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Stand Your Ground: Science and Science Fiction

3:00pm Monday, December 28, 2015
Andrew Branca, the author of the “Law of Self Defense,” recently reviewed a study on racial bias and Florida’s Stand Your Ground (SYG) laws published in the Elsevier Social Science & Medicine. The study, “Race, law, and health: Examination of ‘Stand Your Ground’ (SYG) and defendant convictions in Florida” (Social Science & Medicine, Volume 142, October 2015, pages 194-201; pay-walled)...

Importance of pro-gun volunteers' work in Virginia highlighted by recent loss of right to carry for 6.3 million

by Sean Maloney
7:00am Monday, December 28, 2015
Editor's Note: Last week, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring joined the list of politicians pandering to the anti-gun agenda of Michael Bloomberg and Hillary Clinton by arbitrarily severing concealed carry reciprocity agreements with half of the United States. What follows is a look at the ongoing battle in the purple state of Virginia - a state not unlike our own... As a leader of Buckeye...

Merry Christmas from Buckeye Firearms Association

3:00pm Thursday, December 24, 2015
Merry Christmas to one and all from all of us at Buckeye Firearms Association. Our best gift is the friendship and support given by each of you throughout the year. As we reflect on the year's passing, we count our many blessings, remember our losses, and give thanks for those who helped us through it all. We each need to take time to appreciate our friends and family during this special time of...

Woman Who Illegally Bought Gun Used to Shoot Cop Sentenced to One Year of Probation

3:00pm Wednesday, December 23, 2015
A federal judge in Omaha [recently] sentenced a woman to one year of probation for illegally buying a gun on her boyfriend’s behalf from an FFL at a pawnshop. The woman could have been sentenced to a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. The boyfriend was a prohibited felon and gang member at the time of the purchase. He later the used the firearm to kill a police officer...

Contact Distance Shooting…Rescuing a Friend or Family Member

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Have you ever thought about how you would rescue a friend, partner, or loved one who was engaged in a life or death struggle with a criminal? It may be a little more complex than you have imagined. Awhile back a concealed carry permit holder named Perry Stevens in Louisiana heroically took up the role as rescuer when a police officer needed some assistance. You can read about his story at the...

Supreme Court (Again) Punts on the Second Amendment, Leaves Voters to Carry the Ball

3:00pm Tuesday, December 22, 2015
[Recently], the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit that upheld a Chicago-area “assault weapons” ban against a Second Amendment challenge. This was the second time this year that the Supreme Court refused to hear a Second Amendment case, thereby allowing a broad gun control law to stand. As in that previous case, the court’s...

Ohio's U.S. Senators and challengers continue to make news over differing views on firearms rights

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Both U.S. Senators from Ohio, Sherrod Brown (D) and Rob Portman (R), and Ted Strickland, a Democrat hoping to win his party's nomination to challenge Portman in 2016, have been making news in recent days over comments made with regard to gun rights and gun control. (Brown and Strickland are pictured with President Obama.) In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack in San Bernadino, CA,...

'Sporting Purpose' Language in the Law Has Got to Go

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Monday, December 21, 2015
The term “sporting purpose” is imbedded throughout U.S. gun control laws, and its use is a violation of the Second Amendment. That has been my position for decades. My brother Chris raised the issue in a speech before the Gun Rights Policy Conference some three years ago, and our dad, Neal Knox, was making an issue of the language in the 1980s. The “sporting purpose” language has been a plank in...

Gun Control Supporters Unhinged: New Republic Says "Ban Guns— All of Them"

3:00pm Friday, December 18, 2015
Inspired by [a recent] New York Times front-page editorial calling for the confiscation of “large categories of weapons and ammunition,” a new article in the progressive-agenda magazine, New Republic, says that banning only some guns, but not all, is not enough. “It’s time to ban guns. Yes, all of them. . . . Get rid of guns in homes, and on the streets, and, as much as possible, on police...

2016 Buckeye Firearms Association PAC political candidate surveys

1:01pm Friday, December 18, 2015
Buckeye Firearms Association's politician action committee (BFA-PAC) will issue endorsements for the 2016 primary and general races. We focus primarily on statehouse races, but we also endorse in select local, judicial and federal races. If you are a candidate for the Ohio Statehouse, or any other office except judicial positions, go here to fill out a survey and be considered for an endorsement...

Recognizing the Sound of Gunfire

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Friday, December 18, 2015
With all the recent active shooter/active killer events happening worldwide, I’m continuing to see reports of the exact same phenomenon….people don’t recognize the sounds of gunfire when they are being shot at. In almost every mass shooting, victims report that they heard a loud noise, but thought it was some other more innocuous sound. In a recent school shooting , Jordan Coates, a student at...

Planned Giving: How to Provide a Lasting Legacy of Freedom

by Dean Rieck
3:00pm Thursday, December 17, 2015
You've spent a good portion of your life supporting the fight for Second Amendment rights. You're a member of the NRA. Maybe you're a member of BFA too. You've been shooting, collecting, and enjoying firearms for as long as you can remember. And now, as you get a little older, you start to think about whether those rights will be there for future generations. After all, you've seen endless...

Mishandling of BGSU faculty email lobbying scandal leads to shake-up at Sentinel-Tribune

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, December 17, 2015
The fall-out from my November 30 article exposing a large number of faculty at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) for having used university resources to lobby against House Bill 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) and highlighting comments from Dr. James E. Evans labeling the National Rifle Association (NRA) as "a murderous terrorist organization that is a threat to national security"...

Washington Post Skewers Obama on Shootings, Vindicates Rubio and Gun Rights Position

3:00pm Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Just as the New York Times is doing its best to shrug off whatever remaining journalistic integrity the paper might have had, the country’s other major establishment newspaper, the Washington Post, has managed to check some facts without their usual bias. The Post’s Fact Checker column concluded that Barack Obama deserved a rebuke for some of his recent comments on gun control, while giving a...

Action Needed! Urge Your U.S. Rep to Vote Against Any Anti-Gun Amendments

7:00am Wednesday, December 16, 2015
In the wake of [the recent terror attack] in San Bernardino, California, President Obama and the usual cast of anti-gun politicians were -- again -- quick to exploit an act of terrorism to push for more gun control. The president suggested the NRA was somehow to blame for the tragedy, and when addressing the nation over the weekend, he predictably called for new gun laws. This time, the president...

New York Times Calls for Gun Confiscation

3:00pm Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Never let it be said that the New York Times can’t recognize the important moments in American history, nor muster the courage to express its opinions on its front page when the situation demands. In 1920, for example, feeling strongly about the upcoming presidential election, the newspaper published a front-page editorial criticizing the Republican Party for nominating Warren Harding. In that...

Attorney General announces Third Quarter 2015 CHL statistics; 34% increase over prior year

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the Concealed Handgun License (CHL) statistics for the third quarter of 2015. There were a total of 26,139 licenses issued during the quarter, exceeding the average demand for CHLs for the 16th straight quarter. Governor John Kasich (R) signed HB 234 in December of 2014. In the first two quarters of 2014, when bills were just languishing in the...

Reality Check: Did Australia And Great Britain See Lower Gun Violence After Mass Confiscation?

3:00pm Monday, December 14, 2015
Ben Swann takes a look at whether mass gun confiscation in the United States would work like it did in Australia and Great Britain. But more importantly, he will ask the question, the mass confiscation even work over there? What follows is a Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.

Sandy Hook: In memory of those who were murdered three years ago today

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Monday, December 14, 2015
It has been three years since a coward killed his mother, stole her guns, and went to the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. The school was locked for the beginning of the school day. The coward shot out the windows and entered through the administration area, killing several there. He proceeded down the hallway, murdered 27 year-old Victoria Soto, who had hidden her children,...

Ohio concealed handgun license-holder defends self and co-worker from armed robber

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, December 11, 2015
WXIX (Fox Cincinnati) is reporting that a contractor with a concealed handgun license defended his life, and that of a co-worker, from a 16 year-old armed robber who attacked them outside a home they were rehabilitating. From the article : Officers responded to Jonathan Avenue near Fernside Place near Walnut Hills High School about 11:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a shooting, said Captain...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. president: Trump and Kasich are WRONG on no-fly list gun sales

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, December 11, 2015
Last weekend, Ohio Governor John Kasich and businessman Donald Trump, both Republican presidential candidates, joined President Obama in calling for persons who find themselves on the government's "no-fly" list to be prohibited from purchasing firearms. Kasich first expressed the opinion at a Saturday, Dec. 5 town-hall meeting in New London, N.H., and doubled-down on the position on CNN's "State...

To the Editor: ‘Duty to retreat’ had no bearing on conviction

3:00pm Thursday, December 10, 2015
The following letter to the editor of the Toledo Blade was published in response to an editorial entitled " Tragic Lesson - A case just decided in Ohio shows why lawmakers should reject ‘stand-your-ground’ laws ," in which the Blade editorial board claimed that an area murder "could have been legally justified under a stand-your-ground law." ‘Duty to retreat’ had no bearing on conviction You are...

November 2015 firearms sales jump 7.7% over prior year; Black Friday sales set all-time record

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, December 10, 2015
The November 2015 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,432,451 is an increase of 7.7 percent compared to the November 2014 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,329,688. For comparison, the unadjusted November 2015 FBI NICS figure of 2,236,457 reflects a 24.4 percent increase from the unadjusted FBI NICS figure of 1,797,163 in November 2014. USA Today...

Newsflash for unarmed Americans: We gun owners don't carry for you

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Wednesday, December 09, 2015
Like many Americans, I frequently carry a gun. I’ve done so for over 30 years without ever laying hand to it in need. Professor John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center reports that some 12.8 million people, over 5.2 percent of the adult U.S. population, are licensed to carry a concealed handgun. In addition to concealed carry license holders in all 50 states, seven states require no...

Bowling Green professor admits to "lobbying activity," claims support for gun ownership racially motivated

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, December 09, 2015
On November 30, I published an article exposing a large number of faculty at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) for having used university resources to lobby against House Bill 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones). I reported that Dr. James E. Evans, a professor of geology and ringleader of participant in the lobbying effort, informed Rep. Tim Brown (R-Bowling Green) that he considers...

Op-Ed: No, Mr. President, the NRA is not to blame

by Chris Cox
3:00pm Tuesday, December 08, 2015
Editor's Note: BRAVO to the NRA's Chris Cox for responding within 48 hours to the blaming of peacable gun owners by President Obama and others in the wake of the terrorist attack in Calilfornia. As we argue here , gun rights advocates can no longer afford to surrender the first week of airtime to the opposition. Just when we think that politics can’t sink any lower, President Obama once again...

The Terrorist Watch List and Firearms Sales: Political Pandering Over Due Process

by Larry Keane
7:00am Tuesday, December 08, 2015
Editor's Note: On Sunday, December 6, Ohio Governor and presidential-candidate John Kasich stated "on the no-fly list, we probably could keep them from getting guns and ought to ban them." Here's why Kasich is WRONG. There appears to be no limit on the opportunistic lengths to which Congressional Democrats and the Obama administration will go to pursue gun control by other means. The latest...

Dangerous Disorder in the Court

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Monday, December 07, 2015
The Federal Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit has once again come down with a shameful ruling based on selective interpretation of the Supreme Court’s narrow rulings in Heller and McDonald, the landmark Second Amendment cases decided in 2008 and 2010. In this latest abomination from the courts, the three-judge panel concluded that New York and Connecticut’s laws banning virtually all semi-auto...

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