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ACTION NEEDED: Confirmation Vote Looms for Obama’s Anti-gun Surgeon General Nominee

7:00am Tuesday, December 16, 2014

[UPDATE: This article was programmed on Monday to run on Tuesday morning. Unfortunately, the lame-duck Democrat-led Senate voted late Monday afternoon to confirm Dr. Murthy with a 51-43 vote.] As we began reporting earlier this year, President Obama has nominated anti-gun activist Vivek Murthy for the post of U.S. Surgeon General. Particularly given the president’s determination to reinvigorate...

ABC News: Girls and Guns - Meet the 10-Year-Old Competitive Shooting Star

3:00pm Monday, December 15, 2014

ABC News' Nightlight recently reported on the growing interest in shooting sports among women - sometimes very young women:

NSSF: Backdoor gun control - Feds hid key data to get Calif. lead ammo ban passed

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, December 15, 2014

The Washington Times reported recently that the National Shooting Sports Foundation has obtained emails that it says indicate that a federal official withheld critical data on lead blood levels in the California condor until after gun control advocates in the California state legislature used the iconic bird’s plight to help push through a law last year to ban lead ammunition. According to the...

Remembering the Sandy Hook Massacre

Jim Irvine

12:00pm Sunday, December 14, 2014

On December 14, 2012 a lone gunman went to Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut to kill a record number of people. The school had locked doors and controlled access and other procedures to keep occupants safe. Most people would have considered the building safe and secure. The killer bypassed the security by shooting out windows in the office. He climbed through the broken windows...

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Student Fighting for College Students' Self Defense Rights Shot On Campus

by Jeff Knox

7:00am Friday, December 12, 2014

Nathan Scott is a student at Florida State University in Tallahassee. He has a job working in the school library and is a member of Students for Concealed Carry at Florida State. And he is a (barely) walking example of why his cause is so crucial, after being shot in the library recently and having no way to defend himself. The group has been lobbying for several years to get the ban on lawful...

Top 4 Movies and Gun Blunders

by Tom McHale

3:00pm Thursday, December 11, 2014

You know what they say: You can’t believe everything you see on TV. That’s knowledge to keep in hand, for while the folks in Hollywood do have a wonderful flair for the dramatic, no one has ever accused them of being realistic. Carrying and shooting guns is serious business. It’s crucial that every gun owner learn safe practices from the right sources—and that source does not generally include...

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Ohio House concurs with Senate changes to HB 234; Act to be sent to Governor for consideration

by Chad D. Baus

3:08pm Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The Ohio House concurred with Senate changes to Am. Sub HB 234 by a vote of 69 - 16. Beginning early in this session (2013), the House held numerous hearings on and eventually passed multiple firearms-related bills. The House passed HB 203 (Concealed Carry & Self-Defense Law Reform), HB 234 (Allow Noise Suppressors While Hunting) and HB 454 (Rule Modification for Concealed Carry in School...

November 2014 Firearms Sales Checks Highest November on Record

3:00pm Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The November 2014 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,329,688 is the second highest November (following November 2012) on record for the 16-year-old system, with an increase of 1.7 percent compared to the November 2013 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,308,100. For comparison, the unadjusted November 2014 NICS figure of 1,797,163 reflects a 0.5 percent...