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ICYMI: Eric Trump Meets with Ohio Sportsmen and Second Amendment Leaders

by Larry S. Moore
3:00pm Friday, October 30, 2020
On Thursday, January 16, 2020, LEPD Firearms & Range hosted a Sportsmen / Second Amendment roundtable with Eric Trump. Leaders from across Ohio, representing the state's leading Second Amendment and sportsmen organizations, were invited. LEPD owners Eric Delbert, Phil Delbert and Lori Delbert were most gracious hosts. Attendees included: Dean Rieck, Executive Director, representing Buckeye...

ICYMI: Biden-Harris Would Weaponize ATF Against Firearm Retailers

7:00am Friday, October 30, 2020
NEWTOWN, Conn. – NSSF®, the trade association for the firearm industry, is focusing on former Vice President Joe Biden’s radical antigun campaign promise turn the Bureau of Alcohol. Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from its’ mission as the nation’s firearms regulatory bureau into a bludgeon to wield against firearm retailers to close off the means by which law-abiding Americans obtain...

Political Elite Value Their Own Safety, NOT YOURS

3:00pm Thursday, October 29, 2020
The hypocrisy of the pampered political elite on the topic of personal safety is reaching breathtaking new levels. No longer content to merely deprive the citizenry of the means with which to defend themselves, politicians in some jurisdictions are depriving residents of police protection as well. All the while, these contemptible figures have shown a keen interest in making arrangements to...

NSSF Praises Senate Confirmation, Swearing in of Justice Amy Coney Barrett

7:00am Thursday, October 29, 2020
NEWTOWN, Conn. – NSSF®, the trade association for the firearm industry, praised the U.S. Senate confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was sworn into the U.S. Supreme Court by Justice Clarence Thomas in a White House ceremony. Justice Barrett fills the vacancy on the court left following the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Justice Barrett joins at least four other U.S. Supreme...

Anti-Gun Organization Prepared to Launch National Group of Gun Owners Who Apparently Don’t Like Guns

3:00pm Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Yes, that title doesn’t make much sense, but neither does a group that promotes banning firearms starting a national organization called Gun Owners for Safety. Nonetheless, The Hill recently reported that the anti-gun group Giffords is doing just that. This effort is being sold as an expansion of the group’s campaign to fool gun owners at the state level into supporting an agenda that is clearly...

Spring Valley Shooting Range Reopens Friday, Oct. 30, 2020

7:00am Wednesday, October 28, 2020
The new shooting range at the Spring Valley Wildlife Area is opening to the public on Friday, Oct. 30, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The Spring Valley shooting facility was previously closed for repairs and major enhancements, as well as construction of a new Outdoor Education Center. The $5.5 million range improvements include upgraded...

Gun Control May be Wasting Away, But Not Because of COVID

7:00am Tuesday, October 27, 2020
A recent article on a gun control news site laments that the COVID-19 pandemic has thwarted ballot initiatives to expand gun bans and restrictions. Initiatives in Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio and Oregon have stalled, allegedly due to the difficulty in collecting signatures. “Without the pandemic, we certainly would have been able to collect the signatures that we needed,” says a supporter of the...

Biden Focuses Prohibitory Ambitions on “Gun Parts,” Among (Many, Many) Other Gun Control Items

3:00pm Monday, October 26, 2020
Ever since he clinched the Democrat presidential nomination, we have been warning America’s gun owners that Joe Biden is no “moderate” when it comes to gun control. Simply scrolling through the extensive gun control agenda published on his official campaign website should make that point abundantly clear. It is a wish-list for (and likely compiled by) America’s most ambitious firearm prohibition...

Biden highlights future anti-gun administration with talk of a Kasich cabinet position

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, October 26, 2020
As if Ohio gun owners didn't already have enough reason to fear a Biden presidency, the former vice president gave still more reason to be concerned when he announced that former Ohio Gov. John Kasich is being considered for a cabinet position. From the Cincinnati Enquirer : Kasich, who lost the GOP presidential primary to President Donald Trump in 2016, has been a vocal critic of Trump for years...

Gun News Roundup - October 23, 2020

3:00pm Friday, October 23, 2020
Fighting for Second Amendment rights, and exercising those rights freely and effectively, starts with being informed. Here's a quick roundup of important stories in the news recently: Anti-Gun Organization Prepared To Launch National Group Of Gun Owners Who Apparently Don’t Like Guns Mich. police chiefs' leader: Cops can't enforce open carry ban at polls Why Destroying Guns Is Bad For Cities...

Everytown’s Election Tactics Show Gun Control Isn’t Popular in Swing Districts

7:00am Friday, October 23, 2020
The gun control segment of billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s left-wing political apparatus isn’t feeling the courage of their purported convictions these days. Understanding that their message of civilian disarmament won’t play with an electorate wracked with concerns over COVID-19, a spike in violence in many jurisdictions, and politician-tolerated civil unrest, Everytown for Gun Safety has used...

Ohio Supreme Court Races: The Fate of Ohio Gun Rights Hangs in the Balance

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, October 22, 2020
There is urgent news about the upcoming election. Ohio Supreme Court Justices Sharon Kennedy and Judi French are up for re-election , and Supreme Court races are at the top of gun ban extremists' wish list. Candidates for Ohio Supreme Court Justices are elected to six year terms. So if an anti-gun candidate wins next month, they will be ruling on Second Amendment-related cases for at least six...

Canada’s Gun Confiscation Program: Past is Prologue

3:00pm Wednesday, October 21, 2020
For observers familiar with Canada’s long–gun registry, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s scheme to implement his “assault weapons” ban is already giving off a whiff of déjà vu. Under the Trudeau government’s ban and confiscation program announced on May 1, over 1,500 firearms and devices listed in a government regulation immediately became a “prohibited” firearm or “prohibited device,” as did “any...

DeWine continues to hijack "coronavirus press conferences" to push gun control

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, October 21, 2020
I have a confession to make. I have listened to every single one of Governor Mike DeWine's "coronavirus" press conferences. Every one when they were happening daily, and every one now that they're coming twice a week. Every single one. Some might call it taking one for the team, and others might call it down-right masochism. In truth, it's a habit that began with a desire to try and read the tea...

Hunter Recruitment: Are We Doing It Right?

by Paul Wait
7:00am Tuesday, October 20, 2020
As the hunting population ages, new approaches are needed to bolster our ranks “Take a kid hunting.” It’s a slogan we’ve all heard countless times. When we take an eager youngster along on a hunt, we’re doing our part to introduce a new potential hunter to the ducks, the calls, the decoys, the dogs, the blind. And it makes us feel good, because we believe we’re helping to create “the next...

CMMG Resolute "Fully Loaded" AR-15 Raffle - Total Prize Package $3,160

3:00pm Monday, October 19, 2020
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Judge Barrett Picks Second Amendment Case as Her “Most Significant” Ruling

7:00am Monday, October 19, 2020
The confirmation hearings of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, [began] on October 12th before the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Judge Barrett was previously nominated by President Trump to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and confirmed in that position by the Senate three years ago. During...

Biden would ban and criminalize most popular selling centerfire rifle - the modern sporting rifle

7:00am Friday, October 16, 2020
NEWTOWN, Conn. – NSSF®, the trade association for the firearm industry, is focusing on former Vice President Joe Biden’s radical antigun campaign promise to ban, register and confiscate the most popular selling centerfire rifles – the modern sporting rifle – sold in America today. Biden borrowed a page from the failed campaign of Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke to craft an agenda that would hobble...

Survey: Gun Owners Overwhelmingly Favor Trump for President

by Dean Rieck
3:00pm Thursday, October 15, 2020
Every election season, we are bombarded with surveys and polls purporting to tell us what voters think and what their intentions are. The 2020 general election is no exception. However, after the 2016 presidential election where polls appeared to confirm the near certainty of a Hillary Clinton win, who in fact went on to lose to Donald Trump, trust in the predictive power of polling has waned...

America's liberals were never going to fight fair in Supreme Court battle

by Larry Keane
7:00am Thursday, October 15, 2020
Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court has undoubtedly moved the idea of the nation’s top court operating as an originalist judiciary from a conservative dream to an anticipated reality. A court where the majority interprets the law as written, as opposed to legislating from the bench, has massive implications for many issues, and especially positive ones for America’s...

FBI 2019 Crime Data Released

3:00pm Wednesday, October 14, 2020
The FBI released its annual “Crime in the United States report” with crime statistics on September 28th with data covering calendar year 2019. The data shows that crime continued an established downward trend through 2019. The FBI has not yet released any data on crime for the current year. From the FBI’s summary : “The 2019 statistics show the estimated rate of violent crime was 366.7 offenses...

Biden-Harris ticket packing it in on not answering court packing questions

by Larry Keane
7:00am Wednesday, October 14, 2020
One of U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris’s loudest Vice Presidential debate answers came when she refused to say anything at all about the Biden-Harris campaign’s plans to pack the U.S. Supreme Court. Asked repeatedly in the debate against Vice President Mike Pence if a Biden-Harris administration would pack the Court should they win the election, Sen. Harris blinked. She didn’t answer, leaving gun owners...

Big Numbers on Background Checks and Carry Permits

3:00pm Tuesday, October 13, 2020
New data on background checks and concealed carry permit holders shows that the exercise of 2nd Amendment rights may just be the one constant in 2020. New data was released and records were set. This isn’t déjà vu; it’s a trend. The FBI released NICS background check data for September, which saw the fewest checks since February but still set the record for the most checks ever for the month of...

Gun Control 1957: The Same Old Story

by Larry S. Moore
7:00am Tuesday, October 13, 2020
A local reader gave me a number of copies of the old Ohio Conservation Bulletin a few years ago. At that time I glanced through them but laid them aside. Recently, I got them out for a closer look. I found fascinating information about the history of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), the conservationists, writers and issues from sixty-years ago. The ODNR headquarters was 1500...

Biden Gun Control Would Choke Gun Sales

7:00am Monday, October 12, 2020
NEWTOWN, Conn. – NSSF®, the trade association for the firearm industry, is shining a spotlight on former Vice President Joe Biden’s radical antigun campaign promise to end gun sales as America knows it. His far-left driven agenda would end Second Amendment rights to lawfully acquire, keep and bear firearms by individuals by dismantling the Constitutionally-protected commerce in arms. “The single...

School Resource Officer SWD Challenge

by Ron Borsch
7:00am Friday, October 09, 2020
Raising awareness! First, it is key for parents, teachers, school administrators, SRO’s and other stake-holders to have a good idea of just how rapid an active killer can accomplish spontaneous mass murder. To have practical plans, training and countermeasures in place, it is also important to be aware of just how deadly any delay is in stopping an active killer attack can be in a school. It is a...

Take this 1-Minute 2020 Presidential Election Survey

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Thursday, October 08, 2020
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that the 2020 General Election is less than 4 weeks away. And this may be the most contentious, most impactful election in decades. The nation is reeling from pandemic fears, business shutdowns, widespread riots, media meltdowns, and political warfare between Republicans and Democrats. More than any other issue, the question of who should be...

School Suspends Student Over BB Gun in His Own Bedroom, Provokes Widespread Backlash

7:00am Wednesday, October 07, 2020
Public education’s war on children who keep gun-like toys or sporting goods in their own homes claimed another in September with the suspension Ka Mauri Harrison, who was banished from school activities for six days after a teacher glimpsed, via video feed, a BB gun in the fourth grader’s bedroom. Fortunately, Ka Mauri’s parents are not backing down in their attempts to clear his record and his...

Mohican State Park Archery Range Opens to the Public

3:00pm Tuesday, October 06, 2020
A new public archery range, located at Mohican State Park, opened on Sept. 24 according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). It is located across Ohio State Route 3 from the state park campground. Open daily from dawn to dusk, the range features targets at 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 yards offering archery practice opportunities for all levels of experience. A small dedication ceremony...

Should black gun owners be afraid to exercise their Second Amendment rights?

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Monday, October 05, 2020
One thing I've always enjoyed about the Second Amendment community is the sense of family. Whether you're at a shooting range getting in some target practice, at a gun show to find your next treasure, or in the field for a hunt, there is always a sense of camaraderie among gun owners that I really enjoy. The great thing about families is that they tend to stick together. We may have our internal...

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