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USSA: Microsoft Funds the Anti-Hunting Movement

12:10am Thursday, June 07, 2007

(Columbus) – Microsoft has rejected a U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance request to abandon its partnership with the nation’s leading anti-hunting organization. Microsoft, the software giant, will make a $100,000 donation to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and is partnering with the group on a pilot program called the i’m Initiative. Through the new program, whenever a Windows Live...

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YOU are invited to attend SAF Gun Rights Policy Conference Oct. 5-7, 2007

12:10am Wednesday, June 06, 2007

On Oct. 5-7, 2007 you have the opportunity to attend the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC), in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky (just across the river from Cincinnati). Buckeye Firearms Association leaders will be joining leaders of other grassroots organizations from Ohio and Kentucky. This event is free to participants and all costs for publications and lunch are...

Op-Ed: Gun Control Does Not Stop Violence

12:05am Wednesday, June 06, 2007

By Matthew Thomas Gross The (OSU) Sentinel Everybody's first reaction to the massacre at Virginia Tech was one of shock and sorrow, but, for some, what followed that initial reaction was an angry and ridiculous call for more gun-control. If you, dear reader, were one such person, who believes that tragedies like the one at Virginia Tech would be stopped by taking guns out of civilians' hands, you...

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Guns and Rudy - The Whole Story

12:10am Tuesday, June 05, 2007

...'I only hope that [Bill Clinton] is right, and that Congress is finally ready to recognize that the vast majority of Americans want more gun control. It makes sense. It is time. And we can no longer let special interests dominate this vitally important issue.' - Rudy Giuliani, 1997 By Michael Gaynor Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has dressed up as a woman on several occasions, but he...

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Police chiefs argue against gun ban; judges rely on anti-gun info from Supremes

12:05am Tuesday, June 05, 2007

By Chad D. Baus The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram reported last week that police chiefs from Lorain County are trying to persuade the 10 judges who work at the Lorain County Justice Center to lift a ban on officers carrying their firearms inside the courthouse. When the county judges (many of whom are now no longer serving at the courthouse) made the decision three years ago to enforce the ban, the...

So you think banning guns will end mass homicide?

12:10am Monday, June 04, 2007

By Chad D. Baus In the wake of the nation's worst mass shooting on the 'no-guns' campus of Virginia Tech, gun ban extremists like Ohio's Toby Hoover couldn't even wait until the bodies were counted before attempting to exploit the dead by calling for tighter gun control measures. From the OCAGV statement released just hours after the VT massacre, entitled "It's About the Guns" : Our weak gun laws...

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USCCA: Exclusive live audio interview with OH Rep. Michael DeBose

12:05am Monday, June 04, 2007

The U. S. Concealed Carry Association (USCCA), for which several Buckeye Firearms Association Leaders are contributing writers (and members), has posted an exclusive audio interview with Rep. Michael DeBose, who went public with a decision to change his viewpoint on concealed carry after suffering a violent attempted mugging. From USCCA's most recent weekly newsletter: This week, we have a very...

Another innocent life saved with gun after attempted mugging

5:36pm Saturday, June 02, 2007

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that a man with a concealed handgun license shot at an armed robber who was among a group of four teenagers who tried to mug him. From the story: Raphael L. Owens, 24, told police that the group approached him about 11:30 p.m. near the Elmore Avenue and South Portage Path. One of the youths pointed a chrome-plated gun at him and demanded his cell phone,...