Stories

New Class: America's Rifle - How to Select and Outfit Your AR-15

6:00am Friday, April 12, 2024

The AR-15 is the most popular rifle in America. That's because it's designed specifically to be modular and readily adaptable to any number of uses, from hunting to competition to self-defense. However, it can also be challenging to understand and sort through all the options given the huge number of manufacturers, calibers, barrel lengths, accessories, price points, and other considerations. BFA...

Despite slick marketing, LA-based nonprofit 97Percent is 100% anti-gun

by Lee Williams

6:00am Thursday, April 11, 2024

The California-based nonprofit 97Percent took its name from a debunked Quinnipiac poll that claimed 97% of Americans supported mandatory background checks. The group calls the remaining 3% “loud voices who have crowded out conversation and prevented collaboration between gun owners and non-gun owners.”

Thoughts on how places of worship should handle concealed carry permissions

by Bob Jewell

6:00am Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Firearms instructor Bob Jewell gives his take on how churches and other places of worship should consider concealed carry permissions among congregants, working backward from “as if an incident has occurred” and asking what procedures, paperwork, and training should be in place to address all the questions that will come up in the aftermath.

Clinton-appointed judge exempts NRA members from fed's pistol brace rule

6:00am Tuesday, April 09, 2024

The National Rifle Association of America (“NRA”) on April 1 announced a major legal victory, as a Texas court enjoined the “pistol brace rule” from taking effect against its members. The legal win is the most expansive ruling of its kind to date — protecting millions of NRA members across the nation.

BFA celebrates 20 years of legal concealed carry in Ohio

by Dean Rieck

6:00am Monday, April 08, 2024

Over the course of a decade filled with political drama and dire predictions, Ohio legislators introduced seven separate bills in an attempt to bring concealed carry to Ohio. Finally, on Jan. 8, 2004, House Bill 12 made it to the desk of Gov. Bob Taft, who signed the bill, and made Ohio the 46th state to legalize concealed carry. The new law went into effect 20 years ago today, on April 8, 2004...

ERPO: DOJ's dangerous 'red flag' distribution center

by Larry Keane

6:00am Friday, April 05, 2024

The Department of Justice has created the national Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center to provide “training and technical assistance” to law enforcement, judges, lawyers, clinicians, victim service advocates, activist organizations and behavioral health professionals so they can work to implement laws that allow for firearm seizures.

Ohio Supreme Court to hear Columbus gun restrictions case

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth

6:00am Thursday, April 04, 2024

The Ohio Supreme Court on April 2 agreed to hear two parts of a lawsuit involving the city of Columbus' unlawful gun regulations.

SCOTUS looks at government 'blacklists'

6:00am Tuesday, April 02, 2024

Much of the attention recently in the U.S. Supreme Court was on the oral arguments in National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo, No. 22-842, a First Amendment case on whether government officials may use their regulatory authority to effect a “blacklisting campaign” to silence and punish entities like the NRA for their pro-gun advocacy.