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NRA-ILA: ONE MORE PUSH TO END THE CLINTON GUN BAN

September 9, 2004 With only five days to go before the September 13th expiration of the 1994 Clinton gun ban, anti-gun activists across the nation are making a last stand to re-enact this ineffective legislation. But now time is running out. Congress is only in session three more days before the sunset, and because time is short, anti-gunners will be redoubling their efforts to extend the ban...

Ohio CCW fight is feature story in latest NRA America’s 1st Freedom magazine

Ohio’s Legal Logjam by Blaine Smith, Assistant Editor, America's 1st Freedom December 2003 With the Ohio Supreme Court letting stand a ban on the right to carry, the ongoing fight for the rights of Ohio citizens is being waged in the state’s legislature. And neither side looks ready to give in. Late September 2003 found the Ohio Supreme Court overturning previous rulings by a Hamilton County...

Bloomberg anti-gun group all smoke and mirrors

"What exactly happens when you throw a political rally an no one shows up - except your opposition?" WBNS (CBS Columbus) 10TV's Jim Heath says the question was answered at a rally organized by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) and President Obama's Organizing For Action (OFA) in Columbus on Friday... Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) plays a good PR game...

Message to Ohio gun owners: Telling the "embarrassing" truth about a Republican could cost you

"I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!" - Warren G. Harding For the volunteer leaders at Buckeye Firearms Association, 2010 was one of the more interesting election years in this political action committee's history. While BFA is now and always has been a non-...

Anti-Gun DeWine Throws 'Hail Mary' Gun Mailers

by Chad D. Baus & Ken Hanson They haven't come right out and said it, but judging by two election eve mailers, anti-gun Attorney General candidate Mike DeWine and his cousin Kevin, who chairs the Ohio Republican Party, hope and believe gun owners are idiots. Conspicuously absent from almost all DeWine for Attorney General general election campaigning to date is any mention of firearm/hunting/...

NRA announces endorsement of Ted Strickland for Governor

The Associated Press is reporting that the National Rifle Association publicly endorsed Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland today in his race against Republican John Kasich. According to the article, Strickland accepted the endorsement at a Monday event at a sporting goods store in Proctorville, near the Ohio-West Virginia border, which the NRA publicized to its members over the weekend. The NRA's...

Racist cartoon attacking NRA over terror watch list presents fear, not fact

A recent political cartoon run in several Central Ohio newspapers shows the severity of the anti-gun bias prevalent in the establishment media. The cartoon depicts a man wearing an NRA armband handing a rifle to a stereotype caricature of what is presumed to be a Muslim terrorist. Under the picture are the words "NRA fights effort to deny guns to people on terrorist watch list." ( Click here to...

Op-Ed: Does a parking lot have more rights than you do?

by Chris W. Cox NRA-ILA Executive Director Silly question, I know. But your NRA-ILA is fighting against huge corporate conglomerates who argue that the rights of a humble patch of asphalt outside a business trump yours. They argue that companies can void the rights of law-abiding citizens on company property, even if the property is open to the general public. If you stop at a grocery store, for...

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