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Survey: Gun Owners Overwhelmingly Favor Trump for President

by Dean Rieck

3:00pm Thursday, October 15, 2020

Every election season, we are bombarded with surveys and polls purporting to tell us what voters think and what their intentions are. The 2020 general election is no exception. However, after the 2016 presidential election where polls appeared to confirm the near certainty of a Hillary Clinton win, who in fact went on to lose to Donald Trump, trust in the predictive power of polling has waned...

America's liberals were never going to fight fair in Supreme Court battle

by Larry Keane

7:00am Thursday, October 15, 2020

Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court has undoubtedly moved the idea of the nation’s top court operating as an originalist judiciary from a conservative dream to an anticipated reality. A court where the majority interprets the law as written, as opposed to legislating from the bench, has massive implications for many issues, and especially positive ones for America’s...

FBI 2019 Crime Data Released

3:00pm Wednesday, October 14, 2020

The FBI released its annual “Crime in the United States report” with crime statistics on September 28th with data covering calendar year 2019. The data shows that crime continued an established downward trend through 2019. The FBI has not yet released any data on crime for the current year. From the FBI’s summary : “The 2019 statistics show the estimated rate of violent crime was 366.7 offenses...

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Biden-Harris ticket packing it in on not answering court packing questions

by Larry Keane

7:00am Wednesday, October 14, 2020

One of U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris’s loudest Vice Presidential debate answers came when she refused to say anything at all about the Biden-Harris campaign’s plans to pack the U.S. Supreme Court. Asked repeatedly in the debate against Vice President Mike Pence if a Biden-Harris administration would pack the Court should they win the election, Sen. Harris blinked. She didn’t answer, leaving gun owners...

Big Numbers on Background Checks and Carry Permits

3:00pm Tuesday, October 13, 2020

New data on background checks and concealed carry permit holders shows that the exercise of 2nd Amendment rights may just be the one constant in 2020. New data was released and records were set. This isn’t déjà vu; it’s a trend. The FBI released NICS background check data for September, which saw the fewest checks since February but still set the record for the most checks ever for the month of...

Gun Control 1957: The Same Old Story

by Larry S. Moore

7:00am Tuesday, October 13, 2020

A local reader gave me a number of copies of the old Ohio Conservation Bulletin a few years ago. At that time I glanced through them but laid them aside. Recently, I got them out for a closer look. I found fascinating information about the history of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), the conservationists, writers and issues from sixty-years ago. The ODNR headquarters was 1500...

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Biden Gun Control Would Choke Gun Sales

7:00am Monday, October 12, 2020

NEWTOWN, Conn. – NSSF®, the trade association for the firearm industry, is shining a spotlight on former Vice President Joe Biden’s radical antigun campaign promise to end gun sales as America knows it. His far-left driven agenda would end Second Amendment rights to lawfully acquire, keep and bear firearms by individuals by dismantling the Constitutionally-protected commerce in arms. “The single...

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School Resource Officer SWD Challenge

by Ron Borsch

7:00am Friday, October 09, 2020

Raising awareness! First, it is key for parents, teachers, school administrators, SRO’s and other stake-holders to have a good idea of just how rapid an active killer can accomplish spontaneous mass murder. To have practical plans, training and countermeasures in place, it is also important to be aware of just how deadly any delay is in stopping an active killer attack can be in a school. It is a...