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Ohio News Network details Ohio Police Chief Assoc. concerns with HB347

11:00am Friday, February 03, 2006
The Ohio News Network (ONN) is running a segment on HB347. The segment includes statements in support of HB347 from the bill's sponsor, Representative Jim Aslanides, who said that an amended version of the bill would be introduced soon, as well as from Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson. (Note: graphics in video incorrectly identify Rep. Aslanides as Mr. Hanson and vice...

Op-Ed: Why gun bans don't work…and what to do

12:05am Thursday, January 26, 2006
By Larry S. Moore In a recent op-ed for ESPN Outdoors , entitled "Why gun bans don’t work...and what to do", author James Swan has hit another bull’s eye. In the article, Swan, author of the acclaimed book “In Defense of Hunting”, covers a great spectrum of the gun ban issues. He stresses the need for hunters and shooters to combine our efforts. What Swan is suggesting is the same thing many of...

Another journalist sees the up-sides of self-defense preparations

12:05am Tuesday, January 03, 2006
The Canton Repository has published an excellent article written by a journalist who sat through a recent concealed handgun license course offered at The Firing Line in Canal Fulton. The article details some of the students who participated in the class, and describes the course itself. Perhaps the opening few paragraphs will do more than anything in terms of helping readers understand the need...

Op-Ed: Checking in with the Second Amendment

12:05am Friday, December 30, 2005
An outdoors writer from Crawfordsville, Indiana has published an excellent column on current events regarding gun control and politics. The volume of hate emails has dribbled off considerably so I think it is a good time to check in with Second Amendment issues and see what kind of vitriol we might dredge up from a few of the regular readers/cranks. Our first item is an article from the Boston...

Columbus man receives 117-year sentence for repeat gun crimes

3:21pm Thursday, December 22, 2005
December 21, 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BATFE Press Release COLUMBUS, OH --- Oliver McComb, Jr., age 47, was sentenced in United States District Court here today to 1,410 months imprisonment for committing six armed robberies and brandishing a firearm in four crimes of violence. McComb's sentence exceeds 117 years because of his prior violent criminal record. In December 2004, a United States...

OSU Police dumbing down crime statistics

12:05am Monday, December 12, 2005
By Mark Noble Recently, WBNS 10TV (Columbus) reporter James Black reported that the Ohio State University has changed the way it reports campus crime statistics to track closer to the minimum standard set forth by the U.S. Department of Education. From the story: Under new U.S. Department of Education guidelines, universities are no longer required to keep track of off-campus crime. But is the...

Op-Ed: NRA's newest convert: Even a hippie needs a gun

12:05am Friday, December 09, 2005
On December 5, the Lubbock (TX) Daily Toreador has published as excellent op-ed by Clara Cobb, who is the newspaper's Features Editor and a self-professed (formerly) "anti-hand-gun" "hippie. The op-ed begins like this: About two weeks ago, a male approximately 5 foot 9, 150 pounds broke and entered my house. (SIDE NOTE: This is funny because it is true.) That night, or rather, early that morning...

Why print the truth when it ruins the ''guns are bad and easy to get'' story?

12:10am Thursday, December 08, 2005
News of a "firearms accident" in a small town in the Miami Valley this week has drawn nation attention, and although everyone from the Dayton Daily News to the Associated Press (USA Today, CBS News and countless others unquestioningly ran the AP version) have written on it, the facts about the firearm that was involved have yet to reported anywhere but on the Internet blogosphere. First, from the...

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