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Several firearms-related bills scheduled for proponent testimony in House committee

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, May 08, 2015
Chairman Ron Maag has announced that the House State Government committee will be hearing proponent testimony on several firearms-related bills next Wednesday, May 13 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 121. Bills for which proponents will be testifying are: HB 20 (Rule Modification for Concealed Carry in School Zones) - Reps. Gonzales/Koehler HB 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) - Rep. Maag HB 152 (...

Training Scars

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Thursday, May 07, 2015
Training scars … we all have them. I’m not talking about training scars like the black eye you get when your partner goes a little too hard while sparring or the scars you get when you cut your finger trying to quickly open your fighting knife. The training scars I’m talking about are the unintentional bad habits you have acquired during the course of your training. All training, no matter how...

CAUTION: Criminals don't think like you do!

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Thursday, May 07, 2015
Reprinted with permission from Second Call Defense . A couple years ago, I attended a 3-day handgun class at Tactical Defense Institute in West Union, Ohio. One of the many ideas that stuck with me was what the training center's owner, John Benner, said in the classroom portion of the training: "Criminals don't think like you or me. Their minds work differently. They want what they want and all...

Processing the Concealed Carry Draw

by Tiger McGee
3:00pm Wednesday, May 06, 2015
Republished from The Outdoor Wire . It's been a great week. You finished up a big project at work, and decide to stop at your favorite market to pick up some steaks for an evening celebration. The market is in a questionable part of town, but you've been coming here for years. It's twilight, the streetlights are just coming on, and the temperature is perfect. This is one of those evenings when...

Gun Grabbers High on Hillary, Look to Her to Enact Controls Where Obama Failed

7:00am Wednesday, May 06, 2015
Never mind all the rhetoric about how Hillary Clinton can’t get the Democrat Party’s presidential nomination because some fringe elements don’t think she’s radical enough. The Hill reports that “Advocates for gun control [an increasingly fringe group in their own right] have high hopes for Hillary Clinton’s presidential run,” seeing her as “an ally who can finish the push for tightened background...

Gun store robbed once by thieves – then by ATF: Agents won’t return stolen firearms to owner

by C. D. Michel
3:00pm Tuesday, May 05, 2015
An Indiana gun store was robbed last year and its owner is attempting to get his inventory back. No, not from the original thieves, but from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents who had recovered his stolen merchandise. And when asking nicely doesn’t work, you turn to the courts. Profire Arms and Supplies owner Andrew Hall filed his handwritten complaint in a federal...

Report: Gun grabbing sweeping the nation

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, May 05, 2015
According to a recent report on Fox News, and despite claims from anti-gun extremists including the current president of the United States assuring us that no one wants to take our guns away, cases of persons having their firearms confiscated are far from rare. From the article : Cherished family heirlooms were among the 21 firearms Michael Roberts surrendered to the Torrance Police Department in...

Ohio Wildlife Council Approves 2015-2016 Hunting Regulations

3:00pm Monday, May 04, 2015
COLUMBUS, OH - A reduction in white-tailed deer bag limits and antlerless permit use during the 2015-2016 hunting seasons were among regulations approved by the Ohio Wildlife Council at its scheduled meeting [last month], according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The council also voted to remove the peregrine falcon from Ohio’s list of threatened species. The Ohio Wildlife...

USA Today: Contentious debate over guns expected soon in Congress

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, May 04, 2015
While there has been little action to advance gun rights in the months since voters handed Republicans control of the U.S. Senate, USA Today is reporting that "the debate is coming." From the article : "Last November, Americans sent a clear message to Washington that they do not want more gun control by defeating anti-Second-Amendment candidates at the ballot box," said Chris Cox, executive...

Caught in the Act: Anti-Gunners' Trick Photo Exposed

3:00pm Friday, May 01, 2015
If a picture is worth a thousand words, you should be skeptical about what this picture from "Moms Demand Action" has to say. The photo, the [Facebook] caption for which claims that it shows "hundreds" of anti-gun protesters, was taken a half-mile or so from the NRA Annual Meeting in Nashville. However, so was this photo, which shows that there were only about 100 protesters. And that includes...

Mother questions motives of police officer who shot her son, a concealed handgun licensee

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, May 01, 2015
A late night at Lucky’s Bar and Grill in Columbus nearly turned deadly for an Ohio concealed handgun licensee last month. According to the Columbus Dispatch , Joseph Davis Jr. told his mother he and a friend were in his car in the bar's parking lot when a fight among some women broke out nearby. In the chaos that followed, Davis says he honked his horn at the crowd and tried to leave, but was...

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