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The True Source Of Random & Mass Shootings And Violence?

7:00am Friday, January 25, 2013
Why are politicians focusing on the tools mass murderers use instead of on how society may be creating its own monsters with the prevalent use of psychiatric and psychotropic drugs in children? Whether the mass murderers were on their medication at the time of their acts, or had stopped taking them, the following medical and psychiatric professionals believe the drugs are to blame, not the tools...

The Show Not Attended [UPDATE - Show "Postponed"]

3:00pm Thursday, January 24, 2013
by Jim Shepherd As fallout from Reed Exhibition's decision to ban anything related to the modern sporting rifle from their Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show continues, it appears the show will be lacking many of the brand names and outdoor faces the more than 200,000 annual visitors normally expect. Large and small, companies have been withdrawing at an increasingly faster pace. Notifications have...

More than 200 exhibitors withdraw from PA outdoor show after organizer bans modern sporting rifles

12:00pm Thursday, January 24, 2013
OutdoorLife.com is reporting that, by mid-day on Jan. 23, more than 200 exhibitors -- and counting -- had withdrawn from the Eastern Sports and Outdoors Show, Pennsylvania's largest annual outdoor sports show, following event organizer Reed Exhibitions' decision to ban the display and sale of modern sporting rifles and standard-capacity magazines. [UPDATE: Show "postponed" ] From the article :...

Pathetic dog and pony show

7:00am Thursday, January 24, 2013
by Tim Inwood The NRA ran an ad pointing out the hypocrisy of the Administration opposing armed guards for our nation's schools while the President's children had armed security at theirs. Within hours the President's spokesman Jay Carney attacked the ad, complaining it was unfair to use the President's children as political pawns. I found the hypocrisy of this statement too much to swallow, as...

Op-Ed: Gun control has a clear record of failure

3:00pm Wednesday, January 23, 2013
by Tom Gresham In the wake of the horrific murders at the Sandy Hook school in Connecticut, America has been deluged with calls for ever-more-restrictive gun-control laws, and that's understandable. It's natural to think that's the solution if you don't know these measures have been tried and have always failed. We crave a solution so much that we'll ignore the record and keep repeating failed...

Northwest Ohio law enforcement say Obama 'playing politics' with gun-control plan

7:00am Wednesday, January 23, 2013
The following article was originally published by The Lima News . Republished with permission. by Greg Sowinski The new gun-control measures proposed by President Obama are more about playing politics than they are about finding solutions for keeping children safe. That is the view of law enforcement leaders, a prosecutor and gun-rights supporters after hearing details of Obama's much anticipated...

Second Amendment supporters gather at central Ohio events

3:00pm Tuesday, January 22, 2013
by Aaron Kirkingburg & Chad D. Baus The past two weekends have been busy ones for Second Amendment advocates in the central Ohio area. On Sunday, January 13, Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) held a central Ohio meet and greet at Stacy's Homestyle Buffet in Heath. Around 100 people attended the event, which kicked off at 4:00 p.m. with some good food and great conversation. In attendance...

Project Veritas exposes journalist hypocrisy on issue of publishing lists of gun owners

7:00am Tuesday, January 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 dealing with the release of gun owners' personal information by Gannett Company's The Journal News of White Plains, New York...

Why Ohio Police Chief's' War On Law Abiding Gun Owners Is Asinine

by John Salyers
3:00pm Monday, January 21, 2013
And why John Gilchrist, Esq. Legislative Counsel and professional/paid lobbyist for the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) fits the following definition to the letter. as·i·nine [as-uh-nahyn] adjective 1.foolish, unintelligent, or silly; stupid: "It is surprising that supposedly intelligent people can make such asinine statements." 2. of or like an ass: asinine obstinacy; asinine...

There is a reason legislators ignored the Chicken Little objections of certain law enforcement organizations on HB495

7:00am Monday, January 21, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Lost in all the attention being rightly given to the mass murder in Connecticut one month ago was the Ohio legislature's passage of yet another bill designed to improve the state's concealed carry law. The few news articles written to cover passage of HB495 (Reciprocity & Concealed Carry Modernization), which passed the day before the horrific events in Newtown, CT, were quick...

Headline: Ky. Rep. Thomas Massie proposes repeal of federal Gun Free School Zone Act

3:00pm Friday, January 18, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WCPO (ABC Cincinnati) reported recently that Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie has introduced a bill that would repeal the Gun Free School Zone Act and allow people to bring guns into schools. From the article : Massie, a Republican representing Kentucky's 4th District and Rep. Steve Stockman (R) of Texas introduced the measure on the first day of the new Congress. On the same...

Broad Coalition of Gun Rights, Conservative Groups Proclaim January 19 “Gun Appreciation Day”

12:00pm Friday, January 18, 2013
Washington, D.C. – A new coalition of gun rights and conservative groups has proclaimed January 19, 2013, "Gun Appreciation Day" and begun urging Americans nationwide to show their support for gun ownership by turning out en masse at gun stores, ranges, and shows from coast to coast. Scheduled to send a message to Washington two days before Obama’s second inauguration, the "Gun Appreciation Day"...

Sheriff: Butler County schools to have armed substitute teacher

7:00am Friday, January 18, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The Dayton Daily News is reporting that Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones has announced a retired officer will serve in Butler County schools as an armed substitute teacher. From the article : "It is basically a two-for-one," Jones said. The man sworn in this afternoon is Scott Miller, a retired Mason police officer. Miller was not employed as a teacher but is now trained as...

Ohio media outlet releases name of teacher authorized to go armed at Orrville City Schools

3:00pm Thursday, January 17, 2013
by Chad D. Baus When Williams Co., Ohio's Montpelier Schools Board of Education made the announcement that they would allow certain employees to carry concealed in the school as a part of their security plans, we noted that the school was not the first school in Ohio to allow certain members of its staff to go armed - rather, they were just the first to announce the decision publicly. There are...

Obama's 23 Executive Orders translated from the formal bureaucratese

12:00pm Thursday, January 17, 2013
Editor's Note: This succinct, pithy analysis of Barack Obama's 23 Executive Orders was posted yesterday on the Internet and has quickly gone viral. The original author appears to be this blogger . [UPDATE: According to multiple sources, the President did not, as was widely reported, sign executive orders, but rather executive actions and presidential memoranda .] So Obama released his Executive...

Deceptive Mayors Against Illegal Guns Campaign Prompts No Concern from Ohio Members

7:00am Thursday, January 17, 2013
by Jason Hart Ohio members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) appear unconcerned that the group's latest campaign suggests more gun control would have prevented the recent school shooting in Connecticut. Media Trackers contacted thirteen of the Ohio mayors listed as members of MAIG, offering a chance to comment on the "Demand A Plan" campaign, but only two mayors have responded in over two...

Obama signs 23 executive orders, demands $4.5 billion in new spending on gun control

3:00pm Wednesday, January 16, 2013
President also launches campaign to force Congress to renew the ban on so-called "assault weapons" and standard capacity ammunition magazines [UPDATE: According to multiple sources, the President did not, as was widely reported, sign executive orders, but rather executive actions and presidential memoranda .] by Chad D. Baus The Weekly Standard is reporting that the proposals President Obama and...

Anti-Actions, Emotional Words, and Silly Classifications

7:00am Wednesday, January 16, 2013
by Jim Shepherd The Los Angeles Times is reporting that a Staten Island, New York school panel has passed a resolution recommending armed, retired New York City police officers be hired to patrol local schools as a part of an increased security proposal. The Times is also reporting, however, that the city's Board of Education has already said "no way" to the plan. It points out two important...

NBC's David Gregory will not be prosecuted for breaking the D.C. large capacity magazine ban

3:00pm Tuesday, January 15, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Politico is reporting that NBC's David Gregory, who in inadvertently displayed the fallacy of gun bans for anyone who was watching when he violated the District of Columbia's ban on large capacity magazines, will not face charges. From the article : D.C. attorney general Irvin Nathan on Friday said he would decline to prosecute in the case involving the Sunday show host and any...

Nemerov: Toledo Blade Makes School Defense About Itself

7:00am Tuesday, January 15, 2013
by Howard Nemerov First the good news: A rural Ohio school district has decided to arm staff in order to make students safer from insane people looking for notoriety. From The Toledo Blade : Montpelier schools may be the first in Ohio to ramp up security by authorizing employees to carry weapons. The district has about 1,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade and 75 teachers in one...

Biden Says, "Critically Important to Act" on Guns - Opens Door to Executive Action [UPDATE: Obama agrees - Exec Action on guns]

3:00pm Monday, January 14, 2013
The Obama administration is seeking to institute a far more sweeping gun-control agenda than simply reinstating the failed Clinton bans on "assault weapons" and "high-capacity" magazines. While the administration seeks to ban whole classes of firearms, a working group led by longtime gun control supporter Vice-President Joe Biden is also seriously considering proposals for a national registration...

Buckeye Firearms Assn. informs Ohio mayors of proof they've been misled by Mayors Against Illegal Guns; 11 drop out - Has yours?

7:00am Monday, January 14, 2013
This article will be UPDATED as more mayors drop out. by Chad D. Baus Buckeye Firearms Association has put Ohio members of New York City Mayor Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) on notice: They were misled when they agreed to join the group, and they no longer have any excuse to claim they didn't know. In late Spring 2011, after Florida Carry, Inc. founder Sean Caranna uncovered...

Greene County resident inducted into the NMLRA Black Powder Hall of Fame

3:00pm Friday, January 11, 2013
by Larry S. Moore Greene County resident Marty Murphy has been involved in the shooting sports nearly all his life. He has served both the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association (NMLRA) in a variety of positions. He was recently inducted into the NMLRA Black Powder Hall of Fame. The words on his plaque provide some insight to the commitment and impact...

Montpelier, Ohio school board decision: Staff will be armed

7:00am Friday, January 11, 2013
More than two dozen northwest Ohio teachers sign up for free concealed carry class by Chad D. Baus The Bryan Times is reporting that staff members in Williams Co., Ohio's Montpelier Schools will soon be armed. From the article : The district's board of education voted Wednesday to adopt a policy allowing certain individuals to carry concealed firearms on the premises. The decision came in the...

Media fact checker destroys Piers Morgan's anti-gun argument

7:41pm Wednesday, January 09, 2013
by Dean Rieck When some blithering idiot like Piers Morgan starts arguing for more gun control, don't you wish you had all the statistics at your fingertips so you could crush them to dust? One reporter did just that after seeing Morgan's interview with Alex Jones. Morgan insisted that England is a land of rainbows and unicorns when it comes to violent crime and that the U.S. is swimming in blood...

Q&A on Armed Teacher Training Program

4:34pm Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Over 1,000 educators have applied for training! On December 20, 2012, Buckeye Firearms Foundation announced the Armed Teacher Training Program. The original intent was to simply offer free firearm training to 24 teachers in order to show that teachers could be an effective deterrent to mass murder in schools. In just three weeks, we received well over 1,000 requests for this training. So while...

NRA-certified instructor holds free concealed carry class for school employees

7:00am Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Editor's Note: The author's name is being withheld to protect the identities of the school officials involved in these classes. As a service to the schools in my community, I decided to offer an Ohio Concealed Carry Class to any local school employee free of charge. I did not know what to expect or what the response would be. I put the word out with a few phone calls to teachers I knew who had...

December Record Month for NICS Checks; 58.6% increase marks 31st straight month over month increase; New record also set in Ohio

3:00pm Tuesday, January 08, 2013
by Chad D. Baus According to a press release from the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the December 2012 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 2,237,731 is an increase of 58.6 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,410,937 in December 2011. For comparison, the unadjusted December 2012 NICS figure of 2,776,105 reflects a 49.7 percent increase...

Ohio CHL-holder shoots robbery suspect, protects two month-old son

3:00pm Tuesday, January 08, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WBNS (CBS Columbus) is reporting that a Columbus man said that he fought back when a man tried to rob him at gunpoint in his driveway west Columbus Monday night. From the article : Kelby Smith, 34, told police he was in the driveway of the home on Crescent Drive just before 9 p.m. when he was approached by a robber. Smith said that he had his 2-month-old in a car carrier and had...

Two Ohio newspapers issue editorials condemning publishing of NY gun owners' names and addresses

7:00am Tuesday, January 08, 2013
by Chad D. Baus In the wake of the horrific mass murder in at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut last month, one New York newspaper, Gannett Company's The Journal News of White Plains, N.Y., decided to punish people who had nothing to do with the crime by publishing an interactive map with the names and addresses of handgun permit owners in New York's Westchester and Rockland counties. When...

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