Gun Grabbers

Ohio State Highway Patrol's ''plain sight'' champion on his way out

12:05am Thursday, March 15, 2007
By Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch reported this week that Col. Paul D. McClellan, the current Superintendent of the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP), has announced his retirement. The retirement of McClellan, who made Buckeye Firearms' 2006 list of Ten People Who Are Threatening Your Ohio Gun Rights , comes at an ironic time for Ohio concealed handgun license-holders. Also being retired this...

Go-it-alone: Financially-challenged City of Cleveland sues over preemption

9:51am Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Today the City of Cleveland filed a declaratory judgment against the State of Ohio to fight the enactment of Ohio Revised Code (ORC) Section 9.68. Click here to download the press release. (.pdf) ORC Section 9.68: "(A) The individual right to keep and bear arms,being a fundamental individual right that predates the United States Constitution and Ohio Constitution, and being a constitutionally...

Hoplophobes also to blame for the Trolley Square Mall slaughter in Utah

12:10am Friday, February 23, 2007
By Tim Inwood As I watched the news reports on the shooting at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, I was saddened but not surprised by how the obtuse, liberal anti-gun media continues to miss the real message of what happened. They should not have missed it, as it is nothing new. A well meaning dullard who owns private property (in this case a shopping mall) tells people you can’t carry a...

Hey Elmer Fudd...time to wake up! (Proof they want your guns too)

12:10am Thursday, February 22, 2007
Editor's Note: Several readers have contacted us to note that the MySpace blog previously referenced in Mr. Inwood's piece below is a parody, and not an official Brady Campaign website. While the Brady Campaign's official website did indeed announce the launch of a MySpace blog in February at the exact MySpace URL Inwood referenced (that announcement has since been removed), the MySpace content...

Security firm sued in Toledo Jeep plant shooting

12:10am Monday, January 29, 2007
By Chad D. Baus Last week, the Toledo Blade reported that an employee who was wounded during a shooting rampage two years ago at DaimlerChrysler AG's Toledo North Assembly plant has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the facility's security firm. From the story: Michael Toney, a manager who was among four workers shot by Myles Meyers, claims that Wackenhut Corp. was negligent in allowing...

Buckeye State police chief: Brady gun shop campaign a ''witch hunt''

9:06am Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Cincinnati's 9News (WCPO.com) is reporting that the owner of a local gun shop in North College Hill, under attack by out-of-state anti-gun extremists, is speaking out to defend his business. And he's not the only one. Click on 'Read More' for the story. From the story: Costello's Gun Shop in North College Hill is listed in a crime prevention report as an example of a place conducting shady...

Good news-bad news Cleveland Plain Dealer headlines

12:10am Wednesday, January 24, 2007
By Chad D. Baus Over the past weekend, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published two headlines that should catch the attention of pro-gun Ohioans. One offers good news, and the other offers equally bad news. First, the good news: Plain Dealer editor [Doug Clifton' retiring; led paper to Pulitzer in '05 Douglas C. Clifton, editor of The Plain Dealer for nearly eight years and the man credited with...

Op-Ed: Gun Control - Brady Campaign and the New Math

12:05am Tuesday, January 23, 2007
January 17, 2007 By Howard Nemerov When I served as Mayor during the 1990’s, the Administration and Congress helped local communities fight crime by providing funds to hire more police, and making it harder for criminals to get guns. As a result, crime decreased. Over the past few years, however, the approach seems to have been switched. Now cities are often seeing less police but more guns on...

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