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Firearms Industry Honors U.S. Rep. Bob Latta as 2013 Legislator of the Year

3:00pm Thursday, May 01, 2014

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry, honored U.S. Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio) as NSSF's 2013 Legislator of the Year at the organization's recent annual dinner in Washington, D.C., preceding the firearms industry's annual Congressional Fly-In. "We salute Congressman Latta for his...

Report: 10 years later - fewer restrictions, more concealed guns

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, May 01, 2014

Though the establishment media largely failed to mark the tenth anniversary of Ohio's concealed handgun licensure law on April 8, Gannett Company, publisher of a number of Ohio newspapers as well as USAToday , has finally published two lengthy articles to mark the event. The first article is entitled " 10 years later - fewer restrictions, more concealed guns ": When Ohio passed a law allowing...

Another Reason to be Concerned about Obama’s Surgeon General Nominee

3:00pm Wednesday, April 30, 2014

On Thursday (April 10], the anti-gun American College of Physicians (ACP) came out for the entire gun control agenda being pushed at the national level, adding to the suspicion that Dr. Vivek Murthy, President Obama's nominee for Surgeon General, would do the same if confirmed to the post. To the many newspaper editors who have suggested medicine has nothing to do with gun control, and NRA has no...

Crime drops as more Americans carry guns

by Gerard Valentino

7:00am Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Editor's Note: The following op-ed was published by the Cleveland Plain Dealer . Republished by permission of the author. A rebuttal written by Mrs. Toby Hoover, entitled "Promoting weapons everywhere fosters culture of fear", was also published . At this point in the debate over the role of guns in America, only the mainstream media and zealots cling to the false hope of gun control. Few, if any...

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More People “Prohibited” by SCOTUS

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Tuesday, April 29, 2014

The Supreme Court of the US came down with a decision in March that effectively expands the base of people prohibited from purchasing or possessing firearms in this country. In a unanimous decision in the case US v. Castleman , the Court ruled that the law banning possession of firearms by anyone ever convicted of any crime of violence against a spouse or significant other – often referred to as...

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Robbed and kidnapped, Ohio man pulls own gun and shoots attacker

by Chad D. Baus

11:00am Tuesday, April 29, 2014

The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that a man was robbed, then kidnapped, was able to pull his own handgun and shoot his attacker. From the article : A man who told police that he shot a robber in the neck on the Hilltop on Friday evening claims he was abducted at gunpoint and was being driven to a cash machine to withdraw money, Columbus police said yesterday. Police identified the dead man as...

Op-Ed: Murder Motivation - Why Most of America is Immune to Gun Violence

by Chuck Michel

3:00pm Monday, April 28, 2014

What was your motivation for the murder you committed yesterday? If you can't answer that, then you are in the 99.996% of the population that also assassinated nobody. When it comes to guns, we already know that the largest cluster of gun deaths (61%) are suicides, and that suicide is a mental health problem than no gun or magazine ban prevents. The next largest cluster are gun crimes (35%), with...

ATF Bans More Ammo

by Jeff Knox

7:00am Monday, April 28, 2014

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has declared that Russian 7N6, 5.45x39 rifle ammunition is “armor piercing handgun ammunition,” and therefore illegal for importation into the US. The ammunition has been widely available in the US for decades and was originally designed for the AK74 service rifle, a smaller, lighter adaptation of the AK47. The “handgun ammunition” label...