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FBI: 'Toy' gun control won't make officers' jobs any easier

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Friday, September 16, 2016

Yet another deadly encounter has happened involving a young person who police say was wielding what turned out to be a BB gun, and it took only moments before gun control extremists began trying to take political advantage of the situation. Media throughout the state, across the nation and around the world are reporting on the death of Tyre King, a 13-year-old robbery suspect who was shot and...

BOOK REVIEW: Surviving a Mass Killer Rampage: When Seconds Count, Police are Still Minutes Away

by Dr. Timothy Wheeler

7:00am Friday, September 16, 2016

Surviving a Mass Killer Rampage: When Seconds Count, Police are Still Minutes Away , by Chris Bird (Privateer Publications, 2016, 408 pages). (Ammoland.com) Any reasonably informed American can tell you who Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were. Their names are indelibly linked with the name “ Columbine ” as the vile mass murderers of 13 people in the April 1999 incident of that name. But few know...

Clinton Supporter Blames NRA for Chicago Mother’s Murder

3:00pm Thursday, September 15, 2016

The self-proclaimed “Dean of Comedy,” radio talk show host Dean Obeidallah, has blamed a Chicago African-American mother’s murder, allegedly by repeat offenders, on NRA’s opposition to gun control, and he’s attacked GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump for attributing inner city murders to policies that Clinton supports. Earlier this month, the young woman was murdered while walking a baby...

Explaining the Objections to Background Checks

by Keith Coniglio

7:00am Thursday, September 15, 2016

Gun owners’ opposition to background checks is probably the most difficult position for non-owners (and even some owners) to fathom. They’re supposed to prevent “people who shouldn’t have them” from getting their hands on guns – or at least that’s what we’re told. But the objection isn’t about what they’re supposed to do, it’s the fact that they have been used to deny an increasing number of...

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Fanning the Flames, or Hitch up that Asbestos Pantsuit

3:00pm Wednesday, September 14, 2016

The Trump for President website offers a “Pantsuit on Fire” t-shirt. We don’t know how brisk the sales are, but it’s a safe bet that sales are outperforming Ms. Clinton’s ratings as an honest candidate (in one August poll, only eleven percent of registered voters described Hillary Clinton as “honest and trustworthy”). Not too long ago, Shannon Watts, founder of the Everytown affiliate “Moms...

Appeals Court Rules That Non-Serious Convictions Do Not Erase 2A Rights

7:00am Wednesday, September 14, 2016

The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that individuals convicted of certain non-serious misdemeanor crimes do not lose their fundamental rights under the Second Amendment in a decision involving two separate cases brought by the Second Amendment Foundation. The unanimous ruling came from an en banc panel in the combined cases of Binderup v. the U.S. Attorney General and Suarez v. the...

New NSSF Initiative Focuses on Firearms and Suicide Prevention

by Bill Brassard

3:00pm Tuesday, September 13, 2016

With suicide accounting for nearly two-thirds of all firearm fatalities annually, the topic of suicide prevention deserves our attention. In recent years the national Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has worked with the Veterans Administration, the State of Utah and mental health agencies to help educate gun owners and the public on how to keep firearms safely out of reach of those who, during a...

Cincinnati news station given extensive access to FASTER class

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, September 13, 2016

WLWT (NBC Cincinnati) was given access to a FASTER class this summer, and the resulting coverage has been given nationwide attention. In the report, entitled " Confronting deadly school violence: Teaching teachers how to shoot back ," WLWT News 5 investigative reporter Todd Dykes provides an extensive look at Buckeye Firearms Foundation's Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency...