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Why Gun Owners Distrust Obama

by Dean Rieck

7:00am Monday, February 01, 2016

Editor's Note: The following op-ed was published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Sunday, January 31. President Obama has expressed dismay that gun owners and Second Amendment advocacy groups such as Buckeye Firearms Association and the NRA don't trust him on the issue of gun control. He has even mocked gun owners as “conspiracy” minded and paranoid. But gun owners have many perfectly logical...

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Another Ohio sheriff calls for citizens to obtain concealed carry licenses

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Friday, January 29, 2016

In the days following the terrorist attack in San Bernadino, CA, several law enforcement officials across the nation, and at least two sheriffs in Ohio , made news by urging citizens to obtain concealed handgun licenses to protect against terror. A Buckeye Firearms Association supporter from Seneca County forwarded an article about this important turn of events to his sheriff, William Eckelberry...

Senate Candidate P.G. Sittenfeld (D) Proposes Ohio Constitutional Amendment to Infringe Constitutional Rights

7:00am Friday, January 29, 2016

COLUMBUS, OH - Working with anti-gun activists, U.S. Senate candidate P.G. Sittenfeld has called for a constitutional amendment to repeal Ohio's preemption law which prohibits cities from enacting laws that are more strict than state law. "It's a ridiculous proposal," said Dean Rieck, Executive Director of Buckeye Firearms Association. "Preemption was a solution to a serious problem in Ohio where...

Stay in the Fight: Practice Odd Position Shooting

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Thursday, January 28, 2016

It’s been a little more than five years since two officers were shot in a dramatic gunfight in a trailer park in Enon, Ohio. The gunfight is even more remarkable when considering that there was a photographer on scene taking photos as the shots rang out. This photo was taken as one of the officers was being shot and falling to the ground. Bullets generally don’t make people fall. They don’t knock...

State legislators get creative in highlighting gun ban extremists' hypocrisy

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, January 28, 2016

It isn't often that legislators get the opportunity to display gun ban extremists' hypocrisy so succinctly as they have in two recent examples, one in Virginia and one in South Carolina. First, there has been a lot of news coverage of a decision by Virginia's state's attorney general to rescind the reciprocity agreements between the Commonwealth and 25 other states, as well as a move a week...

Op-Ed: 90% Don’t Want More Background Checks

by John R. Lott, Jr.

3:00pm Wednesday, January 27, 2016

The number is far smaller, and Americans oppose Obama's gun control agenda Gun control advocates like President Obama keep claiming that 80 to 90 percent of Americans are in favor of expanded background check legislation. Only, it’s not true. Liberal fact checkers were less than thrilled with any objections to this false orthodoxy. PolitiFact’s Lauren Carroll cites a series of polls from...

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Open Carry vs. Concealed Carry - A Question of Tactics

by Andrew Blubaugh

7:00am Wednesday, January 27, 2016

A very common question or debate is concerning the right to open carry firearms. Here in Ohio, it is legal. Texas just passed a law allowing open carry. Internet forums about firearms dedicate entire threads to the topic of open carry. My opinion begins with: open carry is not a right, it is a tactic. The 2nd Amendment covers my rights and to me it is very clear that I have the right to keep and...

HB 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) scheduled for sponsor testimony in Senate committee

by Chad D. Baus

5:10pm Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Chairman William Coley, II has announced that the Senate Government Oversight and Reform Committee will be hearing sponsor testimony on House Bill 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) on Wednesday, January 27 at 8:45 a.m. in the South Hearing Room. As passed by the House, HB 48 seeks to restore Ohioans' right to carry in day-care facilities (unless they post "no-guns"), private airplanes,...