This year, Buckeye Firearms has profiled some of our endorsed candidates. We want you to understand who they are and why they are important to our efforts to restore our rights. They are as much a part of the “team” as any of us, for without their support, we could not have come this far. With your help, we will work with them in the future as we continue our quest to protect and preserve your rights.

Statewide Candidates:
Ken Blackwell, Ted Strickland, Bill Peirce - Governor.
In their showdown to outgun each other for Ohioans’ votes on Nov. 7, Strickland and Blackwell eagerly burnish their gun credentials. But with both boasting endorsements from pro-gun groups, the oft-contentious gun-owner rights debate appears headed for a draw in the governor’s race.

Tom Raga - Lt. Governor
Raga has a solid sportsmen gun owner record in the Ohio House. He co-sponsored the Ohio concealed carry legislation, HB 12 and current legislation HB 347. As noted above, he co-sponsored and voted for HB 296, the Apprentice Hunting License bill. Ohio was the second state in the nation to pass this legislation designed to make it easier to introduce young people to hunting and trapping.

Marc Dann - Attorney General for the State of Ohio
If you are a Republican who is happy with Governor Taft and Senator Mike DeWine, then you will probably like Marc Dann’s opponent. But if you are sick of your party selling you out to the highest bidder, or what ever else would make a person fight to kill good legislation for gun owners, than you need to support Marc. He is the only pro-gun candidate running for Attorney General, a crucial office for the gun owner.

Mary Taylor - Auditor of State
Mary Taylor is the only pro-gun person in this race. Her opponent served as a state representative voting against your second amendment rights, against sportsmen’s issues, against ending junk lawsuits attempting to bankrupt firearms manufacturers and against your right to self-defense. Her opponent offers nothing good for the law-abiding gun owner and has worked to trample your constitutional rights.
Sandy O’Brien - Treasurer for the State of Ohio
Talking to Sandy at the US Sportmen's candidate reception and the Buckeye Firearms meet and greet at Black Wing it is clear that she is much more than talk. She supports hunting and Second Amendment rights because she has enjoyed them her whole life. Her children have enjoyed them. She has a passion that matches ours in her desire to see Ohio pass real firearms reform.

Click on 'Read More' to learn about other good candidates on the ballot this fall.

By Linda Walker

In Part I, which was inspired by the occasion of September being “Realtor Safety Month”, I offered commentary which revolved around the fact that as real estate agents, we are never given information about concealed carry being a viable option in our self protection. Instead, we are taught useless self defense tactics that may give someone a false sense of security. I received huge response from real estate agents and brokers from across the country after reading my article.

I was relayed countless stories of agents knowing someone who had been attacked, put in bad situations, or had a scare while out just trying to make a living. I also heard from buyers who had been looking at properties with their unarmed real estate agents and encountered a scare. It warmed my heart that many of those agents and brokers who contacted me, are also my fellow concealed carry license holders, and many also instruct CCW classes!

After the article had been posted on Buckeye Firearms Association website for a couple days, I was contacted by Cam Edwards of NRANews (NRANews.com) to do a live interview with him about my article. In preparation for my appearance on NRANews, I researched the National Association of Realtors website. I found a 6 minute video on their website entitled “Don’t Be a Victim-Personal Safety for Realtors”. I intently watched this video hoping for just a small hint of a pro-CCW message. To my shock and dismay, I found the complete opposite.

Under the heading “Don’t Carry a Firearm”, I quote the 2 sentences the NAR follows up with:

“We don’t recommend carrying them because they could be used against you with fatal results. If confronted by a knife or gun, don’t resist and give him whatever he wants and wait for the opportunity to run.”

“Don’t resist and give him whatever he wants????” The National Association of Realtors is telling me to submit to being raped. Submit to being thrown in the trunk of my car. Submit to whatever he wants to do to me! That is not a viable answer to me. I will not submit to being a willing victim! And I don’t care if it is the organization that I am (forced to be) a member of that is telling me to give him whatever he wants, in the name of being politically correct. I will not give him whatever he wants.

Obviously, the NAR does not have my best interest in mind with these types if ludicrous comments. So more than two weeks ago, I emailed the top nine elected officers of the National Assoc. of Realtors the following email.

Click on the 'Read More' link below to read Walker's letter to the National Association of Realtors.