Parker case now known as “Heller” as it is appealed to U.S. Supreme Court

UPDATE: Editor's Note - The official name of the case remains Parker vs. District of Columbia . Due to legal technicalities we will not know what the Supreme Court case will be called until first or second week of November 2007. The anti-gun side will be referring to it as Heller because they don't like being in the position of having to attack Parker, an African-American woman. By Tim Inwood For...

Op-Ed: HR 2640 - Sensible Solution or Trojan Horse?

By Clayton E. Cramer My last two columns addressed the problem of psychosis, violence and gun control. This column is about HR 2640, a mental illness and gun control bill currently before Congress that has split the gun rights community more than I can ever recall seeing. Click 'Read More' for additional excerpts. What does HR 2640 purport to do? (Remember that I am talking about the HR 2640 as...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. fundraiser: Advanced Pistol Fighting Level II

Who: Innovative Tactical Concepts, LLC Brian LaMaster, instructor www.right2defend.com What: Advanced Pistol Fighting Level II class When: November 3 - 4, 2007 Where: Western Licking County, Central Ohio Why: 1) Because training is fun, and could save your life. 2) It's a fundraiser for Buckeye Firearms Association! Cost: $250 per participant for both days (a $50 savings) NOTE: Limited to the...

Interview: The Way of the Gun

Meet Dr. Robert Levy, the lawyer whose Second Amendment challenge to D.C.’s strict gun laws could deal a death blow to gun control nationwide. By Leigh Ferrara A little more than a month before Cho Seung-Hui went on a murderous rampage at Virginia Tech, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling in a landmark gun rights case, Parker v. District of Columbia , repealing the District’s...

'Enough is Enough': While Washington Vacations, a War Rages Here at Home

By Newt Gingrich HumanEvents.com I was just about to speak to the Republican gathering in Ames, Iowa, Saturday when I learned something so distressing that it caused me to change the topic of my speech. By now you have heard about the three young college students who were murdered execution-style in Newark, N.J., last week. Another student was shot in the head but survived. What you might not...

Op-ed: Thugs find it more difficult if populace is armed

By Charl Van Wyck A gunman opened fire in the sanctuary of a southwest Missouri, USA, church Sunday Aug. 12, 2007, killing a pastor and two worshippers and wounding several others. My condolences go out to the local congregation, friends and family of the worshippers who were holding the service at the First Congregational Church. This abominable act is not the first time that churchgoers have...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

By Chris Chumita There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are all worthy of mention. What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens. From another shooting in a church to a cocaine shortage in Cleveland, these articles should be a part of your required...

The Unabridged Second Amendment

The following was originally published in 1991 by the Second Amendment Foundation's The New Gun Week magazine. by J. Neil Schulman If you wanted to know all about the Big Bang, you'd ring up Carl Sagan, right? And if you wanted to know about desert warfare, the man to call would be Norman Schwartzkopf, no question about it. But who would you call if you wanted the top expert on American usage, to...

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