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He's BAAACK!: Anti-gun Mike DeWine seeks Ohio AG slot three years after Ohio voters send him packing

10:25am Thursday, July 16, 2009
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905 By Chad D. Baus Montgomery County Republican Party Chair Greg Gantt is circulating an email to "Republican insiders" that Mike DeWine will announce his candidacy for Ohio Attorney General on Wednesday, July 22nd at 9:45am at the Greene County Courthouse. That's right, Mike...

Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority opposes attempt to restore gun rights to less fortunate Americans

12:10am Thursday, July 16, 2009
By Chad D. Baus The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that a push by some federal lawmakers to allow guns into public housing has outraged Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority officials, who call it "absurd."

Buckeye Firearms' Linda Walker to speak at Statehouse Tea Party featuring Judge Andrew Napolitano

12:05am Thursday, July 16, 2009
By Jason R. Mihalick Buckeye Firearms Association Central Ohio Chair Linda Walker will give a powerful speech on the Second Amendment and State Sovereignty (Tenth Amendment) at The Ohio Liber-TEA Party, being held at the Statehouse Saturday, Aug. 1 at 2:00 PM. Besides a dedicated leader with Buckeye Firearms Association, Linda is also the recipient of the NRA's 2009 Sybil Ludington Women's...

The Importance of an Unsympathetic Judge

12:05am Wednesday, July 15, 2009
By Dave Yost A judge's black robe is a symbol of impartiality - a head-to-toe cloaking of the self, of all the human passions and weaknesses and individual characteristics that attend a person. Judge Sonia Sotomayor appears to believe that her heart belongs on the sleeve of that robe, and a thoughtful senator might conclude it makes her a poor judge. Judge Sotomayor and the president who...

FLASH: Firearm law changes contained in final budget bill

1:54pm Tuesday, July 14, 2009
House Bill 1, the two year budget adopted by the Ohio General Assembly, contains some changes to Ohio's firearm laws. These changes are the result of meetings held between gun owner groups and stakeholders in the law enforcement community. Since the final budget bill is not "engrossed" yet, we are unable to provide an exact copy of the modified laws at this time. However, we are able to provide...

Gun Owners - a true example of American diversity

12:05am Tuesday, July 14, 2009
By Jim Irvine Just who is the "gun owner" and how did he become so important? Every election cycle we see politicians courting the "gun vote" and we hear stories about how the NRA is the most powerful lobbying group in Washington D.C. A look at the diversity of gun owners explains why this is such an important and powerful voting bloc.

Exposed: Ohio anti-gunners' 2006 & 2007 IRS returns

12:10am Monday, July 13, 2009
"If we have more use of guns, then we're going to have more people who are injured and die." - Toby Hoover, Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, when asked in April 2004 about her predictions about Ohio's newly-implemented concealed carry law By Chad D. Baus As the State of Ohio celebrates five successful years of concealed carry, with applications setting a record pace, it seems appropriate to...

Buckeye Firearms Association joins groups opposing Sotomayor confirmation

12:10am Friday, July 10, 2009
Buckeye Firearms Association has announced that it has joined the rapidly growing coalition of groups that are officially on record opposing the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor as a justice to the U.S. Supreme Court. "It is critical to the future of our country that we have justices who respect and uphold our Constitution," said Jim Irvine, Chairman of Buckeye Firearms Association. "Judge Sotomayor...

Op-Ed: Mexican Standoff On Second Amendment

12:05am Friday, July 10, 2009
By Dan Gifford and Michael J. Krauss Big lies die slowly. After a claim by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that 90% of Mexican drug dealers' military weapons (machine guns, hand grenades and missiles) come from American gun stores was exposed as a lie several months ago, it's back — this time with the imprimatur of the Government Accountability Office. A June 21 CBS "60...

Two-thirds of State Attorneys General File Amicus Brief Supporting Second Amendment Incorporation

12:10am Thursday, July 09, 2009
The National Rifle Association is reporting that two-thirds of the nation's attorneys general have filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in the case of NRA v. Chicago and hold that the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This bi-partisan group of 33 attorneys general (which, as...

BOOK REVIEW: The County Sheriff - America’s Last Hope

12:05am Thursday, July 09, 2009
By Jim Irvine For all those who are frustrated with our political system and endless corruption and abuse from a government who are supposed to protect the citizens, Sheriff Richard Mack has written a short book (only 50 pages) that focuses not on the long list of problems, but on the solution. The County Sheriff: America's Last Hope is a book aimed at concerned citizens and fellow law...

Faux pro-gun group endorses Sotomayor for U.S. Supreme Court

12:10am Wednesday, July 08, 2009
The most recent issue of the National Shooting Sports Foundation newsletter, Bullet Points , observes that the faux gun group known as American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA), has endorsed the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court Justice. As former NRA President Sandy Froman recently pointed out , Sotomayor has a narrow view of the Second Amendment that contradicts the...

Watch lists, guns and government

12:10am Tuesday, July 07, 2009
By Bob Barr as published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution The secret government "Terrorist Watch List," reportedly already swelled to more than 1.1 million names, will have an addendum, if gun control advocates in Congress have their way. This new addendum — also to be cloaked in secrecy — would empower the U.S. Attorney General to deny a person the ability to exercise their Second Amendment...

CCRKBA: Poll confirms Americans fear Obama gun control agenda

12:05am Tuesday, July 07, 2009
BELLEVUE, WA – A new Rasmussen poll reveals that 57 percent of American citizens believe gun sales are up over the past several months because of widespread fears that the government will tighten restrictions on gun ownership. "The poll results confirm what we've been saying," noted Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. "American citizens are...

Church-based gun banner chides pastor to stop teaching on the subject of self-defense and the Bible

12:10am Monday, July 06, 2009
By Chad D. Baus Over the past several years, I've been monitoring the statements the non-profit Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence is required to file with the Internal Revenue Service. In 2005, I exposed the fact that OCAGV kept office space in the basement of the Collingwood Presbyterian Church in Toledo (space for which the organization was being charged bargain price of $270 per month). I...

The Uninvited Ombudsman Report, No. 67 - Federal Pocketknife Ban?

12:05am Monday, July 06, 2009
Taken from the most recent "Page Nine", Alan Korwin's "The Uninvited Ombudsman Report" ---------- 10- Government Banning Pocketknives The lamestream media told you: Nothing. Web sources however told you the federal government is set to confiscate or criminalize possession of most pocket knives in the country, mainly focused on "assisted opening" knives. Great confusion exists between these one-...

Across the Fruited Plain: Where the Fight for Shall-Issue Still Rages

12:10am Thursday, July 02, 2009
Editor's Note: This article has also been published at USConcealedCarry.com. By Chad D. Baus In my last column, "The People Fighting for Your Gun Rights" , I lamented the fact that more state gun rights organizations had not responded to my invitation to help keep USCCA members up to date on the current battles that they face, what specific activities they are engaging in on each battle, their...

Brady Campaign attorney says "certainly nothing wrong" with adults banging away at Southern Ohio Machine Gun Shoot

12:05am Thursday, July 02, 2009
Nothing can be more absurd than the carrying of concealed weapons in a civilized community without a special purpose, and that in times of tranquility is simply criminal. - The [Columbus Daily] Dispatch, July 1, 1871 By Chad D. Baus During my seven-plus years experience covering Second Amendment issues and the media in Ohio, I've learned that whenever the Columbus Dispatch decides to cover a gun...

AG Cordray: State of Ohio will join friend of the court brief asking for Second Amendment incorporation

12:10am Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Appearing Sunday evening as a guest on the Firearms Forum radio show with host Jim Irvine, Attorney General Richard Cordray announced that, in anticipation of the Supreme Court of the United States taking such a case, he has agreed to sign a brief being prepared by the State of Texas in support of the Second Amendment applying to the states. "Since the Heller decision there have been either two...

Early GOP primary discussion of 2A issues continues with Kasich statement

12:10am Tuesday, June 30, 2009
By Chad D. Baus Earlier this month, Republican State Senator Kevin Coughlin, who declared his candidacy for the 2010 governor's race in January, began circulating an email designed to bring the Second Amendment to the front and center of early GOP primary discussions. This week, former Congressman John Kasich, who declared his own candidacy for the Republican nomination at the beginning of June,...

Headline: "Concealed carry five years later - Why it works"

12:05am Tuesday, June 30, 2009
When the decade-long battle for concealed carry reform was raging in Ohio, pro-Second Amendment advocates recognized the Lima News as one of the few newspapers whose editorial page featured opinions as firm in support of the Second Amendment as they were on the First. Five years after Ohio's concealed carry law took effect, the newspaper's news room has proved that they too continue to be one of...

COMBO: From My Cold Dead Fingers & America's Last Hope

6:53pm Monday, June 29, 2009
In From My Cold Dead Fingers, Sheriff Mack outlines why the right of the people "to keep and bear arms" is essential to the preservation of liberty and domestic tranquility. Mack reminds us of facts that were self-evident to earlier generations of Americans, but which are all but forgotten today. In America's Last Hope , Sheriff Mack covers decades of research to prove that the sheriffs in this...

The Second Amendment and the Slow Erosion of Time

12:10am Monday, June 29, 2009
By Dave Yost A year ago, the United State Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment's right to bear arms belongs to individuals, not to state militias. The decision started more legal arguments than it settled, and the battle is still raging in the lower courts. The Supreme Court decision, District of Columbia v. Heller *, has already produced plenty of litigation. Since it's a Supreme Court...

Second Amendment supporters must oppose Sotomayor

12:05am Monday, June 29, 2009
By Sandy Froman Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, has a narrow view of the Second Amendment that contradicts the Court's landmark decision in District of Columbia v. Heller . A heated debate has started in the U.S. Senate over her opposition to the right to keep and bear arms. This issue, which has decided the fate of presidential elections,...

Chief Investigator for Madison Co., IL Sheriff's Office reveals details about March church shooting

12:10am Friday, June 26, 2009
Xenia, OH's Glen Evans, of the Church Security Alliance , recently conducted a phone interview with Captain Brad Wells, Chief Investigator for Madison County, Illinois Sheriff's Office. Wells responded to the tragic church security incident on March 8, 2009, when Pastor Fred Winters was shot and killed while preaching. Among other things, Wells reveals that there was an armed, retired officer in...

Southern California churches advocate arming congregants

12:05am Friday, June 26, 2009
By John Longenecker The genius of concealed carry of handguns is that would­-be murderers remain uncertain as to who is armed and who isn't. You never know if the target is armed with lethal force, and more to the point, how alert and prepared they are to resist. This is true for everyone interested in being as safe as they can be from future violence, because it comes to the realization of...

Restraining Orders: A Phony Refuge from an Abuser

12:10am Thursday, June 25, 2009
By Gerard Valentino A recent story in Indiana should strike home in the self-defense community and should resonate with advocates for battered women in America. In Brownsburg, just north of Indianapolis, the Associated Press is reporting that a woman was stabbed to death while her daughters, aged 8 and 12, hid in a closet. Later, the 12 year old girl called the police and reported that "daddy...

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