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Project Appleseed: Show the world what the shooting sports are all about!

7:00am Tuesday, May 28, 2013

An-Sofie Kesteleyn is a photo journalist from Belgium. She will be starting a tour of rural America on June 2nd, 2013 to photograph youngsters learning about the shooting sports, and our American Heritage of shooting. Her Journey will begin at Dillon Sportsman Center about an hour East of Columbus Ohio, 15min North of Zanesville. RWVA (the Revolutionary War Veterans Assoc.) will be conducting its...

MEMORIAL DAY 2013: In 1788, Ohio law required ALL men aged 16-50 to bear arms

7:00am Monday, May 27, 2013

(Originally posted by the Cincinnati Enquirer and on this website July 25, 2003) Ohio Moments Soldiers fined 50 cents for lack of weaponry On July 25, 1788, the first Ohio law to establish and regulate a militia was published in Marietta. It mandated all men between 16 and 50 perform military duty. They were required to arm themselves with a musket and bayonet, a cartridge box, powder horn, one...

Op-Ed: Bloomberg Uses Commencement Speech to Push Gun Control, Rails Against ‘Extremist’ NRA

3:00pm Friday, May 24, 2013

by Alicia Powe America's most dangerous Mayor used his commencement address at Kenyon College in Ohio as a political opportunity to slam members of Congress for failing to pass background check legislation. "Have courage to act on your hopes, don't be paralyzed by your fears," Mayor Bloomberg told the graduating class. "Have the courage to think for yourself and to believe in your ideas. That...

"Semper Paratus": A good motto for you, too

7:00am Friday, May 24, 2013

by Erin Marshall The United States Coast Guard motto is "Semper Paratus" which means "Always Ready." The Boy Scout motto is "Be Prepared." What does it mean to be ready or prepared? I am not talking about stockpiling MREs and canned foods. I'm not talking about building a bomb shelter or hoarding ammo. I am talking about the state of being ready or being prepared. I believe there are two main...

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More Turkey Hunters Successful in 2013 Spring Season

3:00pm Thursday, May 23, 2013

COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio's wild turkey hunters checked 18,391 birds during the 2013 spring hunting season, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The state total is a 4 percent increase from 2012, when hunters harvested 17,646 birds. The 2013 harvest total is a combination of the youth turkey season and the spring turkey season, April 20-May 19. Ashtabula County again led the...

Headline: Advocates put police, gun laws to the test

7:00am Thursday, May 23, 2013

by Chad D. Baus WHIO-TV (CBS Dayton) is reporting on a lawsuit that has been filed against the City of Riverside after an incident involving the arrest of a man who was open carrying a firearm. From the article : Advocates of "open carry" of weapons are testing police on their knowledge of state laws and then posting the results on the internet. The most recent case involved a Tipp City man, Roy...

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Op-Ed: Unintended Victims - the most vulnerable among us are most harmed by ill-conceived gun control laws

3:00pm Wednesday, May 22, 2013

by C.D. Michel She went home from the gun store to endure a ten day cooling off period before she could take her new gun home. But her estranged husband, the subject of a restraining order, was not cooling off about their pending divorce. That same evening she was raped, beaten nearly to death, and their son was almost killed by the man he once called "Daddy." Every law has unintended...

The Gun Control Lie

7:00am Wednesday, May 22, 2013

by Jeff Knox Gun control advocates are compulsive liars. They have to be because the truth doesn't support their agenda. Even the names of gun control groups – suggesting "violence policy," "violence prevention," and "gun safety" – are all lies. And the term "gun control" itself is a lie. Virtually everything coming from gun control advocates today is a lie. I'm not talking about simple...