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Regardless of Ruling, Ohio Cities CANNOT Regulate Firearms

3:00pm Friday, November 04, 2022

Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Steven McIntosh sided with Columbus in a recent ruling that deals in part with Ohio's "preemption" laws and HB 228. However, the City of Columbus and recent media reports are misleading the public about what this ruling means. "Our reading of this ruling is that it is narrowly focused on the issue of municipal zoning for firearm manufacturers," said Dean Rieck,...

Manipulated Public Opinion Polling Should Not Drive Public Policy on Guns

7:00am Friday, November 04, 2022

A recent study by the Crime Prevention Research Center underscored how easily public opinion polling can be used to distort, rather than illuminate, peoples’ true feelings on gun control. Policy-makers should take note. Sound policy requires a thoughtful and sophisticated understanding of facts and evidence, not just the shifting whims of public perception. Emotionalism, on the other hand, is the...

Op-Ed: Gun control is the wrong debate

by Second District Rep. Brad Wenstrup

7:00am Thursday, November 03, 2022

[Editor's Note: Rep. Brad Wenstrup is an A-graded 2022 BFA-PAC Endorsee who is seeking reelection on November 8, 2022.] There’s a prevailing myth that we can bring an end to mass shootings in America if only we banned AR-15s – or better yet, banned all semi-automatic guns as well. If only it were that simple. By the grace of God, protective firearms were present five years ago at the baseball...

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Post-SCOTUS Ruling Temper Tantrums!

by Gary Evens

7:00am Wednesday, November 02, 2022

Tantrums - that is the only way I can describe the anti-gun liberal reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in NYSRPA vs. Bruen . They are doing everything they can think of to defy that decision and in the process they are just making things worse...for themselves. Let’s look at a few examples. California and New York, two of the most anti-gun states in the United States, seem to be the...

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Not the Babylon Bee: School Officials Let Armed Teens into School Because the Police Were Outside

7:00am Tuesday, November 01, 2022

Parody news site, The Babylon Bee (motto: “Fake News You Can Trust”), has entertained readers with such gems as Batman Unable To Keep Up With Rising Crime As Gotham City Elects Another Democrat, Nation’s Murderous Psychopaths Undecided On Whether They’ll Follow New Gun Laws, Spokesperson For Hell Rejects Biden’s Claim That US Economy Is ‘Strong as Hell,’ and many more. Readers who recently came...

Reports Suggest Biden Administration Already Exceeding Its Authority Under New Gun Laws

7:00am Monday, October 31, 2022

Last June, the NRA announced its opposition to a wide-ranging gun control bill – the misnamed “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act” (BSCA) – that was being rammed through the U.S. Senate with bi-partisan support. We warned at the time that the bill, contrary to how it was being marketed to the public, could “be abused to restrict lawful gun purchases, infringe upon the rights of law-abiding...

Gun News Roundup - October 29, 2022

7:00am Saturday, October 29, 2022

Fighting for Second Amendment rights, and exercising those rights freely and effectively, starts with being informed. Here's a quick roundup of important stories in the news recently: Ore. gun control law draws concern among police New Jersey carry bill stumbles amid constitutional concerns Federal Court Rules: Federal Law Making Serialized Guns a Crime Unconstitutional FBI Under Reports Good...

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Report: Gun ownership in the Black community, among women on the rise

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, October 28, 2022

Continuing in a long line of news articles reporting on a fact that should scare anti-gun rights Democrats to their core, the Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that gun ownership trends in Ohio and across the country are shifting, especially in the Black community and among women. From the article : Annette Sumlin is one of the faces of that trend. “I know a lot of single African American women...