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FLASH: HB495 (Reciprocity & Concealed Carry Modernization) scheduled for sponsor testimony in House committee

2:40pm Thursday, May 10, 2012
On Tuesday, May 15, the House Committee on State Government and Elections, which is chaired by BFA "A" -rated Rep. Ron Maag (R-35), will hear sponsor testimony on Rep. Terry Johnson's (R-89) HB495 , which will reform Ohio concealed carry law to protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners and continue a trend toward making Ohio law similar to other states. The hearing will be held at 1:30pm in...

Op-Ed: Petty, anti-gun antics from the Ohio Democrat Party and its allies

7:00am Thursday, May 10, 2012
The well funded, anti-firearm lobby will harangue any politician by Raquel Okyay The anti-gun lobby, the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence and Democratic state officials are aiming their pointy little fingers at state Republican Rep. Margaret Conditt of Liberty Township because she plans to have an election fundraiser at Middletown Sportsmen's Club on May 12. The club is a -- danger alert --...

Dick Lugar, "The Most Anti-Gun Republican in the U.S. Senate," suffers landslide defeat in GOP primary

3:00pm Wednesday, May 09, 2012
by Chad D. Baus Senator Dick Lugar, who has been described as the most anti-gun Republican in the U.S. Senate, has suffered a landslide defeat in the Indiana state Republican primary. He was defeated on Tuesday by state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, who MSNBC reports was backed by groups ranging from the National Rifle Association to local Tea Party activists to the Washington-based fiscal...

Questions that should have been asked at anti-gun press conference

7:00am Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Editor's Note - The following op-ed originally appeared at StatehouseNewsOnline.com . Republished with permission. by Maggie Thurber | Ohio Watchdog Democrats used an upcoming Republican fundraiser to attack Second Amendment rights and other gun laws in Ohio. Reps. Ted Celeste and Tracy Maxwell Heard (Democrats from the Columbus area) held a press conference Thursday where they blasted Rep...

The Shrinking 'Vast Majority": NSSF Responds to ATF Mexican Trace Report

3:00pm Tuesday, May 08, 2012
By Larry Keane ATF [recently] released a report on firearms submitted by the government of Mexico for tracing since 2007. One screaming headline referred to the "Vast Majority of Mexican Crime Guns Originate in U.S. New ATF Trace Data Reveals." If you have been following the issue of Mexican gun traces on this blog, you will realize the truth is a rapidly shrinking "Vast Majority" and the so-...

Ted Nugent's newsworthy comments on Romney overlooked in flap over comments about an Obama second term

7:00am Tuesday, May 08, 2012
by Chad D. Baus Every year, the anti-gun media look for something with which to paint the NRA Annual Meetings in a negative light. This year was no different, and the media frenzy took shape when NRA Board of Directors member Ted Nugent stated in an interview on NRANews.com that he will "either be dead or in jail by this time next year" if Obama is re-elected. (Rather innocuous comments, if you...

Op-Ed: Stand Your Ground makes sense

3:00pm Monday, May 07, 2012
These are sane laws that protect people by John Lott Call them what you will: "Stand Your Ground" or "Castle Doctrine" laws. Mayor Bloomberg and members of Congress, speaking on the House floor, go so far as to label them "shoot first" laws. This is a gross exaggeration — a slander, in fact, against legislation designed to reform a flaw in our treatment of self-defense. Earlier statutes...

“Turn Tail and Run” Law Proposed

3:00pm Friday, May 04, 2012
Editor's Note: We typically reserve our satirical posts for April Fool's Day, but this one is too good to pass up. by Evan F. Nappen Washington, D.C. - Senator Lousenburg (D. NJ) has filed the "Turn Tail and Run" (TTR) bill in the U.S. Senate which, if passed, would preempt ALL State "Stand Your Ground" (SYG) laws. The new bill would impose a national duty to retreat at all times when one...

Does YOUR financial institution support your Second Amendment rights?

7:00am Friday, May 04, 2012
by Chad D. Baus Two recent pieces of news drive home the importance of making sure that your bank respects your Second Amendment rights. Earlier this month, McMillan Group International, LLC announced that Bank Of America had severed ties with their company specifically because, in the years since they'd opened their accounts, McMillan had transitioned into a firearms manufacturing role. From a...

"Change" one vote at a time

3:00pm Thursday, May 03, 2012
by Sean Maloney, Esq. But I'm only one person; what can I do? The statement that "I'm only one person; my vote doesn't mean anything" has been discredited over and over again by razor-thin election victories throughout history. Remember "hanging chads" or "dimpled chads"? My point is, don't underestimate what you, one person, can do to change the outcome of, well, the world. Take this year's...

Buckeye Firearms Association Responds to Attack on Representative Conditt's "Shooting" Fundraiser

7:00am Thursday, May 03, 2012
Several Democrats have joined with a gun control group to publicly attack State Representative Margy Conditt (Liberty Township, District 55) because of a fundraising event she has scheduled for May 12 at the Middletown Sportsmens Club where participants will have the opportunity to shoot GUNS. The group linked her fundraiser to a recent Ohio shooting where three students died and called her...

Hunters Bag Nearly 8,900 Wild Turkeys During First Week of Spring Season

3:00pm Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Season open until May 20 COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio hunters harvested a preliminary total of 8,898 bearded wild turkeys during the first week of the spring turkey-hunting season, which is open statewide through May 20, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Last year hunters checked 7,744 wild turkeys during the first week of the season. Top counties for wild...

Democrats attack State Rep. Margaret Conditt for supporting our Constitutional right to bear arms

11:13am Wednesday, May 02, 2012
by Sean Maloney, Esq. Some time ago I was approached concerning a fundraiser for my friend, and my Ohio State Representative, Margy Conditt. I came up with an idea that I thought would be a great one. Have a fundraiser where all those who attended would have the opportunity to exercise our God-given rights, as protected by our Founding Fathers by the Second Amendment to the United States...

Feinstein signals attempt to filibuster National Right to Carry legislation

3:00pm Tuesday, May 01, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The Associated Press reported recently that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who once infamously admitted on national television that her goal is to get American gun owners to "turn them all in," is trying to block votes on bills that would require a state to honor concealed gun permits from other states. From the article : The California Democrat wrote Majority Leader Harry Reid and...

Concealed carry - Why the uproar?

7:00am Tuesday, May 01, 2012
The following op-ed by Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson was originally published by The Columbus Dispatch . Republished with permission. by Ken Hanson April 8, 2012, marked the anniversary of a law that affects the lives of more than 270,000 Buckeyes. Ohio's concealed-handgun license law turned 8 years old on that Sunday afternoon. Notably absent from the festivities were...

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