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Illinois' Blagojevich and Daley – A Tale of Two Failures

12:10am Monday, August 04, 2008

By Gerard Valentino Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich recently offered to call out the Illinois National Guard to help Chicago fight the recent spike in violence that has catapulted the City into the national news. Daley didn’t immediately accept the Governor’s offer of help and the two most powerful leaders in Illinois missed the irony of the offer. There is a reason 'citizen' comes before '...

Op-Ed: Obama's Shifting Positions Leave Questions Unanswered On Guns...

12:05am Monday, August 04, 2008

By John Lott Sen. Barack Obama claims there has been only a "shift in emphasis," not "wild shifts," in his political positions. Many already know the list: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, NAFTA, public financing of campaigns, abortion, gay marriage, Social Security taxes, the death penalty and negotiating with rogue nations. Possibly one of the more remarkable changes has been his position...

Op-Ed: Gunning for Nov.

12:10am Friday, August 01, 2008

It’s not easy to get lawmakers to pay attention to issues other than energy and housing when gas is $4 per gallon and banks are announcing record losses due to failing mortgage investments. Yet that’s exactly what the National Rifle Association is attempting to do by grading members on whether they sign a discharge petition to force a vote on an NRA-backed bill. Given the lobby’s clout, the...

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Headline: Camp Perry is loaded with shooters of all ages

12:05am Friday, August 01, 2008

The Willoughby News-Herald has published an excellent story updating readers on the ongoing 101st running of the National Matches, which are being held at Camp Perry, a sprawling 640-acre Ohio National Guard base along Lake Erie in Ottawa County.

They begged for it and they got it: Heller sues D.C. again

12:10am Thursday, July 31, 2008

By Tim Inwood In a very foolish move, the City of Washington D.C. has put itself back in the position of being sued by the same man for the same reasons, in just over a month. Dick Heller was victorious on June 26th, when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the historic judgment striking down the city’s thirty-two year old handgun ban, but in a rather stupid move, the city of Washington D.C...

Federal Judge Hands Huge Defeat to Florida Business Lobby on "Guns-at-Work" law

12:05am Thursday, July 31, 2008

The Florida Chamber of Commerce and The Florida Retail Federation argued for three years that business owners had an absolute right to control their employees. That's why they kept calling it the "take-your-guns-to-work" legislation. They claimed they could search employee vehicles and ban firearms from those vehicles in the employer's parking lot. They claimed businesses didn't care if customers...

Bob Barr blasts D.C. for flouting Heller decision on gun control, other Prez candidates for silence on same

12:10am Wednesday, July 30, 2008

In an email addressed "Dear fellow gun owner", Libertarian presidential candidate and NRA Board of Directors member Bob Barr wrote: Just a few weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Washington's gun ban unconstitutional, the city government there is passing new ordinances that might as well be a renewal of the ban as it requires that guns kept there be locked up and/or disassembled. Their new...

Observations from the July OGCA & discussions on Heller

12:05am Wednesday, July 30, 2008

By Tim Inwood The hot steamy weekend of July 19th was the latest gathering of the Ohio Gun Collectors Association. The show was held at Roberts Centre in Wilmington, Ohio and as always it was the place to be for the serious gun enthusiast. It truly is like going to a museum where the artifacts on display, are also for sale. The issue is always how much money you can bring. Some folks do bring...