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HB 234 (Allow Noise Suppressors While Hunting) scheduled for possible vote in House committee

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Monday, March 10, 2014
Chairman David Hall has announced that the House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee will be hearing all testimony on Representative Cheryl Grossman's (R-Grove City) HB 234 Tuesday March 11, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. in Statehouse Room 116. This will be the fourth hearing for this important bill. Chairman Hall has indicated that an amendment may be offered before a possible vote is held...

Anti-Gun Groups Fail to Remove Second Amendment Content from Facebook

7:00am Monday, March 10, 2014
In recent months, anti-gun groups such as Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), the Brady Campaign and others have been putting increasing pressure on Facebook (and its associated platform, Instagram) to prohibit any online content that references the private sale of firearms. The demands to Facebook were based on the false premise that guns were being sold illegally through these forums simply...

LaPierre Blasts Mainstream Media, Administration at CPAC

The Outdoor Wire
3:00pm Friday, March 07, 2014
Editor's Note: As an Official NRA News Partner, we broadcast the speech live. If you missed it, you can watch a replay by clicking here . "A little over a year ago, I offered the answer for school violence," said the NRA's Wayne LaPierre, "and the media elite called every nasty name imaginable. Fortunately, Americans disagreed." That was the opening shot, and LaPierre never stopped firing at the...

Will you survive a gunfight?

by Gary Evens
7:00am Friday, March 07, 2014
That is a difficult question to answer. Most individuals that are concerned about their personal safety to the extent that they have obtained a concealed handgun license feel they are adequately trained to deal with a hostile encounter should they be confronted with one. Unfortunately nothing could be further from the truth. Greg Ellifritz, writing on the Buckeye Firearms Association website,...

Headline: Ohio State pistol team finding success shooting ‘in relative obscurity’

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Thursday, March 06, 2014
The Ohio State University's campus newspaper, The Lantern , is reporting on the undefeated OSU pistol team's final preparations for the 2014 NRA Intercollegiate Pistol Championships March 8-13. From the article : In 15 years as the head coach, James Sweeney has led the pistol team to five national titles and coached seven student-athletes to 23 NRA collegiate individual championships, including...

Why we have no tolerance for ''zero tolerance''

by Ken Hanson & Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, March 06, 2014
You can relax! Thanks to quick and decisive action, a 10 year-old menace will no longer be stalking his next victim within the halls of Columbus City Schools, at least for a while. Thank you, zero tolerance, for removing this predator. In case you missed the original story , a Columbus fifth-grader has been suspended from school for pointing a “level 2 lookalike firearm” (that is public school...

Op-Ed: Dumbing Down UC Davis

by Chuck Michel
3:00pm Wednesday, March 05, 2014
When a researcher’s opening remarks are a demonstrable lie, you tend to disbelieve everything they say afterward. So naturally we are discussing Garen Wintemute, the stoat-faced director of UC Davis’ Violence Prevention Research Program. To create a false controversy in an effort to generate attention for Wintemute’s latest alleged research effort, a few news organizations (I stumbled across the...

Rapes and robberies on Ohio college campuses highlight fallacy of "no-guns" zones

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Recent incidents of violence on two of Ohio's largest college campuses are once again drawing attention to the plight of our state's defenseless college students. On the campus of The Ohio State University, The Lantern is reporting that University Police issued a public safety notice regarding a reported rape in an on-campus residence hall. From the article : Recent information about the rape,...

Op-Ed: Obama’s surgeon general nominee Dr. Vivek Murthy is a radical gun grabber

by Emily Miller
3:00pm Tuesday, March 04, 2014
President Obama is using every executive power in his arsenal to infringe on Second Amendment rights. His latest maneuver is to nominate a rabidly anti-gun doctor to be the next U.S. surgeon general. Dr. Vivek Murthy is facing Senate approval in upcoming weeks. Dr. Murthy is the 36-year-old president and co-founder of Doctors for America, a group that advocates for Obamacare and gun control laws...

Former Bloomberg ally confirms ‘Mayors’ group’s goal is gun confiscation

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, March 04, 2014
Via an op-ed published by the Poughkeepsie Journal , Poughkeepsie, NY Mayor John Tkazyik has confirmed what readers of BuckeyeFirearms.org have known for quite some time - billionaire Michael Bloomberg's "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" is after far more than just "bring[ing] attention to the problem of illegal guns." From the op-ed : I’m the mayor of one of the largest cities in the Hudson Valley,...

California Carry Restrictions Ruled Unconstitutional

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Monday, March 03, 2014
But the wheels of justice are likely to turn slowly Citizens have a right to bear arms outside the home for self-defense, says a three-judge panel of the Federal Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. They ruled that California’s restrictive system banning most open carry and severely restricting concealed carry is in violation of the Second Amendment. That’s good news, but Californians shouldn’t...

2013 Attorney General Summary on Concealed Carry: Record 89% Increase in Ohio Concealed Handgun Licenses

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Monday, March 03, 2014
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the Concealed Handgun License (CHL) statistics for the fourth quarter of 2013 and the annual report. It was a record-setting year, ending with over 400,000 Ohioans licensed to carry concealed handguns. New records were set for the initial licenses issued and most licenses renewed in a year. Demand for CHLs finished the year strong. It was the...

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