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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...

Report: College shooting sports teams becoming so popular some turn people away

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, March 27, 2015
The Washington Post is reporting that shooting sports teams are seeing a surge on a diverse range of campuses across the country, and have become so popular that some are forced to turn away interested students. From the article : Teams are thriving at a diverse range of schools: Yale, Harvard, the University of Maryland, George ­Mason University, and even smaller schools such as Slippery Rock...

Declining Gun Ownership? Sloppy Reporting Strikes Again

3:00pm Thursday, March 26, 2015
Citing recent data from the General Social Survey (GSS), the Associated Press (AP) reported [recently] that gun ownership is on the decline in the United States. This is becoming something of a springtime fantasy ritual among the media, with the same or similar reports from anti-gun media outlets every year after the GSS releases new data. If the AP had done some actual research, however, they...

ATF Change Welcomed, But Will It Make A Difference?

by Jim Shepherd
7:00am Thursday, March 26, 2015
The news that BATFE head B. Todd Jones was resigning didn't come from a media outlet citing "reliable sources inside the ATF" - although that's exactly where the news originated. It came from industry compliance and legal protection firm FFLGuard in the form of a Thursday-night advisory to its clients. That advisory said Jones was resigning - soon- to "enter the private sector". Normally that's...

ATF backs off of ammo ban, but it's the "sporting purpose" test that needs to go

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Feigning shock and surprise at the huge number of comments they received objecting to their plan to ban popular M855 ammunition, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives announced a tactical retreat from the plan. ATF, released a statement on Tuesday, March 9, saying that over 80,000 comments had been received objecting to the plan, and they were going to postpone any action until...

Washington Post Fact Checker: President earns three "Pinocchios" for latest anti-gun whoppers

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, March 25, 2015
President Barack Obama has been lying about guns and gun rights for years, and it finally seems as though at least one mainstream media outlet is catching on. For the second year in a row, the Washington Post ’s Fact Checker has given Obama “Three Pinocchios” for false claims in support of gun control. In 2013, the newspaper "Pinocchio'd" the president for claiming that 40 percent of firearms are...

Ohio police officer defends own life during home invasion

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Tuesday, March 24, 2015
According to the Akron Beacon-Journal , a woman who works as a Kent police officer shot her intoxicated, violent ex-boyfriend when he broke into her home in the early morning hours of Thursday, March 19 - her 30th birthday - and began attacking her. From the article : Police say [Adam] Jovicic, who served as a medic with the Ohio Army National Guard since 2006, was intoxicated and high on an...

2014 is a transformative year for BFA PAC

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Tuesday, March 24, 2015
2014 was a transformative year for Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) and BFA PAC. We incorporated BFA and the PAC returned to a corporate-sponsored PAC. This will move most of the day-to-day expenses under a corporate umbrella, and transition the PAC to focus on political issues. With the restructuring, both BFA and BFA PAC will be better able to focus on their core missions. BFA has...

BATFE Director’s Comments Show Fight Isn’t Over; Ohio AG DeWine signs letter condemning potential ammo ban

3:00pm Monday, March 23, 2015
Editor's Note: Days after this article was written, news came that B. Todd Jones has resigned as Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), ending what has been a tumultuous tenure as the agency head since July 2013. Given the Obama administration's record of pursuing a gun control agenda though the BATFE, there can be no doubt that the fight is NOT over -...

Handgunlaw.us issues new Ohio reciprocity map to reflect HB 234 changes [UPDATE: Ohio AG signs new agreements!]

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, March 23, 2015
NOTICE: The map on this page is out-of-date. Please CLICK HERE to see the current reciprocity map for Ohio . The good people at Handgunlaw.us have issued an updated reciprocity map that reflects changes that go into effect today, March 23, 2015, as HB 234 takes effect. According to Gary Slider, "Georgia and Colorado will honor Ohio [today], as their law states they will honor anyone who honors...

To the Editor: Guns that are not firearms are still guns

3:00pm Friday, March 20, 2015
Editor's Note: The following letter to the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer was published in response to an article and photo comparison piece entitled " Can you differentiate between a toy gun and a real one? " The March 13 Plain Dealer article, "Can you differentiate between a toy gun and a real one?," repeatedly refers to guns other than firearms as "fake" or "toys," but while many of the...

Rep. Patmon's HB 119: NO, it doesn't ban BB guns or airsoft guns (or really do much of anything)

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, March 20, 2015
Earlier this month, headlines screamed the news that Ohio Rep. Bill Patmon (D-Cleveland) had introduced a bill that seeks to ban "any BB gun or gun replica that a 'reasonable person' would confuse with a real firearm." From the Cleveland Plain Dealer : Newly introduced legislation in the Ohio House would prohibit the manufacture, sale, or public display of toy guns designed to look like the real...

NRA Opposes Confirmation of Obama's U.S. Attorney General Nominee, Loretta Lynch

3:00pm Thursday, March 19, 2015
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he plans to take the confirmation vote on President Obama’s U.S. Attorney General Nominee, Loretta Lynch, to the Senate floor sometime [in the near future.] The vote will likely be very close. As the Nations’ top law enforcement officer, Lynch would almost certainly have an impact on our Second Amendment rights. We know Lynch supports the Obama...

What HB 234 Means to You: Part VI - Allow Noise Suppressors While Hunting

by Chad D. Baus & Larry S. Moore
7:00am Thursday, March 19, 2015
On March 23, 2015 several changes to Ohio law that are of particular significance to Ohio gun owners will take effect. This article will look at changes that will allow hunters to use noise suppressors. The use of suppressors while hunting is rapidly growing in the United States. Over thirty states allow the use of suppressors for some form of hunting, with most allowing them for all types of...

Unraveling More Gun Control Lies: Children, traffic accidents and gun deaths

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Wednesday, March 18, 2015
In discussing the lies and distortions popular among anti-rights extremists – and their media supporters – I recently commented on their claims that “3000 children die in gun violence every year,” and that “gun deaths exceed traffic deaths” in this or that state. I only mentioned these in passing, but I think they deserve more thorough scrutiny. “3000 children are killed by guns every year!” It...

Ithaca Gun Company is still all-American made

by Mike Tontimonia
3:00pm Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared at FarmandDairy.com . Republished with permission. I was 16 years old, a serious small game hunter with a killer beagle and lots of great briar and grass fields near home, but until then, I was using a borrowed shotgun. My Dad, no pushover for easy money, suggest that if I really wanted a shotgun of my own, that he would pay half. He was always that...

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