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Associated Press headline falsely claims Ohio colleges have choice when it comes to security

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, October 13, 2015

An Associated Press article headlined " Ohio leaves response plans for campus shooters to colleges " hit the wires on Saturday and has been published probably hundreds of times across the country and the Internet. The problem? The headline is a lie. The article begins by discussing variations in active killer training in various states, then quotes Jeff Robinson, a spokesman for higher education...

“Run, Hide, Fight?”- Not Always the Best Active Killer Response

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Monday, October 12, 2015

[Recently], the Ohio State University Police Department put out a video titled “ Surviving an Active Shooter .” The crux of the message in the video is that the best chance for surviving an active shooter is to follow the hierarchical advice of running as a first choice, hiding as a second choice, and fighting as a last resort option. The video isn’t bad and it contains some very good advice. I...

Jim Irvine a SAF “Defender of Liberty” award winner

7:00am Monday, October 12, 2015

Buckeye Firearms Association is proud to announce that our president and co-founder, Jim Irvine, has been recognized by the Second Amendment Foundation for his tireless service to the cause of gun rights. Irvine was awarded SAF's 2015 "Defender of Freedom Award" by SAF founder Alan Gottlieb at the recent Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC). Speaking of the honor, Gottlieb said "The...

USAToday Op-Ed: Umpqua shooting - a tragedy, not a trend

by James Alan Fox

3:00pm Friday, October 09, 2015

Another mass shooting sears deep into our collective consciousness, but it is hype and hysteria on the rise, not violence. Another mass shooting sears deep into the collective consciousness of the American people. Another school — this time a community college in an otherwise peaceful town in rural Oregon — is devastated by a young man taking aim at students trapped in classrooms. Nine are...

Emotion vs. Facts, Society's Emasculated Males and an Inconvenient Truth

by Jim Shepherd

7:00am Friday, October 09, 2015

As we go through the grieving process that follows a tragedy like [the recent] shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, it seems our society overstays the time in the questioning phase of grief. Refusing to accept "that" something happens; some keep on asking "why." In the absence of an answer, they angrily demand that someone "do something." So we find ourselves mired in a...

When Anti-Gunners Say "Gun Safety," They Don't Mean It

3:00pm Thursday, October 08, 2015

In what can only be described as a blatant display of hypocrisy, two gun ban groups have started a petition to deny a federal grant for Project Childsafe, a gun safety program operated by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). This year, for the first time since Barack Obama’s 2008 election, the NSSF has won a U.S. Department of Justice grant, in the amount of $2.4 million dollars for...

Anti-Gun Group Fundraises on Massacre at "No-Guns" Oregon College

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, October 08, 2015

Just weeks after the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) was scorned in the national media for encouraging the "SWATting" of peacable gun owners, the anti-gun extremists are at it again. This week, just 5 days after a disturbed individual with several legally-purchased guns went on a murderous rampage at a "no-guns" college campus in Oregon , CSGV is now attempting to capitalize on the deaths...

The Real Scoop on Sound Suppression

by Jeff Zimba

3:00pm Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Thanks to Hollywood, gun mufflers, sound suppressors or “silencers” — one and the same — are viewed in a negative context by many non-shooters. But the truth is that noise suppressors are used daily—as they have been for more than a century — to enhance safety, ease instruction and improve accuracy for shooters of all demographics. ... To put the function of a sound suppressor it in its simplest...