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Use First Amendment freedoms to debate Second Amendment issues

12:10am Monday, June 15, 2009

By Gene Policinski Nobody wants to encourage or invite another campus killing spree like the one in 2007 at Virginia Tech University, in which 32 people died and 17 were wounded. But does that reasonable concern extend to prohibiting a rally or a flier that promotes the idea of allowing students to carry firearms on campus in self-defense? You and I may consider the idea of armed undergraduates...

Coming next the U.S.A.: Knife Control?

12:05am Monday, June 15, 2009

Editor's Note: Although this does not concern firearms, it will most definitely be of interest to many self defense-minded people who carry a firearm (and possibly also a knife). By Jim Shepherd ...The Customs and Border Patrol is proposing revocation of an earlier interpretation of what constitutes a switchblade knife. If their revocation goes through, many of us who carry one-hand opening...

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Division of Wildlife budget in crosshairs: An Interview with Sen. Tim Grendell

12:10am Friday, June 12, 2009

Editor's Note: The following is a follow-up to an op-ed we published earlier this week, entitled " Senate Republicans take aim at Ohio Division of Wildlife ." By Larry S. Moore After publishing my first op-ed on the subject of budget changes impacting the Ohio Division of Wildlife, I contacted Republican Senator Tim Grendell's office to get his position regarding the free landowner deer permits...

Sandy O'Brien announces run for Secretary of State

12:05am Friday, June 12, 2009

Pro-gun Sandy O'Brien has officially announced that she is running for Ohio Secretary of State in 2010. O'Brien, who earned the endorsement of Buckeye Firearms Association in 2006 and won an upset victory over her anti-gun opponent in the Republican primary, is a loving wife, mother, and grandmother with energy to burn. She supports hunting and Second Amendment rights because she has enjoyed them...

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Cleveland refuses to obey state law ... refuses to obey the courts ... and spits on the Constitution. And we're fighting back!

10:43am Thursday, June 11, 2009

Not long ago, Buckeye Firearms Foundation filed a lawsuit to stop the City of Cleveland from prosecuting law-abiding gun owners under local ordinances that restrict gun ownership and concealed carry. The lawsuit also asked the Court to declare 20 local ordinances unconstitutional on the grounds that they conflict with state preemption of firearm laws. So what is Cleveland's response? A callous...

Pro-gun gay groups seek to add nationwide CCW reciprocity to Kennedy's 'hate crimes' bill

12:10am Thursday, June 11, 2009

The Washington Independent is reporting that, one month after successfully tucking an amendment into the credit card reform bill that expanded gun rights, a small number of Senate Republicans are looking at the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act as another chance to score a victory for the Second Amendment. This time, the goal would be to establish nationwide reciprocity for concealed...

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: The Impact on Private Gun-Ownership in America

12:05am Thursday, June 11, 2009

By Michael P. Farris "The spread of small arms creates a serious global problem and requires an equally urgent response because the lives and futures of children are at stake. These weapons have extinguished more young lives than they have protected." – Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, UNICEF The vast majority of Americans, regardless of their opinions on the increasing scope of international...

OOPS: Brady Campaign president admits people are the problem, not guns

12:10am Wednesday, June 10, 2009

By Chad D. Baus The Akron Beacon-Journal recently reported that Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence president Paul Helmke addressed the Akron Roundtable on May 21. The story notes that Helmke delivered his usual misleading statistics and hyperbole to the not-for-profit speakers' forum...along with a couple of accidental admissions that point to the fact that his organization's gun control...