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Plain Dealer overlooks HB9 in calls for Home Rule-inspired vetos

12:15am Tuesday, December 19, 2006

By Chad D. Baus The Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial page is at it again, writing about legislation we have good reason to believe they've never read. This time, in addition to even more blather about why having one set of rules in the State of Ohio for gun owners is a bad idea, they're whining about legislation which would regulate the use of privacy-invading cameras that are used to find...

Hanson does Blackwater USA: DAY 2

12:10am Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson recently attend Blackwater USA ’s 5 day pistol/carbine class. While attending class, Ken kept a blog of his experiences. Since most visitors to this site take training very seriously, we thought you would enjoy his ramblings. Ken's five day experience will be published on this website on Tuesdays and Thursdays through the end of the month...

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Veto Over-ride And The Big City Mayors

12:15am Monday, December 18, 2006

Editor's Note: The following op-ed is written in response to this Dayton Daily News story entitled "Officials decry gun law, home-rule threat" By Larry S. Moore Mayor McLin and other big-city Ohio mayors are experiencing angst over the recent over ride of Governor Taft’s veto of HB 347. They are spewing forth venom at the legislators and gun owners while spreading dis-information to the public...

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A look back at the Alrosa murders, from someone who was there

12:10am Monday, December 18, 2006

By Linda Walker Dec. 8, 2004 is a date that is emblazoned, in the minds of many central Ohio individuals, as the night that the Alrosa Villa nightclub came under attack by a deranged man by the name of Nathan Gale. Several people died that night as the metal band Damageplan took to the stage. Gale had stalked Daryl "Dimebag" Abbott for several months, supposedly because he was upset that Abbott's...

Senate passes HB 9, attempts to clean up media access loophole

12:35pm Friday, December 15, 2006

By Chad D. Baus Little noticed after the first veto-override in more than a quarter-century was Senate passage of House Bill 9, the public records bill, which contains an attempt by the legislature to clarify its intent for giving journalists access to records of concealed handgun license-holders. On Wednesday, December 13, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice, chaired by Sen. David...

BILL OF RIGHTS DAY - December 15th, 2006

12:15am Friday, December 15, 2006

By Rick Jones and Larry Moore As the old saying goes, “if you don’t know your rights, you don’t have any”. In today’s society of hustle and bustle one really doesn’t take the time to really think about what their rights are. We take these rights for granted. Just about everyone knows what the First Amendment to the Constitution is, freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and freedom to...

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Media temper tantrums in full swing over HB347

12:10am Friday, December 15, 2006

The temper tantrums of the anti-gun media elites are in full swing following the override of Bob Taft's veto of HB347. Akron Beacon Journal: Gunning to be mayor : Jim Irvine, the chairman of the Buckeye Firearms Association, applauded the Ohio Senate for joining the House in overriding Gov. Bob Taft's veto of legislation concerning the carrying of concealed weapons. He added that lawmakers...

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Plain Dealer journalist "in closest touch" proven out of touch on HB347

12:15am Thursday, December 14, 2006

By Chad D. Baus On December 4, I wrote an article drawing attention to two editorials in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In the first editorial, dated August 7, the editorial board endorsed the idea of statewide preemption of local gun laws, saying: This page continues to look skeptically on concealed carry, but consistency in the form of statewide, uniform standards makes more sense than a confusing...