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Former ATF Agent Pulls Mask Off Giffords’s Plans for Federal AR-15 Registration

7:00am Friday, December 14, 2018

In an odd turn, just before Halloween one prominent gun control group briefly got out of costume. When former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and husband Mark Kelly launched Americans for Responsible Solutions (now named Giffords) in early 2013, gun owners were assured that the group sought moderate “common-sense solutions” to gun violence. The group admonished NRA for not working to “to find...

Missing the Marx: Gun Control’s Future is … Communism?

7:00am Thursday, December 13, 2018

After every high profile crime committed with a firearm of any sort, there are always calls for gun control. But one particular proposal this week managed to distinguish itself amid the usual din, if only for its audacity and what it reveals about the mindset of people who wish to disarm their fellow Americans. In a lengthy article in Washington Monthly, private equity investor William V...

HB142 (Modify LEO notification) scheduled for 7th hearing in Senate committee

by Chad D. Baus

5:48pm Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Chairman Bill Coley (R-Liberty Township), who chairs the Government Oversight and Reform Committee, has announced his committee will be holding a 7th hearing on Rep. Scott Wiggam's HB 142 (Modify LEO notification) on Thursday, December 13 at 10:30 a.m. in the Finance Hearing Room. The committee will be considering testimony from proponents, opponents and interested parties. The chair has also...

Videos Reveal Arizona’s Sinema and Florida’s Gillum Downplay Anti-gun Positions

7:00am Wednesday, December 12, 2018

In the last decade, gun control groups have tried to get more sophisticated with how they market their unpopular ideas. Some gun control advocates have gone so far as to partner with high-profile public relations firms to create messaging guides for their anti-gun allies. The overarching aim of these efforts is to obscure the gun control movement’s radical goals in order to appeal to a wider...

HB142 (Modify LEO notification) scheduled for 6th hearing in Senate committee

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Chairman Bill Coley (R-Liberty Township), who chairs the Government Oversight and Reform Committee, has announced his committee will be holding a 6th hearing on Rep. Scott Wiggam's HB 142 (Modify LEO notification) on Wednesday, December 12 at 9:00 a.m. in the North Hearing Room. The committee will be considering testimony from proponents, opponents and interested parties. The chair has also...

Yes, George Soros is a Gun Grabber

7:00am Monday, December 10, 2018

In 2015, billionaire gun control financier and potential 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg financed the creation of the anti-gun propaganda outlet The Trace. Ever grateful for their wealthy benefactor’s unfettered largesse, the Bloomberg advocacy group now views less-profligate anti-gun tycoons as irrelevant to gun control lobby’s efforts. In a piece titled, “George Soros Is Not the...

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UPDATE: H.B. 228 Goes to Governor's Desk

11:10am Friday, December 07, 2018

This has been a long and difficult week at the Statehouse. However we're glad to report that H.B. 228, a bill we've been working on for 2 years, is finally headed to Governor Kasich's desk. On Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, a substitute bill was adopted by the Senate Government Oversight and Reform Committee by a 9-1 vote, with the lone dissenter being Kris Jordan. Votes are not always what they seem...

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Bloomberg Finds Home in Today’s Democratic Party

7:00am Friday, December 07, 2018

In what observers have pegged as a preparatory step for a presidential run in 2020, on October 10 billionaire gun control financier and former-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg registered as a Democrat. Bloomberg ran as a Republican in his 2001 and 2005 mayoral campaigns. In 2009 Bloomberg ran for reelection as an independent. Despite having spent the better portion of the last two decades...