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Biased media annoyed that victims dare resist

12:10am Friday, February 29, 2008
By Tim Inwood I have had enough experience with the anti-gun /self-defense bias in the press to begin to wonder if there is something wrong with the water used at major journalism schools in this country - some toxic agent that it wipes out all logical function of the brain. As I read “Use Of Deadly Force: Store Owners Fighting Back” by Brendan Keefe, an article done for WCPO Channel 9 (...

Jarrod Martin - 70th Ohio House District

12:05am Friday, February 29, 2008
By Larry S. Moore The 70th Ohio House District (representing Xenia, Beavercreek, Fairborn and Bath Township) has a crowded field of entrants in the Republican primary. I’ve met all the candidates. They are all good men with a variety of backgrounds, small business owners, professionals and family men. So what sets Jarrod Martin apart? What made the difference that would cause me to volunteer to...

Why a convention center in Wilmington was Ohio's safest place last weekend

12:10am Thursday, February 28, 2008
By Chad D. Baus Regular readers of this website will recall that the last time a member of the media from Cincinnati went to a gun show, the results were atrocious. A November 2007 hatchet-job by NBC Cincinnati's Eric Flack contained ridiculous references to everything from 90-round SKS rifles to the Columbine school massacre, all in an effort to aid his gun ban lobby friends in their efforts to...

Op-ed: Even at VT all issues not addressed

12:05am Thursday, February 28, 2008
By Karl Spaulding On April 16, 2007, 32 people were murdered by a fellow student at Virginia Tech. On Feb. 14, there was another college shooting with five people killed. In the week previous to that, several more shootings at colleges and high schools made the news. Anyone who reads the Virginia Tech Review Panel report (available on the Internet through the Virginia governor's Web site) will...

HB473: Aiding mobility-impaired hunters

12:10am Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Last week, Buckeye Firearms Association volunteer Bob Harsanje and Dave Graham, Chief of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ (ODNR) Division of Wildlife, offered proponent testimony before the Ohio House Finance & Appropriations Committee on House Bill 473. Proposed by State Rep. Peter Ujvagi (D - Toledo), at the urging of and guidance from Harsanje and fellow hunter, HB473 would, among...

Interior Department To Propose New Rules Regarding Right-to-Carry In National Parks

12:05am Wednesday, February 27, 2008
After nearly five years of effort by NRA-ILA, the U.S. Department of the Interior has finally responded to the many requests for a change in its policy on carrying and transporting firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges. In a letter hand-delivered today to the U.S. Senators who wrote him asking for this policy change, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has directed Lyle Laverty,...

Presidential candidates need to address the real issues for gun owners

12:10am Tuesday, February 26, 2008
"I’ve been a hunter all my life" and other phony appeals By Brian S. Stewart In the pantheon of cringe-worthy attempts to fabricate 2nd amendment bona fides, presidential candidates of the last several years have provided more than their fair share. From the infamous "Small Varmints"-Gate of the early Mitt Romney campaign to Hillary Clinton’s desperate revelation that she too used to be quite the...

LTE: Don't ask gun-permit holders to be police

12:05am Tuesday, February 26, 2008
February 21, 2008 Columbus Dispatch The Sunday article "Gun-permit renewals near" contained a statement that must be addressed. Dispatch Staff Reporter Randy Ludlow rightly quoted Chief Deputy Steve Martin of the Franklin County Sheriff's Office that there had been no incidents involving concealed-carry license holders during the first four years under the law. But then Ludlow added, "On the...

Perfect Storm for Gun Owners: Ohio Presidential Primary edition

12:10am Monday, February 25, 2008
By Chad D. Baus My story " Perfect storm for gun owners? McCain, DeWine and Giuliani join forces ", was published at BuckeyeFirearms.org only a little more than 24 hours after the outcome of Super Tuesday was known. In that commentary, I wrote about how anti-gun former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's endorsement of Senator John McCain , and anti-gun former Senator Mike DeWine's work as McCain's...

Students for Concealed Carry on Campus responds to Brady conspiracy accusations: 'Prove it'

12:05am Monday, February 25, 2008
Four months after Peter Hamm, spokesperson for The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, verbally attacked the college-based, grassroots organization Students for Concealed Carry on Campus , telling a Fox News reporter, "You don't like the fact that you can't have a gun on your college campus? Drop out of school," he is stepping up the rhetoric. Not content with encouraging college students to...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

6:34pm Saturday, February 23, 2008
By Chris Chumita There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are all worthy of mention. What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens. From a mentally sisabled teen being abused for hours to a robbery at a drive-through, these articles should be a part of...

Larry Moore: League of Ohio Sportsmen/Ohio Wildlife Federation Hunter Educator of the Year

12:10am Friday, February 22, 2008
Long-time Buckeye Firearms Assocation volunteer Leader Larry S. Moore has been named the League of Ohio Sportsmen/Ohio Wildlife Federation Hunter Educator of the Year. "It is exciting to be honored for hunter education work and recognized by your peers," Moore says. "There are people in the League who have been teaching for 40 years."

New Life Church Pastor Brady Boyd speaks out on church security preparedness

12:05am Friday, February 22, 2008
By Chad D.Baus Can we take the lessons learned in blood and lives at Columbine and the World Trade Center and apply them so we'll never take this [path] again, or do we have to wait until our kids die?" - Lt. Col. Dave Grossman One place where leaders made a conscious choice not to wait until their kids die was New Life Church in Colorado Springs, CO. The story of concealed handgun license-holder...

Editorial: Allow concealed carry

12:10am Thursday, February 21, 2008
February 16, 2008 Dover-New Philadelphia Times-Reporter It’s time we allow concealed carry on America’s university campuses. Maybe an armed, well-trained professor might have been able to stop the graduate student who went on a shooting rampage Thursday in a Northern Illinois University lecture hall, killing six and wounded 15 before turning the gun on himself. And maybe someone with a weapon...

Guns On Campus: Northern Illinois U: Rule #1: Sue Everybody.

12:05am Thursday, February 21, 2008
Alright, you know the facts. Now answer the question: What are the tort liabilities? By John Longenecker It's time to forget about writing more gun bans, time to quit profiling (it's a stalling tactic for political reasons) and time to litigate. The first order of business for any damaged plaintiff is to sue everybody. This would be all colleges who ban weapons, including those who have seen...

20 dead this month in Illinois spree killings, but the state's gun-grabbers will never get it

12:10am Wednesday, February 20, 2008
By Gerard Valentino How long does this have to happen? How many of my home state brethren have to die? When will people like Chicago Mayor Daley and Governor Blagojevich realize they are leaving their citizens at the whim of thugs and the deranged? The sad truth is they will never get it – they will never learn that their draconian gun policies don’t work. Chicago leads the nation in murders...

Castle Doctrine to receive second hearing in House

12:05am Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Ohio's Castle Doctrine legislation, which has already received three hearings in the Senate, will receive a second hearing Thursday, February 21 in the Ohio House of Representatives. The House Criminal Justice Committee , chaired by Rep. John White (R-38), will hear proponent testimony on Rep. Wachtmann's HB264 (Castle Doctrine). The hearing will be held at 9:30a.m. in Statehouse Room 121. Thank...

Buckeye Firearms Association 2008 Primary Endorsements

9:15am Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Buckeye Firearms Association is proud to announce our endorsements for the March 4th Ohio primary elections. The impact you can make on these races cannot be overstated. Due to the limited number of people who vote in primary elections, each vote counts as a greater percentage of the total votes cast. In past years strong pro-gun candidates have lost by as few as 10 votes. Can there be any doubt...

Denial killed NIU students; Denial is alive and well on Ohio campuses

12:10am Tuesday, February 19, 2008
By Chad D. Baus Following the latest multiple-victim public shooting on the Northern Illinois University campus, radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh focused his national audience on the fact that these shootings keep occurring in what he calls " these wonderful, Utopian, marvelous little college campi that is a gun-free zone ." This is another case in point where you have a liberal gun-free zone,...

HB478: Tax Relief and Gun Rights Rolled Into One

12:05am Tuesday, February 19, 2008
By Brian S. Stewart Ohio gun owners could get some tax relief to go along with their concealed handgun license if a recently introduced bill in the Ohio House of Representatives is passed. HB478, sponsored by State Representative Dan Dodd (D-Hebron), would "allow a refundable tax credit against the personal income tax for concealed-carry license fees." Every dollar you pay out for your license...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

11:57am Monday, February 18, 2008
By Chris Chumita There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are all worthy of mention. What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens. From a girl being told to stop calling 911 before she was murdered to another gun buyback program, these articles should...

Barack Obama and gun rights: When is "Support" Not Support?

12:10am Monday, February 18, 2008
By Ken Hanson, Esq. Barak Obama continues his attempt to be all things to all people by claiming in an Associated Press interview that he supports the individual right to bear firearms. The interview was conducted in the immediate aftermath of the Northern Illinois shootings. What is astounding to me is that the reporter, Nedra Pickler, presents that pro-gun position as the premise of the story (...

Time to close the “Public Safety Loophole”

12:05am Monday, February 18, 2008
By Tim Inwood In April 2007 we saw the worst school shooting in American history. Students were lined up against the wall and shot to death like cattle at Virginia Tech. These scholars stood meekly and could do nothing to fight back, as school policy had disarmed them and for obeying this idiotic rule they died. Ten months later, it seems bureaucrats and policy makers around the country have...

Lt. Col Dave Grossman's Bullet-Proofing the Mind - A MUST for every concealed-carrier

12:07am Friday, February 15, 2008
by Chad D. Baus Amateurs talk hardware. Professionals talk software. It doesn't matter what's in your hand or between your legs. It matters what's in your heart and in your head." - Lt. Col. Dave Grossman The story of concealed handgun license-holder Jeanne Assam's brave actions to stop a murderous rampage killer in Colorado Springs, Colorado's New Life Church won't soon be forgotten. From...

Al Gore's Current TV takes on Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot

1:34am Thursday, February 14, 2008
By Chad D. Baus According to the ever-changing, reader-edited resource that is Wikipedia.com, Current TV is an Emmy award-winning independent media company led by former U.S. Vice President [and anti-gun extremist ] Al Gore, and [ equally anti-gun ] businessman Joel Hyatt. The U.S. cable television network went on the air in August of 2005, and a second network, operated in the United Kingdom and...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

2:15pm Wednesday, February 13, 2008
By Chris Chumita There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are all worthy of mention. What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens. From a shooting outside of Akron University to the winner of the JPFO's "Name the BATFE mascot contest", these articles...

Who is attacking the Second Amendment in the D.C. gun case, and what can you do about it?

9:55am Wednesday, February 13, 2008
By Ken Hanson, Esq. At some point in your day, you, like me, probably wonder “Have I done all I can do to be a pain in the hind end of those who oppose my gun rights?” The answer, of course, is “no.” Fortunately, it is easy to take some immediate and long term actions to irritate those opposed to your rights. Most steps are as simple as “vendor selection” decisions you make daily. An interesting...

Guns On Campus: The Debate continues.. and continues and continues . . .

12:05am Wednesday, February 13, 2008
By John Longenecker Something's being forgotten... or sidestepped. Many cases of quandary are in the news over guns on campus. I have written on the subject since the Virginia Tech Shooting, and I critique the Review Panel's conclusions in a monograph available to seminar hosts. Outside of that dissertation, let me address some of these questions and quandaries in the debates over what to do on...

State of Ohio: Ohio Congressmen & women sign on in support of Second Amendment

12:10am Tuesday, February 12, 2008
By Chad D. Baus and Dean Rieck The State of Ohio has officially joined a Writ of Certiorari in support of the pro-Second Amendment position in the District of Columbia v. Heller gun case. Thanks to State Attorney General Marc Dann, a Democrat who has earned multiple endorsements from Buckeye Firearms Association, the State of Ohio has joined the states of Texas, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas,...

Comic Books With A Message

12:05am Tuesday, February 12, 2008
By Chris Chumita Growing up I spent a lot of time buried in comic books following the adventures of the X-Men and many other super heroes. The month long wait between issues was often unbearable. I drifted away from comic books as I got older, but about two years ago I discovered a pro-gun comic book that is geared towards children and adults. The comic book is the “Gran’pa Jack” by the Jews for...

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