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Woman Who Illegally Bought Gun Used to Shoot Cop Sentenced to One Year of Probation

3:00pm Wednesday, December 23, 2015

A federal judge in Omaha [recently] sentenced a woman to one year of probation for illegally buying a gun on her boyfriend’s behalf from an FFL at a pawnshop. The woman could have been sentenced to a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. The boyfriend was a prohibited felon and gang member at the time of the purchase. He later the used the firearm to kill a police officer...

Contact Distance Shooting…Rescuing a Friend or Family Member

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Have you ever thought about how you would rescue a friend, partner, or loved one who was engaged in a life or death struggle with a criminal? It may be a little more complex than you have imagined. Awhile back a concealed carry permit holder named Perry Stevens in Louisiana heroically took up the role as rescuer when a police officer needed some assistance. You can read about his story at the...

Supreme Court (Again) Punts on the Second Amendment, Leaves Voters to Carry the Ball

3:00pm Tuesday, December 22, 2015

[Recently], the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit that upheld a Chicago-area “assault weapons” ban against a Second Amendment challenge. This was the second time this year that the Supreme Court refused to hear a Second Amendment case, thereby allowing a broad gun control law to stand. As in that previous case, the court’s...

Ohio's U.S. Senators and challengers continue to make news over differing views on firearms rights

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Both U.S. Senators from Ohio, Sherrod Brown (D) and Rob Portman (R), and Ted Strickland, a Democrat hoping to win his party's nomination to challenge Portman in 2016, have been making news in recent days over comments made with regard to gun rights and gun control. (Brown and Strickland are pictured with President Obama.) In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack in San Bernadino, CA,...

'Sporting Purpose' Language in the Law Has Got to Go

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Monday, December 21, 2015

The term “sporting purpose” is imbedded throughout U.S. gun control laws, and its use is a violation of the Second Amendment. That has been my position for decades. My brother Chris raised the issue in a speech before the Gun Rights Policy Conference some three years ago, and our dad, Neal Knox, was making an issue of the language in the 1980s. The “sporting purpose” language has been a plank in...

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Reality Check: Is There A Link Between Mass Shootings and Anti-Depressants?

7:00am Monday, December 21, 2015

Ben Swann takes a look at the link between 26 mass shooters and anti-depressant/mood altering drugs. This is a Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.

Gun Control Supporters Unhinged: New Republic Says "Ban Guns— All of Them"

3:00pm Friday, December 18, 2015

Inspired by [a recent] New York Times front-page editorial calling for the confiscation of “large categories of weapons and ammunition,” a new article in the progressive-agenda magazine, New Republic, says that banning only some guns, but not all, is not enough. “It’s time to ban guns. Yes, all of them. . . . Get rid of guns in homes, and on the streets, and, as much as possible, on police...

Recognizing the Sound of Gunfire

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Friday, December 18, 2015

With all the recent active shooter/active killer events happening worldwide, I’m continuing to see reports of the exact same phenomenon….people don’t recognize the sounds of gunfire when they are being shot at. In almost every mass shooting, victims report that they heard a loud noise, but thought it was some other more innocuous sound. In a recent school shooting , Jordan Coates, a student at...