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Compliance Doesn’t Always Ensure your Safety!

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Many of my students tell me that, should they ever be robbed, they plan on complying with the robbers’ demands. While I can’t presume to tell anyone the individual best course of action during a dangerous situation, I can provide some general statistics about past events. Statistically, complying with armed robbers’ demands generally results in fewer injuries to the victim than resisting (except...

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FOX Cleveland examines proposal to allow concealed carry on college campuses

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, June 02, 2015

WJW (Fox Cleveland) recently published a report on Rep. Ron Maag's (R-Lebanon) HB 48, which seeks to restore Ohioans right to bear concealed firearms on college campuses, places of worship, day-care facilities, private airplanes, school safety zones and certain government buildings. The report focused specifically on campus carry, and featured an interview with Buckeye Firearms Association...

Court Orders Issuance of D.C. Concealed Carry Licenses to Eligible Applicants

3:00pm Monday, June 01, 2015

On May 18, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order prohibiting enforcement of provisions of D.C. law that effectively grant to the police chief the discretion to decide who may lawfully exercise the right to bear arms in public for self-defense. This follows on the heels of an earlier ruling in which the District lost the argument that the right to “bear arms” does...

Report: Administration preps new gun regulations

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, June 01, 2015

TheHill.com is reporting that the Justice Department plans to move forward this year with more than a dozen new gun-related regulations, citing a list of rules the agency has proposed to enact before the end of the Obama administration. From the article : The regulations range from new restrictions on high-powered pistols to gun storage requirements. Chief among them is a renewed effort to keep...

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Passage of H.R. 2028 Includes Right-to-Carry on Army Corps Land Provision

3:00pm Friday, May 29, 2015

On Friday, May 1, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2028 the "Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016," by a bipartisan vote of 240-177. This bill is designed to protect the rights of gun owners on lands owned or managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). This legislation would help end the patchwork of firearm laws and regulations...

When it comes to a concealed carry gun, how small is too small?

by Rich Grassi

7:00am Friday, May 29, 2015

Republished from The Outdoor Wire . Recently, I met someone who was interested in the new Glock 43. He said that he was carrying a six-shot Kahr pistol and, due to size comparisons he'd stay with it. I'd wondered about carrying such a small gun as a primary self-defense tool and said so in an article. A reader replied. While I won't identify him, I'm going to post his comment here – noting that...

History relived at the Centerburg Conservation Club

by Clint Lake

3:00pm Thursday, May 28, 2015

When I got into the shooting I generally thought that people just went to the range once in a while for practice. The more I got involved in Second Amendment issues I found defensive shooting leagues were really big and seemed to be growing leaps and bounds as more people obtained their concealed handgun licenses. This made sense, because in those leagues a participant is given a possible...

Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman Gun Owner

by Mary Rose Maguire

7:00am Thursday, May 28, 2015

"You what?" My friend looked at me with a mixture of shock and admiration. We were having lunch at one of my favorite restaurants while I shared with her my secret. It was a secret I had kept from her until now. My friend had to be in Columbus, Ohio for a business training session and stayed in a downtown hotel. We made arrangements to have dinner on Friday. I realized that although she had a car...