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Women Too Weak to Defend Themselves With Guns?

7:00am Thursday, September 24, 2015

Anti-gun activist Leah Gunn Barrett, the executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, must have never read Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. Breitbart reports that on Al Jazeera TV, Barrett said that women shouldn’t be allowed to carry firearms for protection on college campuses, on the grounds that “Women are not physically powerful like men are. A gun could...

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Study: Criminals Don’t Get Guns From Legal Sources

3:00pm Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Numerous studies conducted by academic researchers and by the federal government have shown that criminals do not use legal markets to obtain guns. And now we have more evidence of this reality, this time looking at criminals in Chicago. Philip J. Cook, Susan T. Parker, and Harold A. Pollack conducted interviews with criminals being held in the Cook County Jail. Their primary findings were that...

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SB 199 (Active Duty Armed Forces Concealed Carry/ Handgun Transfer) scheduled for sponsor testimony in Senate committee

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Chairman Kevin Bacon has announced that the Senate Civil Justice Committee will be hearing sponsor testimony on Senate Bill 199 (Active Duty Armed Forces Concealed Carry) today, Wednesday, September 23 at 2:30 p.m.in the Senate Finance Hearing Room. SB 199, sponsored by Senators Joe Uecker (R-Miami Township) and Randy Gardner (R-Bowling Green), seeks to specify that an active duty member of the U...

Summer 2015: New Record for Gun Sales?

3:00pm Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Data from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) indicate that firearm acquisitions set a new record during June, July and August, and are on track to finish the year higher than any year except 2013, when firearm acquisitions soared in reaction to President Obama’s push for gun control. There were more than 2.6 million firearm acquisition-related checks during June...

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Report: With less training required, more central Ohioans file to carry concealed guns

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, September 22, 2015

The Columbus Dispatch reported recently that more central Ohioans are filing for licenses to carry concealed guns in Franklin County after the state legislature relaxed training requirements earlier this year. In fact, the article notes the the sheriff has asked the county commissioners to approve hiring additional staff members to keep up with the increased demand. From the article : “...

Survey: Which Republican presidential candidates own guns?

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, September 21, 2015

The London Daily Telegraph recently asked the Republican presidential candidates if they owned a gun, and reported the responses . The candidates, including one who has since dropped from the race, are listed below in alphabetical order. Jeb Bush: Former governor Bush is one of three candidates who does not own a gun. However, the report notes that he was avowedly pro-gun during his eight years...

NRA Ad Targets “Candidate” Bloomberg

3:00pm Friday, September 18, 2015

Michael Bloomberg hasn’t said that he’s running for president, but an NRA TV ad campaign launched recently contends that the most aggressive gun control advocate in the country will, at the very least, attempt to use his vast wealth to influence the 2016 presidential election. The gist of the ad is that Bloomberg is a meddlesome multi-billionaire who thinks that people’s rights should be limited...

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Guns & Ammo "Best States for Gun Owners" shows progress, but Ohio legislators STILL have a lot of work to do

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, September 18, 2015

One year ago, and despite the fact that Republicans had been in control of the General Assembly and governor's mansion for 4 years, a lack of progress in improving the state's gun rights law was reflected in the state's fall in Guns & Ammo's 2014 ranking of the Best Concealed Carry States from 39th in 2013 to 41st. Just a few months after that ranking was published, the General Assembly...