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...

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...

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...

Latta Vice Chair of Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus

7:00am Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Congressman Bob Latta (R- Bowling Green) was named a Vice-Chairman for the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus for the upcoming 112th Congress. "I would like to thank Congressman Jeff Miller for this opportunity to serve the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus in the next Congress. Sportsmen and sportswomen issues are important for me as a public servant. I look forward to working with all members of...

Gahanna Considers Allowing Gun Training In Parks

3:00pm Monday, December 13, 2010
Columbus' 10TV is reporting that the Gahanna City Council is considering legislation that would allow weapons training in public parks. From the story: Hannah Park, located off of Clark State Road, is one of two places where the city could allow weapons training. The park is not isolated; homes surround the park just outside of its boundaries and residents said they are concerned. Undeveloped...

November sees 9.7% in firearms sales checks over same month last year

7:00am Monday, December 13, 2010
The FBI has released its National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figures for November 2010. NSSF-adjusted figures (945,463) show a 9.7 percent increase over NSSF-adjusted figures from November 2009 (861,575). The adjusted NICS data were derived by NSSF by subtracting out NICS purpose-code permit checks used by several states such as Kentucky and Utah for CCW permit application...

Tuscarawas County Leads 2010 Deer-gun Harvest

3:00pm Friday, December 10, 2010
Hunters still have a weekend of deer-gun hunting, December 18-19 Ohio hunters took 104,442 white-tailed deer during the state's popular, week-long deer-gun season, which ran November 29 through December 5, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. In 2009, hunters killed a preliminary total of 114,633 deer during the same time period. Counties reporting...

NICS Black Friday outage

3:00pm Friday, December 10, 2010
An outage of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) adversely affected many retailers and consumers on Black Friday. NSSF has been in contact with FBI-NICS staff, who explained that the outage was attributable to a computer glitch that overloaded the system. A short-term fix has been applied to the system and once the holiday season is over, a long-term fix will be completed...

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