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Supreme Court Closes The Book on New York City’s Lawsuit Against Gun Makers

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Court Also Rejects DC/Lawson Case

NEWTOWN, Conn. — Putting an end to nine years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear New York City’s request to continue a lawsuit that sought to hold firearms manufacturers responsible for the criminal misuse of firearms.

“We are very pleased by today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court to not review lower appellate court rulings that dismissed cases based on the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act,” said Steve Sanetti, president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, trade association for the firearms industry. “These baseless lawsuits against responsible, law-abiding companies are the type that Congress intended to prevent by passing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.”

Pro-Obama faux gun group discovers they were used

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“We believe recent attacks on Senator Obama’s stand on the 2nd Amendment and his commitment to our hunting and shooting heritage are unfair and American Hunters and Shooters Association is stepping up to set the record straight. …Senator Obama will be a strong and authentic voice for America’s hunters and shooters and it is with great pleasure that we endorse his candidacy.”
– Ray Schoenke, President, American Hunters and Shooters Association, April 16, 2008

By Chad D. Baus

Throughout the 2008 Presidential election campaign, Buckeye Firearms Association, the National Rifle Association and other pro-gun organizations sought to make gun owners aware of the clear and present danger that a President Barack Obama would be to the Second Amendment. One group, however, while claiming to be pro-gun, endorsed Obama, and went out of its way to attack the NRA and anyone else who suggested that a vote for Obama was a vote for gun control.

The anti-gun pedigree of the founders and leadership of that pro-Obama group, which calls itself the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA), is well documented. Yet it would appear from a recent press release from AHSA President Ray Schoenke that even he failed to realize that he was being used by a candidate who had every intention of aggressively pushing for gun control once he assumed power.

Hunters, Target Shooters and Industry Provide $336 Million for Wildlife and Education

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NEWTOWN, Connecticut– When a target shooter purchases a box of ammunition or a hunter a new deer rifle, wildlife in America benefits.

Every sportsman and woman contributes to a system that has been responsible for supporting healthy wildlife populations of both game and non-game species for the last 70 years.

The contributions, in the form excise taxes paid on sporting firearms, ammunition and archery equipment, benefit every state and have generated approximately $5.6 billion for wildlife conservation since 1939. The contribution for 2009 is a record — nearly $336 million, according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, which recently announced the Wildlife Restoration apportionment.

Second Amendment Task Force responds to Attorney General’s comments on ‘Assault Weapons’

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Editor’s Note: As you read this press release, please take special note of the lack of a single Ohio congressman on the list. It is time to contact yours and find out why!

WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Congressman Dan Boren, (OK-2) and U.S. Congressman Paul Broun, (GA-10), Co-Chairs of the Second Amendment Task Force (SATF) in the U.S. House of Representatives, released the following statements regarding Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent comments on the possibility of the Obama Administration seeking to reinstate a ban on sales of assault weapons.

The whys and wherefores of the ammo shortage

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By Bob Owens

If you, like thousands of other Americans, have Googled to find out why we are in the middle of a nationwide ammunition shortage, you would have stumbled across this 2007 blog entry.

In it, I corrected a poorly researched Associated Press story by Estes Thompson that claimed the military’s consumption of ammunition was responsible for police ammunition shortages here in the United States. Few things could have been further from the truth, but it seems rather apparent, in retrospect, that the goal of that AP article wasn’t to find the truth as much as it was to (falsely) lay blame for the police ammunition shortages at the feet of George W. Bush.

The real fact of the matter is that the military got the bulk of its small arms (pistol, rifle, machine gun) ammunition from one contracted ammunition plant, and that plant wasn’t even running near capacity. The military’s consumption clearly wasn’t to blame, and anecdotal evidence and statements from ammunition manufacturers strongly suggested that police departments themselves caused the 2007 ammunition shortage by purchasing far more ammunition than they had in the past.

But what is causing our current ammunition shortages here in 2009?

League of Ohio Sportsmen names State Senator Jimmy Stewart “2008 Conservation Legislator of the Year”

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By Larry S. Moore

The League of Ohio Sportsmen recently recognized State Senator Jimmy Stewart (R-Athens) as the 2008 Conservation Legislator of the Year. The award was present at the 101st annual League Convention which was held in Marietta, Ohio.

Senator Stewart was recognized for his sponsorship and leadership in fighting wildlife poaching in Ohio.

The Uninvited Ombudsman Report, No. 60 – Gun Ban Announced

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Taken from the most recent “Page Nine” Alan Korwin’s “The Uninvited Ombudsman Report”

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1- Gun Ban Announced

The lamestream media told you:

“The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today,” according to ABC News on Wed., Feb. 25. http://tinyurl.com/acoxa4

“As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make,” he said, adding it would have a “positive impact” on drug lords running wild in Mexico, tying the proposal to 700 people recently arrested as drug-war combatants.

ODOT confirms all “NO GUNS” signs at rest stops and visitor centers have been removed

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Last fall, Buckeye Firearms Association was pleased to report that the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) had ordered all “NO GUNS” signs at state rest stops and visitor centers to be removed.

This action was in response to passage and implementation of Senate Bill 184, which included several major fixes to Ohio’s concealed handgun licensure (CHL) law, including a change designed to allow patrons of rest stops to use the facilities without having to disarm.

The law took effect September 3, but people who carry concealed weapons (CCW) in Ohio continued to report seeing the problematic signs at highway rest areas and visitor centers.

Buckeye Firearms Association has continued to monitor progress on this issue, and to pass along volunteers’ reports of locations where signs were still posted to ODOT.

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