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Illegal Blocking: College Sports Teams Disarming Athletes?

7:00am Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Editor's Note: Last year the Columbus Dispatch broke the news that Adolphus Washington had been suspended from the Ohio State Buckeyes football program after it was revealed that he was legally carrying a handgun when he was arrested for an unrelated offense. "[T]he revelation that he had the pistol violated one of Meyer’s four core values for the program: no drug or alcohol abuse, no weapons,...

National Hunting and Fishing Day takes place on September 24, 2016

3:00pm Monday, September 19, 2016

— In the 1960s, hunters and anglers embraced the era's heightened environmental awareness but were discouraged that many people didn't understand the crucial role that sportsmen had played - and continue to play - in the conservation movement. That all changed when sportsmen and women took a stand and embraced conservation through legislation and declarations in the coming years. The National...

Eric Trump discusses guns, hunting, and the Second Amendment

Larry S. Moore

7:00am Monday, September 19, 2016

The Trump family has been in the media for many years and, of course, much more so since Donald Trump entered the Presidential race. Perhaps you've seen his sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, on several outdoor and shooting sports shows. When the opportunity to interview Eric Trump presented itself during a visit to the Ohio Gun Collector's Association (OGCA) show and the Sportsmen's Alliance Rally, I...

FBI: 'Toy' gun control won't make officers' jobs any easier

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Friday, September 16, 2016

Yet another deadly encounter has happened involving a young person who police say was wielding what turned out to be a BB gun, and it took only moments before gun control extremists began trying to take political advantage of the situation. Media throughout the state, across the nation and around the world are reporting on the death of Tyre King, a 13-year-old robbery suspect who was shot and...

BOOK REVIEW: Surviving a Mass Killer Rampage: When Seconds Count, Police are Still Minutes Away

by Dr. Timothy Wheeler

7:00am Friday, September 16, 2016

Surviving a Mass Killer Rampage: When Seconds Count, Police are Still Minutes Away , by Chris Bird (Privateer Publications, 2016, 408 pages). (Ammoland.com) Any reasonably informed American can tell you who Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were. Their names are indelibly linked with the name “ Columbine ” as the vile mass murderers of 13 people in the April 1999 incident of that name. But few know...

Clinton Supporter Blames NRA for Chicago Mother’s Murder

3:00pm Thursday, September 15, 2016

The self-proclaimed “Dean of Comedy,” radio talk show host Dean Obeidallah, has blamed a Chicago African-American mother’s murder, allegedly by repeat offenders, on NRA’s opposition to gun control, and he’s attacked GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump for attributing inner city murders to policies that Clinton supports. Earlier this month, the young woman was murdered while walking a baby...

Explaining the Objections to Background Checks

by Keith Coniglio

7:00am Thursday, September 15, 2016

Gun owners’ opposition to background checks is probably the most difficult position for non-owners (and even some owners) to fathom. They’re supposed to prevent “people who shouldn’t have them” from getting their hands on guns – or at least that’s what we’re told. But the objection isn’t about what they’re supposed to do, it’s the fact that they have been used to deny an increasing number of...

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Fanning the Flames, or Hitch up that Asbestos Pantsuit

3:00pm Wednesday, September 14, 2016

The Trump for President website offers a “Pantsuit on Fire” t-shirt. We don’t know how brisk the sales are, but it’s a safe bet that sales are outperforming Ms. Clinton’s ratings as an honest candidate (in one August poll, only eleven percent of registered voters described Hillary Clinton as “honest and trustworthy”). Not too long ago, Shannon Watts, founder of the Everytown affiliate “Moms...