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Op-Ed: No, Mr. President, the NRA is not to blame

by Chris Cox

3:00pm Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Editor's Note: BRAVO to the NRA's Chris Cox for responding within 48 hours to the blaming of peacable gun owners by President Obama and others in the wake of the terrorist attack in Calilfornia. As we argue here , gun rights advocates can no longer afford to surrender the first week of airtime to the opposition. Just when we think that politics can’t sink any lower, President Obama once again...

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The Terrorist Watch List and Firearms Sales: Political Pandering Over Due Process

by Larry Keane

7:00am Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Editor's Note: On Sunday, December 6, Ohio Governor and presidential-candidate John Kasich stated "on the no-fly list, we probably could keep them from getting guns and ought to ban them." Here's why Kasich is WRONG. There appears to be no limit on the opportunistic lengths to which Congressional Democrats and the Obama administration will go to pursue gun control by other means. The latest...

Dangerous Disorder in the Court

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Monday, December 07, 2015

The Federal Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit has once again come down with a shameful ruling based on selective interpretation of the Supreme Court’s narrow rulings in Heller and McDonald, the landmark Second Amendment cases decided in 2008 and 2010. In this latest abomination from the courts, the three-judge panel concluded that New York and Connecticut’s laws banning virtually all semi-auto...

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Reality Check: The True Intent Of The Second Amendment

7:00am Monday, December 07, 2015

The Second Amendment - so controversial, so contentious... So hard to understand? What if everything you know about the Second Amendment is wrong? This is a Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.

Your Tactical Training Scenario - An Unnecessary Shooting

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Friday, December 04, 2015

Those of us who train to use defensive firearms often think about scenarios where we might have to shoot an attacker. But how often do we think about alternate courses of action in situations where we might still be legal to shoot. Just because we legally CAN shoot someone, doesn’t mean that it’s always the best idea to do it. Put yourself in this situation… You are at a bar with your significant...

Report: Cleveland’s new gun offender registry has zero takers in first month

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, December 04, 2015

What happens when an anti-gun rights mayor passes a new gun control law and no one complies? That question has now been answered in the City of Cleveland. According to WEWS, Cleveland's ABC affiliate, Tuesday December 2 marked a month since Cleveland's controversial gun registry program went active and, in 30 days, not one person has registered . The law, which Mayor Frank Jackson claimed would...

Ohio sheriffs urge citizens to obtain concealed handgun licenses to protect against terror

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Thursday, December 03, 2015

Dayton's WHIO (AM 1290) is reporting that two Ohio county sheriffs took to Twitter in the hours after news of the attack in San Bernadino, CA to urge Ohioans to obtain concealed handgun licenses. From the article : Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones in a Twitter exchange called on people to get a conceal and carry permit. “I have said it in the past and I said it (Wednesday) , people should get...

Reality Check: Can Armed Citizens Stop Mass Shootings?

7:00am Thursday, December 03, 2015

Have you heard the adage "It takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun"? Is that true when it comes to mass shootings? What follows is a Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.