Buckeye Firearms Association

What stripped-down 'Big Beautiful Bill' means to gun owners nationally, in Ohio

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth

5:00am Thursday, July 10, 2025

With the Hearing Protection Act and SHORT Act stripped out of the federal reconciliation bill, questions remain about what it all means. Here's a look at the immediate impacts nationally and here in Ohio.

Elon Musk's America Party short on Second Amendment specifics

by David Codrea

6:00am Wednesday, July 09, 2025

“The Second Amendment is sacred,” Elon Musk promised when asked how his America Party will regard the right to keep and bear arms. Agreed, but what does he mean?

Tips for walking your dog while armed

by Lee Williams

6:00am Tuesday, July 08, 2025

One of the most important considerations while walking your dog is that you will likely have just one free hand if you’re threatened. If you need to use deadly force, you will be shooting and possibly even reloading using only your strong hand.

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SAF, NRA, others to challenge National Firearms Act as unconstitutional

6:00am Monday, July 07, 2025

With the passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill (OBBB), which eliminates the excise tax on silencers and short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns and “Any Other Weapons,” the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners have issued a joint statement indicating their intention to challenge the remaining registration requirements for the affected arms under the National Firearms Act as...

Independence Day 2025

by Rick Jones

5:00am Friday, July 04, 2025

“FREEDOM”. We say it often, exclaiming our rights by the Constitution and Bill of Rights, but is it really free? Daily, there are people who are ready, willing and able to chip away at our most basic freedoms as guaranteed by the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution, and it is these people who we must fight against.

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How a Senate parliamentarian gamed National Firearms Act

by Bill Cawthon

6:00am Thursday, July 03, 2025

Last Friday, everyone rose up in arms when Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate parliamentarian, yanked the Hearing Protection Act and the SHORT Act from the Big Beautiful Bill.

USA's birth came by way of armed citizens

by Mark Oliva

6:00am Wednesday, July 02, 2025

The founding of the United States of America was — and is — an audacious idea. It was the armed citizen that stood against the British army and navy, and without their guns, the idea of the United States might have just been that — an idea.

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Armed churchgoers prevent mass attack as Michigan lawmakers plot more gun control

6:00am Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Just over an hour away from the state capitol in Lansing, Michigan — even as lawmakers worked feverishly to pass various gun control measures, including expansion of “gun free” zones — a chilling reminder unfolded of the critical need to fight for the rights of law-abiding citizens to arm themselves for self-protection anywhere they have a legal right to be.