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The Last Lesson

12:10am Wednesday, July 12, 2006

By Chad D. Baus As many are aware, my history as a shooter and grassroots firearms activist begins not in Ohio, but in Tennessee. I lived in Nashville from 1994 - 2000, met my wife and married there. It was her father who introduced me to the shooting sports. Many have also heard about my father-in-law's experience with an attempted carjacking, an incident which convinced me that it would be...

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USNews.com: The NRA is riding high; gun control is a political loser

12:05am Wednesday, July 12, 2006

July 9, 2006 U.S. News & World Report Oklahoma Rep. Dan Boren's Washington office features his hunting trophies, including a stuffed wild turkey and a mounted deer head. The freshman congressman's enthusiasm for firearms might always have stood out in the Democratic Party, but Boren now finds himself among an even more endangered species: Democrats willing to discuss guns at all. "When we as...

Dear GOP: If you truly value it, do it BEFORE November 7

12:15am Tuesday, July 11, 2006

By Chad D. Baus Republicans have announced their "American Values Agenda'' to shore up their conservative base this election year, and two of the ten priorities are aimed directly at gun owners. One is a bill giving gun dealers more protection from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the other is the Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act, based on the effort by New Orleans police...

Op-Ed: Gun Control - The Sins of Government Are Visited Upon the People

12:05am Tuesday, July 11, 2006

July 03, 2006 By Howard Nemerov Excerpt from Fear or Fact by Howard Nemerov (Author’s note: The United Nations is currently meeting to discuss ways of implementing “adequate controls” over the international arms trade. What this means in real language is that they seek a way to implement global civilian disarmament. Here is a glimpse of how that actually plays out.) More than 500,000 people have...

US House votes to overturn mandatory gun locks

8:29am Friday, June 30, 2006

On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to overturn a recently enacted law requiring safety trigger locks on all hand guns sold in the United States. The Republican-controlled House handed a victory to opponents of gun control by a vote of 230-191. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave argued that the added cost of the trigger locks is passed on to gun owners and that they "do not stop accidental...

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Hello Help Desk? I forgot the password to my bullets.

11:12am Wednesday, June 28, 2006

First it was smart guns with secret rings and bracelets. Then came the fingerprint and palmprint technologies. Get ready for password lists and keypads on your firearms next. An article Password-protected bullets in New Scientist describes a recent patent to do just that. From the article: "The way to make firearms really safe, says Hebert Meyerle of Germany, is to password-protect the ammunition...

Strickland statement on HB347 gains press attention; Blackwell's voice coveted

12:10am Wednesday, June 21, 2006

By Chad D. Baus Following up on Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland's statement on the Ohio "Senate's failure to act on legislation to strengthen Protections for Ohio's gun owners (HB347), the Canton Repository published further comments made by Strickland on the campaign trail this week. Following a rally marking the end of a three-day, 19-county campaign tour, Ted Strickland said...

Senator Mike DeWine makes exclusive Top-10 Anti-Gun US Senator List

by Larry S. Moore

12:05am Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Human Events Online, the National Conservative Weekly, has two new Top 10 lists. They are the Top 10 anti-gun US Senators and U.S. Congressmen . Fortunately, none of Ohio congressmen or women made the top 10 list for the US House of Representatives. On the other hand, many Ohioans will not be surprised to learn that Senator Mike DeWine appears on the list of US Senators . Perhaps the only...