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Foundation named #1 NRA Recruiter, breaks record

7:00am Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Buckeye Firearms Foundation has been recruiting for the NRA for many years. In 2011, the Foundation came in 5th place with 569 members. Then with a little more effort in 2012, it came in 3rd place, recruiting 905 members. But last year, with more attention on the Foundation's activities, including the FASTER school safety program, the Foundation saw NRA recruitment numbers rising, finding itself...

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Ohio Benefits from Spending by Target Shooters

3:00pm Tuesday, February 04, 2014

LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation has released a major new report about the importance of target shooting activities to the economies of Ohio and the nation. NSSF is the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry. The report, Target Shooting in America: Millions of Shooters, Billions of Dollars , was released [January 15, 2014] in...

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Buckeye Firearms Association hosts event to educate lawmakers and media on noise suppressors

7:00am Tuesday, February 04, 2014

On Monday, February 3, 2014, Buckeye Firearms Association hosted an event to help educate lawmakers on the benefits of noise suppressors, and to help bust the Hollywood myth that suppressed guns are so silent they could help criminals "sneak around undetected." The lawmakers attended the fact-finding event in order to become better educated in advance of a vote on House Bill 234 (Allow Noise...

Thoughts on hunter safety in the wake of tragedy

by Jim Freeman

3:00pm Monday, February 03, 2014

Editor's Note: The following article was published at MyDailySentinel.com . Republished with permission of the author. As a volunteer hunter education instructor here in Ohio since the mid 1990's, I have closely watched the news surrounding the unresolved shooting of Larry Bradley, 45, of Bidwell on the opening day of this past Ohio's deer gun season, apparently by another deer hunter who has not...

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Should teachers be required to have five times more firearms training than law enforcement to carry in a school?

7:00am Monday, February 03, 2014

The Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy (OPOTA) says yes. Simple logic says hell no. by Chad D. Baus In the wake of the horrific attack on a Connecticut elementary school in December 2013, many Ohio boards of education finally realized that "no-guns" signs and zero-tolerance policies have utterly failed their promise to protect our children, and were ready to do something different. More than two...

Pride and Prejudice? Hollywood Mogul Aims to Attack NRA with New Film

3:00pm Friday, January 31, 2014

Hollywood producer and Obama mega fundraiser Harvey Weinstein used an appearance on The Howard Stern Show Wednesday to announce what he billed as a new anti-NRA movie, reportedly titled, The Senator's Wife. During the interview, Weinstein called NRA a "disaster area" and said of the film, "I'm going to make a movie with Meryl Streep, and we're going to take this head-on. And they're going to wish...

Anti-self-defense groups using church affiliations to deter legislators from allowing concealed carry in places of worship

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, January 31, 2014

While many improvements have been made to Ohio's concealed carry law since it was first passed in 2004, one of the most serious ones that still needs to be addressed is the many places which are forced to post "no-guns" signs alerting criminals that everyone inside is defenseless. Despite the fact that the vast majority of multiple-victim public shootings occur in places where guns are banned,...

Op-Ed: Defining the Debate – Active Shooters and Mass Shootings

by C. D. Michel

3:00pm Thursday, January 30, 2014

"Mass public shootings are on the rise!" "Mass public shootings are not rising!" Oddly enough, both statements are correct, and misused by the gun control lobby to confuse and alarm the public. You need to know the difference, the truth and the oddly calming perspective. Like the mythical "assault weapons"," everything depends on the definition. Across the nation there have been dozens of...