WSYX ABC6 in Columbus has announced a townhall to be broadcast live on Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 7-8pm at the OSU Union. Watch online, Time Warner Ch. 990, Insight Ch. 189, WOW…
Active Killer Response for the Armed Citizen
by Greg Ellifritz On January 8, 2011 Jared Loughner shot 20 people in the parking lot of an Arizona grocery store. In law enforcement terminology, this type of crime is called an…
New York Times: Burden More Gun Buyers with “Woefully Flawed” FBI Checks
In a scathing editorial published August 18, titled, A Flawed Background-Check System, the New York Times takes to task the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the detrimental effect the agency’s inability to…
Real World .22s for Self Defense
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Gun Control Costing States… Literally
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Let’s Kick Bloomberg While He’s Down: Colorado Victory – Proof and Opportunity
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A Good Reason Why Congress Shouldn’t Fund Gun Control Research
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Hamilton homeowner shoots and kills attacker after being stabbed multiple times
by Chad D. Baus The Cincinnati News reported recently that a Hamilton resident shot and killed a man who stabbed him during a robbery. From the article: Chad Gabbard, 44, of Hamilton…
Cleveland.com Writer Acknowledges Inaccurate Reporting on Gun Law
Editor’s Note: This report is a follow-up to an article posted at BuckeyeFirearms.org on September 9, in which we attempted to make sense of an Cleveland.com article by Jeff Piorkowski. by Jesse…
Report: Ohio Education Association Helps Obama Campaign Lobby for Gun Control
by Chad D. Baus
MediaTrackers.org reported recently that The Ohio Education Association (OEA) is assisting Organizing for Action (OFA) in its lobbying for new gun control laws, using social media accounts maintained with teachers’ mandatory union dues.
From the article:
The afternoon of August 22, OEA linked to a BarackObama.com gun control petition from the union’s official Facebook page:
At roughly the same time, an abbreviated version of the same message was posted to the union’s official Twitter account.