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UPDATE: National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Legislation Gains Co-Sponsors

3:00pm Monday, November 16, 2015

Thanks to your continued calls and emails, NRA supported Right-to-Carry bills have seen increases in cosponsorships over these past few weeks. Please continue to contact your elected officials and urge them to cosponsor and support these important bills: S. 498 – Introduced by U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), this legislation would respect the rights of individuals who possess concealed carry...

More than 40 Ohio schools authorize and train teachers to carry guns to protect students in class

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, November 16, 2015

WKRC (CBS Cincinnati) is reporting that, in Ohio, around 40 school districts now allow teachers with concealed handgun licenses to carry their firearms in class. The news station was invited to document a recent FASTERSavesLives.org Level 3 training program in upstate Ohio. From the report : Parents in a district asked that their staff be armed. The board OK'd the training and the carrying of...

Media Bias Goes Extreme

3:00pm Friday, November 13, 2015

The national and local media bias against the Second Amendment reached bizarre heights [recently] when a newspaper headline proclaimed “Shooter kills 4; 30 injured.” The problem? Well, even a casual reader would note that the tragedy described in the article had nothing to do with a “shooter” but was about a individual who drove her car through a homecoming parade at Oklahoma State University...

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Ohio Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus Sporting Clays Shootout

by Larry S. Moore

7:00am Friday, November 13, 2015

The Ohio Legislative Sportsmen Caucus recently held their 2015 Sporting Clay Shootout at the Cardinal Shooting Center. Kyle Rorah, Midwestern State Coordinator for the Congressional Sportsmen Foundation, welcomed the legislators and sportsmen to the event, “Today’s event is made possible by sponsors DU, Ohio State Trappers Association, the NWTF and the Ohio Conservation Federation. Karen Stewart...

Schumer Puts Military at Risk by Playing Politics with Their Sidearms

3:00pm Thursday, November 12, 2015

In 1995, Bob Dole said of Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), “[t]he most dangerous place is between him and a camera.” [Recently], Schumer publicly announced a plan to require bidders for a $580 million Department of Defense contract to supply the U.S. Army with handguns to submit to questioning regarding efforts to push a gun control agenda. The fact is, Schumer’s attempt to subject the vital fighting...

Ohio Sheriffs educate gun owners with CCW Wallet Cards

by Dean Rieck

7:00am Thursday, November 12, 2015

Years ago, leaders with Buckeye Firearms Association saw a gun-rights group handing out small "business cards" with information about that state's concealed carry rules. We thought it was a great idea. So I designed a similar card we could use for Ohio. The cards were a big hit. It wasn't long before we were printing these cards in large quantifies and distributing them by the hundreds of...

63% of Americans Blame Mental Health—Not Guns—for Mass Shootings

3:00pm Wednesday, November 11, 2015

In another hit to the prospects of gun controllers, the Washington Post [has] published the findings of a recent survey conducted by the Post in conjunction with ABC News. The results show that Americans overwhelmingly understand high-profile shootings as pointing to a problem with the country’s mental health system, rather than a lack of gun control laws. The survey, carried out October 15-18,...

October 2015 Firearms Sales Checks Highest October on Record

7:00am Wednesday, November 11, 2015

The October 2015 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,211,478 is the highest October on record for the 17-year-old system, with an increase of 3.1 percent compared to the October 2014 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,174,797. For comparison, the unadjusted October 2015 NICS figure of 1,969,248 reflects a 23.4 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS...