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Across the Fruited Plain: Where the Fight for Shall-Issue Still Rages

12:10am Thursday, July 02, 2009

Editor's Note: This article has also been published at USConcealedCarry.com. By Chad D. Baus In my last column, "The People Fighting for Your Gun Rights" , I lamented the fact that more state gun rights organizations had not responded to my invitation to help keep USCCA members up to date on the current battles that they face, what specific activities they are engaging in on each battle, their...

Brady Campaign attorney says "certainly nothing wrong" with adults banging away at Southern Ohio Machine Gun Shoot

12:05am Thursday, July 02, 2009

Nothing can be more absurd than the carrying of concealed weapons in a civilized community without a special purpose, and that in times of tranquility is simply criminal. - The [Columbus Daily] Dispatch, July 1, 1871 By Chad D. Baus During my seven-plus years experience covering Second Amendment issues and the media in Ohio, I've learned that whenever the Columbus Dispatch decides to cover a gun...

AG Cordray: State of Ohio will join friend of the court brief asking for Second Amendment incorporation

12:10am Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Appearing Sunday evening as a guest on the Firearms Forum radio show with host Jim Irvine, Attorney General Richard Cordray announced that, in anticipation of the Supreme Court of the United States taking such a case, he has agreed to sign a brief being prepared by the State of Texas in support of the Second Amendment applying to the states. "Since the Heller decision there have been either two...

Current Congressional environment provides window of opportunity for Second Amendment

12:05am Wednesday, July 01, 2009

By Jeff Knox The surprise introduction and passage of a pro-rights amendment attached to a credit card bill this spring could be a hopeful sign of things to come.

Early GOP primary discussion of 2A issues continues with Kasich statement

12:10am Tuesday, June 30, 2009

By Chad D. Baus Earlier this month, Republican State Senator Kevin Coughlin, who declared his candidacy for the 2010 governor's race in January, began circulating an email designed to bring the Second Amendment to the front and center of early GOP primary discussions. This week, former Congressman John Kasich, who declared his own candidacy for the Republican nomination at the beginning of June,...

Headline: "Concealed carry five years later - Why it works"

12:05am Tuesday, June 30, 2009

When the decade-long battle for concealed carry reform was raging in Ohio, pro-Second Amendment advocates recognized the Lima News as one of the few newspapers whose editorial page featured opinions as firm in support of the Second Amendment as they were on the First. Five years after Ohio's concealed carry law took effect, the newspaper's news room has proved that they too continue to be one of...

COMBO: From My Cold Dead Fingers & America's Last Hope

6:53pm Monday, June 29, 2009

In From My Cold Dead Fingers, Sheriff Mack outlines why the right of the people "to keep and bear arms" is essential to the preservation of liberty and domestic tranquility. Mack reminds us of facts that were self-evident to earlier generations of Americans, but which are all but forgotten today. In America's Last Hope , Sheriff Mack covers decades of research to prove that the sheriffs in this...

The Second Amendment and the Slow Erosion of Time

12:10am Monday, June 29, 2009

By Dave Yost A year ago, the United State Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment's right to bear arms belongs to individuals, not to state militias. The decision started more legal arguments than it settled, and the battle is still raging in the lower courts. The Supreme Court decision, District of Columbia v. Heller *, has already produced plenty of litigation. Since it's a Supreme Court...