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FASTER Saves Lives' Joe Eaton on Washington D.C. Public Radio

3:00pm Friday, December 15, 2017
Buckeye Firearms Foundation's FASTER Saves Lives is getting attention across the country as the nation marks the five year anniversary of the mass killing in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Washington D.C.'s public radio station, WAMU, hosted a panel show featuring FASTER program director Joe Eaton, along with Shannon Watts of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and...

Sandy Hook massacre – looking forward (Part II of II)

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Friday, December 15, 2017
(Continued from Part I ) Ohio leads the nation on school safety. We have the best law which states: 2923.122 Illegal conveyance or possession of deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance or of object indistinguishable from firearm in school safety zone. (D) (1) This section does not apply to any of the following: (a) An officer, agent, or employee of this or any other state or the United States who is...

Five Years After Sandy Hook

by Jim Shepherd
3:00pm Thursday, December 14, 2017
Today's an anniversary most of us would rather not celebrate. Five years ago, a disturbed 20-year old slaughtered 20 young children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. The fact he'd murdered his mother and stolen her guns didn't stop the calls for new gun laws. None of which would have prevented the event. But that didn't stop the gun control groups. Never does, as we...

Sandy Hook massacre – looking back 5 years later (Part I of II)

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Thursday, December 14, 2017
It has been five years since a coward murdered his mother and stole her gun. He then went to the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and murdered six staff there, some of whom died heroically trying to protect the 20 young children he slaughtered before outside help could arrive and stop him. Newtown is a very nice city with above average income and home values. It has very...

After Sandy Hook: Over 1,300 Teachers Trained to Stop Active Killers

3:00pm Wednesday, December 13, 2017
COLUMBUS, OH - Five years ago, a 20-year-old murdered his mother, stole her guns, and went to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut to slaughter 6 staff and 20 young children. It was a horrific event that forever changed the concept of what school security means in the modern world. Gun control groups called for new gun laws. However, because none of the proposed laws would have...

News organization exposed more than two hundred Ohio schools' lack of armed staff

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, December 13, 2017
[Update December 21, 2017 - News organization removes web data on school safety plans after BuckeyeFirearms.org article ] Last spring, northeast Ohio PBS conglomerate IdeaStream.org published a two-part series on Buckeye Firearms Foundation's FASTER Saves Lives program. The articles, written by Annie Wu and published on a website that IdeaStream says is "used by 2.8 million people in a typical...

NSSF Praises Passage of U.S. Rep. Luetkemeyer’s Legislation Ending ‘Operation Choke Point’

3:09pm Tuesday, December 12, 2017
NEWTOWN, Conn. — The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industries, today praised U.S. Rep. Blaine Leuktemeyer's (R-Mo.) legislation that puts an end to an Obama administration effort to deny financial services to businesses solely because they were labeled "high risk," including firearms-related businesses...

Medical Marijuana? Say Goodbye to Your Gun Rights

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Tuesday, December 12, 2017
House Bill 523, passed on September 8, 2016, legalized medical marijuana in Ohio. The Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program will allow residents of the state with certain qualifying conditions, and a recommendation from a physician, to register with the State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy for a patient ID card. State agencies are still working on how to administer the program, but medical marijuana...

Bills to address Fixing Burden of Proof and Modify LEO Notification scheduled for more hearings

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, December 11, 2017
Senator William Coley (R-Liberty Township), who chairs the Government Oversight and Reform Committee, has announced a first hearing for Sub. HB 142 (Modify LEO notification) on Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. in the Finance Hearing Room. The committee will consider sponsor testimony. Sub. HB 142 was passed by the House of Representatives in October with a bi-partisan 69-24 vote. As passed...

Ohioans continue to use firearms for self-defense in homes and places of business

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, December 08, 2017
Incidences of law-abiding citizens using firearms to protect themselves form violent predators continue to occur. The following incidences from around the state occurred in recent weeks. In Youngstown, police say a 19 year-old was shot by his intended victim during an attempted robbery at his place of business. From The Vindicator : According to police, the shooting took place in a parking lot...

House Passes Concealed Carry Reciprocity

7:00am Thursday, December 07, 2017
Fairfax, Va.—The National Rifle Association applauded the United States House of Representatives on Wednesday for passing the most far-reaching expansion of self-defense rights in modern American history. The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 passed with bipartisan support in a 231-198 vote. "This vote marks a watershed moment for Second Amendment rights," said Chris W. Cox, executive...

Congress to Vote on Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 (H.R. 38) TODAY! Your Action Needed Immediately!

7:00am Wednesday, December 06, 2017
Ask Your U.S. Representative to Vote for H.R. 38, the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017! The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 (H.R. 38) will be up for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, December 6. Please contact your U.S. Representative TODAY and ask him/her to vote for H.R. 38! Your fundamental right to keep and bear arms should not end at the state line...

State Attorneys General Back National Reciprocity

3:00pm Tuesday, December 05, 2017
AGs: Will not result in an increased risk of crime Fairfax, Va., December 1, 2017 — Today, H.R. 38, the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, gained support from a coalition of America’s highest-ranking law enforcement officers. Twenty-four attorneys general from across the country signed a letter spearheaded by Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley supporting this common sense legislation. The...

Editorial: CCW reciprocity a no-brainer

by Gahanna Chief of Police Dennis Murphy
7:00am Tuesday, December 05, 2017
Law-abiding gun owners know about fellow gun owners who crossed state lines and unwittingly became criminals for breaking a law they didn’t know existed. A North Carolina resident was arrested for having his firearm while driving to New Jersey to help with Hurricane Sandy. A single mom from Pennsylvania spent years fighting to stay out of prison after driving with her firearm into another state...

U.S. House of Representatives to Vote on H.R. 38, the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act

7:00am Monday, December 04, 2017
In a huge win for Second Amendment supporters, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday held a mark-up of H.R. 38, the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, and favorably reported an amended version of the bill to the full House. Anti-gun Democrats on the Committee offered a lengthy list of amendments to weaken or gut the bill, all of which were defeated. The last 30 years have seen a continual...

A record 637,000 Ohio adults now have Concealed Handgun Licenses

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Friday, December 01, 2017
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the Concealed Handgun License (CHL) statistics for the third quarter of 2017. The pace of license issuance has declined compared to last year, but total numbers are still increasing. During the third quarter Ohio Sheriff’s issued 15,182 initial CHLs, 16 Temporary Emergency Licenses (TELs) and renewed 12,401 CHLs. There are now over 637,000 active...

House Judiciary Committee Green Lights Reciprocity Bill

4:43pm Thursday, November 30, 2017
Fairfax, Va., November 29, 2017 —The House Judiciary Committee today approved H.R. 38, the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, by a vote of 19-11. H.R. 38 would eliminate the confusing patchwork of state laws that makes it difficult for law-abiding permit holders to travel across the country with their firearms for personal protection. Under the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, states would be...

SHOCK: Persons obtain 20+ firearms without background check

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, November 30, 2017
According to so-called "common-sense" gun control extremists like Mark Kelley's "Americans for Responsible Solutions," all we have to do to keep criminals from gaining access to firearms is to mandate that a background check be done before all transfers of firearms. Pass "universal" background checks, we're told, close the "gun show loophole," we're told, and we can stop mass shootings! Indeed,...

Black Friday firearms sales set new record high

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, November 29, 2017
The FBI has reported that it fielded 203,086 background check requests for gun purchases on the day after Thanksgiving — the highest daily total ever. The number of guns sold on Black Friday is not an exact correlation to background checks, because some states, including Ohio, conduct NICS checks when issuing concealed handgun licenses. In addition, a person would only have one background check...

No Sale: Marketing Tricks in Gun Control

7:00am Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Marketing analysts refer to “churn” in an industry – the turnover or attrition rate of customers or employees or some other category – as an important metric of business growth and success: keeping track of churn rates offers insight into how well a business is doing. Applying this concept in the context of the gun control movement, the high prevalence of change in the anti-gun community points...

Muzzleloaders Now Targeted by “Giffords” Gun Prohibition Lobby

7:00am Monday, November 27, 2017
It didn’t take long after the events in Las Vegas, Nevada for gun control advocates to resort to their usual tactic of blaming hardware for the acts of an evil man. Numerous anti-gun bills were introduced almost immediately, with arch anti-gun Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) leading the charge. “This is written in clean English,” Feinstein insisted of her bill. “It does not take anyone’s gun.” Less...

Gun Controllers Choose to Ignore Cases of Good Guys with Guns

7:00am Friday, November 24, 2017
Less than three hours after the tragedy at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) was looking to score political points. As is his custom, Murphy fired off a tweet admonishing his colleagues for their refusal to submit to the gun control lobby’s agenda. However, in the following hours, as more information about the shooting became available, it became...

Thanksgiving: George Washington's 1789 Proclamation

7:00am Thursday, November 23, 2017
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...

Joe Biden: Hero Who Ended Texas Rampage Shouldn’t Have Had His Gun

7:00am Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Most Americans consider Stephen Willeford a hero for bravely ending the rampage of a crazed murderer at a Texas church … but not former Vice President Joe Biden. During a national television appearance on Monday, Biden dismissed the Texan’s valorous actions, going so far as to say he shouldn’t have been carrying the AR-15 he used to stop the killer. Biden, who is eyeing a presidential run in 2020...

From CO Walmart To TX Church: Credit Brave Armed Citizens

by Ron Borsch
7:00am Tuesday, November 21, 2017
This article originally published at ActiveResponseTraining.net . Republished with permission. The two recent incidents I will discuss highlight the utility of the armed citizen in the context of an active killer scenario. The typical active killer prefers to target locations that prohibit people from legally carrying concealed weapons. That is why we rarely hear about armed citizens stopping...

Renovations complete at Harrison State Forest Shooting Range

7:00am Friday, November 17, 2017
As part of an ongoing effort to upgrade and expand public shooting ranges, the Ohio Division of Wildlife and Division of Forestry have completed a $381,000 overhaul to Harrison State Forest Shooting Range. This included a $25,000 NRA Public Range Grant. Upgrades include ... Expanding the shooting line from 7 benches to 12 Raising the side berm and backstop height for safety Installing a new...

City of Chicago Uses Trace Report to Deflect From Its Own Failed Governance

7:00am Thursday, November 16, 2017
[Last month] brought more proof that Chicago’s feckless public officials have perfected the art of scapegoating. On Sunday [October 29] the city released the second edition of its Gun Trace Report. The document presents a host of ATF trace data on firearms recovered in the crime-plagued metropolis and attempts to shift blame for the city’s violence to the Illinois General Assembly, the state...

Ohio's Traditional Deer-Gun Hunting Season Begins Nov. 27

7:00am Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Youth-only weekend to be held Nov. 18-19 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 on Monday, Nov. 27. Hunting remains the most effective management tool for...

Should US study gun violence as a public health hazard? No

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Tuesday, November 14, 2017
The following op-ed originally appeared in the Columbus Dispatch . Republished with permission of author. Focus on enforcing laws, not agenda-driven research Decades ago, gun-control advocates spoke honestly about their motives. They openly disputed that the Second Amendment affirmed the right to own a gun, and said their goal was to make guns illegal, create a federal database of guns and gun...

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