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AP: Stings on Ohio gun shops questioned

12:05am Monday, February 12, 2007

The Associated Press is reporting federal officials believe private investigators hired by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to conduct undercover sting operations on gun shops in Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia could be breaking the law, and the dealers caught making illegal sales in the stings will not face criminal prosecution. From the story: “Although a decision has...

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Fear the guy with 3000 lb weapon, not the concealed one

12:15am Friday, February 09, 2007

By Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch recently published a graphic enumerating data involving arrests of aggressive drivers in 2006 (click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized graphic). href="http://www.dispatch.com/2007/02/05/aggressivedrivingarrests.gif" target="_blank"> src="http://www.dispatch.com/2007/02/05/aggressivedrivingarrests.gif" height=150 width=134 border=0 align="right">...

Hannity ask Giuliani the right questions on guns

12:10am Friday, February 09, 2007

On Monday, February 5, 2007, Republican Presidential hopeful (and, according to polls, frontrunner) Rudy Giuliani appeared on FOXNews' "Hannity & Colmes" . To his credit, co-host Sean Hannity grilled Giuliani on some of the controversial issues upon which the former mayor finds himself in opposition to the GOP base. A partial transcript, devoted to their discussion on gun issues, follows. As...

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FRIDAY FLASHBACK! A Woman's Right To Choose

12:05am Friday, February 09, 2007

Buckeye Firearm Association's web site is seeing an amazing growth in visitors and new articles are being posted several times a week. With everything that is going on, it is easy to miss some important and interesting articles. To make sure that you don't miss anything, we are going to repost one of our more popular articles every Friday. This week's "Friday Flashback" is.... A Woman’s Right to...

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Kevin DeWine Makes Bid for Deputy Chairman, Ohio Republican Party

12:10am Thursday, February 08, 2007

By Larry S. Moore Since the November 2006 elections many political pundits have wondered about the future direction and leadership of the Ohio Republican Party (ORP). More than a few columns were written conjecturing whether ORP Chairman Bob Bennett would step down or not. Many gun owners hoped Bennett would be gone. It is now known that Bennett intends to stay for another term but has laid the...

Op-Ed: Second Amendment Freedoms Aided the Civil Rights Movement

12:05am Thursday, February 08, 2007

February 6, 2007 By Ken Blackwell Townhall.com Prominent and indispensable among our rights is the "right of the people to keep and bear arms." Second Amendment rights, never to be infringed, were posited by our nation’s founders as among the most essential tenets of the free and just republic they sought to establish. The empowering freedom of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

7:06pm Wednesday, February 07, 2007

By Chris Chumita There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio than we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are all worthy of mention. What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens. From another anti-gunner running for president to the Tattoo Gypsy commenting on CCW, these articles should be a part of...

Petition Congress to create a John Moses Browning holiday

12:10am Wednesday, February 07, 2007

A fitting tribute to a great American gun designer and patriot By Tim Inwood The other day while perusing the pages of The High Road I learned that a petition is being circulated to create a national holiday and postage stamp to celebrate the life of John Moses Browning. Interesting idea - an uphill battle will lie ahead of that , I thought to myself. I can see the anti-gunners fighting this idea...

Concealed Carry of Weapons Superior To Taking Weapons, S. 388: Part I

12:05am Wednesday, February 07, 2007

By John Longenecker It’s good to see the right kind of bill moving through Congress. U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) has introduced S. 388 – the equivalent of H.R. 226 – which is a national Right-To-Carry bill for reciprocity for state carry licensees for concealed weapons. In short, any person with a valid concealed carry permit issued by a state would be recognized to legally carry in any...

WDTN's ''Getting the guns'' far short of complete story

12:10am Tuesday, February 06, 2007

The following comments were submitted by Buckeye Firearms Association's Larry S. Moore to Dayton's WDTN News 2, in response to a news investigation on Dayton's problem with gun violence. The entire TV broadcast can be viewed by clicking here . Overall, your story was well done. I do, however, have several concerns. First, let's call Dayton's problem what it is....a crime problem...an out of...

Editorial analysis: New York Sun logic vs. Toledo Blade emotion

12:05am Tuesday, February 06, 2007

By Chad D. Baus Anti-gunners have been trying to make much of late out of a series of stories published last week by the Florida Sun-Sentinel, which revealed that among those who have been issued Florida CCW licenses, 1,400 were people who pleaded guilty or no contest to felonies but qualified because of a loophole in the law, 216 were people with outstanding warrants, 128 were people with active...

Will You Help?

12:05am Monday, February 05, 2007

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Concealed carry for hunters – your opportunity to make a difference

12:10am Friday, February 02, 2007

By Aaron Kirkingburg & Larry S. Moore The Ohio Division of Wildlife is once again holding its annual open house meetings for each district. These meetings will be held on March 4th at the District Offices in districts 1-4 and at the Greene County Fish and Game clubhouse for district 5. These public forums are held every year in order to give Ohio hunters, trappers and anglers a chance to...

FRIDAY FLASHBACK!: How Elections Matter

12:05am Friday, February 02, 2007

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Where's the outrage about nutty anti-gun reporting?

12:10am Thursday, February 01, 2007

By Chad D. Baus A recent op-ed from Philadephia Inquirer columnist Karen Heller, entitled "Where's the outrage about gun violence?" has me asking a few questions of my own: Where is the outrage about nutty anti-gun reporting? How can so many people who shovel provably false statements on their readers keep their jobs? And was columnist Karen Heller some type of Freudian pen name playing off of...