Ohio Politics

Buckeye Firearms Foundation commissions six more teacher classes

7:00am Tuesday, June 11, 2013
by Jim Irvine In the wake of the killings at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, Buckeye Firearms Foundation partnered with John Benner of Tactical Defense Institute (TDI) to give teachers and administrators training on the best ways to stop an active killer in a school. The idea garnered worldwide attention and the first class was a resounding success. Many Ohio schools...

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...

Rep. John Becker's HB191 would align Ohio's definitions of automatic firearms with those of federal law

3:00pm Thursday, June 06, 2013
On Tuesday, State Representative John Becker (R-Union Township) introduced legislation related to how Ohio defines certain firearms. According to a press release issued by his office, House Bill 191 would change the state's Weapons Control Law by removing from the definition of "automatic firearm" a semi-automatic firearm that is designed or adapted to fire more than 31 cartridges without...

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...

Review: Attorney General DeWine's School Shooting DVD

7:00am Friday, May 31, 2013
by Jim Irvine Attorney General Mike DeWine has mailed a two-disc DVD set to all Ohio schools. The DVD is titled, "School Shootings: How to be aware, prepare, and be a first responder in a crisis." It covers educator training presented by the Attorney General's Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy (OPOTA). In his introduction, AG DeWine notes that he is "sorry that we have to do this." He notes...

MEMORIAL DAY 2013: In 1788, Ohio law required ALL men aged 16-50 to bear arms

7:00am Monday, May 27, 2013
(Originally posted by the Cincinnati Enquirer and on this website July 25, 2003) Ohio Moments Soldiers fined 50 cents for lack of weaponry On July 25, 1788, the first Ohio law to establish and regulate a militia was published in Marietta. It mandated all men between 16 and 50 perform military duty. They were required to arm themselves with a musket and bayonet, a cartridge box, powder horn, one...

Headline: Advocates put police, gun laws to the test

7:00am Thursday, May 23, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WHIO-TV (CBS Dayton) is reporting on a lawsuit that has been filed against the City of Riverside after an incident involving the arrest of a man who was open carrying a firearm. From the article : Advocates of "open carry" of weapons are testing police on their knowledge of state laws and then posting the results on the internet. The most recent case involved a Tipp City man, Roy...

Attorney General Mike DeWine denies backing away from comments made in support of arming school employees

7:00am Friday, May 17, 2013
by Chad D. Baus and Jim Irvine This week, an Associated Press article by Julie Carr Smyth, entitled " Ohio's state school board urged not to arm teachers ," hit the wires and shot around the state and across the country. The article is making waves because, according to Carr Smyth, Attorney General Mike DeWine made comments at a State Board of Education meeting that go against his previously-...

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