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Ohio Deputy's case is latest to highlight bad laws, unreasonable prosecutions, unequal justice

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Friday, April 17, 2015
In recent years I’ve often written about people entangled in our nation’s complex, confusing, and irrational gun laws. People like David Olofson, who was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for illegal transfer of a “machine gun” after his standard, semi-auto, AR – with no altered or modified parts – malfunctioned and produced hammer-follow doubles and triples. Or FBI Special Agent John...

ATF & DOJ: Corruption in Action

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Thursday, April 16, 2015
As I was graduating from high school in Prescott, Arizona, My father, Neal Knox, was in Washington, D.C. making war plans as the head of NRA’s lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative Action. By the following year, Dad had publicly declared war on the BATF and the Gun Control of 1968. From Dad’s perspective, BATF had been actively waging war on gun owners for years, and he had left his dream...

BATFE "Air Force" Grounded Again

7:00am Thursday, April 16, 2015
Everyone likes the song that begins “Off we go, into the wild blue yonder.” Maybe the BATFE likes it a little too much. Days after the BATFE had its ears trimmed by Congress after trying to ban M855 ammunition, a D.O.J. Inspector General audit has revealed that over the last few years, the agency spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars trying to achieve one of its long held ambitions, a...

New Lawmakers Inform President of their Opposition to the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

3:00pm Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Recently, a group of 12 freshman Senators expressed their opposition to ratification of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty in a letter to President Barack Obama. Secretary of State John Kerry signed the UN ATT on behalf of the U.S. on September 25, 2013. In their letter, the new Senators cited an October 15, 2013 letter to the president signed by 50 Senators from the 113th Congress that...

Your Tactical Training Scenario- Defeating Pepper Spray

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Have you ever thought about what you might do if a criminal sprays you in the face with pepper spray? That scenario happened recently in New Jersey when a shoplifter sprayed two store security guards who confronted her after she stole some merchandise. The spray incapacitated the security guards and the woman escaped to a nearby hotel. When confronted by hotel security, she sprayed them as well...

"Choke Point" Hearings Yield Predictable Responses From FDIC Chairman

3:00pm Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Last year, we began reporting on the Obama administration’s "Operation Choke Point" and the use of federal financial services regulators to harass and intimidate banks and financial service providers who maintain relationships with legal but so-called "high risk" merchants or businesses. By leaning on the banks, the regulators hope to cause them to sever relationships with these businesses,...

Buckeye Firearms Association Leader Elected to NRA Board of Directors

7:00am Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Sean Maloney of Liberty Township, Ohio, has been elected to the NRA Board of Directors. A gun rights attorney, Buckeye Firearms Association leader, NRA Benefactor Life member, and co-founder of Second Call Defense, Maloney won the election for the 76th seat on the NRA Board of Directors. Voting took place on April 10 and 11 during the 2015 NRA Annual Meeting in Nashville. "I am happy to have this...

Rule Change May Devastate International Travel for Hunters and Shooters

3:00pm Monday, April 13, 2015
The Obama administration’s relentless assault on the Second Amendment continues as the State Department implements a new rule which catches American hunters and sport shooters in a web of bureaucratic red-tape when traveling outside the United States. Coming close on the heels of the withdrawn BATFE ammo ban we reported on last week, an unmistakable pattern of abuse is beginning to emerge,...

U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance holds annual legislative reception

by Larry S. Moore
7:00am Monday, April 13, 2015
The annual U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance (USSA) legislative reception once again attracted sportsmen and women along with many elected officials to the Downtown Athletic Club in Columbus. It was attended by a "who's who" in Ohio government, as well as, major Ohio sportsmen organizations. Governor John Kasich stopped by and addressed the crowd. Senate President Keith Faber also spoke. Lt. Governor...

1st Quarter Firearms Sales Checks Second Highest Q1 on Record

3:00pm Friday, April 10, 2015
The March 2015 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,187,823 is the fourth highest March on record for the 16-year-old system, with a decrease of 3.0 percent compared to the March 2014 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of1,224,705. For comparison, the unadjusted March 2015 NICS figure of 2,001,245 reflects a 19.2 percent decrease from the unadjusted NICS...

Knives and Targets Targeted Unfairly

by Jim Shepherd
7:00am Friday, April 10, 2015
Our friends at Knife Rights ( www.kniferights.org ) sent us an advisory [recently] we felt we should share. If you're transiting a state where knives are frowned upon - and some "flavors" are outright illegal- you don't have any over-arching laws protecting you. So if your travels from Point A to Point B cause you to change planes or have a layover in a place with "different" knife rules, you...

"Universal" Background Checks - A Call to Reason

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Thursday, April 09, 2015
Psychologists and social scientists have long understood that people are inclined to stick to a belief even when they are presented with clear evidence that their belief is incorrect. In short, people are obstinate. Recent research has shown that this is not just a psychological issue, but also has a physiological basis. Our brains are actually wired for this behavior, and it accounts for a great...

Representative Hood introduces Constitutional Carry

by Jim Irvine & Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, April 09, 2015
Representative Ron Hood (R-78) of Ashville, Ohio has introduced House Bill 147, a bill which seeks to have Ohio join the growing number of states which allow "constitutional" carry, or lawful carry of a concealed firearm without a license. Similar bills have been proposed in Ohio in every General Assembly for more than a decade. Hood's predecessor in the 78th District, John Adams, introduced...

Bloomberg’s latest racist comments go unreported by establishment media

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Wednesday, April 08, 2015
If Mike Bloomberg weren’t a liberal, anti-rights billionaire, the press would have eviscerated him in February. If the Koch brothers or Donald Trump said something as blatantly racist as Bloomberg did, the media elite would go into apoplectic outrage mode. Demands for apologies, excommunication, and retribution would have flooded our TVs, radios, and computers. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would...

Buckeyes Earn Second-Consecutive Pistol Intercollegiate National Title

7:00am Wednesday, April 08, 2015
COLUMBUS, Ohio - For the second-consecutive season and seventh time in program history, the Ohio State pistol team was crowned champions at the Pistol Intercollegiate National Championships on Thursday. The championship marks the third time the Buckeyes have won a national title in open team competition, as they previously claimed an open team title in 2000 and 2014. Ohio State has also earned...

A Tale of Two Faces: Actor Who Glorifies Gun Crime in Video Game Stars in Gun Control Video

3:00pm Tuesday, April 07, 2015
Last week, we reported on how the attention-starved gun control group, States United to Prevent Gun Violence (SUPGV) claimed to have deterred first-time gun buyers in New York City with a hidden camera stunt at a phony gun store. Some astute observers later noticed that the actor hired to portray the clerk of the fraudulent gun store was Ned Luke, the same performer who voiced one of the lead...

Confirming the Bias: What Columbia School of Journalism's Dart Center Should Teach Reporters

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Tuesday, April 07, 2015
I recently reported that the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of the prestigious Columbia School of Journalism, is hosting a workshop for reporters in Arizona, supposedly intended to help them more effectively report on guns and “gun violence.” The conference raised red flags for gun owners by including inflammatory, misleading factoids about the toll of gun violence in our...

U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry Introduces Bill to Keep Your Ammo out of the Obama Administration’s Clutches

3:00pm Monday, April 06, 2015
As we reported [recently], BATFE has for now tabled its “Framework” to ban M855/SS109 ammunition and to reinterpret the federal “armor piercing ammunition” law in a way that would also jeopardize other types of common rifle bullets. Nevertheless, BATFE director B. Todd Jones made clear ( see related story on Jones’s resignation ) recently in statements before the Senate Appropriations Committee...

UPDATE: Vote SEAN MALONEY for 76th Director at the NRA Annual Meetings

7:00am Monday, April 06, 2015
UPDATE: Sean Maloney has been elected to the NRA Board of Directors! Thank you to everyone who supported Sean with their vote at the 2015 NRA Annual Meeting in Nashville. *** If you're attending the NRA Annual Meetings in Nashville, please take a few minutes to cast your vote for the 76th Director on the Board of Directors. Directors have already been selected in this election cycle. However, at...

Second Amendment Enforcement Act of 2015 Introduced

3:00pm Friday, April 03, 2015
Last week, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and U.S. Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) introduced “The Second Amendment Enforcement Act of 2015” in the U.S. Senate and House respectively. These bills would restore the fundamental individual right for law-abiding D.C. residents to Keep and Bear Arms to defend themselves in accordance with the law. This bill would also conform D.C. law to federal...

CHL-holder ruled to have acted in self-defense in neighborhood shooting

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, April 03, 2015
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that a Cuyahoga Common Pleas Court judge has found a 52 year-old concealed handgun license-holder who had been charged with murder not guilty. From the article : Andre Jackson of Bedford Heights was charged with murder in the death of Michael Davis. What started as an altercation about debris in the front yard ultimately ended up in a situation where -...

Man with concealed handgun license turns tables on would-be robbers in Akron

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Thursday, April 02, 2015
WJW (Fox Cleveland) is reporting that a man with a concealed handgun license stopped a robbery in Akron last weekend. According to the article , police say two men met a man and woman on East Market Street in Akron for the purpose of purchasing a PlayStation gaming console. The woman, Natasha Brady, reportedly asked the men to go behind a nearby house, and when they refused, the woman's male...

NEW UPDATE: National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Legislation

7:00am Thursday, April 02, 2015
The U.S. Senate and U.S. House are back in session in Washington D.C. and because of your calls and emails, each of the NRA supported National Right-to-Carry bills have seen an increase in cosponsorship. Please continue to send a message to President Obama and Michael Bloomberg, that we want National Right to Carry Reciprocity. Please contact your elected officials and urge them to cosponsor and...

FOOLISH: Gun Prohibitionists Concoct Elaborate Fraud to Harass Manhattanites Open to Gun Ownership

3:00pm Wednesday, April 01, 2015
Recently, the nearly forgotten anti-gun crusaders, States United to Prevent Gun Violence (SUPGV), grasped at relevancy when they debuted their latest shenanigans targeting lawful gun ownership. Called “Guns With History,” the campaign aims to harangue first-time gun buyers for even considering the exercise of their rights. At the center of the campaign is video of a purported hidden camera stunt...

Rep. Bill Patmon (D-Cleveland) proposes bill to ban simulated hammers

by Ken Hanson, Esq.
7:00am Wednesday, April 01, 2015
Representative Bill Patmon, (D-Cleveland), past Chairman of the Cleveland Employment and Affirmative Action Committee and author of the most sweeping employment discrimination law in the history of Cleveland, has introduced HB 985, legislation which seeks to ban imitation hammers. The bill is being co-sponsored by Rep. Alicia Reece (D-Cincinnati). In 1997 Bill Patmon received the National League...

M855 Plot Thickens: Congressman Proposes Center-Fire Ammo Ban

3:00pm Tuesday, March 31, 2015
You didn’t need a crystal ball to see this one coming. A week after the BATFE withdrew its plan to ban M855 as “armor-piercing ammunition,” U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) announced that he intends to introduce legislation to “extend the definition of armor-piercing ammunition to include all bullets that can pierce body armor and be used in handguns.” The reason you didn’t need a crystal ball is...

Carrying spare ammunition: It's not an option, it's a must

by Gary Evens
7:00am Tuesday, March 31, 2015
At the end of December, Buckeye Firearms Association published my article, " Ammo Capacity: How Much is Enough? " The point of the article was to suggest that your self-defense firearm needs to have enough ammunition capacity to deal with all of the threat you might expect to encounter during a violent attack. I wrote that a handgun with a 10-15 round capacity seemed to be about right to deal...

Anti-gun U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel Introduces Ammo Ban Legislation

3:00pm Monday, March 30, 2015
On March 13, 2015, three days after the BATFE rescinded its proposed ammo ban framework regulation, anti-gun U.S. Representative Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) introduced H.R. 1358, a bill designed to ban civilian use and possession of M855 ammunition. This is the same round that the BATFE, after meeting fierce bipartisan opposition from Capitol Hill and from NRA members and supporters across the country,...

Is Teaching Propaganda Ethical? Columbia School of Journalism's Dart Center partners with Bloomberg

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Monday, March 30, 2015
A workshop titled “ Covering Gun Violence ” is being offered in Phoenix by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma to “help journalists and news organizations in the Southwest improve their reporting on guns and gun violence.” That sounds reasonable and helpful. Surely the Dart Center, a project of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism could help improve the state of reporting...

Common Ground at Last? Finger-gun Wielding Obama Provides Lesson for America's Schools

3:00pm Friday, March 27, 2015
Attention overbearing public school administrators: you might want to remove any portraits of the 44th U.S. president hanging on your walls. In a recent Affordable Care Act promotional video produced for the website Buzzfeed, President Barack Obama uses his index finger and thumb to form a finger gun and aim it at the viewer. Apparently, the commander-in-chief has not been briefed on the...

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