By Dean Rieck On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 John Farquhar of Mad Duck Firearms Training in West Elkton, OH won the $3,500 prize package for our first gun raffle, benefiting Buckeye Firearms…
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My Two days with Tactical Weapons Training Group
by Clint Lake Whenever you go to a new firearms training school for the first time you’re never too sure what to expect. Will the instructors gravitate toward a ‘Stalinist’ style of…
Report: Gun Sales Surge in Wake of Colorado Theater Shooting
by Chad D. Baus
In the wake of the Colorado movie massacre, gun stores have reported an increase in sales.
By some estimates, stores across the country, from Colorado to Ohio, have seen sales jump from 40 – 60 percent.
The Columbus Dispatch is also covering the sales surge:
Obama to ‘evaluate’ gun control laws proposed in wake of Colorado mass murder
by Chad D. Baus The Washington Times is reporting that President Obama is considering support for the latest legislative knee-jerk reaction to mass murder in a “no-guns” zone – a proposed ban…
Columbus Mayor’s Office Conspired With Liberal Groups to Politicize School Shooting
by Jesse Hathaway
Emails obtained by Media Trackers reveal that Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman’s office was conspiring to use the deaths of three high school students to limit Second Amendment rights within hours of the February 2012 shootings at Chardon High School. Coleman serves as the Ohio chair of Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), a gun-control lobbying group co-founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
At 9:02 AM on February 27, 2012 – less than two hours after T.J. Lane allegedly shot five of his classmates in the cafeteria of their Chardon, Ohio school – lobbyist Mark Glaze, the national director of MAIG, emailed Coleman staffer R. Lee Roberts and three employees in Mayor Bloomberg’s office to inform them of the news.
At 10:04 AM Bret Thompson, policy director for union-funded liberal group ProgressOhio, forwarded a link to a Huffington Post story about the shooting to Roberts, NYC “Special Counsel for Firearms Policy” Chris Kocher, Fund for a Safer Future director Lance Orchid, the executive director of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, and a fellow ProgressOhio staffer. Orchid replied that the recipients’ previously scheduled 10:30 AM conference call should focus on using the Chardon shooting to advance an anti-gun narrative in Ohio.
“I hope that we can do some rapid response,” Orchid wrote. “Perhaps this is the perfect time to push out the new microsite petition around guns on campus.”
A gun would give victims a chance
The following op-ed by Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson was originally published by The Columbus Dispatch. Republished with permission.
by Ken Hanson
Shortly after midnight on July 20, 2012, James Holmes entered an Aurora, Colo., movie theater and allegedly committed mass murder. I join millions of American gun owners in extending condolences and support to the victims and their families during this time of tragedy.
Before the first funeral was held, numerous politicians and news-media personalities began to question whether gun-control laws in the United States are strict enough, and whether new gun-control laws are needed. This is unfortunately typical in today’s “let no crisis go to waste” political environment.
No amount of words set down on a piece of paper ever will prevent a mass murder. Rather, the most effective deterrent against a mass shooting is someone shooting back. Pass all the laws you wish, and the deranged will keep finding a way to shoot (or poison or bomb or burn). Mass shootings with “assault weapons” occurred during the time that the United States had a nationwide-ban on “assault weapons” and magazines that held more than 10 rounds.
And almost every multiple-victim shooting in the past three decades has occurred in a “no-guns” zone. Apparently, these criminals didn’t see the no-gun signs.
If strict gun control was passed today, it would have the same effect as strict bans on marijuana, methamphetamines and child pornography. Somehow, we still find people using these prohibited items.
Letter from Rob Portman and 50 other Senators helps kill U.N. Arms Trade Treaty
by Dean Rieck By now you have undoubtedly heard that the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty is dead, for the time being at least. Many Second Amendment supporters can share credit for this…
Op-Ed: When Guns Stopped A Massacre
by Dick Morris On February 12, 2007, a lone gunman, Sulejman Talovic opened fire at the crowded Trolley Square shopping mall killing five bystanders. Armed with a shotgun with a pistol grip,…
One For the History Books
by Jim Shepherd
The birds on the South Carolina marsh had to think I’d lost my mind yesterday morning. After quietly watching them do the things that birds do for over an hour, I suddenly jumped away from my camera, did a fist pump, and whooped like a madman.
Twitter feeds had confirmed the results of an Olympic event I was too nervous to watch online: Kim Rhode had achieved her goal of becoming the first American athlete to win a medal in five consecutive games.
And she didn’t just win a medal, she broke 99 of 100 targets in the finals, equaled the Olympic record and will be bringing home the gold medal. When quizzed about her secret, the El Monte, California native didn’t hesitate: “practice. Lots and lots of practice. I have worked for this one.”
Despite the fact that NBC Sports didn’t break into their regular coverages with the news, I agree with USA Shooting’s description of the event as “the biggest single day in US shooting history.”
Op-Ed: New gun laws will do nothing to stop mass shooting attacks
by John Lott In the wake of the Colorado tragedy, Democrats in Congress have wasted no time introducing new gun control legislation. Today, Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy introduced a…