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Presidential candidates need to address the real issues for gun owners

12:10am Tuesday, February 26, 2008

"I’ve been a hunter all my life" and other phony appeals By Brian S. Stewart In the pantheon of cringe-worthy attempts to fabricate 2nd amendment bona fides, presidential candidates of the last several years have provided more than their fair share. From the infamous "Small Varmints"-Gate of the early Mitt Romney campaign to Hillary Clinton’s desperate revelation that she too used to be quite the...

LTE: Don't ask gun-permit holders to be police

12:05am Tuesday, February 26, 2008

February 21, 2008 Columbus Dispatch The Sunday article "Gun-permit renewals near" contained a statement that must be addressed. Dispatch Staff Reporter Randy Ludlow rightly quoted Chief Deputy Steve Martin of the Franklin County Sheriff's Office that there had been no incidents involving concealed-carry license holders during the first four years under the law. But then Ludlow added, "On the...

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Perfect Storm for Gun Owners: Ohio Presidential Primary edition

12:10am Monday, February 25, 2008

By Chad D. Baus My story " Perfect storm for gun owners? McCain, DeWine and Giuliani join forces ", was published at BuckeyeFirearms.org only a little more than 24 hours after the outcome of Super Tuesday was known. In that commentary, I wrote about how anti-gun former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's endorsement of Senator John McCain , and anti-gun former Senator Mike DeWine's work as McCain's...

Students for Concealed Carry on Campus responds to Brady conspiracy accusations: 'Prove it'

12:05am Monday, February 25, 2008

Four months after Peter Hamm, spokesperson for The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, verbally attacked the college-based, grassroots organization Students for Concealed Carry on Campus , telling a Fox News reporter, "You don't like the fact that you can't have a gun on your college campus? Drop out of school," he is stepping up the rhetoric. Not content with encouraging college students to...

Larry Moore: League of Ohio Sportsmen/Ohio Wildlife Federation Hunter Educator of the Year

12:10am Friday, February 22, 2008

Long-time Buckeye Firearms Assocation volunteer Leader Larry S. Moore has been named the League of Ohio Sportsmen/Ohio Wildlife Federation Hunter Educator of the Year. "It is exciting to be honored for hunter education work and recognized by your peers," Moore says. "There are people in the League who have been teaching for 40 years."

New Life Church Pastor Brady Boyd speaks out on church security preparedness

12:05am Friday, February 22, 2008

By Chad D.Baus Can we take the lessons learned in blood and lives at Columbine and the World Trade Center and apply them so we'll never take this [path] again, or do we have to wait until our kids die?" - Lt. Col. Dave Grossman One place where leaders made a conscious choice not to wait until their kids die was New Life Church in Colorado Springs, CO. The story of concealed handgun license-holder...

Editorial: Allow concealed carry

12:10am Thursday, February 21, 2008

February 16, 2008 Dover-New Philadelphia Times-Reporter It’s time we allow concealed carry on America’s university campuses. Maybe an armed, well-trained professor might have been able to stop the graduate student who went on a shooting rampage Thursday in a Northern Illinois University lecture hall, killing six and wounded 15 before turning the gun on himself. And maybe someone with a weapon...

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20 dead this month in Illinois spree killings, but the state's gun-grabbers will never get it

12:10am Wednesday, February 20, 2008

By Gerard Valentino How long does this have to happen? How many of my home state brethren have to die? When will people like Chicago Mayor Daley and Governor Blagojevich realize they are leaving their citizens at the whim of thugs and the deranged? The sad truth is they will never get it – they will never learn that their draconian gun policies don’t work. Chicago leads the nation in murders...