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Poachers Pay $13,277.60 for Illegally Killing Trophy Buck

12:05am Monday, February 16, 2009

Largest fine to date involving Ohio's updated restitution value for wildlife COLUMBUS, OHIO - Two men convicted of the illegal taking of white-tailed deer from Side Cut Metro Park in Maumee have been ordered to pay restitution of $13,277.60 according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The revised restitution law went into effect March 2008 and allows the ODNR...

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's 18-21 Firearms Ownership Ban to be reintroduced

12:10am Friday, February 13, 2009

By Chad D. Baus & Ken Hanson, Esq. Even as the City of Cleveland continues to be the only municipality in Ohio illegally enforcing local firearm laws , while at the same time lying about it to the media, Buckeye Firearms Association has learned that the anti-Second Amendment, anti-self-defense, anti-hunting legislation which Mayor Frank Jackson tried unsuccessfully to get passed in the 127th...

The Uninvited Ombudsman Report, No. 59 - Million Gun March?

12:05am Friday, February 13, 2009

Taken from the most recent "Page Nine" Alan Korwin's "The Uninvited Ombudsman Report" ---------- STARTERS: Bill of Rights Day -- my reply to you Dear "Committee for the Bill of Rights" members, I can't reply to all the email I received from my report on Bill of Rights Day in Phoenix, http://www.gunlaws.com/BOR-Day-2008-Report.htm , there was too much, and it's still coming. It seems I touched a...

Ohio CHL-holder and Marine amputee acquitted on D.C. gun possession charges

12:10am Thursday, February 12, 2009

The Washington Post is reporting that, after being deadlocked twice, a D.C. Superior Court jury has acquitted a Marine amputee and Ohio CHL-holder on felony charges of gun possession stemming from an arrest while he was on the way to Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

SB49: Better to slowly burn a child to death than to shoot her with a gun?

12:05am Thursday, February 12, 2009

Editor's Note: The article below was originally published on June 17, 2008, about Senate Bill 348, introduced by Senator Eric Kearney (D-9). While that bill, which was co-sponsored by Senators Sue Morano (D-13), Teresa Fedor (D-11), and Capri Cafaro (D-32), died at the end of the 127th General Assembly, the necessity of republishing this article is again apparent, because Sen. Kearney has...

Potential exists for GOP primary contest in race for Chief Justice of Ohio Supreme Court

12:10am Wednesday, February 11, 2009

By Chad D. Baus The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that Ohio Supreme Court Justice Maureen O'Connor will run next year for chief justice, the state's highest judicial post, and that a potential GOP primary challenge could be in the works if former Attorney General Jim Petro also decides to run.

Ohio Wildlife Council Hears 2009-2010 Deer Hunting Regulations Proposal

12:05am Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Reduced-cost deer permits show results COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio hunters may again have the opportunity to use reduced-cost deer permits if a proposed regulation is accepted by the Ohio Wildlife Council in April, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Under the proposal, hunters could again buy antlerless deer permits at reduced prices for hunting in an urban...

Firearms transport: Lessons learned after major roll-over accident

12:10am Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Larry S. Moore Any discussion of traveling with firearms usually involves the legal transportation of firearms and the duty of the CHL holder to inform law enforcement if the holder is carrying. Some discussion centers on the best gun cases or range bags for use. Like most CHL holders, target shooters and hunters, I suspect, I gave little consideration to how my firearms were secured in a vehicle...