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Feinstein signals attempt to filibuster National Right to Carry legislation

3:00pm Tuesday, May 01, 2012

by Chad D. Baus The Associated Press reported recently that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who once infamously admitted on national television that her goal is to get American gun owners to "turn them all in," is trying to block votes on bills that would require a state to honor concealed gun permits from other states. From the article : The California Democrat wrote Majority Leader Harry Reid and...

Concealed carry - Why the uproar?

7:00am Tuesday, May 01, 2012

The following op-ed by Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson was originally published by The Columbus Dispatch . Republished with permission. by Ken Hanson April 8, 2012, marked the anniversary of a law that affects the lives of more than 270,000 Buckeyes. Ohio's concealed-handgun license law turned 8 years old on that Sunday afternoon. Notably absent from the festivities were...

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Local Food Banks Benefit from Generosity of Ohio Hunters

3:00pm Monday, April 30, 2012

COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio deer hunters donated more than 104,400 pounds of venison to local food banks through the 2011-12 deer hunting season, according to Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry (FHFH) and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The venison donation equals approximately 417,600 meals for Ohioans in need. A total of 2,088 deer were donated during this...

How criminals get their guns

1:33pm Monday, April 30, 2012

The following article was originally published by The Lima News . Republished with permission. by Greg Sowinski LIMA - At a shooting inside a Lima bar earlier this month that injured four, police found an expensive handgun. Officers traced the gun to a burglary in American Township in the past year. The two men charged in connection with the shooting at Marko's bar on South Main Street were...

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Canadian Shooting Sports Association: "Long-gun registry finally destined for scrap heap of history"

3:00pm Friday, April 27, 2012

OTTAWA -- Good riddance to the long-gun registry -- possibly the most unfair and useless legislation ever to have been passed by Parliament of Canada. In the wake of many hours of debate and anti-gun rhetoric from the opposition and lobbyists, the Conservative party has successfully laid the registry to rest with Royal Assent on Bill C-19. Few issues have prompted so many Canadians to sound off...

Ohio concealed handgun licenses numbers on the rise, but opponents of reforms remain despite success of program

7:00am Friday, April 27, 2012

by Chad D. Baus The Dayton Daily News is reporting that in the eight years since Ohio passed a concealed weapons law, county sheriffs have issued 296,588 concealed handgun licenses, with more than half of those coming since President Barack Obama was elected. Despite the obvious popularity and success of the law, the DDN provides quotes from local law enforcement bureaucrats who are expressing...

Ohio's Spring Turkey Season Underway

3:00pm Thursday, April 26, 2012

Ashtabula County leads harvest on opening day COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio hunters harvested a preliminary total of 2,227 bearded wild turkeys on the first day of the spring turkey-hunting season, which is open statewide through May 20, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. In 2011, a preliminary total of 2,646 wild turkeys were killed on opening day. Top...

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Another Ohio homeowner exercises self-defense right by shooting would-be robber during home invasion

7:00am Thursday, April 26, 2012

by Chad D. Baus WEWS (ABC Cleveland) is reporting that a homeowner shot a man who broke into his house on Mardale Avenue around 11 a.m. Wednesday. From the article : Police at the scene said it appears the robber tried breaking into a neighbor's home first, but couldn't get inside. That's when they think the robber broke out a kitchen window at a home next door in the 5300 block of Mardale Avenue...