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I Trust You - With a Gun or a Car

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Over the Christmas weekend my wife and I spent some time on the road traveling to visit family and friends. As usual, I was driving about 5 miles per hour over the posted speed limit of 65, and I assume the cars coming from the other direction were doing about the same, which reminded me of an analogy I have often used when talking about trust, responsible behavior and the different perceptions...

Ohio court reverses Portage Co. sheriff's denial of concealed handgun license to "legally blind" gun owner

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, January 19, 2016
On December 22, 2015, the Portgage County Court of Common Pleas reversed the decision of Sheriff David Doak to deny a concealed handgun license (CHL) application because the applicant is disabled by being visually impared. According to the ruling, the plaintiff, William Robinson, IV filed an application with the sheriff for a CHL. He acknowledged that he was legally blind, and the sheriff denied...

Obama Misleads, Cites Bogus Data at CNN “Town Hall”

3:00pm Monday, January 18, 2016
On Thursday, January 7, President Barack Obama appeared in the CNN-produced “Guns in America,” an invitation-only “town hall” held on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Immediately following the forum, CNN shifted to several pundits who offered their analysis of the event. On hand was former Obama administration “Special Advisor for Green Jobs” Van Jones, who, perhaps...

Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown joins Democrats seeking to suspend constitutional right on the basis of suspicion alone

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Monday, January 18, 2016
Editor's Note: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, pictured above with President Obama and Senate candidate Ted Strickland, recently made news for backing legislation that would mandate that a person's placement on the federal government’s no-fly list would not be legally allowed to purchase guns. Brown has failed to respond to a Twitter challenge by @BuckeyeFirearms to name other constitutional...

Polls Show Americans Reject So-Called “Assault Weapons” Ban

3:00pm Friday, January 15, 2016
Just as anti-gun advocates are happily misconstruing the Supreme Court’s recent decision not to hear a case challenging a local ban on popular semi-automatic firearms as pointing to a way forward for gun control, available evidence shows that the American people reject such measures in record numbers. [Recently] we brought attention to a New York Times/ CBS News poll conducted December 4-8, which...

Meet Division of Wildlife Chief Ray Petering

by Larry S. Moore
7:00am Friday, January 15, 2016
Ray Petering joined the Classic Country Outdoors radio show hosts, myself and David Linkhart, prior to officially assuming the duties as Chief of the ODNR Division of Wildlife. We have known Petering from his previous work with the Division. He retired from the ODNR Division of Wildlife in 2011 as the executive administrator of fish management and research. Petering continued his association with...

Hunters Encouraged to Attend Ohio's Deer Hunting Summits

3:00pm Thursday, January 14, 2016
COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio hunters and others interested in the state’s white-tailed deer management programs have the opportunity to provide feedback about hunting regulations and season structures in central Ohio on Saturday, Jan. 23, and in northeast Ohio on Saturday, Jan. 30, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). After input from last year’s deer summits and considering...

BOOK REVIEW: The Handgun Guide for Women

by Larry S. Moore
7:00am Thursday, January 14, 2016
As a longtime shooter (for approximately 55-years now) I've read my share of books about the various aspects of firearms, ownership and shooting. I've been primarily focused on hunting and the shotgun sports, but when concealed carry became law in Ohio tactical shooting entered the picture. As a member of the Outdoor Writers of Ohio, I've been asked to judge writing contests and review many...

Reality Check: Is President Obama "All Talk" When It Comes To Enforcing Gun Prosecutions?

3:00pm Wednesday, January 13, 2016
President Obama got emotional talking about the need for gun reform last week...but is the President "all talk" on this issue... and instead of creating executive orders, why doesn't his administration start enforcing existing gun laws? This is a Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.

Judges already have tools to keep guns from abusers

by Ken Hanson
7:00am Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Editor's Note: The following article was originally published in the Columbus Dispatch and on BuckeyeFirearms.org in Agust 2014. It is republished in response to news that Rep. Nickie Antonio (D) plans to introduce state legislation that would bar individuals convicted of domestic violence crimes from possessing guns. Recently, Everytown for Gun Safety published a report in support of new gun-...

In the wake of San Bernadino terror attack, December 2015 firearms sales jump 37.6% over prior year

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Tuesday, January 12, 2016
In the wake of the December 2 terrorist attack in San Bernadino, CA, firearms retailers and concealed carry instructors reported a marked increase in business, as more and more people came to realize that the federal government has failed in it's primary job of protecting the homeland from attack. The numbers are now in, and the jump was sizeable. The December 2015 NSSF-adjusted National Instant...

SHOCK: Man obtains 17 firearms in less than two minutes without background check

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, January 12, 2016
To listen to President Obama and his gun ban extremist friends tell it, all we have to do to keep criminals from gaining access to firearms is to mandate that a background check be done before all transfers of firearms. Pass "universal" background checks, we're told, close the "gun show loophole," we're told, and we can stop mass shootings! Indeed, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV)...

Columbus homeowner defends life from armed home-invaders; Dead attacker once charged with shooting friend in face

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Monday, January 11, 2016
Columbus media are reporting that a homeowner is safe after having been forced to use a firearm to defend their life from two armed attackers during an attempted home invasion. From WCMH (NBC Columbus): According to the Columbus Division of Police, at about 2:13 a.m., officers responded to the report of shots fired in the area of 2993 Howey Road. When police arrived on scene they found 21-year-...

Of Tamir Rice, police shootings, “journalism” and racism

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Monday, January 11, 2016
In a recent story in US News & World Report titled “ Tamir Rice Shooting: Not Just a Tragedy How did a child with a toy gun get shot by police in an open-carry state? ”, Joseph Williams makes the case that the shooting of Tamir Rice was wrong and racist. Williams cites experts' (though he never tells us who these so-called experts are, or why he considers them experts) assertion that this was...

Americans respond to Obama's executive actions by visiting gun stores and joining the NRA

by Jim Shepherd
3:00pm Friday, January 08, 2016
As pro-gun groups organize opposition strategies to President Obama's Executive Actions, anti-gun groups that began Tuesday filled with confidence are asking a simple question: "what happened?" The measures they cheered so lustily were immediately rejected by an American public that is still snapping up guns, ammo, magazines and large chunks of stocks in America's gun companies. Wednesday, the...

2016 – Firearms and the Year Ahead

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Friday, January 08, 2016
This is the second year of the two-year political sessions, both in Ohio and at the federal level. All bills that have not passed by the end of this year will die. This puts increased pressure on everyone to get the job done. We will elect a new president this year, who will almost certainly replace multiple U.S. Supreme Court justices, shaping not just the court but our country for the next...

No Charges Filed, But Legal Firearms Confiscated Anyway

3:00pm Thursday, January 07, 2016
We've raised concerns before about how proposed "gun violence restraining orders" and similar firearm surrender orders can be abused and issued in cases where the police lack sufficient evidence for an arrest and simply wish to deprive an individual of the right to bear arms, and on how difficult it can be to get property back after the government seizes it. These concerns are magnified when such...

Executive Orders: President Obama reverses President Clinton's brand of gun control, but the goal is the same

by Tim Inwood
7:00am Thursday, January 07, 2016
The tactics employed by President Obama’s in his latest executive orders, purportedly done in the name of preventing crimes committed with guns, represent a reversal of gun control strategy used by Bill Clinton and his then-Treasury Secretary Lloyd Benson, supposedly done with the exact same goal in mind. During his administration, President Clinton set about to tackle the crime problem by...

Op-Ed: It’s not a gun problem, it’s a people problem

by Don Stratton
3:00pm Wednesday, January 06, 2016
Another mass shooting, and yet another call for more gun control — the same old broken record. Despite the statistical fact that some of America’s most violent cities also have the toughest gun control laws, too many people still believe the anti-gun rhetoric. History tells me a different story. Until the 1968 passage of a bill prohibiting interstate transfers to individuals, there were virtually...

While parts of his overall plan are treacherous, Obama's four background check "actions" will change very little

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, January 06, 2016
No one knows who first uttered the quip about insanity being the act of doing same thing over and over again and expecting different results, but this saying gets repeated not because it's correct, but because we see this behavior happening so often. Number One on the list of President Obama's latest round of executive actions on gun control are a prime example. In coverage of Obama's 30 minute...

Executive Actions on Guns Will Have No Effect on Crime - They Serve Only to Intimidate Law-Abiding Gun Owners

1:53pm Tuesday, January 05, 2016
After years of unsuccessful attempts to pass gun control laws, President Obama has chosen to do an end run around Congress with executive actions. The proposals are intended to intimidate gun owners by threatening fines and jail time for even casual sales of personal property, infringe on Constitutionally protected rights by allowing bureaucrats to categorize individuals as unfit to own firearms...

Supreme Court candidate provides inside look at Constitutional "modernization" panel's attempts to "clarify" the right to bear arms

by Judge Pat Fischer
7:00am Tuesday, January 05, 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...

To the Editor: Writer defends article on BGSU faculty emails

3:00pm Monday, January 04, 2016
The following letter to the editor has been published by the Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune : To the Editor: I write to respond to Robert Gomez’s letter addressing my article published at BuckeyeFirearms.org regarding an issue which should be of concern to all taxpayers. I addressed three main issues, only one of which Gomez even barely touches on. First, our public records request uncovered the...

Buckeyefirearms.org: Top Ten News Items of 2015

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, January 04, 2016
On average, we publish two articles a day and 10 to 12 articles a week. Over the years, we have published approximately 11,000 articles, covering elections, legislation, and all manner of events and information of interest to Second Amendment supporters. Over 1.3 million different people visited our website this year, creating over 3.5 million pageviews. This is an international audience with...

2015 - The Year in Review

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Thursday, December 31, 2015
While there is far too much to cover in a single article, we reflect on some of the important events of 2015. January: The year begins with news of yet another police-involved shooting with a person who turned out to have an airsoft gun. The shooting occurs in California, the state that Ohio Rep. Alicia Reece has modeled her 'toy gun control' proposal after, offering the latest proof that passing...

Ohioans use firearms for self-defense in two post-Christmas home invasions

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, December 31, 2015
News stations in Dayton and Columbus are reporting on two separate post-Christmas home invasion incidents in which the victims were forced to use firearms in self-defense. First, WRGT (Fox Dayton) documents an incident in which a women defended herself and two children who were also sleeping inside: Trotwood Police were called to a home at the dead end of Atlas Road around 6:00 Monday morning...

Columbus Dispatch: Taking "no-guns" signs down will reduce odds of attack

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Wednesday, December 30, 2015
I'm now well into my 14th year of writing on gun rights in the Buckeye State, and while some things may never change, I have seen my share of change in the perceptions and attitudes about gun rights in general, and concealed carry in particular. We've seen our fair share of converts in the law enforcement community - those who once opposed concealed carry admitting that their "Wild West"...

Ohio National Guard now allows members to carry firearms in the performance of their duties

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Wednesday, December 30, 2015
It has never made sense that our soldiers carry full-auto rifles (firearms that actually are “assault weapons”) all over the world, but at home are denied the right to carry any firearm for personal protection. When a terrorist attacked our battle tested troops at Ft. Hood, our soldiers had to dial 911 and wait for the local police to show up and save them. This is a policy our president should...

Senseless in Seattle: New Guns & Ammo Tax Meets Court Challenge

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Tuesday, December 29, 2015
The city of Seattle, Washington, passed an ordinance this summer that imposes a $25 tax on every gun sold in the city, and 5 cents on each round of ammunition, except .22 caliber and smaller, which will carry a tax of 2 cents per round. Not only is the law senseless, it’s a huge waste of taxpayers’ money, and it’s patently illegal. The Second Amendment Foundation, based just outside of Seattle,...

Remember to fight for your Second Amendment rights with year-end donations

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Tuesday, December 29, 2015
As you are going over your end of year “to do” lists, there are some donations you can make to support your ideals. Tax credit – the gift that costs you nothing! You can make a donation of $50/100 per person/couple to an Ohio statewide candidate, State Representative or State Senator and receive a tax credit for the entire donation. This is not a “tax deduction” where you get a portion back; this...

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