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Attorney General announces Third Quarter 2015 CHL statistics; 34% increase over prior year

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the Concealed Handgun License (CHL) statistics for the third quarter of 2015. There were a total of 26,139 licenses issued during the quarter, exceeding the average demand for CHLs for the 16th straight quarter. Governor John Kasich (R) signed HB 234 in December of 2014. In the first two quarters of 2014, when bills were just languishing in the...

Reality Check: Did Australia And Great Britain See Lower Gun Violence After Mass Confiscation?

3:00pm Monday, December 14, 2015
Ben Swann takes a look at whether mass gun confiscation in the United States would work like it did in Australia and Great Britain. But more importantly, he will ask the question, the mass confiscation even work over there? What follows is a Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.

Sandy Hook: In memory of those who were murdered three years ago today

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Monday, December 14, 2015
It has been three years since a coward killed his mother, stole her guns, and went to the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. The school was locked for the beginning of the school day. The coward shot out the windows and entered through the administration area, killing several there. He proceeded down the hallway, murdered 27 year-old Victoria Soto, who had hidden her children,...

Ohio concealed handgun license-holder defends self and co-worker from armed robber

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, December 11, 2015
WXIX (Fox Cincinnati) is reporting that a contractor with a concealed handgun license defended his life, and that of a co-worker, from a 16 year-old armed robber who attacked them outside a home they were rehabilitating. From the article : Officers responded to Jonathan Avenue near Fernside Place near Walnut Hills High School about 11:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a shooting, said Captain...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. president: Trump and Kasich are WRONG on no-fly list gun sales

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, December 11, 2015
Last weekend, Ohio Governor John Kasich and businessman Donald Trump, both Republican presidential candidates, joined President Obama in calling for persons who find themselves on the government's "no-fly" list to be prohibited from purchasing firearms. Kasich first expressed the opinion at a Saturday, Dec. 5 town-hall meeting in New London, N.H., and doubled-down on the position on CNN's "State...

To the Editor: ‘Duty to retreat’ had no bearing on conviction

3:00pm Thursday, December 10, 2015
The following letter to the editor of the Toledo Blade was published in response to an editorial entitled " Tragic Lesson - A case just decided in Ohio shows why lawmakers should reject ‘stand-your-ground’ laws ," in which the Blade editorial board claimed that an area murder "could have been legally justified under a stand-your-ground law." ‘Duty to retreat’ had no bearing on conviction You are...

November 2015 firearms sales jump 7.7% over prior year; Black Friday sales set all-time record

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, December 10, 2015
The November 2015 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,432,451 is an increase of 7.7 percent compared to the November 2014 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,329,688. For comparison, the unadjusted November 2015 FBI NICS figure of 2,236,457 reflects a 24.4 percent increase from the unadjusted FBI NICS figure of 1,797,163 in November 2014. USA Today...

Newsflash for unarmed Americans: We gun owners don't carry for you

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Wednesday, December 09, 2015
Like many Americans, I frequently carry a gun. I’ve done so for over 30 years without ever laying hand to it in need. Professor John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center reports that some 12.8 million people, over 5.2 percent of the adult U.S. population, are licensed to carry a concealed handgun. In addition to concealed carry license holders in all 50 states, seven states require no...

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