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Time to arm willing teachers to stop spree killers

7:00am Wednesday, February 29, 2012
by Jeff Thomas By now everyone has heard about the Chardon High School shooting that left three students dead and two others wounded this week. Many believed it was just a matter of time before a school shooting reached Ohio. On Monday morning it happened. This just highlights the need to arm willing teachers to serve as the last line of defense of our children. While a lot remains unknown about...

Elderly Cleveland concealed carry licensee survives home invasion by shooting his armed attacker

3:00pm Tuesday, February 28, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that a 78 year-old man was forced to shoot a 17 year-old male who to broke into the house he was sleeping in. From the article : "Police told me if I hadn't dropped him with that that first one, he would have got me," [Ted] Ziolkowski said in a telephone interview. The youth remained in Metrohealth Medical Center under police guard. His...

Fast & Furious was not a "botched" operation

3:00pm Tuesday, February 28, 2012
by Sean Maloney It's important that we clean up the vernacular being used by all involved when discussing Fast & Furious. Specifically, "Botched"; the botched investigation; the botched operation; botched attempt to track firearms that were permitted to "walk" into Mexico. There was nothing "botched" about this whole thing. We must stress the true purpose of Fast & Furious. It was a U.S.-...

Shootings at Chardon, Ohio high school prompt calls for answers, but first we need to ask the right question

7:00am Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The most negligent, unprofessional, obscene words anyone can ever say are: "It will never happen here." - Lt. Col. Dave Grossman The nationwide media are reporting that five children have been shot at Chardon High School, and that three of the victims have died. Early reports indicate that the shooter used a .22 caliber handgun in the shooting. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims,...

Study: "Tough Targets - When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens"

3:00pm Monday, February 27, 2012
The Cato Institute is offering a special publication by Clayton Cramer and David Burnett, which uses an extensive collection of news reports from over an eight-year period to survey the circumstances and outcomes of defensive gun uses in America. Federal and state lawmakers often oppose repealing or amending laws governing the ownership or carrying of guns. That opposition is often based on...

End of an Error: Canadian gun registry to be dismantled

7:00am Monday, February 27, 2012
by Jim Shepherd It was a government boondoggle from the very beginning. It cost multiples of the budgeted funding, ran years behind in development, caused nothing but problems for law-abiding citizens and, as it has come to an inauspicious end, has failed to save even one life. Sounds like business-as-usual in Washington, doesn't it? Fortunately, this boondoggle wasn't "made in America" it was...

Fishing and Hunting Protection Bill Introduced in the U.S. Senate

3:00pm Friday, February 24, 2012
(Columbus, OH) – Protection of fishing, hunting, and shooting on national forest and public lands has taken a step forward with the Senate introduction of the Recreational Fishing and Hunting Heritage and Opportunities Act. Introduced by Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia), the measure is backed by the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance, American Sportfishing Association,...

BOOK REVIEW: Encyclopedia of Gun Control & Gun Rights, 2nd edition

7:00am Friday, February 24, 2012
by Chad D. Baus Recently, Grey House Publishing, based in Amenia, NY, sent me a copy of the Second Edition of Encyclopedia of Gun Control & Gun Rights . According to an accompanying press release, the first edition was published by Greenwood Press in 1999. Reviewing an encyclopedia may seem a bit of a tall order, especially since, I will freely admit, I have not read the 550 page volume cover...

Hunter Education Instructor Training Offered

3:00pm Thursday, February 23, 2012
Columbus, OH – Central Ohio sportsmen and women who are interested in becoming Hunter Education Instructors are encouraged to register for a training workshop according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The first workshop will take place on Saturday, March 10th and Sunday, March 11th, 2012. Training will be held at the Wildlife District One office located at...

Deer hunting with rifles using pistol cartridges - bring on the debate

7:00am Thursday, February 23, 2012
by Larry S. Moore The Ohio Department of Natural Resources' (ODNR) Division of Wildlife is holding open house meetings in all five districts to discuss season dates and bag limits of game species, which will include Ohio's most popular game animal, the white-tailed deer. The meetings will be Saturday, March 3, from 12 – 3 p.m. and are open to the public. For many people the open houses are an...

After Bloomberg's latest antics, it's time to take the gloves off

3:00pm Wednesday, February 22, 2012
by Tim Inwood I will tolerate these idiots in silence no more. Perhaps it is a passage of time issue that eventually the curmudgeon gene emerges and takes hold in most men. I find the older I get the less patience I have with idiots. Nor do I have the desire to be tactful in expressing my views about them. I let it all hang out these days, just like the late Andy Rooney. This is exactly the...

Boehner allegations fast & furious, but also false

7:00am Wednesday, February 22, 2012
by Sean Maloney In recent days allegations have been made in a number of Internet publications that Speaker of the House John Boehner was somehow sabotaging the Fast and Furious probe. Any number of reasons were given for Speaker Boehner's opposition to the Oversight Committee investigation, all of which are false. When I first came across these allegations, I was confident they were not true. I...

Fishing, Hunting and Trapping Licenses will be available March 1

3:00pm Tuesday, February 21, 2012
COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio's 2012-13 fishing, hunting and trapping licenses and permits will be on sale starting March 1, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. "Ohio's new license sales system performed very well in its inaugural year," said Scott Zody, chief of the Division of Wildlife. "Customer identification (ID) numbers should be used whenever possible...

Diminishing the Constitution

7:00am Tuesday, February 21, 2012
It is certainly no surprise for gun owners to see the New York Times run a story belittling the United States Constitution. After all, the Times has worked for decades to devalue our founding document. "[I]ts influence is waning," opines the Times . It is "terse and old, and it guarantees relatively few rights." The paper faults the Constitution for being difficult to amend and reflective of the...

Wildlife Council Hears Proposals for 2012-13 Deer Hunting Seasons

3:00pm Monday, February 20, 2012
Changes would allow hunters until noon the following day to check in their deer COLUMBUS, OH – Seven west-central Ohio counties are proposed to move from deer Zone A to Zone B, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Preble and Shelby counties would make the transition from deer Zone A to deer Zone B. Also,...

David Brock, Media Matters and gun control hypocrisy

7:00am Monday, February 20, 2012
"George Soros and a lot of groups connected to gun control are funding this group, and they wouldn't be too happy that an employee of Media Matters was carrying a gun, especially when it was illegal in D.C." by John Lott David, say it isn't so! The news from the Daily Caller website is surprising: David Brock, the founder of Media Matters, had a personal assistant illegally publicly carry a...

Anti-Gun Justice Becomes Victim of Armed Robbery

3:00pm Friday, February 17, 2012
by Michael Filozof Ah, yes. There is such a thing as "poetic justice" after all! It seems that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, a 1994 Clinton appointee, was the victim of an armed home-invasion robbery in his vacation home on St. Kitts and Nevis. (Read the report at http://www.thestkittsnevisobserver.com/2012/02/10/fbi-nevis.html ) Breyer voted against the majority in two recent...

Activating the Second Amendment Grassroots Movement

7:00am Friday, February 17, 2012
by Joel Friedman I, like most of you, have been watching and reading about the events of our country over the last several years and again, like most of you, I have been thinking about what it all means. I have read some really fantastic articles and posts and have thought about them as they relate to our firearms rights, the elections, the Supreme Court nominations and the next 20 years. I am...

NSSF: "Santorum ‘Stands Tall’ for 2nd Amendment at NSSF Member Range"

3:00pm Thursday, February 16, 2012
by Bill Brassard Fresh off primary victories in three states, presidential candidate Rick Santorum demonstrated his strong support for the individual right to keep and bear arms by visiting H&H Shooting Sports Complex in Oklahoma City en route to a rally today. H&H is a NSSF Five Star member range owned by Miles and Jayne Hall. The Santorum rally originally was scheduled to be held at H...

"911 is a joke": Self-defense killings skyrocket as law-abiding Detroiters take matters into their own hands

7:00am Thursday, February 16, 2012
by Chad D. Baus TheDaily.com reported recently that justifiable homicide in the City of Detroit shot up 79 percent in 2011 from the previous year, as citizens in the long-suffering city armed themselves and took matters into their own hands. According to the article, the local rate of self-defense killings now stands 2,200 percent above the national average. Residents, unable to rely on a...

Nationwide Starbucks "reverse boycott", or BUYcott, brings in many generous customers

3:00pm Wednesday, February 15, 2012
by Chad D. Baus On February 14, 2012 gun rights advocates across the country provided an economic stimulus to their local Starbucks stores. The effort came together in response to the January 23 announcement that of a Valentine's Day boycott scheduled by an anti-self-defense group calling itself the "National Gun Victim's Action Council." The group is demanding that Starbucks, which takes a...

Gun smuggling on Bloomberg’s watch - but he wasn’t watching

7:00am Wednesday, February 15, 2012
by "Buckeye" Dan Allen New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is arguably one of the most vocal and visible public figures in the anti-gun community. Billionaire Bloomberg and his organization of city mayors are known for promoting tougher federal, state, and local gun regulation. Bloomberg and the group MAIG (Mayors Against Illegal Guns) can regularly be found in the media spotlight criticizing...

Final Numbers are in for Ohio's 2011-12 White-tailed Deer Season

3:00pm Tuesday, February 14, 2012
COLUMBUS, OH – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife announced that 219,698 deer were taken during Ohio's 2011-12 hunting season, compared to 239,379 in the 2010-11 season. The top three counties with the highest number of deer taken this season were: Coshocton, Licking and Tuscarawas. Hunters showed support for the two new methods of game-reporting that were made...

Attorney General announces Fourth Quarter 2011 CHL statistics; Record-setting quarter caps second-best year ever

7:00am Tuesday, February 14, 2012
by Jim Irvine Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the concealed handgun license (CHL) statistics for the fourth quarter of 2011. Ohio sheriffs set a new record issuing almost 12,000 CHLs for the busiest fourth quarter in the program's eight year history. Demand was up 12% compared to the same period a year earlier. At the end of the year, we set another all-time record of...

January sees 17.3% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 20th straight month over month increase

3:00pm Monday, February 13, 2012
The January 2012 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 920,840 is an increase of 17.3 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 784,856 in January 2011. For comparison, the unadjusted January 2012 NICS figure of 1,368,816 reflects a 4.3 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,312,544 in January 2011. This marks the 20th straight month...

Coffee and a gun anyone?

7:00am Monday, February 13, 2012
by Aaron Kirkingburg Valentine's Day 2012 has become a firearms focal point this year. A coalition made up of several secular anti-gun groups has banded together to plan and organize a boycott of Starbucks coffee shops in retaliation for the chain's refusal to ban guns from its premises. These groups are pushing for corporations to ban guns in their retail locations because they can't seem to get...

Election Day 2012 is right around the corner - what are YOU doing to ensure Obama is a one-termer?

3:00pm Friday, February 10, 2012
by Joe DeBergalis You may think November 6th — Election Day 2012 — is off in the distant future. Maybe you think there's plenty of time before anyone needs to worry about getting that new voter registration card, or that it will be a long while before you need to start educating your friends and family about their pro-gun allies running for office. But Barack Obama and his anti-gun supporters...

Police and bar owners: No issues since reforms pertaining to concealed carry took effect

7:00am Friday, February 10, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The Mount Vernon News recently provided readers an updated look at what police and bar owners have experienced in the months since Ohio's concealed carry law was modified to allow license-holders to carry in places where alcohol is being served, so long as they are not drinking, and to remove onerous restrictions mandating how license-holders were allowed to carry in a motor...

Major gun heist at Ohio gun store proves background checks can't stop criminals from getting guns

3:00pm Thursday, February 09, 2012
by Chad D. Baus WCMH, Columbus' NBC affiliate, is reporting that police are investigating a break-in in which approximately 80 firearms were stolen from a Central Ohio shooting range as well as boxes of ammunition. Thieves knocked a hole through a cinder block wall to gain access to The Powder Room, which is located in Powell. According to the report, this wasn't the first time thieves have...

Ohio Supreme Court declines to hear Castle Doctrine appeal; Man who acted in self-defense is free

7:00am Thursday, February 09, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that the Ohio Supreme Court (OSC) has declined to hear the case of a 55-year-old Cleveland homeowner convicted in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court last year of killing an intruder. In 2010, Carl Kozlosky was convicted by a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court jury and sentenced last year to 18 years to life in prison for the shooting death...

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