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Ohio's U.S. Senators and challengers continue to make news over differing views on firearms rights

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Both U.S. Senators from Ohio, Sherrod Brown (D) and Rob Portman (R), and Ted Strickland, a Democrat hoping to win his party's nomination to challenge Portman in 2016, have been making news in recent days over comments made with regard to gun rights and gun control. (Brown and Strickland are pictured with President Obama.) In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack in San Bernadino, CA,...

'Sporting Purpose' Language in the Law Has Got to Go

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Monday, December 21, 2015

The term “sporting purpose” is imbedded throughout U.S. gun control laws, and its use is a violation of the Second Amendment. That has been my position for decades. My brother Chris raised the issue in a speech before the Gun Rights Policy Conference some three years ago, and our dad, Neal Knox, was making an issue of the language in the 1980s. The “sporting purpose” language has been a plank in...

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Reality Check: Is There A Link Between Mass Shootings and Anti-Depressants?

7:00am Monday, December 21, 2015

Ben Swann takes a look at the link between 26 mass shooters and anti-depressant/mood altering drugs. This is a Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.

Gun Control Supporters Unhinged: New Republic Says "Ban Guns— All of Them"

3:00pm Friday, December 18, 2015

Inspired by [a recent] New York Times front-page editorial calling for the confiscation of “large categories of weapons and ammunition,” a new article in the progressive-agenda magazine, New Republic, says that banning only some guns, but not all, is not enough. “It’s time to ban guns. Yes, all of them. . . . Get rid of guns in homes, and on the streets, and, as much as possible, on police...

Recognizing the Sound of Gunfire

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Friday, December 18, 2015

With all the recent active shooter/active killer events happening worldwide, I’m continuing to see reports of the exact same phenomenon….people don’t recognize the sounds of gunfire when they are being shot at. In almost every mass shooting, victims report that they heard a loud noise, but thought it was some other more innocuous sound. In a recent school shooting , Jordan Coates, a student at...

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Planned Giving: How to Provide a Lasting Legacy of Freedom

by Dean Rieck

3:00pm Thursday, December 17, 2015

You've spent a good portion of your life supporting the fight for Second Amendment rights. You're a member of the NRA. Maybe you're a member of BFA too. You've been shooting, collecting, and enjoying firearms for as long as you can remember. And now, as you get a little older, you start to think about whether those rights will be there for future generations. After all, you've seen endless...

Mishandling of BGSU faculty email lobbying scandal leads to shake-up at Sentinel-Tribune

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, December 17, 2015

The fall-out from my November 30 article exposing a large number of faculty at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) for having used university resources to lobby against House Bill 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) and highlighting comments from Dr. James E. Evans labeling the National Rifle Association (NRA) as "a murderous terrorist organization that is a threat to national security"...

Washington Post Skewers Obama on Shootings, Vindicates Rubio and Gun Rights Position

3:00pm Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Just as the New York Times is doing its best to shrug off whatever remaining journalistic integrity the paper might have had, the country’s other major establishment newspaper, the Washington Post, has managed to check some facts without their usual bias. The Post’s Fact Checker column concluded that Barack Obama deserved a rebuke for some of his recent comments on gun control, while giving a...