2023 - BFA in the News

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Feb. 2, 2023

Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati takes swing at gun reform with new ordinances, lawsuit

In an effort to curb gun violence, Cincinnati has two proposed ordinances for City Council to consider and has filed a lawsuit against the state. The first ordinance addresses the safe storage of firearms to keep them away from children. The second ordinance would bar those convicted of domestic violence or subject to a protection order from processing firearms.

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The 43-page lawsuit filed Friday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court challenges a 2006 law passed by the Ohio legislature and its 2018 expansion. It forbids Ohio municipalities from imposing any restriction on a person's ability to own, possess, purchase, sell, transfer, transport, store or keep any firearm, part of a firearm, its components and its ammunition.

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The Buckeye Firearms Association released a statement Thursday in response to the announcement.

"The city of Cincinnati has decided to again waste its citizens' tax dollars and re-litigate settled law," the statement said.

Executive Director Dean Rieck said Cincinnati paid the Buckeye Firearms Association over $230,000 in legal fees after the organization sued over Cincinnati's proposed bump stock ban. He said the laws will not be followed by criminals and will entrap otherwise law-abiding citizens.
"We will not allow rogue cities to eviscerate the progress we've made over the last two decades just so they can grandstand and pretend that they're fighting crime, when all they're doing is wasting taxpayer dollars on political theater," Rieck said.

Feb. 2, 2023

WCPO.com - It could become illegal to own a gun in Cincy with domestic violence conviction

CINCINNATI — People convicted of domestic violence could no longer be able to legally possess a gun in Cincinnati, and legal gun owners are facing new safe storage rules if ordinances introduced by Mayor Aftab Pureval and Cincinnati city council members Tuesday morning become law.

Pureval, alongside several city council members and locally-based gun violence advocates, announced the two ordinances, which will be presented at the Public Safety & Governance Committee on Tuesday. From there, they could head to city council for a vote that would make the ordinances law. It's unclear when they would go into effect if that happens.

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"Buckeye Firearms Association and Ohio's 4 million gun owners will fight this," said Dean Rieck, executive director of Buckeye Firearms Association. "We will not allow rogue cities to eviscerate the progress we've made over the last two decades just so they can grandstand and pretend that they're fighting crime, when all they're doing is wasting taxpayer dollars on political theater."