Gun news in Ohio and beyond: Top 10 stories of 2025

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It's time to take back California for gun rights

12:10am Monday, June 23, 2008

By John Salyers On the verge of what looks to be a solid kick in the gut for Paul Helmke and the Brady Bunch with the upcoming SCOTUS decision in the District of Columbia v. Heller case, Helmke and his minions are certainly not holding back in their celebrations of the ongoing trampling of rights in California. In a June 18th alert pointing people to video of Brady VP of Law and Policy, Dennis...

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President Romney in 2012?: What Mitt Should Be Doing Now

12:10am Friday, June 20, 2008

By Chad D. Baus I've always been skeptical of election year conversions. When Auditor of State Betty Montgomery phoned to ask my support for a 2006 bid to regain the office of State Attorney General (she had held the office previously), I reminded her of the day she told Buckeye Firearms Association Chair Jim Irvine that she would “never be the candidate of the NRA,”[1] and of the evening she...

Legally-armed customer captures would-be bank robber

12:05am Friday, June 20, 2008

President Barack Obama - A Gun Owner's Worst Nightmare

12:05am Thursday, June 19, 2008

By Dean Rieck If you're not thrilled with the idea of having John McCain as the next President of the United States, you're not alone. He's angered gun owners with anti-gun statements and support for so-called "campaign finance reform," which has done little except limit free speech and curtail grassroots political activism. But would you prefer President Barack Obama? Obama is without doubt the...

Ohio lawmakers: Better to slowly burn a child to death than to shoot her with a gun

12:10am Wednesday, June 18, 2008

By Gerard Valentino Senate Bill 348, designed to add an additional 10 years to a prison sentence if a gun is used to cause injury to or death of a child, was introduced recently by Senator Eric Kearney (D-9). Senators Sue Morano (D-13), Teresa Fedor (D-11), and Capri Cafaro (D-32) have signed on as co-sponsors. The bill, which Buckeye Firearms Association strongly opposes, is another example of...

Progress: We can only move forward together

12:05am Wednesday, June 18, 2008

By Tim Inwood In the past four years, gun owners in Ohio have made amazing strides forward. After years of battling for concealed carry, we finally won in 2004. In 2006, we won major reforms with HB347. This year, we not only won the uphill battle for Castle Doctrine but many other important amendments were added that improved what was already a pretty good piece of legislation. We even saw...

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Of Mice and Men

12:05am Tuesday, June 17, 2008

By Breda of The Breda Fallacy One day last winter, I pulled on my boots, buttoned up my coat and went out into the snow to fill the birdfeeder. We kept the seed in a large bucket in the garage and when I went to scoop some out to carry to the feeder, I noticed that the supply was running low. It was dark in the garage and even darker in the bottom of the bucket. I tipped the bucket a little and...

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Ohio is home to America's "World Series of Shooting Sports"

12:10am Friday, June 13, 2008

By Chad D. Baus Each summer, the world's finest civilian and military marksmen and women square off for five weeks of rifle and handgun competition in a variety of formats and events right here in the Buckeye State. This year marks the 101st running of the National Matches, for which so many shooters have embarked on an annual pilgrimage to Camp Perry, Ohio, on the shores of Lake Erie near Port...