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FLASH: National Rifle Association files amicus brief in City of Cleveland v. State of Ohio preemption challenge

10:45am Wednesday, May 19, 2010
One week after Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, via the Solicitor General, filed a strong merit brief in support of Ohio's "preemption" law, R.C. 9.68, the National Rifle Association has followed suit, filing an Amicus , or "friend of the court," brief in support of upholding state law. Click here to download the NRA's brief. The National Shooting Sports Foundation has also filed an Amicus...

Early recap on NRA Annual Meetings: Record attendance "drives anti-gun folks crazy"

7:00am Tuesday, May 18, 2010
By Jim Shepherd As the curtain was rung down on the NRA Annual Meeting and Exhibitions in Charlotte, North Carolina, it appears another record-setting event will be headed for the record books. First, with nearly a third of the NRA's membership living inside a 150 mile radius of Charlotte, it seems the attendance records are pretty much going to be rewritten. Although we've not seen official...

Latest round of shoddy journalism in Ohio focuses on mythical "gun show loophole"

7:00am Monday, May 17, 2010
by Gerard Valentino Ohio's establishment media has a long history of taking sides in the debate on the right to keep and bear arms. In her coverage of the Dayton area gun show anti-gun protest at Hara Arena, Kelli Wynn of The Dayton Daily News managed to take that anti-gun bias to a new level. Her fawning and overly-sympathetic coverage of the protest was a slap in the face to fair-minded Ohioans...

Obama Supreme Court nominee was 'not sympathetic' as law clerk to gun-rights argument

7:00am Friday, May 14, 2010
By Chad D. Baus Bloomberg News is reporting that Elena Kagan, who was recently nominated by President Obama to the United States Supreme Court, said as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 that she was "not sympathetic" toward a man who contended that his constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol. According to Bloomberg News, Kagan made the...

April second highest all-time for background checks on firearm sales

3:00pm Thursday, May 13, 2010
Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,146,912(a) checks in April 2010, ranking the month the second highest April for most NICS checks. This figure, while being a 6.5 percent decrease from the 1,225,980 checks conducted in April 2009, is an increase of 21.9 percent over checks in April 2008. The total number of background checks reported...

Attorney General announces First Quarter 2010 CHL statistics

3:00pm Wednesday, May 12, 2010
By Jim Irvine Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray (D) has released the concealed handgun license (CHL) statistics for the first quarter of 2010. At the end of March, we had an all-time record of 188,665 Ohio residents licensed to carry concealed firearms. (See chart) During this election year, more politicians are touting their pro-gun stances and seeking our endorsements for use in radio and...

Another city nullifies gun ban under statewide preemption; City of Cleveland still in violation of the law

7:00am Monday, May 10, 2010
By Chad D. Baus Even as the City of Cleveland continues to enforce its local gun control laws and waste tax payer money to fight state law prohibiting same in court, the City of Newark, OH is taking another route entirely at a council meeting to be held tonight.

Op-Ed: Law-abiding citizens don't commit crimes

3:00pm Friday, May 07, 2010
The following guest op-ed appeared in The Chillicothe Gazette on April 22, 2010. By Mike McCoy When Ohio's original legislation allowing law-abiding citizens to carry a concealed handgun passed in 2004, there were dire predictions by the anti-gun crowd that there would be shootouts in the streets or worse. Fast forward six years, and guess what? None of it happened. How could the anti-gun crowd...

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