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Think Before You Act - The Traffic Stop Edition

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Thursday, August 04, 2016
This story was relayed to me by a friend and fellow police officer (who will remain anonymous). He told me about a traffic stop he recently conducted where the driver’s actions almost led to fatal consequences. He wanted armed citizens everywhere to know about what happened and learn from the actions of the man he stopped. My officer friend recently conducted an evening traffic stop on a busy...

Another Ohio school district incorporates armed, trained staff members into safety plan

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, August 04, 2016
WHIO (CBS Dayton) is reporting that the Mad River Local Schools, located in the Dayton suburb of Riverside, has joined school districts in a total of 63 counties across the state by implementing a comprehensive safety that includes an armed response team inside the school. According to the report, the plan that was studied for over a year. Trained persons will have access to firearms in all...

The Fall of California

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Wednesday, August 03, 2016
My family has been on the front lines battling the dangerous hoax called “gun control” for half a century. In that time, we’ve seen just about everything – repeatedly. The single most important thing we’ve learned over those 50 years is that gun control zealots are never satisfied. They keep coming back again and again, demanding ever more restrictions to pile on top of the current restrictions...

Boy Scout Eagle Project seeks to put a trauma kit in every classroom

7:00am Wednesday, August 03, 2016
In 2014, Buckeye Firearms Foundation announced an initiative to put a trauma kit in every school building in Ohio. Now, one Boy Scout from northwest Ohio is seeking to further that goal by providing kits and medical training to his local school as an Eagle project. CLICK HERE to contribute to this project . Most school buildings have a first aid kit and an AED (Automatic External Defibrillator)...

Self Defense After Surgery

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Tuesday, August 02, 2016
(Image source: FreeImages.com/zarco kecman) As I write this post, I am about three weeks into my recovery for a fairly major abdominal surgery. I was under the knife for almost three hours and now have seven healing incisions in my belly. It also required an overnight stay in the hospital. I’m happy to say that the surgery was successful and I am healing up ahead of schedule, but I suffered quite...

Ohio CHL-holder honored for saving police officer's life

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, August 02, 2016
(Photo by Brian Ball, published in Mt. Vernon News ) Ohio concealed handgun license-holder Dylan DeBoard was honored last week for his action in saving a law enforcement officer's life last year, and Mt. Vernon Police Department Cpl. Michael Wheeler says he thanks every chance he gets. The Mount Vernon News was first to report on the news: Wheeler was attempting to apprehend a suspect in the...

7 ways to improve your self defense handgun skills

3:00pm Monday, August 01, 2016
While there should never be a training requirement to exercise your Second Amendment right, training is nevertheless a good idea. First, knowing how to use a firearm safely and effectively will pay off if you're ever in a situation where your life depends on your shooting skill. Second, the more training you have, the more likely you are to avoid mistakes that could lead to legal troubles. You...

BOOK REVIEW: The War on Guns - Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, August 01, 2016
For most firearms enthusiasts, the name John Lott is synonymous with one thing: More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws . When that book hit the market in 1998, it quickly became recognized as what is perhaps the best critique of gun control ever written. Having endured a term and a half of what was possibly, until that time, the most anti-gun presidential administrations...

5 Things to Do After a Shooting

3:00pm Friday, July 29, 2016
What you say or do after a self defense shooting can mean the different between freedom and imprisonment. Here is Massad Ayoob explaining what he teaches his students to do immediately after defending their life with a firearm. From our friends at Second Call Defense ...

When the Killer’s Gun Jams…Can you Recognize an Opportunity for Action?

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Friday, July 29, 2016
I’ve written quite a bit about malfunctioning guns over the years. I published Criminals and the Guns They Carry . That article was a study of all the unloaded broken and malfunctioning guns police take from criminals. A couple weeks later I wrote Weapon Malfunctions in the Active Shooter Environment about how commonly killers’ guns jam when they are engaged in a shooting spree. I guess I’m not...

NSSF Infographic: Gun Sales Up, Crime Rates Down

3:00pm Thursday, July 28, 2016
With gun control advocates in Congress continuing to beat the drum on restricting Americans' Second Amendment rights, it's important to remember the facts are on our side. As NSSF's new infographic shows, violent crime continues its downward trend, even as the firearms market has seen more and more growth over the past two decades. Fortunately we also see the number of firearm accidents dropping...

FASTER Saves Lives: Who Will Protect Your Children at School?

by Michelle Cerino
7:00am Thursday, July 28, 2016
Not a month goes by without a news report of an active shooter situation somewhere in the United States. If you look at the FBI statistics (which have only been updated to 2013), they are constantly on the rise. If only the police could get there faster, to protect our children at school. I spent many years substitute teaching while my boys were in grade school. Eventually I earned my teaching...

Understanding the Miranda warning and what it means to you

3:00pm Wednesday, July 27, 2016
The Miranda warning, sometimes referred to as your Miranda rights, is a warning police give to criminal suspects after they are taken into custody. The purpose of the Miranda warning depends on whether you are the law enforcement officer or the suspect. From a suspect's point of view, it is to remind you that you have a 5th Amendment right to remain silent and not incriminate yourself. From an...

Knox County concealed carry instructors indicted for teaching short classes; Dozens of licenses suspended

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, July 27, 2016
The Columbus Dispatch reported last week that a Knox County grand jury has indicted two former NRA-certified instructors on a combined 50 felony counts, accused of falsifying certificates of completion for the concealed handgun license courses. From the article : Robert Hess, 55,of Loudonville, was indicted on 38 counts of forgery, and John Fisher, 36,of Cardington, was indicted on 12 counts. All...

Massachusetts Attorney General Unilaterally Bans Thousands of Previously Legal Guns

3:00pm Tuesday, July 26, 2016
On July 19, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey issued an “ enforcement notice ” that greatly expands the Commonwealth’s definition of “assault weapon.” AG Healey alleges that the ban’s definition of “copy” or “duplicate” “assault weapons” has been misinterpreted for the last 18 years and she is simply the first law enforcement official to discover this incorrect interpretation...

Senator Rob Portman surges ahead of Strickland in polls following stand against gun control proposals

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, July 26, 2016
The post recent Quinnipiac University poll of three swing states shows U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) opening up a seven-point lead on anti-gun rights Democrat Ted Strickland. According to the poll , Sen. Portman leads Mr. Strickland 47-40%. Last month, Quinnipiac’s survey found the pair were locked in a dead heat, and earlier in the contest, Mr. Portman trailed by as much as nine points. I...

Chris W. Cox Delivers the Straight Truth on Hillary Clinton and the Second Amendment

3:00pm Monday, July 25, 2016
[Last week], NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox addressed the Republican National Convention about the grave threat to the Second Amendment posed by a Hillary Clinton presidency. [The next day], Clinton’s attack dogs were out in force, desperately trying to discredit the case Mr. Cox methodically built against her. But Clinton’s campaign knows that the truth is to her presidential...

Butler Co. Sheriff Richard Jones discusses call to arms for civilian staff on NRANews.com

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, July 25, 2016
Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones is receiving international attention for his decision to urge his civilian staff with a valid Ohio concealed handgun license (CHL) to carry their firearms within the department’s headquarters at 705 Hanover St. in Hamilton, OH. Sheriff Jones is also encouraging employees to carry their weapon while operating any department vehicle away from the headquarters...

The Myth of “Declining” Gun Ownership

3:00pm Friday, July 22, 2016
Americans are buying guns at an unprecedented rate and have been doing so for some time, but is gun ownership declining, as gun control supporters claim? Gun control supporters want politicians to believe that it is, on the theory that politicians are more likely to vote for restrictions if they think that opponents of restrictions are in the minority. Are gun control supporters guilty of what...

Op-Ed: John Kasich Can’t Just Suspend Ohio’s Gun Laws

by Kyle Sammin
7:00am Friday, July 22, 2016
As the Republican National Convention began in Cleveland, prominent Democrats joined with local police in calling for Ohio Gov. John Kasich to suspend the state’s open-carry law during the convention. Sherrod Brown, a progressive Democrat who represents Ohio in the U.S. Senate, went even further in an interview with BuzzFeed, saying he “hope[s] that the governor would listen to the police union...

In Draft Party Platform, Democrats Regress on Gun Rights

3:00pm Thursday, July 21, 2016
Following the lead of their presumptive presidential nominee, the Democratic Party is set to adopt a gun control plank in their 2016 party platform that lays bare the party leadership’s antipathy towards gun rights. The draft 2016 plank marks a significant shift in the party’s approach to the issue. Out is the lip service paid to the Second Amendment contained in the last several party platforms...

Ohio Democrats join call for suspension of Second Amendment

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, July 21, 2016
During the runup to the March 16 primary, Democrat Senate candidate P.G. Sittenfeld staged a last-ditch effort to gain publicity for his underdog campaign by calling for a constitutional amendment to repeal Ohio's preemption law which prohibits cities from enacting laws that are more strict than state law. As Buckeye Firearms Association and several news outlets have noted since Sittenfeld's...

Violate these 4 gun safety rules at your own risk

3:00pm Wednesday, July 20, 2016
The single most important subject for every gun owner is also the subject few gun owners ever want to talk about: safety. Why? Because to many, it's boring. It's a lot more fun to talk about the latest and greatest firearm or debate the best caliber for self defense. Right? But let's face it. Accidents happen. And there's only ONE reason they happen. In every case, without exception, an...

Bloomberg Moms Claim Eddie Eagle Message as Their Own

7:00am Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Imitation, so they say, is the sincerest form of flattery. But heaping condemnation on something you later steal and then try to portray as your own? Well, that’s just downright weird. And if there’s any truth to a recent blog post appearing in the New York Times, that’s what Shannon Watts – head of the Bloomberg-backed gun control group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America – has done in...

BFA's Sean Maloney schools NBC viewers on open carry

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Tuesday, July 19, 2016
On July 19, as the Republican National Convention opened in Ohio, Buckeye Firearms Association's Sean Maloney appeared on Cincinnati's NBC affiliate, WLWT, to educate viewers on the legality of open carry in Ohio. Maloney responded to a suggestion by Steve Loomis, the president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association, that Governor Kasich should suspend Ohioans' constitutional right to...

The NRA and the Death of the Elite Media

by Brian Anse Patrick
7:00am Tuesday, July 19, 2016
The following is excerpted from the Foreword to the revised Arktos edition of Brian Anse Patrick’s The National Rifle Association and the Media: The Motivating Force of Negative Coverage . Prof. Brian Patrick introduces and summarizes his years of research into media bias against the National Rifle Association, and NRA's success in spite of this opposition, and describes what this tells us about...

Hillary Clinton: Gun Control a “Civil Rights Issue”

3:00pm Monday, July 18, 2016
Inspired by the staged “sit-in” for gun control conducted by Democrats in the House of Representatives the week of June 20, Hillary Clinton said during a campaign speech in Chicago a week later “saving [people] from gun violence is a civil rights issue.” Correctly speaking, civil rights are those that are protected against infringement by government and its agents. Of course, Clinton doesn’t see...

Cleveland Police Representative Seeks to Illegally "Suspend" Gun Laws and Constitutional Rights

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Monday, July 18, 2016
Steve Loomis, the president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association, has called for Governor Kasich to suspend Ohio open carry laws during the Republican National Convention. Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) denounces this outrageous request in the strongest possible terms and calls on Loomis to retract this unconstitutional and illegal request. Loomis was quoted by CNN, saying, "We are...

Reality Check: Why FBI Terror Watch List Should NOT Be Used To Prevent Gun Purchases

3:00pm Friday, July 15, 2016
In the wake of the Orlando mass shooting, there is a major push about what to do over gun control. And while some of the discussion is repetitive, what about the simple idea that if someone is on the FBI watch list, they should not be allowed to buy a gun? Is it fair? Does it make sense? This is a Reality Check you won’t see anywhere else.

(Some) Liberals Oppose Using Terror Watch List to Strip Gun Rights

7:00am Friday, July 15, 2016
It’s unfortunate that a significant portion of congressional Democrats have embraced a policy that would grant the executive branch the unconstrained power to trample individual rights. In recent weeks, Democratic senators and congressmen carried out a filibuster and a well-catered “sit-in” to advocate for the decidedly illiberal position that American citizens should be denied their...

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