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Bob Barr blasts D.C. for flouting Heller decision on gun control, other Prez candidates for silence on same

12:10am Wednesday, July 30, 2008

In an email addressed "Dear fellow gun owner", Libertarian presidential candidate and NRA Board of Directors member Bob Barr wrote: Just a few weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Washington's gun ban unconstitutional, the city government there is passing new ordinances that might as well be a renewal of the ban as it requires that guns kept there be locked up and/or disassembled. Their new...

Observations from the July OGCA & discussions on Heller

12:05am Wednesday, July 30, 2008

By Tim Inwood The hot steamy weekend of July 19th was the latest gathering of the Ohio Gun Collectors Association. The show was held at Roberts Centre in Wilmington, Ohio and as always it was the place to be for the serious gun enthusiast. It truly is like going to a museum where the artifacts on display, are also for sale. The issue is always how much money you can bring. Some folks do bring...

Breaking News: Heller Files New Gun Case in D.C., Takes Aim at Semiauto Ban

11:48am Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The Washington City Paper is reporting that Dick Anthony Heller, who successfully challenged the District’s handgun ban in a landmark Supreme Court decision, is again suing the District of Columbia. According to a complaint cited by the story, Heller, along with co-plaintiffs Absalom M. Jordan Jr., and Amy McVey, are taking particular aim at the effective ban of semiautomatic pistols by the...

The future of Gun Control, or "It isn’t over till its over"

12:10am Tuesday, July 29, 2008

By Jeff Riley On June 26th, 2008 the Supreme Court of the United States of America announced the long anticipated decision in the District of Columbia vs. Heller. Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Scalia stated, in part: The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditional lawful purposes, such as...

Washington, D.C. and Mayor Fenty still hate guns

12:05am Tuesday, July 29, 2008

By Brian S. Stewart Mayor Adrian Fenty and the anti-gun elites of Washington D.C. recently unveiled the district’s inevitable response to the historic D.C. v. Heller decision by the United States Supreme Court. The Court struck down the District’s blanket ban on handgun ownership (including inside the home) en route to establishing the Second Amendment as an individual right. On July 14th, the...

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Is the push for campus carry being won or lost?

12:10am Monday, July 28, 2008

By Brent Greer The retired editor of The Blade , the daily newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, writes in an op-ed that self defense advocates are losing the battle to allow professors, staff and students to lawfully carry concealed firearms for their protection. I disagree.

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The Uninvited Ombudsman Report - No. 49

12:05am Monday, July 28, 2008

Taken from the most recent “Page Nine” Alan Korwin’s “The Uninvited Ombudsman Report” 1- Hero Joe Horn The lamestream media told you: Joe Horn, a 62-year-old Texas man, was cleared by a grand jury of murder charges in the shotgun slaying of two men on his property. Horn, who loaded his shotgun while on the phone with a 911 operator, clearly said he was going to kill the young men, and then the...

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Victim Zones: We have to move the goal posts

12:10am Friday, July 25, 2008

By Gerard Valentino Two more businesses where legal concealed carry is banned were robbed last week in Ohio. A BMV office on the east side of Columbus (a victim zone by statute) was robbed on the same day as a branch of Fifth Third Bank, which is a "gun free" zone due to the company’s private policy. Clearly, it doesn’t matter why concealed carry is forbidden at a location, because the results...