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August 2015 Firearms Sales Checks Second-Highest August on Record

3:00pm Friday, September 11, 2015
The August 2015 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,031,959 is the second-highest August on record for the 17-year-old system, with an increase of 4.3 percent compared to the August 2014 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 989,337. For comparison, the unadjusted August 2015 NICS figure of 1,735,911 reflects a 12.8 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS...

Dayton CHL-holder defends herself with gun during early morning home invasion

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, September 11, 2015
The Dayton Daily News is reporting that a woman who has been targeted by criminals at least five times in 11 years fatally shot a man she said broke into her home Wednesday morning, the second intruder she has hit with gunfire in about two years. From the article : The 46-year-old woman, who lives in the 200 block of Richmond Avenue, told officers the man smashed a window and entered the second...

White House, Media Mislead on Crime Trends, Ignore Evidence that Could Save More Lives

3:00pm Thursday, September 10, 2015
Tragedy strikes – and the White House immediately shifts into exploitation mode, trying to use raw emotion to push “solutions” that don’t fit the facts. From Charles C. W. Cooke at National Review comes a timely reminder , however, that despite well-publicized crimes, the nation as a whole is getting safer and less violent. As Mr. Cooke notes, the U.S. firearm homicide rate peaked in 1993 and has...

Three Quick Tips for Pocket Pistols

by Jim Shepherd
7:00am Thursday, September 10, 2015
They're the easiest to conceal, but the hardest to manage. Those diminutive pocket pistols that are popular for concealed carry in a variety of situations may be comfortable to carry and comforting in their protective capabilities, but they're the hardest of the already difficult guns to shoot: handguns. "Pocket pistols are always a handful," says multi-time world shooting champion, instructor...

Op-Ed: U.S. doesn't have gun problem

by Thomas Lucente
3:00pm Wednesday, September 09, 2015
Another sensational murder, another clarion call from the leftist gun-grabbers. Extremists are so predictable. The clarion call, though, is built on a myth, a myth that somehow the United States is a dangerous place and that guns are the main reason for it. The truth is that the United States is one of the safest countries in the world. While the United States has the largest number of guns per...

Headline: Wadsworth considers dropping gun ban in parks

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, September 09, 2015
The Medina Gazette is reporting that another gun control law is about to go down, thanks to the hard work of volunteers from Buckeye Firearms Association and other self-defense rights advocates on a veto override of then-Gov. Bob Taft on HB 347 , which included language introducing a statewide preemption of local gun control laws. From the article : The Wadsworth City Council is considering...

Brady Campaign Criticizes NRA Partnership With Indiana National Guard

3:00pm Tuesday, September 08, 2015
Governor Mike Pence recently directed the state’s military bases and training centers to beef up security in response to recent attacks in Tennessee. With this order, he enlisted the National Rifle Association’s world-class training program and trainers. However, per usual, gun control advocates, like the Brady Campaign, placed politics above safety and the lives of our brave men and women. They...

Ohio Rifleman Sets New Record, Claims Win at 2015 National Rimfire Sporter Match

by Ashley Brugnone
7:00am Tuesday, September 08, 2015
CAMP PERRY, Ohio – Talented marksman, Ted James, 36, of Woodville, Ohio, was the overall winner of the Tactical Class during the Civilian Marksmanship Program's (CMP) Rimfire Sporter Match – recently held during the 2015 National Matches at Camp Perry. James bested a field of 65 competitors in the class that helped make up a group of over 300 participants overall. During the match, held on Aug. 1...

ATTN: High School and College Students, attend the Columbus, Ohio Freedom Conference

by Linda Walker
3:00pm Friday, September 04, 2015
As parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles or adults involved the lives of young people, we strive to give them the tools to grow up and be responsible adults and hopefully patriots who love and serve our country. Just as we teach our babies and toddlers not to touch the hot stove, or not to run in the street because it’s dangerous, and just as responsible gun owners train our children safe gun...

Spokesman: Strickland now supports "common sense background checks"

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, September 04, 2015
A USA Today article on the Democrat primary race that will determine the challenger to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) has provided still more evidence that the once-pro-gun Ted Strickland has turned his back on gun owners and the conservative, pro-gun Democrats who have supported him over the years. From the article : Dennis Willard, a spokesman for Strickland, said the former governor supports "...

Regal Cinemas announces plan to search movie patrons

3:00pm Thursday, September 03, 2015
Thanks to a new emphasis on searching the bags of moviegoers, the Regal Cinemas chain is treating its customers to its own brand of security theater. According to a story appearing on NPR , the theater chain has always reserved the right to inspect backpacks and the like to intercept bootleg food and drinks. Now, however, the company is claiming ticket takers will be routinely conducting searches...

FoxNews.com highlights BFA article on gun ban extremists "swatting" gun owners

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, September 03, 2015
On Monday, August 31, my article entitled " Anti-Gun Group Wants Gun Owners Killed? " was published at BuckeyeFirearms.org. The article documents a recent case of the rabidly anti-self-defense Coalition to Stop Gun Violence becoming the latest gun control extremist group to advocate calling police any time they see a gun owner in public. I correctly identified the practice for what it is: "...

Observations on the Virginia news crew murders

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Wednesday, September 02, 2015
I’m not going to write an in-depth article on the recent Virginia news crew killings. While the attack loosely qualifies as an “active killer” event, the victims weren’t randomly chosen. This was the work of a man who had a serious mental illness. He was trying to make a statement, but wasn’t going for the massive body count that we see in most active killer crimes. There are however, a couple of...

The Virginia news crew murders and media agenda to bury the truth

by Tim Inwood
7:00am Wednesday, September 02, 2015
On Wednesday, August 26th, as the event was broadcast live, a deranged former journalist bent on revenge and a twisted desire to start a race war, murdered two of his former colleagues. We all know the basic story, and many have seen the first-person shooter footage shot by the killer as he murdered Alison Parker and Adam Ward, and wounded Vicki Gardner. This set the wheels in motion in news...

Juniors Prove Future of Marksmanship is Bright During 2015 National Matches

by Ashley Brugnone
3:00pm Tuesday, September 01, 2015
As part of our mission, the CMP is dedicated to teaching youth the fundamentals of marksmanship and gun safety. With growing participation in our numerous clinics and matches designed towards advancing their knowledge and celebrating their talents, juniors across the country have proven the future of marksmanship in the United States is undoubtedly progressing. The following is a list of some of...

Guaranteed Ways to Lose Hunting Access

by Jim Shepherd
7:00am Tuesday, September 01, 2015
The outdoor industry has been making a big push over the past two years to assure access to the country's public lands. It has largely been effective, with some states having gone so far as to pass laws guaranteeing access rights to hunter, shooters and anglers. But there's also a largely unrecognized pushback to block that access in what has been recognized as the Achilles heel of the access...

Famed Law Professor, Defense Attorney Latest to Suggest Second Amendment Needs to Go

3:00pm Monday, August 31, 2015
The legal profession is full of blowhards, egomaniacs, hypocrites, and elitists, but even so, rarely are all those qualities present in a single individual to the same degree as in Alan Dershowitz. At age 28, Dershowitz became the youngest full professor of law in history with his appointment at Harvard. And, yes, it went to his head. He has written that he “does not hide behind the distorting...

Anti-Gun Group Wants Gun Owners Killed?

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, August 31, 2015
Earlier this month, rabidly anti-self-defense Coalition to Stop Gun Violence became the latest gun control extremist group to advocate calling police any time they see a gun owner in public. These types of "man with a gun" calls result in law enforcement showing up with guns drawn, ready to stop a lethal threat, putting innocent gun owners in danger of being killed. The practice is called "...

A Decade Later, Remember New Orleans … Gun Confiscation Can (and Has) Happened in America

3:00pm Friday, August 28, 2015
August 29th marks the 10-year anniversary of when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, La. The memory of the devastation wrought by the storm and the resulting chaos is a human tragedy of such a vast scale that it endures to this day; and will well beyond. Further, the measures taken to disarm law-abiding firearm owners in Katrina’s wake should serve as a testament to why gun owners guard our...

When Bureaucrats Make “Sport” of Fundamental Liberties, Congress Must Act

by Chris W. Cox
7:00am Friday, August 28, 2015
In May, I discussed the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ varying interpretations of the phrase “sporting purposes” in federal gun control law. We had just fought the agency to a standstill over its plan to ban the manufacture and importation of the M855 cartridge, the second most common variety of ammunition for America’s most popular rifle, the AR-15. B. Todd Jones, then...

Latest Anti-Gunner Demand: Slow Down Firearm Sales!

3:00pm Thursday, August 27, 2015
With Americans buying firearms at record-shattering levels and public opinion turning against gun control over the last few years, anti-gun groups and politicians are trying to convince firearm dealers to voluntarily refuse to sell firearms to some of their law-abiding customers. The anti-gunners’ new effort tracks with the three-part plan outlined by the Brady Campaign in 1976, when it was known...

Fifth Column: Traitors Among Us

by Ron Borsch
7:00am Thursday, August 27, 2015
While there is nothing wrong with migrating or fleeing from another country to enjoy American freedoms and opportunity, it is a totally different matter to betray our open-arms welcome and trust. Certainly a worse offense is to be disloyal after having the good fortune of being born in America. In either case, obeying direct, indirect orders or being influenced by a foreign entity to self-...

"High Society" Types Sued Over Anti-Gun "Bracelets"

5:31pm Wednesday, August 26, 2015
As the saying goes, "you can't make this stuff up." A lawsuit has been filed in Manhattan against a multi-millionaire and his activist wife, over the profits—if there are any—from the sale, by Everytown and Moms Demand Action, of the "Everytown X Urban Zen" bracelet, basically an ugly leather wrist-belt imprinted with a gun control slogan. The New York Post reports that former Goldman Sachs...

Social Security Update: Agency Backpedals as NRA and Pro-Gun Officials Press for Answers

3:00pm Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Last month, we reported on a story by the L.A. Times that indicated the Obama White House is eyeing ways to use the Social Security Administration (SSA) as a source of records for NICS, which includes a federal database of persons prohibited from possessing or receiving firearms. One option the story discussed was SSA’s adoption of a model employed by the Veteran’s Administration, which reports...

Attorney General announces Second Quarter 2015 CHL statistics; Record demand for CHLs continues

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Initial CHL applications surge 23% in wake of Governor Kasich signing significant improvements to Ohio’s concealed carry laws Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the Concealed Handgun License (CHL) statistics for the second quarter of 2015. There were a total of 31,669 licenses issued during the quarter. After six straight quarters of declining demand for new CHL’s, the second...

First Shots: Safe Storage—More Than a Steel Box and Combination Lock

by Tisma Juett
3:00pm Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Storing firearms, whether loaded or unloaded, so that they are inaccessible to children and other unauthorized individuals is easy to do given the many options on the market today . Now, when you hear the word “storage,” most people are thinking a safe of some sort, and that is certainly an appropriate way to store firearms. But have you considered how you safely store your firearm when carrying...

Dayton firearms thefts expose impotence of "universal" background checks to stop criminals' access to guns

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Headlines earlier this month screamed the news: at least 75 handguns and two semi-automatic rifles were stolen during overnight break-ins at three Dayton area firearms retailers. From the article : Thieves have broken in to three local gun shops in three days, stealing a total of 75 handguns and 2 semi-automatic rifles, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. All...

Two armed men robbing customers at "no-guns" Fifth-Third bank ATMs

3:00pm Monday, August 24, 2015
WSYX (ABC Columbus) is reporting that six armed robberies have been carried out at central Ohio banks, most of which occurred at Fifth-Third bank branches, which are posted with "no-guns" signs. From the article : "They are sliding up alongside of the car, producing a handgun, and demanding cash," said Det. Regina Dudley with Crime Stoppers. The first hold-up happened on April 11, 2015, at 6:43am...

Buckeye Firearms Foundation's FASTER program celebrates 3 years and growing

by Joe Eaton
7:00am Monday, August 24, 2015
Buckeye Firearms Foundation’s (501c3) Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response (FASTER) program is approaching the end of it’s third full year and amazing progress is being made toward safer schools all across Ohio. The FASTER program was developed as a common sense response to the horrific murders at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012. While others looked at...

Council repeals gun ban in Poland Municipal Forest; Solicitor laments CCW isn't "what the woods are designed for"

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, August 21, 2015
WFMJ (NBC Youngstown) is reporting that the Poland, OH village council has repealed an ordinance banning firearms in Poland Municipal Forest after threats of legal action from right-to-carry advocates. Coverage from the Youngstown Vindicator published before the vote provides more details: The ordinance, long on the books in the village, prohibits individuals from carrying guns in the public...

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