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Ohio House Votes to Pass HB 425 to Eliminate Duty to Inform

12:23pm Friday, June 12, 2020

Late Thursday, June 11, 2020, the Ohio House of Representatives passed House Bill 425. The bill eliminates Ohio’s ambiguously worded requirement that a Concealed Handgun License holder, when interacting with a police officer, “promptly” disclose they are carrying a firearm. The law has been unevenly enforced and has become a trap for law-abiding gun owners in Ohio. HB 425, sponsored by...

Dispatch editorial: "Gun laws pointless if not enforced"

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, June 12, 2020

The headline could have appeared on the Buckeyefirearms.org, NRA.org or a host of any other pro-gun rights websites. But it appeared in the Columbus Dispatch . " Gun laws pointless if not enforced " Written by Theodore Decker, the article documents authorities' consistent failure to prosecute a man who repeatedly violated state and federal gun laws. From the article: The bust yielded both...

Is it time to begin stockpiling ammunition?

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Thursday, June 11, 2020

With the recent COVID-19 pandemic and lots of civil unrest, I’m getting more and more people asking questions about stockpiling ammunition. Online ammunition outlets have been sold out of popular products lately. Ammo availability at local gun stores is starting to increase, but prices are high and many stores are limiting the amount of ammunition an individual can purchase. How many rounds...

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As a Lawyer, Please Don’t Listen to Joe Biden’s Gun Advice

by Joe Bartozzi

7:00am Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Please, for the love of all things precious to you and your family, do not listen to Joe Biden when it comes to using firearms to defend yourself. His advice is dangerous both physically and legally. It’s going to get police killed and lull Americans into a false sense of security. Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has been wrong on guns every time he mentions them. His...

May 2020 firearms sales jump 75.2% over prior year

3:00pm Tuesday, June 09, 2020

The wave of increased gun sales that followed the government's response to a pandemic continued in May. The May 2020 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,595,790 is an increase of 75.2 percent compared to the May 2019 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 910,910. For comparison, the unadjusted May 2020 FBI NICS figure 3,066,740 reflects a 32.1 percent...

‘They got guns!’ Rioters quickly lose sweet tooth after Cleveland bakery owners greet them with firearms

by Tom Tillison

7:00am Tuesday, June 09, 2020

As violent left-wing mobs exploit the death of George Floyd to bring their dreams of revolution to the streets of America, where police officers have been rendered all but impotent by progressive policing tactics ushered in by liberals, a remarkable video out of Cleveland is making the rounds. With troubling videos of shop owners trying to protect their businesses from rioters with little more...

Mexico Demands Explanation for Obama-era Gun-walking Scandal

3:00pm Monday, June 08, 2020

Nearly a decade has passed since the public first learned of the botched Obama-era gunwalking scandal Operation Fast and Furious. These days, Barack Obama spends his time collecting money from a lucrative Netflix contract, shuffling between lavish homes in Washington, D.C. and on Martha's Vineyard, and occasionally offering his tepid support for presumptive democratic presidential nominee Joe...

How does one safely intervene when cops are mistreating a prisoner?

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Monday, June 08, 2020

I had a friend send me a message yesterday. He wanted to know how a bystander might intervene in a situation like what happened in Minneapolis. My friend told me he didn’t want to stand around “watching a murder.” How does one safely intervene when cops are mistreating a prisoner? Violent action won’t help. You will be arrested and likely beaten or killed as well. If you physically attack the cop...