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Get your application in for the NRA Youth Education Summit

3:00pm Thursday, January 31, 2013
Fairfax, Virginia - This year's Youth Education Summit looked like they had a lot of fun, didn't they? For all you high school Sophomores and Juniors out there, YOU could be a part of next year's week-long trip to Washington, D.C. The NRA is currently accepting applications for the 2013 National Youth Education Summit - a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The summit doesn't take place until Monday,...

WHIO-TV (CBS Dayton) admits awareness of anti-gun protestor's status as a convicted rapist; Other news outlets remain silent

12:00pm Thursday, January 31, 2013
by Chad D. Baus On Wednesday, we reported on the fact that Dayton anti-gun protestor Jerome McCorry, who had staged a small protest outside Bill Goodman's Gun & Knife Show over the weekend and received generous media attention, is also a convicted rapist. Courtesy of DomesticDebacle.com We also pointed out that, despite this fact, media outlets like the Dayton Daily News and WHIO-TV (CBS...

If armed school security won't work, where are all the mass shootings at armed schools?

7:00am Thursday, January 31, 2013
by Jeff Riley Buried in a recent article in The New York Times dismissing armed security at schools is a bit of pro-gun truth, proving if you go looking hard enough, you can eventually find the truth in the most unlikely places. From the article : Nationwide, at least 23,000 schools — about one-third of all public schools — already had armed security on staff as of the most recent data, for the...

Castle Doctrine continues to work in Ohio: 1 dead, 4 jailed after failed robbery

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Wednesday, January 30, 2013
WDTN (NBC Dayton) is reporting that one man is dead and four others are in jail after an attempted home invasion in Fairborn Monday afternoon. From the article : Police responded to the house at 1006 Victoria Avenue around 5 p.m.. after a neighbor heard gunshots called 911. "The resident decided to fight back and shot two of the men," said Sergeant Paul Hicks, with the Fairborn Police Department...

Atty. Gen. Mike DeWine issues letter debunking claim made by Ohio School Board Assoc. attorney re: legality of armed teachers

12:00pm Wednesday, January 30, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Although many have been calling for armed protection in schools for some time, in the immediate aftermath of the horrific events in Newtown, CT last month, the calls grew much, much louder, and began coming from more places. In Buckeye Firearms Association's first statements about the attack at Sandy Hook Elementary, Chairman Jim Irvine wrote an article entitled " Our children are...

Convicted rapist organizes gun control demonstration at Dayton gun show; Media fails to note his sex offender status

7:00am Wednesday, January 30, 2013
by Chad D. Baus This past weekend, a small group of perhaps a dozen protesters gathered outside Dayton's Hara Arena to protest the sale of modern sporting rifles at Bill Goodman's Gun and Knife Show. From the article : "We know that guns are being sold on the floor inside Hara Arena illegally" said Jerome McCorry. "No background checks no identification of any kind." McCorry said "AK-47s and M16s...

Op-Ed: The AR-15 - The Gun Liberals Love to Hate

3:00pm Tuesday, January 29, 2013
by David Keene Politician after politician have joined the television talking heads in calling for a new "assault weapons ban" patterned after the ten-year Clinton ban that was allowed to lapse in 2004 after Justice Department and private studies concluded it had no impact whatsoever on murder and violent crime rates and had become a symbol of wrong-headed governmental attempts to restrict...

"Universal Background Checks" – Absolutely Not

7:00am Tuesday, January 29, 2013
by Marion P. Hammer Imagine a grandfather who wants to give a family shotgun to his 12-year-old grandson having to do a background check on his grandson before giving him the shotgun. Or a friend having to do a background check on his lifetime best buddy before lending him a hunting rifle. Or, if your mother had a prowler at her home, having to do a background check on your own Mom before you...

Survey finds NRA members united

3:00pm Monday, January 28, 2013
91% of NRA Members Support Laws to Stop Mentally Ill from Acquiring Firearms FAIRFAX, Va. – The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action conducted a national scientific poll of its members and found near unanimity among NRA members on a wide range of issues involving mental health reform and firearm rights. Gun control advocates including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg,...

Gun owners: The time to stand up is now!

12:00pm Monday, January 28, 2013
Editor's Note: This op-ed was originally published at WorldNetDaily.com . by Gerard Valentino There have been times the pro-gun lobby looked irrelevant in America and when it looked like the private ownership of firearms was going to be relegated to the historical scrap heap. This is not that time. There was a time when owning a gun in American was seen as a sign of being socially backward, and...

Why am I being punished?

7:00am Monday, January 28, 2013
by Tim Inwood What crime have I committed? Under what legal concept am I guilty? Seriously, what did I have to do with the tragedy in Newtown? I did not know the shooter or his family, never have been to the town. In fact, I have no connection to any of the school shootings in this nation's history. However, as an American who chooses to own semi-automatic firearms, I and millions like me are...

Feinstein calls for banning more than 150 types of firearms; Government officials would be exempt

3:00pm Friday, January 25, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The Daily Caller is reporting that California Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) staged a press conference Thursday on Capitol Hill with 10 weapons at her side and unveiled legislation instituting a government ban on more than 150 types of firearms, including rifles, pistols and shotguns. From the article : Flanked by other anti-gun liberal lawmakers, including New York Sen. Chuck Schumer...

Op-ed: Gun control is about control, not guns

12:00pm Friday, January 25, 2013
2nd Amendment is a check on government power by Thomas Lucente There is one truism that should not be forgotten in the national conversation on guns: Even if you repeal the Second Amendment it will have no affect on my God-given natural right to keep and bear arms. That is because rights are not political grants from government. Rights are inalienable gifts from Providence. We possess them by...

The True Source Of Random & Mass Shootings And Violence?

7:00am Friday, January 25, 2013
Why are politicians focusing on the tools mass murderers use instead of on how society may be creating its own monsters with the prevalent use of psychiatric and psychotropic drugs in children? Whether the mass murderers were on their medication at the time of their acts, or had stopped taking them, the following medical and psychiatric professionals believe the drugs are to blame, not the tools...

The Show Not Attended [UPDATE - Show "Postponed"]

3:00pm Thursday, January 24, 2013
by Jim Shepherd As fallout from Reed Exhibition's decision to ban anything related to the modern sporting rifle from their Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show continues, it appears the show will be lacking many of the brand names and outdoor faces the more than 200,000 annual visitors normally expect. Large and small, companies have been withdrawing at an increasingly faster pace. Notifications have...

More than 200 exhibitors withdraw from PA outdoor show after organizer bans modern sporting rifles

12:00pm Thursday, January 24, 2013
OutdoorLife.com is reporting that, by mid-day on Jan. 23, more than 200 exhibitors -- and counting -- had withdrawn from the Eastern Sports and Outdoors Show, Pennsylvania's largest annual outdoor sports show, following event organizer Reed Exhibitions' decision to ban the display and sale of modern sporting rifles and standard-capacity magazines. [UPDATE: Show "postponed" ] From the article :...

Pathetic dog and pony show

7:00am Thursday, January 24, 2013
by Tim Inwood The NRA ran an ad pointing out the hypocrisy of the Administration opposing armed guards for our nation's schools while the President's children had armed security at theirs. Within hours the President's spokesman Jay Carney attacked the ad, complaining it was unfair to use the President's children as political pawns. I found the hypocrisy of this statement too much to swallow, as...

Op-Ed: Gun control has a clear record of failure

3:00pm Wednesday, January 23, 2013
by Tom Gresham In the wake of the horrific murders at the Sandy Hook school in Connecticut, America has been deluged with calls for ever-more-restrictive gun-control laws, and that's understandable. It's natural to think that's the solution if you don't know these measures have been tried and have always failed. We crave a solution so much that we'll ignore the record and keep repeating failed...

Northwest Ohio law enforcement say Obama 'playing politics' with gun-control plan

7:00am Wednesday, January 23, 2013
The following article was originally published by The Lima News . Republished with permission. by Greg Sowinski The new gun-control measures proposed by President Obama are more about playing politics than they are about finding solutions for keeping children safe. That is the view of law enforcement leaders, a prosecutor and gun-rights supporters after hearing details of Obama's much anticipated...

Second Amendment supporters gather at central Ohio events

3:00pm Tuesday, January 22, 2013
by Aaron Kirkingburg & Chad D. Baus The past two weekends have been busy ones for Second Amendment advocates in the central Ohio area. On Sunday, January 13, Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) held a central Ohio meet and greet at Stacy's Homestyle Buffet in Heath. Around 100 people attended the event, which kicked off at 4:00 p.m. with some good food and great conversation. In attendance...

Project Veritas exposes journalist hypocrisy on issue of publishing lists of gun owners

7:00am Tuesday, January 22, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Project Veritas, whose mission is to investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions in order to achieve a more ethical and transparent society, recently released a video dealing with the release of gun owners' personal information by Gannett Company's The Journal News of White Plains, New York...

Why Ohio Police Chief's' War On Law Abiding Gun Owners Is Asinine

by John Salyers
3:00pm Monday, January 21, 2013
And why John Gilchrist, Esq. Legislative Counsel and professional/paid lobbyist for the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) fits the following definition to the letter. as·i·nine [as-uh-nahyn] adjective 1.foolish, unintelligent, or silly; stupid: "It is surprising that supposedly intelligent people can make such asinine statements." 2. of or like an ass: asinine obstinacy; asinine...

There is a reason legislators ignored the Chicken Little objections of certain law enforcement organizations on HB495

7:00am Monday, January 21, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Lost in all the attention being rightly given to the mass murder in Connecticut one month ago was the Ohio legislature's passage of yet another bill designed to improve the state's concealed carry law. The few news articles written to cover passage of HB495 (Reciprocity & Concealed Carry Modernization), which passed the day before the horrific events in Newtown, CT, were quick...

Headline: Ky. Rep. Thomas Massie proposes repeal of federal Gun Free School Zone Act

3:00pm Friday, January 18, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WCPO (ABC Cincinnati) reported recently that Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie has introduced a bill that would repeal the Gun Free School Zone Act and allow people to bring guns into schools. From the article : Massie, a Republican representing Kentucky's 4th District and Rep. Steve Stockman (R) of Texas introduced the measure on the first day of the new Congress. On the same...

Broad Coalition of Gun Rights, Conservative Groups Proclaim January 19 “Gun Appreciation Day”

12:00pm Friday, January 18, 2013
Washington, D.C. – A new coalition of gun rights and conservative groups has proclaimed January 19, 2013, "Gun Appreciation Day" and begun urging Americans nationwide to show their support for gun ownership by turning out en masse at gun stores, ranges, and shows from coast to coast. Scheduled to send a message to Washington two days before Obama’s second inauguration, the "Gun Appreciation Day"...

Sheriff: Butler County schools to have armed substitute teacher

7:00am Friday, January 18, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The Dayton Daily News is reporting that Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones has announced a retired officer will serve in Butler County schools as an armed substitute teacher. From the article : "It is basically a two-for-one," Jones said. The man sworn in this afternoon is Scott Miller, a retired Mason police officer. Miller was not employed as a teacher but is now trained as...

Ohio media outlet releases name of teacher authorized to go armed at Orrville City Schools

3:00pm Thursday, January 17, 2013
by Chad D. Baus When Williams Co., Ohio's Montpelier Schools Board of Education made the announcement that they would allow certain employees to carry concealed in the school as a part of their security plans, we noted that the school was not the first school in Ohio to allow certain members of its staff to go armed - rather, they were just the first to announce the decision publicly. There are...

Obama's 23 Executive Orders translated from the formal bureaucratese

12:00pm Thursday, January 17, 2013
Editor's Note: This succinct, pithy analysis of Barack Obama's 23 Executive Orders was posted yesterday on the Internet and has quickly gone viral. The original author appears to be this blogger . [UPDATE: According to multiple sources, the President did not, as was widely reported, sign executive orders, but rather executive actions and presidential memoranda .] So Obama released his Executive...

Deceptive Mayors Against Illegal Guns Campaign Prompts No Concern from Ohio Members

7:00am Thursday, January 17, 2013
by Jason Hart Ohio members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) appear unconcerned that the group's latest campaign suggests more gun control would have prevented the recent school shooting in Connecticut. Media Trackers contacted thirteen of the Ohio mayors listed as members of MAIG, offering a chance to comment on the "Demand A Plan" campaign, but only two mayors have responded in over two...

Obama signs 23 executive orders, demands $4.5 billion in new spending on gun control

3:00pm Wednesday, January 16, 2013
President also launches campaign to force Congress to renew the ban on so-called "assault weapons" and standard capacity ammunition magazines [UPDATE: According to multiple sources, the President did not, as was widely reported, sign executive orders, but rather executive actions and presidential memoranda .] by Chad D. Baus The Weekly Standard is reporting that the proposals President Obama and...

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