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Owning weapon ensures safety

3:00pm Thursday, August 30, 2012
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Lima News . Republished with permission. by Thomas J. Lucente Jr. Columnist for The Lima News On July 16, a pizza delivery driver in Columbus was delivering a pizza when two men armed with shotguns approached him. The deliveryman, who has a license to carry a concealed handgun, warned the men off. When they ignored his warnings, the pizza...

Cincinnati police chief advises staff of legality regarding open carry of a firearm in Ohio

10:54am Wednesday, August 29, 2012
by Chad D. Baus In the July 3, 2012 Cincinnati Police Department Staff Notes, CPD Chief James E. Craig took the opportunity to inform his department on the law regarding open carry of a firearm in Ohio. From the document : 3. LAW DEPARTMENT MEMO ON OPEN CARRY OF A FIREARM IN OHIO Ohio law permits the open carry of a firearm with few exceptions. Citizens may openly carry firearms in public places...

NSSF Salutes USA Shooting Team and Medalists in National Ad

3:00pm Friday, August 24, 2012
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- USA Shooting Team members have stood on the Olympic medal stand, appeared on the NBC Today Show and made millions of target shooters proud with their medal-winning performances at the Summer Olympic Games. As a major sponsor of USA Shooting, the National Shooting Sports Foundation doesn't want the cheering to stop. So [on Wednesday, August 22] NSSF [ran] a full page, four-color...

The Government is Ordering Millions of Bullets…Should I Be Worried?

7:00am Friday, August 24, 2012
by Greg Ellifritz I’ve been contacted by several friends recently about the Federal Government’s ammunition purchases. Apparently, the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security has ordered 750 million handgun, rifle, and shotgun rounds (in addition to the 450 million purchased earlier this year). You can read the actual request for proposal HERE . My friends are concerned that this signifies that the...

Crybabies Favor Gun Control

7:00am Thursday, August 23, 2012
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared at Students for Concealed Carry Ohio's website . Republished with permission. by Michael Newbern I frequently openly hypothesize that gun control advocates are really just projecting their own lack of self-control when they say the average citizen can’t be trusted with carrying a firearm for self-defense. They’ll say they don’t need a gun because...

Caretaker at Dayton church shoots burglar

3:00pm Wednesday, August 22, 2012
WHIO (CBS Dayton) reported recently that a burglar who broke into a church on Friday night, Aug. 17, was shot by an armed caretaker who was staying there because of prior break-ins. From the article : According to the preliminary investigation, the suspect broke in through the back side of the building, off an alley. There was a gentleman staying inside the building because of prior problems...

Reports: Colorado U. to segregate dorms for students with gun permits

7:00am Tuesday, August 21, 2012
by Chad D. Baus In the wake of a Colorado Supreme Court decision in March upholding an appeals-court ruling that struck down Colorado University's gun ban, CU has announced that it will segregate dorms for students who have valid permits to carry concealed weapons, The Denver Post reports . From the article: The University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs...

Anti-gun and Anti-Hunting Radicals Attack U.S. Trap Shooter

3:00pm Monday, August 20, 2012
Corey Cogdell is a two time U.S. Olympian. She shoots trap--and she is one of the best in the world. She is also a big game hunter. And she has been pretty successful at that as well. But when it was publicized as a part of her Olympic bio that she is a hunter, hunting opponents showed their true nature in a series of vile and violent tweets. Here are just a few: "I hope that someone someday...

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