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Disabled man stops home invasion with 3 gun shots

12:10am Thursday, December 31, 2009
By Gerard Valentino Photo: Star-Banner Gary Wroblewski is confined to a wheelchair and therefore an easy target for criminals. His physical limitations and lack of mobility are the type of weakness that cowards look for in an easy mark. But, Mr. Wroblewski is anything but a helpless victim. Instead, he took the time to arm himself and learn how to properly use his gun. That decision just might...

Rush Limbaugh - Hunting Villain of the Year?

12:05am Thursday, December 31, 2009
By Greg R. Lawson Rush Limbaugh has won a knock down drag out contest over such anti-hunters as Ingrid Newkirk and Cass Sunstein to become the number one villain of hunters and anglers in 2009. No, El Rushbo may not be twirling a handlebar moustache anytime soon, but he did manage to come out on top in Field and Stream 's 2009 " Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villains Face Off ." This very...

Ohio GOP primary critical in race for Attorney General

12:10am Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Buckeye Firearms' supporters know that the easiest way to guarantee pro-gun office holders is to guarantee pro-gun candidates on the ballot. From the standpoint of our endorsement committee, nothing is sweeter than being able to recommend support for every choice on the ballot. The November 2010 Ohio AG race has the potential to be a choice between two great firearm supporters, or a life and...

USSA: United Airlines hears sportsmen, antlers to be allowed on flights

12:05am Wednesday, December 30, 2009
The voices of sportsmen were heard loud and clear by United Airlines as the company made the decision to change a new policy that would have banned antlers from being allowed onto any flight. As previously reported , sportsmen from coast to coast were enraged as it became known United Airlines had quietly initiated a policy preventing passengers from carrying on or checking antlers or animal...

Columbus Dispatch says home invasion "went wrong" when intended victim fought back with gun

12:10am Tuesday, December 29, 2009
By Chad D. Baus In the words of Columbus Dispatch reporter Martin Rozenman ( [email protected] ), a home invasion "went wrong" the day after Christmas when the intended victim fought back, shooting one of his attackers and inflicting what Columbus Police Sgt. Eric Pilya said were life-threatening wounds.

Another shooting on a "no-guns" Virginia campus

12:05am Tuesday, December 29, 2009
By Chad D. Baus Amidst continued reverberations from the worst campus shooting in our nation's history at Virginia Tech in 2007 came news of yet another shooting on a "no-guns" Virginia campus earlier this month. According to news reports, as 20 year-old James Michael Hamilton stood at the entrance to his math classroom with a long black canvas bag at his side, oblivious classmates filed into a...

Violent Crime Continues Decline (Even While Gun Ownership Increases)

12:10am Monday, December 28, 2009
By Bill Brassard Preliminary statistics released by the FBI for the first half of 2009 show that violent crime continues a downward trend that began in 2006. The figures show crime falling in all categories--robbery, aggravated assault, motor vehicle thefts, etc.--with murders down a remarkable 10 percent from the previous year. The FBI statistics undermine a favorite argument of anti-gun groups...

OOPS: Associated Press publishes fair and balanced article on increase in gun-related officer deaths

12:05am Monday, December 28, 2009
By Chad D. Baus I don't know exactly how long Colleen Long has been employed by the Associated Press, but if the journalist publishes many more facts that expose the lies of the gun control movement, I expect she'll be visiting the unemployment lines very soon. In an article noting an increase in the number of officers killed in the line of duty by gunfire in 2009, Long departed from the anti-gun...

Merry Christmas from Buckeye Firearms Association

12:05am Friday, December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas to one and all from all of us at Buckeye Firearms Association. Our best gift is the friendship and support given by each of you throughout the year. As we reflect on the year's passing, we count our many blessings, remember our losses, and give thanks for those who helped us through it all. We each need to take time to appreciate our friends and family during this special time of...

A Christmas Remembered

12:10am Thursday, December 24, 2009
By Rick Jones As we celebrate the Christmas season, I remember the days of my youth. Reminiscing about the good times and bad, the gift I always wanted and got, and those that I did receive and didn't like. Most everyone has those memories of Christmases gone by. Seems that I cannot remember not being involved with the shooting sports - training, plinking, and hunting. In general, good times were...

Divert tax money to pro-gun candidates for FREE!

12:10am Wednesday, December 23, 2009
By Jim Irvine This is the time of year when many make charitable contributions. Tax deductible is good, but I've got a much better deal for you. If you pay Ohio income tax this year, you are entitled to a $100 per couple ($50 per person) tax credit for donations to certain politicians. A credit is much different than a deduction. You don't get a part of your donation back, you get the whole...

Early Christmas Gift: Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case Against Gun Maker

12:05am Wednesday, December 23, 2009
On Monday, December 14, the U.S. Supreme Court handed Beretta U.S.A. and the firearms industry another victory by rejecting the Brady Center's appeal of Adames v. Beretta U.S.A. Corporation challenging the constitutionality of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). The PLCAA is the 2005 federal law passed by Congress in response to the flood of reckless lawsuits brought by the...

Ohio hunters donate 95,500 pounds of venison to local food banks

12:10am Tuesday, December 22, 2009
The generosity and good will of Ohio hunters is having a major impact on needy Ohio families. The Ohio DNR is reporting venison donations to local food banks are almost triple what they were at this point in 2008. In fact with over 6 weeks of deer season still to go, 2009 donations to Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry are almost double what was donated for the entire 2008 season. If you are...

911 call displays heart and soul of the law-abiding citizen who refuses to be a victim

12:05am Tuesday, December 22, 2009
For 10 minutes and 20 seconds, Oklahoma resident Donna Jackson remained calm as she stood in the dark pleading for help and repeatedly telling emergency dispatchers that she did not want to shoot the "crazy," "drunk sounding" man who was yelling and determined to get inside her house on a Friday morning earlier this month. But when he threw a table through her sliding glass patio door, the 56-...

Gun control advocates seek to "tighten" gun laws

2:54pm Monday, December 21, 2009
By Gerard Valentino Over the last few months, the anti-gun movement, with help from the establishment media, has started a new attack campaign with their usual flair for the dramatic and lack of concern for the facts. Every article on gun-control during that time period mentioned that America has "loosened" regulations on buying, carrying, and owning guns over the last three decades. It is as if...

Ohio Republican Party does not endorse in Attorney General race between staunch pro-gun/ anti-gun candidates

12:10am Monday, December 21, 2009
By Larry S. Moore The news that the Ohio Republican Party (ORP) did not make an endorsement in the Ohio Attorney General race is making waves. Blogs have been making the most of it. Ohio political columnist William Hershey had pieces in the major Ohio newspapers, including the left-wing Dayton Daily News . It is reported that DeWine is not disappointed but pressing forward with the race. Hershey...

Protecting Gun Shows : It's Time for Some Self-Regulation

12:05am Monday, December 21, 2009
By Jeff Knox Anyone who does not hold an FFL and sells a firearm to someone he doesn't know well is incurring a certain amount of liability. And, a bit of bad judgment could cause trouble not just for the seller, but for the rest of the gun owning community as well. There is no question that individuals have the right to buy, sell, and trade firearms between themselves without government...

Typo in Federal law mandates locking train passengers in boxes

12:10am Friday, December 18, 2009
By Jim Irvine Fox News is reporting that the bill intending to allow passengers to check guns on Amtrak has a typo in it requiring not just the gun, but the passenger to be “locked in boxes for their journey.” While this seems funny, we must remember little mistakes in Ohio’s first concealed carry law that made it illegal to for someone to legally transport a handgun in a car without a concealed...

Terrorism and Gun Control: A Perfect Match

1:00am Thursday, December 17, 2009
This is an extended version of an article that appeared in USCCA's Armed American Report. Get your Pro CCW Sign at the end of this article. By Gerard Valentino The terrorist attack committed by Major Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, Texas brought the lack of security at such a large military base directly into homes across America. Leaders of the pro-gun movement, and many soldiers, weren't quite...

CHALLENGE! We want 2,000 Facebook fans by New Year's Eve!

2:09pm Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Our new Facebook Fan Page is growing fast. We now have over 1,400 fans. But we want 2,000 by the end of the year. Will you help us? If you're on Facebook, become a fan now. If you're already a fan, use the "Suggest to Friends" link to invite all your friends to become fans too. The Suggest to Friends link is on our fan page, upper left, below the red BFA logo. Why is it important to get more fans...

The 25 most popular gun rights stories of 2009

11:29am Wednesday, December 16, 2009
We publish a lot of stories that are read by a lot of people. Over the past year, more than 410,000 separate individuals visited this site from the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Ireland, France, India, and 163 other countries looking for information about guns and gun rights. And our authors served up well over 550 original articles, an average of 11 new articles every...

NRA members smarter than newspaper writers

12:10am Wednesday, December 16, 2009
By Jim Irvine Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr.'s latest op-ed piece deals with guns and has been reprinted in many papers, including the Columbus Dispatch under the heading, "Members of the NRA wiser than leaders." It is another version of old argument that gun owners want reasonable restrictions on guns to protect our society from criminals killing people, but the evil NRA empire does...

Deer-gun Hunting Continues December 19-20

12:05am Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Ohio's popular deer-gun season will run an additional weekend, Saturday and Sunday, December 19-20, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. The extra weekend days were added beginning in 2006 in response to comments received from hunters for more weekend time to hunt. Deer can be hunted with a legal muzzleloader, handgun or shotgun from one half-hour...

Ohio man hunting for deer bags a bull elk instead

12:05am Tuesday, December 15, 2009
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that Todd Tomlin, a 45-year-old truck driver who's been hunting for more than 30 years, was hunting with permission on private property along Inskeep-Cratty Road in the southwestern corner of Union County about 8:30 on opening day of Ohio's deer gun season when he spotted something most Ohio hunters will never see. From the story : ...He saw three does in the...

Two Against Two: Bloomberg And Lautenberg Pair Up To Violate The Second And Fourteenth Amendments

12:05am Monday, December 14, 2009
Is your name the same as, or similar to, that of someone on the FBI's "terrorist watchlist?" Or, have you been erroneously placed on the watchlist? You can't find out because the FBI won't say exactly why people get watchlisted, won't say who has been watchlisted, and therefore doesn't offer watchlisted people the chance to clear their names immediately. In fact, small children, federal air...

Two concealed carry bills to get second hearing

12:53am Friday, December 11, 2009
UPDATE - The December 15 hearing has been canceled. We will provide updates when another hearing is scheduled. Chairwoman Linda Bolan (D-1) has scheduled HB203 and HB158 for second hearings on Tuesday, December 15 at 3:00 p.m. in Room 122 of the Ohio Statehouse. HB203 would allow persons with a concealed handgun license to carry their firearms into any restaurant providing they are not, and do...

NSSF warns of threat to ammunition availability, calls for action

12:05am Friday, December 11, 2009
The National Shooting Sports Foundation has notified members that, as demand for ammunition continues to outpace supply, "it is critically important that an amendment authored by Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) to a seemingly obscure hazardous material bill (HR 4016) be attached to the legislation during consideration on the House floor." The NSSF notes that the amendment being pushed by Graves will help...

Exposed: Virginia Tech officials took care of themselves after ensuring the kids in their care could not

12:05am Wednesday, December 09, 2009
By Jim Irvine New evidence about the 2007 Virginia Tech killings shed new light on the arrogance and hypritical stance of University leaders. The murder of 32 students was the worst mass shooting in U.S. history until the Ft. Hood massacre last month and remains the worst school shooting ever on U.S. soil. Virginia Tech is no stranger to violence. They had two shootings in the 2006-2007 school...

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