CNN: Shooting guns and talking politics with Scott Walker

Over the past few election cycles, I've interviewed presidential candidates in all kinds of settings, all over the country. But no matter the candidate, and no matter the questions, they all had one thing in common: walls. A hotel room, a convention center, a studio, a stage. We sit down, we get mic-ed up, the lights go on, the cameras roll, and in 15 minutes it's all over. I'm in full hair and...

Surviving a Movie Theater Shooting

Recently, a man began firing rounds in a Louisiana movie theater. He fired 20 rounds from a .40 Hi-Point pistol, hitting 11 people before killing himself when police arrived. Have you ever thought about what you might do if you were engaged by an active killer while watching a film at a movie theater? Here are some things you should be considering: 1) Choose your seats wisely. I always sit on the...

Bureaucratic bungling proves there can never be such a thing as a "universal" background check

The latest mass killings in "no-guns" public places - a church in Charleston, SC recruiting stations in Chattanooga, TN and a movie theater in Lafayette, LA - have produced the inevitable calls for more background checks on private transfers of firearms between adults, despite the fact that, in each of these cases, the killers did not acquire their firearms via this legal method. Instead, each...

NRA Applauds Congressman Johnson for Swift Action on Social Security Gun Grab

The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) lauded Congressman Sam Johnson (R-TX), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security, for his swift action urging the Social Security Administration (SSA) to stop developing a system to enter social security beneficiaries into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which, as...

Buckeye Firearm Association's “Introduction to Tactical Rifle” course

All year long, Buckeye Firearms Association hosts fund-raiser events all across Ohio. Some of our most popular are of course our shooting events! You owe it to yourself to check our Events Page to see what events are still open for the remainder of 2015. On June 27th, the instructors at PM Security/Tactical Weapons Training Group hosted another class in support of Buckeye Firearms Association at...

No guns for Social Security recipients?

The Los Angeles Times reported [recently] that the Obama administration is pushing a plan to submit the names of up 4.2 million recipients of Social Security benefits to the FBI’s National Instant Check System, or NICS, the massive database used for criminal background checks on gun buyers. Only “prohibited persons,” those for whom possession of firearms and ammunition is illegal under the Gun...

Report: Columbus Mayor Coleman's Gun Stoppers program a complete failure; FBI investigating illegalities in Coleman's office

If reports from WBNS 10TV (CBS Columbus) and a whistleblower are accurate, Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman (D) may soon join the lengthy list (see here and here and here ) of members of anti-gun extremist Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) to face serious charges. From the report : It was billed as a way to fight rising crime waves and get more guns off city streets and the...

Attacker shoots at group of people, including 1 year-old; Ohio CHL-holder shoots back

WXIX (FOX Cincinnati) is reporting that a man with an Ohio concealed handgun license (CHL) was able to defend the lives of himself, his sister, a one year-old child and another man after a neighbor began firing his gun at them. From the article : According to police, [Thomas] McCary argued with a woman on Holland Drive about 7:30 p.m. Sunday night. During the dispute, her brother, Patrick Ewing,...

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