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MAIG outdoes Biden on self-defense

4:00pm Thursday, August 15, 2013

On August 2, Executive Director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns Mark Glaze managed the twin feat of offering self-defense advice that surpassed Vice President Joseph Biden's in its ignorance, while simultaneously making MSNBC's Chris Matthews seem like a voice of reason on the topic. While a guest on Matthews' Hardball, the host discussed with Glaze whether he would consider an attacker wielding...

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Rare accidental shooting in concealed carry class puts focus on gun safety rules

8:00am Thursday, August 15, 2013

by Chad D. Baus Last week, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that a record number of Ohioans had obtained concealed handgun licenses in the second quarter of 2013, and showed an increase over the record number that had been obtained in the first quarter. Over 376,000 Ohio citizens are now licensed to carry handguns. This news was distributed across the state, and was picked up by the...

Senator Rob Portman responds to nagging anti-gun mayors group: Join me in supporting something that will work (or shut up)

4:00pm Wednesday, August 14, 2013

by Chad D. Baus After several expensive negative ad campaigns in Ohio failed to sway Sen. Rob Portman's firm support for the Second Amendment, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's and President Obama's gun control groups, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) and Organizing for Action (OFA), have switched to using the free media. Every few weeks, the groups will stage a press conference or other media...

Lucky man from Dayton wins 3-Gun EDC Raffle

8:00am Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Buckeye Firearms Association's roots go back when Ohio was fighting to get legal concealed carry. BFA made a name for itself as the "CCW" organization and concealed carry advocates remain our strongest supporters. So it's no surprise that a raffle with 3 different carry guns would sell 1,000 tickets within hours. And it's certainly no surprise that Scott of Dayton would have such a big smile on...

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Translating Anti-Gun Propaganda into English

4:00pm Tuesday, August 13, 2013

In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four , a tyrannical government attempts to control how people think by, among other things, reducing language to "a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of IngSoc [English Socialism]" and "to make all other modes of thought impossible." In the IngSoc government's new language, Newspeak, the original meanings of many...

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Poll: Americans want Senate to drop gun control

8:00am Tuesday, August 13, 2013

by Chad D. Baus If an alien being landed on earth, knowing nothing of our politics, and read the newspaper or watched a news broadcast, it'd be absolutely convinced that 90% of Americans are overwhelmingly demanding passage of gun control legislation that was proposed, debated and voted down in the United States Senate last spring. Even before the gavel had dropped on the first vote to kill the...

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Pelosi Urges Congress to Uphold Constitution by Passing Gun Control

4:00pm Monday, August 12, 2013

Anti-gun U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) recently urged members of Congress to uphold their oath to "protect and defend" the Constitution by passing harsher gun control laws. Yes, Pelosi is proposing that Congress should support the Constitution by radically violating it. Such is the deconstructionist mindset of modern-day gun-control advocates. As reported by CNS News , Pelosi made...

Unveiled: Gun ban extremists' secret playbook: Part 1

8:00am Monday, August 12, 2013

by Chad D. Baus A friend sent a very interesting document to me recently - one that is making its rounds through the gun rights community after having been leaked online. Entitled " Preventing Gun Violence Through Effective Messaging ," it is an 80-page playbook designed to help anti-gun rights extremists learn why they continue to get beat, and how to change their message so as to fool the...