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Cleveland Plain Dealer admits anti-gun editorial error; Has refused to correct past mistakes

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, December 20, 2018

On December 11, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published an editorial calling for Gov. John Kasich to veto HB 228 on the grounds that it upends "the longstanding legal requirement in every state of the union that someone claiming they shot in self-defense show by a preponderance of the evidence that they were justified in believing that." The problem? The truth is that the longstanding legal...

BREAKING NEWS: Gov. Kasich vetoes H.B. 228 - House and Senate must override for bill to become law

3:00pm Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Governor John Kasich has vetoed H.B. 228, the bill seeking to put the burden of proof on prosecutors where it belongs and modernize other elements of concealed carry. DOWNLOAD THE ACT HERE It is now up to the Ohio House and Senate to decide if they wish to override the veto and make this bill law. Before reaching the Governor's desk, it passed both chambers with veto-proof majorities. Contact...

Trump Administration Bans Bump Stocks; Gives Public 90 Days to Destroy or Turn Them All In

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, December 19, 2018

The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced the finalized form of a bump stock ban, brought about through amending ATF regulations so as to define bump stocks as “machineguns.” From Brietbart.com : Breitbart News possesses a copy of the DOJ’s summary of the ban, which states: The Department of Justice is amending the regulations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF...

Surprise: Physician Group Rehashes Same Tired Gun Control Policies

3:00pm Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Everyone has hobbies. Some doctors’ collective hobby is opining on firearms policy. Half of the articles in the “Latest from Annals ” email from the Annals of Internal Medicine journal are related to firearms. The most prominent of these articles is a position paper written by the American College of Physicians (ACP) that expands upon their 2014 paper and reflects every anti-gunner’s public...

VIDEO: John Lott challenges study claiming U.S. leads in mass shootings

7:00am Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Many mainstream news outlets have been reporting that America has more mass shootings than any other country. And, of course, they lament that this proves we need more gun control. CNN has claimed that "the U.S. has the most mass shootings." The Wall Street Journal says that the "U.S. leads the world in mass shootings." And it's no surprise that former President Obama has made claims about how...

NRA-Supported Case Could Soon be Taken Up by the US Supreme Court

7:00am Monday, December 17, 2018

What if you lived in a major metropolitan area that said you were free to practice the religion of your choice while within its jurisdiction, but in order to worship outside of that jurisdiction, you were required to first ask permission? And what if that permission was rarely granted? Would you feel like your right to exercise the religion of your choice is still protected? Now imagine you are a...

Former ATF Agent Pulls Mask Off Giffords’ Plans for Federal AR-15 Registration

7:00am Friday, December 14, 2018

In an odd turn, just before Halloween one prominent gun control group briefly got out of costume. When former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and husband Mark Kelly launched Americans for Responsible Solutions (now named Giffords) in early 2013, gun owners were assured that the group sought moderate “common-sense solutions” to gun violence. The group admonished NRA for not working to “to find...

Missing the Marx: Gun Control’s Future is … Communism?

7:00am Thursday, December 13, 2018

Note: This article was written prior to the 2018 elections. But it is still worth reading for an insight into how far anti-freedom ideologues are willing to go. After every high profile crime committed with a firearm of any sort, there are always calls for gun control. But one particular proposal this week managed to distinguish itself amid the usual din, if only for its audacity and what it...