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Poll: Household gun ownership on the rise in U.S.

3:00pm Tuesday, January 21, 2014
by Chad D. Baus Breitbart.com is reporting that the latest Economist/YouGov poll shows that 39 percent of American households own guns, which represents a five percent increase over the number of gun owning households in 2012. According to the article , throughout 2013, gun control proponents frequently dismissed the importance of empirical data on gun sales by claiming gun companies were simply...

Fallout from Colorado Gun Control Laws Deepens

3:00pm Monday, January 20, 2014
Colorado-based Magpul Industries, a manufacturer of popular AR-15 ammunition magazines and accessories, announced last week that it will move its corporate headquarters to Texas and its manufacturing operations to Wyoming. The company's decision, which will affect over 200 employees and 400 supply-chain workers in Colorado, is expected to cost the state over $80 million annually. Magpul's...

Detroit Police Chief Agrees: More Guns, Less Crime

3:00pm Friday, January 17, 2014
Except among dyed-in-the-wool anti-gun fanatics, it is a commonly accepted fact that Right-to-Carry laws not only do not cause crime to increase, they may deter violent crimes. It is also firmly established that people who have carry permits are statistically more law-abiding then people who do not. And the number of RTC states and carry permit holders reached all-time highs as the nation's...

Existing law works to catch OH-NJ gun trafficker

7:00am Friday, January 17, 2014
by Chad D. Baus Gun control advocates constantly claim that illegal gun trafficking is occurring because current laws are inadequate. They say very little, however, when a case occurs that proves existing laws can be used with great effect. According to the Columbus Dispatch , a New Jersey man is to be sentenced to prison this week for his role in a gun-trafficking scheme that stretched from...

Chicago's Firearm Transfer Ban Falls to Second Amendment Ruling

3:00pm Thursday, January 16, 2014
Things are looking up for gun owners in Illinois. On Monday, as some 4,500 concealed carry applications flooded the state's online portal on its first full day of operation, Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Edmond E. Chang of the Northern District of Illinois issued a significant opinion that invalidated Chicago's ban on firearm sales and transfers within the city. The suit was brought by the...

Headline: Gun background checks set new record in 2013

7:00am Wednesday, January 15, 2014
by Chad D. Baus Gannett News Service is reporting that new FBI data shows more background checks were conducted last year for firearm purchases in Ohio than ever before. From the article : Licensed firearms dealers in the state ran a total of 680,930 names through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in 2013, according to the data. That's an increase over the previous record —...

Op-Ed: ObamaCares … To Know About Your Guns

3:00pm Tuesday, January 14, 2014
by C. D. Michel Soon, you might become a federally registered gun owner when you visit your doctor. Given Obama's antagonism to gun rights and his overtly statist nature, it isn't a matter of if this will come to pass, but when. Obamacare, a hideous and dysfunctional monster even when it (rarely) works, is a machine inherently designed to violate personal privacy. Part of this massive scheme...

To the Editor: Schools need armed protectors

7:00am Friday, January 10, 2014
Editor's Note: The following letter to the editor of the Columbus Dispatch was submitted by Buckeye Firearms Association's Jim Irvine and published on December 28, 2013 in response to a letter written by Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence founder Toby Hoover, in which she attempted to dismiss the importance of Buckeye Firearms Association's survey which revealed that dozens of Ohio schools are...

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