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The Good Fight

12:10am Wednesday, May 07, 2008
By Gerard Valentino Every vocal pro-gun advocate is familiar with the condescending look of so-called friends or family members who are sure we're nothing but bloodthirsty members of the NRA cult. We've all been there when someone belittles our judgment by asking, "I hope you have those guns locked up so your kids won’t get them" or "aren’t you afraid you will shoot a family member by accident?"...

Meijer Ends Promotion with HSUS

12:05am Wednesday, May 07, 2008
(Columbus, OH) - Midwest Retail Giant Meijer, Inc. has ended its promotion with the nation’s largest anti-hunting organization. The leadership at Meijer, a Michigan-based regional chain of retail superstores, has responded to the concerns of the sportsman community and ended its partnership with the anti-hunting group, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), in an online pet photo contest.

Another Ohio journalist stands up for the Second Amendment...and you won't believe who her editor is

12:10am Tuesday, May 06, 2008
By Chad D. Baus Mention the words " Sandusky Register " or "Editor Matt Westerhold" to a Concealed Handgun License (CHL)-holder and the reaction will not be pleasant, even nearly a year after one newspaper editor's declaration of war on Ohio CHL-holders. Though Westerhold refused to remove from the Register website information that is considered private under Ohio law (or even apologize for...

A Celebration of Freedom: 1st Annual Patriots' Day Open Carry Walk

12:05am Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Original post at PatriotsDayWalk.blogspot.com The 1st Annual Patriots' Day Walk was held on April 19th, 2008 in Urbana, Ohio. This event was a celebration of freedom to commemorate the 233rd anniversary of "the shot heard round the world." On April 18th, 1775 Governor Gage ordered the redcoats to march into towns and seize and destroy all munitions. On April 19th, 1775 the first shots were fired...

USSA/BFA 2008 Candidates Reception a complete success

12:15am Monday, May 05, 2008
By Linda Walker Recently, Buckeye Firearms Association had the privilege to co-sponsor a Candidates Reception with the US Sportsman Alliance (USSA). This is the third year that Buckeye Firearms has played a major role in this worthy event. This was the first year that the Ohio Republican and Democrat parties also joined as co-sponsors of the event, amongst other organizations. Candidates,...

LIE: “Va. Tech more secure a year after massacre”

12:10am Monday, May 05, 2008
By Jim Irvine In a recent story titled, “Va. Tech more secure a year after massacre,” USA Today promotes lies and the exact feel good head in the sand mindset that helped a sick man kill 32 innocent people a year ago. The sad fact is that the school is NOT more secure today than it was. School administrators have spent a lot of time and money on everything but the real issue; enabling those...

Op-Ed: Why Liberals Should Love The Second Amendment

12:05am Monday, May 05, 2008
by Angry Mouse Liberals love the Constitution. Ask anyone on the street. They'll tell you the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a liberal organization. I know liberal couples who give each other pocket size copies of the Constitution for Christmas. Ask liberals to list their top five complaints about the Bush Administration, and they will invariably say the words "shredding" and "...

Castle Doctrine bill amended in 4th House Hearing; Scheduled for possible vote!

4:20pm Friday, May 02, 2008
On Thursday, May 1, the House Criminal Justice Committee held a fourth hearing for House Bill 264, that chamber's version of the Castle Doctrine bill. The committee adopted amendments to the bill via a substitute bill (which can be downloaded via a link below), essentially modifying the House bill to nearly identical language as the version of Castle Doctrine which unanimously passed in the...

Buckeye Firearms Association endorses HB450 (Armed Services 18-21 purchase); Bill passes out of committee

12:15am Friday, May 02, 2008
Buckeye Firearms Central Ohio Chair Gerard Valentino testified in favor of HB450 at the House Criminal Justice Committee hearing on Thursday April 17th. The bill, which will give veterans between the age of 18 and 21 the right to own a handgun, was voted out of committee and will now go to the House floor for a vote. This common sense pro-gun legislation is likely to receive overwhelming bi-...

Fake Pro-Gun Group Endorses Fake Pro-Gun Candidate

12:10am Friday, May 02, 2008
By Chad D. Baus Pro-gun groups have been trying to sound the alarm about Barack Obama’s extreme anti-gun record since his Presidential campaign began. While his record includes opposing letting people use a self-defense argument if charged with violating local handgun bans by using weapons in their homes, and being a member of the Joyce Foundation (which provides groups like the Ohio Coalition...

Assailant stabs man in face, kills dog in Toledo Metropark...and Justice Paul Pfeifer says this never happens

12:10am Thursday, May 01, 2008
"What's the need to be packing in a public park? What's the compelling need?" - Republican Ohio Supreme Court Justice Paul Pfeifer, April 9, 2008 By Chad D. Baus During oral arguments last month on a case challenging the City of Clyde's ban on concealed carry in its public parks, Republican Paul Pfeifer proved himself dangerously out of touch. Pfeifer remarked that he just couldn't understand why...

Op-Ed: The Democrats and Gun Control

12:05am Thursday, May 01, 2008
By David Kopel Imagine an election race of Pat Robertson versus James Dobson, each of them appearing at organic grocery stores and Starbucks throughout Massachusetts, with each candidate insisting that he alone deserves the vote of gay-marriage advocates. An equally silly spectacle is taking place these days in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Indiana, West Virginia and Kentucky, as Sens. Hillary...

United States Concealed Carry Association offers solid resource for millions who carry concealed

2:37pm Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Founded in 2004, the United States Concealed Carry Association fills a much needed void in the gun community by bringing together concealed carry enthusiasts from all over the country. Until its creation the landscape was dominated by organizations like the National Rifle Association or state level hunting groups. While both have a place in the gun owner community, neither type of group is a...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

2:05pm Wednesday, April 30, 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 planned attacks on two schools to a very important pro-gun bill, these articles should be a part of your required...

(Misguided) Mayors Against Illegal Guns

12:10am Wednesday, April 30, 2008
By Gerard Valentino The organization Mayors Against Illegal Guns is in the news again for announcing an ad campaign to raise awareness of how illegal guns are often used in crimes. While everyone agrees that stopping the flow of guns to criminals is of vital public interest, the organizations stated goals are worthy of a “Captain of the Obvious” award. Led by the rabidly anti-gun Mayor of New...

Op-Ed: City of Chicago misfires on gun violence

12:05am Wednesday, April 30, 2008
By Steve Chapman When a rash of gun murders takes place , it makes sense for the police to do one of two things: renew tactics that have been effective in the past at curbing homicides, or embrace ideas that have not been tried before. But those options don't appeal to Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis. What he proposes instead is a crackdown on assault weapons. I'm tempted to say this is the moral...

2007 Attorney General Summary on Concealed Carry

12:10am Tuesday, April 29, 2008
By Jim Irvine Ohio Attorney Marc Dann (D) has posted the 2007 Annual Report on Ohio’s Concealed Handgun License law. Concealed carry has been legal in Ohio for over four years now and over 107,000 Ohioans are licensed to carry a gun. Add to that the people who can carry in Ohio on licenses issued by 25 other states, and it is safe to say that most people cross paths with a license holder on a...

Colleges ‘N Guns: 2008 intercollegiate clay target championship largest in history!

12:05am Tuesday, April 29, 2008
By Larry S. Moore It seems lately that colleges and guns are in the news. All too much of this news has to do with the variety of deranged individuals who have preyed upon their fellow students on campus. It has to do with the anti-gun community disgusting and rather morbid attempts to turn the death of innocent students into fund raising events. And it has to do with some courageous students...

Armed citizen dials 911 and waits...and waits...and waits...

12:15am Monday, April 28, 2008
By Chad D. Baus Gun ban extremists and others who oppose the right of self defense are fond of saying that when a person is in danger, the best thing to do is to call 911 and let the police take care of it. But what happens when you dial 911 and the police tell you to wait...and wait...and wait? One Columbus-area business owner was wise enough to have made his own plans for that very eventuality...

BFA on hand as Gov. Ted Strickland signs bill expanding opportunities for mobility-impaired hunters

12:10am Monday, April 28, 2008
Buckeye Firearms Association volunteer Bob Harsanje recently attended the signing ceremony for Senate Bill 209, legislation which will, among other things, create mobility-impaired access lanes on various public hunting lands of the Ohio Division of Wildlife. The bill also will allow mobility impaired, licensed individuals to hunt from such lanes with a special permit via electric-powered all-...

The Uninvited Ombudsman Report - No. 44

12:05am Monday, April 28, 2008
Taken from the most recent “Page Nine” Alan Korwin’s “The Uninvited Ombudsman Report” STARTERS: Sarah Brady hospitalized , so husband Jim is a no-show at national "gun violence" symposium where Alan Korwin is flown in to face 10 gun-control advocates and provide "balance"; complete eyewitness report here: http://www.gunlaws.com/newstuff.htm D.C. v. Heller - Eyewitness Reports - Complete Postings...

College campuses have never been and never will be Gun Free Zones: It's time to trust the students

12:10am Friday, April 25, 2008
By Mark Noble A few days ago, the Dayton Daily News ran a piece proclaiming that "Students for Concealed Carry on Campus is fighting for the right to be armed at school." The reality is that all students have an inherent right to be armed – it cannot be forcefully removed from a determined student. Students for Concealed Carry on Campus are merely pressing legislators to bring their civil...

Guns On Campus: Virginia Tech Settlement Still Stubborn and Indecent

12:05am Friday, April 25, 2008
By John Longenecker I've written before that the Colleges refusing to recognize student rights are indecent. I write often that in forcing liberty enthusiast students to obtain 'counseling', to face suspension or other punishment even for inquiring about handgun policy within right-to-carry states, they force adult students to choose between felony and funeral. This is indecent for public...

Castle Doctrine to resume hearings in House; "Concealed Carry Fix-it" Bill to receive second hearing in Senate

1:30pm Thursday, April 24, 2008
The House Criminal Justice Committee, chaired by Rep. John White (R-38), will hold a fourth hearing on HB264 (Castle Doctrine), on Thursday, May 1 at 9:30 a.m. in Statehouse Room 121. The chairman has indicated that a substitute bill may be introduced. The Senate's version of Castle Doctrine (SB184) passed the Senate earlier this month with unanimous support. Meanwhile in the Senate, Ohio's "...

The most honest among us: CHL holders can be trusted on campus

12:10am Thursday, April 24, 2008
The following commentary was written in response to a New York Times article entitled " Guns on Campus: Could They Prevent a Repeat? " by David Codrea. Republished with permission. Interesting take, Mr. Codrea. I have worked on college and university campuses most of my adult life - first as a student, now as a professor. I have grown quite accustomed to the idea of citizen concealed carry. I...

Strict Judicial Scrutiny Needed for Second Amendment

12:05am Thursday, April 24, 2008
By L. Dietle There has been little Second Amendment jurisprudence. In this vacuum, myths were cooked up and circulated to dilute the Amendment's original meaning. In the March 18, 2008 D.C. vs. Heller oral argument at the Supreme Court, these myths were thoroughly debunked by the Supreme Court Justices themselves. If honest, they will overturn D.C.'s functional firearms ban. They should also...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

2:05pm Wednesday, April 23, 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 Deputy shooting himself to stolen guns, these articles should be a part of your required reading! What follows is...

Compounding a Tragedy: Anti-gunners dance in VT massacre victim's blood

12:10am Wednesday, April 23, 2008
By Gerard Valentino The one year anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre was celebrated across the United States by the anti-gun crowd. Yes, they chose to celebrate, and it’s telling to see protesters using the death of 32 innocent people for political gain by planning “Lie-ins to Protest Easy Gun.” Nobody should be surprised that the anti-gun left is capable of inconsiderate actions since in...

District Attorney says new Philadelphia gun laws are "illegal"; will not prosecute

12:05am Wednesday, April 23, 2008
By Brian S. Stewart In a move reminiscent of the Cleveland Police Patrolman’s Association's refusal in 2007 to follow Mayor Frank Jackson's order to ignore a new state law creating uniformity of gun laws, Philadelphia District Attorney Lynn Abraham has put the City Council on notice: its new gun laws are illegal, and she won’t prosecute individuals arrested for violating them.

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