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FBI: 'Toy' gun control won't make officers' jobs any easier

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, September 16, 2016
Yet another deadly encounter has happened involving a young person who police say was wielding what turned out to be a BB gun, and it took only moments before gun control extremists began trying to take political advantage of the situation. Media throughout the state, across the nation and around the world are reporting on the death of Tyre King, a 13-year-old robbery suspect who was shot and...

BOOK REVIEW: Surviving a Mass Killer Rampage: When Seconds Count, Police are Still Minutes Away

by Dr. Timothy Wheeler
7:00am Friday, September 16, 2016
Surviving a Mass Killer Rampage: When Seconds Count, Police are Still Minutes Away , by Chris Bird (Privateer Publications, 2016, 408 pages). (Ammoland.com) Any reasonably informed American can tell you who Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were. Their names are indelibly linked with the name “ Columbine ” as the vile mass murderers of 13 people in the April 1999 incident of that name. But few know...

Clinton Supporter Blames NRA for Chicago Mother’s Murder

3:00pm Thursday, September 15, 2016
The self-proclaimed “Dean of Comedy,” radio talk show host Dean Obeidallah, has blamed a Chicago African-American mother’s murder, allegedly by repeat offenders, on NRA’s opposition to gun control, and he’s attacked GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump for attributing inner city murders to policies that Clinton supports. Earlier this month, the young woman was murdered while walking a baby...

Explaining the Objections to Background Checks

by Keith Coniglio
7:00am Thursday, September 15, 2016
Gun owners’ opposition to background checks is probably the most difficult position for non-owners (and even some owners) to fathom. They’re supposed to prevent “people who shouldn’t have them” from getting their hands on guns – or at least that’s what we’re told. But the objection isn’t about what they’re supposed to do, it’s the fact that they have been used to deny an increasing number of...

Fanning the Flames, or Hitch up that Asbestos Pantsuit

3:00pm Wednesday, September 14, 2016
The Trump for President website offers a “Pantsuit on Fire” t-shirt. We don’t know how brisk the sales are, but it’s a safe bet that sales are outperforming Ms. Clinton’s ratings as an honest candidate (in one August poll, only eleven percent of registered voters described Hillary Clinton as “honest and trustworthy”). Not too long ago, Shannon Watts, founder of the Everytown affiliate “Moms...

Appeals Court Rules That Non-Serious Convictions Do Not Erase 2A Rights

7:00am Wednesday, September 14, 2016
The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that individuals convicted of certain non-serious misdemeanor crimes do not lose their fundamental rights under the Second Amendment in a decision involving two separate cases brought by the Second Amendment Foundation. The unanimous ruling came from an en banc panel in the combined cases of Binderup v. the U.S. Attorney General and Suarez v. the...

New NSSF Initiative Focuses on Firearms and Suicide Prevention

by Bill Brassard
3:00pm Tuesday, September 13, 2016
With suicide accounting for nearly two-thirds of all firearm fatalities annually, the topic of suicide prevention deserves our attention. In recent years the national Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has worked with the Veterans Administration, the State of Utah and mental health agencies to help educate gun owners and the public on how to keep firearms safely out of reach of those who, during a...

Cincinnati news station given extensive access to FASTER class

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, September 13, 2016
WLWT (NBC Cincinnati) was given access to a FASTER class this summer, and the resulting coverage has been given nationwide attention. In the report, entitled " Confronting deadly school violence: Teaching teachers how to shoot back ," WLWT News 5 investigative reporter Todd Dykes provides an extensive look at Buckeye Firearms Foundation's Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency...

Recent UN Arms Trade Treaty Conference Marks Dangerous Shift in U.S. Policy

3:00pm Monday, September 12, 2016
August 22 marked the opening date of the week-long Second Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty in Geneva, Switzerland. It also marked a clear shift in U.S. strategy for dealing with this international gun control effort. Historically, UN meetings open with flowery remarks welcoming States Parties and others in attendance to the beginning of a week of discussions. This year that...

Hillary's 'solutions' for killing sprees don't address 2 core problems

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Monday, September 12, 2016
(Image source: FreeImages.com/Kerem Yucel) Democrats have declared gun control as one of their top campaign issues this year (though they call it “gun safety,” “gun reform” or “gun violence prevention” instead of gun control – those terms poll better). They are betting that GunVoters are not really the political powerhouse that we have been reputed to be, and that after atrocities like the San...

Yes, Hillary will abolish the Second Amendment

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Friday, September 09, 2016
Donald Trump was widely criticized by media, Democrats and even some Republicans after he made a joke regarding Second Amendment remedies to Hillary Clinton’s plan to “essentially abolish” the Second Amendment. As if “reporters,” commentators and politicians were all reading from the same script, they consistently pointed out that Clinton had no such intentions – in spite of the fact that this is...

Headline: Forming a Black Firearms Movement in Today’s Climate

by Ryan K. Smith
7:00am Friday, September 09, 2016
Photo: Jeannine A. Cook On a May afternoon at the “Solutionary License to Carry Drive” at the Philadelphia Firearms Academy, men and women filed inside, where they walked through a gun license application process and paid a $35 fee across the street at the official licensing center. Enrollees listened in on panels discussing gun safety, conflict resolution and more. It was the pilot program of a...

Doctor Prescribes Requiring a “Medical License” for Gun Ownership

3:00pm Thursday, September 08, 2016
In a recent Medical Economics blog, Dr. Monya De wrote a piece titled, “Obtaining an assault rifle should be as difficult as becoming a doctor.” In this outlandish article, De illustrates the difficulties medical students must go through in order to practice medicine. She calls them “model citizens, because model citizens should be the ones holding lives in their hands.” She lists the “strenuous...

Ted Strickland: We built him up; it’s our duty to take him down

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Thursday, September 08, 2016
(AP Photo/David Kohl) For nearly a decade, I’ve referred to Ted Strickland as a “friend.” It always hurts when you lose a friend, but it hurts more when the friend hurts you or betrays your trust. Such things are normally best handled quietly and privately, and I’ve long said I would not air dirty laundry, even as others have told me I must. I see now they are right; this is not just something I...

New York Times Issues Ridiculous Anti-NRA Screed

3:00pm Wednesday, September 07, 2016
At the same time establishment newspapers are openly abandoning their usual façade of impartiality in their news coverage, their editorial boards have been working overtime to elect Hillary Clinton. However, few have been doing Robby Mook and David Brock’s work for them quite like the New York Times, as evidenced by a ridiculous pro-Clinton/anti-NRA screed that appeared in the August 14 edition...

The REAL Threat to Gun Owner Rights: A Runaway Federal Government

by Paul Gardiner
7:00am Wednesday, September 07, 2016
(Author's Note: this article highlights a course of action for American gun owners to overrule any future federal regulation, Presidential executive order, or Supreme Court decision that restricts or diminishes Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms. This course of action is independent of court challenges to federal rulings harmful to Second Amendment rights. As explained herein, the key...

Fact check? The Washington Post Fails Again

3:00pm Tuesday, September 06, 2016
It’s embarrassing how shamelessly the Washington Post is shilling for Hillary Clinton nowadays. [Recently], the Post’s “fact-checker,” Glenn Kessler, said that the NRA's new TV ad is wrong, in claiming that Clinton “doesn’t believe in your right to keep a gun at home for self-defense.” Kessler took his shot at the NRA after we outlined how the Post’s editors were disingenuous, at best, in their...

As poll collapse continues, Democrats pull ad buys for once-pro-gun turncoat Ted Strickland

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, September 06, 2016
The news media were awash last week with news that monies originally intended to influence what some expected to be a very close Senate race are being pulled from Ohio. From Cleveland.com : As I report, the Koch brothers network has pulled about $2.1 million worth of ads next month, citing U.S. Sen. Rob Portman's "strong position in the race." The Kochs' move came after the Democratic Senatorial...

Buy a Ruger, help the NRA-ILA fight to protect the Second Amendment

3:00pm Friday, September 02, 2016
Fellow NRA Supporter, With summer drawing to a close, we Americans are now less 100 days from the most important election cycle in modern history. Though it may seem a bit cliché to label it as such, never has so much been at stake where our constitutional rights are concerned. With the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches all figuratively up for grabs, this November stands to serve as a...

Avoid the mistakes made by these Ohio CHL-holders facing potential charges

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, September 02, 2016
With the number of concealed handgun license-holders skyrocketing in Ohio and across the country, there are bound to be a few more headlines mentioning incidents where a CHL-holder makes a mistake. As we take note of a few recent cases below, for the purposes of education and prevention, it is important to keep in mind that the revocation rate for concealed handgun licenses in the Buckeye state...

9 ways your firearm can be attacked in court

3:00pm Thursday, September 01, 2016
To most level-headed people, a gun is a gun is a gun. So the equipment you own or carry shouldn't matter if you find yourself in court after a self defense shooting. After all, when your life is on the line, you're going to use whatever weapon you have at hand. But as crazy as it seems, some prosecutors will do anything to get a conviction, and that includes trying to turn a jury against you...

BFA PAC announces second round of 2016 endorsements

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Thursday, September 01, 2016
We started this year’s endorsements with Sheriffs because they have best exemplified the role of doing their job in service to Ohio voters, especially concealed handgun license-holders. For the second round, we tackle statewide races , including Supreme Court justices and the U.S. Senate. We've also added a few more local candidates. In this round we have endorsed three candidates for Ohio...

Guns vs. The Environment

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Here’s the short version of the article: the environment wins. Last week I wrote an article about how I was incapacitated after surgery and needed to change the gun I normally carry. I chose to carry my S&W 351C revolver. I had been carrying it for about a week when I went to shoot it. The cylinder wouldn’t open. This is a revolver. They never malfunction, right? Wrong. The cylinder wouldn’t...

Poll: Trump wins 85% of Ohio gun owners

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Wednesday, August 31, 2016
During every election cycle, we are barraged with polling data. Who's up and who's down. Who people trust and who people don't. Whatever your interest, issue, or affiliation, there's a poll on it. One of the more interesting types of polls are "election trial heats," where pollsters ask which candidate people would vote for if they were to vote at that moment. Attitudes can change rapidly in an...

When the Criminal is Armed with Pepper Spray

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Tuesday, August 30, 2016
It finally happened. After nearly 21 years of police work, a couple weeks ago I was threatened by a person wielding pepper spray. I’ve sprayed lots of criminals over the years and been sprayed by some errant shots from other cops on the street, but that was the first time I had ever been confronted by a suspect threatening to use pepper spray against me. We had been dispatched to a suicide...

Judge strikes some of Cleveland's latest gun control regulations, others upheld

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Cleveland.com is reporting that a county court has "axed" several of Cleveland’s expansive gun ordinances adopted last year, while upholding others. From the article : On Monday, Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland-Saffold knocked out Cleveland’s firearms ordinances in four ways. The first found the city’s definition of “automatic firearm” to include semi-autos capable of firing more than 31...

5 Things About Personal-Defense Ammunition

by Michelle Cerino
3:00pm Monday, August 29, 2016
Have you ever gone to the store to buy personal-defense ammunition and been completely confused by the number of options? Let’s break down the details, and hopefully your selection process will become easier. Cartridge: This is the complete package of what you load into your gun. Some people also refer to it just as bullets or rounds. The cartridge consists of 4 parts: primer, powder, case and...

Trump vs. Hillary on Gun Rights

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Monday, August 29, 2016
Just in case there is any confusion over possible outcomes for the 2016 presidential election, either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be our next President and Commander in Chief. Yes, others will be on the ballot, including Libertarian and Green Party nominees, but they have no chance of winning. So let's not kid ourselves. If you're a gun owner and you're evaluating how to vote, these are...

New Electronic Gun Range Open to Public at Camp Perry

by Ashley Brugnone
3:00pm Friday, August 26, 2016
CAMP PERRY, Ohio – The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) is pleased to introduce 10 innovative electronic targets available for Open Public Shooting at Camp Perry. Rifle and pistol marksmen will now have the chance to fire towards the future of competitive shooting from the place that has been a pinnacle of marksmanship for over 100 years. Whether experienced or just beginning, the ground-...

The Texas Tower massacre and concealed carry: If safety matters, understand the facts

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Friday, August 26, 2016
The following op-ed was submitted in response to a USAToday editorial entitled " Concealed carry on campus is a bad idea ." The newspaper chose not to publish our response Our children are dying because adults are unwilling to put safety above politics. When killers target our schools/kids, time (not guns) is the problem. Lives are saved when we reduce the time the killer is allowed to kill...

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