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Buckeye Firearms Association candidate endorsements coming soon

4:52pm Friday, March 12, 2010
Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) has not yet made any endorsements for any candidates in Ohio. BFA has received many survey responses from candidates for various offices and is in the process of grading surveys and voting records. We will make our decisions carefully and issue our official endorsements soon. The only "endorsement" the PAC has issued this year is for Ken Hanson, our legal Chair...

February second highest all-time for background checks on firearm sales

7:00am Friday, March 12, 2010
Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,243,211 checks in February 2010, ranking the month the second highest February (eighth highest month overall) for most NICS checks. This figure, while being a 1.3 percent decrease from the 1,259,078 checks conducted in February 2009 -- the early stage of an ongoing surge in firearms and ammunition sales...

McDonald v. Chicago: What constitutes a win?

3:00pm Thursday, March 11, 2010
By Jim Shepherd Most of the conversational around the industry since [last] Tuesday's Supreme Court oral arguments in the McDonald v. Chicago case has been pretty optimistic. It seems a foregone conclusion that the Supreme Court will vacate both firearms restriction ordinances in Chicago and its suburb, Oak Park, lllinois. But there's been very little said about Otis McDonald, the 76-year old...

Ohio State University shooting proves need for concealed carry on campus

7:00am Thursday, March 11, 2010
By Gerard Valentino When a disgruntled employee shot two supervisors earlier this week, Ohio State University added its name to the list of educational institutions with multiple victim shootings and a policy against legal concealed carry on campus. During the debate about concealed carry in Ohio several years ago, the OSU administration took the predictable, and intellectually lazy, stance that...

FLASH: Ohio Supreme Court to hear case involving Cleveland's enforcement of illegal gun control laws

1:06pm Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving the city of Cleveland's ongoing fight to enforce its illegal local gun control ordinances. Last November, a three judge panel in the 8th Ohio District Court of Appeals sided with Cleveland , declaring that Ohio R.C 9.68 - which became law in 2007 with passage of HB347 to preempt local gun control and ensure statewide uniformity of gun...

Wisconsin Carry, Inc. awarded judgement against City of Racine and two Racine police officers

7:00am Wednesday, March 10, 2010
On September 9th, 2009 Wisconsin Carry member Frank Hannan-Rock of Racine was unlawfully arrested while open-carrying on the front porch of his home in Racine. On January 8th Wisconsin Carry filed a federal lawsuit against the State of Wisconsin, City of Racine, two Racine Police officers, The City of Milwaukee and one Milwaukee Police Officer. In this lawsuit we challenge the constitutionality...

McDonald v. Chicago: Deciphering Your Rights

2:00pm Tuesday, March 09, 2010
By Jeff Knox Oral arguments in the Supreme Court case of McDonald v. Chicago were an interesting show on March 2. Most of the Justices made their positions on applying the Second Amendment to the states – and what mechanism to use to do it – fairly clear from the outset. Most observers agree that the Court will declare that states must recognize a fundamental right to keep and bear arms. A...

Toledo Blade editorial continues string of anti-gun writing, misrepresents Ohio restaurant carry legislation

7:00am Tuesday, March 09, 2010
By Gerard Valentino A recent Toledo Blade editorial about pro-gun reform in Ohio reads like something out of the anti-gun playbook from 1999. The anti-gun hit piece titled "Get a Handle on Guns" uses a series of misleading statements and outright lies to push a misinformed agenda. By making the claim that guns and alcohol don't mix, the author tries to imply that legislators are advocating...

Republican AG candidate told he will not be on the ballot vs. anti-gun Mike DeWine

3:01pm Monday, March 08, 2010
By Chad D. Baus Gun owners and other voters opposed to the resurgence of Mike DeWine in Ohio politics have been put on quite a roller-coaster ride in recent weeks. On January 25, Ohio GOP chair Kevin DeWine worked to orchestrate an unopposed primary for his anti-gun cousin Mike by enticing pro-gun candidate Dave Yost to drop out of the race for Attorney General. Less than two weeks later, on...

Buckeye Firearms Association's Ken Hanson & Jim Irvine on Armed American Radio

2:10pm Saturday, March 06, 2010
Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chairman Ken Hanson was a guest on the Armed American Radio Network Sunday, March 7 at 8:30 p.m. Ken discussed the McDonald v. City of Chicago oral arguments , as well as his candidacy for NRA Board of Directors with Armed American Radio (AAR) host Mark Walters in conjunction with the United States Concealed Carry Association. Buckeye Firearms Association...

WANTED: People Who Like to Attend Gun Shows

3:00pm Friday, March 05, 2010
Do you like guns and the camaraderie of gun shows? Are you interested in talking about politics and politicians? Do you have a few weekends free between now and November? If so, here's a unique opportunity! Buckeye Firearms Association needs to recruit several teams of volunteers to work at gun shows from now through the November elections.

Feds funding Ohio study that could lead to regulating shooting ranges in attempt to decrease suicide rates

7:00am Friday, March 05, 2010
In most cases, suicide is a solitary event and yet it has often far-reaching repercussions for many others. It is rather like throwing a stone into a pond; the ripples spread and spread. - Alison Wertheimer, "A Special Scar" By Chad D. Baus According to a recent cover story by Steph Greegor in Columbus' The Other Paper , two incidents of suicide that have been carried out at an Ohio shooting...

Townhall meeting: Patriots rally in support of the Second Amendment Marches

7:00am Thursday, March 04, 2010
By Nick Arnold On February 20th, over 40 local patriots rallied at Black Wing Shooting Center in Delaware, OH to support the Ohio and national Second Amendment Marches. Literature and promotional material regarding the marches and trip-planning information was disseminated to the participants. Buckeye Firearms Association volunteers Steve Loos and Sara Arnold, along with myself, welcomed guests...

USSA: Anti-hunting legislator likely head of key House committee for sportsmen

3:00pm Wednesday, March 03, 2010
The next chairman of a key house committee with oversight over federal funding for wildlife conservation has a long history of opposing hunting, trapping, and gun ownership. U.S. Representative Jim Moran (D- VA) is expected to be named Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies. This subcommittee oversees funding for the Department of...

Athens News editor corrects false comments about Buckeye Firearms Association after readers respond

7:00am Wednesday, March 03, 2010
By Chad D. Baus On Thursday, February 25, Athens News editor Terry Smith, who also teaches journalism courses at Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, published an editorial on the topic of the state and national tea party movement in which he encouraged Congressman Democrat Zack Space to refuse an invitation to appear at an event. While the greater scope of Smith's article falls...

McDonald v. City of Chicago oral arguments transcript released

2:43pm Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Download our pdf to read the transcript of oral arguments in McDonald v. City of Chicago . . The Court has refused a media request to promptly release the audiotape. Analysis from Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson, the attorney of record for Buckeye Firearms Foundation, which filed friend-of-the-court briefs in both the McDonald and Heller Supreme Court cases, is...

SCOTUSBlog.com post-hearing analysis: Second Amendment extension likely

12:15pm Tuesday, March 02, 2010
By Lyle Denniston The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed poised to require state and local governments to obey the Second Amendment guarantee of a personal right to a gun, but with perhaps considerable authority to regulate that right. The dominant sentiment on the Court was to extend the Amendment beyond the federal level, based on the 14th Amendment's guarantee of "due process," since doing so...

Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray defends Second Amendment rights against cities like Cleveland and Columbus

12:06pm Tuesday, March 02, 2010
By Chad D. Baus As we reported last November, Attorney General Richard Cordray is a co-sponsor on an amicus brief in landmark gun rights case heard earlier today by the United States Supreme Court. The brief, which Cordray's office and its counterpart in Texas led the writing of and which was signed by 38 state attorneys general, argues that these rights should be protected from undue...

Op-Ed: Will the Supreme Court Recognize the Truth About Chicago's Handgun Ban?

7:00am Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Editor's Note: The United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in the Second Amendment case, McDonald, et al., v. Chicago, et al. (08-1521). The Court has refused a media request to promptly release the audiotape. The written transcript of today's argument will be released later in the day. The argument is scheduled for one hour, starting at 10 a.m. Check back for more coverage...

Ohio's white-tailed deer hunters have a successful season

3:00pm Monday, March 01, 2010
Hunters kill more than 260,000 deer for the first time A total of 261,314 deer were killed during Ohio's 2009-10 hunting season, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. This season's total surpasses the 2008-09 record total of 252,017. "Ohio deer hunters had another great year and continue to play a vital role in managing Ohio's deer herd. They've...

Homeowner defends self when men invade his home; Toledo Blade describes robber as the "victim"

7:00am Monday, March 01, 2010
vic·tim    [vik-tim] –noun 1. a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency By Chad D. Baus A north Toledo homeowner and concealed handgun license (CHL)-holder was the victim of an attempted home robbery last week, and yet in an article covering the homeowner's act of defending himself and shooting two intruders, the Toledo Blade refers only to the dead robber as a "victim...

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