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Where are you safe? Home? Work? While driving? Are you armed?

by Rob Morse

6:00am Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Our homes, our place of work, and our car feel safe today because nothing happened there yesterday. These honest citizens were prepared even where they thought they were our of danger. Again in recent weeks, these honest gun owners saved their lives and the lives of others. The longer discussion of what we might want to do is on the Self Defense Gun Stories webpage . For now, here are the stories...

United Nations' OEWG finalizes plan to regulate ammunition

6:00am Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Late into the night 9 June, the United Nations' Open-Ended Working Group on Conventional Ammunition (OEWG) concluded its development of a new global framework to address existing gaps in through-life conventional ammunition management despite the dissociation of the Russian Federation and their bedfellows Belarus. Created through General Assembly resolution purporting to address problems arising...

Issue 1: Why Ohio's Constitution Should be Hard to Amend

by Dean Rieck

6:00am Monday, June 12, 2023

There are many reasons to vote yes to support Issue 1 on the Aug. 8 ballot . But for Ohio's 4 million gun owners, the primary reason is that gun control advocates seek to end run our legislature and dramatically infringe Second Amendment rights. Ordinarily, when gun control groups want to regulate guns, they work with left-leaning legislators to introduce a bill. If it makes its way through the...

Study: Restrictive gun control laws 'unlikely' to solve youth gun violence

1:00pm Friday, June 09, 2023

A first-of-its-kind study published in late May in the American Medical Association’s JAMA Network Open concluded that community-level “social vulnerability” factors like poverty, unemployment, crowded housing, and minority status were much more likely than “permissive” gun control laws to be strongly associated with a high gun-violence death rate among youth. “Our results suggest that...

Newsom's 28th Amendment proposal highlights need to protect Constitution

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth

6:00am Friday, June 09, 2023

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced his proposal to add a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would ultimately negate the power of the Second Amendment. Fortunately, it takes more than a simple majority to amend the U.S. Constitution.

BFA Testifies in Support of SB 58 to Prohibit Requiring Firearms Liability Insurance

by Dean Rieck

6:00am Thursday, June 08, 2023

On Wednesday, June 7, 2023, Buckeye Firearms Association presented testimony in the Ohio House Insurance Committee supporting Senate Bill 58 to prohibit requiring firearm liability insurance or being required to pay a fee for the possession of a firearm, part of a firearm, its components, its ammunition, or a knife. This was the second hearing for this legislation in the House, sponsored by...

40 million Americans refuse to comply with Biden's ATF pistol brace rule

by Gary Marbut

1:00pm Wednesday, June 07, 2023

I have seen various estimates of the percentage of pistol brace owners who have complied with the new BATFE rule that deems braced pistols to be subject to prohibition or registration as Short Barreled Rifles (SBR) under the National Firearms Act (NFA). The most defensible estimates seem to be around 2.5% compliance. The most generous estimates come in near 8% compliance, while other estimates...

Help us WIN on Issue 1 - Ask for Your FREE Barn Banner

6:00am Wednesday, June 07, 2023

We The People Convention is offering FREE barn banners to support Issue 1 and protect Ohio's constitution. A YES vote on Issue 1 protects our Constitution and Second Amendment rights from deep-pocketed, out-of-state interests. By passing Issue 1, the People will ensure constitutional changes are widely accepted and declare that Ohio’s Constitution is not for sale to gun grabbers like Mike...