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NICS Numbers Tell a Story

7:00am Monday, June 07, 2021

We write about NICS numbers regularly because they provide a ready-made finger on the pulse of American gun owners. As we saw last year, NICS numbers confirm what we’re all thinking. Politicians talking about banning commonly owned firearms? NICS numbers rise. Bureaucrats releasing prisoners as a virus rages? NICS numbers rise. Readers know the rest. Self-reliance and firearms ownership are time-...

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Canada’s “Dead” Long-Gun Registry Still Used by Police

7:00am Friday, June 04, 2021

A year after Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his sweeping ban on firearms, shocking new revelations have emerged concerning the repudiated long gun registry and the federal police agency responsible for implementing and enforcing Canada’s gun laws. According to reports by the Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA) and news media, there is good reason to believe that the Royal...

SCOTUS asked to take up State v. Weber, Ohio case with Second Amendment implications

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, June 03, 2021

A man whose conviction for holding an unloaded shotgun in his home while drunk was upheld by the Ohio Supreme Court is taking his case to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The case is State v. Weber , which as has been noted on our site , "involves a situation where despite the defendant’s wife telling police there was no longer a problem, they pressed their way in. There they...

FBI’s Shadow Gun Bans Threaten First and Second Amendment Rights

7:00am Wednesday, June 02, 2021

For several years the FBI has been operating a shadow gun ban regime whereby Americans who are not prohibited from possessing firearms under federal law are being denied their Second Amendment rights without due process. This extralegal practice was brought to light again in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit case Turaani v. Wray . The case revealed that the FBI’s current...

US Department of Justice: Active Killer Incidents 2000-2018

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Tuesday, June 01, 2021

The US Department of Justice released a useful publication titled Active Shooter Incidents: Topical One-Pagers 2000-2018 . The publication is an 18-page summary of active shooter statistics for every attack that met the FBI definition between the years 2000 and 2018. It is a valuable reference for anyone who is interested in the topic. I suggest that you read the entire document, but for those...

PODCAST: Second Amendment Sanctuary: Fighting Unconstitutional Gun Control

3:00pm Monday, May 31, 2021

Buckeye Firearms Association has launched a podcast called Keep and Bear Radio . The podcast is hosted on the Podbean platform and is also available on Apple , Google , Spotify , and iHeartRadio . Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear every episode. *** Episode 15: All across America, cities, counties, and states have been declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries in a desperate...

NSSF Commends Sen. Cornyn’s Concealed Carry Reciprocity Legislation

7:00am Monday, May 31, 2021

Legislation Would End Patchwork of Confusing Gun Law for CC Permit Holders NEWTOWN, Conn. – The NSSF®, the firearm industry’s trade association, commends U.S. Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) introduction of S. 1522, the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. The legislation was introduced with 30 original co-sponsors – over 30 percent of the U.S. Senate – to protect law-abiding concealed...

CNN surprised that female, minority & LGBTQ+ communities support gun rights

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, May 28, 2021

With the National Rifle Association having been weakened in recent years due to scandal-ridden mismanagement, gun control extremists have hoped they might finally have a chance in Congress. But the mainstream media are finally discovering what we have long known - the gun rights "tent" is very, very large, and the NRA is but one of many tent poles. From a CNN article entitled, " The fight against...