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Your Tactical Training Scenario…Violence at Church

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Monday, June 29, 2015

Are you prepared to deal with an armed threat in your place of worship? Maybe you should pay more attention to the nature of the potential threat. When we look at all Rapid Mass Murders that have occurred in this country, we find that the second most common place for them to occur is in a church or place of worship. Only schools have a higher rate of killings. Many mentally ill criminals display...

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"Lawful Purpose and Self Defense Act of 2015" Introduced to Curb BATFE Abuse

3:00pm Friday, June 26, 2015

On Wednesday, June 10, 2015, Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources Rob Bishop (R-UT) introduced H.R. 2710, the "Lawful Purpose and Self Defense Act of 2015." This bill would remove BATFE's authority to interpret or reinterpret the "sporting purposes" clauses in federal law, which only serve to undermine the core purpose of the Second Amendment. Under Chairman Bishop’s legislation,...

Surviving a Violent Encounter

by Gary Evens

7:00am Friday, June 26, 2015

A lot of people think that carrying a gun or attempting to resist a violent attack in any way increases the chances that they will be seriously injured or killed in an encounter. FBI statistics show that just the opposite is true! So it is in your best interest to resist an attack. Your chances of being involved in a violent encounter are fairly small. Of the approximately 300 million people that...

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We Needed the Supreme Court to Tell us This?

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Thursday, June 25, 2015

In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that when a person who owns firearms is convicted of a felony – which makes firearm possession illegal for them – they still retain the right to dispose of their firearms as they see fit, as long as they don’t do so in a way where they would have access or control over those firearms. What is astounding about this decision is that it had...

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Attack on Charleston church draws attention to Ohio ban on concealed carry in places of worship

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, June 25, 2015

Once again, a mass murder has occurred in a public place - the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, SC. Once again, the victims were defenseless. Palmetto State law, like Ohio's, prohibits concealed carry in places of worship unless that entity permits otherwise, and it appears unlikely that such permission was given in this case. Once again, political opportunists are following the gun ban...

Legislation Proposes $60 Million for Anti-Gun Research

3:00pm Wednesday, June 24, 2015

[Recently], NRA F-rated Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) introduced legislation to authorize the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to give $60 million of the taxpayers' money to anti-gun activists over the next six years, to conduct "research" promoting gun control. The two longtime anti-gun legislators say that their bill is necessary for two reasons...

SB 180 (Protect Workers' Constitutional Rights) scheduled for sponsor testimony in Senate committee

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Chairman Kevin Bacon has announced that the Senate Civil Justice Committee will be hearing sponsor testimony on Senate Bill 180 (Protect Workers' Constitutional Rights) today, Wednesday, June 24 at 2:30 p.m.in the Senate Finance Hearing Room. SB 180, sponsored by Senator Joe Uecker (R-Miami Township), seeks to prohibit employers from discriminating against workers exercising constitutional rights...

Lummis Introduces "Collectible Firearms Protection Act"

3:00pm Tuesday, June 23, 2015

[Earlier this month], U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) introduced H.R. 2611, the "Collectible Firearms Protection Act." This bill would aim to reverse a State Department decision blocking the importation of wildly popular and historic M1 Garand rifles and M1 carbines from South Korea. The United States exported these firearms to South Korea at the onset of the Korean War in the 1950s...