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A "Constitutional solution to guns" in search of a problem

by Gerard Valentino
7:00am Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Editor's Note: The Following op-ed was submitted to the Cincinnati Enquirer in response to yet another anti-Second Amendment op-ed published recently by that newspaper, entitled " Constitutional solution to guns ." The editors didn't give Valentino the courtesy of a reply. Despite self-identifying as a “retired writer,” which implies a level of professionalism, Rick Ellison’s recent editorial...

Flawed Study from the Prestigious Lancet Exposes Broader Problems in Anti-gun Research

3:00pm Monday, March 21, 2016
The anti-gun press couldn’t contain their excitement. A new study published in the UK’s prestigious The Lancet medical journal purported to show that certain gun control measures could lead to incredible reductions in the firearm mortality rate. CNN blared, “Study: 3 federal laws could reduce gun deaths by more than 90%,” the L.A. Times touted, “Aiming to drive down gun deaths? Put these three...

Headline: "Columbine survivor, now a lawmaker, pushes to legalize guns in schools"

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, March 21, 2016
USA Today reported recently that Colorado State Rep. Patrick Neville, a survivor of the Columbine High School shooting, has introduced a bill that would allow guns in Colorado schools. According to the article, Neville was a student at Columbine on April 20, 1999, when two peers opened fire, killing 13 people. From the article : “The only thing that is going to stop murderers intent on doing harm...

Second Amendment as Second-Class Right? A Dismal Warning

3:00pm Friday, March 18, 2016
A case involving the scope of firearm prohibitions prompted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to break his more than decade-long silent streak on the bench. Justice Thomas last asked a question in February 2006, but he made headlines on February 29 by asking a question during oral argument in the case of Voisine v. United States. Unfortunately, commentators seized on the fact that he spoke at...

Headline: Bank suddenly closes gun dealer’s accounts

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, March 18, 2016
The Post of Medina, OH recently reported that a local firearms dealer and auctioneer was surprised to find his bank accounts with FirstMerit to be closed recently. From the article : Citing “risky business practices,” FirstMerit Bank ceased its relationship with Russ Farnsworth, of Montville Township, solely because he sold guns for hunting and sport online, he said. Farnsworth said he received a...

Have you registered for our annual Fun Shoot on Saturday, June 11? It's ONLY $5 to shoot ALL DAY!

3:00pm Thursday, March 17, 2016
Register Now! You read that right. Every year, our Foundation sponsors an all-day Fun Shoot to say "Thank You" for your generous support throughout the year. We rent out the range at Dillon Sportsman Center and invite YOU to spend the day with us. No politics. Just fun, food, and friends. And all we ask is that you donate $5 per person to cover a portion of the cost for range rental, clays, and...

Obama SCOTUS nominee has ‘very liberal view of gun rights’

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, March 17, 2016
Amidst the excitement from many about the opportunity to elect the first black President in 2008, and amidst many gun owners' decision to sit out the 2012 election due to the sketchy record of Mitt Romney on guns, there were loud warnings from groups like Buckeye Firearms Association and the National Rifle Association that an Obama presidency could mean the end of the Second Amendment. Those...

Ohio CHL-holder detains home-invasion suspects for police

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Details are still sparse, but WBNS (Columbus CBS) is reporting that a Cosochton County CHL-holder who arrived home and interrupted a home invasion in progress was able to detain two of the four suspects for police. From the article : According to the Coshocton County Sheriff’s Office, a 911 call was placed about a home invasion last Friday on County Road 23. While officers were on their way, the...

Buckeye Firearms Association PAC endorsees and A-rated candidates perform well in primary

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Buckeye Firearms Association PAC endorsees had a strong performance in Tuesday's primary. On the Republican side, BFA PAC endorsed in six contested Ohio Senate races, and endorsees won five. BFA PAC endorsed in 12 Ohio House races and endorsees won nine. In races where BFA PAC graded but did not endorse, A or Aq-rated candidates won in 2 contested Senate contests, and 5 contested House races. On...

To the Editor: Politically motivated gun control

3:00pm Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Editor's Note: The following letter to the editor of the Toledo Blade was published in response to that newspaper's latest anti-Second Amendment editorial entitled " Local gun control ," which sought to prop up a push by a Cincinnati city council member to overturn Ohio's statewide preemption of local gun control laws. Because The Blade heavily edited the original letter, the entire thing is...

BFA-PAC highlights 2016 Primary endorsements; VOTE TODAY! POLLS ARE OPEN!

7:00am Tuesday, March 15, 2016
VOTE TODAY! The Buckeye Firearms Association Political Action Committee (BFA-PAC) is asking voters to consider its endorsements for a host of local, statewide and federal offices before heading to the polls in the March 15, 2015 primaries. As a political action committee, BFA has been issuing endorsements in every election season for the past ten years. Through a system of weighing candidate...

Has the VA Deprived You of Your Second Amendment Rights? NRA Wants to Hear From You!

3:00pm Monday, March 14, 2016
As we have reported several times in the past, the Veterans Administration (VA) has been reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) the identities of its beneficiaries who have been assigned a “fiduciary” to manage their benefits. The VA claims that such determinations constitute an “adjudication of mental defectiveness” under federal law, thereby prohibiting the...

No, Hillary, the Firearms Industry Isn't Immune from Liability

7:00am Monday, March 14, 2016
NSSF Corrects the Record on Firearms Industry Liability NEWTOWN, Conn. - The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), the trade association for the firearms industry, issued a statement today to correct the record and refute ongoing misrepresentation of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) by Hillary Clinton. In a Democratic presidential primary debate in Michigan, Mrs...

Band Member Targeted in Paris Terror Attacks Stresses Importance of Armed Self-Defense

3:00pm Friday, March 11, 2016
[Recently], heavy metal rock group Eagles of Death Metal made a triumphant return to Paris. The American band performed before a sold-out crowd at the city’s Olympia music hall only three months after terrorist gunmen attacked an Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan theater, killing 89. By all accounts the concert was an enormous success, but even before the band took the stage, Eagles...

West Virginia Legislature Overrides Veto of Constitutional Carry Bill

7:00am Friday, March 11, 2016
FAIRFAX, Va. - The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) applauds the West Virginia state legislature for overriding Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s veto of HB 4145, making constitutional carry the law in West Virginia. “Self-defense is a fundamental right that must be respected,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director, NRA-ILA. “Law-abiding West Virginians are now free...

February 2016 firearms sales jump 16.2% over prior year

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Thursday, March 10, 2016
As we predicted last month, sales of firearms continue to rise in the wake of the December 2 terrorist attack in San Bernadino, CA and President Obama's latest attempts to intimidate peaceable gun owners through executive actions. The February 2016 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,487,871 is an increase of 16.2 percent compared to the February...

The Advent of Mobile Killers (An Observation About Two Recent Active Killer Events)

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Thursday, March 10, 2016
Within the last two weeks there have been two very high profile active killer events in the United States. The first was when an Uber driver shot eight people in Michigan . The second was when a lawnmower manufacturing worker shot 17 people in Kansas . Even though the two killings had nothing to do with each other and were thousands of miles apart, the killers used similar tactics. The tactics...

Remember Justice Scalia when you go to the polls

3:00pm Wednesday, March 09, 2016
If Barack Obama and those like him fail in their goal of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” it will be in large part because of United States Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia. Sadly, Justice Scalia passed away [recently]. Since his nomination to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Justice Scalia championed the view that the U.S...

Headline: "Despite pledge, Obama endorses pro-gun Strickland for Senate"

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, March 09, 2016
In October 2008, less than a month before voters would go to the polls to chose between Senators Barack Obama (D) and John McCain (R) to become president, then-Governor Ted Strickland (D), the NRA "A"-rated governor who is also a former Buckeye Firearms Association endorsee, told the press that "as a result of direct conversations that I've had with Barack Obama, if you are a sportsman, if you...

M855 – A One-Year Retrospective

3:00pm Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Remember a year ago – February 13, 2015, to be precise – when the Obama administration presented a convoluted rationale by which M855, the second most popular variety of ammunition used in the nation’s most popular rifle, was to be banned? At the time, Obama’s White House spokesman said that banning M855 would be a “common sense step” about which “everyone should agree.” Banning the ammunition...

Your Tactical Training Scenario - Robbery Turns Into Hostage Taking

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Tuesday, March 08, 2016
You and a co-worker are working late into the night. As you open the door to leave, a man bursts in and holds a gun to your head. He marches you and the co-worker to a different part of the building where the safe is located. The attacker thinks that another worker will be coming to deposit money into the safe, so he holds you there at gunpoint. After 20 minutes, the other worker hasn’t arrived...

Students: Apply Now for 2016-2017 $1,000 CMP Scholarships

by Ashley Brugnone
3:00pm Monday, March 07, 2016
CAMP PERRY, OH – The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) is proud to again award exemplary student-athletes in their future endeavors through its annual scholarship program for the 2016-2017 school year. The CMP offers $1,000 one-year scholarships based on merit and rifle or pistol marksmanship participation to current high school seniors. Last year, the CMP received 256 scholarships – setting...

Headline: Experiment Shows Differences Between Children With Guns in the Home and Those Without

7:00am Monday, March 07, 2016
An experiment held in Iowa by police officers and parents had some interesting findings. Police put a fake gun which could not be fired in a room and then let eight children into the room. It took a child just 15 seconds to find the gun. With parents and law enforcement watching, the children were passing the fake weapon around, aiming it and attempting to shoot it. While the result might not be...

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones calls on people to demand armed presence in schools

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, March 04, 2016
Less than 24 hours after shots rang out in the cafeteria of Madison Jr./Sr. High School, Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones took to the airwaves to discuss the events that transpired, and called upon parents and teachers to demand armed school resource officers or teachers. During the interview, Jones said he that the school employs one uniformed school resource officer (SRO), and that the SRO...

Op-Ed: Kent school board made foolish decision not to learn about violence

by Jim irvine
7:00am Friday, March 04, 2016
Editor's Note: The Following op-ed was published in the New Haven Register (New Haven, CT) in response to an editorial praising a Connecticut Board of Education's rejection of a proposal to consider implementing Buckeye Firearms Foundation's FASTER Saves Lives program. A recent editorial declared that “Kent school board made the smart decision not to arm teachers.” (02/13/2016) The school and...

Ohio Wildlife Council Receives 2016-2017 Deer Hunting Proposals

3:00pm Thursday, March 03, 2016
COLUMBUS, OH – Proposals for Ohio’s 2016-2017 deer season dates and bag limits to remain mostly unchanged were presented at [the recent] Ohio Wildlife Council meeting, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). Among the noteworthy proposals was to move the two-day deer-gun season to Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 28-29. Overview of proposed deer hunting seasons for 2016-2017:...

"The Rest of the Story" on Constitutional "modernization" panel's attempts to "clarify" the right to bear arms

by Judge Pat Fischer
7:00am Thursday, March 03, 2016
Editor's Note: In the summer of 2014, Buckeye Firearms Association became aware that an obcure commission was considering "modernizing" Ohio's constitution when it comes to the right to bear arms. We provided a number of articles on the subject (see here and here and here ) which were intended to shed a great deal of light on workings of this commission. The following, written by one of the...

NRA Election: Nugent, Norquist and my Bullet Vote

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Jeff Knox urges members to cast ballot for just 1 man in race for 25 seats Every year the NRA elects one third of its 76-member Board of Directors to a three-year term, plus one to a one-year term, and every year I share my thoughts on the candidates. Only Life Members and Annual Members with at least five consecutive years of membership are eligible to vote. Those members will have received a...

Forming a Church Safety Team

by Ron Borsch
7:00am Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Editor's Note: Early last year, Rep. Ron Maag (R-Lebanon) introduced HB 48 , which sought to remove places of worship from the list of "no-guns" victim zones. Before it was allowed a floor vote, however, the Republican-led House State Government committee adopted substitute language which stripped the fix for places of worship from the bill. How did it get this bad in the Buckeye State, where,...

Annual Attorney General Summary on Concealed Carry: 2015 marks second-busiest year on record

by Jim Irvine
3:00pm Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the Concealed Handgun License (CHL) statistics for the fourth quarter of 2015 and the annual report. 2015 saw another increase in demand. It replaced 2014 as the second busiest year (behind 2013) in the history of the concealed carry program, ending with a record 491,000 Ohioans licensed to discretely carry firearms. Demand for CHLs finished the...

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