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What HB 234 Means to You: Part VI - Allow Noise Suppressors While Hunting

by Chad D. Baus & Larry S. Moore

7:00am Thursday, March 19, 2015

On March 23, 2015 several changes to Ohio law that are of particular significance to Ohio gun owners will take effect. This article will look at changes that will allow hunters to use noise suppressors. The use of suppressors while hunting is rapidly growing in the United States. Over thirty states allow the use of suppressors for some form of hunting, with most allowing them for all types of...

Unraveling More Gun Control Lies: Children, traffic accidents and gun deaths

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Wednesday, March 18, 2015

In discussing the lies and distortions popular among anti-rights extremists – and their media supporters – I recently commented on their claims that “3000 children die in gun violence every year,” and that “gun deaths exceed traffic deaths” in this or that state. I only mentioned these in passing, but I think they deserve more thorough scrutiny. “3000 children are killed by guns every year!” It...

Ithaca Gun Company is still all-American made

by Mike Tontimonia

3:00pm Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared at FarmandDairy.com . Republished with permission. I was 16 years old, a serious small game hunter with a killer beagle and lots of great briar and grass fields near home, but until then, I was using a borrowed shotgun. My Dad, no pushover for easy money, suggest that if I really wanted a shotgun of my own, that he would pay half. He was always that...

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“Preclusion”- The legal concept you must understand

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Tuesday, March 17, 2015

The news articles linked below describe the actions of a retired firefighter with a concealed carry permit who shot and killed an elementary school teacher after a confrontation about a loud party. The entire confrontation (22 minutes long) and the shooting was videotaped by the shooter. He was charged with murder, convicted and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Go to the first link and watch...

Op-Ed: Growing support for gun rights, and groaning scoundrels who despise the trend

by Chuck Michel

3:00pm Monday, March 16, 2015

Never doubt the linguistic and logical limberness of professionally coached anti-gun activists. People in gun control circles are circling their wagons in reaction to a recent Pew Research report definitively showing that more Americans support the Second Amendment than support gun control. Pew’s multi-decade survey on gun control again asked one basic question (among others), namely: “What do...

What HB 234 Means to You: Part V - CHL mandatory training reduction

by Ken Hanson, Esq.

7:00am Monday, March 16, 2015

Editor's Note: The following was published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on March 1, 2015. On March 23, 2015 several changes to Ohio law that are of particular significance to Ohio gun owners will take effect. This article will look at improvements to training requirements to obtain an Ohio concealed handgun license (CHL). While Am. Sub. H.B. 234 contains many provisions, the single provision...

Humane Society of the United States To Go Bear Hunting in 2016

by Jim Shepherd

3:00pm Friday, March 13, 2015

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is no stranger to controversy. Known for their longtime practice of deliberately misleading of the public into thinking they are all about protecting animals in shelters, they've managed to keep some of their shadier situations out of the public eye. That includes their having lost a huge lawsuit brought against the organization after their claims...

Your Tactical Training Scenario…A night time knock at the door

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Friday, March 13, 2015

You watched the evening news before bed and heard a report about police attempting to locate a wanted murder suspect. The suspect was reportedly last seen in the area of your apartment complex. Making sure all your doors were locked and that you had a handgun nearby, you go to sleep. At 1:30am you hear a loud banging at your door. You look out the window but can’t see anyone. What would you do? A...