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Attorney General announces Fourth Quarter 2006 CHL statistics

12:10am Tuesday, February 27, 2007

By Jim Irvine Attorney General Marc Dann has released the concealed handgun license statistics for the fourth quarter of 2006. There were 4,232 regular licenses, and 13 temporary emergency licenses issued, bringing the total to 86,973 Ohioans issued a licensed to carry a concealed handgun. Nearly 19,000 law-abiding citizens obtained their CHL in 2007. There have been no shootouts over fender-...

Wild canines offer yet another example of the need for CCW while deer hunting

12:10am Monday, February 26, 2007

By Larry S. Moore Jim Robey’s recent Dayton Daily News article about an encounter with wild canines raised an interesting discussion about the need for allowing concealed carry during hunting. As I recall, Mr. Robey was grouse hunting and could not get to their firearms before being attacked by a pack of wild canines. This article also drove home a similar experience for me with a coyote...

Latest Blade report on gun violence continues to ask all the wrong questions

12:15am Friday, February 23, 2007

By Ken Hanson The Toledo Blade reaffirms their lack of credibility on gun crime issues in their coverage of the murder of Toledo Detective Keith Dressel. The bias in the story is almost as outrageous as the murder itself. Too often readers are facing bias in news coverage, whether they realize it or not. Since we are facing a very real danger of being desensitized to this bias, it is critical to...

Hoplophobes also to blame for the Trolley Square Mall slaughter in Utah

12:10am Friday, February 23, 2007

By Tim Inwood As I watched the news reports on the shooting at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, I was saddened but not surprised by how the obtuse, liberal anti-gun media continues to miss the real message of what happened. They should not have missed it, as it is nothing new. A well meaning dullard who owns private property (in this case a shopping mall) tells people you can’t carry a...

Hey Elmer Fudd...time to wake up! (Proof they want your guns too)

12:10am Thursday, February 22, 2007

Editor's Note: Several readers have contacted us to note that the MySpace blog previously referenced in Mr. Inwood's piece below is a parody, and not an official Brady Campaign website. While the Brady Campaign's official website did indeed announce the launch of a MySpace blog in February at the exact MySpace URL Inwood referenced (that announcement has since been removed), the MySpace content...

Dispatch profile: Ohio State Buckeyes Pistol Coach James Sweeney

12:05am Thursday, February 22, 2007

The Columbus Dispatch recently published a wonderful article detailing the life of James Sweeney, a man who has been at Ohio State either as a student-athlete, professor or coach for all but seven of the past 55 years, the past eight as pistol coach. From the story: The ultimate goal of the educator is to prepare them to learn to further educate themselves," Sweeney said. Ohio State made him...

Just how opposed to a pro-gun chairman IS the OhioGOP?

12:10am Wednesday, February 21, 2007

By Chad D. Baus Earlier this month, we reported that plans to orchestrate an orderly transfer of power within the OhioGOP were under way, via the creation of the position of Deputy Chairman. We also noted that although he was not among those handpicked by OhioGOP Chairman Bob Bennett as a possible successor, State Representative Kevin DeWine (a three-time endorsee of this political action...

The company he keeps: John McCain names Mike DeWine as Ohio campaign chair

12:05am Wednesday, February 21, 2007

By Chad D. Baus Little more than three months after the anti-gun incumbent Mike DeWine lost the support of his conservative base and was tossed out of office, the Associated Press is reporting that Republican Senator John McCain has decided DeWine is the perfect man to lead his Presidential campaign in Ohio. They make quite a pair.