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Bill Seeks to Choke Off Anti-Gun "Choke Point"

3:00pm Monday, August 17, 2015

On July 30, The House Financial Services Committee marked up and passed out of committee H.R. 766, the Financial Institution Customer Protection Act, which was sponsored by Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO). If this bill becomes law, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) would be required to inform banks that they are not prohibited nor discouraged from servicing customers in...

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Should I Pull the Fire Alarm During a Mass Shooting?

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Monday, August 17, 2015

As more details about the Louisiana movie theater mass shooting emerge[ed last month], we learn[ed] that one of the shooting victims pulled the fire alarm to facilitate evacuation as the shooter was targeting victims. For more information about the incident, check out the link below: Hero Lafayette shooting survivor tearfully describes how she took a bullet in the leg for her friend who saved...

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Gun Control "Study" Misses the Mark Badly on Lawful Self-Defense

3:00pm Friday, August 14, 2015

Likely as a response to the growing number of American’s who have come to realize that having a firearm makes them safer, a blogger at the washingtonpost.com recently reported on a “ study ” by an anti-gun professor that attempts to discredit the utility of carrying a firearm for self-defense by placing participants into simulated self-defense scenarios. The “study” was notably prepared for the...

Headline: Mom hits bullseye with kids’ gun sports

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, August 14, 2015

Recently, Fremont's News-Messenger published an excellent article documenting the hard work one mom has put in to make sure that her kids (and many others) can enjoy the shooting sports. From the article : When Mary Ann Miller’s children became interested in 4-H shooting sports several years ago, the closest shooting club was in Ottawa County. Miller, of Fremont, talked with the local extension...

VIDEO: Debunking Bloomberg Gun Control Lie About Background Checks

3:00pm Thursday, August 13, 2015

In this News Minute from the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, Jennifer Zahrn addresses the false claim that 40 percent of gun sales do not go through background checks.

Report:Ted Strickland earned $250,000 at anti-gun think tank

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, August 13, 2015

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that a new financial disclosure filing reveals that former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democratic candidate for U.S. senator, earned $250,386 from April 2014 to March 2015 working for the Center for American Progress, a liberal, anti-gun think tank. From the article : Strickland headed the center's Action Fund, its advocacy arm, before resigning and...

Florida Court Again Sides With Patient Privacy, Hands Nosy Doctors Second Defeat

3:00pm Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Anti-gun doctors may need to get their own blood pressure checked after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit again upheld Florida’s Firearm Owners’ Privacy Act. As we reported last summer, the law was passed after an escalating series of events in which patients were harassed or denied access to services because they refused to be interrogated by their doctors about their ownership...

Sheriff's course teaches emergency response training to churches

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, August 12, 2015

WBNS (CBS Columbus) reported recently that Fairfield Co. Sheriff Doug Phelan held a class addressing church secutiry for around 300 people representing 60 churches. During the class, Sheriff Phelan gave tips on how churches can protect themselves in the event of an active killer. From the article : “There’s always going to be an element of risk in any church, in any mall, any theater,” Fairfield...