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Letter supportive of restaurant carry legislation yields death threat from anti-gun reader

7:00am Thursday, December 23, 2010
by Chad D. Baus A letter to the editor of The Columbus Dispatch , written in response to that newspaper's negative take on Ohio's restaurant carry legislation (SB239) has earned the man who wrote it a death threat. After Mark McGlone's letter, entitled " Editorial off-base about guns in bars ," was published on December 15, his family received a startling phone call. In correspondence with BFA,...

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...

Editorials opposing restaurant carry expose coordinated anti-gun bias

7:00am Tuesday, December 21, 2010
by Gerard Valentino By running nearly identical anti-gun editorials on the same day, The Columbus Dispatch and The Toledo Blade have finally given up their longtime charade that coverage of the gun issue is unbiased and independent. The Dayton Daily News joined the party about a week later by running an equally one-sided editorial that relied on similar mistruths, misquotes and outright...

Columbus gun store tops nation in firearms tracings; Media exaggerates correlation of U.S. gun sales to Mexican crime yet again

3:00pm Friday, December 17, 2010
The Washington Post recently obtained information on the names of gun dealers that had the most traces for firearms recovered by police in the last four years, and in a collaborative story by The Columbus Dispatch , the newspapers are reporting that Vance Outdoors in Columbus led the country in the number of guns recovered by police that were traced back to a dealer. From the article : A high...

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...

House passes motions to discharge; Media coverage of historic discharge petitions show work still needs to be done

3:00pm Wednesday, December 08, 2010
by Chad D. Baus The Ohio House passed Rep. Bubp's motions to discharge SB239 (Restaurant & Car Carry Rules Fix) and SB247 (Restoration of Rights) today by 57-39 margins, proving that these bills have large bi-partisan support, and deserve to be given votes in an as-yet-to-be scheduled session. The Ohio media are swinging into action to cover the latest efforts to get SB239 and SB247 the floor...

CRUNCH TIME: Effort to force votes on pro-gun bills depends on what you do RIGHT NOW

7:00am Monday, December 06, 2010
WCMH (NBC Columbus) is reporting on State Rep. Danny Bubp's effort to get enough signatures from state representatives on two discharge petitions to force floor votes on two pro-gun bills this week, and by all indications, the fate of these pro-gun bills rests in the hands of gun owners' willingness to get involved RIGHT NOW. From the article : Could the State of Ohio soon allow guns in bars? The...

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