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USSA: Anti-hunting legislator likely head of key House committee for sportsmen

3:00pm Wednesday, March 03, 2010

The next chairman of a key house committee with oversight over federal funding for wildlife conservation has a long history of opposing hunting, trapping, and gun ownership. U.S. Representative Jim Moran (D- VA) is expected to be named Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies. This subcommittee oversees funding for the Department of...

Athens News editor corrects false comments about Buckeye Firearms Association after readers respond

7:00am Wednesday, March 03, 2010

By Chad D. Baus On Thursday, February 25, Athens News editor Terry Smith, who also teaches journalism courses at Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, published an editorial on the topic of the state and national tea party movement in which he encouraged Congressman Democrat Zack Space to refuse an invitation to appear at an event. While the greater scope of Smith's article falls...

McDonald v. City of Chicago oral arguments transcript released

2:43pm Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Download our pdf to read the transcript of oral arguments in McDonald v. City of Chicago . . The Court has refused a media request to promptly release the audiotape. Analysis from Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson, the attorney of record for Buckeye Firearms Foundation, which filed friend-of-the-court briefs in both the McDonald and Heller Supreme Court cases, is...

SCOTUSBlog.com post-hearing analysis: Second Amendment extension likely

12:15pm Tuesday, March 02, 2010

By Lyle Denniston The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed poised to require state and local governments to obey the Second Amendment guarantee of a personal right to a gun, but with perhaps considerable authority to regulate that right. The dominant sentiment on the Court was to extend the Amendment beyond the federal level, based on the 14th Amendment's guarantee of "due process," since doing so...

Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray defends Second Amendment rights against cities like Cleveland and Columbus

12:06pm Tuesday, March 02, 2010

By Chad D. Baus As we reported last November, Attorney General Richard Cordray is a co-sponsor on an amicus brief in landmark gun rights case heard earlier today by the United States Supreme Court. The brief, which Cordray's office and its counterpart in Texas led the writing of and which was signed by 38 state attorneys general, argues that these rights should be protected from undue...

Op-Ed: Will the Supreme Court Recognize the Truth About Chicago's Handgun Ban?

7:00am Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Editor's Note: The United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in the Second Amendment case, McDonald, et al., v. Chicago, et al. (08-1521). The Court has refused a media request to promptly release the audiotape. The written transcript of today's argument will be released later in the day. The argument is scheduled for one hour, starting at 10 a.m. Check back for more coverage...

Ohio's white-tailed deer hunters have a successful season

3:00pm Monday, March 01, 2010

Hunters kill more than 260,000 deer for the first time A total of 261,314 deer were killed during Ohio's 2009-10 hunting season, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. This season's total surpasses the 2008-09 record total of 252,017. "Ohio deer hunters had another great year and continue to play a vital role in managing Ohio's deer herd. They've...

Homeowner defends self when men invade his home; Toledo Blade describes robber as the "victim"

7:00am Monday, March 01, 2010

vic·tim [vik-tim] –noun 1. a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency By Chad D. Baus A north Toledo homeowner and concealed handgun license (CHL)-holder was the victim of an attempted home robbery last week, and yet in an article covering the homeowner's act of defending himself and shooting two intruders, the Toledo Blade refers only to the dead robber as a "victim...