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NSSF: U.S. Rep Sam Graves (R-Mo.) Praised for Introduction of H.R. 2361, Protecting Americans Second Amendment Rights

3:00pm Wednesday, July 17, 2013
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry, today praised U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) for his introduction of H.R. 2361, legislation intended to prevent states and municipalities from enacting or raising taxes or fees on the purchase of firearms or ammunition. "Congressman Graves is to be commended for...

Survival lessons from an airplane accident

7:00am Wednesday, July 17, 2013
by Jim Irvine Asiana Airlines flight 214 crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) on Saturday, July 6, 2013. Early reports indicate that two teen girls have died, at least 182 people are injured, as many as 49 of those critically. Much of the airplane cabin burned. The passenger area suffered extensive damage. We will not speculate on the cause of the accident, but there...

NRA Leader Slated to Attend USSA 'Save Our Heritage' Rally

3:00pm Tuesday, July 16, 2013
(Columbus, OH) – The U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance 17th Annual "Save Our Heritage" Rally, sponsored by the Ithaca Gun Company, will be held on Saturday, September 21st at the Aladdin Shrine Temple in Columbus, Ohio. The special invited guest for this year's rally is Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association. The night features one of the largest gun drawings held each...

Dayton woman shoots home invader with handgun

7:00am Tuesday, July 16, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WHIO (Dayton CBS) reported recently that police arrested two teens accused of entering the home of a woman who responded with a firearm, shooting one of the alleged burglars in the arm. From the article : Dayton officers responded at approximately 6 p.m. Monday to the home in the 200 block of Richmond Avenue. According to a police incident report, the woman heard the two teens...

U.S. Park Police loses track of more than 1500 firearms

3:00pm Monday, July 15, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Fox News reported recently that the U.S. Park Police has lost track of a huge supply of handguns, rifles and shotguns. From the article : In the scathing report, the inspector general's office of the Department of Interior faults staff at the agency for having no idea how many weapons they control and says the department has no clear policies or procedures for investigating...

Nigeria School Massacre: Lessons for America

7:00am Monday, July 15, 2013
by Greg Ellifritz School shootings aren’t only confined to the United States. Neither are terrorist attacks. On Saturday, July 6, 42 students and a teacher were killed by Islamist terrorists in Northern Nigeria. The same group has killed more than 1600 other civilians (mostly children) in the last three years. The group's name is "Boko Haram," which means "Western education is sacrilege." I...

June sees 3.0% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 37th straight month over month increase

3:00pm Friday, July 12, 2013
The June 2013 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 872,025 is an increase of 3.0 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 846,437 in June 2012. For comparison, the unadjusted June 2013 NICS figure of 1,270,817 reflects a 1.5 percent decrease from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,290,210 in June 2012. This marks the 37th straight month that NSSF-...

School safety seminar held in northwest Ohio

7:00am Friday, July 12, 2013
by Jim Irvine Teachers, administrators and law enforcement personnel gathered in Montpelier, Ohio, last week to listen to Lt. Col. Dave Grossman present information on violence and school safety. Colonel Grossman is an expert recognized around the world for his research and knowledge on the topic of human aggression and violence. Violence is not only the number one killer of our children in...

Case Against Student Who Wore NRA T-Shirt to School Dismissed

3:00pm Thursday, July 11, 2013
On June 27th, in a positive resolution to a case which has captured the attention of advocates for First and Second Amendment rights, the case against 14-year-old Logan Middle School Honor Student Jared Marcum of Logan, W.V., was dismissed with prejudice. Marcum had been charged with obstructing an officer following an incident stemming from a Logan Middle School faculty member's reaction to...

Headline: Gun Manufacturers Consider Lorain County Move

7:00am Thursday, July 11, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WJW (Fox Cleveland) is reporting that Lorain County Commissioner Tom Williams has been working with two different out-of-state gun manufacturers to try to get them to relocate here. From the article : "We're trying to do something different. It's about jobs. We have some of the best workforce here in Lorain county in the country," Commissioner Williams said. The gun manufacturers...

Illinois Legislature Votes to Recognize Right to Self-Defense and Overrides Governor Quinn's Veto of Concealed Carry Bill

3:00pm Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Illinois House Bill 183, as passed by both chambers in May, now in effect. On Tuesday, June 10, on the court-ordered deadline for Illinois to enact a concealed carry law, both chambers of the Illinois Legislature voted to override the Amendatory Veto by Governor Pat Quinn (D) on House Bill 183 that he issued last week. The state House voted 77-31 and the state Senate 41-17 to uphold the rights of...

Another Ohio school makes public its decision to arm staffers to protect students

7:00am Wednesday, July 10, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Northeast Ohio news media are reporting that a new policy authorizing employees of the Newcomerstown Exempted Village School District to carry guns on school property will go into effect for the 2013-14 academic year. From the The Times-Reporter of New Philadelphia, Ohio: The board of education recently approved the policy authorizing "certain persons designated by the board and...

Op-Ed: Suicidal Logic

3:00pm Tuesday, July 09, 2013
by C.D. Michel Some gun control advocates commit intellectual suicide. One of the longest lasting and saddest lies endlessly echoed by gun control advocates is the 30,000 annual deaths from “gun violence” sound bite. "We can't begin to address 30,000 gun deaths...that are happening every year [without radical gun control]" was how comedian and fake news anchor Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show...

Maybe praise should replace anger at cop in bad spot

7:00am Tuesday, July 09, 2013
by Jim Irvine WDTN channel 2 news reported last week that an officer is under investigation after allegedly handing his gun to a citizen. From the article : Jerry and Josie Anderson are shocked at what they say they witnessed on Saturday morning outside their home on Chester Boulevard. They say the officer who was responding to simple accident, stepped out of line when he handed his loaded weapon...

Op-Ed: Polls give a skewed picture of gun issues

3:00pm Monday, July 08, 2013
by John Lott The onslaught against Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio continues. In April, Portman, unlike his U.S. Senate colleague from Ohio, Sherrod Brown, dared to vote against the Senate gun-control bill, and since then he has endured inaccurate attacks from out-of-state opponents such as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, condemning his vote. Former Arizona Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords...

FALSE FLAG GROUP - The American Rifle and Pistol Association is a FRAUD!

7:00am Monday, July 08, 2013
Do you remember the phoney "American Hunters and Shooters Association" that pretended to support gun rights ... but actually advocated more gun control and endorsed (surprise, surprise) Barack Obama? Well, now with the 2014 elections gearing up, another fake gun group has popped up claiming to support "sane" gun ownership. They're called the American Rifle and Pistol Association (or R+P as they...

NSSF: Today's "new gun buyer" is not who you think

3:00pm Friday, July 05, 2013
by Jim Shepherd A news release...has the announcement of the National Shooting Sports Foundation's report on 2012's first-time gun buyers. The news release talks about insight, but having spent time in the internals of the report, it's a very interesting insight into the "new gun culture". It's also confirmation of something I've said before but have only had anecdotal evidence to backup: today's...

VIDEO: Home invasion caught on nanny cam displays the tragic result of gun control

7:00am Friday, July 05, 2013
by Chad D. Baus New Jersey's News 12 reported recently on a vicious attack, perpetrated in broad daylight, which was caught on a nanny camera inside a woman's home. From the article : Police have released a physical description of the man they are searching for in a brutal home invasion case. Officials say the suspect is a black male, between 5 feet 11 inches and 6 feet 2 inches tall. He is...

The Well Armed Woman: Shooting chapters begin - a place for women to learn and practice

3:00pm Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Gun ownership and the complex laws around the use of them is a significant topic around the nation. A 2011 Gallup Poll reported forty-seven percent of American adults currently have a gun in their home and twenty-three percent of women personally own a firearm. This reported gun ownership is the highest it has been in nearly two decades. With women being the largest growing segment the...

Criminals get guns by stealing them, not through ‘lax’ laws

by Ken Hanson
7:00am Wednesday, July 03, 2013
The following op-ed by Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson was originally published by The Columbus Dispatch . Republished with permission. In last Friday's story "A conduit for guns," The Dispatch fell victim to an all-too-common error: attempting to use Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) gun-trace data to demonstrate where criminals get their guns...

NSSF Announces S.A.F.E Summer To Promote Firearms Safety

3:00pm Tuesday, July 02, 2013
Group Expands Project ChildSafe with New Message; 500,000 Firearms Safety Kits NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) is kicking off a "S.A.F.E. Summer" effort to focus attention on the importance of safe firearm storage--particularly while children are home from school and more likely to be unattended--and has pledged an additional $1 million to provide half a million...

Support for "universal background check" gun control legislation continues to drop in Ohio

7:00am Tuesday, July 02, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Anyone who follows politics closely knows that, depending on how you ask the question, you can make a poll say almost anything. In the wake of the horrendous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary last December, the media and anti-gun politicians were hell-bent on passing new laws to limit the sale of firearms, even though not one of the suggestions they were proposing would have...

NSSF® Launches New Project ChildSafe® Website

3:00pm Monday, July 01, 2013
Expanded site offers new tools to encourage firearm safety in the home NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®) has launched a new Project ChildSafe® website as part of its "S.A.F.E. Summer" campaign. The new site, and the campaign, are designed to focus attention on the importance of safe and responsible firearm storage, to reinforce that anyone who is going to own a...

Anti-gun Democrats choose to offer "passive-aggressive publicity stunt" rather than solutions to real problems

7:00am Monday, July 01, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Last week, anti-gun Democrats Mike Foley and Bob Hagan introduced House Bill 222, legislation which was immediately termed by the equally anti-gun Cleveland Plain Dealer as nothing more than a "passive-aggressive publicity stunt." From the article : Republicans in Ohio's General Assembly have amended the state budget to include several anti-abortion measures, including a last-...

SAF asks for all Bloomberg-MAIG records from NYC after revelations

3:00pm Friday, June 28, 2013
Editor's Note: As the battle between New York Second Amendment advocates and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has escalated, it has appeared that Mr. Bloomberg, with his wealth and position pretty much had carte blanche to do what he pleased as he campaigned against guns in the hands of private citizens. But has Mr. Bloomberg used public funds or resources to augment his private efforts?...

Outrage of the Week: Bloomberg Gun Control Group Claims Terrorist was "Victim of Gun Violence"

7:00am Thursday, June 27, 2013
This week's outrage comes to us from New Hampshire, where New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun group--Mayors Against Illegal Guns--labeled a terrorist as a "victim of gun violence." As part of a gun control rally this week in Concord, a MAIG-sponsored "No More Names" tour bus arrived and anti-gun organizers read the names of those "killed with guns" since the shooting at Sandy Hook...

Dispatch: Pro-gun group spending big dough to offer arms training for teachers

7:00am Thursday, June 27, 2013
by Chad D. Baus This week, Buckeye Firearms Foundation announced the launch of an ambitious program. Now that we've created and tested our "active killer" response training program, otherwise known as FASTER (Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response), with 24 teachers, it's time to roll it out on a bigger scale. The Foundation has just announced that it will commit to funding...

Press Club of Toledo to host forum on firearms

3:00pm Wednesday, June 26, 2013
TOLEDO, OH. -- Gun control and mass shootings are much in the news these days and the Press Club of Toledo has put together a session to educate the news media on the topics. Pressing Issues, a regular program of the Press Club, will feature a panel comprised of a weapons expert, lawman, school administrator, concealed-carry instructor, and a seasoned news manager to discuss the topic from...

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