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Boy Scout Eagle Project seeks to put a trauma kit in every classroom

7:00am Wednesday, August 03, 2016

In 2014, Buckeye Firearms Foundation announced an initiative to put a trauma kit in every school building in Ohio. Now, one Boy Scout from northwest Ohio is seeking to further that goal by providing kits and medical training to his local school as an Eagle project. CLICK HERE to contribute to this project . Most school buildings have a first aid kit and an AED (Automatic External Defibrillator)...

The Fall of California

by Jeff Knox

7:00am Wednesday, August 03, 2016

My family has been on the front lines battling the dangerous hoax called “gun control” for half a century. In that time, we’ve seen just about everything – repeatedly. The single most important thing we’ve learned over those 50 years is that gun control zealots are never satisfied. They keep coming back again and again, demanding ever more restrictions to pile on top of the current restrictions...

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Self Defense After Surgery

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Tuesday, August 02, 2016

(Image source: FreeImages.com/zarco kecman) As I write this post, I am about three weeks into my recovery for a fairly major abdominal surgery. I was under the knife for almost three hours and now have seven healing incisions in my belly. It also required an overnight stay in the hospital. I’m happy to say that the surgery was successful and I am healing up ahead of schedule, but I suffered quite...

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Ohio CHL-holder honored for saving police officer's life

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, August 02, 2016

(Photo by Brian Ball, published in Mt. Vernon News ) Ohio concealed handgun license-holder Dylan DeBoard was honored last week for his action in saving a law enforcement officer's life last year, and Mt. Vernon Police Department Cpl. Michael Wheeler says he thanks every chance he gets. The Mount Vernon News was first to report on the news: Wheeler was attempting to apprehend a suspect in the...

7 ways to improve your self defense handgun skills

3:00pm Monday, August 01, 2016

While there should never be a training requirement to exercise your Second Amendment right, training is nevertheless a good idea. First, knowing how to use a firearm safely and effectively will pay off if you're ever in a situation where your life depends on your shooting skill. Second, the more training you have, the more likely you are to avoid mistakes that could lead to legal troubles. You...

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BOOK REVIEW: The War on Guns - Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, August 01, 2016

For most firearms enthusiasts, the name John Lott is synonymous with one thing: More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws . When that book hit the market in 1998, it quickly became recognized as what is perhaps the best critique of gun control ever written. Having endured a term and a half of what was possibly, until that time, the most anti-gun presidential administrations...

5 Things to Do After a Shooting

3:00pm Friday, July 29, 2016

What you say or do after a self defense shooting can mean the different between freedom and imprisonment. Here is Massad Ayoob explaining what he teaches his students to do immediately after defending their life with a firearm. From our friends at Second Call Defense ...

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When the Killer’s Gun Jams…Can you Recognize an Opportunity for Action?

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Friday, July 29, 2016

I’ve written quite a bit about malfunctioning guns over the years. I published Criminals and the Guns They Carry . That article was a study of all the unloaded broken and malfunctioning guns police take from criminals. A couple weeks later I wrote Weapon Malfunctions in the Active Shooter Environment about how commonly killers’ guns jam when they are engaged in a shooting spree. I guess I’m not...