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Stop Obama's Planned Gag Order on Firearm-Related Speech

7:00am Friday, June 19, 2015
It's happening again— President Obama is using his imperial pen and telephone to curb your rights and bypass Congress through executive action. Even as news reports have been highlighting the gun control provisions of the Administration's "Unified Agenda" of regulatory objectives, the Obama State Department has been quietly moving ahead with a proposal that could censor online speech related to...

Fanciful "Smart Gun" Bill Seeks to Make Law Out of Wishful Thinking

3:00pm Thursday, June 18, 2015
We all have our hopes for the future. In that regard, we're not so different from Senators Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren (both D-Mass.). Where we're just a little bit different, however, is that while we recognize some people might wish to replace travel by automobiles with on-demand flight via pollution-free unicorns, we're not sure a law to that affect is really necessary. Similarly,...

New bill mandates flying cars! (or, The disarmist crowd and their 'smart guns')

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Thursday, June 18, 2015
Democrats in Congress have introduced legislation requiring that five years after its passage, all handguns manufactured or imported into the U.S. must have “personalization” technology incorporated into them that prevents “unauthorized” users from firing them. OK, that’s not a mandate for flying cars, but it might as well be. The comparison is very appropriate. Currently, there are prototypes...

HB 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) approved by House committee

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Earlier today, Sub. House Bill 48 was approved by a vote of 9-2 by the Ohio House State Government Committee. The measure will now move on to the state House of Representatives where it could be considered before the summer recess. Substitute HB 48, sponsored by Rep. Ron Maag (R-Lebanon) seeks to restore Ohioans' right to carry in day-care facilities (unless they post "no-guns"), private...

Buckeye Firearms Association sponsors two members of Ohio 4-H Shooting Sports Team at 2015 National Championships

by Jim Mercer
7:00am Wednesday, June 17, 2015
"Have you ever been to Nebraska?" I can still remember hearing that question in a January phone conversation with my friend and fellow 4-H instructor, Frank Steed. He told me that his son Jimmy Steed and my son, Levi Mercer had been offered spots on the Ohio 4-H Shooting Sports Team to compete at the National 4-H Championship in Grand Island, Nebraska. We both thought WOW!...What an opportunity…...

NRA-Backed Measures Aimed at Reversing Obama Administration's Implementation of Gun Control Through Executive Action

3:00pm Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Fairfax, Va. – The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) [recently] lauded the passage of H.R. 2578, the Fiscal Year 2016 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Act (CJS), which contained strong pro-Second Amendment provisions aimed at stopping the Obama Administration from enacting its gun control agenda through executive action. "On behalf of the NRA's five...

Gun Control: Washington Whispers, Industry Prepares

by Jim Shepherd
7:00am Tuesday, June 16, 2015
If the whispers in the hallways of Congress are any indication, the Obama administration is gearing up for as many as a dozen regulations which, although described as public safety issues are really gun restrictions. Their titling's based on the tried-and true political strategy of calling something potentially distasteful a "safety" issue when in fact it's something else entirely. Measures being...

To the Editor: Loophole is used to harass gun owners

3:00pm Monday, June 15, 2015
The following letter to the editor of the Columbus Dispatch was published on Friday, June 12. Addressing a Senate proposal to close the media-access loophole to concealed-handgun license records, Ohio Newspaper Association Executive Director Dennis Hetzel was quoted by the Northeast Ohio Media Group as saying he couldn’t think of any instance in which Ohio journalists have used their ability to...

BFA's Sean Maloney seeks reelection to NRA Board of Directors

7:00am Monday, June 15, 2015
Editor's Note: Here's a message from Sean Maloney, one of our Volunteer Leaders who helps protect and advance your firearm rights. Please give Sean the support he needs to collect signatures and get reelected to the NRA Board of Directors. If you are an NRA Life Member or higher or if you have been a regular annual member for 5+ consecutive, uninterrupted years, email Sean today at smaloneyesq@...

HB 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) scheduled for 4th hearing, possible vote in House committee

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, June 12, 2015
Chairman Ron Maag (R-Lebanon) has announced that the House State Government committee will be hearing testimony on substitute HB 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) next Wednesday, June 17 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 121. The chairman has also schedule the bill for a possible vote. Substitute HB 48 seeks to restore Ohioans' right to carry in day-care facilities (unless they post "no-guns"),...

Buckeye Firearms Association endorses SB 180 (Protect Workers' Constitutional Rights)

7:00am Friday, June 12, 2015
(Columbus, Ohio) On Wednesday, June 10, Senator Joe Uecker (R-Miami Township) introduced Senate Bill 180, which would prohibit employers from discriminating against workers exercising constitutional rights. Ohio is an “at will” employment state, meaning that workers can be fired for any reason, or no reason. There are many protected classes or exemptions to the general rule. A person may not be...

House committee accepts substitute language in HB 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones)

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Thursday, June 11, 2015
The House State Government committee has adopted a substitute House Bill 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones). Under the original bill introduced by Rep. Ron Maag (R-Lebanon), Ohioans' right to carry would have been restored on college campuses, places of worship, day-care facilities (unless they post "no-guns"), private airplanes, school safety zones, non-secure areas of police stations...

Ohio Senate proposes changes to concealed carry law in biennium budget bill

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, June 11, 2015
Dix Communications is reporting that changes which would effect gun owners are among the Ohio Senate's proposed changes to the 2015-2016 biennium budget bill currently being debated in the Statehouse. The article outlines two amendments that deal with changes to state firearms laws: 1. Guns: Senators added language to block journalists from viewing concealed firearm licensing records, including...

How Sportsmen Make the Great Outdoors (The Pittman-Robertson Tax)

by Tisma Juett
3:00pm Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Did you know that as active outdoors people and shooting sports participants we all help contribute to making the outdoor world the great place that it is? We do this through a special excise tax collected on firearms, ammunition and archery equipment. These monies are part of a piece of legislation called the Pittman-Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act. Monies from these taxes are...

An Active Killer’s Diary

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Wednesday, June 10, 2015
As most of you know, I take a special interest in researching active killers. I’ve been closely watching the progress of the Aurora, Colorado “Batman” movie theater killer’s trial. If you are unfamiliar with the incident, check out my article HERE . Last week, the killer’s diary was released to jurors in the media. The article ‘ Why? Why? Why? ' displays the pages in full for your evaluation. In...

Rep. Carolyn Maloney Flies Anti-gun Flag in U.S. House

3:00pm Tuesday, June 09, 2015
Reliably anti-gun Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) has introduced two new rights-restricting bills in the U.S. House of Representatives. May 15 saw the introduction of H.R. 2380, the so-called “Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2015.” This bill would require background checks on all firearms transactions occurring at gun shows. In the 1990s, gun control supporters began claiming that...

Appeals Court places feelings over Constitution

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Tuesday, June 09, 2015
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, based in Chicago, has upheld a lower court ruling that an Illinois community’s ordinance banning possession of “assault weapons,” and “high-capacity” magazines is not a violation of the Second Amendment rights of their citizens. In the two to one decision, the prevailing judges concluded that “ If a ban on semi‐automatic...

Rep. Steve Scalise Introduces Bill to Relax Restrictions on Interstate Firearm Sales

3:00pm Monday, June 08, 2015
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) has introduced a bill to modernize certain aspects of interstate firearms commerce.The Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act, H.R. 2246, would yield increased convenience and choice for consumers, while continuing to allow states to set their own policy regarding transfer and possession of firearms within their borders. In 1968, when the federal Gun Control Act (GCA)...

NEW Weekly Insights Newsletter Starts June 11

7:00am Monday, June 08, 2015
Buckeye Firearms Association is proud to announce a new, free "bonus" newsletter called BFA Weekly Insights. It will be sent each Thursday to all current newsletter subscribers beginning June 11, 2015. There is nothing extra you need to do to receive this newsletter. If you subscribe to BFA News , you'll start getting the new BFA Weekly Insights automatically. Why a second newsletter? If you've...

May 2015 Firearms Sales Checks Second Highest May on Record

3:00pm Friday, June 05, 2015
The May 2015 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 918,707 is the second highest May on record for the 17-year-old system, with an increase of 4.7 percent compared to the May 2014 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 877,655. For comparison, the unadjusted May 2015 NICS figure of 1,570,893 reflects a 6.4 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,476,...

Lake Co. Sheriff revokes 170 concealed handgun licenses; Classes didn't include range time

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, June 05, 2015
Recently, the News-Herald of Willoughby, Ohio reported that more than concealed carry licenses in Lake County have been invalidated after an instructor allegedly did not teach the required classes. From the article : The Lake County Sheriff’s Office was informed that a concealed carry instructor, who was properly licensed, had been offering what he called “fast track classes,” said Lake County...

D.C. Gun Control Smackdown

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Thursday, June 04, 2015
Editor's Note: Article originally published at WorldNetDaily.com . Some people thought the Heller and McDonald decisions would solve, or at least seriously mitigate the problem of states and localities enacting or enforcing draconian restrictions on guns and gun owners, but so far the impact of those two Supreme Court rulings has been limited, and the Court has refused to hear any subsequent...

HB 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) scheduled for 3rd hearing in House committee

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, June 04, 2015
Chairman Ron Maag (R-Lebanon) has announced that the House State Government committee will be hearing testimony on HB 48 (Eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones) next Wednesday, June 10 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 121. The chairman has also indicated that a substitute bill may be offered. As introduced, HB 48 would allow Ohioans to carry concealed guns on college campuses, places of worship, day-care...

Fail: Professor Claims Gun Rights Lead to Grade Inflation

3:00pm Wednesday, June 03, 2015
Most critics of campus carry couch their cultural bigotry against firearms and their owners in the dubious rhetoric of “public safety.” Yet an instructor at Texas Women’s University has come up with a new argument to suppress Second Amendment rights on campus. Writing in Newsweek, TWU Assistant Professor of Sociology Jessica Gullion stokes fears that campus carry would lead to rampant grade...

Anti-Gun Group Called Out (Mildly) for Falsification As the News Media Continue to Confuse Matters

by Larry Keane
7:00am Wednesday, June 03, 2015
We have noted previously that gun control organizations often exaggerate, confuse, conflate or just plain misrepresent the facts in the pursuit of their political agendas. It happened again following the recent tragic murder of NYPD officer Brian Moore by a career criminal. This time, however, the Politifact organization did some fact checking and found that Everytown for Gun Safety’s talking...

Compliance Doesn’t Always Ensure your Safety!

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Tuesday, June 02, 2015
Many of my students tell me that, should they ever be robbed, they plan on complying with the robbers’ demands. While I can’t presume to tell anyone the individual best course of action during a dangerous situation, I can provide some general statistics about past events. Statistically, complying with armed robbers’ demands generally results in fewer injuries to the victim than resisting (except...

FOX Cleveland examines proposal to allow concealed carry on college campuses

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, June 02, 2015
WJW (Fox Cleveland) recently published a report on Rep. Ron Maag's (R-Lebanon) HB 48, which seeks to restore Ohioans right to bear concealed firearms on college campuses, places of worship, day-care facilities, private airplanes, school safety zones and certain government buildings. The report focused specifically on campus carry, and featured an interview with Buckeye Firearms Association...

Court Orders Issuance of D.C. Concealed Carry Licenses to Eligible Applicants

3:00pm Monday, June 01, 2015
On May 18, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order prohibiting enforcement of provisions of D.C. law that effectively grant to the police chief the discretion to decide who may lawfully exercise the right to bear arms in public for self-defense. This follows on the heels of an earlier ruling in which the District lost the argument that the right to “bear arms” does...

Report: Administration preps new gun regulations

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, June 01, 2015
TheHill.com is reporting that the Justice Department plans to move forward this year with more than a dozen new gun-related regulations, citing a list of rules the agency has proposed to enact before the end of the Obama administration. From the article : The regulations range from new restrictions on high-powered pistols to gun storage requirements. Chief among them is a renewed effort to keep...

Passage of H.R. 2028 Includes Right-to-Carry on Army Corps Land Provision

3:00pm Friday, May 29, 2015
On Friday, May 1, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2028 the "Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016," by a bipartisan vote of 240-177. This bill is designed to protect the rights of gun owners on lands owned or managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). This legislation would help end the patchwork of firearm laws and regulations...

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