Gun Grabbers

Final round: Mythbusting gubernatorial campaign claims

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." - Ecclesiastes 1:9 By Chad D. Baus & Jim Irvine While it may seem that the events of the past week, involving misleading attacks against candidates endorsed by Buckeye Firearms Association, are something new and unprecedented, in fact we've seen it all before. In 2004, a mailer was sent...

Kasich Campaign Desperate to Spay/Neuter the Gun Vote

by Ken Hanson Conspicuously absent from almost all Kasich-Taylor campaigning before mid-October was any mention of firearm/hunting/sporting rights. There is a simple explanation for this. John Kasich's record on firearm rights is horrible . He is not being dinged for a single vote, or a few votes. Rather, Kasich has earned the ire of every state-based firearm group based upon many of his official...

Two more die behind a "no guns" sign

by Jim Irvine There was a double murder on Friday at Park-Ohio in Cleveland. The business has "no guns" signs posted, but as we have seen demonstrated many times, killers do not obey the signs. The victims always obey them, and are dead. Maybe that was part of the killer's plans. The accused killer was a former employee. He knew company policy and protocol. He likely knew of the "no guns" signs...

Op-Ed: Medical Journal Bias on Guns

by John Lott, Jr. Medical journals are not always the objective, purely scientific publications we might think that they are. Their editors have increasingly strayed into politics at the expense of scientific accuracy. For example, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine has over the last few months published a number of extremely biased and poorly done studies on gun control. One of the...

Cleveland clings to gun control until the bitter end

by Ken Hanson, Esq. On October 12, 2010, the Ohio Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Cleveland's challenge to the constitutionality of R.C. 9.68. R.C. 9.68 is the provision of Ohio law generally referred to as Ohio's preemption law, which was implemented over Governor Taft's veto of House Bill 347. Trying to predict the outcome of a court case based upon oral argument is pure folly, but...

SAF sues Eric Holder, FBI over misdemeanor gun rights denial

Acting on behalf of a Georgia resident and honorably discharged Vietnam War veteran, the Second Amendment Foundation filed a lawsuit last week against Attorney General Eric Holder and the Federal Bureau of Investigation over enforcement of a federal statute that can deny gun rights to someone with a simple misdemeanor conviction on his record. The lawsuit was filed in United States District Court...

Video: Ohio Supreme Court hears case challenging statewide preemption City of Cleveland v. State of Ohio

On Tuesday, October 12, the Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments from the City of Cleveland in defense of the city's assault-weapons ban and registration requirement for handguns, as well as reasons why the State Attorney General's office says the anti-gun laws should be struck down. The state's top court has released an audio and video recording of the arguments in the case known as City of...

Ohio Supremes consider Cleveland's challenge of statewide preemption of local gun control laws

by Chad D. Baus The Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments from the City of Cleveland in defense of the city's assault-weapons ban and registration requirement for handguns on Tuesday, as well as reasons why the State Attorney General's office says the anti-gun laws should be struck down. From The Columbus Dispatch : Cleveland officials said their local regulations would not violate a 2007 state law...

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