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Astroturf gun control group in Ohio pushing for "universal" background check ballot initiative

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Ohio news media are gushing this week over a so-called "grassroots" gun control group in Ohio - a group which is promoting a "universal" background checks ballot initiative. From the Columbus Dispatch : Ohio voters might have the opportunity to decide whether to require background checks for gun purchases at the same time they vote for president in the 2020 election. Ohioans for Gun Safety...

Secretary Bernhardt Proposes Increasing Public Access to Hunting and Fishing on 1.4 Million Acres Nationwide

7:00am Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Proposal Includes New Opportunities at 74 National Wildlife Refuges and 15 National Fish Hatcheries Oak Harbor, Ohio – Furthering the Trump Administration’s efforts to increase access to public lands, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today announced from Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge a proposal for new or expanded hunting and fishing opportunities at 74 national wildlife refuges...

N.E. Ohio Concealed Carry Fashion Show to be held June 21

7:00am Monday, June 10, 2019

Gun owner turned 2A activist Amanda Suffecool knows the best hope for protecting firearms over the long haul is getting women into the action. She does this through producing Concealed Carry Fashion Shows including one in Kent, Ohio on June 21st. These shows are designed to attract this growing demographic. When former President B. Obama sealed the Democratic nomination in 2008, Amanda Suffecool...

Anti-gun Democrats Press for Publicly Funded Gun Control Advocacy

7:00am Friday, June 07, 2019

On Wednesday, March 6, the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations held a hearing supposedly geared toward “Addressing the Public Health Emergency of Gun Violence.” That hyperbolic title, however, betrayed the real agenda of the event, which was to create the false impression that an...

Your Tactical Training Scenario…Men in the Bushes

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Thursday, June 06, 2019

Imagine the following scenario... It’s 9pm and you are taking your dog for a walk around your neighborhood. You live in a “safe” area and you have walked your dog on this route every night for years without a problem. It’s dark, and as you walk you notice some shapes moving in the bushes ahead of you. You initially think the shapes are deer, so you continue to walk. As you get closer, two men...

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Report: UK Gun Owner Loses Licenses Over Social Media Presence

7:00am Wednesday, June 05, 2019

In 2016, UK shooter and popular YouTube gun channel personality Callum Long-Collins told the BBC, “Being British and a firearms owner, it almost feels illegal to have any sort of opinion on using guns for self-defense.” The comments appear to have been proved correct. According to an April 23 article in The Times titled, “Gun licences stripped from shooting activist over YouTube comments,” Long-...

Identifying the Problem of Gun Control Research

7:00am Tuesday, June 04, 2019

In 2017, anti-gun researcher John Donohue and his team released a study that purported to find that Right to Carry laws increase overall violent crime rates. The paper was updated six months later seemingly to address criticism of its methodology and produced the same conclusion. Readers may be familiar with the study as an anti-gun press fawned over the results without questioning the mechanism...

Tactical Defense Institute's Partner Tactics Class prompts self-reflection

by Jim Irvine

7:00am Monday, June 03, 2019

I recently attended the “Partner Tactics” class at Tactical Defense Institute (TDI). I’ve taken most of their handgun classes (including this one, a few years ago) and help with the FASTER Saves Lives training at TDI, and with Chris Cerino. So I benefit from spending significant time on a range with world-class instructors. But I had not personally taken a class in a few years, and I know it’s...