Report: Women are a driving force in the nation's shift from gun control to gun rights

According to a report by Breitbart.com, women have emerged as one of the fastest-growing demographics of new gun buyers and concealed carry permit holders in the country, and in the process, they have become a driving force in the shift in American attitudes from pro-gun control to pro-gun rights. From the article : This growing participation of women in firearm purchases and firearm-related...

NRA Applauds U.S. Rep McSally's Introduction of Mental Health Bill

[Recently], U.S. Representative Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) introduced HR 3722, NRA supported legislation to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens from continued bureaucratic abuse by the Obama Administration while strengthening America’s failing mental health system. McSally’s bill is the House version of the Mental Health and Safe Communities Act, introduced in August in the...

Toledo CHL-holder defends self from armed robber

WTVG (ABC Toledo) is reporting that a 21 year-old Toledo man with a concealed handgun license (CHL) turned the tables on an armed robbery suspect early last week as he arrived home from work about 4:00 a.m. From the article : [Terrence] Reid’s family says he fired his gun early Tuesday morning as he was arriving home from work after his shift as a welder at a plant in Perrysburg. "I'm laying down...

Maine is now another state where your Ohio Concealed Handgun License is valid

Thanks to a recent change in Maine's concealed carry law, persons who hold are residents of Ohio and who hold valid concealed handgun licenses will now be recognized in the Pine Tree State. This change has been reflected on the Ohio CCW Reciprocity Map, which shows the states where your Ohio Concealed Handgun License is valid. This map is courtesy of www.Handgunlaw.us . Click here to visit the...

Newsflash to CNN viewers (but not to gun owners): The NRA's political cash comes from individual donors

Those who who oppose the individual right to bear arms recognized by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution love to talk about the "gun lobby." They claim that while a majority of American people opposes the "gun lobby," their elected representatives are enslaved by money provided by this "gun lobby," supposedly made up of evil corporate gun manufacturers via the NRA. There is no...

Democratic Debate "Race to the Bottom" on anti-gun posturing

[Last week], during the first Democratic Party presidential debate, former First Lady, U.S. senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley attacked the NRA by name and called for a renewed push for national gun control. “It’s time the entire country stood up against the NRA,” Clinton said, to wild cheers from the adoring audience on hand. When CNN...

Democrats Bet Big on Gun Control

The shooting at Umqua Community College in Roseberg, Oregon, last week, and its immediate politicization by President Obama, has revived gun control as a key issue among presidential candidates. Shannon Watts, the public relations executive who runs Mike Bloomberg’s anti-rights subsidiary, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, told ABC News: “This is really a sea change in terms of how...

Your Tactical Training Scenario - Properly Timing your Resistance Efforts

Read this story and imagine a similar scenario happening to you. An armed robber is holding you at gunpoint. You think he’s going to shoot you whether you give up the money or not. You have a concealed pistol, but you can’t outdraw a trigger press. When should you make your attempt to resist? When I start working with students in force on force training drills, I often have to slow them down. I...

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