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USAToday Op-Ed: Umpqua shooting - a tragedy, not a trend

by James Alan Fox

3:00pm Friday, October 09, 2015

Another mass shooting sears deep into our collective consciousness, but it is hype and hysteria on the rise, not violence. Another mass shooting sears deep into the collective consciousness of the American people. Another school — this time a community college in an otherwise peaceful town in rural Oregon — is devastated by a young man taking aim at students trapped in classrooms. Nine are...

Emotion vs. Facts, Society's Emasculated Males and an Inconvenient Truth

by Jim Shepherd

7:00am Friday, October 09, 2015

As we go through the grieving process that follows a tragedy like [the recent] shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, it seems our society overstays the time in the questioning phase of grief. Refusing to accept "that" something happens; some keep on asking "why." In the absence of an answer, they angrily demand that someone "do something." So we find ourselves mired in a...

When Anti-Gunners Say "Gun Safety," They Don't Mean It

3:00pm Thursday, October 08, 2015

In what can only be described as a blatant display of hypocrisy, two gun ban groups have started a petition to deny a federal grant for Project Childsafe, a gun safety program operated by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). This year, for the first time since Barack Obama’s 2008 election, the NSSF has won a U.S. Department of Justice grant, in the amount of $2.4 million dollars for...

Anti-Gun Group Fundraises on Massacre at "No-Guns" Oregon College

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, October 08, 2015

Just weeks after the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) was scorned in the national media for encouraging the "SWATting" of peacable gun owners, the anti-gun extremists are at it again. This week, just 5 days after a disturbed individual with several legally-purchased guns went on a murderous rampage at a "no-guns" college campus in Oregon , CSGV is now attempting to capitalize on the deaths...

The Real Scoop on Sound Suppression

by Jeff Zimba

3:00pm Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Thanks to Hollywood, gun mufflers, sound suppressors or “silencers” — one and the same — are viewed in a negative context by many non-shooters. But the truth is that noise suppressors are used daily—as they have been for more than a century — to enhance safety, ease instruction and improve accuracy for shooters of all demographics. ... To put the function of a sound suppressor it in its simplest...

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Op-Ed: Gun rights are the people's rights

7:00am Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Editor's Note: FASTERSavesLives.org Program Director Joe Eaton submitted the following op-ed to the Cleveland Plain Dealer in response to an anti-gun rights screed published recently by that news outlet. As it happens, Eaton's op-ed appeared at Cleveland.com the day after yet another mass murder in a "no-guns" zone. Guest columnist Robert Grow, in his Sept. 25 op-ed, " Ohio, let's stop pandering...

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Holster Selection for the New Shooter - How Do I Chose?

by Dave Dolbee

3:00pm Tuesday, October 06, 2015

One of the primary reasons people begin shopping for a holster is because they’re planning to carry a firearm concealed. Some people also like to use a holster when they head to the range, and certainly handgun competitors in the action pistol sports like IPSC, IDPA, 3-Gun and Cowboy Action also need the right holster. The biggest difference between the two is that in the first case the holster...

Another mass shooting – FASTERSavesLives.org has solutions

by Jim Irvine

7:00am Tuesday, October 06, 2015

The latest mass killing at Umpqua Community College in Oregon has media and “experts” talking about what we should do about these events. Rather than talk about what we could do, or should do, or might do, let me tell you what we HAVE done. In the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, Buckeye Firearms Foundation announced it would pay for a class of 24 educators to attend a...

Buckeye Firearms Foundation's Jim Irvine addresses 2015 GRPC on FASTER program

3:00pm Monday, October 05, 2015

Buckeye Firearms Foundation President Jim Irvine was invited to the 2015 Gun Rights Policy Conference to speak about FASTER Saves Lives , the groundbreaking, nonprofit program that gives educators practical violence response training. Irvine remarks begin at 53m 51s on the counter in the embedded video below, or click here to begin the video at his remarks in a new window.

Why I believe gun rights advocates SHOULD comment after mass shootings

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, October 05, 2015

" Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine, the conversation in the aftermath of it ... We have become numb to this. " - President Barack Obama, October 1, 2015 President Obama is right: the response to mass shootings in "gun-free" zones has indeed become routine. Gun ban extremists (including the president himself) don't...

2015 Gun Rights Policy Conference in Phoenix – one of the best

by Jim Irvine

3:00pm Friday, October 02, 2015

As I sit on my flight from Phoenix (PHX) to Cleveland (CLE) on my way home from the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) my head is swirling with ideas from the weekend. This is my normal state of mind returning from this conference, as it’s always entertaining and educational - but this year was exceptional. The NRA has seen record attendance at its annual...

Pro-gun rights bills scheduled for proponent testimony in Senate committee

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, October 02, 2015

Chairman Kevin Bacon has announced that the Senate Civil Justice Committee will be hearing proponent testimony on Senate Bill 180 (Protect Workers' Constitutional Rights) and Senate Bill 199 (Active Duty Armed Forces Concealed Carry/ Handgun Transfer) on Wednesday, October 7 at 2:30 p.m. in the Senate Finance Hearing Room. Any persons who are interested in testifying are welcome to contact Jim...

Rep. Sam Johnson introduces bill to protect Social Security recipients from the Obama gun grab

3:00pm Thursday, October 01, 2015

[Recently], Congressman Sam Johnson (R-Tex.) introduced H.R. 3516, the “Social Security Beneficiary 2nd Amendment Rights Protection Act.” The purpose of the bill is to protect recipients of Social Security from being forced to choose between benefits to which they are legally entitled and their Second Amendment rights. Since July, we’ve been reporting on the Social Security Administration’s (SSA...

Cleveland road rage incident - NO shots fired

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, October 01, 2015

Cleveland.com is reporting on a road rage incident involving two men who were armed with guns, the aggressor was carrying illegally, while the victim was legally licensed to carry. Some may recall claims by gun ban extremists during the fight to pass concealed carry here in Ohio over a decade ago that normally non-violent encounters between drivers were going to turn deadly, that road rage...