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Op-Ed: President Obama: AR-15 Salesman of the Decade

3:00pm Thursday, May 30, 2013

by C. D. Michel Barack Obama may be the most effective firearm salesman since Samuel Colt. In the wake of recent tragedies, the Obama administration took gun control as its new mission, advocating everything from useless "universal" background checks to once again banning so-called "assault weapons." The unintended but completely predictable side effect of Obama's posturing has been to cause your...

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USSA: Questions Emerge Over HSUS and the IRS Scandal

7:00am Thursday, May 30, 2013

The ongoing IRS scandal that is hitting Washington has yet another twist with new questions surrounding the number one group on our Dirty Dozen List, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). The latest twist comes after the person at the heart of the IRS scandal, Lois Lerner, was found to have ties to this anti-hunting organization. Lerner is the Director of the IRS's tax-exempt...

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U.S. District Court Dismisses Lawsuit to Ban Traditional Ammunition

3:00pm Tuesday, May 28, 2013

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia today dismissed a lawsuit brought by the radical anti-hunting Center for Biological Diversity and six other groups demanding the Environmental Protection Agency ban traditional ammunition containing lead components. Traditional ammunition represents 95 percent of the U.S. market and is the staple ammunition for target shooters...

Project Appleseed: Show the world what the shooting sports are all about!

7:00am Tuesday, May 28, 2013

An-Sofie Kesteleyn is a photo journalist from Belgium. She will be starting a tour of rural America on June 2nd, 2013 to photograph youngsters learning about the shooting sports, and our American Heritage of shooting. Her Journey will begin at Dillon Sportsman Center about an hour East of Columbus Ohio, 15min North of Zanesville. RWVA (the Revolutionary War Veterans Assoc.) will be conducting its...

MEMORIAL DAY 2013: In 1788, Ohio law required ALL men aged 16-50 to bear arms

7:00am Monday, May 27, 2013

(Originally posted by the Cincinnati Enquirer and on this website July 25, 2003) Ohio Moments Soldiers fined 50 cents for lack of weaponry On July 25, 1788, the first Ohio law to establish and regulate a militia was published in Marietta. It mandated all men between 16 and 50 perform military duty. They were required to arm themselves with a musket and bayonet, a cartridge box, powder horn, one...

Op-Ed: Bloomberg Uses Commencement Speech to Push Gun Control, Rails Against ‘Extremist’ NRA

3:00pm Friday, May 24, 2013

by Alicia Powe America's most dangerous Mayor used his commencement address at Kenyon College in Ohio as a political opportunity to slam members of Congress for failing to pass background check legislation. "Have courage to act on your hopes, don't be paralyzed by your fears," Mayor Bloomberg told the graduating class. "Have the courage to think for yourself and to believe in your ideas. That...

"Semper Paratus": A good motto for you, too

7:00am Friday, May 24, 2013

by Erin Marshall The United States Coast Guard motto is "Semper Paratus" which means "Always Ready." The Boy Scout motto is "Be Prepared." What does it mean to be ready or prepared? I am not talking about stockpiling MREs and canned foods. I'm not talking about building a bomb shelter or hoarding ammo. I am talking about the state of being ready or being prepared. I believe there are two main...

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More Turkey Hunters Successful in 2013 Spring Season

3:00pm Thursday, May 23, 2013

COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio's wild turkey hunters checked 18,391 birds during the 2013 spring hunting season, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The state total is a 4 percent increase from 2012, when hunters harvested 17,646 birds. The 2013 harvest total is a combination of the youth turkey season and the spring turkey season, April 20-May 19. Ashtabula County again led the...