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Report: Obama to bypass representative government, dictate new gun control policies via executive order

12:00pm Friday, July 08, 2011
by Chad D. Baus Having failed in their apparent goal of creating demand for gun control legislation by allowing thousands of guns to "walk" into Mexico, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced on Thursday, July 7, that the Obama administration is set to impose a series of gun control "reforms" via executive order. From The Huffington Post : The reforms, which are being crafted by the...

Ohio Attorney General's "Violent Crime with Guns Advisory Group" holds first meeting; AG's goal is targeting repeat offenders

7:00am Friday, July 08, 2011
The office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has announced that held the first meeting of the Ohio Attorney General's Violent Crime with Guns Advisory Group on Wednesday, July 7. The group discussed its mission, and DeWine emphasized that repeat gun offenders are the ones with which the group should be most concerned. According to a press release, the advisory group was established to focus...

Why you should ALWAYS carry

3:00pm Thursday, July 07, 2011
"If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid for?" - Clint Smith "Remember the first rule of gunfighting ... have a gun." - Jeff Cooper "I'd much rather go to my grave never needing my gun, than go there wishing I had it." - Phil Dalmolin by Chad D. Baus At the beginning of every concealed handgun class I teach,...

The News - Bought by Gun Ban Extremists

7:00am Thursday, July 07, 2011
by Gerard Valentino When the ground breaking book, "More Guns, Less Crime" hit bookstores, the anti-gun establishment media, and anti-gun lobbyists were up in arms. The first step they took in trying to shut off meaningful debate on the issue, was to immediately attack the book's author, Professor John Lott, because the funding for his research came from the John M. Olin Foundation. Since the...

Toledo police create gun task force that will stop "those who look suspicious"

3:00pm Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Toledo's Fox News affiliate is reporting that anti-gun Police Chief Michael Navarre is desperately looking for ways to control crimes committed with guns in the city. From the report : In the wake of at least six shootings and eight people shot over the weekend in the Glass City, Toledo Police Chief Michael Navarre has come up with a new way to stop the violence in the city and put some extra...

Letters to the editor provide common sense answers to newspapers' objections to restaurant carry legislation

7:00am Thursday, June 30, 2011
In the run-up to final passage of Restaurant Carry legislation in Ohio, newspaper editorial pages have been filled with dire warnings of what would happen if the bill became law. The letters-to-the-editor sections, on the other hand, have been filled with common-sense responses from fair-minded readers. Following are just a few examples. The following letter to the editor appeared in The Columbus...

The Idiot Chronicles, Volume 4: Your elected Representative Mark Okey

3:00pm Wednesday, June 29, 2011
by Ken Hanson, Esq. "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." While there is no definitive source for this quote (conflicting sources have it going all the way back to Napoleon), it clearly encompasses two things that are happening in the media coverage of the two Restaurant Carry bill spending in the Ohio General Assembly. The malice is coming from those opposing...

Attorney General Mike DeWine to form "Gun Crime Advisory Group"

7:00am Tuesday, June 28, 2011
by Jim Irvine Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has announced that he will form an advisory group "to deal with the huge problem of convicted felons who are using guns" while they are committing more crimes. "There are a relatively small number of individuals in the state who commit the vast majority of violent crimes," DeWine said. It may be concerning to gun owners that DeWine cited a flawed...

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