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Action Needed! Urge Your U.S. Rep to Vote Against Any Anti-Gun Amendments

7:00am Wednesday, December 16, 2015

In the wake of [the recent terror attack] in San Bernardino, California, President Obama and the usual cast of anti-gun politicians were -- again -- quick to exploit an act of terrorism to push for more gun control. The president suggested the NRA was somehow to blame for the tragedy, and when addressing the nation over the weekend, he predictably called for new gun laws. This time, the president...

New York Times Calls for Gun Confiscation

3:00pm Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Never let it be said that the New York Times can’t recognize the important moments in American history, nor muster the courage to express its opinions on its front page when the situation demands. In 1920, for example, feeling strongly about the upcoming presidential election, the newspaper published a front-page editorial criticizing the Republican Party for nominating Warren Harding. In that...

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Attorney General announces Third Quarter 2015 CHL statistics; 34% increase over prior year

by Jim Irvine

7:00am Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the Concealed Handgun License (CHL) statistics for the third quarter of 2015. There were a total of 26,139 licenses issued during the quarter, exceeding the average demand for CHLs for the 16th straight quarter. Governor John Kasich (R) signed HB 234 in December of 2014. In the first two quarters of 2014, when bills were just languishing in the...

Reality Check: Did Australia And Great Britain See Lower Gun Violence After Mass Confiscation?

3:00pm Monday, December 14, 2015

Ben Swann takes a look at whether mass gun confiscation in the United States would work like it did in Australia and Great Britain. But more importantly, he will ask the question, the mass confiscation even work over there? What follows is a Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.

Sandy Hook: In memory of those who were murdered three years ago today

by Jim Irvine

7:00am Monday, December 14, 2015

It has been three years since a coward killed his mother, stole her guns, and went to the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. The school was locked for the beginning of the school day. The coward shot out the windows and entered through the administration area, killing several there. He proceeded down the hallway, murdered 27 year-old Victoria Soto, who had hidden her children,...

Ohio concealed handgun license-holder defends self and co-worker from armed robber

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Friday, December 11, 2015

WXIX (Fox Cincinnati) is reporting that a contractor with a concealed handgun license defended his life, and that of a co-worker, from a 16 year-old armed robber who attacked them outside a home they were rehabilitating. From the article : Officers responded to Jonathan Avenue near Fernside Place near Walnut Hills High School about 11:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a shooting, said Captain...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. president: Trump and Kasich are WRONG on no-fly list gun sales

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, December 11, 2015

Last weekend, Ohio Governor John Kasich and businessman Donald Trump, both Republican presidential candidates, joined President Obama in calling for persons who find themselves on the government's "no-fly" list to be prohibited from purchasing firearms. Kasich first expressed the opinion at a Saturday, Dec. 5 town-hall meeting in New London, N.H., and doubled-down on the position on CNN's "State...

To the Editor: ‘Duty to retreat’ had no bearing on conviction

3:00pm Thursday, December 10, 2015

The following letter to the editor of the Toledo Blade was published in response to an editorial entitled " Tragic Lesson - A case just decided in Ohio shows why lawmakers should reject ‘stand-your-ground’ laws ," in which the Blade editorial board claimed that an area murder "could have been legally justified under a stand-your-ground law." ‘Duty to retreat’ had no bearing on conviction You are...