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Carrying spare ammunition: It's not an option, it's a must

by Gary Evens

7:00am Tuesday, March 31, 2015

At the end of December, Buckeye Firearms Association published my article, " Ammo Capacity: How Much is Enough? " The point of the article was to suggest that your self-defense firearm needs to have enough ammunition capacity to deal with all of the threat you might expect to encounter during a violent attack. I wrote that a handgun with a 10-15 round capacity seemed to be about right to deal...

Anti-gun U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel Introduces Ammo Ban Legislation

3:00pm Monday, March 30, 2015

On March 13, 2015, three days after the BATFE rescinded its proposed ammo ban framework regulation, anti-gun U.S. Representative Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) introduced H.R. 1358, a bill designed to ban civilian use and possession of M855 ammunition. This is the same round that the BATFE, after meeting fierce bipartisan opposition from Capitol Hill and from NRA members and supporters across the country,...

Is Teaching Propaganda Ethical? Columbia School of Journalism's Dart Center partners with Bloomberg

by Jeff Knox

7:00am Monday, March 30, 2015

A workshop titled “ Covering Gun Violence ” is being offered in Phoenix by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma to “help journalists and news organizations in the Southwest improve their reporting on guns and gun violence.” That sounds reasonable and helpful. Surely the Dart Center, a project of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism could help improve the state of reporting...

Common Ground at Last? Finger-gun Wielding Obama Provides Lesson for America's Schools

3:00pm Friday, March 27, 2015

Attention overbearing public school administrators: you might want to remove any portraits of the 44th U.S. president hanging on your walls. In a recent Affordable Care Act promotional video produced for the website Buzzfeed, President Barack Obama uses his index finger and thumb to form a finger gun and aim it at the viewer. Apparently, the commander-in-chief has not been briefed on the...

Report: College shooting sports teams becoming so popular some turn people away

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, March 27, 2015

The Washington Post is reporting that shooting sports teams are seeing a surge on a diverse range of campuses across the country, and have become so popular that some are forced to turn away interested students. From the article : Teams are thriving at a diverse range of schools: Yale, Harvard, the University of Maryland, George Mason University, and even smaller schools such as Slippery Rock...

Declining Gun Ownership? Sloppy Reporting Strikes Again

3:00pm Thursday, March 26, 2015

Citing recent data from the General Social Survey (GSS), the Associated Press (AP) reported [recently] that gun ownership is on the decline in the United States. This is becoming something of a springtime fantasy ritual among the media, with the same or similar reports from anti-gun media outlets every year after the GSS releases new data. If the AP had done some actual research, however, they...

ATF Change Welcomed, But Will It Make A Difference?

by Jim Shepherd

7:00am Thursday, March 26, 2015

The news that BATFE head B. Todd Jones was resigning didn't come from a media outlet citing "reliable sources inside the ATF" - although that's exactly where the news originated. It came from industry compliance and legal protection firm FFLGuard in the form of a Thursday-night advisory to its clients. That advisory said Jones was resigning - soon- to "enter the private sector". Normally that's...

ATF backs off of ammo ban, but it's the "sporting purpose" test that needs to go

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Feigning shock and surprise at the huge number of comments they received objecting to their plan to ban popular M855 ammunition, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives announced a tactical retreat from the plan. ATF, released a statement on Tuesday, March 9, saying that over 80,000 comments had been received objecting to the plan, and they were going to postpone any action until...