Summit Co. considers ban on guns in employees’ personal vehicles

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The Akron Beacon Journal reported late last week that Summit County officials are attempting to prohibit the county’s 3900 non-law enforcement workers from having a firearm or handgun with them anytime they are working or doing county business, even if they are traveling in a personal vehicle.

The chief of staff for County Executive Russ Pry admits that no incident prompted the legislation, but claims it’s necessary “for liability purposes.”

The gun ban is receiving opposition from at least one member of the County Council who is herself about to be an Ohio concealed handgun license (CHL) -holder, as well as from the county employees’ union.

Exposed: The lie behind Obama’s gun ban campaign

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By Tim Inwood

During the Presidential campaign, Senator Barack Obama told gun owners we had nothing to fear from him. Most of us did not believe him. Now that he is President, his actions have shown we were right to doubt him.

Since February, the true intent of the Obama administration has become very clear. They intend to ban self-loading firearms and high capacity magazines. Within a month of taking the Presidential oath of office, and swearing (but not on the Bible) he would defend the Constitution of the United States, his Attorney General, Eric Holder, has waged a new war against the Second Amendment.

Holder has been demanding Congress bring back the Clinton semiautomatic firearms ban, purportedly to stop the drug-related violence in Mexico. The premise behind this demand is a piece of fiction, as a recent story published by FOXNews.com proves.

PETA can’t afford to save pets, but offers to pay to fix Cleveland’s potholes

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By Chad D. Baus

As Buckeye Firearms Association reported recently, the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) has published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite having a $32 million budget, PETA does not operate an adoption shelter. Instead, since 1998, PETA has opted to “put down” 21,339 adoptable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens instead of finding homes for them.

As the CCF points out, PETA’s hypocrisy isn’t difficult to understand: Killing adoptable cats and dogs – and storing the bodies in a walk-in freezer until they can be cremated – requires far less money and effort than caring for the pets until they are adopted.

And it now appears we know what they’ve been saving their money for: filling potholes in the City of Cleveland.

As Americans get to know the man they elected, guns & ammo grow scarce

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By Chad D. Baus

When Governor Ted Strickland (then a Congressman) took John Kerry goose hunting during the 2004 Presidential campaign, we recognized it for what it was – an obligatory photo op by a popular pro-gun Democrat to help a fellow anti-gun Democrat look less dangerous. It didn’t work because, well, we all remember Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” reference about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, don’t we?

During the 2008 presidential campaign, however, rather than just staging a photo op for his party’s presidential nominee, Strickland applied the lipstick himself.

On October 10, 2008, Governor Ted Strickland told Ohioans that “as a result of direct conversations that I’ve had with Barack Obama, if you are a sportsman, if you are a gun owner, if you are someone that honors and respects the Second Amendment – you have nothing to fear from Barack Obama and I want you to spread the word throughout this great part of our great state.

“You have nothing to fear. Spread the word. Ted Strickland said so.”

It appears Ohioans have seen through the lipstick.

The Columbus Dispatch reported recently that Ohio, like the rest of the nation, is experiencing a severe ammunition shortage that can be traced right back to the election of Barack Hussein Obama.

Shooting range protection – The noisy wheel gets the shaft

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By Jeff Knox

Range protection is a hot topic these days and it’s becoming more important every day. Urban sprawl continues to envelope ranges and traditional shooting areas, pushing shooters farther and farther out to engage in their sport and training. Developers build houses closer and closer to established ranges and soon the new residents are complaining about the noise. While much of the emphasis in range protection has been focused on passing laws shielding ranges from noise complaints, such laws only provide limited protection and can give ranges a false sense of security. Noise is just the tip of the iceberg and ranges need to guard against the mountain hiding beneath the surface.

Media peddles the “You might be a potential crazy mass murderer if…” list while ignoring real clues

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By Chad D. Baus

I spent the weekend away from access to news media, so upon my return home, if anyone asked me what I had been up to, I would have said:

“I spent the weekend at a shooting range with about 80 fellow Second Amendment supporters. We were attending a fundraiser for a political action committee (Buckeye Firearms Association) that seeks to defend our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms. We used all manner of handguns and utilized safe gun handling techniques while practicing my kind of gun control (repeatedly hitting the target).”

Now that I’ve caught up a bit on the news from Binghamton, Pittsburgh and beyond, however, it seems my answer needs to change. Apparently, according to the news media and the talking heads they quote:

I spent the weekend at a hidden compound with militia comprised of fellow potential Columbine-style mass murders. We were hoarding large amounts of cash for a subversive domestic terrorist group that is conspiring to overthrow the government. We used all manner of assault weapons (handguns with high-capacity magazines) and endangered ourselves and others, illustrating the need for common-sense gun control laws.

You think I’m exaggerating? Then you too may have missed the wreckless anti-gun bias displayed in the past few days.

PETA Killed 95 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008

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Hypocritical Animal Rights Group’s 2008 Disclosures Bring Pet Death Toll To 21,339

WASHINGTON DC – Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the animal rights group kills an average of 5.8 pets every day at its Norfolk, VA headquarters.

According to public records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 2,124 pets last year and placed only seven in adoptive homes. Since 1998, a total of 21,339 dogs and cats have died at the hands of PETA workers.

The gun banners’ forgotten push for open carry in Ohio

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By Chad D. Baus

In a recent editorial entitled “Gun Lobby Working Overtime to Normalize Abnormal Behavior,” the Joyce Foundation’s anti-gun blog “GunGuys” asked if readers would be willing to “sip hot chocolate with your toddler at Starbucks while a fellow patron openly displays a gun at the table next to you?”

But before they chide gun rights activists for advocating the practice of open carry, they might want to consider some of the comments made by their fellow gun ban extremists in Ohio during the battle to establish a concealed carry law in the Buckeye state.

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