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ATF trace data proves gun control does not affect crime

12:05am Wednesday, August 12, 2009
By Gerard Valentino One of the crown jewels of the gun control movement was the passage of the Brady Bill during the first term of Bill Clinton's administration. The bill created the five day waiting period for handgun purchases, and was hailed as the first step in halting handgun violence in America. Of course, prior to the Brady Bill the anti-gun groups had claimed several other key gun control...

Bad Laws, Bad Legislators, Bad Ideas (and the Gun Manufacturers that continue to look the other way)

12:10am Tuesday, August 11, 2009
By Jim Shepherd On Friday, it would be nice to be able to talk about the anticipation with which we all look toward the weekend. After all, it's the most continuous time many of us have to enjoy the outdoors. Some Fridays, unfortunately, that's just not possible. Yesterday, New Jersey became the fourth state to pass legislation limiting state residents to one handgun purchase every thirty days...

Firearms Industry Rejects National Park Service Classification of Traditional Ammunition as a Health Threat

12:05am Tuesday, August 11, 2009
NEWTOWN, Conn.--In response to an announcement regarding a National Parks Service program encouraging hunters to voluntarily switch to alternative ammunition, the National Shooting Sports Foundation rejected NPS's categorization of traditional ammunition as a health threat. NSSF is offering to work with the National Park Service to develop measures to educate hunters about steps they can take to...

Dave Yost implores supporters: Don't let Mike DeWine turn back the clock on gun rights

12:10am Monday, August 10, 2009
By Chad D. Baus If Republican Attorney General candidate Dave Yost has anything to say about it, former Senator Mike DeWine's vehement anti-gun record will be front and center in the upcoming GOP primary battle. A fundraising letter being circulated by Yost is drawing attention to DeWine's record of support for some of the most radical gun control proposals in the past two decades, and the...

SAF sues District of Columbia over carrying of handguns

12:05am Monday, August 10, 2009
BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation [Thursday] filed a lawsuit on behalf of three residents of the District of Columbia and a Florida resident, seeking to compel the city to issue carry permits to law-abiding citizens. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court on behalf of Tom Palmer, George Lyon and Amy McVey, all District residents, and Edward Raymond, a New Hampshire resident...

Lame duck Ohio Sen.Voinovich shafts gun owners AGAIN; Expect voters to direct anger at other "Taft Republicans"

12:10am Friday, August 07, 2009
By Chad D. Baus For the second time in as many weeks, Ohio's lame duck Senator, Republican George Voinovich, shafted gun owners on a key vote in the United States Senate. SCOTUSBLOG.com is reporting that, after two days of floor debate, the Senate voted 68-31 to confirm Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor as a Justice of the Supreme Court. Her first full term will begin Oct. 5. Sotomayor has...

Senate Bill SB-2099 e-mails are a hoax

12:05am Friday, August 07, 2009
In recent weeks, people from all over Ohio have been bombarding us with copies of a hoax e-mail about Senate Bill SB-2099. The e-mail warns that SB-2099 would require you to list all guns on your IRS income tax return. No matter how many times we explain that this e-mail is a hoax, people just keep forwarding it to us. The NRA reports it's getting hundreds of these forwarded e-mails. Trust us...

Book Review: The Great New Orleans Gun Grab

12:10am Thursday, August 06, 2009
By Ken Hanson I recently finished reading The Great New Orleans Gun Grab: Descent Into Anarchy by Gordon Hutchinson and Todd Masson. To give you an idea of how interesting this book is, I finished all 190 pages PLUS the Appendix materials in just under three hours. Both Hutchinson and Masson are professional writers, and they do an excellent job conveying a story that is fascinating, frightening...

Does teaching gun safety help stop accidents? More Ohio police officers say yes.

12:05am Thursday, August 06, 2009
By Chad D. Baus To hear the media darlings at the anti-gun Joyce Foundation-funded International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) tell it, guns - the tools some criminals use - are responsible for violence and accidental deaths in America, rather than the criminal or the ignorant. And every police office thinks so. Or do they?

Ohio Liber-Tea Party attracts 10,000 people

12:10am Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Linda Walker, Buckeye Firearms Association Central Ohio Chair, addresses the crowd. By Linda Walker Ohio Liberty Council sponsored the first-ever statewide Tea Party at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus on Saturday, August 1. Between eight and ten thousand people attended this massive, well-thought out, well-organized event. TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Parties have popped up all over the...

Quarterly Firearm and Ammunition Excise Taxes up 43%

12:05am Wednesday, August 05, 2009
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- During a time period of great economic uncertainty, firearm and ammunition sales have continued to increase throughout the country. According to the most recent Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax Collection Report, released earlier today by the Department of the Treasury, firearm and ammunition manufacturers paid more than $109.8 million in the first calendar quarter of 2009; up...

American gun control laws: A shoestring is a gun, but a revolver is not?

12:10am Tuesday, August 04, 2009
By Jeff Knox When a New York City police officer caught a .32 caliber slug in his ribs last week, Mayor Mike Bloomberg was quick to question how the career criminal and convicted felon was able to obtain the gun. I'm afraid that the question is going to lead to attempts at broader restrictions on more items in New York and elsewhere because it's possible that the gun involved in the shooting...

Report shows growth of Buckeye Firearms Association

12:05am Tuesday, August 04, 2009
By Jim Irvine Thanks to your generous support and involvement, Buckeye Firearms Association continues to grow in dollars, in people, and (as a result) in influence. Money and people equals power in politics – and you have contributed greatly this year, even in such harsh economic times. Your all-volunteer leaders at Buckeye Firearms Association continued to be humbled by the trust you put in us...

Wanted: A Few Good Candidates

12:10am Monday, August 03, 2009
By Jim Irvine Are you sick of the same old politicians? Do you with there was a candidate who understood your life and your issues? Do you and your friends wish there was someone like you on the ballot? Tired of having to "compromise" in the voting booth? Now is your chance to have that perfect candidate. He or she is looking back at you in that mirror. Maybe now is the time for you to run for...

New Yorker fights attempts by city to license his Revolutionary War-style flintlock

12:05am Monday, August 03, 2009
The New York Daily News is reporting that, like America's first soldiers at the Battle of Brooklyn, NYC resident Michael Littlejohn is fighting for his right to bear arms. And his fight proves beyond any doubt that, despite their claims, gun banners want ALL guns.

Kasich signals campaign strategy of running against failures of his own party

12:10am Friday, July 31, 2009
By Gerard Valentino The gloves are officially off in the Ohio gubernatorial race. During a recent campaign speech in Youngstown, presumptive Republican nominee John Kasich ripped Governor Ted Strickland's time in office as a third term of Bob Taft . There are few things in Ohio politics worse than being compared to former Governor Taft, who presided over statewide economic disaster and the...

Home owner defends self, castle and 5 year-old against armed invader

12:05am Friday, July 31, 2009
By Gerard Valentino WCMH TV, Columbus' NBC affiliate is reporting a home owner shot and killed an armed home invader who entered his house on the city's Southwest Side. Also home at the time, according to the report, was a 5 year-old relative of the homeowner, a woman, and another man who is bedridden.

Illinois mayor laments fact that concealed carry is playing almost everywhere BUT Peoria

12:05am Thursday, July 30, 2009
By Gerard Valentino There is an old saying that "if it plays in Peoria, it will play anywhere." Thankfully, Peoria, IL mayor Jim Ardis is now on record as supporting concealed carry in Illinois, and wants Peoria to be the test city. Additionally, the Peoria Journal Star is reporting that the Illinois Sheriff Association has also passed a resolution in favor of legal concealed carry.

Senator Voinvich claims Ohioans can't relate to pro-gun Republicans from the South

12:10am Wednesday, July 29, 2009
By Chad D. Baus One week after ignoring thousands of phone calls from his constituents and helping a Democrat filibuster kill nationwide CCW reciprocity, Republican Senator George Voinovich of Ohio told editors at the Columbus Dispatch he knows what the Republican party's biggest problem is. According to the anti-gun Senator, who has decided to retire after recognizing a 2010 re-election bid...

Editorial: Senate kills plan to enforce Second Amendment

12:05am Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Imagine you're visiting Idaho or Arizona. A cop pulls you over and asks to see your driver's license. Then, even though your license is current, he draws his sidearm, cuffs you, and hauls you off to the calaboose. Your crime? You were driving on a Nevada license; you neglected to get a new and separate driver's license, in advance, for each state you're planning to pass through. Ridiculous? Of...

Update: NRA to score Sotomayor vote

12:10am Tuesday, July 28, 2009
As we reported July 17, NRA has announced its opposition to the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the position of Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Subsequent to that announcement, on July 24, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, and NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox sent a letter to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and U.S. Senate Minority...

Across the Fruited Plain: Concealed Carry Confidentiality

12:05am Tuesday, July 28, 2009
By Chad D. Baus As the fight to restore the right to bear arms for self-defense was waged in various states, one of the toughest opponents to attempts to reform the law was the establishment media. With rare exception, newspaper editorial boards repeatedly took the side of legislators and gun ban extremists who prefer to view citizens more as subjects. Thanks in no small part to media meddling,...

Sotomayor's pending confirmation exposes how far we have fallen

12:10am Monday, July 27, 2009
By Gerard Valentino Of all the issues brought up during the confirmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayer, one comment she made is most disturbing. It also has largely been ignored by the establishment media. During an exchange with Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla, Sotomayer stated there is no constitutional right to self-defense. Her statement makes one thing painfully clear – the liberal intelligentsia see...

BFA is a big hit at Cleveland Tea Party

12:05am Monday, July 27, 2009
Editor's Note: Buckeye Firearms Association volunteers are what make this organization successful. Our successes can be directly attributed to the work they do. The following is a report from one such volunteer, who represented the PAC at a recent Tea Party. Volunteers are active all over the state - please join the team ! By Greg Wilk Buckeye Firearms Association welcomed Second Amendment...

NICS background checks up 18% in June; Year to date sales up 24.5% over 2008

12:10am Friday, July 24, 2009
Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) show an 18.1 percent increase in background checks on the sale of firearms in June. Background checks for the first six months of 2009 are up 24.5 percent over the same period in 2008. FBI background checks are required under federal law for all individuals purchasing either newly manufactured or used firearms...

A senseless crime leaves me wondering, "What if...?"

12:05am Friday, July 24, 2009
By Tim Inwood I, for one, was nauseated by the news of the slaughter of Byrd and Melanie Billings at their home in Pensacola, Florida. These were wonderful people who had done very well in life and were using their fortune to help raise special needs children whom they had adopted. Sadly, media coverage of their large family and unusual circumstances brought unwanted attention from the criminal...

For GOP to have chance at 2010 governor's race, Kasich and party must work to regain gun owners' trust

12:10am Thursday, July 23, 2009
By Gerard Valentino A lot has been made recently in Ohio's pro-gun community about Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich's congressional vote in favor of the 1994 Clinton Assault Weapons ban. As it stands, Mr. Kasich refuses to disavow the vote on the record, and will only go so far as to state the bill didn't have the intended effect . To pro-gun advocates, that response is simply not...

Attorney General Rich Cordray affirms he would not support 'assault weapons' ban

12:05am Thursday, July 23, 2009
By Chad D. Baus Democrat Attorney General Richard Cordray, who was recently criticized by a potential 2010 Republican contender, Prosecutor Dave Yost, for not signing on when twenty-three other attorneys general sent a letter asking the federal government in a letter to not re-impose the so-called assault weapons ban, has been quoted in an interview at RightOhio.com as saying he would not support...

National reciprocity for concealed carry holders fails to pass in U.S. Senate

12:43pm Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Two Republicans, including Ohio's lame duck Republican Senator George Voinovich, voted AGAINST nationwide reciprocity for concealed carry license-holders. The resulting 58-39 vote failed to overcome a Democrat filibuster. By Jim Irvine The United States Senate failed to pass an amendment that would have made concealed carry licenses valid in all states that issue them. This is another blow to law...

The criminals are training...are you?

12:10am Wednesday, July 22, 2009
By Gerard Valentino The entire nation is engrossed by the media coverage of the armed thugs that killed a Florida couple known for adopting developmentally challenged children. It seems that the criminals attacked and killed a truly generous and caring couple who had dedicated their life to helping the less fortunate. What most people missed in the coverage, however, is that the criminals...

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