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Report on Heller Aftermath Reinforces Urgent Need for Congressional Action

7:00am Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Award-winning journalist John Stossel published a report [recently] that provides a timely reminder that – nearly a decade after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller – law abiding gun owners are still routinely persecuted and punished for exercising their rights. Stossel’s report profiled harmless travelers caught up in New York City’s draconian approach to gun...

Mike DeWine joins 20 other state attorneys general to defend Second Amendment rights

7:00am Tuesday, August 29, 2017

NEWTOWN, Conn. — Twenty-one state Attorneys General have filed a joint amici curiae, or “friends of the court,” brief supporting the petitioning of the U.S. Supreme Court by plaintiffs, including the National Shooting Sports Foundation, to take up Kolbe v. Hogan , the case in which the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals decided Maryland could ban semi-automatic modern sporting rifles on grounds they...

F Stands for FAIL: Magnets – 1, “Smart Gun” Technology – 0

7:00am Monday, August 28, 2017

The news broke [recently] that the “smart gun” which many gun control advocates hoped would usher in the brave new world of mandatory user recognition technology is … if not exactly a fraud … a good example of common arguments made against smart guns. According to an article in Wired magazine , the $1,800 .22 LR pistol that made such a splash with gun controllers upon its debut is easily hacked...

Arming Teachers, a Countermeasure to Active Killers

by Ron Borsch

7:00am Friday, August 25, 2017

As a retired law enforcement officer, in my second career of training police officers, one of my proprietary courses was Tactical 1st Responder ©, the responses to Rapid Mass Murder©, which was eventually attended by officers from ten states. Having researched Rapid Mass Murder© by the random acts of active killers back to 1975, I discovered that the primary target of this type of homicide was...

Op-Ed: FBI Report on Congressional Baseball Shooting Quietly Debunks Gun-Controllers’ Talking Points

by Charles C. W. Cooke

7:00am Thursday, August 24, 2017

The FBI has published a brief report on the shooting in Alexandria. It is devastating to the idea that the gun-control measures presently coveted by the Democratic party would have done something to prevent the attack. Over the past two decades, Democrats have focused on three major proposals for reform. They are: 1) That all private transfers should be contingent upon a federal background check...

Justice Department Terminates and Repudiates Operation Chokepoint

7:00am Wednesday, August 23, 2017

[Last] week the Department of Justice made clear that the Obama Administration’s underhanded attack on the gun industry using the banking system - better known as Operation Chokepoint - is over. In a strongly-worded letter to U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) dated August 16, Assistant Attorney General Stephen E. Boyd assured the chairman that the operation has been...

Ohio judge returns fire after being ambushed; attacker dead

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Media outlets around the country are reporting that Jefferson County, Ohio Common Pleas Judge Joseph J. Bruzzese Jr. was able to protect his own life by using his concealed handgun to return fire after being ambushed outside the courthouse in Steubenville on Monday. His assailant was eventually shot dead by a nearby probation officer. Another man who was accompanying the attacker is currently in...

Nearly 1100 Teachers and Staff Members in 12 States Get "Armed" Active Killer Training

by Jim irvine

7:00am Monday, August 21, 2017

When an active killer targets a school, the standard protocol is to wait for law enforcement to arrive on the scene to stop the violence. In 2013, that protocol started to change for many schools, with the introduction of the FASTER Saves Lives program , which provides lethal force training and medical response to teachers and staff members. Now, after five years, FASTER Saves Lives has trained...