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REMINDER: Vote Tuesday in the Buckeye State!

5:12pm Monday, November 07, 2011

Tuesday November 8 is Election Day in Ohio. Primary and general election days are the only two days each year where we have the ability to vote on our future. We will vote on statewide issues and local candidates. Some have asked why these local races are important, when none of the winners will hold an office where they will vote statewide gun issues. A large number of our current House of...

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Six Ohio State students victimized in violent robberies, five at gunpoint [UPDATE: Again...so make that seven, six at gunpoint]

Chad D. Baus

2:00pm Monday, November 07, 2011

Columbus' CBS affiliate, WBNS 10TV, reported last week on two separate incidents in which students of The Ohio State university were victimized by armed robbers. From the first article , from October 28: Students shared their stories on Friday after they were robbed at gunpoint. All of the students were robbed near The Ohio State University campus 10TV's Kevin Landers. Jake Calvert said he was...

EDITORIAL: Democrats cling to their guns

7:00am Monday, November 07, 2011

Obama scares women and liberals into the gun store Gun ownership is on the rise in some surprising places. As much as President Obama would have us believe that only small-town yokels "cling to guns or religion," a Gallup poll released [recently] suggests many of the firearms that have been flying off the shelves in the past two years were purchased by Democrats and women. The Second Amendment...

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Industry Insight & A Presidential Candidate Taking Your Question

4:00pm Friday, November 04, 2011

by Jim Shepherd If you could ask the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination a question, what would it be? Foreign policy? Second Amendment? Jobs? When did a successful career as a businessman become a negative when running for what is the CEO's position for the biggest business in the world? What it's like to be vilified by your own race because you're not a liberal? At this...

2010 Second Amendment March featuring Yost and Husted sparks proposed rule change: Statehouse grounds to be no-guns victim zone?

7:00am Friday, November 04, 2011

by Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch reported recently that on October 20 the unelected Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board voted to prohibit concealed guns on the property surrounding the Statehouse. From the article : "The thought was that the board wants to be proactive as we continue to have more events outside," said Gregg Dodd, the board's deputy director. "The board's intent is to...

Ohio firearm inventor honored at Works Museum - you are invited

3:00pm Thursday, November 03, 2011

Republished with permission of the Ohio Gun Collector's Association. (OGCA) "The Art of War" art gallery exhibit at The Works museum in Newark, Ohio will highlight the advancement of weaponry and contributions made to the Remington Gun Company by an industrious Ohio inventor, Joseph Rider. The heart of this exhibit, "The Rider," is a biography of Rider's life-long successes, inventions and his 25...

Caught on video: Anti-gun Columbus Mayor Coleman comes unhinged

7:00am Thursday, November 03, 2011

by Chad D. Baus As many of our readers are aware, Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman has consistently worked against the Second Amendment and the Constitution during his long term as mayor. The Ohio chairman of the anti-gun group Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), Coleman and his city council enacted an unenforceable assault weapons ban in 2005, which caused the NRA to pull plans to hold their...

H.R. 822 -- National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act -- Heading to House Floor; Contact your Representative Now!

3:00pm Wednesday, November 02, 2011

As we've been reporting week in and week out, H.R. 822 -- the "National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011" is very good legislation for gun owners. The time is past due to dispel the alarmist rhetoric about the bill, and to set the record straight. Most of the misguided, unfounded, and incorrect characterizations circulating lately regarding H.R. 822 have come from the anti-gun groups and...