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February 2014 firearms sales checks third highest on record

3:00pm Thursday, March 13, 2014

The February 2014 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,264,010 is the third highest February on record for the system, even with a decrease of 22.7 percent compared to the February 2013 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,634,309 (February 2014 figures are a virtual tie with 2012 for the second highest on record for the month). For comparison, the...

UC student assaulted near campus; Speaks out about being disarmed by state law

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, March 13, 2014

After being violently beaten by a mob of teenagers outside a fraternity house near the University of Cincinnati campus, an engineering student is speaking out about his status as a concealed handgun license (CHL)-holder who has had his right to bear arms for self-defense denied by state law. From WLWT (NBC Cincinnati) : A UC student who was assaulted by a group of teens near UC’s campus spoke out...

California Forcing Guns Off the Market

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Wednesday, March 12, 2014

California has long been on a sickening, spiral path toward flushing all individual rights down the toilet. Few states have such a powerful and overreaching state government and nowhere is that overreach more apparent than in the state's gun laws. Back in 2000, California legislators instituted a system supposedly intended to protect the state's citizens from cheap, poorly made, unreliable...

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HB 234 (Allow Noise Suppressors While Hunting) passes House committee

by Larry S. Moore

7:00am Wednesday, March 12, 2014

The Buckeye Firearms Association-supported legislation to allow hunting with suppressed firearms, HB 234, passed out of the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday, March 11. The bill was introduced by sponsors Rep. Cheryl Grossman (R - Grove City) and Rep. John Becker (R - Union Township). Buckeye Firearms Association, the American Silencer Association and the Ohio Speech...

Long Guns for Self- Defense: The AR-15 (aka The “Modern Sporting Rifle”)

by Gary Evens

3:00pm Tuesday, March 11, 2014

The semi-automatic AR-15 is the most popular rifle in the United States. There are several reasons for this. One is that follow ing every major conflict that the U.S. has fought, the veterans of that conflict have sought to acquire firearms similar to those they used to fight with. Following World War I, there was a great move in the U.S. to adopt the bolt-action rifle. Prior to that time, the...

Training – how much is enough?

by Jim Irvine

7:00am Tuesday, March 11, 2014

How much training should be required to obtain a concealed handgun license (CHL)? Carrying a firearm is a constitutionally-protected right, but carrying concealed has been ruled a privilege. It is in the public’s best interest that people carrying concealed firearms do so safely, so the state can mandate training, but how much training does it take to make someone safe with a gun? When does it...

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HB 234 (Allow Noise Suppressors While Hunting) scheduled for possible vote in House committee

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Monday, March 10, 2014

Chairman David Hall has announced that the House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee will be hearing all testimony on Representative Cheryl Grossman's (R-Grove City) HB 234 Tuesday March 11, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. in Statehouse Room 116. This will be the fourth hearing for this important bill. Chairman Hall has indicated that an amendment may be offered before a possible vote is held...

Anti-Gun Groups Fail to Remove Second Amendment Content from Facebook

7:00am Monday, March 10, 2014

In recent months, anti-gun groups such as Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), the Brady Campaign and others have been putting increasing pressure on Facebook (and its associated platform, Instagram) to prohibit any online content that references the private sale of firearms. The demands to Facebook were based on the false premise that guns were being sold illegally through these forums simply...