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Harvard: Millions of Dollars More For Gun Control

3:00pm Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Harvard University’s School of Public Health is set to receive a $350 million donation to study “gun violence” and other “complex health threats challenging the U.S. and the world,” CNN reports. The donation, the largest ever received by the university, is being made by the Morningside Foundation, run by the descendants of Hong Kong real estate tycoon T.H. Chan, for whom the school will be...

Good guys do what must be done

7:00am Tuesday, September 30, 2014
We're surrounded by a world that demands we submit, succumb and believe in nothing. It takes courage to face a world at its worst — knowing what must be done, won't be done unless you do it. It's what Good Guys do. >>> CLICK HERE to join the NRA or renew your membership now . If you know some good guys and gals, get them a gift membership.

Five Things Non-Gun-Owners Don't "Get" About Gun Owners

by Daniel T. McElrath
3:00pm Monday, September 29, 2014
1. Carrying a Gun Eventually Ceases To Be a Big Deal Many people who don't own guns—for the purposes of this discussion, we'll call them "non-gunners"—have often never even touched a gun. That fact has imbued the inanimate chunk of metal with mystery and undue fear, fear they think must be universal. They don’t understand that to someone who carries daily, a firearm becomes as common as your keys...

Anti-Gun Brady Campaign Caught In Fundraising Scandal

by Bob Owens
7:00am Monday, September 29, 2014
A fundraising email sent out by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence this morning and signed by the organization’s President Dan Gross is attempting to fundraise by claiming credit for sporting goods giant Cabela’s expanded participation a gun safety program started by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and the ATF more than a dozen years ago. The fundraising email claims: Dear...

Anti-Gun MarketWatch Article in Re-Run Mode

3:00pm Friday, September 26, 2014
On August 27, MarketWatch.com, supposedly a website for stock market investors, published a cynical article about gun manufacturers and gun ownership, titled 10 Things the Gun Industry Won’t Tell You. In fact, MarketWatch has been running and re-running the same article for months now, just changing the date every so often, to make it appear brand new. MarketWatch apparently isn’t interested in...

BFA's Dean Rieck accepts NRA Top Recruiter Award

7:00am Friday, September 26, 2014
On Saturday, September 13, 2014, Dean Rieck (on the right in the photo) accepted the Top Recruiter Award in the "club" category at the NRA Board Meeting in Arlington, VA. The award recognizes Buckeye Firearm Foundation for recruiting 1,637 NRA members in 2013. "I'm honored to accept this award," said Dean, who serves on the BFA Board of Directors. "Our supporters really stepped up and helped us...

FLASH: Fast & Furious' Eric Holder to step down

by Chad D. Baus
12:12pm Thursday, September 25, 2014
Attorney General Eric Holder, who last year was held in contempt of Congress for refusing to provide documents regarding his Justice Department's Operation Fast and Furious gun-running scandal, will announce today that he is stepping down, according to Fox News. From the article : Attorney General Eric Holder plans to announce Thursday that he is resigning from the Obama administration, a Justice...

Review: GrabAGun.com

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, September 25, 2014
Once upon a time, the experience of going from store to store to shop around before making a major purchase was as much a part of the pleasure of the buying experience as taking the item home. At my father and grandfather's (and great-grandfather's) car dealership, people would attend "car showings" each fall when the new models were introduced. Whether or not they were even really in the market...

Gun Owners Oppose Cleveland's New Proposed Regulations

12:00pm Wednesday, September 24, 2014
COLUMBUS, OH - The city of Cleveland has proposed 27 new weapons laws despite two Ohio Supreme Court rulings that prohibit cities from regulating firearms. Collectively, the proposed ordinances would establish a gun-offender registry that is unlikely to deter crime or provide law enforcement with useful information. Ohio gun owners are understandably concerned with Cleveland's proposals. For over...

Prohibitionists Give up on Semi-Auto Bans? Not So Fast

7:00am Wednesday, September 24, 2014
For the last 25 years, banning so-called “assault weapons” has been at the forefront of the anti-gun agenda. However, in recent days, an article from ProPublica and a “study” from The Center for American Progress indicated that the gun control establishment is shifting away from advocating for semi-auto bans and towards background checks/registration. The “coincidence” of these publications...

Five Gun Myths—Exploded

by Daniel T. McElrath
3:00pm Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Myth 1: The Basics Of Gun Safety Are Only For Newbies This is one of the worst, most dangerous gun-related myths there is. The basics of gun safety are for everyone, regardless of experience level. There is an old saying: Familiarity breeds contempt. What it means is that the more familiar you are with something, the less respect you have for it. That’s a bad mistake when it comes to guns. The...

It's time to turn things around

7:00am Tuesday, September 23, 2014
It seems like more and more we’re surrounded by people on edge. All of this anger destroys trust and teamwork and, given time, our nation. So how do we turn it around? It starts with everyone who still believes in civility, responsibility and virtue — the Good Guys. >>> CLICK HERE to join the NRA or renew your membership now . If you know some good guys and gals, get them a gift...

Busting the Top 3 Myths About the Second Amendment

by Daniel T. McElrath
3:00pm Monday, September 22, 2014
Adherents to gun control typically respond with emotional arguments. However, on those occasions when they attempt to respond with “logic” regarding the Second Amendment itself, those arguments typically take the same tired forms. Here are three of the most popular, and how to dismantle them instantly. Myth #1: You have to have a license to operate a car. Why shouldn’t you have to have one to own...

Billionaires Buying Away Rights - Will Washington residents sell out?

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Monday, September 22, 2014
There is a major battle under way in Washington State that has serious implications for the rest of the country. The battle is between two competing ballot initiatives; one, I-591, to limit background checks in the state to federal standards, and the other, I-594, to require all firearm transfer in the state – with a few narrow exceptions – to go through a federally licensed firearm dealer for a...

Crowning A World Champion of Shooting?

by Jim Shepherd
3:00pm Friday, September 19, 2014
Editor's Note: This seemed to be the weekend of worldwide shooting competition. The ISSF World Championships continued in Spain (and the US had a BIG day- see the news section), the International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA) held its 2014 U.S. Championships at the US Shooting Academy in Tulsa, Oklahoma and the inaugural World Shooting Championship from Glengary, West Virginia set out to...

I-75 shooting in Ohio exposes truth self-defense advocates have long known

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, September 19, 2014
On Friday morning, September 12, police say Terry Froman, 41, went to the Mayfield, KY home of his ex-girlfriend Kim Thomas, 34, shot and killed her oldest 17 year-old son, then kidnapped her. According to The Journal-News , when friends went to her home after she failed to report to work and discovered her son's body, they immediately called police. Prior to that call, the article says the...

Virtual School Practices Real Oppression, Bans Pixilated Firearms

3:00pm Thursday, September 18, 2014
The cultural campaign to label firearms and firearm ownership as socially unacceptable claimed another victim last week, when a “virtual” school demanded that an elementary school student remove an image of a firearm from his online profile. The incident involved Wisconsin Virtual Learning, a public charter school, which offers Wisconsin’s elementary and high school students the opportunity to...

Ray Rice and New Jersey “Justice”

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Thursday, September 18, 2014
The release of a videotape of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching his fiancé and knocking her out, has created quite a stir in the media. The TV gossip show, TMZ, released the video [last] week, ushering in a whole new chorus of outrage toward Rice, the NFL, and the Atlantic County, New Jersey Prosecutor’s Office. After an initial 2-game suspension, the Baltimore Ravens have now...

Violence Policy Center's Cars Theory Not Hitting on All Cylinders

3:00pm Wednesday, September 17, 2014
The anti-gun Violence Policy Center (VPC) thinks it has finally come up with a way to get handguns, and maybe some other guns, banned. Compare ‘em to cars! Obviously, some background is in order. VPC was formed, and is still led, by Josh Sugarmann, a former staffer for the National Coalition to Ban Handguns and the author of the book, Every Handgun is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns...

Appeals Court: Sheriff Improperly Suspended Man’s Concealed Handgun License

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Ohio's Third District Court of Appeals has ruled that Henry Co. Sheriff Michael Bodenbender improperly suspended a man's Ohio concealed handgun license, and ordered that it be returned. From CourtNewsOhio.gov : The court ruled Sept. 2 that Sheriff Michael Bodenbender wrongly relied on a section of state law that allows a sheriff to deny a concealed handgun license (CHL) to someone “in danger of...

Harvey Weinstein Renounces Earlier Renunciation of Violent Films?

3:00pm Tuesday, September 16, 2014
From the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” files comes an update on heavyweight Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. As we reported in January, the movie tycoon and Obama fundraiser had, at that time, announced his intention to “make a movie with Meryl Streep” that would make the NRA “wish they weren't alive ….” We had suggested that perhaps Weinstein was not the best person to lecture the rest of...

Armed home invader wearing Insane Clown Posse mask dies after being shot by homeowner

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, September 16, 2014
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that a 17-year-old boy was burglarizing a house in Prairie Township when the homeowner shot him early on Saturday. From the article: Reb Barbee was armed with a knife and wearing an Insane Clown Posse mask when he was shot in the living room of 8798 Hubard Dr. S, investigators said. ... Barbee, shot in the shoulder, and three other youths ran about a half-mile...

Responsible Gun Ownership

by Jeff Puckett
3:00pm Monday, September 15, 2014
Some 30-plus years ago, my Dad gave me my first gun as a Christmas present. I can still remember it: I was eight years old and the gun, which I still own and enjoy shooting, was a lever-action Marlin 39A chambered in .22LR. I had been to the range and on hunting trips with my Dad since I was four years old but this was my first gun, a gun that I could actually call my own; a gun that I could show...

Harry Reid Trying to Use Constitutional Amendment to Silence NRA, its Members, and Free Speech

7:00am Monday, September 15, 2014
In January 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a key decision in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission . The decision removed unconstitutional restrictions on the ability to speak freely at election time of grassroots groups like NRA and others. But now, some are trying to reverse the decision--and while they recognize that they must amend the Constitution to do so,...

August 2014 Firearms Sales Checks Third Highest August on Record

3:00pm Friday, September 12, 2014
The August 2014 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 989,337 is the third highest August on record for the 16-year-old system, even with a decrease of 2.7 percent compared to the August 2013 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,016,559. For comparison, the unadjusted August 2014 NICS figure of 1,538,347 reflects a 9.2 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS...

Dayton media explore Ohio gun laws in wake of Walmart shooting & open carry incidents

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, September 12, 2014
On August 5, 2014, a 911 caller reported that a man was “walking around with a gun” in an Ohio Walmart, that he “just put some bullets inside” and was "waving the weapon around” and “pointing it at people.” Beavercreek officers responded, and 22 year-old John Crawford was shot to death. It was reported after the fact that Crawford was holding an unloaded MK-177 Crosman variable pump air rifle...

Changes Not For the Better

by Jim Shepherd
3:00pm Thursday, September 11, 2014
" I know some of you will notice on the range tomorrow there are some people wearing guns. Please don't freak out, they're there to protect you. It's a different world today and we're affiliated with the NRA. Some people hate the NRA, so we are taking some precautions." That was part of the information passed during the mandatory shooter's meeting for the World Shooting Championship. That...

The Twelve Senate Races You Can Influence

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Thursday, September 11, 2014
In case you haven’t heard, there are going to be important elections in a couple of months; elections that could make a huge difference in the future of our nation, including recognition of our right to bear arms. The Democrat Party currently controls the White House and has a majority in the US Senate, while Republicans control the House. The majority party controls the floor agenda and names...

Ohio Appeals Court rules reaching for the glovebox during a traffic stop is not a threatening move

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, September 10, 2014
The Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals has overturned a conviction of a Toledo concealed handgun licenseholder who had been found guilty of carrying a concealed weapon—failure to inform a law enforcement officer. Following is a summary of the case by TheNewspaper.com : When drivers are pulled over and expect a speeding ticket they sometimes reach instinctively for the glovebox so they will have...

Give ‘Em Heller!

by Chuck Michel
3:00pm Tuesday, September 09, 2014
In 1988, when Florida first considered passing a shall-issue concealed carry permitting (CCW) law, gun control groups hysterically predicted massive public bloodshed and shoot-outs in the streets. But nothing like their dire predictions has ever happened. In fact, after Florida civilians were allowed to legally carry guns in public for self-defense, certain categories of violence plummeted. For...

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