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Another Study Blames Guns, Excludes Reality

7:00am Thursday, March 28, 2019

A study published in Preventative Medicine by Yu Lu and Jeff R. Temple concludes that “the majority of mental health symptoms examined were not related to gun violence. Instead, access to firearms was the primary culprit.” The first caveat here is that the researchers did not measure or test “gun violence.” They asked respondents – young adults who at one time attended one of seven public high...

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Polls: No Lasting Support for Gun Control One Year After Parkland

7:00am Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Thursday February 14 marked the one year anniversary of the terrible crimes at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL. It was a somber occasion, but some media outlets couldn’t contain their glee this week that last year’s horror might finally advance the anti-gun agenda. A CNN headlined heralded “A new era on guns.” “After Parkland, everything is different,” Salon gushed. But a new...

HB 228: What the New Ohio Gun Laws Mean to You

3:00pm Tuesday, March 26, 2019

House Bill 228 takes effect on March 28, 2019. Here are the changes and how they may affect you. The biggest change is easily the “burden shift.” For decades, Ohio has been the only state which required the victim of a deadly force encounter to prove self-defense if charged. The State could seize your property, deny your civil rights, and imprison you without ever proving a thing. No more! This...

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Blast from the Past: Proof Found That Brady Campaign Still Exists!

7:00am Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Nostalgia gripped gun owners [recently] as longtime foe the Brady Campaign managed to garner a few measly headlines in the media landscape they once commanded so ably. As it happens, the Brady Campaign has decided to undergo another rebranding effort and will now go by simply “Brady.” For those counting, this is the fourth different name for the outmoded handgun prohibition organization...

Why do high school students think our rights come from the government?

by Ken McEntee

7:00am Monday, March 25, 2019

Why do high school students think our rights come from the government? In the wake of last year’s Valentine’s Day massacre inside Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School , mainstream media repeatedly trotted out a small group of carefully selected Douglas students who served as the expert voices of America’s youth, demanding that something be done about gun violence – specifically “calling...

Legal challenge to Trump bump stock ban to have hearing today; Runs up against March 26 deadline

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, March 22, 2019

On February 20, 2018, President Trump issued a memorandum instructing the Attorney General "to dedicate all available resources to … propose for notice and comment a rule banning all devices that turn legal weapons into machineguns." His administration followed through on his wishes, and on December 18, 2018, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker announced that the Department of Justice had...

Armed Ohio realtors turn tables on would-be attacker

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, March 21, 2019

WKRC (CBS Cincinnati) reported recently that two realtors - a father and son team - were forced to use their legally-concealed handguns to defend themselves when they were threatened by a violent intruder inside a vacant property. From the article : The house on S. 11th St. in Hamilton is vacant but last month, Kyle Morrical and his father, Phil Morrical III, got a call that someone had broken in...

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City of Columbus Sues Ohio to Shred Constitutional Gun Rights

by Dean Rieck

3:00pm Wednesday, March 20, 2019

In a move that has sent shock waves across Ohio, the City of Columbus has decided to ignore more than a decade of legislation and litigation in order to file a lawsuit to shred the Constitution and erase ALL gun rights statewide. City of Columbus v. State of Ohio seeks to overturn ORC 9.68 , a section of Ohio law commonly known as "preemption," which prohibits cities from regulating firearms,...