Buckeye Firearms Association

Open borders, empty jails, and gun confiscation: That is their plan

by John Farnam

6:00am Friday, January 23, 2026

The politicians pushing open borders and gun confiscation like to control vocabulary to make their case, using such terms as "the homeless" and "random." But every now and then, these same politicians have inadvertent moments of honesty when it comes to what they'd like to see happen. We should take them at their word in those moments.

Interior Secretary Burgum issues order expanding hunting access nationwide

6:00am Thursday, January 22, 2026

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has issued Secretarial Order 3447 – Expanding Hunting and Fishing Access, Removing Unnecessary Barriers, and Ensuring Consistency Across the Department of Interior Lands and Waters. This sets a department-wide policy that “public and federally managed lands should be open to hunting and fishing unless a specific, documented, and legally supported exception...

Ohio appeals court affirms 2A rights of 20-year-old Dayton woman

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth

6:00am Wednesday, January 21, 2026

An Ohio appeals court cited the Second Amendment in December, when it affirmed a county judge's dismissal of an indictment of a Dayton woman who was not yet 21 years old when she was arrested on firearms charges based solely on her age.

DOJ landmark opinion: Federal ban on mailing handguns is unconstitutional

by John Crump

6:00am Tuesday, January 20, 2026

The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued a groundbreaking memorandum opinion Jan. 15, concluding that 18 U.S.C. § 1715, the nearly century-old federal statute prohibiting the mailing of concealable firearms, is unconstitutional as applied to constitutionally protected arms, such as handguns.

SCOTUS to hear challenge to Hawaii law banning guns on private property

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth

6:00am Monday, January 19, 2026

Update: The Supreme Court has heard oral arguments, which can be found in audio form and in transcript form (both linked in this article). This Second Amendment case out of Hawaii could set precedent nationwide if the new state law is allowed to stand.

Lott paper: Australians dramatically more likely than Americans to be victims of violent crime

by Crime Prevention Research Center

6:00am Friday, January 16, 2026

John Lott, PhD, and Crime Prevention Research Center senior fellow Kesten Green, who is also a researcher at the Adelaide University, College of Business and Law, compared the violent crime rates in Australia and the United States. Australian are clearly at much greater risk of violent crime than Americans. Here are the facts.

Post-COVID crime data debunks gun control’s ‘Wild West’ narrative

by Larry Keane

6:00am Thursday, January 15, 2026

Since COVID-era uncertainty began, millions of Americans have bought firearms, many for the first time. Critics insisted that more guns in private hands would inevitably mean a national slide into a modern “Wild West.” The most recent national and city-level data don’t support that claim.

Jim Samuel joins BFA as new Legislative Affairs Director

5:00am Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to announce Jim Samuel as our new legislative affairs director. Samuel is a policy professional, with more than 30 years of experience working with legislators and leaders at the Ohio Statehouse.