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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...

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...

Looking Back at the Fort Hood Shooting

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Monday, November 30, 2015
I was doing some active killer research and came across this excellent recap of all of the events that took place in the (first) Ft. Hood shooting six years ago this month. Read this extremely detailed account of the Ft. Hood activer shooter (terrorist) incident. Whether you are a cop, soldier, or citizen, think about how you would respond in an event like this. Some very interesting passages: “...

Public university professor labels NRA a "murderous terrorist organization" & "threat to national security"

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, November 30, 2015
[UPDATE: A follow-up article is available here .] A public records request has revealed that Dr. James E. Evans, a professor of geology at the Bowling Green State University (BGSU), considers the National Rifle Association (NRA), which is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization, to be "a murderous terrorist organization that is a threat to national security." The claim came in...

Obama, 7-time Gun Salesman of the Year, Looking To Retire Undefeated

by Jim Shepherd
3:00pm Friday, November 27, 2015
Lately, President Obama has done more smack talking about gun owners than Rhonda Rousey before Saturday night's title, um, defense. Unfortunately, our peerless leader doesn't have to defend his title against anything more intimidating than a Washington media corps that's more than demonstrated an ability to hit the canvas faster than any pug brought in to "fight" a contender. At a time when I'd...

Here's an easy way to donate items to our Buckeye Bash

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Friday, November 27, 2015
The Buckeye Bash is coming up on April 16, 2016 at the Villa Milano banquet center in Columbus, Ohio. It's the biggest fundraising event of the year for our Foundation. It takes months to collect donations of guns and gear for all the auctions and raffles. And you can help us kick things off this week as you start your Christmas Shopping. It's easy! And you can do it online without ever setting...

Thanksgiving: George Washington's 1789 Proclamation

7:00am Thursday, November 26, 2015
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor -- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful...

Report: City of Atlanta Illegally Stockpiling Seized Guns

3:00pm Wednesday, November 25, 2015
The job of America’s brave men and women of law enforcement is to defend the Constitution and uphold the laws of their jurisdictions. It’s a tough job, and those who do it faithfully are to be respected and commended. But as movie hero Billy Jack famously said, “When policemen break the law, then there isn’t any law ….” Now, a disturbing report from CBS46 in Atlanta is claiming that city...

Fraternal Order of Police calls on NFL to lift concealed carry ban; cites threat of terrorism

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, November 25, 2015
On November 20, the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) sent a letter to Roger Goodell, Commissioner of the National Football Leage (NFL), asking him to reconsider the League's ban on concealed carry. The letter, written by National FOP president Chuck Canterbury, states, in part, as follows: Today, I am writing on behalf of the members of the Fraternal Order of Police to urge you to rescind...

Senate Judiciary Committee Considers Nomination of Operation Choke Point Overlord

3:00pm Tuesday, November 24, 2015
[Recently], the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the nomination of Stuart F. Delery for the position of associate attorney general of the United States. If confirmed, Delery would become the third-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), behind the attorney general and the deputy attorney general. Delery has been serving as “acting” associate attorney general since...

Headline: Obama says gun control to be top issue of final year

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, November 24, 2015
The Washington Times is reporting that President Obama is now publicly admitting that he hopes to make gun control the top issue of his final year in office, saying Americans aren’t more violent than other people but they “have more deadly weapons to act out their rage.” From the article : In an interview published Tuesday in GQ magazine, Mr. Obama said easy access to guns is “the only variable”...

60 Minutes Showcases "Smart" Guns Technology

3:00pm Monday, November 23, 2015
You may be wondering why CBS 60 Minutes aired a segment on “smart” guns [recently]. After all, a gun that will never work in the hands of an unauthorized person, but that will always work in the hands of everyone else hasn’t been invented. Even the segment’s reporter, Lesley Stahl, conceded that there are concerns about whether “smart” guns “work in snow and rain? Will they work if you`re...

Headline: Maryland scraps gun "fingerprint" database after 15 failed years

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, November 23, 2015
The Baltimore Sun reported recently that, after millions of wasted tax-payer dollars, the State of Maryland has officially decided that its 15-year effort to store and catalog the "fingerprints" of thousands of handguns was a failure. From the article : Since 2000, the state required that gun manufacturers fire every handgun to be sold here and send the spent bullet casing to authorities. The...

Ohio's Traditional Deer-Gun Hunting Season Begins Nov. 30

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, November 20, 2015
Youth only weekend to be held Nov. 21-22 COLUMBUS, OH – Deer hunting is an extremely popular activity for sportsmen and women statewide and Ohio’s white-tailed deer continue to provide hunters across the state with excellent opportunities for success as they head out into the field. Ohio’s deer-gun season opens Monday, Nov. 30 and not only provides opportunities for outdoor sports enthusiasts,...

AP fact-checks Hillary Clinton's debate comments on guns, and guess what?

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, November 20, 2015
The Associated Press - not known either for its conservative or pro-gun rights leanings - was recently forced to admit that Hillary Clinton wildly inflated statistics on so-called "gun violence" to support her extremist gun control stance. From the article : CLINTON: "Since we last debated in Las Vegas, nearly 3,000 people have been killed by guns. Two hundred children have been killed. This is...

Election Day: Guns Win - AGAIN

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Thursday, November 19, 2015
GOP should spotlight issue or voters will go hunting next fall and skip polls As this column reported a few weeks ago, the Democrats are betting big on gun control for this election cycle. That’s good news for GunVoters, that minority of us who, while perhaps not being one-issue voters, don’t trust a politician who doesn’t trust us with a gun. Republicans, however, seem oblivious to the...

Hamilton Co. sheriff: FASTER Saves Lives training "long overdue"

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, November 19, 2015
One day after Cincinnati's CBS affiliate, WKRC, aired a report noting that more than 40 Ohio schools now authorize and train teachers to carry guns to protect students in class, the news station sat down with Hamilton County sheriff Jim Neil to gauge his reaction after he viewed the video. The reaction was as positive as it is for many others who are first exposed to the Buckeye Firearms...

Wasserman Schultz Orders Democrats to Embrace Gun Control

3:00pm Wednesday, November 18, 2015
At the Florida Democratic Party Convention, held October 30-November 1, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz claimed, “The Florida Democratic Party is back and better than ever.” Also back, it would seem, is the national party’s misguided emphasis on gun control. Speaking at a convention event held at the Walt Disney World Yacht and Beach Club Resort, Wasserman Schultz...

FoxNews.com & UK's Daily Mail documents success of Buckeye Firearms Foundation's FASTER Saves Lives program

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, November 18, 2015
FoxNews.com and British newspaper The Daily Mail are informing their international audiences of the success of Buckeye Firearms Foundation's FASTER Saves Lives program. From FoxNews.com : Dozens of school districts in Ohio now allow teachers who have conceal-carry permits to pack heat on the job. In several cases, boards of education have been pressed into adopting the policy by parents concerned...

House passes Sub HB 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) [UPDATE: Vote Tally]

by Jim Irvine
6:41pm Monday, November 16, 2015
Sub. HB 48, sponsored by Ron Maag (R-Lebanon), passed the Ohio House of Representatives today with a 68-29 vote. The bill is now headed to the Senate for further consideration. HB 48 makes several critical changes to Ohio firearms laws. Currently it is against the law to possess a firearm on school property. There is an exemption for license-holders “immediately in the process of picking up or...

FLASH: HB 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) scheduled for House floor vote – ACTION NEEDED

by Jim Irvine
6:00pm Monday, November 16, 2015
Substitute House Bill 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones), sponsored by Ron Maag (R-Lebanon), is scheduled for a vote by the full House on Tuesday, November 17, 2015. The bill, which passed out of the House State Government Committee back in June by a 9-2 vote, seeks to restore Ohioans' right to carry in day-care facilities (unless they post "no-guns"), private airplanes, school safety...

UPDATE: National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Legislation Gains Co-Sponsors

3:00pm Monday, November 16, 2015
Thanks to your continued calls and emails, NRA supported Right-to-Carry bills have seen increases in cosponsorships over these past few weeks. Please continue to contact your elected officials and urge them to cosponsor and support these important bills: S. 498 – Introduced by U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), this legislation would respect the rights of individuals who possess concealed carry...

More than 40 Ohio schools authorize and train teachers to carry guns to protect students in class

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, November 16, 2015
WKRC (CBS Cincinnati) is reporting that, in Ohio, around 40 school districts now allow teachers with concealed handgun licenses to carry their firearms in class. The news station was invited to document a recent FASTERSavesLives.org Level 3 training program in upstate Ohio. From the report : Parents in a district asked that their staff be armed. The board OK'd the training and the carrying of...

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