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A record 637,000 Ohio adults now have Concealed Handgun Licenses

by Jim Irvine

7:00am Friday, December 01, 2017

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the Concealed Handgun License (CHL) statistics for the third quarter of 2017. The pace of license issuance has declined compared to last year, but total numbers are still increasing. During the third quarter Ohio Sheriff’s issued 15,182 initial CHLs, 16 Temporary Emergency Licenses (TELs) and renewed 12,401 CHLs. There are now over 637,000 active...

House Judiciary Committee Green Lights Reciprocity Bill

4:43pm Thursday, November 30, 2017

Fairfax, Va., November 29, 2017 —The House Judiciary Committee today approved H.R. 38, the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, by a vote of 19-11. H.R. 38 would eliminate the confusing patchwork of state laws that makes it difficult for law-abiding permit holders to travel across the country with their firearms for personal protection. Under the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, states would be...

SHOCK: Persons obtain 20+ firearms without background check

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, November 30, 2017

According to so-called "common-sense" gun control extremists like Mark Kelley's "Americans for Responsible Solutions," all we have to do to keep criminals from gaining access to firearms is to mandate that a background check be done before all transfers of firearms. Pass "universal" background checks, we're told, close the "gun show loophole," we're told, and we can stop mass shootings! Indeed,...

Black Friday firearms sales set new record high

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, November 29, 2017

The FBI has reported that it fielded 203,086 background check requests for gun purchases on the day after Thanksgiving — the highest daily total ever. The number of guns sold on Black Friday is not an exact correlation to background checks, because some states, including Ohio, conduct NICS checks when issuing concealed handgun licenses. In addition, a person would only have one background check...

No Sale: Marketing Tricks in Gun Control

7:00am Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Marketing analysts refer to “churn” in an industry – the turnover or attrition rate of customers or employees or some other category – as an important metric of business growth and success: keeping track of churn rates offers insight into how well a business is doing. Applying this concept in the context of the gun control movement, the high prevalence of change in the anti-gun community points...

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Muzzleloaders Now Targeted by “Giffords” Gun Prohibition Lobby

7:00am Monday, November 27, 2017

It didn’t take long after the events in Las Vegas, Nevada for gun control advocates to resort to their usual tactic of blaming hardware for the acts of an evil man. Numerous anti-gun bills were introduced almost immediately, with arch anti-gun Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) leading the charge. “This is written in clean English,” Feinstein insisted of her bill. “It does not take anyone’s gun.” Less...

Gun Controllers Choose to Ignore Cases of Good Guys with Guns

7:00am Friday, November 24, 2017

Less than three hours after the tragedy at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) was looking to score political points. As is his custom, Murphy fired off a tweet admonishing his colleagues for their refusal to submit to the gun control lobby’s agenda. However, in the following hours, as more information about the shooting became available, it became...

Thanksgiving: George Washington's 1789 Proclamation

7:00am Thursday, November 23, 2017

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor -- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful...