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Ohio-More Than A Dozen Gun Bills Await Lawmakers After Election

Posted: October 30, 2014 by gamegetterII in gun laws, gun rights
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – A variety of gun bills are being shot out at the statehouse, all of them ready to be debated by lawmakers after the election next Tuesday.

Mike Weinman from the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police says law enforcement dislikes many of the proposed gun bills, beginning with an Ohio version of Stand Your Ground.

“You’re going to have questions come up in your head when you’re reading these bills so ask those questions,” said Weinman.  “What you don’t want is lethal force being the first and only force being used and that’s pretty much the fear in stand your ground laws.”

Stand Your Ground is just one of 14 bills – at last count – that would expand access to guns in Ohio.

One bill would eliminate most requirements for carrying a concealed weapon, while another would allow guns in the classroom.  A third would recognize concealed carry permits from other states.

“We shouldn’t have the legislature in the state of Indiana determining who carries a gun in Ohio,” said Weinman.

But Ken Hanson from the Buckeye Firearms Association says all of this worry is overblown.

“My goodness when we changed carry in the car, people were going to be twirling guns on their fingers,” said Hanson.  “Well we can carry guns in restaurants and now people will be drinking beers and shooting each other. None of it every comes true.”

Hanson says despite objections from the Fraternal Order of Police, each gun bill will have its day at the statehouse.

“I’ve called it an embarrassment of riches. we have a lot of gun bills,” said Hanson.

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2014/10/27/columbus-ohio-over-a-dozen-gun-bills-await-lawmakers-after-election.html

On the Coming Elections by David E. Petzal

Posted: October 29, 2014 by gamegetterII in gun rights
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My Fellow Bloggers and Gun Nuts:

In a few days we will have the opportunity to fight down our gag reflexes and cast our ballots for a slightly different set of untalented hicks and hacks than we voted for last time, under the laughable pretext that they will do what is right for the republic and, in the process, solve some of our problems.

Hell will freeze before this happens, but we must not be dismayed. Congress has always been the halfwit child of American government. Mark Twain said: “Suppose you were an idiot; suppose you were a Congressman. But I repeat myself.” Congress is the only place, outside of a fraternity house, where acting like an ass is not only the norm, but praiseworthy.

Even so, it matters who gets elected. The prime example for gun owners is New York State’s Governor Andrew Cuomo. Mister Cuomo is not gifted with an unusual wisdom or honesty, but he abounds with what Ed Zern called low animal cunning, and after the Sandy Hook shootings, he rammed an unworkable, unenforceable, and highly restrictive gun law through the state legislature literally overnight.  Called the SAFE Act, this work of genius requires among other things that owners of “assault weapons” register them with the state police.

However, the state police refuse to say just how many ARs have been reported to them. This indicates that most gun owners have chosen to give Governor Cuomo the finger, so to speak, and risk the consequences. But there have not, to date, been any consequences, because many law officers refuse to enforce the thing, and Cuomo, probably having national political ambitions, is not about to start confiscating people’s guns and putting them in prison for non-compliance. Not yet at least.

But there is the SAFE Act, on the books, waiting for someone to employ it and put the screws to Empire State shooters in a real and meaningful way. And there it will stay.

The only way to prevent this where you live is to check the NRA ratings on the candidates, which can be found here.

Cuomo earns an F. Elect people with a C or lower and you’re asking for it.

I know that many of you would rather that I stayed away from politics, and I can’t blame you; it is a detestable enterprise, populated by detestable people. But be reminded: Apolitical gun owners will wake up one day to find that while they are still apolitical, they are gun owners no more.

Vote.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/the-gun-nuts/on-the-coming-elections

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