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Op-Ed: The Democrats really are coming for your guns

by Lawrence Keane

7:00am Thursday, July 25, 2019

What a difference three years makes. The first primary debates showed us just how far the Democratic party has drifted on Second Amendment rights. Anti-gun politicians once were coy about their goals. President Barack Obama told PBS’s Gwen Ifill during a town hall in 2016, “And at no point have I ever, ever proposed confiscating guns from responsible gun owners. So it's just not true.” Now the...

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Mathematics ties media coverage of gun control to upticks in gun purchases

7:00am Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Editor's Note: We know...this is kind of like news that more people use umbrellas when it rains. It doesn't take a genius to recognize this trend, but it did take a bunch of mathematicians to prove it... ... For the first time, researchers have shown a causal link between print news media coverage of U.S. gun control policy in the wake of mass shooting events and increases in firearm acquisition...

Op-Ed: Here Are The Gun Control Positions Of The Democratic Candidates After Two Debates

by Larry Keane

7:00am Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Democratic hopefuls squared off in the first primary debate over two days and they had plenty to say about the gun control plans they would enact if elected. Perhaps the most important take away from the two nights is that the candidates advocated or passively supported gun confiscation, rhetorically couched as “gun buybacks.” Not a single one of the 20 candidates spoke in opposition to...

Another Ohio board of education votes to allow concealed carry for teachers

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, July 22, 2019

WTAP (NBC Parkersburg, WV) reported recently that the Warren Local Schools board of education has voted to approve the concealed arming of staff members. From the article : "This was a long time study of looking into different programs," superintendent Kyle Newton said. Newton says the district didn’t just rush into this decision to allow concealed carrying of firearms for selected faculty...

Living in La-La Land: Joe Biden’s Alternative Reality

7:00am Friday, July 19, 2019

Anti-gun folks typically characterize their gun control restrictions as “common sense” and “responsible,” regardless of how poorly grounded in reality these “solutions” tend to be, or how little their proponents understand what these measures will do (like the gun control supporters at one event who, when asked, were unable to explain what an AR-15 or a bumpstock is). A related, recurring theme...

Shooters Converge on Camp Perry for CMP Matches and 2019 ORPA State Championship

by Serena Juchnowski & CMP Staff

7:00am Thursday, July 18, 2019

Several service rifle competitors got a jump on the National Matches at Camp Perry by taking advantage of a series of matches on June 22 and 23, conducted by the Civilian Marksmanship Program and the Ohio Rifle and Pistol Association. CMP shooters led off with an 800 Aggregate match, EIC Match and CMP GSMM reduced course match on Day 1. ORPA shooters fired their State Rifle Championship on Day 2...

New Zealand Experience Further Proves Registration Facilitates Confiscations

7:00am Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Firearms registration facilitates firearms confiscation. This fact has been demonstrated in recent weeks, as the New Zealand authorities have lamented that the country does not have a firearms registry to assist them in their gun confiscation efforts. Following a high-profile shooting in Christchurch, the New Zealand government enacted the Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines, and Parts)...

Attorney General announces First Quarter 2019 CHL statistics; RECORD 673,000 enjoy Ohio concealed carry

by Jim Irvine

7:00am Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) has released the Concealed Handgun License (CHL) statistics for the first quarter of 2019. As has been true for every quarterly report for over 10 years, we set another record for total number of people licensed to discretely carry their firearms. During the first quarter, Ohio Sheriffs issued 16,115 initial CHLs, renewed 22,739 CHLs and processed 7 Temporary...