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Headline: Minford youth wins Junior World Shoot

3:00pm Thursday, August 16, 2012

The Portsmouth Daily Times is reporting that while some of the top shooters in the world were in London for the 2012 Olympics, a rising star in the sport of skeet shooting was just returning home to Ohio after winning the 2012 Junior World Skeet Championship. From the article : Quinten Smith, a 16-year-old from Minford, traveled to Stockton, Calif., last month for the tournament and returned to...

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Headline: House GOP sues Holder over 'Fast and Furious' documents

7:00am Thursday, August 16, 2012

USA Today is reporting that the House of Representatives went to court this week, seeking to force Attorney General Eric Holder to release documents related to the "Fast and Furious" gun-walking operation - a program which led to the deaths of hundreds of Mexican nationals and at least one U.S. Border Patrol agent. From the article : "By stonewalling Congress and ignoring a contempt order, the...

July sees 25.5% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 26th straight month over month increase

3:00pm Wednesday, August 15, 2012

The July 2012 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 853,355 is an increase of 25.5 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 680,258 in July 2011. For comparison, the unadjusted July 2012 NICS figure of 1,289,585 reflects an 12.4 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,147,355 in July 2011. This marks the 26th straight month that NSSF-...

Kasich and Romney school media: Gun bans don't work

7:00am Wednesday, August 15, 2012

by Chad D. Baus Both Governor John Kasich and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney are rejecting gun ban extremists' recent calls for new legislation in the wake of two multiple victim public shootings in "no-gun" zones. Kasich is proving that his words spoken during the 2010 campaign, when he admitted he was "wrong" about his reasons for voting for the 1994 federal Clinton Gun Ban,...

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Tucson Shooting Used By Columbus Mayor’s Staff to Press for Tougher Gun Laws

3:00pm Tuesday, August 14, 2012

by Jesse Hathaway R. Lee Roberts, Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman’s lobbyist for Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), worked with staffers of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to leverage the shooting of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords for new federal gun restrictions. His work with the Bloomberg-founded national group and other Coleman staffers to use the Tucson rampage as a selling point...

Bloomberg mouthpiece Michael Coleman calls for "reasonable gun control"; BFA's Ken Hanson responds

7:00am Tuesday, August 14, 2012

WCMH, Columbus' NBC affiliate, recently interviewed Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman regarding his latest call for "reasonable" gun control. Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson was asked to respond. The heavily edited video (which omits any of Hanson's responses to what Coleman calls "reasonable" gun control) can be seen here: Mayor Coleman holds the title of Ohio Chairman of...

Op-Ed: Sikh temple shooting will disappoint gun prohibitionists

3:00pm Monday, August 13, 2012

by Dave Workman As the history of slain gunman Wade Michael Page continues to surface in the wake of the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin, the Associated Press and Seattle Times are reporting some facts that will not help gun control proponents. They are having quite a chat about this on the Seattle Times reader feedback site. When he was living in North Carolina, Page reportedly obtained five...

Romney chooses strong Second Amendment advocate and avid hunter as running mate

7:00am Monday, August 13, 2012

by Chad D. Baus For gun owners who have been less than enthused to have another "so-so" Republican nominee to face the vehemently anti-gun Barack Obama, Mitt Romney's choice of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate is sure to lift their spirits. Much like Gov. Sarah Palin in 2008 , Ryan brings a strong understanding of Second Amendment rights and hunter's issues to the ticket. Ryan...