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Ohio's Youth Deer-Gun Hunting Season Set for November 19-20

3:00pm Wednesday, November 09, 2011
COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio's youth deer-gun hunting season will be held Saturday and Sunday, November 19-20, according to the Ohio Department ofNatural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. The youth deer-gun season is open statewide to hunters 17 years old and younger. Plugged shotguns using slugs, muzzleloaders .38 caliber and larger, handguns .357 caliber or larger, and bows are legal. All...

Headline: "Holder Refuses To Apologize For Murder Of Border Agent; Says Fast & Furious Didn't Lead To Death"

7:00am Wednesday, November 09, 2011
by Chad D. Baus RealClearPolitics.com has posted a transcript of testimony by Attorney General Eric Holder, submitted at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing at which he was asked to answer questions about the ATF's "Operation Fast and Furious" gun running scandal, which has led directly to the deaths of two, possibly three U.S. agents and more than 200 Mexicans . In the video, Holder can be seen...

October sees 10.6% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 17th straight month over month increase

3:00pm Tuesday, November 08, 2011
The October 2011 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 945,088 is an increase of 10.6 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 854,563 in October 2010. For comparison, the unadjusted October 2011 NICS figure of 1,331,836 reflects a 2.1 percent decrease from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,359,894 in October 2010. This marks the seventeenth straight...

A Few Minutes With...Herman Cain

7:00am Tuesday, November 08, 2011
by Jim Shepherd This weekend, thanks to the efforts of my friend Doug Warren, I had an on-the-record conversation with Herman Cain. As the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, his candidacy is drawing plenty of attention and criticism. Some of the criticism seems warranted; he has reversed himself on some issues, on others he's been short on details. He's also the...

REMINDER: Vote Tuesday in the Buckeye State!

5:12pm Monday, November 07, 2011
Tuesday November 8 is Election Day in Ohio. Primary and general election days are the only two days each year where we have the ability to vote on our future. We will vote on statewide issues and local candidates. Some have asked why these local races are important, when none of the winners will hold an office where they will vote statewide gun issues. A large number of our current House of...

Six Ohio State students victimized in violent robberies, five at gunpoint [UPDATE: Again...so make that seven, six at gunpoint]

Chad D. Baus
2:00pm Monday, November 07, 2011
Columbus' CBS affiliate, WBNS 10TV, reported last week on two separate incidents in which students of The Ohio State university were victimized by armed robbers. From the first article , from October 28: Students shared their stories on Friday after they were robbed at gunpoint. All of the students were robbed near The Ohio State University campus 10TV's Kevin Landers. Jake Calvert said he was...

EDITORIAL: Democrats cling to their guns

7:00am Monday, November 07, 2011
Obama scares women and liberals into the gun store Gun ownership is on the rise in some surprising places. As much as President Obama would have us believe that only small-town yokels "cling to guns or religion," a Gallup poll released [recently] suggests many of the firearms that have been flying off the shelves in the past two years were purchased by Democrats and women. The Second Amendment...

Industry Insight & A Presidential Candidate Taking Your Question

4:00pm Friday, November 04, 2011
by Jim Shepherd If you could ask the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination a question, what would it be? Foreign policy? Second Amendment? Jobs? When did a successful career as a businessman become a negative when running for what is the CEO's position for the biggest business in the world? What it's like to be vilified by your own race because you're not a liberal? At this...

2010 Second Amendment March featuring Yost and Husted sparks proposed rule change: Statehouse grounds to be no-guns victim zone?

7:00am Friday, November 04, 2011
by Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch reported recently that on October 20 the unelected Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board voted to prohibit concealed guns on the property surrounding the Statehouse. From the article : "The thought was that the board wants to be proactive as we continue to have more events outside," said Gregg Dodd, the board's deputy director. "The board's intent is to...

Ohio firearm inventor honored at Works Museum - you are invited

3:00pm Thursday, November 03, 2011
Republished with permission of the Ohio Gun Collector's Association. (OGCA) "The Art of War" art gallery exhibit at The Works museum in Newark, Ohio will highlight the advancement of weaponry and contributions made to the Remington Gun Company by an industrious Ohio inventor, Joseph Rider. The heart of this exhibit, "The Rider," is a biography of Rider's life-long successes, inventions and his 25...

Caught on video: Anti-gun Columbus Mayor Coleman comes unhinged

7:00am Thursday, November 03, 2011
by Chad D. Baus As many of our readers are aware, Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman has consistently worked against the Second Amendment and the Constitution during his long term as mayor. The Ohio chairman of the anti-gun group Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), Coleman and his city council enacted an unenforceable assault weapons ban in 2005, which caused the NRA to pull plans to hold their...

H.R. 822 -- National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act -- Heading to House Floor; Contact your Representative Now!

3:00pm Wednesday, November 02, 2011
As we've been reporting week in and week out, H.R. 822 -- the "National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011" is very good legislation for gun owners. The time is past due to dispel the alarmist rhetoric about the bill, and to set the record straight. Most of the misguided, unfounded, and incorrect characterizations circulating lately regarding H.R. 822 have come from the anti-gun groups and...

SC Sheriff: "Our form of justice is not making it." "Carry a concealed weapon."

7:00am Wednesday, November 02, 2011
by Chad D. Baus Advice given by Spartanburg County, SC Sheriff Chuck Wright to citizens concerned about a recent spate of violent crimes is making national headlines. The controversy? Wright advised people to take steps to protect themselves by buying a gun. From WYFF4.com (the Greenville, SC NBC affiliate): The Spartanburg County Sheriff is known for speaking his mind, and at a news conference...

Republican presidential candidates seek to educate primary voters on Romney's flip-flops on gun rights

7:00am Tuesday, November 01, 2011
by Chad D. Baus Two Republican presidential candidates with documented pro-Second Amendment rights records as governors are seeking to make sure that primary voters are aware that former governor Mitt Romney's record on the issue looks more like Barack Obama's or Hillary Clinton's than that of a supposedly pro-gun conservative. One of the flip-flop issues consistently mentioned about Romney? His...

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