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Gun Crimes Plummet Even As Gun Sales Rise

4:00pm Friday, August 23, 2013

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has released a new infographic designed to counter the false impression many Americans have that gun-related crime has increased over the past 20 years, even though it has actually fallen dramatically. Fifty-six percent of Americans think crime with firearms has increased, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. However, data show that...

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Using the .22 for Self Defense

8:00am Friday, August 23, 2013

by Greg Ellifritz Since my handgun stopping power study was published last month in American Handgunner Magazine, I've received several questions from readers about my data. I expected to be castigated by all the big bullet aficionados for reporting honest data about the "mouse gun" calibers. That wasn't what I received. All the email that I got was from .22 advocates telling me that I...

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Op-Ed: Illegal Mayors

4:00pm Thursday, August 22, 2013

by C. D. Michel Incarcerating Michael Bloomberg may be the next news ironic item. If only! New York Mayor Bloomberg, America's self-appointed gun control financier and front man, established the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG). The group's typically innocuous and benign sound bites actually conceal an aggressive and extreme agenda, some rather disastrous shenanigans (such as a Keystone...

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Nanny Bloomberg’s War on the Constitution

8:00am Thursday, August 22, 2013

by Jeff Knox About a month after the US Senate voted down a series of gun control amendments back in April, an article in the New Republic magazine boldly declared "This is How the NRA Ends: A Bigger, Richer, Meaner Gun Control Movement has Arrived." The article was a long diatribe regurgitating much of the stale tripe and distortion we've been hearing from the anti-rights movement for decades,...

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Op-Ed: Gun toting teachers' names must remain private

4:00pm Wednesday, August 21, 2013

by John Lott Are people safer if criminals know who is carrying concealed handguns? Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel seems to think so. With school starting soon, he claims that if the Clarksville, Arkansas School District lets employees carry concealed handguns at school, their names must be made public. This is his second attempt to derail the school district's proposal. McDaniel's...

AG DeWine declares some school safety plans "useless"

8:00am Wednesday, August 21, 2013

by Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that, while all Ohio schools meet the legal requirement of having a school safety plan, many are outdated, incomplete or useless to law enforcement. State law requires schools to file reports on how they would handle an active killer incident or other emergency, the article observes, but there are no penalties for failing to file, and the...

Rumor Control: U.N. "Disarmament" Memo

8:00am Tuesday, August 20, 2013

As attacks on our Second Amendment rights continue, there is typically a corresponding uptick in the number of internet rumors concerning firearms, ammunition, and gun-control measures. The latest rumor involves the United Nations, a group that indeed poses an ongoing potential threat to our Second Amendment rights. However, this rumor was highly suspect right from the start. Pictures of the...

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Ohio's children need protection...period.

8:00am Tuesday, August 20, 2013

by Mindy Whited On July 27, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published an op-ed by Renuka Mayadev entitled " Ohio's children need protection from guns ." In the article, Mayadev cites several tragic accidental shootings involving Ohio children as reasons for which Ohio should pass new gun control laws. I am a mom to five children ages 3-20. I agree that as a mom, our first priority should be keeping...