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Sheriff breaks up illegal Columbus-area CCW course certificate scheme

by Chad D. Baus WCMH (NBC Columbus) is reporting that three people are facing charges, accused of helping falsify licenses to carry a concealed handgun. From the article : According to Franklin County Sheriff Zach Scott, an undercover investigation began in April 2012 into the issuance of fraudulent training certificates to obtain a CCW permit. The sheriff's office said that through the...

U.S. Shooters Tally Four Olympic Medals

HANCOCK, GRAY AND EMMONS ADD MEDALS TO U.S. OLYMPIC EFFORT... Following the unprecedented achievement by Kim Rhode of individually medaling in five straight Olympic Games, three other Americans distinguished themselves by standing on the award-winners' podium. Vincent Hancock, gold medalist in the 2008 Olympics in Men's Skeet, became the first shotgun shooter to successfully defend a skeet title...

Op-Ed: Concealed weapons save lives

The evidence is clear: Massacres are stopped by legally armed citizens by John Lott [The] horrible shooting in Colorado occurred in yet another place where guns are banned. And that's consistent with a trend: With a single exception, every multiple-victim public shooting in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed since at least 1950 has taken place where citizens are not allowed...

Time Magazine editor-at-large admits "overwhelming sentiment" for "gun control" at most major news organizations

by Chad D. Baus Most gun owners who follow political issues closely already know how biased the establishment media are against guns, even though it isn't often a journalist actually admits it. But that is exactly what happened when Time Magazine editor-at-large Mark Halperin, appeared last week on MSNBC and confessed a broad media consensus to curtail gun rights: "If you walk the halls of most...

Pigs fly, it's snowing in Hell, the world as we know it has ended, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes a pro-gun op-ed

by Chad D. Baus The Cleveland Plain Dealer has a long history of fighting against Ohioans' right to keep and bear arms for self-defense, a right enumerated not just in the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment, but in our Ohio Constitution as well (Article 1, Section 4). In the years prior to passage of Ohio's concealed carry law, The Plain Dealer often utilized the editorial page, as well as the...

Buckeye Firearms Foundation Inc. Files Amicus Brief in Woollard Case

On August 6, 2012, Buckeye Firearms Foundation Inc., a 501(C)(3) Foundation supporting all legal uses of firearms, filed an Amicus Brief in a Maryland case that may well end up being the next U.S. Supreme Court case on gun rights. The case is Woollard et al v. Gallagher et al. Woollard is the gun owners' “side” of the case and they are represented by Alan Gura. The District Court ruled Maryland’s...

John Farquhar wins 2012 Zombie Apocalypse Gun & Gear Raffle

By Dean Rieck On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 John Farquhar of Mad Duck Firearms Training in West Elkton, OH won the $3,500 prize package for our first gun raffle, benefiting Buckeye Firearms Foundation. "I'm surprised I won," said John. "I bought several tickets, but I really just wanted to support the work of the Foundation. I had a little extra cash after completing one of my self-defense classes...

My Two days with Tactical Weapons Training Group

by Clint Lake Whenever you go to a new firearms training school for the first time you’re never too sure what to expect. Will the instructors gravitate toward a ‘Stalinist’ style of teaching where they dictate from on high, expecting the peons to accept their crumbs of wisdom? Or will the instructors lean toward the ‘Yoda-ist’ style of teaching where they teach from experience, with patience,...

Obama to 'evaluate' gun control laws proposed in wake of Colorado mass murder

by Chad D. Baus The Washington Times is reporting that President Obama is considering support for the latest legislative knee-jerk reaction to mass murder in a "no-guns" zone - a proposed ban on the sale of ammunition online and on standard capacity magazines (neither of which would have stopped the Aurora, CO spree killer). From the article : White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday that...

Columbus Mayor’s Office Conspired With Liberal Groups to Politicize School Shooting

by Jesse Hathaway Emails obtained by Media Trackers reveal that Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman’s office was conspiring to use the deaths of three high school students to limit Second Amendment rights within hours of the February 2012 shootings at Chardon High School. Coleman serves as the Ohio chair of Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), a gun-control lobbying group co-founded by New York City...

A gun would give victims a chance

The following op-ed by Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson was originally published by The Columbus Dispatch . Republished with permission. by Ken Hanson Shortly after midnight on July 20, 2012, James Holmes entered an Aurora, Colo., movie theater and allegedly committed mass murder. I join millions of American gun owners in extending condolences and support to the victims...

Letter from Rob Portman and 50 other Senators helps kill U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

by Dean Rieck By now you have undoubtedly heard that the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty is dead , for the time being at least. Many Second Amendment supporters can share credit for this victory, from the NRA who have been battling this liberty-threatening travesty for years down to individual gun owners who have been making calls to legislators. Some of the most effective opposition came from Ohio's own...

Op-Ed: When Guns Stopped A Massacre

by Dick Morris On February 12, 2007, a lone gunman, Sulejman Talovic opened fire at the crowded Trolley Square shopping mall killing five bystanders. Armed with a shotgun with a pistol grip, a 38-caliber handgun with rubber grips, and a backpack full of ammunition, he set forth on his rampage through the Mall. But he did not get as far as he had hoped. He was stopped when off-duty police officer...

One For the History Books

by Jim Shepherd The birds on the South Carolina marsh had to think I'd lost my mind yesterday morning. After quietly watching them do the things that birds do for over an hour, I suddenly jumped away from my camera, did a fist pump, and whooped like a madman. Twitter feeds had confirmed the results of an Olympic event I was too nervous to watch online: Kim Rhode had achieved her goal of becoming...

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