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HB 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) scheduled for 3rd hearing in House committee

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, June 04, 2015

Chairman Ron Maag (R-Lebanon) has announced that the House State Government committee will be hearing testimony on HB 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) next Wednesday, June 10 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 121. The chairman has also indicated that a substitute bill may be offered. As introduced, HB 48 would allow Ohioans to carry concealed guns on college campuses, places of worship, day-care...

Fail: Professor Claims Gun Rights Lead to Grade Inflation

3:00pm Wednesday, June 03, 2015

Most critics of campus carry couch their cultural bigotry against firearms and their owners in the dubious rhetoric of “public safety.” Yet an instructor at Texas Women’s University has come up with a new argument to suppress Second Amendment rights on campus. Writing in Newsweek, TWU Assistant Professor of Sociology Jessica Gullion stokes fears that campus carry would lead to rampant grade...

Anti-Gun Group Called Out (Mildly) for Falsification As the News Media Continue to Confuse Matters

by Larry Keane

7:00am Wednesday, June 03, 2015

We have noted previously that gun control organizations often exaggerate, confuse, conflate or just plain misrepresent the facts in the pursuit of their political agendas. It happened again following the recent tragic murder of NYPD officer Brian Moore by a career criminal. This time, however, the Politifact organization did some fact checking and found that Everytown for Gun Safety’s talking...

Compliance Doesn’t Always Ensure your Safety!

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Many of my students tell me that, should they ever be robbed, they plan on complying with the robbers’ demands. While I can’t presume to tell anyone the individual best course of action during a dangerous situation, I can provide some general statistics about past events. Statistically, complying with armed robbers’ demands generally results in fewer injuries to the victim than resisting (except...

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FOX Cleveland examines proposal to allow concealed carry on college campuses

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, June 02, 2015

WJW (Fox Cleveland) recently published a report on Rep. Ron Maag's (R-Lebanon) HB 48, which seeks to restore Ohioans right to bear concealed firearms on college campuses, places of worship, day-care facilities, private airplanes, school safety zones and certain government buildings. The report focused specifically on campus carry, and featured an interview with Buckeye Firearms Association...

Court Orders Issuance of D.C. Concealed Carry Licenses to Eligible Applicants

3:00pm Monday, June 01, 2015

On May 18, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order prohibiting enforcement of provisions of D.C. law that effectively grant to the police chief the discretion to decide who may lawfully exercise the right to bear arms in public for self-defense. This follows on the heels of an earlier ruling in which the District lost the argument that the right to “bear arms” does...

Report: Administration preps new gun regulations

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, June 01, 2015

TheHill.com is reporting that the Justice Department plans to move forward this year with more than a dozen new gun-related regulations, citing a list of rules the agency has proposed to enact before the end of the Obama administration. From the article : The regulations range from new restrictions on high-powered pistols to gun storage requirements. Chief among them is a renewed effort to keep...

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Passage of H.R. 2028 Includes Right-to-Carry on Army Corps Land Provision

3:00pm Friday, May 29, 2015

On Friday, May 1, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2028 the "Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016," by a bipartisan vote of 240-177. This bill is designed to protect the rights of gun owners on lands owned or managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). This legislation would help end the patchwork of firearm laws and regulations...