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Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

2:05pm Wednesday, December 24, 2008
By Chris Chumita There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are all worthy of mention. What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens. From David Spade buying rifles to abusive cops, these articles should be a part of your required reading! What follows is...

Hunters give the gift of 134,000 meals for needy Ohioans

12:10am Wednesday, December 24, 2008
COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio deer hunters have donated more than 33,550 pounds of venison to local food banks so far this deer season, according to Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry (FHFH) and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The 33,550 pounds equals approximately 134,000 meals for needy Ohioans. Last year FHFH collected 20,902 pounds of venison through the entire...

Poor weather hampers deer harvest on extra gun weekend

12:05am Wednesday, December 24, 2008
COLUMBUS, OH - Hunters killed 16,382 deer on December 20-21, during the weekend of gun hunting, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The extra weekend of gun hunting was first offered in 2006 in response to hunters' request for additional weekend days to pursue white-tailed deer, the state's number one big game animal. In 2007, hunters took 17,710...

Obama’s Attorney General nomination demands immediate and unequivocal response from gun owners

12:10am Tuesday, December 23, 2008
By Jeff Knox Barack Obama’s nomination of Eric Holder to be the Attorney General demands an immediate and unequivocal response from gunowners and rights advocates and that response should be “Absolutely Not!” Holder’s appointment to be AG must be approved by the Senate. While it is highly unlikely that opponents could muster the 51 votes needed to reject Holder’s appointment, a single Senator can...

The Uninvited Ombudsman Report, No. 57

12:05am Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Taken from the most recent “Page Nine” Alan Korwin’s “The Uninvited Ombudsman Report” ---------- OBAMA WANTS YOU In an extraordinary outreach effort, the president-elect is actively soliciting input from special-interest groups with no holds barred. Shockingly, not a single firearms group has responded (there are 39 pages just listing groups that have filed reports). Have we become so set in our...

"Who needs a gun in a National Park?" Meredith Emerson did.

12:10am Monday, December 22, 2008
By Jeff Riley A letter to the editor published by the Columbus Dispatch on Dec 19, 2008 by Dave Roden begins with this headline: “No one should need gun in national park” Tell that to Meredith Emerson...the 24 year-old woman whose body was found decapitated days after going missing on New Year’s Day 2008.

Buckeye Firearms Association volunteers attend Mobility-Impaired Hunting Access Area Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

12:05am Monday, December 22, 2008
BFA volunteer Bob Harsanje (seated on right) joins (from left) the ODNR's David Graham & Philip King, Rep. Peter Ujvagi and others in the ribbon cutting Buckeye Firearms Assocation volunteer Bob Harsanje and Vice Chairman Chad Baus were on hand recently as the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the development of the Mobility...

A year after she defended her fellow church members, CHL-holder Jeanne Assam reflects

12:10am Friday, December 19, 2008
The Associated Press is reporting that after a year of accolades that followed her shooting of a gunman who killed two teenage sisters at her church, concealed handgun license-holder Jeanne Assam remains "low key" and says she thinks of the family of gunman Matthew Murray.

Op-Ed: Put a Hold on Holder's Nomination

12:05am Friday, December 19, 2008
By Brian Darling A conservative senator would be a true American hero if he or she would put a hold on -- i.e., threaten to filibuster -- the nomination of Eric Holder to be the next attorney general. Let me be clear: I don’t believe that conservatives should use the filibuster to block Holder. But I do think the filibuster is an excellent procedural tool to force a needed debate. Senators should...

Gov. Strickland signs Amended Substitute HB450 (Armed Services 18-21 gun rights restoration)

1:20am Thursday, December 18, 2008
Governor Ted Strickland, a former Buckeye Firearms Association endorsee, finished off his second year as governor by signing yet another pro-gun bill into law. According to his website , the Governor signed Rep. Bruce Goodwin's Am. Sub. House Bill 450 into law on January 6, 2009. Rep. Goodwin was the primary sponsor of the legislation, which lifts a state law which banned members of the armed...

Preparing for Mumbai - In America

12:05am Thursday, December 18, 2008
By Gabe Suarez There has been a great deal of discussion about what to carry for an event like Mumbai. Gents, let's think about this. If you happen to be caught up in this at its conclusion, facing a dozen riflemen working together as a unit, and you with your Kel-Tec, what do you think your realistic chances of success are? Being real is not being defeatist, but come on. Now, at the outset of...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

2:05pm Wednesday, December 17, 2008
By Chris Chumita There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are all worthy of mention. What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens. From a home invasion to an armed robbery in a gun free zone, these articles should be a part of your required reading!...

Amended HB450 (Armed Services 18-21 gun rights restoration) voted out of committee

12:10pm Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Buckeye Firearms Association leaders were on hand today as the Senate's Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice passed Rep. Bruce Goodwin's House Bill 450 , legislation that would restore gun rights to members of the armed services or the Ohio National Guard who are between the ages of 18 and 21, by a 7-2 vote. Sens. Nina Turner and Shirley Smith voted against the restoration of gun rights to...

Obamanation: The Shades of 1992 return to haunt us

12:10am Wednesday, December 17, 2008
By Tim Inwood It is not often a man gets to relive parts of his youth, more than a fifteen years after the first event, but in the aftermath of the November elections I am seeing something I experienced when I was 29 years old. Most men would be delighted to be reminded of their younger days, but to be honest I am very saddened by this. What is this phenomenon I am reliving? Long lines and panic...

Pro-Gun Buckeye State conservative Ken Blackwell wants to chair Republican National Committee

12:05am Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, a good friend to Buckeye Firearms Association and to Ohio gun owners, has officially declared his candidacy for the chairman's post at the Republican National Committee (RNC). Blackwell, a former endorsee of this political action committee who sits on the NRA Board of Directors, has sent a letter to RNC members seeking their vote. According to The...

On Mumbai - What We Know So Far

12:10am Tuesday, December 16, 2008
By Gabe Suarez In 2001 the USA had the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. It has become vogue to call it the 9/11 Tragedy, as if it was a hurricane or an earthquake, but it was not. It was an act done by men, evil men. A few years later, both Spain and England faced similar events. And now India. I am not so schooled in geo-politics to try to draw strategic significance here. All I can...

BILL OF RIGHTS DAY - December 15th, 2008

12:10am Monday, December 15, 2008
By Rick Jones and Larry Moore As the old saying goes, “if you don’t know your rights, you don’t have any”. In today’s society of hustle and bustle one really doesn’t take the time to really think about what their rights are. We take these rights for granted. Just about everyone knows what the First Amendment to the Constitution is, freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and freedom to...

The Second Amendment Book Bomb on Bill of Rights Day, December 15!

12:05am Monday, December 15, 2008
Monday, December 15, marks America’s Bill of Rights Day, the anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution. To commemorate this event, the Second Amendment Book Bomb website has been created, a unique and powerful way to communicate the importance of the Bill of Rights’ Second Amendment for the protection of liberty. With your help, we can launch constitutional...

HB450 (Armed Services 18-21 gun rights restoration) scheduled for fifth hearing & possible vote in Senate committee

4:55pm Friday, December 12, 2008
The Senate Judiciary on Criminal Justice Committee, chaired by Sen. Tim Grendell (R-18), will hear proponent, opponent and interested party testimony on Rep. Bruce Goodwin's HB450 , legislation that would restore gun rights to members of the armed services or the Ohio National Guard who are between the ages of 18 and 21, on Wednesday, December 17 at 10:00 a.m. in the Senate Building's North...

The Mumbai Massacre: It Could Happen Here

12:10am Friday, December 12, 2008
By Richard Munday The firearms massacres that have periodically caused shock and horror around the world have all been utterly dwarfed by the Bombay shootings, in which a handful of gunmen left some five hundred people killed or wounded. Commentators have been swift to insist that we must all "stand firm" against such outrage; but behind the rhetoric, the pundits have been visibly uncertain how...

The Media Never Changes (The Plaxico Burress Story)

12:05am Friday, December 12, 2008
By Gerard Valentino The sporting world is up in arms over the recent accidental self-inflicted shooting of New York Giants star Plaxico Burress. Popular ESPN commentators Mike Greenburg and Mike Golic began the frenzy of bad gun-related information in their early morning radio talk show. Both repeatedly claimed they could never see a reason to go anywhere if they needed to carry a gun. I’m sure...

Gun grabbers in Cleveland ignore criminals and focus on your guns

12:10am Thursday, December 11, 2008
By Jim Irvine On December 2, I attended an anti-gun advocacy lecture where Boston Mayor Thomas Menino joined Cleveland city council members and others to convince uneducated citizens that they need more gun control. They assert that making the current actions of law-abiding gun owners criminal would somehow aid them in catching real criminals. Every person on the panel spoke of “illegal guns” and...

Ohio sportsmen see 13% increase in white-tailed deer harvest during gun season

12:05am Thursday, December 11, 2008
COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio hunters took 116,798 white-tailed deer during the state's popular, weeklong deer-gun season, which ran December 1 through 7, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. In 2007, hunters killed a preliminary total of 103,195 deer during the same time period. A total of 178,838 deer have been harvested so far this season when combining the...

KEEP CALLING: No amendments, no vote on HB450 (Armed Services 18-21 gun rights restoration) Wednesday

5:08pm Wednesday, December 10, 2008
COLUMBUS POLICE SPOKESPERSON: ARMING OUR SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN AKIN TO ARMING "GANGBANGERS" In opposition testimony on December 11, Columbus Police Sgt. and legislative liaison Mike Weinman suggested that HB450 would "give cart blanc to gangbangers who will threaten police officer safety." Representatives from Buckeye Firearms Association and the Ohio Rifle and Pistol Association offered proponent...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

2:05pm Wednesday, December 10, 2008
By Chris Chumita There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are all worthy of mention. What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens. From a man shot at a gas station to another bank robbery at the antigun Fifth Third Bank, these articles should be a part...

Columbus Dispatch editorial parrots gun grabbers' new pitch to Obama

12:10am Wednesday, December 10, 2008
By Jeff Riley In an editorial published on Sunday November 30th, 2008 the Columbus Dispatch agitates for "closing" private sales loophole for gun owners. Interesting timing, given a Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence-issued press release on the same date, addressing the same topic. You can read the Dispatch editorial, which chides Congress as having "failed" to enforce background checks on "...

Early Brady Plans Revealed; Push to end all private sales tops list

12:05am Wednesday, December 10, 2008
EDITOR'S NOTE: When reading the following op-ed, keep in mind Brady Campaign spokesman Peter Hamm's comment on Monday that gun owners who are purchasing firearms in advance of the Obama's inauguration are "stupid" . By Alan Korwin "Universal background checks for EVERY gun sold in this country." Plenty of gun-ban speculation is flying. I have this quote direct from Sarah Brady in a letter...

URGENT: Time running out for passage of HB450 (Armed Services 18-21 gun rights restoration)

7:44pm Monday, December 08, 2008
In what has become an all too familiar story each lame duck session, it is once again necessary to ask Ohio gun owners to call their state Senators and encourage their support for a pro-gun bill that will otherwise die at the end of the legislative session on December 31, 2008. Time is running out for Rep. Bruce Goodwin's House Bill 450, which passed the Ohio House more than six months ago with...

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