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Another Reason to be Concerned about Obama’s Surgeon General Nominee

3:00pm Wednesday, April 30, 2014
On Thursday (April 10], the anti-gun American College of Physicians (ACP) came out for the entire gun control agenda being pushed at the national level, adding to the suspicion that Dr. Vivek Murthy, President Obama's nominee for Surgeon General, would do the same if confirmed to the post. To the many newspaper editors who have suggested medicine has nothing to do with gun control, and NRA has no...

Crime drops as more Americans carry guns

by Gerard Valentino
7:00am Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Editor's Note: The following op-ed was published by the Cleveland Plain Dealer . Republished by permission of the author. A rebuttal written by Mrs. Toby Hoover, entitled "Promoting weapons everywhere fosters culture of fear", was also published . At this point in the debate over the role of guns in America, only the mainstream media and zealots cling to the false hope of gun control. Few, if any...

More People “Prohibited” by SCOTUS

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Tuesday, April 29, 2014
The Supreme Court of the US came down with a decision in March that effectively expands the base of people prohibited from purchasing or possessing firearms in this country. In a unanimous decision in the case US v. Castleman , the Court ruled that the law banning possession of firearms by anyone ever convicted of any crime of violence against a spouse or significant other – often referred to as...

Robbed and kidnapped, Ohio man pulls own gun and shoots attacker

by Chad D. Baus
11:00am Tuesday, April 29, 2014
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that a man was robbed, then kidnapped, was able to pull his own handgun and shoot his attacker. From the article : A man who told police that he shot a robber in the neck on the Hilltop on Friday evening claims he was abducted at gunpoint and was being driven to a cash machine to withdraw money, Columbus police said yesterday. Police identified the dead man as...

Op-Ed: Murder Motivation - Why Most of America is Immune to Gun Violence

by Chuck Michel
3:00pm Monday, April 28, 2014
What was your motivation for the murder you committed yesterday? If you can't answer that, then you are in the 99.996% of the population that also assassinated nobody. When it comes to guns, we already know that the largest cluster of gun deaths (61%) are suicides, and that suicide is a mental health problem than no gun or magazine ban prevents. The next largest cluster are gun crimes (35%), with...

ATF Bans More Ammo

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Monday, April 28, 2014
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has declared that Russian 7N6, 5.45x39 rifle ammunition is “armor piercing handgun ammunition,” and therefore illegal for importation into the US. The ammunition has been widely available in the US for decades and was originally designed for the AK74 service rifle, a smaller, lighter adaptation of the AK47. The “handgun ammunition” label...

Headline: The pistol-toting 'Angel of Mercy' that saved a driver from an angry Detroit mob

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, April 25, 2014
Recently, WJBK (Fox Detroit) published a moving interview with a woman who got her pistol and chose to intervene in a racially-charged mob attack on a driver whose car had struck a child who ran in front of his car. From the article : Almost one week has passed since the brutal attack of a driver in Detroit who stopped to help a little boy he had accidentally just hit with his car. In a bankrupt...

Justice Stevens’ Dishonest Diatribe Against the Second Amendment

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Friday, April 25, 2014
In a recently released book, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens calls for fundamental changes to the founding document of the United States. As a way of ginning up buzz about the book, the judge’s publicists gave a particularly controversial excerpt to the Washington Post for publication. That section deals with the former Justice’s opinions on “reforming” the Second Amendment...

The BATFE's "rubber band ruler"

by Jim Shepherd
3:00pm Thursday, April 24, 2014
After the ATF's raid on a pair of California gun companies, many in the firearms industry -myself included- wondered just what changed the ATF's collective mind what morphed unfinished polymer AR-style rifle lowers into finished-and unregistered "guns". It was a matter of no small amount of speculation. The speculation wasn't unfounded. It wouldn't be the first time the BATFE had suffered a...

Neighbors say Columbus home-owner acted in self-defense during home invasion

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, April 24, 2014
WBNS (CBS Columbus) is reporting that a homeowner may have acted in self-defense during a shooting in Southwest Columbus. From the article : Police were called to a home on Londonderry Avenue around 10 pm Friday night on a report of a homeowner shooting a robbery suspect. A neighbor told 10TV's Shelby Croft he heard multiple gun shots. Alex Mitchell said he ran outside to find the man shot in...

Zero-Tolerance Policies Now Exploited by Enterprising Bullies

3:00pm Wednesday, April 23, 2014
There is a long history of school administrators behaving like bullies when enforcing the irrational zero-tolerance policies that have ensnared scores of students. A recent case out of Vernon, N.J., however, suggests that the hysterical enforcement of these policies in some schools has reached a level where an actual peer bully can exploit zero-tolerance to torment a victim. This latest incident...

Headline: WWII vet, pistol-packing wife chase away would-be robber

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, April 23, 2014
WLWT (NBC Cincinnati) reported recently that a knife-wielding man was outgunned when he tried to rob an elderly Ohio couple. From the article : The 92-year-old World War II veteran and his 89-year-old wife were more than a handful for the alleged attacker. Investigators said Robert Kelly Jr. talked his way into a home in Springfield [Township], Ohio where he had previously done odd jobs. "I was...

Sen. Cornyn Sends Letter to Holder Demanding Answers on DOJ's Proposal to Push "Smart Guns"

3:00pm Tuesday, April 22, 2014
As we reported [yesterday], Attorney General Eric Holder recently testified on Capitol Hill that the country needs to spend $2 million to study "smart" gun technology, as part of a $382 million expenditure on what the Obama administration calls "gun safety." "Smart Guns" is a made-up term for a conceptual firearm that incorporates technology that theoretically permits the gun to be fired only by...

Grassroots education: Bloomberg's "Everytown" launched on Facebook - by pro-gun rights advocates

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Last week, anti-gun rights billionaire Michael Bloomberg announced that he was rebranding his gun control lobby apparatus under a new moniker, "Everytown for Gun Safety." Announcing plans to deploy staff in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington, Bloomberg told the New York Times...

Holder Floats Taxpayer-Funded "Smart" Gun Research

3:00pm Monday, April 21, 2014
[Last week] week, Attorney General Eric Holder testified on Capitol Hill that what America needs at this pivotal moment in its history is to spend $2 million for "smart" gun technology, as part of a $382 million expenditure on what the Obama administration calls "gun safety." Translation: Federal "universal" background checks, "assault weapon," and "large" magazine legislation was defeated in the...

Seventy-two killed resisting gun confiscation in Boston

by Author Unknown
7:00am Monday, April 21, 2014
Boston – National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed on April 19 by elements of a para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw. Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the...

NRA Opposes Administration's Plan to Broaden Reach of Mental Health-Related Gun Bans

3:00pm Friday, April 18, 2014
On Monday, NRA filed formal comments in opposition to a plan by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) to expand the categories of persons prohibited under federal law from acquiring or possessing firearms because of having been "adjudicated as a mental defective" or "committed to a mental institution." The proposal is commonly referred to by its BATFE docket number, 51P...

Billionaire Bloomberg's $50 million plan to take your gun rights away

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, April 18, 2014
One nice thing that can be said for the gun ban extremists from the 1970's - at least they were honest. Groups like Handgun Control Inc. and the Coalition to Ban Handguns didn't try to hide what they are. These days, however, the same people who were involved in those groups are involved in groups like the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence or the Violence Policy Center. Then there's...

ATF Rules Against SIG SAUER MPX

by Jim Shepherd
3:00pm Thursday, April 17, 2014
While filming last season's studio segments for "Guns & Gear" TV, SIG SAUER brought several of their new guns to the studio as highlights of their 2014 products. One caught the eye of everyone -including production crew members who normally had no interest. It was, even to a "gun person" a strange-looking thing. The "thing" was SIG's new MPX carbine. OK, a 9mm carbine isn't all that big a...

2014 Buckeye Bash is one to remember

by Larry S. Moore
7:00am Thursday, April 17, 2014
Celebrating 10 successful years of concealed carry with many of the people who made it happen April is the ten-year anniversary since concealed carry in Ohio went into effect. House Bill 12 was sponsored by State Representative James Aslanides. Sheriff's offices were jammed as lines formed to apply for a Concealed Handgun License (CHL). Opponents screamed that shoot-outs would be on every corner...

"News" Magazines Pretend Murthy Confirmation is a Public Health Imperative

3:00pm Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Defensive gun uses far outnumber suicides with guns and the availability of guns has no effect on suicide rates. Nevertheless, from time to time over the last 28 years, gun control supporters have tried to discourage people from owning guns by suggesting that gun suicides outnumber defensive gun uses. Last week was one of those times, all premised upon the notion that gun suicides are a public...

Information War Brewing?

by Jim Shepherd
7:00am Wednesday, April 16, 2014
During dinner Monday night, my wife mentioned something "strange" that happened at work. While ordering computer equipment for her office, the company she was buying from had started asking her some "random" personal questions in order "to make certain" she was the person whose name and password she'd logged in under. She was, but found it odd that the company would be asking, for instance, who...

For Gun Controllers Honesty is NOT the Best Policy

3:00pm Tuesday, April 15, 2014
[Recently], Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) expressed to the audience of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher that he hopes the Democratic Party come outs, not just in favor of more gun control, but against the Second Amendment itself. This is merely the latest episode of an elected official pulling back the curtain on the extreme contempt with which some politicians view the Second Amendment. The...

Contact Your Senators to Stop Feinstein's Proposed Semi-Auto Firearm Importation Ban

7:00am Tuesday, April 15, 2014
As we reported last week, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), sponsor of the federal "assault weapon" and "large" magazine "ban" of 1994-2004, is asking President Barack Obama to direct the BATFE to reinterpret a provision of the Gun Control Act of 1968 to prohibit the importation of various semi-automatic firearms and their parts. In a letter to Obama, the text of which was included in an...

Allow the military to defend themselves at home like they defend us overseas

by Jim Shepherd
3:00pm Monday, April 14, 2014
In the past five years, 30 people have died on military bases in the United States. Not in training accidents, in murders. They've been murdered in the course of going through their daily duties by whacked-out shooters. Twice, Fort Hood, Texas has experienced that horror. And soldiers -and frustration- of being inside the equivalent of a fair-sized city, full of trained -and unarmed -warriors...

Gun ban extremists seek to prevent Ted Nugent from playing Toledo-area summer concert

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, April 14, 2014
Josh Horwitz, of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV), an anti-gun group formed in 1974 as the National Coalition to Ban Handguns, has apparently decided it's not just the Second Amendment that he opposes - it's the First Amendment as well. At least, that is, when the person wanting to exercise his First Amendment rights is rocker Ted Nugent. As we reported earlier today, because gun ban...

Anti-Gunners Want Help from Whom?

3:00pm Friday, April 11, 2014
Gun bans, magazine bans, a background check expansion designed to pave the way for gun registration, and efforts to prevent people from carrying firearms for protection are all serious business. However, it's sometimes healthy to be able to see a little humor in things that are otherwise not humorous. Take anti-gun activists' latest tactic, for example. Thus far unable to convince a majority of...

School Knife Attack: No Blood Dancing by Anti-Gun Rights Extremists

by Jim Shepherd
7:00am Friday, April 11, 2014
With 20 high school students stabbed or cut by a 16-year old classmate at Franklin Regional Senior High School in Murraysville, Pennsylvania, the typical media saturation coverage is not at the level you might expect. For this normally quiet, upscale town of 20,000, it was another one of those "it can't happen here" moments. And they're quietly dealing with the shock and sadness that accompanies...

Straight-walled cartridge rifles approved for hunting white-tailed deer in Ohio!

3:00pm Thursday, April 10, 2014
Ohio Wildlife Council Approves 2014-2015 Hunting Regulations COLUMBUS, OH – The Ohio Wildlife Council approved new white-tailed deer hunting regulations at its meeting on Wednesday, April 9, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). Among new regulations are decreased deer bag limits in many counties, and hunters may use straight-walled cartridge rifles during the 2014 deer-...

Op-Ed: Fort Hood attack: My son, our soldiers, are defenseless, sitting ducks

by John Lott
7:00am Thursday, April 10, 2014
The Obama administration hasn’t learned anything from the massacres at Fort Hood in 2009 or the Washington Navy Yard last year. For all my research on how to stop or prevent mass public shootings and all the victims at these attacks that I have talked to over the years, the attack this week at Fort Hood was different. My son Ryan, who is stationed at Fort Hood and recently back from a tour in...

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