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NSSF Announces S.A.F.E Summer To Promote Firearms Safety

3:00pm Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Group Expands Project ChildSafe with New Message; 500,000 Firearms Safety Kits NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) is kicking off a "S.A.F.E. Summer" effort to focus attention on the importance of safe firearm storage--particularly while children are home from school and more likely to be unattended--and has pledged an additional $1 million to provide half a million...

Support for "universal background check" gun control legislation continues to drop in Ohio

7:00am Tuesday, July 02, 2013

by Chad D. Baus Anyone who follows politics closely knows that, depending on how you ask the question, you can make a poll say almost anything. In the wake of the horrendous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary last December, the media and anti-gun politicians were hell-bent on passing new laws to limit the sale of firearms, even though not one of the suggestions they were proposing would have...

NSSF® Launches New Project ChildSafe® Website

3:00pm Monday, July 01, 2013

Expanded site offers new tools to encourage firearm safety in the home NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®) has launched a new Project ChildSafe® website as part of its "S.A.F.E. Summer" campaign. The new site, and the campaign, are designed to focus attention on the importance of safe and responsible firearm storage, to reinforce that anyone who is going to own a...

Anti-gun Democrats choose to offer "passive-aggressive publicity stunt" rather than solutions to real problems

7:00am Monday, July 01, 2013

by Chad D. Baus Last week, anti-gun Democrats Mike Foley and Bob Hagan introduced House Bill 222, legislation which was immediately termed by the equally anti-gun Cleveland Plain Dealer as nothing more than a "passive-aggressive publicity stunt." From the article : Republicans in Ohio's General Assembly have amended the state budget to include several anti-abortion measures, including a last-...

SAF asks for all Bloomberg-MAIG records from NYC after revelations

3:00pm Friday, June 28, 2013

Editor's Note: As the battle between New York Second Amendment advocates and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has escalated, it has appeared that Mr. Bloomberg, with his wealth and position pretty much had carte blanche to do what he pleased as he campaigned against guns in the hands of private citizens. But has Mr. Bloomberg used public funds or resources to augment his private efforts?...

Dispatch: Pro-gun group spending big dough to offer arms training for teachers

7:00am Thursday, June 27, 2013

by Chad D. Baus This week, Buckeye Firearms Foundation announced the launch of an ambitious program. Now that we've created and tested our "active killer" response training program, otherwise known as FASTER (Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response), with 24 teachers, it's time to roll it out on a bigger scale. The Foundation has just announced that it will commit to funding...

Outrage of the Week: Bloomberg Gun Control Group Claims Terrorist was "Victim of Gun Violence"

7:00am Thursday, June 27, 2013

This week's outrage comes to us from New Hampshire, where New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun group--Mayors Against Illegal Guns--labeled a terrorist as a "victim of gun violence." As part of a gun control rally this week in Concord, a MAIG-sponsored "No More Names" tour bus arrived and anti-gun organizers read the names of those "killed with guns" since the shooting at Sandy Hook...

Press Club of Toledo to host forum on firearms

3:00pm Wednesday, June 26, 2013

TOLEDO, OH. -- Gun control and mass shootings are much in the news these days and the Press Club of Toledo has put together a session to educate the news media on the topics. Pressing Issues, a regular program of the Press Club, will feature a panel comprised of a weapons expert, lawman, school administrator, concealed-carry instructor, and a seasoned news manager to discuss the topic from...