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Fatal Columbus-area carjacking prompts New Year's Resolution

7:00am Wednesday, December 29, 2010
by Ken Hanson The Christmas season is usually a time of joy and happiness for families. A time to take a short break from work, spend quality time with extended family and "pay forward" the magical experience of Santa to the young children in your lives. Just as sure as joyous, lasting memories being created, there is bound to be unfathomable tragedy in the lives of a few families, in a season...

Attorney General announces Third Quarter 2010 CHL statistics

7:00am Monday, December 27, 2010
by Jim Irvine Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray (D) has released the concealed handgun license (CHL) statistics for the third quarter of 2010. During the quarter ending September 2010, Ohio surpassed 200,000 outstanding concealed handgun licenses. The quarter ended with a record of approximately 208,350 Ohio residents licensed to carry concealed firearms. (See chart) We are in our seventh...

Ohio college among those receiving grants from NSSF to build target shooting programs

3:00pm Thursday, December 23, 2010
According to a press release, the National Shooting Sports Foundation has awarded 38 grants, a record number totaling $190,000 to help both new and existing collegiate target shooting programs flourish. Among those institutions receiving grants is Ohio's Marietta College. Only two years old, NSSF's Collegiate Shooting Sports Initiative has helped establish competition and club shooting...

Giving Up Rights for Security in Chicago: A Total Failure

7:00am Wednesday, December 22, 2010
by Gerard Valentino Chicago is known world-wide for having everything a world class city has to offer. From a great nightlife, to the arts, to ethnic cuisine, championship caliber professional sports teams, great universities and an excellent public transportation network, the city has something to offer just about everyone. What many don't realize, however, is that Chicago also boasts one of the...

BOOK REVIEW: After You Shoot: Your gun's hot. The perp's not, Now What? – By Alan Korwin

3:00pm Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Reviewed by Chris Knox During a typical state-mandated defensive firearms class there comes an hour – usually during that sleepy time after lunch – where the instructor gives some obligatory advice on what to do should you ever be forced to use the skills you're learning. Generally the advice comes down to two points: Call 911. Don't say anything. The reason you call 911 is to demonstrate your...

President Obama and Gun Rights: Beware the Cornered and Quiet Politician

7:00am Friday, December 17, 2010
by Gerard Valentino President Barack Obama has a long and undistinguished record of infringing on the rights of law-abiding gun owners. When he was elected that record made him the darling of the anti-gun movement which expected to ride his coattails back to prominence in the marketplace of ideas. The expected road back to relevance hasn't materialized as they expected, and the anti-gun crowd...

Op-Ed: Justice Breyer's remarks on guns revisionist thinking

3:00pm Thursday, December 16, 2010
by The (Bowling Green, KY) Daily News Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is an ideologue: a judicial activist who rules by his own political and personal philosophy, rather than the rule of law and what our Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights more than 200 years ago. The left-leaning justice recently made remarks that further the suspicion that has been...

Giving a Firearm as a Gift? Some Reminders from NSSF

7:00am Thursday, December 16, 2010
The holidays are just around the corner. As hunters, shooters, collectors or just plain plinkers, it's a natural instinct to want to share our enjoyment of firearms with others. What better way to do that than to make a gift of a firearm to a family member, close friend or relative? The first thing to remember if you're thinking about giving someone a gun is that . . . it's a gun! You already...

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