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Where’s the media outrage over Fast and Furious?

3:00pm Wednesday, August 31, 2011
By Tim Inwood After discovering that a friend had no idea what I was talking about when mentioning "Operation Fast and Furious" and "Project Gunrunner," I find myself disgusted with the lousy job the press has done covering this major scandal. CNN is usually on in his workplace, yet he had no clue. In the past, minor issues like Valerie Plame became huge national scandals. However, what might...

Public records show scant participation in Cleveland's voluntary gun registration scheme; Police unaware of any crimes solved

7:00am Wednesday, August 31, 2011
by Larry S. Moore On May 25, 2011, the City of Cleveland finally lost in the attempt to be a medieval city/state and continue to flaunt Ohio's statewide preemption of gun laws. However, since the city leadership never met a gun control scheme they didn't like, they soon concocted a voluntary handgun registration program . The process involved: Applicants will need to bring a photo identification...

Canton officer who threatened to execute concealed handgun license-holder now under investigation for THIRD violent outburst

3:00pm Tuesday, August 30, 2011
by Chad D. Baus Officer Daniel Harless, who is currently under investigation for threatening to execute a concealed handgun license-holder during a traffic stop, and for a separate incident in which he threatened to send the suspects "to the grave" if they moved, adding, "I will shoot you in the face and I'll go to sleep tonight," is now also under investigation for a THIRD incident which was...

Society of Professional Journalists ethics committee chair takes dim view of advocacy journalism at Columbus Dispatch and beyond

7:00am Tuesday, August 30, 2011
by Chad D. Baus In the wake of a series of articles, entitled "Overrun by guns" , written by Theodore Decker and published in The Columbus Dispatch in late May, I exposed the fact that the articles were bought and paid for by the anti-gun rights Joyce Foundation, and were in fact written with the goal of having a "major public policy impact" on gun violence in Ohio. In that article, I noted that...

Families offered free day at the range

3:00pm Monday, August 29, 2011
Family Outdoor Skills Day September 17th The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife is sponsoring a Family Outdoor Skills Day on Saturday September 17, 2011. The event will feature shotgun, rifle, pellet gun and archery shooting activities and instruction. This family-friendly day will be held at Spring Valley Shooting Range in Greene County from noon to 5:00pm. All...

Questioning “No Questions Asked” - Are Gun-Surrender Gimmicks Legal?

7:00am Monday, August 29, 2011
by Jeff Knox For decades we've heard about gun turn-ins – "Gun Buy-Back" programs sponsored by churches, civic groups, and various other misinformed do-gooder organizations. The very name – buy-back – implies that guns belong not to individuals, but to the government, or at least to the people who don't like guns. The programs have the stated purpose of "getting guns off the street," which seems...

ATF Rewards Agents Who Ran "Fast and Furious" and Then Helped Cover It Up

3:00pm Friday, August 26, 2011
In what can only be described as "Washington D.C. logic," the three BATFE agents who were responsible for the "Fast and Furious" debacle in Phoenix have been promoted. You read that right, promoted! Not reprimanded, not demoted and certainly not fired, but given bigger jobs with more responsibility and more pay. Each of the agents now have high profile positions in D.C. William Newell is now...

The Myth of the “Warning Shot”

7:00am Friday, August 26, 2011
by Ken Hanson, Esq. One of the first things I point out to concealed carry classes is "I don't need to make any of this stuff up." The real world we live in is so much more bizarre than anything I can make up. My book, the Ohio Guide to Firearm Laws, is now out in a Fourth Edition. Something I have been writing about for years, in the past and current editions, is the myth of the warning shot...

Distortion in the Courts - Judges display little respect for Second Amendment rights

3:00pm Thursday, August 25, 2011
by Jeff Knox It can be argued that the only personal property specifically protected by the US Constitution is firearms. While the Fourth Amendment promises " the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects " and requires a sworn warrant " describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized, " it does specifically allow for such seizure...

An Open Letter To All Urban Residents – And Especially Jews

7:00am Thursday, August 25, 2011
by Rabbi Dovid Bendory, Rabbinic Director, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership The mainstream media is doing its best to belittle a dangerous trend in America today: the "flash mob" of "youths." The term "flash mob" originally referred to groups of peaceful citizenry who gathered for what are best called "social experiments" – jovial sing-alongs and dance-alongs and other forms of...

Repeal False Gun Free School Zone Act

3:00pm Wednesday, August 24, 2011
by Jeff Knox Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) has introduced a bill (HR-2613) to repeal the federal Gun Free School Zone Act. While many in the general public and the gun prohibition community will balk and ask questions like, "What does anyone need with a gun at a school," knowledgeable rights supporters are wondering why it has taken so long. The Gun Free School Zone Act, or GFSZA for short, was...

Victims of attempted armed robbery fight back in Columbus and Cincinnati

7:00am Wednesday, August 24, 2011
by Chad D. Baus Columbus police say a man who died on August 10 was attempting to rob someone when he was fatally shot by the intended victim. From WCMH, Columbus' NBC affiliate : According to Columbus police, the shooting occurred in the 700 block of Sullivant Avenue at 8:48 p.m. Monday. Officers found Mario Williams, 22, suffering from a gunshot wound. He was transported to Mount Carmel...

To the Editor: Plain Dealer overstates dangers of kids and guns

3:00pm Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The following letter to the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer was submitted by Buckeye Firearms Foundation Board of Directors member Gerard Valentino in response to an editorial entitled " Kids and guns are a tragic mix ." To the editor: Monday's editorial "Kids and guns are a tragic mix" takes a shallow look at the problem of how children are killed in America today. According to the Centers...

State Medical Board votes to allow its investigators to carry guns

3:00pm Monday, August 22, 2011
by Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch reported recently that the State Medical Board, responsible for licensing and disciplining physicians, has voted to allow its investigators can carry guns. From the article : The board agreed unanimously today that the 20 state investigators have a right to protect themselves against threats on the job. Safety has become a larger concern as investigations of...

Attorney General announces Second Quarter 2011 CHL statistics; Ohio Concealed Carry numbers hits new record

7:00am Monday, August 22, 2011
by Jim Irvine Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the concealed handgun license (CHL) statistics for the second quarter of 2011. At the end of June, we set another all-time record of approximately 243,121 Ohio residents licensed to carry concealed firearms. (See chart) There were 14,594 new CHLs, 19 temporary emergency licenses (TELs) issued and 749 licenses renewed in the April...

UK Mayhem Leaves Disarmed Citizens at the Mercy of Criminals

3:00pm Friday, August 19, 2011
By now you have seen the headlines and images of destruction: the rioting, looting, violent assaults, and arson. London and other UK cities look like war zones and their citizens are afraid to venture out, because the danger is very real. It's a view of the temporary breakdown of society. It is gut check time; a time when the concept of being able to defend oneself gives way to the stark reality...

Dayton gun show arrests are proof that pro-gun rights advocates are right

7:00am Friday, August 19, 2011
by Gerard Valentino Recently, at a gun show in Dayton, Ohio several people were arrested for violating the law by buying a gun when they knew it was illegal for them to do so. As usual, the media tried to hang the arrests on gun show promoters and stirred up discussion about the mythical gun show loophole. From the article : "The gun show loophole is a deadly serious problem — and this undercover...

Op-Ed: Bloomberg Will Not Rest In His War On Firearm Freedoms

3:00pm Thursday, August 18, 2011
A look at how this billionaire bankrolls his vision of a disarmed citizenry by Raquel Okyay Philanthropist and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg​ is the kind of anti-freedom politician every gun owner should despise. Whether it is the food we eat or the kind of car we drive, Bloomberg likes to stick his nose in other people's business, and tell us what to do. Bloomberg's viewpoints are not...

Report: Firearm background checks up 17.7% in 2011 - Record number tied to politics, economy

7:00am Thursday, August 18, 2011
by Chad D. Baus As regular readers of BuckeyeFirearms.org are aware, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) firearms sales checks have seen a steady increase for more than a year. The Ohio media are now catching on to this trend as well, thanks to a Dayton Daily News article published on August 17. From the article : The record number of firearm background checks performed by...

Headline: Camp Perry is on target with national shooters

3:00pm Wednesday, August 17, 2011
The News-Herald of Willoughby, OH has published an excellent article on the World Series of shooting sports that occurs here in the Buckeye State each and every summer. From the article : The light popping sound was coming from slow-moving lead projectiles released from their brass prisons and sent sailing down steel tubes. Looking at the long row of nearly 200 rimfire shooters indicated each...

It’s the Criminals, Stupid - Man is dead after City of Cleveland fails to get violent felon off the streets

7:00am Wednesday, August 17, 2011
by Ken Hanson, Esq. The Cleveland Plain Dealer is once again reporting on gun violence in Cleveland , and once again dedicating the majority of the ink to "getting the guns off the streets" and "prevention programs." In what I am sure is an unintended omission, this article makes reference to seven people shot in a 10 day span beginning July 26, 2011. Had The Plain Dealer extended their...

SAF/SCCC "Supporting Campus Concealed Carry" Forum in Washington D.C. airs live on C-SPAN

3:00pm Tuesday, August 16, 2011
On August 8, C-SPAN televised live video of a forum hosted by two groups that support giving college students the ability to carry a concealed weapon on campus. From the article : The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) argue that colleges would be safer if students were allowed to possess firearms. "Colleges have entered into an informal alliance...

Report: Gun crimes drop at Virginia bars and restaurants

7:00am Tuesday, August 16, 2011
by Chad D. Baus In the days before concealed carry became the law of the land in Ohio, opponents like the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence's Toby Hoover decried the proposed law , claiming that "If we have more use of guns, then we're going to have more people who are injured and die," and that "A person who has a gun sees danger. We will have more shootings, more accidents." During the debate...

Op-Ed: How an Imaginary Gun Saved My Life

3:00pm Monday, August 15, 2011
The following op-ed was originally published at Advocate.com . Repubilshed with permission of the author. by Jimmy LaSalvia Two years ago the federal government passed a law ostensibly aimed at preventing violent hate crimes against LGBT people. Many gay conservatives, including me, said at the time of its passage that the law would do nothing to actually prevent hate crimes. After this weekend,...

July sees 8.3% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 14th straight month over month increase

7:00am Monday, August 15, 2011
The July 2011 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 680,258 is an increase of 8.3 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 628,125 in July 2010. For comparison, the unadjusted July 2011 NICS figure of 1,147,355 is an increase of 8 percent over the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,062,886 in July 2010. This marks the 14th straight month-over-month...

The Criminal Steering of Gun Control

3:00pm Friday, August 12, 2011
by Ron Borsch World history tells us of tyrants and dictators that have deprived the populace of their God given rights, especially the right to keep and bear arms. The Jewish Defense League ( www.JDL.org ) has advised that everywhere in World history where genocide has been committed, the genocide was always preceded by disarming the population. The party or government responsible for disarming...

Dave Spaulding Fundraiser for Buckeye Firearms Foundation fun and successful

7:00am Friday, August 12, 2011
Dave Spaulding (l) and Officer Brian Buchanan (r) by Larry S. Moore "Be prepared to play an active role in your rescue" and "If you are not cheating then you are not trying hard enough" were two of the key points driven home by Dave Spaulding. It wasn't about the make, model, caliber or type of gun used but the mindset and skill of the person with the gun. The Buckeye Firearms Foundation fund...

Innovative, historically important "Tommy" gun born in Cleveland

3:00pm Thursday, August 11, 2011
The Cleveland Plain Dealer , in one installment of a series of articles highlighting inventions, ideas and and innovations that originated in Northeast Ohio, recently published an article noting that the Thompson submachine gun finds its origins in Cleveland. From the article : Betsy Hanak, of Concord Township, said her father, Theodore Eickhoff, who helped design the first Thompson submachine...

It's long past time to end "gun free" policies on U.S. military bases

7:00am Thursday, August 11, 2011
by Gerard Valentino Since 9/11, the American people rediscovered the value of the United States military and were reminded of the sacrifices made by military families. The fact that our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines accept the risk of death willingly is a testament to the American spirit. Their willingness to die in the name of liberty is also a living reminder of the same risk our...

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