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WATCH: BFA's Gerard Valentino in TV debate on proposed constitutional amendment to restore local gun control

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, February 09, 2016
Recently, P.G. Sittenfeld, a Cincinnati City Councilman who is running for the Democratic nomination to U.S. Senate against former Governor Ted Strickland on a platform of gun control, staged a last-ditch effort to gain publicity for his underdog campaign by calling for a constitutional amendment to repeal Ohio's preemption law which prohibits cities from enacting laws that are more strict than...

When the Intruder is a Cop

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Monday, February 08, 2016
[Recently] at work I responded to an urgent call for backup. An armed homeowner pulled a gun on one of my fellow officers. In the end, everything turned out fine. No one got shot. By the time I arrived at the home, both officer and homeowner had secured their respective weapons and were talking peacefully. It was a tense situation for a few seconds and could have ended tragically. Here’s how it...

Virginia extends reciprocity deadline to March 1; Deal may overturn decision altogether

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, February 08, 2016
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's office recently notified Buckeye Firearms Association that it had received notification from the Commonwealth of Virginia indicating that state has extended the time before revoking concealed handgun license reciprocity Ohio and many other states to March 1. In the letter, dated January 29, the Superntendent of Department of State Police said that ongoing...

FASTER Saves Lives program recommended to be adopted at first Connecticut school

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, February 05, 2016
Just over three years after a deadly attack on an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut inspired Buckeye Firearms Foundation to begin a program to arm school faculty, news media in the Constitution State are reporting that the Foundation's FASTER Saves Lives program is being considered for adoption in a Kent, CT school just 40 miles from Sandy Hook Elementary. Created by concerned parents,...

Court Decision, Drug Lord’s Capture Illustrate Ongoing Fallout of Operation Fast & Furious

7:00am Friday, February 05, 2016
A sharp memory and respect for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms go hand in hand. The Second Amendment, after all, was written by those who had only recently fought their way to independence from a tyrannical monarchy that had ceased to recognize American colonists’ basic human and legal rights. Memories of King George III’s abuses of power, and particularly the Redcoats’ attempts to disarm the...

Criminal Weapon Selection: So much for the Saturday Night Special myth

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Thursday, February 04, 2016
I’ve written before about criminals and the guns they carry . My study was obviously limited by the relatively small number of guns my upscale suburban police department seizes. Other police departments seize far more guns than we do. Currently, the Chicago Police Department seizes the largest number of firearms used in crimes. I found this article to be incredibly interesting. It is a complete...

No Way Out: Feds Stop Processing NICS Denial Appeals

7:00am Thursday, February 04, 2016
As much as the Brady Campaign, Bloomberg’s Everytown, and the Obama administration contend that submitting oneself to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is a fast and simple process that does not significantly burden lawful firearms transferees, the fact is that for many of Americans that simply isn’t true. Each year thousands of Americans are wrongfully denied...

FBI: Number of reported rapes in the country rose 9.6% in 2015

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Wednesday, February 03, 2016
Editor's Note: Police in the hometown of Ohio University say there is a serial rapist on the loose in the southeastern Ohio college town of Athens. The victims were all young women walking home in the middle of the night. Ohio colleges and universities are currently barred by state law from allowing their students to exercise their Second Amendment rights. HB 48 seeks to change that . According...

Active killer murders four in Canada town, high school; President Obama silent

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, February 03, 2016
"This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries." - President Barack Obama In late January, a 17 year-old used a shotgun to shoot at least nine people in the remote northern Saskatchewan community of La Loche. Four are dead, including the attacker's two brothers, who he killed at home before going to the high school . The description of the attack at the school was sadly...

Op-Ed: Preserving Our Second Amendment Rights

by Judge Colleen Mary O'Toole
3:00pm Tuesday, February 02, 2016
As a judge on the Eleventh District Court of Appeals, covering northeastern Ohio, I often consider cases concerning our vital right to bear arms as established in the United States Constitution and as upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court the case of District of Columbia v. Heller . It is no coincidence that the right to bear arms is enshrined in the Second Amendment, which immediately follows the...

Cincinnati homeowner repeatedly dials 911; waits nearly an hour for help to arrive

7:00am Tuesday, February 02, 2016
The Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting that a couple and their 9 and 7 year-old daughters were forced to wait nearly an hour after dialing 911 while a disorderly man on their front porch grew increasingly disoriented and violent. From the article : Michelle Gardner...grew increasingly frightened as the disorderly man was kicking and hitting on her doors and windows at 4360 Hamilton Ave. with a...

Chief Justice Barack Obama?

3:00pm Monday, February 01, 2016
Here’s perhaps the most compelling argument we’ve heard against Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House. Continuing her streak of adopting terrible (and perhaps planted) suggestions raised at campaign stops, Clinton on Tuesday called the appointment of Barack Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court “a great idea,” according to anarticle in the Washington Examiner. Should that happen, Obama’s continued...

Why Gun Owners Distrust Obama

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Monday, February 01, 2016
Editor's Note: The following op-ed was published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Sunday, January 31. President Obama has expressed dismay that gun owners and Second Amendment advocacy groups such as Buckeye Firearms Association and the NRA don't trust him on the issue of gun control. He has even mocked gun owners as “conspiracy” minded and paranoid. But gun owners have many perfectly logical...

Another Ohio sheriff calls for citizens to obtain concealed carry licenses

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, January 29, 2016
In the days following the terrorist attack in San Bernadino, CA, several law enforcement officials across the nation, and at least two sheriffs in Ohio , made news by urging citizens to obtain concealed handgun licenses to protect against terror. A Buckeye Firearms Association supporter from Seneca County forwarded an article about this important turn of events to his sheriff, William Eckelberry...

Senate Candidate P.G. Sittenfeld (D) Proposes Ohio Constitutional Amendment to Infringe Constitutional Rights

7:00am Friday, January 29, 2016
COLUMBUS, OH - Working with anti-gun activists, U.S. Senate candidate P.G. Sittenfeld has called for a constitutional amendment to repeal Ohio's preemption law which prohibits cities from enacting laws that are more strict than state law. "It's a ridiculous proposal," said Dean Rieck, Executive Director of Buckeye Firearms Association. "Preemption was a solution to a serious problem in Ohio where...

Stay in the Fight: Practice Odd Position Shooting

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Thursday, January 28, 2016
It’s been a little more than five years since two officers were shot in a dramatic gunfight in a trailer park in Enon, Ohio. The gunfight is even more remarkable when considering that there was a photographer on scene taking photos as the shots rang out. This photo was taken as one of the officers was being shot and falling to the ground. Bullets generally don’t make people fall. They don’t knock...

State legislators get creative in highlighting gun ban extremists' hypocrisy

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, January 28, 2016
It isn't often that legislators get the opportunity to display gun ban extremists' hypocrisy so succinctly as they have in two recent examples, one in Virginia and one in South Carolina. First, there has been a lot of news coverage of a decision by Virginia's state's attorney general to rescind the reciprocity agreements between the Commonwealth and 25 other states, as well as a move a week...

Op-Ed: 90% Don’t Want More Background Checks

by John R. Lott, Jr.
3:00pm Wednesday, January 27, 2016
The number is far smaller, and Americans oppose Obama's gun control agenda Gun control advocates like President Obama keep claiming that 80 to 90 percent of Americans are in favor of expanded background check legislation. Only, it’s not true. Liberal fact checkers were less than thrilled with any objections to this false orthodoxy. PolitiFact’s Lauren Carroll cites a series of polls from...

Open Carry vs. Concealed Carry - A Question of Tactics

by Andrew Blubaugh
7:00am Wednesday, January 27, 2016
A very common question or debate is concerning the right to open carry firearms. Here in Ohio, it is legal. Texas just passed a law allowing open carry. Internet forums about firearms dedicate entire threads to the topic of open carry. My opinion begins with: open carry is not a right, it is a tactic. The 2nd Amendment covers my rights and to me it is very clear that I have the right to keep and...

HB 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) scheduled for sponsor testimony in Senate committee

by Chad D. Baus
5:10pm Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Chairman William Coley, II has announced that the Senate Government Oversight and Reform Committee will be hearing sponsor testimony on House Bill 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) on Wednesday, January 27 at 8:45 a.m. in the South Hearing Room. As passed by the House, HB 48 seeks to restore Ohioans' right to carry in day-care facilities (unless they post "no-guns"), private airplanes,...

Polls: Americans Oppose Unilateral Actions on Guns; Skeptical of Federal Government and Gun Controls

3:00pm Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Despite a highly-publicized speech and a multi-week media blitz aimed at convincing the American people of the importance and legitimacy of President Barack Obama’s executive maneuvers on gun control, the American people remain unpersuaded. Polls show that Americans are unconvinced about the effectiveness of further gun control measures and are in opposition to Obama’s decision to work outside...

Anti-Gunners Endorse Hillary Clinton for President

7:00am Tuesday, January 26, 2016
You can judge a presidential candidate by the company she keeps. [Recently], Democrat Hillary Clinton received endorsements from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Americans for Responsible Solutions, and former Attorney General Eric Holder. All are in lock step with the gun control agenda President Obama has pursued during his second term of office, and the plan Clinton has laid out in...

Chris Cox: Why we can't trust the CDC with gun research

3:00pm Monday, January 25, 2016
It's not public safety that gun-research advocates really care about. Anti-gun lawmakers have embarked on a national gun control campaign backed by New York City billionaire Michael Bloomberg. Realizing that many of their constituents do not support more gun control, anti-gun advocates in Congress are looking for creative methods to change public opinion. What better way than under the auspices...

Pro-gun Ted Strickland: Remember when?

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, January 25, 2016
Former congressman and Ohio governor Ted Strickland wants to be a U.S. Senator. His "problem?" He's spent a life-time representing the pro-gun rights values of his constituents, both in Washington D.C. and in the governor's mansion...and he's a Democrat. Now that he is running for a statewide office on the ;Democrats' ticket, Strickland has determined that he needs to shore up his base by running...

NSSF Publishes Open Letter to President Obama in Washington Post

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, January 22, 2016
On Wednesday, January 20, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) placed a prominent full-page ad in the Washington Post in response to President Obama’s ongoing attacks on the men and women of America’s firearms and ammunition industry. Read the Open Letter to President Obama : An Open Letter to President Obama From the Employees of America’s Firearms and Ammunition Industry Dear Mr...

Announcing the 2016 PREPPERS BALL with former Browns player Bob Golic as Emcee

by Amanda Suffecool
7:00am Friday, January 22, 2016
REALIZE firearms awareness coalition (www.REALIZEfac.com) is a pro 2A, pro education 501c3 not for profit group working out of Portage and Summit County in Northern Ohio. They host a variety of free educational events open to the public with the focus on making firearms (in a positive light) a household word. To do that, they host seminars, two radio shows and hold an annual fundraising /...

Your Tactical Training Scenario - Castle Doctrine

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Thursday, January 21, 2016
Let’s talk a little bit about “Castle Doctrine”. In this case , the homeowner shot an intruder who was unarmed and may not have been a true lethal force threat. Despite the shooting of an unarmed man, the homeowner will likely not be criminally charged. Here’s how it works... In general, in order to shoot someone (regardless of location), you need to have a reasonable belief that your attacker is...

News station puts "active killer vs. good guy with a gun" theory to the test

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, January 21, 2016
In the wake of high-profile active killer events, gun ban extremists are quick to claim that making it harder for peaceable gun owners to obtain firearms is the "answer" to stop mass killings. Gun rights advocates, on the other hand, are quick to note that having armed citizens on scene when the shooting starts, rather than waiting for other armed citizens with badges to come later, can reduce...

Voters catching on to gun control's absurdity

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Two separate polls, both sponsored by Big Media agencies that are not historically friendly to guns and gun owners, were recently released, and the results are encouraging. Polls commissioned by ABC News and the Washington Post and by CBS News and the New York Times both found that a majority of Americans oppose the idea of banning so-called “assault weapons.” Perhaps people are realizing that...

Time is Running Out - Register to Vote!

7:00am Wednesday, January 20, 2016
If you have not voted in the past four years, if you have moved, or if you need to register to vote for some other qualifying reason, please act quickly as you must register no later than 30 days prior to the election. The last day to register to vote for the upcoming March 15 Presidential primary election is February 16, 2016. Because the number of Ohioans who go to the polls on primary day is...

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