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Columbus gun store tops nation in firearms tracings; Media exaggerates correlation of U.S. gun sales to Mexican crime yet again

3:00pm Friday, December 17, 2010

The Washington Post recently obtained information on the names of gun dealers that had the most traces for firearms recovered by police in the last four years, and in a collaborative story by The Columbus Dispatch , the newspapers are reporting that Vance Outdoors in Columbus led the country in the number of guns recovered by police that were traced back to a dealer. From the article : A high...

President Obama and Gun Rights: Beware the Cornered and Quiet Politician

7:00am Friday, December 17, 2010

by Gerard Valentino President Barack Obama has a long and undistinguished record of infringing on the rights of law-abiding gun owners. When he was elected that record made him the darling of the anti-gun movement which expected to ride his coattails back to prominence in the marketplace of ideas. The expected road back to relevance hasn't materialized as they expected, and the anti-gun crowd...

Gavel still has not fallen on 128th General Assembly: Pro-gun bills' fate still not sealed

7:45pm Thursday, December 16, 2010

The Ohio House of Representatives adjourned yesterday without holding a voting session, but Speaker Armond Budish has still not declared the 128th session of the Ohio House of Representatives to be officially over. Until and unless that happens, there is still a chance that two pro-gun bills, SB239 and SB247, could receive a vote. Yesterday, the House adjourned "until Tuesday, December 21, 2010...

Op-Ed: Justice Breyer's remarks on guns revisionist thinking

3:00pm Thursday, December 16, 2010

by The (Bowling Green, KY) Daily News Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is an ideologue: a judicial activist who rules by his own political and personal philosophy, rather than the rule of law and what our Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights more than 200 years ago. The left-leaning justice recently made remarks that further the suspicion that has been...

Giving a Firearm as a Gift? Some Reminders from NSSF

7:00am Thursday, December 16, 2010

The holidays are just around the corner. As hunters, shooters, collectors or just plain plinkers, it's a natural instinct to want to share our enjoyment of firearms with others. What better way to do that than to make a gift of a firearm to a family member, close friend or relative? The first thing to remember if you're thinking about giving someone a gun is that . . . it's a gun! You already...

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Deer-gun Hunting Continues December 18-19

3:00pm Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Ohio's popular deer-gun season will run an additional weekend, Saturday and Sunday, December 18-19, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. The extra weekend days were added beginning in 2006 in response to comments received from hunters for more weekend time to hunt. Deer can be hunted with a legal muzzleloader, handgun or shotgun from one half-hour...

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Op-Ed: Assault Weapons and the Truth

7:00am Wednesday, December 15, 2010

The Obama administration has nominated an anti-gun zealot as the U.S.'s top gun cop. The Obama administration is moving into high gear in putting gun-control advocates into important government positions. The administration's nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), Andrew Traver, should be of particular concern. His attacks on the civilian use of so-called...

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Fall Turkey Season Concludes

3:00pm Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Ohio's fall wild turkey season ended November 28 with 1,336 birds killed during the seven-week season. Ashtabula County led the state with 75 birds taken, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. Last year, 2,180 birds were taken. "The decline in the fall turkey harvest we observed from 2009 to 2010 was not unexpected. Acorn mast crop failures like we...