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Judge overturns federal interstate handgun sales ban

by Jim Shepherd
3:00pm Friday, February 13, 2015
Another big legal win for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) in a federal district court in Texas. While some sections of the country seem dead-set on putting more restrictions on firearms owners - especially the legal ones, other parts of the nation - even in federal courts- see things somewhat differently. In the case of Mance v. Holder (yes, that Holder- he's...

Bloomberg’s Professional Liars Keep on Lying

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Friday, February 13, 2015
Claim that NRA wants “more guns for everyone, everywhere, anytime” is simply not true John Feinblatt, Mike Bloomberg’s top flunky in his gun control operations, [recently] doubled down on the anti-rights lobby’s lies in a piece on the leftist web site The Daily Beast . As I have been pointing out in my ongoing series about the lies of the anti-rights lobby, virtually everything that comes out of...

To the Editor: Columnist has history of misses

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Thursday, February 12, 2015
Recently, Toledo Blade columnist Marilou Johanek wrote yet another anti-gun rights screed, lamenting the fact that Lake Local school board is considering joining the growing list of Ohio schools who have decided to offer their students the same protection our culture deems acceptable for rock stars, politicians, and, yes, even some journalists. The Blade published several responding letters to...

Rep. Ron Maag introduces legislation to eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, February 12, 2015
by Chad D. Baus Ohioans would be able to carry concealed guns on college campuses, places of worship, day-care facilities, private airplanes, school safety zones and certain government buildings under House Bill 48, legislation introduced by Rep. Ron Maag, R-Lebanon. The bill is similar to HB 231, which Maag introduced in the previous General Assembly. That bill received several hearings but...

2015 NRA BOD elections include two candidates from Ohio

by Tim Inwood
3:00pm Wednesday, February 11, 2015
As regular readers of BuckeyeFirearms.org pages know, the NRA is the oldest and largest defender of our Second Amendment rights in the United States. Founded by Union officers in the years following the US Civil War, its mission has been to promote marksmanship and the shooting sports for over 144 years now. In the last century, they had to take on a new role: defending the Second Amendment from...

As Strickland considers Senate run, gun owners should consider his recent work in D.C.

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, February 11, 2015
On January 30, media reports were awash with news from the Youngstown Vindicator that "sources close to him" had "confirmed" that 73 year-old former Gov. Ted Strickland will run for the U.S. Senate next year. Two weeks later, however, the former governor's intentions are less clear. According to the Vindicator , Strickland told reporters during a conference call hosted by the Center for American...

Paranoia Leads to Tragedy: Connecticut college student's life ruined by gun control

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Just days after the horror at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a 23-year old college student in Connecticut was a victim of another gun-related tragedy. No guns were fired, no one was physically injured, but even so, a life was ruined. William Dong was licensed in Connecticut to carry a concealed handgun. He worked for an armored car company and, along with being a good student, and hard worker, he...

Allen Co. Sheriff predicts CHL spike; Montgomery Co. Sheriff improves customer service

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, February 10, 2015
According to the Lima News , Allen County Sheriff Sam Crish is predicting a spike this year in people obtaining their concealed handgun license (CHL) thanks to a reduction in the mandatory length of the class to eight hours. From the article : “I think people will see that and say I will go do the eight,” Crish said. The sheriff said it usually takes an event or a presidential election to spike...

Federal Appellate Court Rules EPA Cannot Regulate Content of Ammunition

3:00pm Monday, February 09, 2015
Dismisses Anti-hunting Groups' Lawsuit Seeking to Ban Traditional Ammunition [In late December,] the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the dismissal of the latest lawsuit brought by anti-hunting groups petitioning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue regulations banning traditional ammunition with lead components. The refusal by the EPA to consider the...

Our Constitution, Obama's Inconvenience: "U.N. Arms Trade Treaty is now in effect"

Special Report by Ginny Simone
7:00am Monday, February 09, 2015
"This is a president who acts without any sense of executive restraint. The Constitution is an inconvenience to him." Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton discusses President Obama and the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty. The Obama administration signed the treaty in 2014 and it awaits ratification from the Senate. But as Bolton notes, Obama could make an end-run around Congress and use an...

Testimony in sheriff's corruption trial cites improper issuance of CHLs to friends

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, February 06, 2015
Suspended Athens County Sheriff Pat Kelly (D), who in December 2013 made headlines for refusing to renew some current concealed handgun license-holders (CHLs) over what the state Attorney General said was a misreading of the law, is currently on trial, having been indicted last year on 25 counts involving alleged corruption in his office. Ironically, news from the trial involves not the CHLs he...

Williams Co. firearms instructor the latest to be prosecuted for teaching short classes

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, February 06, 2015
The Bryan Times is reporting that Williams County NRA-certified instructor Jim Bonney pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor falsification charge in Bryan Municipal Court in a case involving his issuance of training certificates for concealed handgun licenses. From the article : Ohio law requires 10 hours of classroom instruction on weapons safety and legal responsibilities, plus two hours of...

January 2015 Firearms Sales Checks Second Highest January on Record

3:00pm Thursday, February 05, 2015
The January 2015 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,052,441 is now the second highest January on record for the 16-year-old system, with an increase of 8.4 percent compared to the January 2014 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 970,510. For comparison, the unadjusted January 2015 NICS figure of 1,763,233 reflects a 6.8 percent increase from the unadjusted...

Top Ten Threats to Gun Rights in 2015

by Gerard Valentino
7:00am Thursday, February 05, 2015
After years of being treated like political outcasts, gun advocacy groups are now entrenched as powerful political insiders, putting gun-rights in Ohio, and in America, at a crossroads as we enter 2015. By earning a “seat at the table” through hard work, an unflinching willingness to see the truth win out, and dedication to the cause, pro-gun leaders have been able to pick off much of the low-...

Attend the Cabela's Dundee Area NRA University- February 7-8!

3:00pm Wednesday, February 04, 2015
The annual Cabela's NRA Weekend is right around the corner. On February 7-8th, sportsmen and gun owners in the Great Lake State will have the opportunity to attend various Second Amendment- related seminars at the Cabela's in Dundee, Michigan. The forums will cover a range of topics, from political activism at the NRA University workshop, to the “Carrying Concealed from a Holster” forum with NRA...

Disgruntled church employee shot by pastor in Florida self-defense case

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, February 04, 2015
A recent incident in Florida has brought a glaring problem with Ohio's concealed carry law to light yet again. From the Orlando Sentinel : The pastor of a Kissimmee church shot and critically wounded an employee Tuesday morning in a shootout after he notified the man he was being fired, according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office. The shooting shortly after 8 a.m. was witnessed by other...

D.C. Mayor’s “Hatred” of Guns Illustrates Need for Congressional Action to Restore Rights

3:00pm Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Big city mayors often have the luxury of sharing their unfiltered thoughts in a way that politicians subject to more ideologically diverse constituencies can’t afford. This trait was on full display January 8, when recently inaugurated District of Columbia Mayor Muriel E. Bowser addressed the anti-gun Washington Interfaith Network, gathered at D.C.’s St. Augustine church. Bowser told the crowd, “...

HB 16 ('Toy' gun control) won't make officers' jobs any easier

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Late in 2014, and in the wake of an incident in which a 12 year-old Cleveland boy was killed by police after he attempted to draw what turned out to be an airsoft pistol from his waistband, Rep. Alicia Reece's (D) knee-jerk reaction came quickly. The anti-gun rights politician from Cincinnati introduced legislation based off of a recently-passed California gun control law, requiring all BB guns,...

Where Has All the Ammo Gone?: An Update

by Gary Evens
3:00pm Monday, February 02, 2015
Following the Sandy Hook tragedy in December 2012 and the subsequent debates about the need for more gun control, the supply of ammunition on retailer shelves pretty much dried up. I wrote about this in the March/April 2013 edition of Random Shots, an article that was subsequently published on the Buckeye Firearms Association website and that became their second most popular posting for that year...

HB 20 (Rule Modification for Concealed Carry in School Zones) reintroduced by Rep. Gonzales

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, February 02, 2015
On December 4, 2014 the Ohio House of Representatives passed Rep. Anne Gonzales' (R-Westerville) House Bill 454 by an 81-2 vote. Gonzales' bill sought to correct several problems with current law regarding concealed handgun licenses' behavior in school zones. In the waning days of the lame duck session, the bill's language was inserted into HB 234 in the Senate, but Republicans in the Senate...

FDIC Reverses Course on "Operation Choke Point"

3:00pm Friday, January 30, 2015
In a major development concerning NSSF's leadership to halt discrimination in the provision of financial services and products to firearms related businesses due to "Operation Choke Point", the top officials of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on Wednesday admitted wrongdoing and said they would cease practices that had the effect of encouraging such disparate treatment. U.S. Rep...

How "gun-friendly" is Ohio?

by Gary Evens
7:00am Friday, January 30, 2015
I guess the answer depends on what you are comparing Ohio to. In 2004, Ohio joined the growing ranks of states that enacted laws enabling their citizens to carry concealed firearms. As of 2014, all states now permit some form of concealed carry. Only in the District of Columbia is this right still denied, although this may change soon as a result of a recent court ruling. As of the end of 2013,...

Interstate Transportation of Firearms and Ammunition Bill Introduced

3:00pm Thursday, January 29, 2015
U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) recently introduced H.R. 131, a bill that would more comprehensively address the interstate transportation of firearms and ammunition for law-abiding gun owners. Current federal law guarantees the right of law-abiding persons to transport firearms between two locations where they have a legal right to possessand carry them, regardless of state or local laws that...

Observations of an Armed Holiday Traveler

by Aaron Kirkingburg
7:00am Thursday, January 29, 2015
Having recently returned from my holiday travels, I decided to make a few observations from the “Armed Citizen” perspective. This year, my wife and I decided to take our four children on a family vacation to Pensacola, Florida. It having been over eight years since we'd REALLY taken a proper vacation, the decision was made. Two weeks on the Gulf Coast was in order! Not knowing how long my oldest...

Extra, Extra! Media Mogul Bloomberg Stages Anti-gun Indoctrination Camp for Suggestible Reporters

3:00pm Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Pro-gun websites and message boards have been abuzz [recently] with news that Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun cabal, Everytown for Gun Safety, is partnering with the Columbia Journalism School to offer a two-day workshop for media figures who cover guns and gun issues. While none of us here have the benefit (if that’s what you’d call it) of a graduate degree from the Columbia School of Journalism,...

Buckeye Firearms Foundation's Jim Irvine addresses Lake Local school board on FASTER program

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, January 28, 2015
(Photo by Kristen Norman/Sentinel-Tribune) On Saturday, January 24, Buckeye Firearms Foundation President Jim Irvine and Joe Eaton, Program Director of the Foundation's Faculty / Administrator Safety Training & Emergency Response (FASTER), were given the opportunity to address the Lake Local Board of Education about the matter of school safety. From the Toledo Blade (which editorialized...

Field reports from ODNR Division of Wildlife Officers highlight need to obey hunting regulations

3:00pm Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Central Ohio – Wildlife District One While on patrol at Quarry Park, State Wildlife Officer Chad Grote, assigned to Marion County, observed three men taking turns fishing with one fishing pole. One would fish for about five minutes and then hand the pole to one of the other men. Officer Grote watched each of the men fish at least twice before he went and checked them for fishing licenses. None of...

How to know if you carry "enough gun" to face any threat

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Last week, I [wrote about] a news article describing the guns used by the terrorists in the recent attacks in France. Here’s an excerpt from my commentary on the article: “Let’s total this up. The four attackers had body armor and radio communications. They were armed with numerous 9mm handguns, Kalashnikov rifles, a rocket launcher, 10 Molotov cocktails, 10 smoke grenades, a hand grenade, and 15...

New NSSF Report: More Women Owning Guns, Going Target Shooting and Hunting

3:00pm Monday, January 26, 2015
More than half of women (55.6 percent) participating in a new study commissioned by the National Shooting Sports Foundation said they intend to purchase at least one firearm in the next 12 months. That finding and many others reflect the growing popularity of firearms ownership by women, who represent the fastest growing segment of the shooting sports. [D]uring the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor...

Senator Rob Portman & Congressman Bob Latta brave January cold for Northwest Ohio pheasant hunt

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, January 23, 2015
It is very difficult for our elected representatives in Washington D.C. to get a day off - so much so that when Ohio's U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R) and northwest Ohio's U.S. Congressman Bob Latta (R) found a Saturday morning free, even temperatures well below freezing couldn't stop them from spending some time afield. Sen. Portman & Rep. Latta are pictured with Brad & Ann Dysinger, owners...

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