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Renovations for Shooting Ranges Announced

3:00pm Tuesday, March 10, 2015

COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Director James Zehringer and ODNR Division of Wildlife Chief Scott Zody announced that the department will be renovating firearms and archery shooting ranges across the state. Zehringer and Zody discussed the planned improvements during a recent tour of the Spring Valley Shooting Range in Waynesville. These improvement efforts have...

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Bloomberg's Anti-Gun "Grassroots Movement" Explained?

7:00am Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Does Michael Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety really have “two million members?” Is Moms Demand Action really “a powerful grassroots network of moms?” Or are these just front groups that consist of a handful of Bloomberg hirelings, pretending to represent more people than they do, to trick Americans into submitting to their fanatically-obsessed employer’s will? Investigative reporter Sharyl...

FASTER Saves Lives at BASA “Are you prepared?” conference

by Jim Irvine

3:00pm Monday, March 09, 2015

This week the Buckeye Association of School Administrators (BASA) holds its “Are you prepared?” school facilities and safety conference in Columbus, Ohio. FASTER Saves Lives will be on hand at booth 40 near the BASA registration desk. We will have trauma kits for review and will be discussing various ways to save lives before, during, and after an active killer event. School safety is a topic...

What HB 234 Means to You: Part III - 31+ round magazines & non-contiguous transfers

by Jim Irvine

7:00am Monday, March 09, 2015

On March 23, 2015 several changes to Ohio law that are of particular significance to Ohio gun owners will take effect. This article will look at a change in the definition of automatic firearms (31+ round magazines) and non-contiguous state transfers. Current law: ORC 2923.11 (E) "Automatic firearm" means any firearm designed or specially adapted to fire a succession of cartridges with a single...

Legislation Introduced to Break Administrative Choke Hold on Firearm and Ammunition Vendors

3:00pm Friday, March 06, 2015

In January, we reported on encouraging news that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) had taken steps to reassure banks that they are not categorically prohibited nor discouraged from servicing customers in the firearms and ammunition industries. Of course, the very fact that this should be considered newsworthy demonstrates just how bad the politically-motivated abuses of federal...

The difference between "qualification" and "training"

by Varg Freeborn

7:00am Friday, March 06, 2015

Let’s talk about the difference between “qualification” and “training”. Do you believe that because someone has taken a concealed carry course they are now proficient in employing a weapon safely and effectively in a fast moving deadly confrontation? Or that someone who has hunted and been a recreational shooter all of their life is thereby skillful enough to operate effectively in a gun fight?...

Pakistani Teachers Arm Themselves after Taliban School Massacre

3:00pm Thursday, March 05, 2015

Back in November, we reported on Israeli Public Security Minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, announcing a decision to relax the rules governing the carrying of firearms in the wake of the murder of four Orthodox Jewish men and a police officer in a West Jerusalem Temple by terrorists armed with knives, axes and a gun. We noted then that Israeli officials had rightly recognized the protective benefits...

FASTER ad running in Ohio School Board Association magazine

by Jim Irvine

7:00am Thursday, March 05, 2015

The Ohio School Board Association (OSBA) publishes a magazine for its members on a bi-monthly basis. Inside the back cover of the latest edition school administrators will find an ad for FASTER Saves Lives , sponsored by Buckeye Firearms Foundation. The idea for the ad came after attending the OSBA Capital Conference last November. It became apparent that most school officials have talked about...

Remaining Anti-Gunners in U.S. Senate Renew Push for Gun Control

3:00pm Wednesday, March 04, 2015

Anti-gun U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and U.S. Representative Elizabeth Esty (D-Conn.), have introduced their Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act (S. 407 and H.R. 752, respectively), in yet another attempt to ban magazines that accept more than 10 rounds. Similar legislation has been introduced in previous Congresses, and has repeatedly failed since the expiration of the Clinton “...

2014 Attorney General Summary on Concealed Carry: Program's second-busiest year ever

by Jim Irvine

7:00am Wednesday, March 04, 2015

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the Concealed Handgun License (CHL) statistics for the fourth quarter of 2014 and the annual report. 2014 was the second busiest year in the history of the concealed carry program, and ended with a record 438,000 Ohioans licensed to discretely carry firearms. Demand for CHLs finished the year strong, with demand increasing slightly over the prior...

Elderly homeowner defends life in daylight Columbus home invasion

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Tuesday, March 03, 2015

The Columbus Dispatch reported recently that an elderly homeowner was able to defend his own life when a convicted burglar decided to strike again. From the article : The North Side homeowner dialed 911 just after noon yesterday and gave his address. When asked what his emergency was, he replied, “Some ... some guy broke into my house, and I shot him.” ... Officers arrived to find the homeowner...

HB 78: "Universal" Background Checks gun control bill reintroduced in Ohio

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Judging by HB 78, one of his latest gun control bills introduced in the Ohio House, Rep. Bill Patmon (D) seems unable to grasp the idea that criminals do not typically submit themselves to background checks, and that even when a prohibited person is stopped by a background check procedure, no one prosecutes them for the crime they just committed. In the immediate aftermath of the terrible attack...

Rep. Patmon's HB 79: Retread legislation aimed at the wrong target

by Larry S. Moore

3:00pm Monday, March 02, 2015

Last year WKYC (NBC Cleveland) reporter Tom Meyer issued a very shoddy piece of investigative reporting . His headline blasted that felons are getting hunting licenses that allow them to use guns. The story was long on hype and even longer on misinformation. The most significant piece of bad information was the false assumption that purchasing a hunting license gives someone permission to use a...

Rep. Patmon's HB 75 (Mandatory "Safe" Storage of Firearms) is based on several anti-gun myths

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, March 02, 2015

Editor's Note: The following article was originally published in response to the introduction of Rep. Bill Patmon's HB 563 in the 129th General Assembly. That bill was never considered, and it died at the end of the session in 2012. Patmon reintroduced the bill as HB 31 in the 130th General Assembly. It again failed to be given serious consideration, and died at the end of 2014. Patmon has...