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Election 2010: Pro-gun rights voters play major roll in statewide contests

7:00am Wednesday, November 03, 2010

by Chad D. Baus & Jim Irvine The voters have spoken. While a lot can and will be said about this election, as a non-partisan, one-issue PAC, our post-election analysis will stay focused on observations regarding how the outcome will affect gun rights issues in the months and years to come. U.S. Senate: In a must win race for gun owners, Rob Portman (R) defeated anti-gun and F-rated Lee Fisher...

"How John Kasich lost my vote only days before the election" and other letters from gun owners voting freedom first

1:00pm Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Buckeye Firearms Association has taken its share of criticism from partisans who don't like our one-issue, non-partisan approach to evaluating, grading and endorsing candidates. But we've also heard from many people who are voting freedom first. It's Election Day, and we've said all we need to say until the polls close and the results are known. So here are a few examples from what YOU, our...

Election Day 2010: Vote TODAY in the Buckeye State!

7:00am Tuesday, November 02, 2010

by Jim Irvine Election Day is finally here. Candidates are exhausted. Relationships are stressed. We are all emotionally ready to put this bitter election season behind us. Tonight we will know the political landscape that will shape the future of our local communities, our state, and our nation. It bears repeating, elections matter. If you have not already done so, get out and vote today...

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Final round: Mythbusting gubernatorial campaign claims

9:33am Monday, November 01, 2010

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." - Ecclesiastes 1:9 By Chad D. Baus & Jim Irvine While it may seem that the events of the past week, involving misleading attacks against candidates endorsed by Buckeye Firearms Association, are something new and unprecedented, in fact we've seen it all before. In 2004, a mailer was sent...

Tomorrow, it's only a day away...

3:00pm Friday, October 29, 2010

by Jim Shepherd Next Tuesday, I hope your day planner begins the same as mine. At the top of my agenda in big red letters is a four-letter word that defines why we're the country everyone loves to hate, but can't wait to visit. The four letters: VOTE. Yep, that glorious Tuesday when all the months of ceaseless mud, bull and hyperbole slinging stops - at least for a few hours - as citizens...

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Anti-Gun DeWine Throws 'Hail Mary' Gun Mailers

7:00am Friday, October 29, 2010

by Chad D. Baus & Ken Hanson They haven't come right out and said it, but judging by two election eve mailers, anti-gun Attorney General candidate Mike DeWine and his cousin Kevin, who chairs the Ohio Republican Party, hope and believe gun owners are idiots. Conspicuously absent from almost all DeWine for Attorney General general election campaigning to date is any mention of firearm/hunting/...

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Gubernatorial Candidates Battle Over Guns

3:00pm Thursday, October 28, 2010

(Firefox users: If you have any trouble viewing the embedded video, click here to read the story transcript.) In related news, the Ohio Elections Commission has found "no probable cause" to support Kasich/Bubp's false accusations that Strickland lied. Strickland campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith celebrated this morning's ruling. "Today, the Kasich campaign's worst nightmare was realized when the...

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Kasich Campaign Desperate to Spay/Neuter the Gun Vote

7:00am Thursday, October 28, 2010

by Ken Hanson Conspicuously absent from almost all Kasich-Taylor campaigning before mid-October was any mention of firearm/hunting/sporting rights. There is a simple explanation for this. John Kasich's record on firearm rights is horrible . He is not being dinged for a single vote, or a few votes. Rather, Kasich has earned the ire of every state-based firearm group based upon many of his official...