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The difference between "qualification" and "training"

by Varg Freeborn
7:00am Friday, March 06, 2015
Let’s talk about the difference between “qualification” and “training”. Do you believe that because someone has taken a concealed carry course they are now proficient in employing a weapon safely and effectively in a fast moving deadly confrontation? Or that someone who has hunted and been a recreational shooter all of their life is thereby skillful enough to operate effectively in a gun fight?...

Pakistani Teachers Arm Themselves after Taliban School Massacre

3:00pm Thursday, March 05, 2015
Back in November, we reported on Israeli Public Security Minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, announcing a decision to relax the rules governing the carrying of firearms in the wake of the murder of four Orthodox Jewish men and a police officer in a West Jerusalem Temple by terrorists armed with knives, axes and a gun. We noted then that Israeli officials had rightly recognized the protective benefits...

FASTER ad running in Ohio School Board Association magazine

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Thursday, March 05, 2015
The Ohio School Board Association (OSBA) publishes a magazine for its members on a bi-monthly basis. Inside the back cover of the latest edition school administrators will find an ad for FASTER Saves Lives , sponsored by Buckeye Firearms Foundation. The idea for the ad came after attending the OSBA Capital Conference last November. It became apparent that most school officials have talked about...

Remaining Anti-Gunners in U.S. Senate Renew Push for Gun Control

3:00pm Wednesday, March 04, 2015
Anti-gun U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and U.S. Representative Elizabeth Esty (D-Conn.), have introduced their Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act (S. 407 and H.R. 752, respectively), in yet another attempt to ban magazines that accept more than 10 rounds. Similar legislation has been introduced in previous Congresses, and has repeatedly failed since the expiration of the Clinton “...

2014 Attorney General Summary on Concealed Carry: Program's second-busiest year ever

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Wednesday, March 04, 2015
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the Concealed Handgun License (CHL) statistics for the fourth quarter of 2014 and the annual report. 2014 was the second busiest year in the history of the concealed carry program, and ended with a record 438,000 Ohioans licensed to discretely carry firearms. Demand for CHLs finished the year strong, with demand increasing slightly over the prior...

Elderly homeowner defends life in daylight Columbus home invasion

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Tuesday, March 03, 2015
The Columbus Dispatch reported recently that an elderly homeowner was able to defend his own life when a convicted burglar decided to strike again. From the article : The North Side homeowner dialed 911 just after noon yesterday and gave his address. When asked what his emergency was, he replied, “Some ... some guy broke into my house, and I shot him.” ... Officers arrived to find the homeowner...

HB 78: "Universal" Background Checks gun control bill reintroduced in Ohio

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, March 03, 2015
Judging by HB 78, one of his latest gun control bills introduced in the Ohio House, Rep. Bill Patmon (D) seems unable to grasp the idea that criminals do not typically submit themselves to background checks, and that even when a prohibited person is stopped by a background check procedure, no one prosecutes them for the crime they just committed. In the immediate aftermath of the terrible attack...

Rep. Patmon's HB 79: Retread legislation aimed at the wrong target

by Larry S. Moore
3:00pm Monday, March 02, 2015
Last year WKYC (NBC Cleveland) reporter Tom Meyer issued a very shoddy piece of investigative reporting . His headline blasted that felons are getting hunting licenses that allow them to use guns. The story was long on hype and even longer on misinformation. The most significant piece of bad information was the false assumption that purchasing a hunting license gives someone permission to use a...

Rep. Patmon's HB 75 (Mandatory "Safe" Storage of Firearms) is based on several anti-gun myths

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, March 02, 2015
Editor's Note: The following article was originally published in response to the introduction of Rep. Bill Patmon's HB 563 in the 129th General Assembly. That bill was never considered, and it died at the end of the session in 2012. Patmon reintroduced the bill as HB 31 in the 130th General Assembly. It again failed to be given serious consideration, and died at the end of 2014. Patmon has...

Ohio Deer Hunting: Past success, but future is questionable

by Larry S. Moore
3:00pm Friday, February 27, 2015
The 2014 Ohio deer hunting season is in the bag with 175,745 deer harvested. This compares to 191,455 total harvest for the 2013 season. The 2014 harvest was down overall 8.21%. The numbers are pretty much in line with the predictions of the ODNR Division of Wildlife. Their mission has been to reduce the overall size of Ohio's deer herd. No doubt that effort has been successful as reflected in...

FASTER Saves Lives: Buckeye Firearms Foundation reaching educators at statewide conferences

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Friday, February 27, 2015
The Ohio School Board Association (OSBA) holds its annual Capital Conference in November each year. At the most recent conference, Buckeye Firearms Foundation was invited to host a breakout session on armed school staff. We also had a booth to talk to schools about safety and security and the option of armed staff. The conference started on a safety note, as Dr. Dick Caster and John Benner hosted...

Mall Security: Separating Fact from Fiction

by Gary Evens
3:00pm Thursday, February 26, 2015
It sounded awfully familiar. In late February a group calling itself al-Shabaab (operating out of Somalia) threatened to attack the Mall of America in Minnesota. It was kind of like déjà vu for me; I’d seen this before some place. Then it hit me. That was the plot of Stephen Hunter’s book Soft Target (Simon & Schuster, 2011)! The target: the Mall of America (or “America, the Mall” as it is...

What HB 234 Means to You: Part II - Reciprocity

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Thursday, February 26, 2015
On March 23, 2015 several changes to Ohio law that are of particular significance to Ohio gun owners will take effect. This article will look at reciprocity and related issues. Currently, Ohio residents may carry on an Ohio Concealed Handgun License (CHL) or a license from another “substantially equivalent” state that the Ohio Attorney General has signed a reciprocal agreement with. Residents...

Looking for something new? Try Cowboy Action Shooting!

by Gary Evens
3:00pm Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Cowboy action shooting (CAS) was what got me back into shooting after many years. At the time I was heavily involved in Civil War re-enacting where all of the shooting is done with blanks. Since the “cowboy era” immediately followed the end of the Civil War, I figured it would be an easy transition. I already had clothing of the appropriate styles. All I needed was the guns and to find a local...

Review: Alien Gear Cloak Tuck 2.0 IWB Holster

by Scott Seibert
7:00am Wednesday, February 25, 2015
I met my contact in the parking lot between Applebees and McDonalds in the middle of Little Mogadishu. I pulled up next to his vehicle and he handed me the package through the open driver’s side windows. The first thing I noticed about the object was that it was soft and a little squishy. But it had hard bits in it as well…not unlike a freshly-killed cottontail rabbit. It was a Ziplock-style...

Mementos Reveal Civil Rights Icon's Exposure to Armed Self-Defense

3:00pm Tuesday, February 24, 2015
On Wednesday, [February 4,] the Library of Congress made the Rosa Parks Collection available to researchers. The compilation includes 2,500 photos and 7,500 manuscripts pertaining to the civil rights icon. Among these documents is a short autobiographical piece highlighting some of Parks’ early experiences with armed self-defense. A February 3 Washington Post article details the “biographical...

Your Action Urgently Needed to Prevent BATFE from Banning Common Rifle Ammo!

7:00am Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Editor's Note: In addition to the important information below, activists concerned about this latest gun control effort by the Obama administration are encouraged to send letters to the BATFE through www.WeWillNotBackDown.com . Not only will you be helping in the effort to stop President Obama's latest executive overreach, but you will have the chance to win the exact ammo the president wants to...

Don’t Evacuate into a Parking Lot

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Monday, February 23, 2015
I recently taught a class that covered the skills an armed citizen needs to respond to a terrorist bombing attack. In the class, I spent a lot of time talking about the concept of the “secondary device.” The secondary device is some hazard that is designed to injure or kill additional victims or first responders some time after an initial attack. Most commonly, secondary devices are bombs set to...

Firearms Training: How Much Should Be Required?

by Gary Evens
7:00am Monday, February 23, 2015
Ohio has required individuals that want to obtain a concealed handgun license to complete a minimum of 12 hours of training, but that is about to change. As I’ve previously recorded, the mandatory topics Ohio requires include being able to: Name, explain, and demonstrate the rules for safe handling of a handgun and proper storage practices for handguns and ammunition; Demonstrate and explain how...

Woman shoots home invader with gun son gave her week before

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, February 20, 2015
Columbus media are reporting on a home invasion that ended when a woman whose son had given her a gun only last week was able to defend herself. From WBNS (CBS Columbus) : Columbus Police at the scene tell 10TV a widow heard someone breaking in, grabbed her gun and shot the intruder. “She was armed and apparently fired multiple shots at him,” said Sgt. Dave Sicilia. The woman’s son says he bought...

Anti-gun civil rights attorney arrested with gun at Cleveland airport

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, February 20, 2015
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that a prominent Cleveland civil rights attorney was arrested last Saturday at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in connection with carrying a concealed weapon. While I take no joy in seeing a fellow gun owner arrested for making harmless mental error, it is the identity of this particular gun owner that makes this article worthy of discussion. From...

NRA Backs Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2015

3:00pm Thursday, February 19, 2015
Bill Would Protect & Enhance Opportunities for Hunting, Shooting and Fishing Fairfax, VA - On behalf of its five-million members, the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) announced its support for The Bipartisan Sportsmen's Act of 2015 , introduced by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). This legislation seeks to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational...

Strickland quits anti-gun organization after BuckeyeFirearms.org article

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, February 19, 2015
Last week, amidst news that former Governor Ted Strickland (D) is considering a run for U.S. Senate against Senator Rob Portman (R), Buckeye Firearms Association published my article informing voters of Strickland's involvement over the past year as President of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, an anti-gun rights lobbying group in Washington D.C. After providing many examples of CAP'...

Recreational Lands Self-Defense Act Introduced

3:00pm Wednesday, February 18, 2015
U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and U.S. Representative Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio) recently introduced S. 263 and H.R. 578, which are 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 that govern different federal lands managed by different federal agencies. On...

Headline: Man practicing open carry law robbed of gun

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, February 18, 2015
As editor of BuckeyeFirearms.org, I have the opportunity to read articles posted to our site well in advance - even weeks in advance, as is sometimes the case when an author submits a draft for consideration. And so it is that I've had several weeks to ponder Gerard Valentino's recently-published " Top Ten Threats to Gun Rights in 2015 ," and his decision to list "Open Carry Extremists" as the...

Mission Creep: DEA Contemplated Mass Surveillance of Gun Show Attendees

3:00pm Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Recent revelations about a proposed federal law enforcement program might have some friends and families drawing lots to decide who drives to the next gun show. Criminals rarely obtain guns from gun shows. A Department of Justice survey of state and federal inmates, found that only 0.7 percent of those polled had acquired a firearm that they possessed at the time of their offense from a gun show...

NRA Backs Constitutional Concealed Carry Bill

7:00am Tuesday, February 17, 2015
On behalf of its five-million members, the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) has announced its support for S. 498--The Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2015 --which was introduced in the U.S. Senate by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). The legislation would respect the rights of individuals who possess concealed carry permits from their home state...

Applications Being Accepted: Memorial Scholarship Honors Wildlife Officer Larry A. Hart

3:00pm Monday, February 16, 2015
EATON, Ohio — The Larry A. Hart Memorial Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce they are accepting applications for the Larry A. Hart Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is funded by the Ohio Wildlife Officers’ Lodge 143 of the Fraternal Order of Police and Twin Valley Rod and Gun Club of Preble County. Larry A. Hart was a thirty-year veteran of the Ohio Division of Wildlife. For most of...

BATFE To Ban Common AR-15 Ammo

7:00am Monday, February 16, 2015
In a move clearly intended by the Obama Administration to suppress the acquisition, ownership and use of AR-15s and other .223 caliber general purpose rifles, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives unexpectedly announced today that it intends to ban commonplace M855 ball ammunition as “armor piercing ammunition.” The decision continues Obama’s use of his executive authority to...

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