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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...

Why I'm supporting Sean Maloney for NRA Board of Directors

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Tuesday, March 01, 2016
All NRA voting members will be receiving their ballots this week for NRA Board of Directors (BOD). I’m voting for Sean Maloney. The NRA has 76 BOD members. 25 are elected each year for a 3 year term. These are the ballots that come with your NRA magazine or separately if you don’t get a magazine. To be eligible to vote, you must have been a member for five consecutive years, or be a fully paid...

Concealed Carry Reciprocity Deal Signed in Virginia

3:00pm Monday, February 29, 2016
The National Rifle Association (NRA) commends Virginia’s leaders for reaching an agreement to secure the rights of law-abiding concealed carry permit holders. H.B. 1163 and S.B. 610 which will restore and promote concealed carry reciprocity for permit holders in the Commonwealth and around the country, were signed into law today. “Now, more than six million law-abiding gun owners will be free to...

Armed Teachers Now Trained in 63 Ohio Counties

7:00am Monday, February 29, 2016
COLUMBUS, OH - In response to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, which claimed the lives of 20 children and 6 adult staff members, Buckeye Firearms Foundation launched an emergency response training program here in Ohio for teachers, administrators, and other school staff. Called FASTER ( Faculty / Administrator Safety Training & Emergency Response), the...

Op-Ed: The real solution to the 2016 "Make America safe again" rhetoric — concealed carry

by Madison Gesiotto
3:00pm Friday, February 26, 2016
From Gov. Jeb Bush to Sen. Ted Cruz and businessman Donald Trump, the 2016 GOP field has been far from shy when it comes to their promises to make America safer, or as Mr. Trump put it, “make America safe again.” In the wake of recent domestic terrorist attacks and rising global instability, it has become increasingly apparent that Americans are not as safe as they once were. But, while the GOP...

Bloomberg’s Everytown Launches Patronizing Effort to Attract Young Women, Stigmatize Gun-Owning Men

7:00am Friday, February 26, 2016
Few things are as painfully uncool as a 73-year-old billionaire’s desperate attempts to be relevant. This fact is brought into stark realization by Michael Bloomberg front-group Everytown for Gun Safety’s ham-handed new campaign aimed at stigmatizing guns and gun-owning men among young women. Dubbed “Singled Out,” the campaign website curiously seeks to drive young women to the gun control cause...

Buckeye Firearms Association Endorses Sean Maloney for NRA Board of Directors

3:00pm Thursday, February 25, 2016
COLUMBUS, OH - Buckeye Firearms Association is proud to announce their endorsement of Sean Maloney for the NRA Board of Directors. Maloney is a Defense Attorney and member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers who practices exclusively in all areas of firearm-related law, including 2nd Amendment Rights, criminal firearm-related defense, Federal NICS Appeals, and Federal and...

Prosecuted for a Negligent Discharge

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Thursday, February 25, 2016
Read this article . An NYPD officer just got convicted of both manslaughter and official misconduct after an accidental shooting that occurred on his SECOND DAY of patrol. For all my cop friends and those who want to be cops. Study this case. Here’s the deal... I don’t know ANY academies ANYWHERE in the country that turn out competent gunfighters upon graduation. I was the best shooter in my...

Europeans Discover Virtues of Armed Self-defense as EU Bureaucrats Seek New Gun Controls

3:00pm Wednesday, February 24, 2016
At the same time the European Union bureaucrats in Brussels are trying to foist further gun controls on the continent, Europeans are exhibiting a newfound interest in acquiring the tools of self-defense. Though restricted by EU mandate and often severe national gun controls, following a series of high-profile attacks on women, Europeans are buying up whatever means of protection they can still...

Online poll shows strong support in Ohio for concealed carry in places of worship

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Recent news that a Michigan jihadist who was arrested for his allegiance to ISIS had told an undercover FBI agent he had decided to target a church specifically because "people are not allowed to carry guns in church" is drawing more attention to an Ohio law which bans concealed handgun license (CHL) -holders from carrying in places of worship unless they have permission. Recently, WXIX (Fox...

Air Force Establishes Gun Carrying Programs

5:22pm Tuesday, February 23, 2016
“Rangers Lead the Way” has been the motto of U.S. Army Rangers since June 6, 1944, when the 5th Ranger Infantry Battalion did precisely that on Omaha Beach. However, when it comes to allowing military personnel to carry firearms to protect themselves, their families, their fellow troops, and visitors from terrorist attacks on military bases in the United States, the U.S. Air Force may be at the...

Cincinnati homeowner defends self against broad-daylight home invasion

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, February 23, 2016
WLWT (NBC Cincinnati) reported recently that a man was forced to defend his life when four men entered his home, and one threatened to kill him with a knife. From the article : The incident happened around 2:15 p.m. at a home near the intersection of Maple and Locust streets. Police said the man living in the home called police, saying he shot a man who entered the home. According to 911 calls...

“F” Stands for Fail: Georgia College Instructor Boots Uniformed Cop, Gets Lectured in Return

3:00pm Monday, February 22, 2016
Colleges usually take great pride in proclaiming their “diversity” and “inclusiveness,” but simply wearing a tool of his trade was cause enough for one uniformed police officer to be excluded from a class he was taking at Darton State College in Albany, Georgia. While details are lacking, several press accounts (exemplified by this Fox News report ) from the past week recount the strange tale of...

BFA's Sean Maloney in AmericanRifleman.org feature entitled "Lethal Force and the Law at the Great American Outdoor Show"

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, February 22, 2016
Buckeye Firearms Association's Sean Maloney is currently being featured in a piece by AmericanRiflemam.org's Kelly Young, entitled "Lethal Force and the Law at the Great American Outdoor Show." Maloney, a defense attorney with 25 years experience, and who has worked almost exclusively in firearm-related law for the past decade, is also a member of the National Rifle Association's Board of...

Buckeye Firearms Association PAC announces 2016 primary endorsements

3:00pm Friday, February 19, 2016
VOTE TODAY! POLLS ARE OPEN FOR EARLY VOTING! Buckeye Firearms Association PAC (BFA-PAC) is proud to announce endorsements for a host of local and state offices in the March 15, 2016 primary. As a political action committee, BFA-PAC has been issuing endorsements in every election season for the past fourteen years. Through a system of weighing candidate surveys, voting records (where applicable)...

Purchasing Your First Firearm: Ask questions, do your homework, make friends, have fun!

by Tisma Juett
7:00am Friday, February 19, 2016
I recently attended several First Shots events in the Las Vegas area. At the end of one of the events a young lady asked, “Where is the best place to buy a gun?” Her question confirmed a few things for me. One, with this shooter, First Shots had accomplished the goal of creating another potential life-long participant of the shooting sports. And two, where to purchase a firearm is not an easy...

Bill Aimed at Ending Operation Choke Point Passes House

3:00pm Thursday, February 18, 2016
On Thursday [February 4], a bi-partisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 766, the ‘‘Financial Institution Customer Protection Act of 2015,” sponsored by Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO). As we reported last year, this bill targets the abuses of Operation Choke Point (OCP), an Obama administration “enforcement” program that lumped together legal and illegal businesses into a...

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