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Signed: Knife Rights' Wisconsin Knife Law Reform Bill

7:00am Thursday, February 18, 2016
Editor's Note: Today, a piece of good news from Wisconsin from our friends at Knife Rights. Knife Rights' Wisconsin Knife Law Reform Bill including Knife Law Preemption, AB 142, was signed on Saturday [February 6] by Governor Scott Walker. Wisconsin is the eleventh state in which Knife Rights has repealed a switchblade ban and the tenth in which we have passed Knife Law Preemption. The law goes...

Bloomberg for President?

3:00pm Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Amid reports that the FBI is close to recommending that the Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecute Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified materials, and that FBI Director James Comey and other agency personnel investigating Clinton may resign if the DOJ refuses to do so, sources close to Michael Bloomberg say the billionaire former mayor of New York City may run for president if Clinton...

'Good Samaritan' Ohio CHL-holder draws gun after wanted man tries to steal his truck

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, February 17, 2016
The Vinton Courier is reporting that an Ohio concealed handgun license (CHL) -holder drew his gun when a man he stopped to help attempted to steal his truck. From the article : The tables turned quickly on a Florida man who police say tried to steal a truck on Route 278 in Vinton County. Donald Dwayne O'Connor Jr., 28, of Tampa, Florida, was arrested by the Vinton County Sheriff's Office for...

In the wake of San Bernadino terror attack, January 2016 firearms sales jump 29.5% over prior year

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Tuesday, February 16, 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 January 2016 NSSF-adjusted National Instant...

SHOCK: Person obtains 10+ firearms without background check

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, February 16, 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)...

Justice Scalia's death provides Obama opportunity to overturn Second Amendment ruling

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Monday, February 15, 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...

FBI: Michigan jihadist chose church as target because it was a "no-guns" zone

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, February 15, 2016
(Image source: WDIV-TV) Ohio law gives exact same assurance to would-be attackers WDIV (NBC Detroit) reported recently that a Dearborn Heights resident who was arrested for his allegiance to ISIS told an undercover FBI agent he had decided to target a church specifically because "people are not allowed to carry guns in church." From the article : Khalil Abu-Rayyan, 21, was being watched by the...

Fourth Circuit Requires “Strict Scrutiny” for Maryland Gun and Magazine Ban

3:00pm Friday, February 12, 2016
It hasn’t been a good [month] for Martin O’Malley, former governor of Maryland, would-be contender for President of the United States, and staunch gun control advocate. As we report elsewhere , O’Malley was finally forced to drop out of the Democratic primary on Tuesday [February 2] after failing to garner even a single delegate at the Iowa Caucus. Then, on Thursday, a divided panel of the U.S...

Headline: Gun enthusiasts outnumber protesters Saturday at Summit County Fairgrounds

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, February 12, 2016
(Image source: FreeImages.com/Gary Cowles) The Akron Beacon-Journal reported recently that a small group of protesters standing outside a gun show at the Summit County Fairgrounds waving signs opposing assault weapons and supporting tighter gun controls were dwarfed by the dozens waiting in line and the hundreds already inside. From the article : “Did you see all of those Hillary Clinton voters...

Vote to Re-Elect Sean Maloney for NRA Board of Directors

3:00pm Thursday, February 11, 2016
Buckeye Firearms Association's own Sean Maloney is seeking re-election to the NRA Board of Directors. If you are an NRA voting member, you will receive your ballots soon. We ask that you VOTE TO RE-ELECT SEAN MALONEY. Here's a message from Sean Maloney along with his bio: To My Fellow Voting Members of the NRA: My name is Sean Maloney, and I’m asking for your vote when you receive your ballot for...

Lots of exciting news for FASTER Saves Lives program in 2016

by Joe Eaton
7:00am Thursday, February 11, 2016
The start of 2016 also marked the start of the Buckeye Firearms Foundation (501c3) Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response (FASTER) program's fourth year. What began simply as a pilot class of 24 teachers and administrators shortly after the horrific murders at Sandy Hook elementary school has grown and expanded into a multi year safety program which is reaching schools...

House Democrats Ask Obama to Expand Rifle Ban

3:00pm Wednesday, February 10, 2016
On January 11, approximately 90 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter to President Barack Obama, asking him to use his executive authority to tighten restrictions on the importation of detachable-magazine, semi-automatic rifles. Back in 1989, ATF reversed its interpretation of federal law to ban the importation of 43 makes and models of rifles functionally identical to...

Virginia man robbed of gun while open-carrying

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, February 10, 2016
The Daily Press of Newport News, VA is reporting that city police are investigating after a man reported he was pushed to the ground and had his handgun stolen. From the article : Officers responded to a report of the robbery in the 6000 block of Jefferson Avenue just before 8 p.m. Jan. 29, according to police spokesman Harold Eley. The victim, a 37-year-old Hampton man, told police he was robbed...

Two-Faced Hillary Adjusts Her Gun Control Message and Volume for Different Audiences

3:00pm Tuesday, February 09, 2016
Hillary Clinton is not known for her sincerity and forthrightness. In fact, a poll conducted last September by Suffolk University/USA Today demonstrated that more than one in five voters associate some term of deceitfulness with Clinton, including “liar,” “dishonest,” “untrustworthy,” and “fake.” This followed an earlier Quinnipiac University poll that found, “’Liar’ is the first word that comes...

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...

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