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Weapon Malfunctions in an Active Killer Event

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Tuesday, April 12, 2016

I was recently doing some research on historic active killeer incidents and found these articles about an election night shooting in Canada. This shooting didn’t get much media traction in the USA, but it was an interesting case. Read more about it at the links below: Gun jams on active shooter in Montreal 16 Charges for Suspect in Montreal Shootings The shooter was allegedly mentally ill and...

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VIDEO: What Hunters Should Know about HSUS

7:00am Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Humanewatch.org - About 14 million Americans hunt, and those who do, support it passionately—to say nothing of the billions of dollars hunters have contributed to conservation. One of the threats to this age-old activity comes from the Humane Society of the United States. HSUS CEO Wayne Pacelle has said, “We want to stigmatize hunting, we see it as the next logical target and we believe it is...

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Legal Considerations for Armed Citizens

by Gary Evens

3:00pm Monday, April 11, 2016

On November 7, 2015 I attended a seminar sponsored by the Buckeye Firearms Association in Columbus, Ohio. The featured speaker was Massad Ayoob, an internationally-known firearms and self-defense instructor and firearms law expert. He has authored numerous books and thousands of magazine articles on the topics of firearms, self-defense and the law. He has been the handgun editor of GUNS Magazine...

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March 2016 firearms sales jump 9.2% over prior year

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, April 11, 2016

As we predicted at the beginning of the year, sales of firearms continue to rise in the wake of the December 2 terrorist attack in San Bernadino, CA and President Obama's latest attempts to intimidate peaceable gun owners through executive actions. The March 2016 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,297,275 is an increase of 9.2 percent compared to...

Your Tactical Training Scenario - “I’m going to kill anyone who breaks into my house”

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Friday, April 08, 2016

(Image source: FreeImages.com/J Cash) Editor's Note: In the early morning hours of Saturday, March 19, a former University of Akron football player shot his ex-teammate in the stomach after mistaking him for a burglar after he entered the apartment unannounced and without knocking. Earlier this year, a Cincinnati man, believing his 14-year-old son was at school, fatally shot the boy in the neck...

Give Us Election Ammunition!

by Jeff Knox

7:00am Friday, April 08, 2016

As the presidential primaries continue to unravel in the news, it seems the main concern of Republican leaders in D.C. and around the country is stopping Donald Trump from becoming the party’s official standard bearer in November. What they should be focused on is what has happened in this country to shift the political paradigm so dramatically that a populist outsider like Trump could be...

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Home invasion suspect killed attempting to rob condo, accomplices charged

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Thursday, April 07, 2016

Columbus media are reporting that one robber is dead and two accomplices have been charged with murder because of their roles in a home invasion robbery in which a person was killed. From WTTE (Fox Columbus) : Officers found Nathaniel Easley, 24, in the middle McAndrews Way at the McNeil Farms condo complex shortly after 7:00 p.m. He was pronounced dead at Mt. Carmel East. Easley was shot in a...

Justice Thomas speaks: Misdemeanors and the Constitution

by Jeff Knox

7:00am Thursday, April 07, 2016

“One question … This is a misdemeanor violation. It suspends a constitutional right. Can you give me another area where a misdemeanor violation suspends a constitutional right?” With that “one question,” two weeks after the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia, and one week after the unofficial anniversary of a decade of silence during oral arguments in the Supreme Court, Justice Clarence...