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Op-ed: The benefits of arming 14-year-olds

8:29pm Friday, August 17, 2012

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared at WorldNetDaily.com . Republished with permission of the author. by Gerard Valentino For the second time this year, the 24-hour news outlets are reporting that a 14-year-old boy used a gun to thwart a violent home invasion. The most recent case took place in Phoenix, Ariz., and the boy not only saved his own life, but also saved two younger...

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Second Amendment at stake in Ohio - READ THIS

8:28pm Friday, August 17, 2012

Dear Second Amendment Patriot, Buckeye Firearms Association doesn't come to you every day asking for help. If you've been following us for a while, you know we don't cry wolf. But I'm asking for your help today. That's because this is an urgent matter that you probably won't hear about from any other source. And it involves the future of gun rights in Ohio. So PLEASE ... give me just 5 minutes of...

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Shooter gets a bang out of National Matches at Camp Perry

3:00pm Friday, August 17, 2012

by Jeff Thomas CAMP PERRY – As the National Matches at Camp Perry wind down and shooters leave after another successful year, it goes without saying it was one heck of a fun time. But isn't it always? I don't know about you, but the National Matches in High Power rifle shooting at Camp Perry is one of my favorite places in the world to be in late July and early August. It goes without saying I...

Interview Request to Ohio Mayor Sets Off Alarms for Bloomberg, Media Matters

7:00am Friday, August 17, 2012

by Jesse Hathaway Before responding to a simple May 2012 interview request from Media Trackers Ohio, an employee of Columbus, Ohio Mayor Michael Coleman forwarded the request to Mayor Bloomberg's office and a liberal D.C. consultant, who in turn immediately alerted Media Matters for America. The Coleman staffer, R. Lee Roberts, receives a Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) salary but works from...

Headline: Minford youth wins Junior World Shoot

3:00pm Thursday, August 16, 2012

The Portsmouth Daily Times is reporting that while some of the top shooters in the world were in London for the 2012 Olympics, a rising star in the sport of skeet shooting was just returning home to Ohio after winning the 2012 Junior World Skeet Championship. From the article : Quinten Smith, a 16-year-old from Minford, traveled to Stockton, Calif., last month for the tournament and returned to...

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Headline: House GOP sues Holder over 'Fast and Furious' documents

7:00am Thursday, August 16, 2012

USA Today is reporting that the House of Representatives went to court this week, seeking to force Attorney General Eric Holder to release documents related to the "Fast and Furious" gun-walking operation - a program which led to the deaths of hundreds of Mexican nationals and at least one U.S. Border Patrol agent. From the article : "By stonewalling Congress and ignoring a contempt order, the...

July sees 25.5% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 26th straight month over month increase

3:00pm Wednesday, August 15, 2012

The July 2012 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 853,355 is an increase of 25.5 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 680,258 in July 2011. For comparison, the unadjusted July 2012 NICS figure of 1,289,585 reflects an 12.4 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,147,355 in July 2011. This marks the 26th straight month that NSSF-...

Kasich and Romney school media: Gun bans don't work

7:00am Wednesday, August 15, 2012

by Chad D. Baus Both Governor John Kasich and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney are rejecting gun ban extremists' recent calls for new legislation in the wake of two multiple victim public shootings in "no-gun" zones. Kasich is proving that his words spoken during the 2010 campaign, when he admitted he was "wrong" about his reasons for voting for the 1994 federal Clinton Gun Ban,...