Democratic congressman Ted Strickland announced his candidacy for governor, we asked the question: What will a pro-gun Democrat do to the Ohio governor's race? We noted that in recent years, the pickings for Ohio gun owners have been slim when it came to the governors' race. Whether it was George Voinovich or Bob Taft, the OhioGOP simply has not had much to offer people...

Major party gubernatorial candidates to attend USSA Rally

12:05am Sunday, June 18, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Columbus) – Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell have accepted invitations to be special guests at the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance’s 10th annual Save Our Heritage Rally held in Columbus. The event will fund the organization’s work to protect hunting, fishing and trapping in the state. Sportsmen will have a...

President Harris: HB347 to see action before year-end

12:05am Friday, June 16, 2006
From a recent edition of the Hannah Report: "Senate President Bill Harris said there are no immediate plans to bring the Senate back in August or September, preferring to let his members stay in their districts over the summer. Bills that will be on the agenda before year's end align="right"> include the capital bill, concealed carry reform, energy policy, sexual predator changes, and the...

What the establishment media would say if they really wanted to help

12:05am Wednesday, June 14, 2006
By Jim Irvine Last week Jerry "Bucky" Inman was arrested for the kidnapping, rape and murder of Tiffany Marie Souers, a 20 year-old civil engineering student at Clemson University in South Carolina. The “mainstream” media and the talking heads continue to make this event into a national story. But it’s difficult to find anything useful in their coverage. Consider a typical comment from The State :

Mentel Ban Update: Mikey finds a reason to oppose home rule

12:05am Tuesday, June 13, 2006
By Chad D. Baus Municipal bureaucrats who oppose HB347's firearms law preemption provision, which will ensure that firearms laws are uniform across Ohio, do so under the complaint that such a law would tamper with Ohio's home rule provision. In spring 2004, Columbus' Mayor stood in a city park the day Ohio's concealed carry law became active and railed against the law because it disallows cities...

Surprise, surprise! Shooting is actually a popular activity.

10:15am Monday, June 12, 2006
By Dean Rieck An enduring myth of the anti-gun left is that the shooting sports are not really all that popular. They think the only people who are interested in shooting are criminals and the deranged. They assume the “gun guys” are some tiny group of oddballs out of touch with mainstream America. Well, guess what? They’re wrong. Shooting is popular. VERY popular. In fact, shooting has always...

Comparison of Two Governors

12:05am Monday, June 12, 2006
By Larry S. Moore Two stories in the national press about Florida and Governor Jeb Bush this week caught my attention. The first appeared in the Weekly Standard , and the second in the Orlando Sentinel . The Weekly Standard story proclaims that if his name was anything but Bush he'd be the next President of the US. The article expresses the opinion that Gov. Jeb Bush is the best governor in the...

American's spending on guns rises to more than $2b during 2005

12:10am Friday, June 09, 2006
June 6, 2006 Connecticut Post Americans spent more than $2 billion on guns and ammunition in 2005, showing the nation's fascination with firearms is not fading despite concerns raised by gun-control advocates. The Newtown-based National Shooting Sports Foundation on Monday touted a U.S. Department of Treasury report that said sales of firearms and ammunition increased by 2.6 percent in 2005,...

Get Involved - Make a Difference

12:05am Friday, June 09, 2006
By Chad D. Baus Whenver acting in an official role for this political action committee, I am a one-issue, non-partisan operative. But like most grassroots firearms activists, I am involved on a personal level in many other areas of politics than just advocating for pro-gun legislation. From being involved in various ways local politics and campaigns to testifying in Columbus on other types of...

Op-Ed: ''Gun Control: Why Tell the Truth When a Lie Will Do?''

12:10am Thursday, June 08, 2006
By Howard Nemerov A recent Washington Post article claims “More than 500 children die annually from accidental gunshots: Some shoot themselves, while others kill friends or siblings, often after discovering a gun.” To understand how a biased or under-educated writer makes an inaccurate and misleading error, we must first clarify the term “child.” Oxford English Dictionary defines the word “...

Liberal media joins OhioGOP to target Strickland on guns

12:10am Wednesday, June 07, 2006
By Chad D. Baus Ohioans are being treated to a rather uncharacteristic display of negative press aimed at a Democratic political candidate. For the second time in as many weeks, the Dayton Daily News has taken issue with Ted Strickland's supposed flip-flopping on the issue of gun control. A little over two weeks ago, the DDN's Martin Gottlieb attempted to document Strickland's "evolving" position...

Sierra Club remains anti-hunting despite overtures to sportsmen

12:05am Wednesday, June 07, 2006
By Larry S. Moore Sportsmen and shooters have a number of organizations working against our heritage and freedoms. Many of these organizations use names and tactics to disguise their true agenda. Over the past few months Buckeye Firearms has followed the saga of the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) regarding the disagreements with the NRA here and here and here and here ). Outdoor...

The Ohio GOP Senate Leadership and the Selling Out of Gun Owners

12:05am Tuesday, June 06, 2006
By Gerard Valentino Ohio’s Senate has recessed for the summer without moving on HB347 which would fix many of the poison pills in Ohio’s current concealed carry law and create statewide preemption for gun laws, which greatly affects the hunting and sport shooting community. Their decision to do so was a slap in the face to over 70,000 concealed license holders and up to 500,000 hunters and...

Blood On Your Hands?

12:05am Monday, June 05, 2006
By Chris Chumita Do you have blood on your hands? According to some of the gun-grabbers you do. They feel that anyone who supports the private ownership of firearms has the blood of the innocent victims of gun violence on their hands. The gun-grabbers have a strange view of the world. They see a world where inanimate objects cause people to do bad things and they feel that criminals are often the...

The 2006 General Election – A Hobson’s Choice for a GOP Gun Owner

8:40am Friday, June 02, 2006
By Publius Ohio has attempted to pass liberalized firearms laws for over a decade, always under Republican-controlled administrations. This 12+ years of Republican “leadership” resulted in Ohio being one of the very last states to adopt concealed carry, while also having the distinction of being the worst “shall issue” concealed carry law in the United States. As we have attempted to improve our...

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