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Stickups and burglaries are on the rise – in the workplace

12:10am Monday, December 07, 2009

By Jim Irvine A recent Wall Street Journal article, "Stickups and Burglaries are on the Rise – at work" focused on the rise in crime in business locations.

Holiday bloodshed in Chicagoland highlights the sheer impotence of gun control laws

12:05am Monday, December 07, 2009

By Gerard Valentino The holiday season is supposed to be a time when Americans reflect on the good things in their life and give thanks for the blessings they've enjoyed during the year. In Chicago, however, the holidays are yet another time of murder and mayhem – despite the city administration's anti-gun laws and strict gun-control. CBS2Chicago.com is again reporting on the violence plaguing...

Buckeye Firearms Association's Linda Walker quoted in article about rise of female hunters, Ohio woman's buck harvest

12:10am Friday, December 04, 2009

By Chad D. Baus The Lorain Morning-Journal took the occasion of a 60 year-old Carlisle Township woman's harvest of a 10 point buck on opening day of Ohio's deer-gun season to report on the rise of female hunters across the country. Reporter Megan Rozsa sought the expertise of Buckeye Firearms Association Central Ohio Chair Linda Walker in preparation for her article.

Interview with Ken Hanson on Chicago gun ban case posted at Buckeye Firearms Association's YouTube channel

12:05am Friday, December 04, 2009

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Attorney General announces Third Quarter 2009 CHL statistics

12:10am Thursday, December 03, 2009

2009 already busiest year ever for concealed carry licenses By Jim Irvine Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray (D) has released the concealed handgun license (CHL) statistics for the third quarter of 2009. The demand for licenses to conceal carry firearms remained strong last quarter, marking an unprecedented ten quarters in a row with an increased demand compared to the same year over year...

Letter writers set newspapers straight on anti-concealed carry editorial

12:05am Thursday, December 03, 2009

(Note: This story has been updated to reflect the publishing of additional letters.) On November 19, 2009, the Hamilton News-Journal and Middletown Journal , sister papers which are both owned by Cox Ohio Publishing, responded to an anti-concealed carry report issued by the Violence Policy Center ( "Concealed Carry Killers" ) by running an unsigned editorial entitled "Tracking a bad law's...

OSU's Second Amendment Research Center shut down; Anti-gun "think tank" had ties to Obama

12:10am Wednesday, December 02, 2009

By Chad D. Baus Randy Barnett, writer for the pro-gun blog The Volokh Conspiracy , is reporting that the Ohio State University's Second Amendment Research Center (SARC), an anti-gun "think tank" with strong ties to Barack Obama, has been shut down. Barnett notes that the ex-Center's URL [ http://www.secondamendmentcenter.org] is out of service and the OSU operator had no information. The story...

White-tailed Deer Hunters Successful on Opening Day of Gun Season

12:05am Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Statewide harvest up from 2008 COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio hunters had near ideal weather for the opening day of deer-gun season. Hunters took 33,607 white-tailed deer on Monday, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The deer-gun season remains open through Sunday, December 6, and then reopens for two days on Saturday and Sunday, December 19-20. The...