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Greene County resident inducted into the NMLRA Black Powder Hall of Fame

3:00pm Friday, January 11, 2013

by Larry S. Moore Greene County resident Marty Murphy has been involved in the shooting sports nearly all his life. He has served both the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association (NMLRA) in a variety of positions. He was recently inducted into the NMLRA Black Powder Hall of Fame. The words on his plaque provide some insight to the commitment and impact...

Montpelier, Ohio school board decision: Staff will be armed

7:00am Friday, January 11, 2013

More than two dozen northwest Ohio teachers sign up for free concealed carry class by Chad D. Baus The Bryan Times is reporting that staff members in Williams Co., Ohio's Montpelier Schools will soon be armed. From the article : The district's board of education voted Wednesday to adopt a policy allowing certain individuals to carry concealed firearms on the premises. The decision came in the...

Media fact checker destroys Piers Morgan's anti-gun argument

7:41pm Wednesday, January 09, 2013

by Dean Rieck When some blithering idiot like Piers Morgan starts arguing for more gun control, don't you wish you had all the statistics at your fingertips so you could crush them to dust? One reporter did just that after seeing Morgan's interview with Alex Jones. Morgan insisted that England is a land of rainbows and unicorns when it comes to violent crime and that the U.S. is swimming in blood...

Q&A on Armed Teacher Training Program

4:34pm Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Over 1,000 educators have applied for training! On December 20, 2012, Buckeye Firearms Foundation announced the Armed Teacher Training Program. The original intent was to simply offer free firearm training to 24 teachers in order to show that teachers could be an effective deterrent to mass murder in schools. In just three weeks, we received well over 1,000 requests for this training. So while...

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NRA-certified instructor holds free concealed carry class for school employees

7:00am Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Editor's Note: The author's name is being withheld to protect the identities of the school officials involved in these classes. As a service to the schools in my community, I decided to offer an Ohio Concealed Carry Class to any local school employee free of charge. I did not know what to expect or what the response would be. I put the word out with a few phone calls to teachers I knew who had...

Ohio CHL-holder shoots robbery suspect, protects two month-old son

3:00pm Tuesday, January 08, 2013

by Chad D. Baus WBNS (CBS Columbus) is reporting that a Columbus man said that he fought back when a man tried to rob him at gunpoint in his driveway west Columbus Monday night. From the article : Kelby Smith, 34, told police he was in the driveway of the home on Crescent Drive just before 9 p.m. when he was approached by a robber. Smith said that he had his 2-month-old in a car carrier and had...

December Record Month for NICS Checks; 58.6% increase marks 31st straight month over month increase; New record also set in Ohio

3:00pm Tuesday, January 08, 2013

by Chad D. Baus According to a press release from the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the December 2012 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 2,237,731 is an increase of 58.6 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,410,937 in December 2011. For comparison, the unadjusted December 2012 NICS figure of 2,776,105 reflects a 49.7 percent increase...

Two Ohio newspapers issue editorials condemning publishing of NY gun owners' names and addresses

7:00am Tuesday, January 08, 2013

by Chad D. Baus In the wake of the horrific mass murder in at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut last month, one New York newspaper, Gannett Company's The Journal News of White Plains, N.Y., decided to punish people who had nothing to do with the crime by publishing an interactive map with the names and addresses of handgun permit owners in New York's Westchester and Rockland counties. When...