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Bill Aimed at Ending Operation Choke Point Passes House

3:00pm Thursday, February 18, 2016

On Thursday [February 4], a bi-partisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 766, the ‘‘Financial Institution Customer Protection Act of 2015,” sponsored by Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO). As we reported last year, this bill targets the abuses of Operation Choke Point (OCP), an Obama administration “enforcement” program that lumped together legal and illegal businesses into a...

Signed: Knife Rights' Wisconsin Knife Law Reform Bill

7:00am Thursday, February 18, 2016

Editor's Note: Today, a piece of good news from Wisconsin from our friends at Knife Rights. Knife Rights' Wisconsin Knife Law Reform Bill including Knife Law Preemption, AB 142, was signed on Saturday [February 6] by Governor Scott Walker. Wisconsin is the eleventh state in which Knife Rights has repealed a switchblade ban and the tenth in which we have passed Knife Law Preemption. The law goes...

Bloomberg for President?

3:00pm Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Amid reports that the FBI is close to recommending that the Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecute Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified materials, and that FBI Director James Comey and other agency personnel investigating Clinton may resign if the DOJ refuses to do so, sources close to Michael Bloomberg say the billionaire former mayor of New York City may run for president if Clinton...

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'Good Samaritan' Ohio CHL-holder draws gun after wanted man tries to steal his truck

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, February 17, 2016

The Vinton Courier is reporting that an Ohio concealed handgun license (CHL) -holder drew his gun when a man he stopped to help attempted to steal his truck. From the article : The tables turned quickly on a Florida man who police say tried to steal a truck on Route 278 in Vinton County. Donald Dwayne O'Connor Jr., 28, of Tampa, Florida, was arrested by the Vinton County Sheriff's Office for...

In the wake of San Bernadino terror attack, January 2016 firearms sales jump 29.5% over prior year

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Tuesday, February 16, 2016

In the wake of the December 2 terrorist attack in San Bernadino, CA, firearms retailers and concealed carry instructors reported a marked increase in business, as more and more people came to realize that the federal government has failed in it's primary job of protecting the homeland from attack. The numbers are now in, and the jump was sizeable. The January 2016 NSSF-adjusted National Instant...

SHOCK: Person obtains 10+ firearms without background check

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, February 16, 2016

To listen to President Obama and his gun ban extremist friends tell it, all we have to do to keep criminals from gaining access to firearms is to mandate that a background check be done before all transfers of firearms. Pass "universal" background checks, we're told, close the "gun show loophole," we're told, and we can stop mass shootings! Indeed, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV)...

Justice Scalia's death provides Obama opportunity to overturn Second Amendment ruling

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Monday, February 15, 2016

Amidst the excitement from many about the opportunity to elect the first black President in 2008, and amidst many gun owners' decision to sit out the 2012 election due to the sketchy record of Mitt Romney on guns, there were loud warnings from groups like Buckeye Firearms Association and the National Rifle Association that an Obama presidency could mean the end of the Second Amendment. Those...

FBI: Michigan jihadist chose church as target because it was a "no-guns" zone

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, February 15, 2016

(Image source: WDIV-TV) Ohio law gives exact same assurance to would-be attackers WDIV (NBC Detroit) reported recently that a Dearborn Heights resident who was arrested for his allegiance to ISIS told an undercover FBI agent he had decided to target a church specifically because "people are not allowed to carry guns in church." From the article : Khalil Abu-Rayyan, 21, was being watched by the...