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Bloomberg's latest stunt: Even local official admits push for new gun control legislation wouldn't stop illegal gun sales

7:00am Thursday, December 22, 2011

by Jim Irvine and Chad D. Baus Last week, anti-gun New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Joyce Foundation-funded gun control group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), staged a press conference to hype the group's latest effort to institute a new level of gun control on law-abiding citizens. But while he supports the gun control efforts, even the City of Cleveland's Public Safety Director admits the...

Attention Lamestream Media...I Am the Gun Lobby

3:00pm Wednesday, December 21, 2011

by Jeff Knox To all of those "reporters" and pundits at ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CNN, The New York Times and all the other Times , The Boston Globe , The Spokane Spokesman-Review , the Cleveland Plain Dealer , Arizona Republic , all of the Tribunes , Stars , and Ledgers ; Let me make something perfectly clear: The NRA is not the Gun Lobby. Neither is the NSSF, nor the GOA, nor even The Firearms...

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Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry: I will only appoint pro-gun justices to U.S. Supreme Court

7:00am Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Texas governor "the only candidate trying to connect with gun owners" by Chad D. Baus The only Republican presidential candidate to have made his support for gun rights a part of his campaign is discussing it yet again. On Monday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry told attendees at a town hall meeting in Manchester, Iowa, that if he is elected president he will only appoint U.S. Supreme Court justices who...

Coshocton County Leads State in Weekend Deer-Gun Harvest Numbers

3:00pm Tuesday, December 20, 2011

80 percent of Ohio's Deer Hunters Choose the Phone or Internet for Checking Game COLUMBUS, OH - Hunters harvested an additional 16,766 deer during the extra weekend of gun hunting, December 17-18, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The extra weekend was first offered in 2006 in response to hunters' request for an increase in the amount of weekend...

Congress Packs Firearms Riders in "Minibus"

7:00am Tuesday, December 20, 2011

by Jeff Knox Rather than pass a large, all-encompassing omnibus appropriations bill for the new fiscal year – which began on October 1 – Congress narrowed the scope of their first funding bill to cover only certain essential services and agencies in what they dubbed a "minibus" appropriations bill. Even so, the measure, which was finally passed in mid November and signed by the President on...

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Op-Ed: The Next Decisive Date in American History

3:00pm Monday, December 19, 2011

by Wayne LaPierre In all of our nation’s history, a handful of dates stand out – dates that meant life or death for America and our freedoms. On July 4, 1776, our Founding Fathers put their lives on the line and declared that America would be independent and free. On June 6, 1944, American troops landed at Normandy and America took a critical step toward ending history’s bloodiest war. And on...

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A Tale of Two Ohio Elected Officials: Rep. Steve Austria stands up for gun rights legislation that George Voinovich once killed

7:00am Monday, December 19, 2011

by Gerard Valentino A speech given by Congressman Steve Austria (R-OH) during the debate over legalizing nationwide concealed carry was a reminder of how important it is to support candidates dedicated to defending the right to bear arms. It also offered the Ohio Republican Party redemption for the vote cast by former United States Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) that killed a previous attempt to...

Headline: House GOP proposes ‘lost confidence’ resolution on Attorney General Holder

3:00pm Friday, December 16, 2011

TheHill.com is reporting that nearly two-dozen Republicans are backing legislation stating that Congress "has lost confidence" in Eric Holder to continue as attorney general. According to the article, the resolution, introduced by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and supported by 21 GOP co-sponsors, resolves "that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress has lost confidence in the...