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Op-Ed: How the Firearms Industry Leads the Way on Gun Safety And What the Anti-Gun Activists Won’t Acknowledge

by Larry Keane
3:00pm Thursday, May 08, 2014
...Last [month], Michael Bloomberg re-launched his ongoing anti-gun effort, this time calling it Everytown for Gun Safety . The group claims to support a platform of issues for which the firearms industry has consistently been an advocate including reducing illegal gun trafficking and educating parents about the safe storage of guns. Essentially, this organization and others like it misleadingly...

Headline: Gun Rights Group Blasts Rules On Firearms In Foster, Childcare Homes

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, May 08, 2014
The Gongwer News Service reported recently on testimony offered in Columbus by Buckeye Firearms Association President Jim Irvine. From the article : Rules prescribing safety measures for foster parents were delayed this week after gun advocates warned that restrictions on firearm storage would likely be found unconstitutional. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services' foster care rules were...

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Southwest Ohio club has something for every shooter

by Larry S. Moore
3:00pm Wednesday, May 07, 2014
I've been shooting at Clinton County Farmers and Sportsmen Association (CCF&SA) occasionally for over twenty years. Every trip has been a pleasurable experience even if my scores were not as good as hoped. The friendly atmosphere of the organization was re-enforced when I visited the annual club open house. Mike Adams, who is the current President CCF&SA, explains, "Good things are...

Purdue Univ. researcher: More guns in schools equal fewer deaths

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, May 07, 2014
Professor Eric Dietz, Ph.D., the former director of Homeland Security for the state of Indiana and 22-year Army veteran, has released research showing that more guns in schools equal fewer deaths during active shooter situations. As reported by The Blaze.com, Dietz, now a professor at Purdue University and director of the school’s Homeland Security Institute, could be the guy who — once and for...

Ted Nugent at 2014 NRA Annual Meetings: "The freest man in America"

by Clarke Payne
3:00pm Tuesday, May 06, 2014
Uncle Ted gets standing ovation for gun ownership, traditional family values INDIANAPOLIS - Ted Nugent proclaimed the whole world sucked, but America did not suck that much, and with his blood brothers in Indy, it did not suck at all. One of the good guys, as the late Charlton Heston once called him, Nugent talked to a couple thousand of believers at the 2014 NRA Convention on Sunday, April 27...

REMINDER: Vote TODAY in the Buckeye State!

6:00am Tuesday, May 06, 2014
Tuesday, May 6 is Election Day in Ohio! Because voter turnout in primary elections is historically quite low, die-hard gun owners who Vote Freedom First are able to have an even bigger impact on election results. When one considers that the number of hunters, sportsmen, CHL-holders, NRA members, Buckeye Firearms Association donors and Second Amendment supporters in Ohio approaches 1 million...

Review: The 2014 NRA Annual Meetings

by Jim Irvine
3:00pm Monday, May 05, 2014
I attended the 2014 NRA Annual Meetings in Indianapolis, Indiana. Having attended these events for over a decade it is amazing how much they have grown in popularity. This years attendance was 75,267 fellow patriots. The Foundation dinner Thursday night was a huge gathering of thousands of like-minded patriots at the Lucas oil stadium, home to the Indianapolis Colts. This included dinner, silent...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. President Jim Irvine appears on The Daily Show

7:00am Monday, May 05, 2014
Buckeye Firearms Association President Jim Irvine appeared on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on April 29, 2014. The segment was part of comedy show's coverage of the 2014 NRA Annual Meetings held in Indianapolis. The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , Indecision Political Humor , The Daily Show on Facebook Are they biased against gun rights? Sure. Do they make fun...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc.'s Joe Eaton to participate in roundtable discussion at Dayton Peace Museum

3:00pm Friday, May 02, 2014
Buckeye Firearms Association's Treasurer Joe Eaton will be participating in a roundtable discussion on the proposed changes to Ohio's self-defense laws on Saturday May 3 at the Dayton Peace Museum ( www.daytonpeacemuseum.org ). Rep. Fred Strahorn (D-39) and others are scheduled to also participate in the discussion. This roundtable discussion will take place at 2:00pm as part of the current...

New name, same lie: Bloomberg gun control group loses board member after misrepresenting group's intentions

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, May 02, 2014
According to former members , as well as internal emails obtained by Buckeye Firearms Association and MediaTrackers.org, anti-gun-rights billionaire Michael Bloomberg's now-defunct gun control group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), sought to gain members by intentionally deceiving them on what the group was actually all about. Many mayors, both here in Ohio and across the nation, dropped out...

Firearms Industry Honors U.S. Rep. Bob Latta as 2013 Legislator of the Year

3:00pm Thursday, May 01, 2014
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry, honored U.S. Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio) as NSSF's 2013 Legislator of the Year at the organization's recent annual dinner in Washington, D.C., preceding the firearms industry's annual Congressional Fly-In. "We salute Congressman Latta for his...

Report: 10 years later - fewer restrictions, more concealed guns

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, May 01, 2014
Though the establishment media largely failed to mark the tenth anniversary of Ohio's concealed handgun licensure law on April 8, Gannett Company, publisher of a number of Ohio newspapers as well as USAToday , has finally published two lengthy articles to mark the event. The first article is entitled " 10 years later - fewer restrictions, more concealed guns ": When Ohio passed a law allowing...

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