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2009 SHOT Show in Orlando, Part 1: Mouse Guns

12:10am Friday, January 23, 2009
On January 15-18, Buckeye Firearms Association Central Ohio volunteer Clint Lake attended the 2009 SHOT Show in Orlando, FL. Following is Part 1 of a blog on his experience. By Clint Lake Greetings from the 2009 Shot Show in balmy Orlando, Florida! The good news is that it is warmer than in Ohio. I'm going to change the format this year for my blog and cover only the newest of firearms in these...

Firearms safety education: Never too soon to start, never too late to learn

12:10am Tuesday, January 20, 2009
By Jim Irvine On Saturday, January 10, I was honored to be a guest speaker for a meeting of the Medina County Friends and Neighbors ( www.mcfan.org ). The topic was firearms - and despite heavy snow, icy roads and winter storm warnings, the group had a very healthy turnout. I started by having my 3 year-old son join me for a safety discussion. I asked him what he would do if he found a gun.

America's free thinkers: Gun ban extremists or gun rights advocates?

12:05am Thursday, January 15, 2009
By Gerard Valentino It's almost understandable why members of the media end up as apologists for the immoral agenda to ban guns. They see the after-effects of violence perpetrated with guns more than just about any other demographic group in America. Still, they are supposed to act as professionals and use sound logic in determining if guns are the problem, or if gun violence is simply a symptom...

Anti-gun Columbus Dispatch continues editorial tirade

12:05am Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience...

Learning from tyranny's historical foes

12:05am Wednesday, January 07, 2009
By Gerard Valentino Most people in the gun movement were familiar with the famous Spartan 300 long before the recent movie again made their heroic deeds the stuff of legend. Other legitimate freedom fighters throughout history, however, aren’t as well known. One person in history stands with the 300 as a key player in the fight for freedom long before the American Revolution turned the sacrifice...

CHL-holder shoots dog when attacked in Cleveland-area Metropark

12:10am Monday, January 05, 2009
"What's the need to be packing in a public park? What's the compelling need?" - Republican Ohio Supreme Court Justice Paul Pfeifer, April 9, 2008 The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that a Metroparks visitor carrying a concealed gun fatally shot a rottweiler that attacked his leashed dog at Tyler Field off Valley Parkway in the Cleveland area.

More on Mumbai - What We Think

12:05am Monday, December 29, 2008
By Gabe Suarez 1). On what to do - Some folks think we are advocating running into the fight screaming with a knife in one hand and a snubby in the other. I'm not sure where that comes from, as it has never been suggested and is quite silly when you think about it. Still, an aggressive counter attack at the outset of the incident seems to be a better option than hiding and hoping to go undetected...

A year after she defended her fellow church members, CHL-holder Jeanne Assam reflects

12:10am Friday, December 19, 2008
The Associated Press is reporting that after a year of accolades that followed her shooting of a gunman who killed two teenage sisters at her church, concealed handgun license-holder Jeanne Assam remains "low key" and says she thinks of the family of gunman Matthew Murray.

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