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CMP Reveals Important National Matches Updates for 2019 Season

by Ashley Brugnone
7:00am Friday, June 21, 2019
CAMP PERRY, Ohio –The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) has announced the enhancement of numerous events scheduled during the prestigious National Pistol and Rifle Matches, held throughout the month of July and early August 2019. Striving to the organization’s mission of advancing the realm of marksmanship, the recent developments of the National Matches will provide guests with more...

BREAKING NEWS: Ohio Attorney General Rejects Background Check Petition

4:08pm Thursday, June 20, 2019
The Ohio Attorney General’s Office today rejected a summary of a petition for a proposed law that would expand background checks for firearm sales. On June 10, the attorney general’s office received a written petition to amend the Ohio Revised Code by initiated statute, entitled “An Act to Close Loopholes in Background Checks on Gun Sales.” The attorney general’s role is to determine whether the...

FASTER Trauma Training put to use TWICE in May

by Joe Eaton
7:00am Thursday, June 20, 2019
The month of May was national 'Stop the Bleed' month and staff from two different schools had to use the training and equipment they received from FASTER Saves Lives in two different emergencies! The trauma medical portion of the FASTER Level 1 class is valuable inside and outside of schools, not only for injuries resulting from violence, but from any other emergency such as severe weather or...

Does a Suppressed Pistol Sound like a Nail Gun?

7:00am Wednesday, June 19, 2019
In response to reports that the Virginia Beach shooter used a firearm suppressor in carrying out his terrible crime, David Chipman, Senior Policy Advisor for the Giffords gun control group, claimed that a suppressed pistol is especially dangerous because the noise associated with the firearm is difficult to distinguish from a nail gun. As per usual for claims Chipman and his employer make about...

Cincinnati woman uses gun to defend self and five children when ex-boyfriend invades home

7:00am Tuesday, June 18, 2019
WCPO (ABC Cincinnati) reported recently that a Cincinnati woman was able to use a firearm to defend herself from a violent home invasion carried out by an ex-boyfriend. From the article : The shooting happened at about 4:30 a.m. at Ring Place. Dante Ruff is accused of breaking into the woman’s home through a front window. She shot him in the abdomen, Sgt. Andrew Fusselman said. First responders...

HB 178 (Constitutional Carry, Concealed Weapons License & Remove Duty to Notify) scheduled for 7th hearing, possible vote

7:00am Monday, June 17, 2019
Representative John Becker (R-Union Twp, Clermont Co.), who chairs the House Federalism Committee, has announced a seventh hearing for House Bill 178 (Constitutional Carry, Concealed Weapons License & Remove Duty to Notify) on Wednesday, June 19 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 121. The chair has indicated that amendments may be offered, and that the bill may be given a vote either at this hearing, or on...

The Media and their Lies: An NRA Board Member's Perspective

by Linda Walker
7:00am Friday, June 14, 2019
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” - First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. As a Constitutionalist, I believe our...

Training Scars

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Thursday, June 13, 2019
Training scars...we all have them. I’m not talking about training scars like the black eye you get when your partner goes a little too hard while sparring or the scars you get when you cut your finger trying to quickly open your fighting knife. The training scars I’m talking about are the unintentional bad habits you have acquired during the course of your training. All training, no matter how...

Astroturf gun control group in Ohio pushing for "universal" background check ballot initiative

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Ohio news media are gushing this week over a so-called "grassroots" gun control group in Ohio - a group which is promoting a "universal" background checks ballot initiative. From the Columbus Dispatch : Ohio voters might have the opportunity to decide whether to require background checks for gun purchases at the same time they vote for president in the 2020 election. Ohioans for Gun Safety...

Secretary Bernhardt Proposes Increasing Public Access to Hunting and Fishing on 1.4 Million Acres Nationwide

7:00am Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Proposal Includes New Opportunities at 74 National Wildlife Refuges and 15 National Fish Hatcheries Oak Harbor, Ohio – Furthering the Trump Administration’s efforts to increase access to public lands, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today announced from Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge a proposal for new or expanded hunting and fishing opportunities at 74 national wildlife refuges...

N.E. Ohio Concealed Carry Fashion Show to be held June 21

7:00am Monday, June 10, 2019
Gun owner turned 2A activist Amanda Suffecool knows the best hope for protecting firearms over the long haul is getting women into the action. She does this through producing Concealed Carry Fashion Shows including one in Kent, Ohio on June 21st. These shows are designed to attract this growing demographic. When former President B. Obama sealed the Democratic nomination in 2008, Amanda Suffecool...

Anti-gun Democrats Press for Publicly Funded Gun Control Advocacy

7:00am Friday, June 07, 2019
On Wednesday, March 6, the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations held a hearing supposedly geared toward “Addressing the Public Health Emergency of Gun Violence.” That hyperbolic title, however, betrayed the real agenda of the event, which was to create the false impression that an...

Your Tactical Training Scenario…Men in the Bushes

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Thursday, June 06, 2019
Imagine the following scenario... It’s 9pm and you are taking your dog for a walk around your neighborhood. You live in a “safe” area and you have walked your dog on this route every night for years without a problem. It’s dark, and as you walk you notice some shapes moving in the bushes ahead of you. You initially think the shapes are deer, so you continue to walk. As you get closer, two men...

Report: UK Gun Owner Loses Licenses Over Social Media Presence

7:00am Wednesday, June 05, 2019
In 2016, UK shooter and popular YouTube gun channel personality Callum Long-Collins told the BBC, “Being British and a firearms owner, it almost feels illegal to have any sort of opinion on using guns for self-defense.” The comments appear to have been proved correct. According to an April 23 article in The Times titled, “Gun licences stripped from shooting activist over YouTube comments,” Long-...

Identifying the Problem of Gun Control Research

7:00am Tuesday, June 04, 2019
In 2017, anti-gun researcher John Donohue and his team released a study that purported to find that Right to Carry laws increase overall violent crime rates. The paper was updated six months later seemingly to address criticism of its methodology and produced the same conclusion. Readers may be familiar with the study as an anti-gun press fawned over the results without questioning the mechanism...

Tactical Defense Institute's Partner Tactics Class prompts self-reflection

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Monday, June 03, 2019
I recently attended the “Partner Tactics” class at Tactical Defense Institute (TDI). I’ve taken most of their handgun classes (including this one, a few years ago) and help with the FASTER Saves Lives training at TDI, and with Chris Cerino. So I benefit from spending significant time on a range with world-class instructors. But I had not personally taken a class in a few years, and I know it’s...

HB 178 (Constitutional Carry, Concealed Weapons License & Remove Duty to Notify) scheduled for sixth hearing

3:00pm Sunday, June 02, 2019
Representative John Becker (R-Union Twp, Clermont Co.), who chairs the House Federalism Committee, has announced a sixth hearing for House Bill 178 (Constitutional Carry, Concealed Weapons License & Remove Duty to Notify) on Wednesday, June 5 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 121. The committee will again consider opponent testimony. The chair has indicated that amendments may be offered. HB 178,...

What to Make of Crime in England?

7:00am Friday, May 31, 2019
Sometimes it’s hard to understand what things are really like “across the pond.” Anti-gun extremists in America reflexively point to England whenever the discussion about adding restrictions, and especially banning firearms, arises here in the United States. England, after all, had banned virtually all semi-automatic and pump-action rifles and shotguns in the 1980s, then imposed a near total ban...

Free FFL Seminar in Ohio - RSVP By May 31!

4:48pm Thursday, May 30, 2019
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), the trade association for the firearms industry, will host a free educational seminar on Tuesday, June 11 at 9 a.m. and again at 1 p.m. at the Embassy Suites by Hilton - Columbus as part of the ongoing Operation Secure Store® initiative. Please RSVP by May 31, 2019, by contacting...

Trump Administration, Other Pro-Gun Heavyweights Lend Support on Pending Supreme Court Case

7:00am Thursday, May 30, 2019
As NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox reported in March, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up a challenge by an NRA state affiliate to a New York City gun control scheme that effectively prohibits lawfully licensed handgun owners from leaving the city with their own firearms. The plaintiffs in the case have raised a number of objections to the regime, the foremost of which is that it violates...

Will Ohio Cities Ever Give up on Local Gun Control?

by Dean Rieck
3:00pm Wednesday, May 29, 2019
I live in Westerville, Ohio. It's a great city with an abundance of parks, friendly employees, quiet neighborhoods, and endless activities. And like many municipalities in the state, it has a city council seeking to pass local laws to regulate firearms. However, as I explained to them at a recent meeting where they voted to pass a gun control "resolution," they do not have the legal authority to...

A look back at my first NRA Annual Meetings, and why I keep going back

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Wednesday, May 29, 2019
I first attended the NRA member meetings in 2002. It was in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. My company was in turmoil and furloughing pilots and the economy was a mess. I had an April vacation and my wife and I had no plans or ideas on where to go or what to do. Seeing an advertisement in the NRA magazine, I joked to her that we could go. I was not really serious, but she was. She asked...

HB 178 (Constitutional Carry, Concealed Weapons License & Remove Duty to Notify) scheduled for fifth hearing

3:00pm Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Representative John Becker (R-Union Twp, Clermont Co.), who chairs the House Federalism Committee, has announced a fifth hearing for House Bill 178 (Constitutional Carry, Concealed Weapons License & Remove Duty to Notify) on Wednesday, May 29 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 121. The committee will again consider opponent testimony. HB 178, introduced in March by Reps. Ron Hood (R-Ashville) and Tom...

The Well Armed Women Shooting Chapters Promote June 1 as #NotMe Day

7:00am Tuesday, May 28, 2019
TWAW Shooting Chapters invites women across the country to head to a shooting range on Saturday, June 1st, 2019 for #NotMe Day to stand in solidarity with women self-protectors and show the world they refuse to be a victim or to say #NeverAgain to ever being a victim again. Each participant will fire three rounds to symbolize: I am empowered, I am prepared, I will not be a victim. “Women are...

MEMORIAL DAY 2019: In 1788, Ohio law required ALL men aged 16-50 to bear arms

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, May 27, 2019
(Originally posted by the Cincinnati Enquirer and on this website July 25, 2003) Ohio Moments Soldiers fined 50 cents for lack of weaponry On July 25, 1788, the first Ohio law to establish and regulate a militia was published in Marietta. It mandated all men between 16 and 50 perform military duty. They were required to arm themselves with a musket and bayonet, a cartridge box, powder horn, one...

The Logic of the Ignorant

by Gary Evens
7:00am Friday, May 24, 2019
A neighbor of mine has a sign in their yard that reads, “You can’t ban anger, ban AR-15s”. Needless to say, the people that live there are very liberal, probably socialist as they were supporters of Bernie Sanders leading up to the 2016 Presidential election. For some reason, the sign bothers me. A lot of the laws that have been enacted over the years have dealt with "anger." While not banning it...

No Gun Zone ≠ Safe Zone

by Gary Evens
7:00am Thursday, May 23, 2019
Federal and state governments have enacted several laws designed to protect children from harm, especially while they are attending school. The enactment of these laws followed some notable school shootings such as the Stockton, California schoolyard shooting (aka Cleveland School massacre) in 1989, during which a gunman killed 5 children and wounded 32 others. The “Gun-Free School Zones Act” was...

NSSF Celebrates President Trump Signing 'Range Bill'

7:00am Wednesday, May 22, 2019
NEWTOWN, Conn. — The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), the firearms industry trade association, celebrates President Donald Trump’s signing of H.R. 1222, the Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act, at The White House. The President signed the NSSF-priority bill May 10, just two weeks after the bill was passed by Congress. “We deeply appreciate President Trump’s swift...

Recent school shooting doesn't fit media narrative

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Tuesday, May 21, 2019
On May 7, 2019 two students conducted an attack on their classmates at the Highlands Ranch STEM School in Colorado. The shooting was quite unusual and doesn’t fit the normal narrative for an active killer who shoots up a school (that’s probably why the story disappeared from the media so quickly). I agree with Samuel Culper when he states that this shooting is less about school violence and more...

HB 178 (Constitutional Carry, Concealed Weapons License & Remove Duty to Notify) scheduled for fourth hearing

3:00pm Monday, May 20, 2019
Representative John Becker (R-Union Twp, Clermont Co.), who chairs the House Federalism Committee, has announced a fourth hearing for House Bill 178 (Constitutional Carry, Concealed Weapons License & Remove Duty to Notify) on Wednesday, May 22 at 10:00 a.m. in Room 121. The committee will consider opponent testimony. HB 178, introduced in March by Reps. Ron Hood (R-Ashville) and Tom Brinkman...

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