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Rep. Steve Scalise Introduces Bill to Relax Restrictions on Interstate Firearm Sales

3:00pm Monday, June 08, 2015
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) has introduced a bill to modernize certain aspects of interstate firearms commerce.The Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act, H.R. 2246, would yield increased convenience and choice for consumers, while continuing to allow states to set their own policy regarding transfer and possession of firearms within their borders. In 1968, when the federal Gun Control Act (GCA)...

NEW Weekly Insights Newsletter Starts June 11

7:00am Monday, June 08, 2015
Buckeye Firearms Association is proud to announce a new, free "bonus" newsletter called BFA Weekly Insights. It will be sent each Thursday to all current newsletter subscribers beginning June 11, 2015. There is nothing extra you need to do to receive this newsletter. If you subscribe to BFA News , you'll start getting the new BFA Weekly Insights automatically. Why a second newsletter? If you've...

May 2015 Firearms Sales Checks Second Highest May on Record

3:00pm Friday, June 05, 2015
The May 2015 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 918,707 is the second highest May on record for the 17-year-old system, with an increase of 4.7 percent compared to the May 2014 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 877,655. For comparison, the unadjusted May 2015 NICS figure of 1,570,893 reflects a 6.4 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,476,...

Lake Co. Sheriff revokes 170 concealed handgun licenses; Classes didn't include range time

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, June 05, 2015
Recently, the News-Herald of Willoughby, Ohio reported that more than concealed carry licenses in Lake County have been invalidated after an instructor allegedly did not teach the required classes. From the article : The Lake County Sheriff’s Office was informed that a concealed carry instructor, who was properly licensed, had been offering what he called “fast track classes,” said Lake County...

D.C. Gun Control Smackdown

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Thursday, June 04, 2015
Editor's Note: Article originally published at WorldNetDaily.com . Some people thought the Heller and McDonald decisions would solve, or at least seriously mitigate the problem of states and localities enacting or enforcing draconian restrictions on guns and gun owners, but so far the impact of those two Supreme Court rulings has been limited, and the Court has refused to hear any subsequent...

HB 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) scheduled for 3rd hearing in House committee

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, June 04, 2015
Chairman Ron Maag (R-Lebanon) has announced that the House State Government committee will be hearing testimony on HB 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) next Wednesday, June 10 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 121. The chairman has also indicated that a substitute bill may be offered. As introduced, HB 48 would allow Ohioans to carry concealed guns on college campuses, places of worship, day-care...

Fail: Professor Claims Gun Rights Lead to Grade Inflation

3:00pm Wednesday, June 03, 2015
Most critics of campus carry couch their cultural bigotry against firearms and their owners in the dubious rhetoric of “public safety.” Yet an instructor at Texas Women’s University has come up with a new argument to suppress Second Amendment rights on campus. Writing in Newsweek, TWU Assistant Professor of Sociology Jessica Gullion stokes fears that campus carry would lead to rampant grade...

Anti-Gun Group Called Out (Mildly) for Falsification As the News Media Continue to Confuse Matters

by Larry Keane
7:00am Wednesday, June 03, 2015
We have noted previously that gun control organizations often exaggerate, confuse, conflate or just plain misrepresent the facts in the pursuit of their political agendas. It happened again following the recent tragic murder of NYPD officer Brian Moore by a career criminal. This time, however, the Politifact organization did some fact checking and found that Everytown for Gun Safety’s talking...

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