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Illinois Hoplophobes Over a Barrel: Let ‘em Roll!

3:00pm Tuesday, April 30, 2013
by Jeff Knox The state of Illinois is the only state in the union that does not offer provisions for regular citizens – those who are not law enforcement or security guards – to carry a gun in public. Last December, the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled that the ban is unconstitutional and gave the state 180 days to come up with an acceptable framework for citizen carry. Now, if the...

Attorney General DeWine, Senator Hughes Announce Violent Career Criminal Act

7:00am Tuesday, April 30, 2013
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and Ohio Senator Jim Hughes (R-Columbus) today announced new legislation aimed at reducing the number of gun crimes in the state of Ohio. They were joined by Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney Ron O'Brien, whose office has aggressively targeted violent gun crimes. "During my first year in office as Ohio's Attorney General, it became...

More Turkey Hunters Successful on Ohio's Opening Day

3:00pm Monday, April 29, 2013
COLUMBUS, OH – For the opening day of Ohio's 2013 spring wild turkey season, hunters harvested 2,762 wild turkeys, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The 2013 opening day total is a 24 percent increase from the 2012 opening day tally when 2,227 turkeys were killed. This year, Ashtabula County had the most checked wild turkeys of the opening day with 114 turkeys...

FOP fundraising letter conceals the organization's anti-gun agenda

7:00am Monday, April 29, 2013
by Larry S. Moore I received my annual copy of the Fraternal Order of Police fund-raising letter asking for my support. I've been ignoring these letters for close to twenty years now. I was about to unceremoniously deposit this one into File 13 when I thought maybe I should read it this time. My wife shook her head, noting that my political blood pressure doesn't need any help from the FOP. The...

NRA-ILA's Chris W. Cox: Message to Gun Owners on Their Victory in the Senate

3:00pm Friday, April 26, 2013
by Chris Cox While both sides in the gun control debate regroup after our victory in the Senate earlier this week, I want to give credit where credit is due. The credit for [last] Wednesday's defeat of gun control goes to the countless gun owners and other Americans who drew a line in the sand—who sent emails and letters and made phone calls to their U.S. senators, urging them to protect private...

As the U.S. Senate debated gun control in D.C., citizens used guns to protect themselves in Ohio

7:00am Friday, April 26, 2013
by Chad D. Baus News of the (failed) push to pass gun control legislation in the U.S. Senate, as well as the terror attack on Boston, dominated the media last week for good reason. But here in Ohio, a series of events that might otherwise have received wider news coverage went virtually unnoticed. Saturday, April 13 Toledo Police say a homeowner shot and killed a man who was attempting to break...

It is time for America to learn about Beslan: School safety discussions in the wake of the Chechen terrorist attack on Boston

7:00am Thursday, April 25, 2013
"Denial kills you physical, mentally, and financially. It has no survival value. Chew it up, spit it out, get rid of it. Moment of truth today - no more denial. Rid yourself of every ounce." - Lt. Col. Dave Grossman by Chad D. Baus Despite the fact that all the gun control laws in Connecticut (or New York or Colorado) and all the "no-guns" signs in schools and all the "security" measures being...

Gun confiscation already underway

3:00pm Wednesday, April 24, 2013
by Thomas Lucente And so it begins. The gun grab. Liberal politicians keep telling us they don’t want to take away our guns. "I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won't take your handgun away," President Barack Obama has said. "There's no way Uncle Sam can go find out whether you have a gun," Vice President Joe Biden said. Tell that to David Lewis, 35, of Erie...

Chechen terrorists in Boston expose the fallacy of gun control laws

7:00am Wednesday, April 24, 2013
by Chad D. Baus As I listened to the play by play coverage of the Boston bombing terrorists' rampage through the streets of the city late Thursday night and Friday morning, I knew it was only a matter of time before the media began on their quest to find out where the two Chechen terrorists got the guns they used to kill one police officer and wound another. Many journalists, I knew, would pursue...

Public Approval of Hunting Highest Since 1995

3:00pm Tuesday, April 23, 2013
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation reports that a new survey shows 79 percent of the American public approve of hunting. This marks the highest level of support for hunting since 1995, according to data compiled by Responsive Management, an independent research firm. The nationwide scientific survey showed the public's approval of hunting rose five points in the past year,...

Chelby Kosto: Irresponsible Dayton reporter supports local rapist

7:00am Tuesday, April 23, 2013
by Katie Dattalo For the past few months, I, along with Buckeye Firearms Association, been covering an issue about our local media and their love-affair with a rapist in our community who has been organizing several anti-gun protests. Last weekend, another protest was organized by Jerome McCorry, founder of the Adam Project and Ceasefire Dayton. He's also a convicted rapist: The fact that McCorry...

Op-Ed: Universal Background Checks Aren’t

3:00pm Monday, April 22, 2013
by C. D. Michel In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, America’s gun control movement was momentarily reenergized. Many reasoned voices sought solutions for such events, which unimpassioned analysis showed to mainly be a mental health issue. Gun control groups also concurred on the mental health aspect, then squandered that brief moment of collaboration by tossing their...

Project Veritas exposes Piers Morgan and movie-makers' hypocrisy on issue of guns

7:00am Monday, April 22, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Project Veritas, whose mission is to investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions in order to achieve a more ethical and transparent society, recently released a video investigation under the headline "Hypocrites in Hollywood Want Guns Confiscated, But Won’t Remove Them From Their Own...

Ohio's Spring Wild Turkey Hunting Season Begins April 22

3:00pm Friday, April 19, 2013
Youth-only hunt set for April 20-21 COLUMBUS, OH – The start of spring ushers in Ohio's annual wild turkey hunt, and hunters can enjoy the warmer weather in pursuit of this popular game bird. According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), the 2013 Ohio spring hunting season opens Monday, April 22, with the youth wild turkey season opening Saturday and Sunday, April 20-21. "Ohio has...

V. P. Biden pledges more executive action on guns from Obama “later this week," White House corrects

12:00pm Friday, April 19, 2013
by Chad D. Baus We the People have spoken through our representatives in Congress. We do not want law-abiding Americans' Second Amendment rights curbed in the name of "doing something" about the horrific attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School. We do not want our legislators to pass things that feel good but that will do nothing to prevent these types of mass killings. Unfortunately, Vice...

BFA's Linda Walker to speak at Central Ohio's Dillon Sportsman Center Grand Opening Event April 27

7:00am Friday, April 19, 2013
by Aaron Kirkingburg The Dillon Sportsman Center is under new management and will be re-opening April 27th at 9am to welcome the public. Trap and skeet fields will be open, and all houses have been outfitted with new Atlas AT400 machines. Signup sheets for trap and skeet leagues will be available in the range house. The 100yd rifle range has six cement shooting benches available, with room to set...

Winner announced in the EOTWAWKI Guns & Survival Gear Raffle

3:00pm Thursday, April 18, 2013
Just look at the smile on that man's face! That's the smile of someone who's just won over $3,200 worth of guns and gear that will help him survive the end of the world as we know it. Domestic terrorism. Civil unrest. Comet strike. Nuclear war. Zombie invasion. Whatever the scenario, Heath from Cambridge is now ready to bug out and survive if the unthinkable happens. This lucky patriot had the...

Manchin-Toomey anti-gun rights amendment defeated; "Assault weapons" & "high capacity" magazine bans defeated

4:31pm Wednesday, April 17, 2013
This article was updated as new information became available. by Chad D. Baus The United States Senate has failed to achieve the necessary 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster of the Manchin-Toomey amendment to Chuck Schumer's "universal background checks" bill, S. 649. The amendment, which was supported by Sen. Schumer, had been hailed by the media just last week as the best chance of...

Cops say gun control proposals do nothing to stop crime

3:00pm Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The following article was originally published by The Lima News . Republished with permission. by Greg Sowinski LIMA - A national survey of police officers show overwhelming support for the Second Amendment while opposing many federal gun control proposals they say would do little, if anything, to stop crime. Those beliefs are supported by some local officers, as well. The national survey was...

Manchin-Toomey is gun registration: "Background gun-check records are saved."

7:00am Wednesday, April 17, 2013
by Alan Korwin The so-called "background check" bill is really about gun registration -- ultimate and imminent registration of every gun and gun owner in America. The mandatory paper records are saved -- nobody denies that. Federal agents use those all the time. The electronic records have virtually no controls on them. They go into a system designed as a recording device. This bill vastly...

Compromise At What Cost?

3:00pm Tuesday, April 16, 2013
by Jim Shepherd With the United States Senate now moving toward the eventual passage of legislation that is more anti-gun owners than anti-crime, anti-gun legislators and the media are starting to celebrate another baby-step toward their ultimate goal: disarmament of the private citizen. That sounds fatalistic, but even as New York Governor Cuomo calls proposed compromise legislation a "sell-out...

The “Pro-Gun” provisions of Manchin-Toomey are actually a bonanza of gun control

7:00am Tuesday, April 16, 2013
by Dave Kopel The Toomey-Manchin Amendment which may be offered as soon as Tuesday to Senator Reid's gun control bill are billed as a "compromise" which contain a variety of provisions for gun control, and other provisions to enhance gun rights. Some of the latter, however, are not what they seem. They are badly miswritten, and are in fact major advancements for gun control. In particular: 1. The...

Senate bill would turn law-abiding gun owners into felons

3:00pm Monday, April 15, 2013
A new bill would make it a crime to "transfer" your gun to a spouse for more than seven days. by Dave Kopel Public-opinion polls about "universal background checks" for gun sales show widespread support. While President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg talk about "gun sales," the actual legislation moving through Congress aims to regulate far more than sales. It would turn almost every gun owner into a...

Gun show protest cancelled after Buckeye Firearms Assoc. highlights organizer's status as a convicted rapist

7:00am Monday, April 15, 2013
by Chad D. Baus On Friday, Dayton's FOX affiliate reported that Jerome McCorry had planned to stage another protest outside the Bill Goodman Gun & Knife Show at Dayton's Hara arena. What they did not report, as is frequent in news coverage of similar protests staged by McCorry in the past, is that McCorry is a convicted rapist . Quite obviously, we believe that part of McCorry's past should...

Sex offender to stage another protest demanding that law-abiding citizens disarm

10:54am Friday, April 12, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WRGT (Dayton FOX) is reporting that a protest is being planned for Saturday's Bill Goodman Gun and Knife Show at Hara Arena. The article reports that protest is being organized by Rev. Jerome McCorry. What the article fails to report, as is all too common with Dayton media outlets, is that McCorry is a registered sex offender . From the article : "We'll be out on Saturday to march...

Study: "Universal" background checks not likely to reduce gun crime; Reps. Heard & Patmon push UBC bills in Ohio anyways

7:00am Friday, April 12, 2013
Using 20-year-old data, President Obama recently claimed that as many as 40 percent of gun purchases take place without a background check (Remarks by the President, March 28, 2013). He suggested that requiring background checks for all gun purchases will reduce gun violence by keeping dangerous people from acquiring firearms. To determine if the 40 percent estimate is accurate today,...

Headline: Second Amendment - Right to bear arms in action

3:00pm Thursday, April 11, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The Canton Repository recently visited three of the ten Stark County, Ohio companies licensed to manufacture firearms, and published an excellent follow-up article. From the article : Inside a plain-looking single-story green building near Meyers Lake, Dennis DeVault and his employees have outfitted competitive trap and clay shooters across the country for 23 years. From the...

Senate may vote today to end private sales at gun shows and online; Sen. Portman "undecided" if he'll join filibuster

7:00am Thursday, April 11, 2013
[UPDATE: Sen. Rob Portman joins 31 Senators voting against moving the bill to the floor. Filibuster attempts proved unsuccessful, however, as 16 other Republicans including John McCain voted with the anti-gun rights majority. Portman said he hasn't seen the specific language of the Toomey-Manchin amendment described below, and thus could not yet say whether or not he could support it. by Chad D...

March sees 26.3% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 34th straight month over month increase

3:00pm Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The March 2013 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,501,730 is an increase of 26.3 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,189,152 in March 2012. For comparison, the unadjusted March 2013 NICS figure of 2,197,116 reflects a 28.1 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,715,125 in March 2012. This marks the 34th straight month that...

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