Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to announce that starting December 12th you can show your support for the 2nd Amendment by buying NRA specialty license plates at your local BMV!

"Firearms safety training is so very important for Ohio's families," said Representative Tim Schaffer (R-5). "Eddie Eagle alone has kept hundreds -- maybe thousands -- of children safe in America. The NRA Foundation license plate program will give a major financial boost to funding Eddie Eagle and other great gun safety training programs in the Buckeye State. I was proud to sponsor the legislation creating the NRA Foundation license plate bill."

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Furthering firearms safety programs statewide is an important aspect of working to protect 2nd Amendment rights. Buckeye Firearms Association supports any program that teaches children about gun safety because it is ignorance of guns, not access to them, that causes gun accidents.

"Special thanks go to Representative Schaffer for sponsoring this legislation," said Phil Gray, NRA Field Rep for Ohio. "I look
forward to working with him in the future."

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The Hamilton Journal-News has published an excellent article by Gregory Ramey, a child psychologist and vice president for outpatient services at Children's Medical Center of Dayton.

The article concerns parental guidance when it comes to toy guns, and the information he provides is likely to surprise those familiar with the typical anti-gun stance offered by the medical community.

The article begins like this:

The mother of 5-year-old Drew recently asked me how to discourage her son's "preoccupation with violence." Upon further questioning, she reported that Drew gets along well with his brother, is doing great in school and has lots of friends.

Her concern focused on the fact that since he was 3 years old, Drew has been fascinated with guns. When he first asked for a toy squirt gun, Mom informed her son that guns were not allowed in their house. She told him how bad and dangerous they were, and cautioned him to never play with them.

After listening numerous times to his mom's lectures, this little guy did what any typical 5-year-old boy would do. He made a gun out of his Lego blocks. After many reprimands, his mom took his Legos away. This was but a minor inconvenience, as Drew simply walked around his yard until he found the perfect wooden branch that looked like a gun.

After more lectures and punishment, Drew finally learned to stop using things as guns. When playing cops and robbers, he simply held his hand in the shape of a gun and shot the bad guys. This boy's "preoccupation with violence" was really caused by a well-meaning mom who was unintentionally encouraging the behavior she wanted to stop.

Mom felt that playing aggressive games with toy guns would lead to violence with real guns. She was wrong. There is absolutely no connection between playing with a water pistol at age 5 and later aggression. My advice to this mom was to buy Drew a toy gun, and then patiently tolerate hours of fantasy play about the good guys shooting the bad guys.

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On December 5, the Lubbock (TX) Daily Toreador has published as excellent op-ed by Clara Cobb, who is the newspaper's Features Editor and a self-professed (formerly) "anti-hand-gun" "hippie.

The op-ed begins like this:

About two weeks ago, a male approximately 5 foot 9, 150 pounds broke and entered my house.
(SIDE NOTE: This is funny because it is true.)

That night, or rather, early that morning, it was really, really not funny. I had just locked up the front door and the dog in the front room. My friend Lauren was watching TV in the back room.

Suddenly Jules, my roommate's seven-month-old black lab, began barking like she has mad cow, or bird flu, or mad cow and bird flu. She's growling and snapping like I neveer have heard her bark before.

Then we heard the coughing. Then we heard stomping. Dogs don't cough or stomp.

Lauren and I were freaking out. We grabbed butcher knives and head lamps and quickly turned on all the lights in my house.
(SIDE NOTE: For this to be funny, make sure you are picturing two women in a hallway, clutching pillows across our bodies, butcher knives in hand, wearing head lamps and pajamas.)

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