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Ohio Deer Hunting Regulations Proposals Amended

3:00pm Tuesday, March 25, 2014
COLUMBUS, OH – After considering public input and reviewing data, modifications were made to the 2014-2015 hunting regulations proposals that the Ohio Wildlife Council will vote on at their next meeting, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The amended proposal states that shotguns and pistol cartridge rifles used for white-tailed deer hunting be loaded with no more than...

Senator Dianne Feinstein's latest move: Attempt to ban imports of many semi-automatic rifles

7:00am Tuesday, March 25, 2014
She's back! Roundly defeated legislatively and procedurally on the Senate floor a year ago, Dianne Feinstein, the U.S. Senate's leading foe of Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights, is resuming her jihad against semi-automatic modern sporting rifles using a different tactic. This time, the California Democrat is asking her fellow U.S. Senators to sign on to a letter to President...

Op-Ed: Surgeon General nomination forces Senate Democrats to hide gun views

by John Lott
3:00pm Monday, March 24, 2014
When will Democrats who describe themselves as “pro-gun” realize that they aren't fooling anyone? Here's their latest deception. President Obama’s nomination of Dr. Vivek Murthy to be surgeon general is in trouble, because the National Rifle Association decided that it was going to “score” the vote – that is, let its members know which senators voted for someone they believe is a threat to people...

Confusion Reigns as Gun Control Law Takes Effect in Connecticut

7:00am Monday, March 24, 2014
On April 4, 2013, Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy (D) signed Senate Bill 1160 into law, unleashing one of the most draconian gun control laws in the nation on his constituents. Among other things, the 140-page law bans large classes of firearms and magazines that had been obtained lawfully by tens of thousands of Connecticut residents. Limited grandfather provisions apply to those who registered...

America’s Gun Culture

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Friday, March 21, 2014
The media and gun control advocates often talk about the US “gun culture,” as if those of us who own and appreciate guns are some sort of deviant cult. The reality is, America’s gun culture is part of the dominant American culture; it’s the hoplophobes, with their irrational fear of firearms, who are out of sync with the social norms of most of the country. America’s gun culture is as normal and...

Common Sense: Gun storage laws don't work; Firearm safety education does

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, March 21, 2014
On March 11, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, a hypocrite who enjoys his own private armed security but insists that everyone else's right to bear arms be severely limited or abolished, coordinated groups of anti-gun extremists to join together in a publicity stunt in Columbus. As we have documented in the past, publicity is the one thing Bloomberg and his cronies do well. Of course it helps to...

"Cause" of Injury List to Exaggerate Risks of Firearms

3:00pm Thursday, March 20, 2014
Get ready for gun control supporters bogusly to start claiming that firearms "cause" more injuries than more than 150,000 other factors. The United Nations' World Health Organization is increasing its list of injury causes from 17,000 to 155,000, effective October 1, 2014. The U.N.'s injury list, which will be used by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is being expanded...

Bloomberg crony on H.B. 203: Horribly misinformed, or intentionally lying?

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, March 20, 2014
The Gongwer News Service reported last week on the latest round of attacks on H.B. 203 (Concealed Carry & Self-Defense Law Reform), coordinated by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, a hypocrite who enjoys his own private armed security but insists that everyone else's right to bear arms be severely limited or abolished. From the article : Opponents of wide-ranging legislation that has sparked...

Twenty Years of Brady Law Failure

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Wednesday, March 19, 2014
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is touting the 20th anniversary of implementation of the Brady Law, requiring that buyers at gun shops pass a background check before every purchase. They’re marking the anniversary with a “report” extolling the program’s success and promoting their current target: criminalization of private firearm transfers. The catch phrase for that campaign is “...

More Fuzzy Math: Gun Control Supporters Misrepresent Gun Owner Trends

7:00am Wednesday, March 19, 2014
President Obama absurdly suggested during his State of the Union address in January that "citizenship" means going along with the gun control agenda that he's been pushing for the past 15 months. Nevertheless, anti-gunners -- not banking on Obama's promise to impose that agenda "without Congress" -- are trying to convince politicians that they can vote for gun control without fear of...

Op-Ed: Guns and Deaths, a Non-US problem

by Chuck Michel
3:00pm Tuesday, March 18, 2014
“America has the highest death by guns rate per capita in the world…..fact.” That comment – left on a YouTube video – shows the ignorance of people not in America, and those in the Oval Office or the California state legislature. It is a persistent talking point of gun ban activists, and is adopted as fact by people predisposed to believe that (as the same fellow continued) “America is a screwed...

Anti-gun Surgeon General nominee on hold

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, March 18, 2014
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Obama administration is putting the nomination of Vivek Murthy as U.S. Surgeon General on hold because of a lack of support in the Senate - even among many Democrats - specifically because of his support for gun control . From the article : The White House's decision to tap the brakes on its nomination of Vivek Murthy as U.S. Surgeon General is...

Chiappa Firearms expanding in Dayton

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Monday, March 17, 2014
The Dayton Daily News is reporting that an Italian gunmaker with a distribution center in Dayton plans to start manufacturing firearms in Dayton this year, which will require the company to double its local workforce to about 30 people. From the article : Chiappa Firearms, the Dayton-based branch company of Italy’s Chiappa Group, relocated in January to a new, expanded facility at 1415 Stanley...

Ohio State University wins 2014 NRA Intercollegiate Pistol Championship

by Kyle Jillson
7:00am Monday, March 17, 2014
Columbus, Georgia - After 13 years of almost-there seasons, The Ohio State University has won their first NRA Intercollegiate Pistol Championships since 2000. Comprised of scores from the Free Pistol, Standard Pistol and Open Air Pistol championships, the Buckeyes scored 1997, 2118, 2195 respectively for a total aggregate of 6310 out of a possible 7200. Ohio State's win towered over second place...

USSA Hosts Annual Candidate's Reception for Ohio Sportsmen

3:00pm Friday, March 14, 2014
The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA) will host a legislative reception with the members of the Ohio General Assembly and all candidates for office on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at the Riffe Center Theatre Lobby in Columbus, Ohio from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. The reception is open to all Ohio sportsmen and women. Legislators and candidates can use the informal atmosphere as an opportunity to meet and greet...

More lives saved in the Buckeye State thanks to firearms ownership

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, March 14, 2014
Two recent incidents in Ohio are the latest examples of how guns are often used to save lives. From the Facebook page of Lawrence Co., OH Sheriff Jeff Lawless: Post by Lawrence County Ohio Sheriff's Office . And from WCMH (NBC Columbus) : Dispatchers received a 911 call from a man who says he shot someone who was assaulting him Saturday evening. Columbus police officers responded to the shooting...

February 2014 firearms sales checks third highest on record

3:00pm Thursday, March 13, 2014
The February 2014 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,264,010 is the third highest February on record for the system, even with a decrease of 22.7 percent compared to the February 2013 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,634,309 (February 2014 figures are a virtual tie with 2012 for the second highest on record for the month). For comparison, the...

UC student assaulted near campus; Speaks out about being disarmed by state law

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, March 13, 2014
After being violently beaten by a mob of teenagers outside a fraternity house near the University of Cincinnati campus, an engineering student is speaking out about his status as a concealed handgun license (CHL)-holder who has had his right to bear arms for self-defense denied by state law. From WLWT (NBC Cincinnati) : A UC student who was assaulted by a group of teens near UC’s campus spoke out...

California Forcing Guns Off the Market

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Wednesday, March 12, 2014
California has long been on a sickening, spiral path toward flushing all individual rights down the toilet. Few states have such a powerful and overreaching state government and nowhere is that overreach more apparent than in the state's gun laws. Back in 2000, California legislators instituted a system supposedly intended to protect the state's citizens from cheap, poorly made, unreliable...

HB 234 (Allow Noise Suppressors While Hunting) passes House committee

by Larry S. Moore
7:00am Wednesday, March 12, 2014
The Buckeye Firearms Association-supported legislation to allow hunting with suppressed firearms, HB 234, passed out of the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday, March 11. The bill was introduced by sponsors Rep. Cheryl Grossman (R - Grove City) and Rep. John Becker (R - Union Township). Buckeye Firearms Association, the American Silencer Association and the Ohio Speech...

Long Guns for Self- Defense: The AR-15 (aka The “Modern Sporting Rifle”)

by Gary Evens
3:00pm Tuesday, March 11, 2014
The semi-automatic AR-15 is the most popular rifle in the United States. There are several reasons for this. One is that follow ing every major conflict that the U.S. has fought, the veterans of that conflict have sought to acquire firearms similar to those they used to fight with. Following World War I, there was a great move in the U.S. to adopt the bolt-action rifle. Prior to that time, the...

Training – how much is enough?

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Tuesday, March 11, 2014
How much training should be required to obtain a concealed handgun license (CHL)? Carrying a firearm is a constitutionally-protected right, but carrying concealed has been ruled a privilege. It is in the public’s best interest that people carrying concealed firearms do so safely, so the state can mandate training, but how much training does it take to make someone safe with a gun? When does it...

HB 234 (Allow Noise Suppressors While Hunting) scheduled for possible vote in House committee

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Monday, March 10, 2014
Chairman David Hall has announced that the House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee will be hearing all testimony on Representative Cheryl Grossman's (R-Grove City) HB 234 Tuesday March 11, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. in Statehouse Room 116. This will be the fourth hearing for this important bill. Chairman Hall has indicated that an amendment may be offered before a possible vote is held...

Anti-Gun Groups Fail to Remove Second Amendment Content from Facebook

7:00am Monday, March 10, 2014
In recent months, anti-gun groups such as Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), the Brady Campaign and others have been putting increasing pressure on Facebook (and its associated platform, Instagram) to prohibit any online content that references the private sale of firearms. The demands to Facebook were based on the false premise that guns were being sold illegally through these forums simply...

LaPierre Blasts Mainstream Media, Administration at CPAC

The Outdoor Wire
3:00pm Friday, March 07, 2014
Editor's Note: As an Official NRA News Partner, we broadcast the speech live. If you missed it, you can watch a replay by clicking here . "A little over a year ago, I offered the answer for school violence," said the NRA's Wayne LaPierre, "and the media elite called every nasty name imaginable. Fortunately, Americans disagreed." That was the opening shot, and LaPierre never stopped firing at the...

Will you survive a gunfight?

by Gary Evens
7:00am Friday, March 07, 2014
That is a difficult question to answer. Most individuals that are concerned about their personal safety to the extent that they have obtained a concealed handgun license feel they are adequately trained to deal with a hostile encounter should they be confronted with one. Unfortunately nothing could be further from the truth. Greg Ellifritz, writing on the Buckeye Firearms Association website,...

Headline: Ohio State pistol team finding success shooting ‘in relative obscurity’

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Thursday, March 06, 2014
The Ohio State University's campus newspaper, The Lantern , is reporting on the undefeated OSU pistol team's final preparations for the 2014 NRA Intercollegiate Pistol Championships March 8-13. From the article : In 15 years as the head coach, James Sweeney has led the pistol team to five national titles and coached seven student-athletes to 23 NRA collegiate individual championships, including...

Why we have no tolerance for ''zero tolerance''

by Ken Hanson & Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, March 06, 2014
You can relax! Thanks to quick and decisive action, a 10 year-old menace will no longer be stalking his next victim within the halls of Columbus City Schools, at least for a while. Thank you, zero tolerance, for removing this predator. In case you missed the original story , a Columbus fifth-grader has been suspended from school for pointing a “level 2 lookalike firearm” (that is public school...

Op-Ed: Dumbing Down UC Davis

by Chuck Michel
3:00pm Wednesday, March 05, 2014
When a researcher’s opening remarks are a demonstrable lie, you tend to disbelieve everything they say afterward. So naturally we are discussing Garen Wintemute, the stoat-faced director of UC Davis’ Violence Prevention Research Program. To create a false controversy in an effort to generate attention for Wintemute’s latest alleged research effort, a few news organizations (I stumbled across the...

Rapes and robberies on Ohio college campuses highlight fallacy of "no-guns" zones

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Recent incidents of violence on two of Ohio's largest college campuses are once again drawing attention to the plight of our state's defenseless college students. On the campus of The Ohio State University, The Lantern is reporting that University Police issued a public safety notice regarding a reported rape in an on-campus residence hall. From the article : Recent information about the rape,...

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