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Ohio's Spring Wild Turkey Hunting Season Begins April 22

3:00pm Friday, April 19, 2013

Youth-only hunt set for April 20-21 COLUMBUS, OH – The start of spring ushers in Ohio's annual wild turkey hunt, and hunters can enjoy the warmer weather in pursuit of this popular game bird. According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), the 2013 Ohio spring hunting season opens Monday, April 22, with the youth wild turkey season opening Saturday and Sunday, April 20-21. "Ohio has...

V. P. Biden pledges more executive action on guns from Obama “later this week," White House corrects

12:00pm Friday, April 19, 2013

by Chad D. Baus We the People have spoken through our representatives in Congress. We do not want law-abiding Americans' Second Amendment rights curbed in the name of "doing something" about the horrific attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School. We do not want our legislators to pass things that feel good but that will do nothing to prevent these types of mass killings. Unfortunately, Vice...

BFA's Linda Walker to speak at Central Ohio's Dillon Sportsman Center Grand Opening Event April 27

7:00am Friday, April 19, 2013

by Aaron Kirkingburg The Dillon Sportsman Center is under new management and will be re-opening April 27th at 9am to welcome the public. Trap and skeet fields will be open, and all houses have been outfitted with new Atlas AT400 machines. Signup sheets for trap and skeet leagues will be available in the range house. The 100yd rifle range has six cement shooting benches available, with room to set...

Winner announced in the EOTWAWKI Guns & Survival Gear Raffle

3:00pm Thursday, April 18, 2013

Just look at the smile on that man's face! That's the smile of someone who's just won over $3,200 worth of guns and gear that will help him survive the end of the world as we know it. Domestic terrorism. Civil unrest. Comet strike. Nuclear war. Zombie invasion. Whatever the scenario, Heath from Cambridge is now ready to bug out and survive if the unthinkable happens. This lucky patriot had the...

Manchin-Toomey anti-gun rights amendment defeated; "Assault weapons" & "high capacity" magazine bans defeated

4:31pm Wednesday, April 17, 2013

This article was updated as new information became available. by Chad D. Baus The United States Senate has failed to achieve the necessary 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster of the Manchin-Toomey amendment to Chuck Schumer's "universal background checks" bill, S. 649. The amendment, which was supported by Sen. Schumer, had been hailed by the media just last week as the best chance of...

Cops say gun control proposals do nothing to stop crime

3:00pm Wednesday, April 17, 2013

The following article was originally published by The Lima News . Republished with permission. by Greg Sowinski LIMA - A national survey of police officers show overwhelming support for the Second Amendment while opposing many federal gun control proposals they say would do little, if anything, to stop crime. Those beliefs are supported by some local officers, as well. The national survey was...

Manchin-Toomey is gun registration: "Background gun-check records are saved."

7:00am Wednesday, April 17, 2013

by Alan Korwin The so-called "background check" bill is really about gun registration -- ultimate and imminent registration of every gun and gun owner in America. The mandatory paper records are saved -- nobody denies that. Federal agents use those all the time. The electronic records have virtually no controls on them. They go into a system designed as a recording device. This bill vastly...

Compromise At What Cost?

3:00pm Tuesday, April 16, 2013

by Jim Shepherd With the United States Senate now moving toward the eventual passage of legislation that is more anti-gun owners than anti-crime, anti-gun legislators and the media are starting to celebrate another baby-step toward their ultimate goal: disarmament of the private citizen. That sounds fatalistic, but even as New York Governor Cuomo calls proposed compromise legislation a "sell-out...