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Op-Ed: It’s Not About Stand Your Ground

3:00pm Friday, March 30, 2012
We should reserve judgment, but it seems that Zimmerman acted lawfully. by John R. Lott Jr. President Obama, Jesse Jackson, and others have chosen to personalize the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., highlighting the racial issues by expressing concern for people who look like they do or live where "blacks are under attack." Many conservatives and liberals have also already concluded...

Canton police officer who threatened to execute concealed carry licensee is trying to get his job back

7:00am Friday, March 30, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The Canton Repository is reporting that notorious Canton Police Officer Daniel Harless, who was fired after being caught on his own police dash cam video last June verbally assaulting a concealed carry license holder and threatening to "execute" him, is trying to get his job back. From the article : Patrolman Daniel Harless is proceeding with the arbitration process, said Kristen...

Armed robbery at "no-guns" Applebee's

3:00pm Thursday, March 29, 2012
WSYX (ABC Columbus) is reporting that a gunmen held up the employees at the Applebee's on Morse Rd. near Easton about 1:45 a.m. last Wednesday. What the report doesn't mention is the fact that this Applebee's, along with others in Ohio, posted "no-guns" signs in response to the passage of Ohio's restaurant Carry bill last year. From the article : The restaurant was closed at the time when the...

Confirmed: Anti-gun groups used Ohio school spree killing to grow their email list

7:00am Thursday, March 29, 2012
This article was originally published at the ThirdBasePolitics blog . Republished with permission. by Nick Mascari One month ago we all witnessed the terrible tragedy that claimed three lives in Chardon. While most of the state was mourning, we saw a suspicious website pop up almost immediately. Anti-gun group Ohio Ceasefire has created a website for people to send their thoughts and prayers to...

Representative Terry Johnson introduces HB495 (Reciprocity & Concealed Carry Modernization)

by Jim Irvine
3:22pm Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Representative Terry Johnson (R-McDermott) has introduced HB495, a bill designed to reform Ohio concealed carry law to protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners and continue a trend toward making Ohio law similar to other states. Currently, the gun laws in the Ohio Revised Code contain a number of ambiguities, and a number of "poison pill" provisions that have created confusion for law-abiding...

Legislator: Trayvon Martin case doesn't appear to apply to Stand Your Ground law I wrote

7:00am Tuesday, March 27, 2012
by Rep. Dennis Baxley The tragic story of Trayvon Martin's death in Sanford, Florida has ignited a great deal of passion and concern regarding the circumstances of his death and the defense applied by the attacker, George Zimmerman. The fact that Trayvon Martin unnecessarily lost his life is troubling and an investigation into the surrounding circumstances is certainly warranted. First of all I'd...

Voters approve concealed carry ordinance in Pike County, Illinois

7:00am Monday, March 26, 2012
PASA Park, Barry, IL -- In the election held Tuesday, March 20, 2012, the voters of Pike County, Illinois, approved a firearms concealed-carry ordinance by a 3,214 to 550 margin. It was one of the largest voter turnouts in county history. The ordinance directly contradicts current Illinois state law. As presented on the ballot, the ordinance took effect upon passage, and applies only to Pike...

Gun Show Fever! (It all began in Ohio)

7:00am Friday, March 23, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The latest issue of the NRA's American Hunter magazine features an interesting article by Philip Schreier, senior curator at the National Firearms Museum in suburban Washington D.C. Entitled "Gun Show Fever!," the article celebrates the sights, sounds and smells, the excitement and celebration of freedom that are today's gun show. From the article: The great thing about gun shows...

Ohio Sportsmen and Women Encouraged to Participate in Survey

3:00pm Thursday, March 22, 2012
Deer and turkey hunters' input sought on Ohio's automated game-check system COLUMBUS, OH - The Ohio Department of Natural Resources' (ODNR) Division of Wildlife invites anglers, hunters and trappers to visit www.wildohio.com to take a new online survey. The online survey asks fishing and hunting license buyers to provide feedback on their experience with the newly implemented license sales system...

Two versions of National Right To Carry legislation introduced in U.S. Senate

7:00am Thursday, March 22, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The National Rifle Association reported on March 13 that U.S. Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) have introduced S. 2188, the "National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2012." According to the press release, the bill is the Senate companion to H. R. 822, which was approved by the U. S. House last November by a vote of 272-154. S. 2188, like H.R. 822...

Hunting Heritage Trust/NSSF® Study: Youth Who Hunt and Shoot Can Positively Influence Peers

3:00pm Wednesday, March 21, 2012
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The more familiar youth are with individuals their own age who hunt and target shoot, the more likely they will be to support and participate in these activities. This key finding and others come from a major new research project commissioned by the Hunting Heritage Trust and National Shooting Sports Foundation® to determine the impact of peer influence on youth participation in...

DeWine says 2012 is final year as Ohio Republican Party chair; Will anti-gun Betty Montgomery take his place?

7:00am Wednesday, March 21, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that Kevin DeWine, who was elected unanimously as chairman of the Ohio Republican Party in 2009 after receiving the endorsement of former chairman Bob Bennett, and who was re-elected unanimously in 2011, has announced he will not run for re-election at the end of his current two-year term, which ends in December. Despite having achieved a...

Op-Ed: If lead bullets are banned, it could compromise self-defense

3:00pm Tuesday, March 20, 2012
by John Lott Lead poisoning from bullets? Sounds scary, but the push by the Center for Biological Diversity in a petition to the EPA is nothing new. The claim has been brought up many times, and even the EPA during anti-gun Clinton administration dismissed the fears about traditional, lead ammunition. The lead in ammunition has never been shown to produce any health hazards, but a ban would...

VIDEO: Eric Holder 1995 - We must "brainwash" people against guns

7:00am Tuesday, March 20, 2012
by Chad D. Baus Brietbart.com has unearthed video from a 1995 CSPAN2 broadcast which shows Eric Holder, then a U.S. attorney under President Clinton and now President Obama's Attorney General, calling for a program in America's schools and U.S. media that would "brainwash" people against guns. Holder's Department of Justice is responsible for the ATF "Fast & Furious" gun-running scandal,...

Ohio and Kansas Sign Concealed Carry Reciprocity Agreements

3:00pm Monday, March 19, 2012
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) – Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt have signed an agreement permitting reciprocity between their states for citizens who have valid concealed carry permits. "This agreement between Ohio and Kansas allows Ohioans with valid concealed carry permits the same rights to carry a concealed handgun in the State of Kansas," said Attorney General...

Another accidental firearm fatality prompts question yet again: Who is to blame when children have accidents with guns?

7:00am Monday, March 19, 2012
by Chad D. Baus As the editor of news content at BuckeyeFirearms.org, I peruse a great deal of gun-related news each and every day, and am usually among the first to learn of incidents involving accidental shootings. While nationwide statistics prove that at the same time gun ownership in America is at an all-time high , and firearm accident fatalities are at an all-time low (it is 3 times more...

VICTIM ZONE: Four stabbed at downtown Columbus office building

3:00pm Friday, March 16, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The stabbing of four people in a downtown Columbus office building, and subsequent shooting of the knife-wielding assailant by police, has made national news headlines over the past two days. Glaringly absent from news coverage, however, is any mention of the fact that the building is a "no-guns" zone, thanks to Ohio laws which prohibit concealed carry in government buildings (the...

Important Pro-Gun Legislation to be Introduced in the Ohio House of Representatives

7:00am Friday, March 16, 2012
Please contact your state representative NOW! by Ken Hanson State Representative Terry Johnson (HD-89) is circulating a letter inviting fellow legislators to co-sponsor an important bill he will soon be introducing to address several problems with current gun laws by: Establishing an automatic reciprocity between Ohio and other states that have automatic reciprocity for their concealed handgun...

USSA: Santorum Provides Views on Sportsmen’s Issues

3:00pm Thursday, March 15, 2012
Editor's Note: Although his campaign spending dwarfs Rick Santorum and other challengers, Mitt Romney, the only remaining Republican presidential candidate with an anti-gun record, is struggling to win the votes of more than a third of his party's primary voters in most states. The following interview wasn't released in time to influence voting in Ohio, but it is being offered here as a service...

"No-guns" zone at Afghanistan's Camp Leatherneck: U.S. Marines ordered to disarm before listening to secretary of defense speak

7:00am Thursday, March 15, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The New York Times is reporting that American Marines operating in war-time Afghanistan were ordered to disarm before being allowed to listen to a speech by President Obama's Secretary of Defense, Leon Panneta. From the article : In a sign of the nervousness surrounding the visit, Marines and other troops among the 200 people gathered in a tent at Camp Leatherneck to hear Mr...

Father arrives home to hostage situation, is shot and still manages to return fire and stop his attacker

7:00am Wednesday, March 14, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The Daily Jeffersonian of Cambridge, Ohio is reporting that a hostage situation led to a pair of shootings in Guernsey County's Liberty Township on February 28 and sent two men to the hospital with gunshot wounds. From the article : According to a Southeastern Med spokesperson, the male assailant who allegedly held the second man's family hostage was in "critical" condition...

Op-Ed: Disarming Pilots - Plane Foolish

3:00pm Tuesday, March 13, 2012
by Tracy W. Price In response to the 9/11 attacks, many airline pilots have been trained, deputized as federal law-enforcement officers and armed since 2003. Now the Obama administration wants to gut the program with a 50 percent cut in funding. In defense of the cut, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently told Congress the program is not "risk based," that pilots aren't the last...

Shooting for Liberty - States competing for lowest Brady score

7:00am Tuesday, March 13, 2012
by Jeff Knox The Brady Bunch has released their annual scorecard rating states based on how strict their gun laws are. The scorecard is a very useful tool to help rights groups understand how their state compares to others on a liberty scale; more points = less liberty. Alaska, Arizona, and Utah have all achieved the coveted Zero Points/Zero Stars on the Brady scale and are now competing to see...

Fight over Tennessee's "Employee Safe Commute bill" provides food for thought for Ohio legislators and business-owners

7:00am Monday, March 12, 2012
The following was prepared by the Tennessee Firearms Association's Legislative Action Committee. Some permit holders and firearms owners are giving pause to support of the Employee Safe Commute bill (SB3002 HB 3560). They are asking questions that some in the legislature who are true conservatives are concerned with. These legislators are not the ones opposing this legislation because Big...

Tony Stewart to chair National Hunting and Fishing Day celebration

3:00pm Friday, March 09, 2012
Springfield, MO--Leading NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver/owner Tony Stewart knows a thing or two about winning championships. As the driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Mobil 1 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Stewart has won 12 driving championships, including three Sprint Cup Series titles, in a career spanning more than three decades. Stewart is a champion off the racetrack as much as...

Canadian dad arrested after 4 year-old daughter draws image of him with a gun

7:00am Friday, March 09, 2012
by Tom Woitovich A Kitchener, Ontario, man was arrested and strip-searched last Wednesday after his 4-year-old daughter drew a picture in school. The picture depicted him with a gun. That's right...his daughter drew a picture of him with a gun. When her teacher asked her what it was that she was drawing, she replied that she was drawing her Daddy "shooting burglars and monsters." The teacher...

Op-Ed: Disarming the Myths Promoted By the Gun Control Lobby

3:00pm Thursday, March 08, 2012
by Larry Bell As much as gun control advocates might wish otherwise, their attacks are running out of ammo. With private firearm ownership at an all-time high and violent crime rates plunging, none of the scary scenarios they advanced have materialized. Abuse of responsibility by armed citizens is rare, while successful defensive interventions against assaults on their lives and property are...

Februrary sees 31.4% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 21st straight month over month increase

7:00am Thursday, March 08, 2012
The February 2012 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,266,344 is an increase of 31.4 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 963,746 in February 2011. For comparison, the unadjusted February 2012 NICS figure of 1,734,646 reflects a 18.6 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,463,138 in February 2011. This marks the 21st straight...

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