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March 2016 firearms sales jump 9.2% over prior year

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, April 11, 2016

As we predicted at the beginning of the year, sales of firearms continue to rise in the wake of the December 2 terrorist attack in San Bernadino, CA and President Obama's latest attempts to intimidate peaceable gun owners through executive actions. The March 2016 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,297,275 is an increase of 9.2 percent compared to...

Your Tactical Training Scenario - “I’m going to kill anyone who breaks into my house”

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Friday, April 08, 2016

(Image source: FreeImages.com/J Cash) Editor's Note: In the early morning hours of Saturday, March 19, a former University of Akron football player shot his ex-teammate in the stomach after mistaking him for a burglar after he entered the apartment unannounced and without knocking. Earlier this year, a Cincinnati man, believing his 14-year-old son was at school, fatally shot the boy in the neck...

Give Us Election Ammunition!

by Jeff Knox

7:00am Friday, April 08, 2016

As the presidential primaries continue to unravel in the news, it seems the main concern of Republican leaders in D.C. and around the country is stopping Donald Trump from becoming the party’s official standard bearer in November. What they should be focused on is what has happened in this country to shift the political paradigm so dramatically that a populist outsider like Trump could be...

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Home invasion suspect killed attempting to rob condo, accomplices charged

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Thursday, April 07, 2016

Columbus media are reporting that one robber is dead and two accomplices have been charged with murder because of their roles in a home invasion robbery in which a person was killed. From WTTE (Fox Columbus) : Officers found Nathaniel Easley, 24, in the middle McAndrews Way at the McNeil Farms condo complex shortly after 7:00 p.m. He was pronounced dead at Mt. Carmel East. Easley was shot in a...

Justice Thomas speaks: Misdemeanors and the Constitution

by Jeff Knox

7:00am Thursday, April 07, 2016

“One question … This is a misdemeanor violation. It suspends a constitutional right. Can you give me another area where a misdemeanor violation suspends a constitutional right?” With that “one question,” two weeks after the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia, and one week after the unofficial anniversary of a decade of silence during oral arguments in the Supreme Court, Justice Clarence...

Class review: “Understanding and Training the Female Shooter"

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Wednesday, April 06, 2016

I first met Lou Ann Hamblin more than 10 years ago at a police training conference organized by the now -defunct American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers. The conference brought together all of the biggest names in the police training business, putting on a bewildering array of classes. In between classes, several other events were designed to keep us all occupied. One such event was a...

"My gun is bigger than yours": Armed robbers surrender to armed Cleveland deli owner

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Cleveland.com is reporting that a Cleveland deli owner turned the tables on two armed robbers who he believed were about to murder he and a friend who was helping him run the store. From the article : The owner was manning the store about 9:45 p.m. and talking to a friend who was helping him run the shop, police reported. Two masked men burst into the pointing guns and demanded money. A man...

The Distance Bias

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Think about your last firearms training session. From which distance did you spend the majority of your time shooting? Next question... When you visualize possible scenarios when you might have to defend yourself with a firearm, how far do you imagine the criminal shooting at you will be? If you are like most shooters, you tend to both practice for and imagine scenarios that are far different...