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CMP Hosts Annual National Trophy Rifle and Games Matches in July

by Ashley Brugnone

3:00pm Thursday, July 16, 2015

CAMP PERRY, Ohio – The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) is thrilled to once again welcome eager competitors to the Rifle Phase of the National Trophy Matches, held July 15-28, 2015, at the world-famous Camp Perry National Guard training facility. The matches have been fired on the base since 1907 and continue to draw thousands of athletes and spectators each year. The event offers air gun,...

Active Killer Activity: Good And Bad News

by Ron Borsch

7:00am Thursday, July 16, 2015

We recently took a five year glimpse at the incidents that fit our protocol for Rapid Mass Murder© (RMM) by an active killer (available HERE ). This time we are sharing research that reveals we are presently on track for 2015 to tie the lowest incidence of RMM in the last decade. On average over the preceding decade, the first half and last half of each year have been about evenly split 50/50...

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Another Gun Control Claim Bites the Dust

3:00pm Wednesday, July 15, 2015

If it sounds like we’re repeating ourselves, it’s because we are. For the proverbial umpteenth time, Fact Checkers at a prominent newspaper have denounced a lie being told by a supporter of expanded background checks on gun sales. [Recently], the Washington Post gave Four Pinnochios to U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) for repeating a claim originated by Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun...

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Former CNN anchor involved in another one of those "rare" self-defense shootings

7:00am Wednesday, July 15, 2015

"Guns are rarely used to kill criminals or stop crimes," claims the Violence Policy Center (VPC), led by longtime handgun-ban advocate Josh Sugarmann, formerly of the National Coalition to Ban Handguns. However, that's something the anti-gun group probably would have a hard time convincing former CNN Headline News anchor Lynne Russell and husband Chuck de Caro to believe. [Recently], Russell and...

Brady Campaign "A+" Politician Guilty of Weapons-Related Racketeering

3:00pm Tuesday, July 14, 2015

The Sacramento Bee reports that former California State Sen. Leland Yee, a gun control advocate rated "A+" by the Brady Campaign, has pled guilty to weapons-related racketeering charges in an organized crime case and now faces 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Talk about hypocrisy. Last year we noted that in 2012, Yee said "no one will convince me it's anything other than a joke to say that...

Buckeye Firearms Association's Linda Walker featured on Outdoor Channel’s NRA All Access

7:00am Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Beginning today, Linda Walker, Vice President of Buckeye Firearms Association and a member of the NRA's Board of Directors will be featured on The Outdoor Channel's "NRA All Access." This week's episode is entitled “ Real Estate Agents: Why I Carry .” The show will air on Tuesday, July 14 at 9:30 AM and 2:00 PM, and again Wednesday, July 15 at 7:00 PM. Walker has been a real estate agent for over...

June 2015 Firearms Sales Checks Highest June on Record; 2nd Qtr is second highest on record

3:00pm Monday, July 13, 2015

The June 2015 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 886,825 is the highest June on record for the 17-year-old system, with an increase of 10.1 percent compared to the June 2014 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 805,571. The second quarter 2015 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 2,793,230 is the second highest second quarter on record — a 4.5 percent increase over...

BFA President Jim Irvine debates latest efforts to push gun control on Columbus NPR

7:00am Monday, July 13, 2015

Buckeye Firearms Association President Jim Irvine was a guest on WOSU 89.7FM's "All Sides with Ann Fisher," discussing the state of efforts to push gun control in the wake of the mass murder in a "no-guns" church in Charleston, S.C. with host Ann Fisher. Irvine was preceded by obviously anti-gun rights U.S. News & World Report news editor Joseph P. Williams, who recently published an article...