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No Charges Filed, But Legal Firearms Confiscated Anyway

3:00pm Thursday, January 07, 2016

We've raised concerns before about how proposed "gun violence restraining orders" and similar firearm surrender orders can be abused and issued in cases where the police lack sufficient evidence for an arrest and simply wish to deprive an individual of the right to bear arms, and on how difficult it can be to get property back after the government seizes it. These concerns are magnified when such...

Executive Orders: President Obama reverses President Clinton's brand of gun control, but the goal is the same

by Tim Inwood

7:00am Thursday, January 07, 2016

The tactics employed by President Obama’s in his latest executive orders, purportedly done in the name of preventing crimes committed with guns, represent a reversal of gun control strategy used by Bill Clinton and his then-Treasury Secretary Lloyd Benson, supposedly done with the exact same goal in mind. During his administration, President Clinton set about to tackle the crime problem by...

Op-Ed: It’s not a gun problem, it’s a people problem

by Don Stratton

3:00pm Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Another mass shooting, and yet another call for more gun control — the same old broken record. Despite the statistical fact that some of America’s most violent cities also have the toughest gun control laws, too many people still believe the anti-gun rhetoric. History tells me a different story. Until the 1968 passage of a bill prohibiting interstate transfers to individuals, there were virtually...

While parts of his overall plan are treacherous, Obama's four background check "actions" will change very little

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, January 06, 2016

No one knows who first uttered the quip about insanity being the act of doing same thing over and over again and expecting different results, but this saying gets repeated not because it's correct, but because we see this behavior happening so often. Number One on the list of President Obama's latest round of executive actions on gun control are a prime example. In coverage of Obama's 30 minute...

Executive Actions on Guns Will Have No Effect on Crime - They Serve Only to Intimidate Law-Abiding Gun Owners

1:53pm Tuesday, January 05, 2016

After years of unsuccessful attempts to pass gun control laws, President Obama has chosen to do an end run around Congress with executive actions. The proposals are intended to intimidate gun owners by threatening fines and jail time for even casual sales of personal property, infringe on Constitutionally protected rights by allowing bureaucrats to categorize individuals as unfit to own firearms...

Supreme Court candidate provides inside look at Constitutional "modernization" panel's attempts to "clarify" the right to bear arms

by Judge Pat Fischer

7:00am Tuesday, January 05, 2016

Editor's Note: In the summer of 2014, Buckeye Firearms Association became aware that an obcure commission was considering "modernizing" Ohio's constitution when it comes to the right to bear arms. We provided a number of articles on the subject (see here and here and here ) which were intended to shed a great deal of light on workings of this commission. The following, written by one of the...

Buckeyefirearms.org: Top Ten News Items of 2015

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, January 04, 2016

On average, we publish two articles a day and 10 to 12 articles a week. Over the years, we have published approximately 11,000 articles, covering elections, legislation, and all manner of events and information of interest to Second Amendment supporters. Over 1.3 million different people visited our website this year, creating over 3.5 million pageviews. This is an international audience with...

2015 - The Year in Review

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Thursday, December 31, 2015

While there is far too much to cover in a single article, we reflect on some of the important events of 2015. January: The year begins with news of yet another police-involved shooting with a person who turned out to have an airsoft gun. The shooting occurs in California, the state that Ohio Rep. Alicia Reece has modeled her 'toy gun control' proposal after, offering the latest proof that passing...