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ACTION ALERT: Say NO to Illegal Columbus Gun Control Laws

5:32pm Friday, December 02, 2022

Despite a court issuing a "stay" in Columbus' lawsuit against the State of Ohio over firearm preemption law, city leaders appear ready to move forward to pass gun control laws. They have called yet another hearing for Monday, Dec. 5, where it is possible they will vote on and pass laws to ban magazines of 30 or more rounds and mandate gun storage requirements in the home, among other ordinances...

Self-Defense and the Firearms Safety Rules

by Gary Evens

7:00am Friday, December 02, 2022

According to Webster’s dictionary, a rule is: 1) A prescribed guide for conduct or action; 2) An accepted procedure, custom, or habit; 3) A regulation or bylaw governing procedure or controlling conduct. Rules are meant to be followed and violating them is supposed to have serious consequences. Recently, several of my fellow firearms instructors and I have been engaged in a discussion over the...

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BREAKING: House Passes BFA-Supported SB 185 to Limit Government Power During Emergencies

3:46pm Thursday, December 01, 2022

On Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, the Ohio House passed Senate Bill 185 , sponsored by Senator Tim Schaffer, on a 55 to 22 vote. Earlier in the day, the House Government Oversight Committee passed the bill 8-5, sending it to the House floor. SB 185 seeks to prevent state and local governments from infringing on Second Amendment rights and key hunting, fishing, and trapping activities during declared...

Training for Reality

by Gary Evens

7:00am Thursday, December 01, 2022

When you go shooting, what do you use for your target? I know when I was growing up we used whatever we could find—bottles, cans, cardboard boxes, pieces of wood, etc. Paper targets were expensive in those days when a 50-round box of .22 LR ammunition cost 30¢ or less. In the rural part of Michigan where I grew up there was hardly a roadside traffic sign that was not riddled with bullet holes—not...

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Series: Columbus' 2005 assault weapons ban was a failure; City Attorney Zach Klein wants to reinstate it (Part 4)

by Ken Hanson, Esq.

7:00am Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Editor's Note: After a three year effort to convince a local judge to rule that Ohio's premption law, R.C. 9.68, unconstitutionally infringes upon the City of Columbus' right to exercise its zoning powers, City Attorney Zach Klein is taking the opportunity to fantasize about reinstating another so-called assault weapons ban in Columbus. Given that Klein was in his mid-20s the last time Columbus...

Skill Set: The Cost of Training

by Tiger McKee

7:00am Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Recently a gentleman contacted me about training. In response to the details and pricing he accused me of being a “crook,” and he told me that he “refused to be ripped off.” “Someone,” he wrote, “should put you in prison for robbery.” Not sure what I’m guilty of. His response - although rude - was amusing. It also prompted me to do some research on the cost of firearms training. Pretty much...

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The Evolution of a Hunter

by Eric Morris

7:00am Monday, November 28, 2022

As students filled the classroom, eager to take their hunter education course, memories came to mind when I took the same class. The year was 1995, and as a young Lieutenant stationed at Ft. Bragg, NC, I had no idea that I would be a hunter-education instructor teaching classes of my own one day. However, after 35 years of hunting and having taught or introduced hundreds of people to hunting, the...

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Sen. Dolan's "STRONG Ohio"-Lite is still an abysmal piece of gun control legislation

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, November 25, 2022

Having apparently learned nothing from having come in third in the race for his party's nomination for U.S. Senate in May, so-called Republican Matt Dolan is now pressing to cement his poor reputation among voters by pressing for yet another version of "STRONG Ohio." In this latest version, Dolan removed the "red flag" provisions that sought to take citizens' firearms without due process, perhaps...