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Defending yourself against a spree killer like the one in Aurora, Colorado
7:00am Tuesday, July 24, 2012
by Jeff Thomas Before I share some thoughts on how to survive a spree killer situation such as the one in Aurora, Colo., last week, I think it's important to talk about one piece of information I'm hearing likely is true: The Century 16 movie theater where 12 were killed and 59 wounded by a heavily armed man in a "no-gun" zone. Obviously the "no-guns" sign did not stop the murderer. And just as...
Headline: Paraplegic man kills intruder during Johnstown home break-in
3:00pm Monday, July 23, 2012
The Newark Advocate is reporting that a paraplegic man is alive today thanks to the .357 revolver he keeps near his bed. From the article : John Mutter was asleep in his bed on Sunset Drive when an intruder poked him in the head with a shotgun. Mutter, a paraplegic who keeps a gun nearby for protection, fatally shot the intruder, early Sunday, Licking County Coroner's investigator George Ridgeway...
Yet another mass murder in "gun free" zone, but media fails to take note
7:00am Monday, July 23, 2012
by Chad D. Baus There is still much to be learned about the events that unfolded in that Aurora, CO Cinemark movie theatre early Friday morning, July 20, but as the media looks for answers, they are once again either missing or ignoring something that is consistent time and again with these multiple victim public shootings - they almost always happen in places where guns are banned. From...
NRA-ILA sets up Second Amendment Activist Centers throughout Ohio - ground zero in the 2012 presidential race
3:00pm Friday, July 20, 2012
Dear Second Amendment Supporters: The NRA-ILA has been busy visiting gun shops throughout the Buckeye State recruiting Second Amendment Activist Centers. These Centers provide NRA members and gun owners with NRA buttons, Fact Sheets on candidates, volunteer sign-up forms, and information on grassroots activities and events. We are asking all of you to visit your local Activist Center, pick up...
Headline: Pro-gun group uses Chicago firearms buyback program to fund shooting camp for kids
7:00am Friday, July 20, 2012
by Chad D. Baus FoxNews.com reported recently that a pro-gun group "flipped the script" on Chicago's firearms buyback program by selling old, broken rifles to the city and then using the money to buy guns and ammo for an NRA-sponsored shooting camp for kids. From the article : "Guns Save Life," based in Champaign, Ill., recently sold 60 firearms to the Chicago Police Department -- 10 of which...
Dept. of Defense again attempts to trample on Second Amendment rights of returning U.S. military troops
3:00pm Thursday, July 19, 2012
by Linda Walker If it was not enough that Marines were forced to disarm at their base at Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan this past March when Defense Secretary Leon Panetta paid a visit, I read with personal interest an article in regard to depressed returning troops recently posted at Military.com, entitled " DoD Could Renew Push to Restrict Personal Weapons ." According to the article "The...
Columbus pizza delivery driver with concealed handgun license defends against robbers
7:00am Thursday, July 19, 2012
WCMH (NBC Columbus) is reporting that a pizza delivery driver shot at two people who attempted to rob him on Monday evening. From the article : According to police, the Padova's Pizza Delivery driver was delivering a pizza when two men armed with shotguns approached him, in the 3000 block of Hatfield Dr., at about 11:45 p.m. Monday. The driver, who was licensed to carry a gun, told the men to...
BATFE Modifies Shotgun Import Ban Study, Still Gets It Wrong
3:00pm Wednesday, July 18, 2012
In January 2011, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released its "Study on the Importability of Certain Shotguns." Using the unconstitutional and oft-abused "sporting purposes" test as justification, BATFE concocted a list of ten popular shotgun features and determined that "shotguns containing any of these features are not particularly suitable for nor readily adaptable to...
Are environmentalists' anti-gun policies to blame for wildfires in the West?
7:00am Wednesday, July 18, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The headlines have echoed across the country: "Guns blamed for starting wildfires in parched West" According to the Associated Press, officials believe target shooting or other firearms use sparked at least 21 wildfires in Utah and nearly a dozen in Idaho. Shooting is also believed to have caused fires in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. In Utah, the AP says Republican Gov. Gary...
Tough love for the outdoor community: "You people need to figure out who your enemies are and you better do it right quick."
3:00pm Tuesday, July 17, 2012
by Rich Grassi Editor, The Tactical Wire Without descending into the current political morass of charge/counter-charge, extremist vs. extremist, agenda and charisma driven politics, I think it's time for a block of voters to coalesce - the people of the outdoors. Yes, it sounds like interest group politics. Extremist whack-job pseudojournalists who exist only in the NYC-DC Bubble and on our TV...
Attorney General Mike DeWine uses occasion of annual ice cream social to publicly announce support for HB495
7:00am Tuesday, July 17, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The many gun owners who accepted Buckeye Firearms Association's invitation to thank Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) for his work for gun owners in the AG's office by joining him and wife Fran at their Greene County home for an Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social on June 24 enjoyed more than an old fashioned country picnic complete with ice cream and homemade pies. During comments made...
Fast and Furious will prove worse than Watergate
3:00pm Monday, July 16, 2012
by Tim Inwood A few days ago Obama spokesman Jay Carney tried to tie Bush era operations like Wide Receiver with Operation Fast and Furious. If you watch something other than MSNBC you would know there is little in common between the Bush era operations and what Obama/Holder did. The fact is, in the other cases they were run like any other classic police show set up you have ever seen. Whether it...
Op-Ed: Fast and Furious Is Not a D.C. Law Firm
7:00am Monday, July 16, 2012
by Ann Coulter HumanEvents.com Most Americans don't care about whether Attorney General Eric Holder is hiding Fast and Furious documents because they don't understand the story. Until someone can tell us otherwise, there is only one explanation for why President Obama's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives gave thousands of guns to Mexican drug dealers: It put guns in their hands...
NRA sounds the warning about U.N. Arms Treaty
3:00pm Friday, July 13, 2012
Publicly, the Obama administration has played down its antipathy toward the Second Amendment. Privately, however, it has supported the single most dangerous anti-gun idea we have seen in our lifetime: The U.N. Arms Treaty, which carries the threat of doing an end run around the Constitution, allowing international gun-grabbing busybodies to attack the rights of law-abiding gun owners here in the...
June sees 24.5% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 25th straight month over month increase
3:00pm Thursday, July 12, 2012
The June 2012 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 846,437 is an increase of 24.5 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 679,840 in June 2011. For comparison, the unadjusted June 2012 NICS figure of 1,290,210 reflects an 11.4 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,157,714 in June 2011. This marks the 25th straight month that NSSF-...
Ohio CHL-holder files civil rights suit against Canton officer who threatened to execute him
7:00am Thursday, July 12, 2012
by Chad D. Baus William Bartlett, an Ohio concealed handgun license (CHL)-holder, has filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court against the City of Canton, the Canton police department, and against Daniel Harless and other officers involved in his arrest and prosecution for supposedly failing to promptly notify officers that he had a CHL. On June 8, 2011, Ohio concealed handgun license (CHL)-...
Op-Ed: D-Day for gun control
3:00pm Wednesday, July 11, 2012
by Dick Morris TheHill.com Without much fanfare and with as little publicity as possible, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will go to New York City to sign the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), now in the final stages of negotiation at the U.N. The treaty marks the beginning of an international crusade to impose gun controls on the United States and repeal our Second Amendment rights. The ATT is...
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Contempt citation prompts Attorney Gen. Eric "Fast & Furious" Holder to unseal indictment charging five in Brian Terry's death
7:00am Wednesday, July 11, 2012
by Chad D. Baus In the wake of the BATFE's gun walking operation "Fast & Furious," which led to the death of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, and the subsequent cover-up by Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama, which has led to Holder being found in contempt of Congress less than two weeks ago, Holder has suddenly decided it would be a good idea to look like he...
U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations Underway
3:00pm Tuesday, July 10, 2012
As we reported last week, for nearly 20 years, the NRA has fought tirelessly to oppose any United Nations effort to undermine the constitutional rights of law-abiding American gun owners. That fight has grown more intense lately, as the U.N. and global gun banners have markedly stepped up their attack on our Second Amendment freedoms by including civilian arms in the proposed Arms Trade Treaty...
Lucas Co. sheriff's deputies proven to be unaware of certain provisions in Ohio's CCW law
7:00am Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Demand for out-of-state licenses proves need for passage of HB495 by Chad D. Baus Although Ohio's concealed handgun license law has been in place since April 2004, it appears the folks at the Lucas County sheriff's office are just now discovering some of the finer details of the law. From The Toledo Blade : Lucas County sheriff's deputies recently responded to a call of a man with a gun. What...
Another successful year for the Ohio State Trap Shoot
3:00pm Monday, July 09, 2012
Editor's Note: Ohio Supreme Court candidate and 2012 Buckeye Firearms endorsee Sharon Kennedy attended the shoot and enjoyed talking with the shooters. by Larry S. Moore MARENGO - The 2012 Ohio State Trap Shoot is officially in the record book. By all accounts it was another great and successful event. The campgrounds and trap line were full of shooters all week. Even if the shooters didn't make...
92 year-old shoots police officer as he was making forced entry into her Toledo home after responding to her 911 call
7:00am Monday, July 09, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The recent shooting of a police officer in Toledo is prompting interesting discussions about the Second Amendment rights of elderly citizens, confiscation of firearms by police, and even Ohio's Castle Doctrine law. 92 year-old Annie Huddleston's home is in a neighborhood that is riddled with crime - the sounds of gun shots can be heard regularly, streets are lined with overgrown...
Google’s Anti-gun Policy
3:00pm Friday, July 06, 2012
by Larry Keane Google, a company that should know better than to censor the flow of online information, has chosen to ban search results related to firearms and other products it deems not "family safe" in its Google Shopping function. Until recently, gun-related products appeared just like other products in search results, giving shoppers a powerful price-comparison tool. But not anymore. Google...
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Fast & Furious: No prosecution for Holder; Wiretapping suggests top-level knowledge; Key player in Clinton Gun Ban ran the op!
7:00am Friday, July 06, 2012
by Chad D. Baus Lost in the chaos that ensued over Justice John Roberts' decision to join the liberals and uphold Obamacare last Thursday morning was news of what occurred that very afternoon. Namely, that for the first time in American history, a sitting Attorney General was found by the United States House of Representatives to be in contempt of Congress. The vote came as a result of Eric...
Cincinnati's Xavier University has graduate competing on U.S. Olympic shooting team
3:00pm Thursday, July 05, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The Cincinnati Enquirer reported recently that Jason Parker, a 1996 Xavier graduate, has earned a spot on his fourth U.S. Olympic shooting team and will compete in the 50-meter Rifle Three Position event Aug.6 at the Royal Artillery Barracks in London. The seven-time All-American is hoping to medal for the first time.
NRA Announces the 2012 National Championships at Camp Perry
7:00am Thursday, July 05, 2012
FAIRFAX, Va. -- The 2012 National Rifle and Pistol Championships begin July 9 at Camp Perry in Port Clinton, Ohio. Conducted by the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP), with assistance from the Ohio National Guard, these matches are often referred to as the "World Series of the Shooting Sports." A tradition at Camp Perry since 1907, the championships are...
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
3:00pm Wednesday, July 04, 2012
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the...
Independence Day 2012
7:00am Wednesday, July 04, 2012
With the upcoming holiday, let's look at what it might mean to some people…a day off with pay, just a day off, family, friends, cookouts, reunions or just a day to lounge and watch the fireworks. As for me, I think of our Constitution, our founding fathers, our Bill of Rights, our military men and women who are performing their duties to protect our freedom. “FREEDOM”. We say it often, exclaiming...
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The Classic Shotguns and a Great American Side x Side Shoot
3:00pm Tuesday, July 03, 2012
by Larry S. Moore "Classic" - just say the word and a different image will pop into just about every person's mind. Fishermen may think of the Bass Master Classic, classic fly fishing rods or vintage reels. The car enthusiast may think of a split window Corvette. Whatever your definition of classic, say the word around my house and you'll hear about classic shotguns. There are many shotguns from...
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