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Op-Ed: New gun laws will do nothing to stop mass shooting attacks

3:01pm Tuesday, July 31, 2012
by John Lott In the wake of the Colorado tragedy, Democrats in Congress have wasted no time introducing new gun control legislation. Today, Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy introduced a bill that bans the sale of ammunition online and by mail. Last Thursday, six Senate Democrats proposed amending the cybersecurity bill to ban magazines holding more than 10 bullets. President Obama...

Should pistol caliber rifles be legalized for deer hunting in Ohio?

7:00am Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Editor's Note: The following article was originally published in the Ohio Farm Bureau's official newsletter, Buckeye Farm News. Republished with permission. Here's a debate taking place in Ohio's hunting community. Ohio Farm Bureau currently doesn't have a position on this issue. What do you think? Legalize pistol caliber rifles Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania all...

BATFE Continues Campaign Against Whistleblowers

3:00pm Monday, July 30, 2012
In their latest attempt to protect whistleblowers from BATFE reprisal, on July 18 Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) sent a letter to BATFE Acting Director B. Todd Jones, asking him to clarify the comments he made in a video message sent to agency employees. In the video, entitled "Choices and Consequences," Jones states, "Choices and consequences mean, simply, that if...

NRA Stops U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

7:00am Monday, July 30, 2012
U.N. ATT Conference Comes to an Impasse The Conference on the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (U.N. ATT) has broken down and will not report a draft treaty to the member nations. This is a big victory for American gun owners, and the NRA is being widely credited for killing the U.N. ATT. For nearly 20 years, the NRA has worked tirelessly to warn American gun owners about the United Nations’...

The U.N.’s Latest Attack on Liberty Arms Trade Treaty promises U.S. harm

3:00pm Friday, July 27, 2012
by Jeff Knox I have to admit that I was skeptical about the U.N. ever getting their act together enough to construct an Arms Trade Treaty that they could all agree on, but I underestimated the level of cooperation attainable by that body when their target is liberty. With the terrorist-exporting state of Iran in a leadership role, the committee has been plowing down obstacles and rapidly moving...

Obama announces he'll “leave no stone unturned” in seeking new measures to reduce gun violence in wake of Colorado mass murder

7:00am Friday, July 27, 2012
by Chad D. Baus and Jim Irvine Ask any politically-minded gun owner who stays abreast of current events why they believe Barack Obama is anti-gun, and they will quickly respond with a litany of reasons, dating from his days in Illinois as a state senator and Joyce Foundation board member, as well as his days in the U.S. Senate. Most will also be able to rattle off examples of President Obama's...

Buckeye Vintage Skeet Championships: A Step Back In Time

3:00pm Thursday, July 26, 2012
by Larry S. Moore Vintage is used to describe many things including wine, art, automobiles and firearms. For the Buckeye Vintage Skeet Championship, vintage is a step back in time for skeet shooters. Vintage skeet pays tribute to the heritage of skeet shooting and the fine shotguns of an earlier period. Vintage may define the best and most typical of an age. I like that definition for the sport...

Disinformation Continues as U.N. Arms Treaty Takes Shape

7:00am Thursday, July 26, 2012
In New York this week, the U.N. Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty continued trying to draft a treaty to impose worldwide controls on small arms, including civilian-owned firearms. The NRA has made clear its opposition to any treaty that includes civilian firearms, and continues to note that a majority of the United States Senate stands with American gun owners in opposition to such a treaty. We...

The National Matches are here!

3:00pm Wednesday, July 25, 2012
by Larry S. Moore The annual NRA and Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) National Matches are underway. The First Shot Ceremony was July 9 and was attended by dignitaries from across the state. Buckeye Firearms leaders Larry Moore, Sean Maloney and Linda Walker, who is also on the Board of Directors of the NRA, attended the event. Ohio House Representative Ron Maag was among the invited special...

How long is too long to wait to defend the Second Amendment?

7:00am Wednesday, July 25, 2012
by Chad D. Baus This year marks my tenth year as a Second Amendment writer. Throughout the years, I've covered far too many multiple victim public shootings. Buckeye Firearms Association has always sought to be sensitive to the fact that these aren't just news stories - they are real victims with real families grieving painful losses. Unfortunately, in the hyper (and hyper-political) news cycle...

Defending yourself against a spree killer like the one in Aurora, Colorado

7:00am Tuesday, July 24, 2012
by Jeff Thomas Before I share some thoughts on how to survive a spree killer situation such as the one in Aurora, Colo., last week, I think it's important to talk about one piece of information I'm hearing likely is true: The Century 16 movie theater where 12 were killed and 59 wounded by a heavily armed man in a "no-gun" zone. Obviously the "no-guns" sign did not stop the murderer. And just as...

Headline: Paraplegic man kills intruder during Johnstown home break-in

3:00pm Monday, July 23, 2012
The Newark Advocate is reporting that a paraplegic man is alive today thanks to the .357 revolver he keeps near his bed. From the article : John Mutter was asleep in his bed on Sunset Drive when an intruder poked him in the head with a shotgun. Mutter, a paraplegic who keeps a gun nearby for protection, fatally shot the intruder, early Sunday, Licking County Coroner's investigator George Ridgeway...

Yet another mass murder in "gun free" zone, but media fails to take note

7:00am Monday, July 23, 2012
by Chad D. Baus There is still much to be learned about the events that unfolded in that Aurora, CO Cinemark movie theatre early Friday morning, July 20, but as the media looks for answers, they are once again either missing or ignoring something that is consistent time and again with these multiple victim public shootings - they almost always happen in places where guns are banned. From...

NRA-ILA sets up Second Amendment Activist Centers throughout Ohio - ground zero in the 2012 presidential race

3:00pm Friday, July 20, 2012
Dear Second Amendment Supporters: The NRA-ILA has been busy visiting gun shops throughout the Buckeye State recruiting Second Amendment Activist Centers. These Centers provide NRA members and gun owners with NRA buttons, Fact Sheets on candidates, volunteer sign-up forms, and information on grassroots activities and events. We are asking all of you to visit your local Activist Center, pick up...

Headline: Pro-gun group uses Chicago firearms buyback program to fund shooting camp for kids

7:00am Friday, July 20, 2012
by Chad D. Baus FoxNews.com reported recently that a pro-gun group "flipped the script" on Chicago's firearms buyback program by selling old, broken rifles to the city and then using the money to buy guns and ammo for an NRA-sponsored shooting camp for kids. From the article : "Guns Save Life," based in Champaign, Ill., recently sold 60 firearms to the Chicago Police Department -- 10 of which...

Dept. of Defense again attempts to trample on Second Amendment rights of returning U.S. military troops

3:00pm Thursday, July 19, 2012
by Linda Walker If it was not enough that Marines were forced to disarm at their base at Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan this past March when Defense Secretary Leon Panetta paid a visit, I read with personal interest an article in regard to depressed returning troops recently posted at Military.com, entitled " DoD Could Renew Push to Restrict Personal Weapons ." According to the article "The...

Columbus pizza delivery driver with concealed handgun license defends against robbers

7:00am Thursday, July 19, 2012
WCMH (NBC Columbus) is reporting that a pizza delivery driver shot at two people who attempted to rob him on Monday evening. From the article : According to police, the Padova's Pizza Delivery driver was delivering a pizza when two men armed with shotguns approached him, in the 3000 block of Hatfield Dr., at about 11:45 p.m. Monday. The driver, who was licensed to carry a gun, told the men to...

BATFE Modifies Shotgun Import Ban Study, Still Gets It Wrong

3:00pm Wednesday, July 18, 2012
In January 2011, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released its "Study on the Importability of Certain Shotguns." Using the unconstitutional and oft-abused "sporting purposes" test as justification, BATFE concocted a list of ten popular shotgun features and determined that "shotguns containing any of these features are not particularly suitable for nor readily adaptable to...

Are environmentalists' anti-gun policies to blame for wildfires in the West?

7:00am Wednesday, July 18, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The headlines have echoed across the country: "Guns blamed for starting wildfires in parched West" According to the Associated Press, officials believe target shooting or other firearms use sparked at least 21 wildfires in Utah and nearly a dozen in Idaho. Shooting is also believed to have caused fires in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. In Utah, the AP says Republican Gov. Gary...

Tough love for the outdoor community: "You people need to figure out who your enemies are and you better do it right quick."

3:00pm Tuesday, July 17, 2012
by Rich Grassi Editor, The Tactical Wire Without descending into the current political morass of charge/counter-charge, extremist vs. extremist, agenda and charisma driven politics, I think it's time for a block of voters to coalesce - the people of the outdoors. Yes, it sounds like interest group politics. Extremist whack-job pseudojournalists who exist only in the NYC-DC Bubble and on our TV...

Attorney General Mike DeWine uses occasion of annual ice cream social to publicly announce support for HB495

7:00am Tuesday, July 17, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The many gun owners who accepted Buckeye Firearms Association's invitation to thank Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) for his work for gun owners in the AG's office by joining him and wife Fran at their Greene County home for an Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social on June 24 enjoyed more than an old fashioned country picnic complete with ice cream and homemade pies. During comments made...

Fast and Furious will prove worse than Watergate

3:00pm Monday, July 16, 2012
by Tim Inwood A few days ago Obama spokesman Jay Carney tried to tie Bush era operations like Wide Receiver with Operation Fast and Furious. If you watch something other than MSNBC you would know there is little in common between the Bush era operations and what Obama/Holder did. The fact is, in the other cases they were run like any other classic police show set up you have ever seen. Whether it...

Op-Ed: Fast and Furious Is Not a D.C. Law Firm

7:00am Monday, July 16, 2012
by Ann Coulter HumanEvents.com Most Americans don't care about whether Attorney General Eric Holder is hiding Fast and Furious documents because they don't understand the story. Until someone can tell us otherwise, there is only one explanation for why President Obama's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives gave thousands of guns to Mexican drug dealers: It put guns in their hands...

NRA sounds the warning about U.N. Arms Treaty

3:00pm Friday, July 13, 2012
Publicly, the Obama administration has played down its antipathy toward the Second Amendment. Privately, however, it has supported the single most dangerous anti-gun idea we have seen in our lifetime: The U.N. Arms Treaty, which carries the threat of doing an end run around the Constitution, allowing international gun-grabbing busybodies to attack the rights of law-abiding gun owners here in the...

June sees 24.5% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 25th straight month over month increase

3:00pm Thursday, July 12, 2012
The June 2012 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 846,437 is an increase of 24.5 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 679,840 in June 2011. For comparison, the unadjusted June 2012 NICS figure of 1,290,210 reflects an 11.4 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,157,714 in June 2011. This marks the 25th straight month that NSSF-...

Ohio CHL-holder files civil rights suit against Canton officer who threatened to execute him

7:00am Thursday, July 12, 2012
by Chad D. Baus William Bartlett, an Ohio concealed handgun license (CHL)-holder, has filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court against the City of Canton, the Canton police department, and against Daniel Harless and other officers involved in his arrest and prosecution for supposedly failing to promptly notify officers that he had a CHL. On June 8, 2011, Ohio concealed handgun license (CHL)-...

Op-Ed: D-Day for gun control

3:00pm Wednesday, July 11, 2012
by Dick Morris TheHill.com Without much fanfare and with as little publicity as possible, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will go to New York City to sign the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), now in the final stages of negotiation at the U.N. The treaty marks the beginning of an international crusade to impose gun controls on the United States and repeal our Second Amendment rights. The ATT is...

Contempt citation prompts Attorney Gen. Eric "Fast & Furious" Holder to unseal indictment charging five in Brian Terry's death

7:00am Wednesday, July 11, 2012
by Chad D. Baus In the wake of the BATFE's gun walking operation "Fast & Furious," which led to the death of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, and the subsequent cover-up by Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama, which has led to Holder being found in contempt of Congress less than two weeks ago, Holder has suddenly decided it would be a good idea to look like he...

U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations Underway

3:00pm Tuesday, July 10, 2012
As we reported last week, for nearly 20 years, the NRA has fought tirelessly to oppose any United Nations effort to undermine the constitutional rights of law-abiding American gun owners. That fight has grown more intense lately, as the U.N. and global gun banners have markedly stepped up their attack on our Second Amendment freedoms by including civilian arms in the proposed Arms Trade Treaty...

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