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Your Help Needed on Pending National Right-to-Carry Legislation

3:00pm Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Thanks to your continued calls and emails, NRA supported National Right-to-Carry bills have seen increases in cosponsorships over the past few weeks. Please continue to contact your elected officials and urge them to cosponsor and support these important bills: S. 498 – Introduced by U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), this legislation would respect the rights of individuals who possess concealed...

UNANIMOUS: Supreme Court says convicted felons can sell their guns

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, May 20, 2015

The Associated Press is reporting that, in a surprising show of common sense, a unanimous Supreme Court has ruled that the government can't prevent a convicted felon who is barred from possessing firearms from trying to sell his guns after they are confiscated by authorities. From the article : The justices sided with Tony Henderson, a former U.S. Border Patrol agent who agreed to turn over his...

Newspaper: "40% No-Check Claim is "Mostly False"

3:00pm Tuesday, May 19, 2015

As one of our great national leaders once said when repeatedly confronted with specious and insubstantial arguments, “There you go again.” We could cite plenty of examples used by proponents of gun control in this regard, but for the moment we’re talking about the claim that 40 percent of firearms are sold without a background check. Readers may recall that two years ago, FactCheck.org...

Assumptions and Biases in Training

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Tuesday, May 19, 2015

A friend of mine recently pointed me towards Rory Miller’s blog post about assumptions and biases in training. I’ve read most of Rory’s material and really like it. Before reading any more of this article, please check out the link below: Assumptions and Biases My friend challenged me to examine my training biases and describe how these biases affect the content of my training classes….as Rory...

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Can Your CCW Gun "Survive"?

by Chuck Haggard

3:00pm Monday, May 18, 2015

Republished from The Outdoor Wire . Over my years of carrying and training people to carry handguns for serious purposes, I have noted some trends in how people decide "what gun" they want to have for concealed carry. The considerations for both regular CCW folks and off-duty LE are almost exactly the same, so I see little difference in requirements for what one should carry. Most people will...

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Guns save lives, but Big Media doesn't like to tell the tale

by Jeff Knox

7:00am Monday, May 18, 2015

Did you see the story about the Uber driver who shot a man in Chicago’s Logan Square on Friday evening, April 17. The story blipped across newspapers and TV screens on Monday, but little has been heard about it since. The unidentified driver of an Uber rideshare car was parked when he saw a young man across the street open fire on a group of pedestrians. The Uber driver jumped from his car and...

Elderly homeowner uses gun to defend himself during home invasion

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Friday, May 15, 2015

The (Alliance, OH) Review is reporting that a 63 year-old Minerva homeowner was able to protect himself when a home invader rushed into his home. From the article : Ryan Johns, 33, of Canton, was shot and fatally wounded by homeowner William Dietrich Jr., 63, of Virginia Avenue. Johns was pronounced dead on arrival at Alliance Community Hospital. According to Columbiana County Sheriff's Office...

Appeals Court: Arrest for open carry violated Ohioan's 4th Amendment rights

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, May 15, 2015

A three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based federal 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district court's ruling allowing a lawsuit against a City of Toledo police officer to proceed. The suit claims that TPD officer David Bright illegally detained Shawn Northrup for openly carrying a semi-automatic handgun. From the Northrup v. City of Toledo Police Dept. ruling: On a midsummer evening,...