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Buckeye Firearms Association's Joe Eaton discusses restaurant carry legislation on Cincinnati's 700WLW

3:00pm Thursday, April 21, 2011
On April 15, Buckeye Firearms Association Region Leader Joe Eaton was invited to discuss passage of SB17 by an overwhelming, veto-proof margin in the Senate with 700WLW's The Big Show host Bill Cunningham. Eaton did a superb job of explaining what the legislation will and won't do for concealed handgun license-holders in restaurants that serve alcohol, and also addressed the disappointing delay...

Mugging of Plain Dealer employee and subsequent commentary offers lesson in mindset

7:00am Thursday, April 21, 2011
A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. - Proverbs 22:3 by Chad D. Baus On March 30, a Cleveland Plain Dealer employee was mugged in an isolated parking lot Wednesday night shortly after he left his office around 9:30 p.m. There is little doubt doubt, given the history of The Plain Dealer 's editorial animosity toward the practice of concealed...

Buckeye Firearms Association's Jim Irvine on The Sound of Ideas

3:51pm Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Buckeye Firearms Association Chairman Jim Irvine was a studio guest on WCPN's The Sound of Ideas on Thursday, April 21 at 9:00 AM Eastern. Jim discussed SB17 (Restaurant & Car Carry Rules Fix) with a panel of guests that will also include: Toby Hoover, Executive Director, Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence Mayor Michael Coleman (D), Columbus State Sen. Tim Schaffer (R-31) Every weekday at 9:...

Concealed carry debate delivered four times the communication as collective bargaining bill; CCW still portrayed as fringe issue

7:00am Wednesday, April 20, 2011
by Gerard Valentino The Ohio media and anti-Second Amendment politicians are notorious for trying to portray gun rights as a fringe issue pushed by a small vocal minority. In contrast, the recent coverage of Senate Bill 5, which was designed to limit the collective bargaining rights of public unions, was covered as if the majority of Ohioans were riveted. After SB5 passed and was signed into law...

Another business owner with concealed handgun license defends lives in armed robbery attempt

7:00am Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Cleveland Fox affiliate WJW is reporting that another Ohio business owner was able to defend his life and the lives of four others when two armed robbers entered a pet store and began yelling. From the report : Five minutes before closing the Neptunes Corner Pet Store on East 71st Street Saturday, Nick Akoury said he was startled by two men wearing ski masks and threatening him with a gun. They...

Op-Ed: What's Really Behind Obama's New Push for Gun Control?

3:00pm Monday, April 18, 2011
by John Lott Despite the Libyan crisis and ongoing problems with America's massive deficit, last week President Obama decided it was time to focus on gun control. He wrote an op-ed, challenged the NRA to negotiate new gun control regulations, and met with gun control groups. Of course, Obama's op-ed says he supports gun rights. Yet, he also emphasizes that he doesn't want people to "shout at one...

State Representative Danny Bubp disappointed in fellow Republicans' reluctance to move Restaurant Carry bill

3:00pm Friday, April 15, 2011
by Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that State Rep. Danny Bubp, sponsor of Restaurant Carry legislation in the last two General Assemblies, had expected easy passage of his bill now that voters gave Republicans a 59 seat majority. From the article : In December, state Rep. Danny Bubp had so much support for legislation to allow concealed-carry permit holders to take guns into bars...

Republican House Speaker suggests restaurant carry votes aren't there yet, points to opposition from Ohio Restaurant Assoc.

7:00am Friday, April 15, 2011
by Chad D. Baus On December 8, 2010, the Democrat-controlled House passed a motion to force a vote on that session's version of Restaurant & Car Carry rules fix legislation by 57-39 majority. Only the refusal by then-Speaker Armond Budish, a Democrat, to call another session prevented the bill from being passed and signed into law. Now that pro-gun rights voters and other freedom-loving...

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