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More Guns, Less Crime: 2009 FBI Crime Data continues to refute gun ban extremists' rhetoric

by Gerard Valentino The Dayton Daily News is reporting that preliminary FBI statistics show violent crime has decreased in Ohio for the third straight year. Yes, that's right - crime decreased in spite of predictions by the establishment media, politically-motivated law enforcement groups and anti-gun extremists, who claimed that permissive self-defense laws would lead to the end of civilization...

NSSF Grants Fuel Growth in Collegiate Target Shooting

Collegiate Shooting Sports Initiative Benefits Varsity Teams, Clubs On college campuses across the country, men and women are taking up target shooting in increasing numbers. From Harvard to Jacksonville University to the University of Colorado, the shooting sports are "in" as students discover how they can enjoy these safe, fun activities with their friends. To encourage this growth trend, the...

Debunking Random Anti-Gun Myths

By Gerard Valentino The anti-gun movement and establishment media have done such a great job disseminating their dangerous message on the gun issue that several of their myths have become accepted as common knowledge in America today. Some of the myths are ridiculous, and some are so pervasive that they are considered to be true. In some cases they are perpetuated by well-meaning but misinformed...

Three-Step Guide to 3-Gunning

Editor's Note: There are still a few spots open for the 2010 MultiGun Clinic , brought to you by Ohio Shooting Sports and Buckeye Firearms Association, with proceeds benefitting the Buckeye Firearms Foundation. If this article piques your interest, please register now ! By Jeff Johnston Tri-Gun Challenge competitor Neil Davies pulled into the Del-Tone/Luth gun club parking lot and wasted no time...

Latest round of shoddy journalism in Ohio focuses on mythical "gun show loophole"

by Gerard Valentino Ohio's establishment media has a long history of taking sides in the debate on the right to keep and bear arms. In her coverage of the Dayton area gun show anti-gun protest at Hara Arena, Kelli Wynn of The Dayton Daily News managed to take that anti-gun bias to a new level. Her fawning and overly-sympathetic coverage of the protest was a slap in the face to fair-minded Ohioans...

April second highest all-time for background checks on firearm sales

Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,146,912(a) checks in April 2010, ranking the month the second highest April for most NICS checks. This figure, while being a 6.5 percent decrease from the 1,225,980 checks conducted in April 2009, is an increase of 21.9 percent over checks in April 2008. The total number of background checks reported...

Ohio Attorney General files merit brief defending constitutionality of statewide preemption law

By Ken Hanson, Esq. Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, via the Solicitor General, filed a strong merit brief on Tuesday May 12 in support of Ohio's "preemption" law, R.C. 9.68. This law was enacted via HB347, which passed with overwhelming support in December 2006 over Governor Bob Taft's veto. HB347 remains the only veto-override in Ohio in the past three decades. As I noted at the time of...

Attorney General announces First Quarter 2010 CHL statistics

By Jim Irvine Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray (D) has released the concealed handgun license (CHL) statistics for the first quarter of 2010. At the end of March, we had an all-time record of 188,665 Ohio residents licensed to carry concealed firearms. (See chart) During this election year, more politicians are touting their pro-gun stances and seeking our endorsements for use in radio and...

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