The Dayton Daily News reported recently that Middletown’s Pat Neff beat out 1,208 other competitors to win a singles title last week during the Ohio State Trapshooting Association state championships in Marengo.
Watch lists, guns and government
By Bob Barr
as published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution
The secret government “Terrorist Watch List,” reportedly already swelled to more than 1.1 million names, will have an addendum, if gun control advocates in Congress have their way. This new addendum — also to be cloaked in secrecy — would empower the U.S. Attorney General to deny a person the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights to purchase a firearm.
While it is not surprising that some members of Congress are again using fear of terrorism to implement a gun-control agenda, the openly unconstitutional legislative language proponents are employing is troubling.
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) is leading the effort in the Senate, while another well-known gun control advocate — Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) — is directing the House initiative. They have introduced identical bills — the “Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009.” This proposal would give the attorney general the power to unilaterally and in secret develop a watch list of persons believed to be unworthy of possessing a firearm or any explosive.
CCRKBA: Poll confirms Americans fear Obama gun control agenda
BELLEVUE, WA – A new Rasmussen poll reveals that 57 percent of American citizens believe gun sales are up over the past several months because of widespread fears that the government will tighten restrictions on gun ownership.
“The poll results confirm what we’ve been saying,” noted Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. “American citizens are fearful that the Obama administration and a Democrat-controlled Congress will pass new laws to further erode the individual right to own firearms. This concern was further enhanced by [last week’s] ruling in Minnesota that far left anti-gunner Al Franken should be seated as a U.S. Senator representing that state, giving Democrats a 60-member majority.”
Church-based gun banner chides pastor to stop teaching on the subject of self-defense and the Bible
By Chad D. Baus
Over the past several years, I’ve been monitoring the statements the non-profit Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence is required to file with the Internal Revenue Service.
In 2005, I exposed the fact that OCAGV kept office space in the basement of the Collingwood Presbyterian Church in Toledo (space for which the organization was being charged bargain price of $270 per month). I exposed the incestuous ties of OCAGV and Toledo Metropolitan Ministries, (Toledo Ecumenical Area Ministries). TMM-TEAM described itself as “a social justice ministry of seven denominations working ecumenically to identify needs for systemic changes, to plan and develop strategies and initiate projects to advocate justice and empower people.” The organization worked out of the exact same basement as OCAGV, and Toby Hoover and other OCAGV board members have at the same time been on the Board of TMM-TEAM.
What’s more, OCAGV’s website states that it began in 1995 as a committee of the Interracial Religious Coalition of Toledo, Ohio. And in 2008, the OCAGV had at least three members of the clergy on its board of directors.
The evidence proves that OGACV Executive Director Toby Hoover has no qualms about mixing religion and political advocacy, at least when it comes to arguing against the right to bear arms for self-defense.
But when a Toledo pastor announces that his church will hold a forum to address such topics as “whether the Old Testament and New Testament teach people that they have the right to keep and bear arms, what Jesus says about bearing arms, and whether American citizens would be safer being disarmed,” Hoover now not only objects to the mixing of religion and politics, but purports to tell this pastor what he may and may not say inside the four walls of his church!
The Uninvited Ombudsman Report, No. 67 – Federal Pocketknife Ban?
Taken from the most recent “Page Nine”, Alan Korwin’s “The Uninvited Ombudsman Report”
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10- Government Banning Pocketknives
The lamestream media told you:
Nothing.
Web sources however told you the federal government is set to confiscate or criminalize possession of most pocket knives in the country, mainly focused on “assisted opening” knives. Great confusion exists between these one-hand-opening knives, reportedly 80% of the current knife market, regular pocket knives, true switchblades and the effects of both state and federal law on the subject. Page Nine readers who have removed their blinders will of course immediately recognize that the Customs and Border Protection agency cannot write or rewrite federal law, even if they’d like to. Attorney David Wong, author of Knife Laws of the 50 States clarifies the mess below.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Hi Alan. I believe the knives in question are assisted-openers, not automatics. The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ruling in question apparently stems from a reversal of a prior CBP “admissibility determination” via a so-called Headquarters Ruling Letter, for a specific type of assisted-opening knives.
The federal switchblade act is found at 15 U.S.C. §1241 et. seq.; here is the index:
Across the Fruited Plain: Where the Fight for Shall-Issue Still Rages
Editor’s Note: This article has also been published at USConcealedCarry.com.
By Chad D. Baus
In my last column, “The People Fighting for Your Gun Rights”, I lamented the fact that more state gun rights organizations had not responded to my invitation to help keep USCCA members up to date on the current battles that they face, what specific activities they are engaging in on each battle, their sense of the morale of gun owners in their state, etc. In the weeks since then, I’ve heard from three more state organizations, bringing our group to a total of nineteen states.
For many persons who carry concealed on a regular basis, any memory of the fight that secured them that right is fading quickly. But in more places than many are aware, the battle to restore the right to bear arms for self-defense is still raging.
Brady Campaign attorney says “certainly nothing wrong” with adults banging away at Southern Ohio Machine Gun Shoot
Nothing can be more absurd than the carrying of concealed weapons in a civilized community without a special purpose, and that in times of tranquility is simply criminal. – The [Columbus Daily] Dispatch, July 1, 1871
By Chad D. Baus
During my seven-plus years experience covering Second Amendment issues and the media in Ohio, I’ve learned that whenever the Columbus Dispatch decides to cover a gun issue, it is important to keep in mind where they began, and where they have stayed in the 130+ years since.
So when I read the opening paragraph of the Dispatch‘s story on Southern Ohio Machine Gun Shoot in Minford, I was prepared for the worst.
AG Cordray: State of Ohio will join friend of the court brief asking for Second Amendment incorporation
Appearing Sunday evening as a guest on the Firearms Forum radio show with host Jim Irvine, Attorney General Richard Cordray announced that, in anticipation of the Supreme Court of the United States taking such a case, he has agreed to sign a brief being prepared by the State of Texas in support of the Second Amendment applying to the states.
“Since the Heller decision there have been either two or three federal Courts of Appeals who have confronted the question of whether the Heller decision, which of course recognized the individual right to bear arms under the Second Amendment and was applicable in that case in the District of Columbia – the question now is whether that same right will apply against state governments across the country,” Cordray told WHK 1420 AM listeners.
Current Congressional environment provides window of opportunity for Second Amendment
By Jeff Knox
The surprise introduction and passage of a pro-rights amendment attached to a credit card bill this spring could be a hopeful sign of things to come.
Early GOP primary discussion of 2A issues continues with Kasich statement
By Chad D. Baus
Earlier this month, Republican State Senator Kevin Coughlin, who declared his candidacy for the 2010 governor’s race in January, began circulating an email designed to bring the Second Amendment to the front and center of early GOP primary discussions.
This week, former Congressman John Kasich, who declared his own candidacy for the Republican nomination at the beginning of June, issued with his campaign’s first official statement on the subject of gun rights.