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Gun Rights Week Coverage on Glenn Beck

In honor of NRA's upcoming annual meeting and his keynote address to NRA's annual banquet on Saturday May 17, Glenn Beck is holding "Gun Rights Week" on both his radio and T.V. shows. These shows will be broadcast on the Premiere Radio Network's 280 stations from 9 a.m. to noon, Eastern, and on CNN Headline News Network every night at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Each day, Glenn will feature a new gun...

Castle Doctrine hearing & vote rescheduled for May 14

House Criminal Justice Committee Chairman Rep. John White's office has been doing a yeomans' job as he works to juggle both the House and Senate versions of Castle Doctrine legislation. The House version, HB264, has received four hearings in White's committee, and a fifth hearing and possible vote scheduled for yesterday was put off until next week, when the committee will instead take up...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. Chairman posts open letter to Justice Paul Pfeifer as another brutal crime occurs in Ohio park

"What's the need to be packing in a public park? What's the compelling need?" - Republican Ohio Supreme Court Justice Paul Pfeifer, April 9, 2008 Two weeks ago, it was a man stabbed in the face in a Toledo park at the conclusion of an evening jog. This week, it's a woman kidnapped from the Equestrian Center of the Lorain County Metro Parks’ Carlisle Reservation, raped and shot in the back before...

My new normal

By Breda of The Breda Fallacy The state of Ohio says that I am now allowed to carry a concealed handgun. The license itself is a little plastic thing, similar to my drivers license. I keep looking at it, somewhat bemused. It bears a photo of me looking grim, some personal information, and a number that I can only assume represents my place in the line of people who have applied and been accepted...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

By Chris Chumita There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then 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 robberies to kidnapping, these articles should be a part of your required reading! What follows is several days of...

The Good Fight

By Gerard Valentino Every vocal pro-gun advocate is familiar with the condescending look of so-called friends or family members who are sure we're nothing but bloodthirsty members of the NRA cult. We've all been there when someone belittles our judgment by asking, "I hope you have those guns locked up so your kids won’t get them" or "aren’t you afraid you will shoot a family member by accident?"...

Meijer Ends Promotion with HSUS

(Columbus, OH) - Midwest Retail Giant Meijer, Inc. has ended its promotion with the nation’s largest anti-hunting organization. The leadership at Meijer, a Michigan-based regional chain of retail superstores, has responded to the concerns of the sportsman community and ended its partnership with the anti-hunting group, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), in an online pet photo contest.

Another Ohio journalist stands up for the Second Amendment...and you won't believe who her editor is

By Chad D. Baus Mention the words " Sandusky Register " or "Editor Matt Westerhold" to a Concealed Handgun License (CHL)-holder and the reaction will not be pleasant, even nearly a year after one newspaper editor's declaration of war on Ohio CHL-holders. Though Westerhold refused to remove from the Register website information that is considered private under Ohio law (or even apologize for...

A Celebration of Freedom: 1st Annual Patriots' Day Open Carry Walk

Original post at PatriotsDayWalk.blogspot.com The 1st Annual Patriots' Day Walk was held on April 19th, 2008 in Urbana, Ohio. This event was a celebration of freedom to commemorate the 233rd anniversary of "the shot heard round the world." On April 18th, 1775 Governor Gage ordered the redcoats to march into towns and seize and destroy all munitions. On April 19th, 1775 the first shots were fired...

USSA/BFA 2008 Candidates Reception a complete success

By Linda Walker Recently, Buckeye Firearms Association had the privilege to co-sponsor a Candidates Reception with the US Sportsman Alliance (USSA). This is the third year that Buckeye Firearms has played a major role in this worthy event. This was the first year that the Ohio Republican and Democrat parties also joined as co-sponsors of the event, amongst other organizations. Candidates,...

LIE: “Va. Tech more secure a year after massacre”

By Jim Irvine In a recent story titled, “Va. Tech more secure a year after massacre,” USA Today promotes lies and the exact feel good head in the sand mindset that helped a sick man kill 32 innocent people a year ago. The sad fact is that the school is NOT more secure today than it was. School administrators have spent a lot of time and money on everything but the real issue; enabling those...

Op-Ed: Why Liberals Should Love The Second Amendment

by Angry Mouse Liberals love the Constitution. Ask anyone on the street. They'll tell you the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a liberal organization. I know liberal couples who give each other pocket size copies of the Constitution for Christmas. Ask liberals to list their top five complaints about the Bush Administration, and they will invariably say the words "shredding" and "...

Castle Doctrine bill amended in 4th House Hearing; Scheduled for possible vote!

On Thursday, May 1, the House Criminal Justice Committee held a fourth hearing for House Bill 264, that chamber's version of the Castle Doctrine bill. The committee adopted amendments to the bill via a substitute bill (which can be downloaded via a link below), essentially modifying the House bill to nearly identical language as the version of Castle Doctrine which unanimously passed in the...

Buckeye Firearms Association endorses HB450 (Armed Services 18-21 purchase); Bill passes out of committee

Buckeye Firearms Central Ohio Chair Gerard Valentino testified in favor of HB450 at the House Criminal Justice Committee hearing on Thursday April 17th. The bill, which will give veterans between the age of 18 and 21 the right to own a handgun, was voted out of committee and will now go to the House floor for a vote. This common sense pro-gun legislation is likely to receive overwhelming bi-...

Fake Pro-Gun Group Endorses Fake Pro-Gun Candidate

By Chad D. Baus Pro-gun groups have been trying to sound the alarm about Barack Obama’s extreme anti-gun record since his Presidential campaign began. While his record includes opposing letting people use a self-defense argument if charged with violating local handgun bans by using weapons in their homes, and being a member of the Joyce Foundation (which provides groups like the Ohio Coalition...

Assailant stabs man in face, kills dog in Toledo Metropark...and Justice Paul Pfeifer says this never happens

"What's the need to be packing in a public park? What's the compelling need?" - Republican Ohio Supreme Court Justice Paul Pfeifer, April 9, 2008 By Chad D. Baus During oral arguments last month on a case challenging the City of Clyde's ban on concealed carry in its public parks, Republican Paul Pfeifer proved himself dangerously out of touch. Pfeifer remarked that he just couldn't understand why...

Op-Ed: The Democrats and Gun Control

By David Kopel Imagine an election race of Pat Robertson versus James Dobson, each of them appearing at organic grocery stores and Starbucks throughout Massachusetts, with each candidate insisting that he alone deserves the vote of gay-marriage advocates. An equally silly spectacle is taking place these days in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Indiana, West Virginia and Kentucky, as Sens. Hillary...

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