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Rep. Carolyn Maloney Flies Anti-gun Flag in U.S. House

3:00pm Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Reliably anti-gun Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) has introduced two new rights-restricting bills in the U.S. House of Representatives. May 15 saw the introduction of H.R. 2380, the so-called “Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2015.” This bill would require background checks on all firearms transactions occurring at gun shows. In the 1990s, gun control supporters began claiming that...

Appeals Court places feelings over Constitution

by Jeff Knox

7:00am Tuesday, June 09, 2015

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, based in Chicago, has upheld a lower court ruling that an Illinois community’s ordinance banning possession of “assault weapons,” and “high-capacity” magazines is not a violation of the Second Amendment rights of their citizens. In the two to one decision, the prevailing judges concluded that “ If a ban on semi‐automatic...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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...