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CMP Observes 20th Year During 2016 National Trophy Matches at Camp Perry

by Ashley Brugnone
3:00pm Thursday, June 30, 2016
CAMP PERRY, Ohio – Join the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) as it celebrates its 20th Anniversary at the 2016 National Trophy Rifle and Pistol Matches – fired in July and August at historic Camp Perry, Ohio. Register now on the CMP website to claim your spot at this commemorative event! The 2016 Match Schedule returns to its original format after a two-year alteration in 2014 and 2015. The...

Weapon Handling in an Active Killer Event

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Thursday, June 30, 2016
[Recently,] I taught an Active Shooter/ Active Killer response class at The Tactical Defense Institute in southern Ohio. Myself and several other instructors presented three days of material for 27 eager students. One of the key learning points we discussed all weekend was how to avoid being mistaken for the killer if you choose to draw your pistol and respond during an active killer event. With...

How to choose a defensive handgun

3:00pm Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Selecting a handgun for home defense or concealed carry can be a daunting task for many people. Revolver or semi-auto? Which caliber? Which make and model? What ammo capacity? There are many considerations. It can easily become overwhelming and result in "analysis paralysis." Here's a video that gives you a simple overview of handgun choices and how to narrow down your choice to the firearm that'...

Elderly woman uses firearm to defend against three home invaders

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Lost in the wake of the terrorist attack at an Orlando nightclub was yet another case of a person using a firearm to defend themselves here in Ohio. From WRGT (Fox Dayton) : Crime scene tape surrounds a home in the 1100 block of Oakridge Drive, police standing by while detectives question an elderly woman in inside. "When we arrived here we found a male who had been shot in the porch," said...

Are Cops Good Shooters?

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Tuesday, June 28, 2016
[Recently,] an article on the Bearing Arms website caused a bit of controversy. Check out HARSH REALITY: Police Are Not Highly Trained Firearms Experts . The article essentially describes how most police officers simply aren’t very good shooters or tacticians. A lot of folks who have never been shooting with cops would really be astonished at the relative lack of shooting skills most cops exhibit...

Why brandishing, shooting to wound, and warning shots are BAD ideas

7:00am Tuesday, June 28, 2016
For every bit of good advice out there about self defense, there are at least 10 pieces of bad advice. Some of the very worst advice is about how to avoid the legal fallout of self defense by using a firearm in a non-lethal way, such as brandishing, shooting to wound rather than to kill, and firing one or more warning shots to scare off an attacker. On the surface, these ideas seem to make sense...

10 things you should NEVER do after a self defense shooting

3:00pm Monday, June 27, 2016
When it comes to armed self defense, it's usually not the shooting itself that trips you up legally. More often than not, it's what you do afterward that gets you in hot water. Here are 10 things you should avoid after using your gun in self defense. Never ... Call 911 in a panic. No matter how tough you are, your body and brain will be a mess after you pull the trigger and see a body lying on...

Your Tactical Training Scenario- Brutal Attack on Senior Citizen

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Monday, June 27, 2016
I was searching for an old email I had sent when I found a correspondence with Marcus Wynne from several years back. Marcus sent me the video embedded below. Watch the short video . It’s short, but very violent. Don’t watch it if you have a weak stomach for extreme brutality. An elderly woman is savagely beaten by a robber. The extreme level of violence that the robber uses makes this one an...

4 Ethical Lessons of Bearing Arms

3:00pm Friday, June 24, 2016
The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being... (Historian J.G.A. Pocock, describing the beliefs of the founders of the U.S.) There is nothing like having your finger on the trigger of a gun to reveal who you really are. Life or death in one twitch — ultimate decision, with the...

Your Tactical Training Scenario…Robbed While Doing Yard Work

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Friday, June 24, 2016
Have you ever thought about what you would do if you were attacked while outside doing yardwork? Most people working in their yards aren’t expecting criminal violence. That makes them a good target for predatory criminals. A man in Florida was confronted by two teen-aged robbers as he was cutting some branches in his yard. The two boys pulled a gun and tried to take the man’s gold chain. He...

Things to consider when triggering a lockdown

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Thursday, June 23, 2016
Many of you who have been reading my work for a long time recognize that I have been vocally critical of the “lockdown” process in the past, especially in the case of school shootings. While I have been critical, I don’t have any problem with the idea of lockdown itself….I just think that poorly implemented lockdowns will cause more student deaths than other available response strategies in an...

Hard-line Hillary Bashes Heller Again! Calls Supreme Court's Decision “Terrible”

7:00am Thursday, June 23, 2016
[Recently] New York Magazine provided the public with even more evidence of Hillary Clinton’s disdain for the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller, which recognized that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. The comments cited in the article are only the latest in a string statements from Clinton and her team that make clear she...

May 2016 firearms sales jump 1.1% over prior year

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Wednesday, June 22, 2016
After several months of increased sales of firearms following the December 2 terrorist attack in San Bernadino, CA and President Obama's ongoing attempts to intimidate peaceable gun owners through executive actions, May saw a more modest increase from the previous year. The May 2016 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 928,532 is an increase of 1.1...

Reacting to The Threat of/from Orlando

by Jim Shepherd
7:00am Wednesday, June 22, 2016
[In the short time] after the Orlando murders, the battle lines have been drawn. And the coming fight over even more legislation to regulate the law-abiding citizen (criminals are never bothered by laws) has apparently driven some legislators mad as hatters. In California, Senator Isadore Hall called gun owners "crazy, vicious and heartless." He doubled down and said if you were a gun owner you...

Hey New York Times...What “Strong Case” for Gun Registration?

3:00pm Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Most guns aren’t registered, most gun owners aren’t licensed, and firearm-related violent crime is at nearly an all-time low, but in the New York Times [recently], gun control supporter Alan Berlow claimed that “the case for registration and licensing is stronger now than ever.” The rest of Berlow’s theory is just as illogical. Berlow says that because the federal government hasn’t confiscated...

“Journalists” Renew Attack Upon “Assault Weapons”

7:00am Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Katie Couric may be the journalist – we use the term loosely – that for the last few days has been taking the most heat for dishonest coverage of guns. But some in the TV “news” business have been just as dishonest in the past, and others are just as dishonest today. In the early days of the “assault weapon” issue, network news programs ran footage of machine guns being fired during stories about...

No Surprise, Gun Control Initiatives Are Funded by a Few Anti-Gun Billionaires

3:00pm Monday, June 20, 2016
Contrary to the grassroots image that anti-gun groups try to portray, their funding continues to come from large donations by billionaires who are driving an anti-gun agenda. Perhaps the worst examples of this trend can be found in Nevada and Maine where voters will consider gun control ballot initiatives this November. In each state, nearly identical ballot language seeks to require every...

NRA Op-Ed: Gun laws don't deter terrorists

by Chris Cox
7:00am Monday, June 20, 2016
Destroy radical Islam, not the right of law-abiding Americans to protect themselves. Americans were shocked and disgusted to learn of another act of terrorism on our soil, this time in Orlando. In the aftermath of this terrorist attack, President Obama and Hillary Clinton renewed calls for more gun control, including a ban on whole categories of semi-automatic firearms. They are desperate to...

The Orlando Pulse terror attack: Learning from what we know now

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Friday, June 17, 2016
Early Sunday morning on June 12, a murder (who won’t be named here) pledging fealty to the Islamic terrorist group ISIS, entered an Orlando gay nightclub and shot more than 100 people. Preliminary accounts indicate that 49 innocent victims were killed and an additional 54 victims were hospitalized with injuries. It is likely that countless more were injured but did not seek immediate medical...

Self Defense Class Offered for LGBT Community

7:00am Friday, June 17, 2016
Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) has announced that they will conduct a free self-defense class for residents of Central Ohio. Titled “Introduction to Self Defense with a Firearm,” the class will be open to everyone, including the LGBT community. “We're saddened by the tragic murders in Orlando,” said Dean Rieck, Executive Director of BFA. “But we're also angry. While we still don't know all...

Op-Ed: In an active killer terror attack, waiting will get you killed

by Ed Monk
3:00pm Thursday, June 16, 2016
We now have a new high score. The mass murder inside a gay nightclub in Orlando has surpassed the Aurora, CO theater shooting as having the highest number of victims and highest number of murders among active shooter attacks in the US. Political gamesmanship will fill the media for the weeks to follow the massacre, but will government leaders, business owners or education administrators do...

Portman stands firm on gun purchases and the terror watchlist despite media misrepresentation

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, June 16, 2016
Should persons who are placed on secret government lists without due process or any way to appeal automatically have their Second Amendment rights violated? Last December, following a terrorist attack in San Bernadino, CA, Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) joined a majority of his fellow U.S. senators in voting AGAINST an amendment proposed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) that would have given the U.S...

Urgent Action Alert: Act Now to Save Your Second Amendment Rights!

5:54pm Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Your Action is Needed NOW! The NRA has just learned that Senators Schumer, Feinstein and other anti-gun elected officials are going to offer several anti-gun bills and amendments this week in the U.S. Congress, possibly as soon as today! [UPDATE: Senate Democrats have launched a filibuster on the floor of the U.S. Senate to demand action on gun control.] These measures are wide-ranging and...

Should you use your gun to stop a crime?

3:00pm Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Most of us own or carry a gun to defend ourselves and our loved ones. But should you try to defend someone outside your immediate family? Should you attempt to stop a crime in progress when you're not directly involved? Steve Adcock of The Shooting Channel discusses using a gun to stop a crime in an article published at The Daily Caller . The decision to pull your gun in public is a deeply...

How the new Ohio NICS-compliant carry license is good for everyone

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Ohio has recently joined other states in having our Concealed Handgun License (CHL) certified as “NICS-compliant” by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (BATFE). While this is nothing new, it is new for Ohio. I would like to explain some of the many ways this can be good for everyone. The NICS system is often referred to as an “instant background check.” For many, it’s anything...

Horror, Again (The Orlando Terror Attack)

by Jim Shepherd
3:00pm Tuesday, June 14, 2016
With at least 50 people dead and at least that many more wounded after a well-executed Saturday night/Sunday morning assault on a dance club in Orlando, Florida, today's not the time for finger-pointing or Monday morning quarterbacking. This is the time to allow the families of victims to grieve while law enforcement agencies do their jobs. Granted, anti-gun political hacks will likely break into...

Over Half-Million Ohio Residents with Concealed Carry License

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the Concealed Handgun License (CHL) statistics for the first quarter of 2016. It was another record setting year. There are now over a half-million valid Ohio CHLs and Ohio honors an estimated 12,300,000 more. Stats at a glance: For the first time, there are over 500,000 active Ohio CHLs. That represents over 4% of Ohio residents authorized to...

Early thoughts on the Orlando night club shooting

by Jim Irvine
3:00pm Monday, June 13, 2016
Late Saturday night/early Sunday morning a person opened fire with a gun or guns inside Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. While I hate speculating on the unknown, there is just so much wrong information in the “news” that we must say something. What we know First – our condolences to the dead and injured and their families and friends. I know many people affected by mass killings, and the...

"You carry a gun? What are you afraid of?"

by Gary Evens
7:00am Monday, June 13, 2016
That is a question that everyone considering purchasing a firearm for self-defense or getting a concealed carry license needs to be able to answer. When I ask participants at Ohio Concealed Carry classes why they are seeking a license, the most common answer that I get is “to protect myself and my family” or some variation on that theme. Most of them indicate that they still feel safe in their...

VIDEO: BFA's Linda Walker and Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted at NRA Annual Meetings

3:00pm Friday, June 10, 2016
NRANews.com's Cam Edwards' coverage of the NRA Annual Meetings is always a great way to help those members who can't attend be well-informed about the goings-on at the huge event. We'd like to bring you two interviews of note. Click here to view Cam's interview with Buckeye Firearms Association Vice President Linda Walker. Among other topics, Walker discusses the lack of movement on pending gun...

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