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Canadian Shooting Sports Association: "Long-gun registry finally destined for scrap heap of history"

3:00pm Friday, April 27, 2012

OTTAWA -- Good riddance to the long-gun registry -- possibly the most unfair and useless legislation ever to have been passed by Parliament of Canada. In the wake of many hours of debate and anti-gun rhetoric from the opposition and lobbyists, the Conservative party has successfully laid the registry to rest with Royal Assent on Bill C-19. Few issues have prompted so many Canadians to sound off...

Ohio concealed handgun licenses numbers on the rise, but opponents of reforms remain despite success of program

7:00am Friday, April 27, 2012

by Chad D. Baus The Dayton Daily News is reporting that in the eight years since Ohio passed a concealed weapons law, county sheriffs have issued 296,588 concealed handgun licenses, with more than half of those coming since President Barack Obama was elected. Despite the obvious popularity and success of the law, the DDN provides quotes from local law enforcement bureaucrats who are expressing...

Ohio's Spring Turkey Season Underway

3:00pm Thursday, April 26, 2012

Ashtabula County leads harvest on opening day COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio hunters harvested a preliminary total of 2,227 bearded wild turkeys on the first day of the spring turkey-hunting season, which is open statewide through May 20, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. In 2011, a preliminary total of 2,646 wild turkeys were killed on opening day. Top...

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Another Ohio homeowner exercises self-defense right by shooting would-be robber during home invasion

7:00am Thursday, April 26, 2012

by Chad D. Baus WEWS (ABC Cleveland) is reporting that a homeowner shot a man who broke into his house on Mardale Avenue around 11 a.m. Wednesday. From the article : Police at the scene said it appears the robber tried breaking into a neighbor's home first, but couldn't get inside. That's when they think the robber broke out a kitchen window at a home next door in the 5300 block of Mardale Avenue...

VIDEO: "Why is Remington doing NBC's job?"

3:00pm Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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Rep. Michael DeBose (D), remembered for becoming pro-concealed carry after mugging, dies at 58

7:00am Wednesday, April 25, 2012

by Chad D. Baus The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that State Rep. Michael DeBose, a Cleveland Democrat, has passed away at the age of 58. From the article : DeBose, 58, had struggled for several years with Parkinson's syndrome. He entered the Clinic Sunday with an infection. The lifelong Clevelander represented District 12 from 2002 to 2010, when term limits forced him out. He'd also been a...

EPA Denies Anti-Hunting Group's Latest Petition to Ban Traditional Ammunition

3:00pm Tuesday, April 24, 2012

NSSF Calls Upon Congress to Pass the 'Hunting, Fishing and Recreational Shooting Sports Protection Act' NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 9 denied yet another frivolous petition by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) -- an established anti-hunting group -- calling for a ban on the traditional ammunition (containing lead-core components) for hunting and...

SB332: Better to slowly burn a child to death than to shoot her with a gun?

7:00am Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Editor's Note: The article below was originally published on June 17, 2008, about Senate Bill 348, introduced by Senator Eric Kearney (D-9). That bill died at the end of the 127th General Assembly. Kearney reintroduced the bill again in 2009, as SB49, and we again published this article by way of response, on February 12, 2009. SB49 died at the end of the 128th General Assembly. But the necessity...