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Federal Judge Hands Huge Defeat to Florida Business Lobby on "Guns-at-Work" law

The Florida Chamber of Commerce and The Florida Retail Federation argued for three years that business owners had an absolute right to control their employees. That's why they kept calling it the "take-your-guns-to-work" legislation. They claimed they could search employee vehicles and ban firearms from those vehicles in the employer's parking lot. They claimed businesses didn't care if customers...

Post-Heller Congressional Action On "Second Amendment Enforcement Act"

...Following the Supreme Court's favorable Heller decision, city officials in Washington, D.C. have been planning to obstruct D.C. citizens from exercising their right to keep and bear arms, despite the Supreme Court's clear statements. And some in Congress are planning to do something about it. On Thursday [July 10], Representative Mark Souder (R-Ind.) introduced H. Res. 1331, a rule to govern...

Headline: Second Amendment Talk Highlights First Shot Ceremony

The Ottawa County Beacon is reporting that attendees to the First Shot Ceremony for the 2008 National Rifle and Pistol Championships at Camp Perry were treated to more than just a band concert, a parachute jump that delivered the American Flag and a fly-over by a pair of F-16's from the 180th Ohio National Guard Tactical Fighter Wing from Toledo. They were also treated to a celebration of the...

Dept. of Interior stalls decision for Right-to-Carry in National Parks and Wildlife Refuges

Department of the Interior Extends Deadline for Comments Regarding Right-to-Carry in National Parks and Wildlife Refuges Until August 8 Like a quarterback taking a knee in the fourth quarter, two of Congress's most ardent opponents of our Right to Keep and Bear Arms are trying to run out the clock on efforts to enhance your right to self-defense in our national parks and wildlife refuges. For two...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc.'s Ken Hanson receives NRA-ILA Defender of Justice Award

Chris Conte-NRA-ILA, Ken Hanson-BFA The National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) has awarded Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson, Esq. with its Defender of Justice Award. The award, which was given at the NRA's Annual Meetings in Louisville, KY, recognizes Hanson for his extensive pro-bono work to improve and defend gun rights. Attorney Ken...

Gun groups file Second Amendment lawsuits in Illinois and California following Supreme Court ruling

Compiled from NRA and CCRKBA press releases Following up on [Thursday's] Supreme Court ruling that the Second Amendment protects a private right to possess firearms that is not limited to militia service, the NRA [Friday] filed five lawsuits challenging local gun bans in San Francisco, and in Chicago and several of its suburbs. “The Supreme Court held yesterday that the Second Amendment right is...

Ohio is home to America's "World Series of Shooting Sports"

By Chad D. Baus Each summer, the world's finest civilian and military marksmen and women square off for five weeks of rifle and handgun competition in a variety of formats and events right here in the Buckeye State. This year marks the 101st running of the National Matches, for which so many shooters have embarked on an annual pilgrimage to Camp Perry, Ohio, on the shores of Lake Erie near Port...

Forgotten already? John McCain's 2004 vote for the Clinton Gun Ban

By Chad D. Baus I opposed the ban on so-called "assault weapons," which was first proposed after a California schoolyard shooting. - John McCain, NRA Annual Meetings, Louisville, KY, May 16, 2008 To understand just how insulting this statement was to the intelligence of every NRA member present at this year's Annual Meetings , take a short trip in a time machine with me, back to good ol' 2004...

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