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November 2015 firearms sales jump 7.7% over prior year; Black Friday sales set all-time record

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, December 10, 2015

The November 2015 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,432,451 is an increase of 7.7 percent compared to the November 2014 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,329,688. For comparison, the unadjusted November 2015 FBI NICS figure of 2,236,457 reflects a 24.4 percent increase from the unadjusted FBI NICS figure of 1,797,163 in November 2014. USA Today...

Newsflash for unarmed Americans: We gun owners don't carry for you

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Like many Americans, I frequently carry a gun. I’ve done so for over 30 years without ever laying hand to it in need. Professor John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center reports that some 12.8 million people, over 5.2 percent of the adult U.S. population, are licensed to carry a concealed handgun. In addition to concealed carry license holders in all 50 states, seven states require no...

Bowling Green professor admits to "lobbying activity," claims support for gun ownership racially motivated

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, December 09, 2015

On November 30, I published an article exposing a large number of faculty at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) for having used university resources to lobby against House Bill 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones). I reported that Dr. James E. Evans, a professor of geology and ringleader of participant in the lobbying effort, informed Rep. Tim Brown (R-Bowling Green) that he considers...

Op-Ed: No, Mr. President, the NRA is not to blame

by Chris Cox

3:00pm Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Editor's Note: BRAVO to the NRA's Chris Cox for responding within 48 hours to the blaming of peacable gun owners by President Obama and others in the wake of the terrorist attack in Calilfornia. As we argue here , gun rights advocates can no longer afford to surrender the first week of airtime to the opposition. Just when we think that politics can’t sink any lower, President Obama once again...

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The Terrorist Watch List and Firearms Sales: Political Pandering Over Due Process

by Larry Keane

7:00am Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Editor's Note: On Sunday, December 6, Ohio Governor and presidential-candidate John Kasich stated "on the no-fly list, we probably could keep them from getting guns and ought to ban them." Here's why Kasich is WRONG. There appears to be no limit on the opportunistic lengths to which Congressional Democrats and the Obama administration will go to pursue gun control by other means. The latest...

Dangerous Disorder in the Court

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Monday, December 07, 2015

The Federal Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit has once again come down with a shameful ruling based on selective interpretation of the Supreme Court’s narrow rulings in Heller and McDonald, the landmark Second Amendment cases decided in 2008 and 2010. In this latest abomination from the courts, the three-judge panel concluded that New York and Connecticut’s laws banning virtually all semi-auto...

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Reality Check: The True Intent Of The Second Amendment

7:00am Monday, December 07, 2015

The Second Amendment - so controversial, so contentious... So hard to understand? What if everything you know about the Second Amendment is wrong? This is a Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.

Your Tactical Training Scenario - An Unnecessary Shooting

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Friday, December 04, 2015

Those of us who train to use defensive firearms often think about scenarios where we might have to shoot an attacker. But how often do we think about alternate courses of action in situations where we might still be legal to shoot. Just because we legally CAN shoot someone, doesn’t mean that it’s always the best idea to do it. Put yourself in this situation… You are at a bar with your significant...

Report: Cleveland’s new gun offender registry has zero takers in first month

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, December 04, 2015

What happens when an anti-gun rights mayor passes a new gun control law and no one complies? That question has now been answered in the City of Cleveland. According to WEWS, Cleveland's ABC affiliate, Tuesday December 2 marked a month since Cleveland's controversial gun registry program went active and, in 30 days, not one person has registered . The law, which Mayor Frank Jackson claimed would...

Ohio sheriffs urge citizens to obtain concealed handgun licenses to protect against terror

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Thursday, December 03, 2015

Dayton's WHIO (AM 1290) is reporting that two Ohio county sheriffs took to Twitter in the hours after news of the attack in San Bernadino, CA to urge Ohioans to obtain concealed handgun licenses. From the article : Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones in a Twitter exchange called on people to get a conceal and carry permit. “I have said it in the past and I said it (Wednesday) , people should get...

Reality Check: Can Armed Citizens Stop Mass Shootings?

7:00am Thursday, December 03, 2015

Have you heard the adage "It takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun"? Is that true when it comes to mass shootings? What follows is a Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.

Your Tactical Training Scenario- Violent Purse Snatching

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Watch the video. It’s only a minute long. The first 55 seconds show the purse snatcher’s identification of the victim, approach, and escape. After second 55 the view changes and you see the attack. Ladies, the question for you is: “Have you trained to defeat this level of violence?” The attacker was not big, nor skilled. He was fast and extremely violent. Notice how quickly he appeared and...

Ohio CHL-holder credited with stopping robber's escape

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, December 02, 2015

WKEF, Dayton's ABC affiliate, is reporting that a customer with an Ohio concealed handgun detained a man who robbed a local restaurant. From the article : Walter Schwytzer III went to [Tipp of the Town] restaurant and allegedly handed the hostess a note. "To my knowledge it just said ‘I have a gun, give me your money,'" said [restaurant owner Paul] Loubier. He got the money and took off. "My...

20 Years and Millions of “Assault Weapons” and “Large” Magazines Ago...

3:00pm Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Twenty years ago, not long after Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) federal “assault weapon” and “large” magazine “ban” took effect, CBS 60 Minutes reporter Lesley Stahl faced a dilemma. To help Feinstein make her case for a new ban that would cover more types of guns and more magazines, CBS would have to do something that doesn’t come naturally to gun control supporters. It would have to tell...

Lessons from the UC Merced Stabbing Incident

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Tuesday, December 01, 2015

[Recently], a student at The University of California at Merced entered a classroom and began stabbing another student. A construction worker who was working nearby heard the commotion and interrupted the attack by kicking the knife wielding attacker. The construction worker was stabbed himself before the suspect fled. While fleeing, the student stabbed two more people in the stairwell of the...