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Anti-Gun Researchers Saddling Up to Ride Again

3:00pm Monday, June 10, 2013
With the racetrack dust having barely settled after this year's Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, and with the final leg of the Triple Crown--the Belmont Stakes--scheduled for this weekend, we can't help but marvel at the incredible ability of a horse, with 120 pounds on its back, to sustain better than a 35 mph pace over up to 1½ miles, often topping 40 mph in the home stretch. But no matter...

Concealed handgun license-holder fends off car-jacker

7:00am Monday, June 10, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WKBN (CBS Youngstown) is reporting that a 23-year-old concealed handgun license-holder fired several shots late Wednesday at three masked gunmen who attempted to steal his car at a gas station on Youngstown's South Side. From the article : David Ferguson, 23, was shot in the arm during the brief shootout at the South Avenue Gas Mart, thwarted an attempted carjacking by firing five...

Op-Ed: Why gun control just got even more difficult

3:00pm Friday, June 07, 2013
by John Lott Gun control, an already difficult task, just got even more difficult. The 3D printing revolution is well under way. This wonderful new technology will allow small companies and even individuals to manufacture a wide range of items, such as medical devices that fit each individual’s unique size and shape. However, it is increasingly obvious that guns and gun parts can be made, even...

State rep and other elected officials on hand as gun thief steals antique firearm from museum

7:00am Friday, June 07, 2013
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that one of the likely more-brazen thefts of the year happened on Memorial Day in Pataskala, and a state representative and several other elected officials were in attendance when the theft occurred. From the article : As visitors packed the small Mead-Needham Museum for its grand opening, someone pilfered the ivory-handled Colt .45-caliber handgun tucked in the...

Media-backed "PolitiFact Ohio" tries, fails to disprove BFA Chairman Jim Irvine wrong on protection orders' impotence

7:00am Thursday, June 06, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Last month, State Rep. Bob Hagan (D-Youngstown) introduced House Bill 160, a gun control bill that would force any person named in a domestic violence protection order to surrender their firearms to law enforcement within 24 hours. We quickly pointed out the many flaws with Hagan's proposal, including the fact that, by statistics Hagan himself cited, 20% of women who are killed by...

Ohio gun owner to home invader: "If you move, you're gonna go to the morgue."

7:00am Wednesday, June 05, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WTOV (NBC Steubenville) and WPXI (NBC Pittsburgh) reported this week that a Steubenville, OH woman was able to exercise her Second Amendment and self-defense rights to protect herself during a home invasion. From WPXI : Police arrested a burglar in the act Thursday morning after the owner of the home he targeted held him at gunpoint. Authorities said Tammy Takach was sleeping...

The truth about kids and guns

7:00am Tuesday, June 04, 2013
by Larry S. Moore Cynthia Tucker is the latest liberal journalist to use the death of a child to promote the agenda of gun control. In case you missed it, the Sparks family lost their child in a preventable gun accident. Since then the family has been dragged through the major media outlets as an example of why gun safety is a child safety issue and calls for more laws. The left-leaning media...

WKYC Investigator Tom Meyer falls short of the truth in report on felons obtaining hunting licenses

3:00pm Friday, May 31, 2013
by Larry S. Moore WKYC (NBC Cleveland) Investigator Tom Meyer screamed the headlines "Hundreds of convicted felons in Ohio -- many of them violent -- are getting state licenses to hunt, even though it's illegal for them to have guns..." . This is the latest alarmist reporting aimed at gun owners and hunters. It's the kind of reporting that we've come to expect - long on hype and short on real...

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