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Man defends own life during attempted armed robbery

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, January 23, 2015
Columbus media are reporting that a Franklinton man was able to defend his life when an assailant attempted to rob him at gunpoint. From WCMH (NBC Columbus) : When officers arrived on scene, they found 28-year-old David A. Mullins in the rear of the address suffering from gunshot wounds. Mullins was pronounced dead at the scene. According to police, at the same time as the initial call of the...

Another Week, Another Executive Gun Control Action: BATFE Reverses Prior Position on Pistol "Stabilizing Braces"

3:00pm Thursday, January 22, 2015
On January 16, BATFE released an Open Letter on the Redesign of “Stabilizing Braces .” This letter articulates BATFE’s official position on the use of pistol stabilizing braces like the Sig Sauer SB15 . It concludes that “[a]ny person who intends to use a handgun stabilizing brace as a shoulder stock on a pistol (having a rifled barrel under 16 inches in length or a smooth bore firearm with a...

'Bullet Voting': Increase your NRA Board of Directors ballot power

by Joe Eaton
7:00am Thursday, January 22, 2015
All NRA members with five consecutive years of membership or a Life membership or above should be looking for the annual NRA Board of Directors (BOD) ballot in their NRA Magazine (or mailed separately). The NRA Board of Directors consists of 76 persons, with 25 elected each year for a three year term. (The 76th is elected at the NRA Annual Meetings). When your ballot arrives, you will usually...

To the Editor: Being armed is sensible, even in ‘safe’ situations

3:00pm Wednesday, January 21, 2015
In response to a letter in the Columbus Dispatch , in which a reader assigned mental illness to those who carry a gun, Buckeye Firearms Association President Jim Irvine submitted his own letter , which was published a few days later. Regarding Sean Allen’s letter, “Shootings have become public-health threat,” in Friday’s Dispatch: Responding to a tragic accident in Idaho in which a 2-year-old...

Vote Sean Maloney for NRA Board of Directors

3:01pm Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Buckeye Firearms Association's own Sean Maloney is seeking 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 FOR SEAN MALONEY. Endorsements include Buckeye Firearms Association, Soldier of Fortune Magazine , Ohio Gun Collectors Association, Dick Heller (DC vs. Heller), The Colorado Second Amendment Association, Laura...

Our lives and our safety is OUR job

3:00pm Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Do you believe the government can keep you safe? What's the cost to a country that thinks its rules can shield good people from bad things? Our safety is our job, because our lives are our job. >>> CLICK HERE to join the NRA or renew your membership now . If you know some good guys and gals, get them a gift membership.

Save a life or sneer at an idiot - your choice

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Interesting experience at the shooting range this afternoon ... The range is packed. Everyone got new guns for X-mas and wants to shoot them. There was about an hour wait for a stall. I sit down and start reading as I wait my turn. In a few minutes, a young girl sits down to wait in the chair next to mine. She's by herself and appears to be in her early 20s. She's the only black person in the...

Who's Right About Right-to-Carry?

3:00pm Monday, January 19, 2015
Later this year, Congress may consider Right-to-Carry reciprocity legislation that would require states to honor each other’s concealed firearm carrying permits. When they do, gun control supporters better hope they have someone more effective to argue for their side than anti-gun advocate Daniel Webster. The Washington Post reports that Webster, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun...

What HB 234 Means to You: Part I - NICS compliant background checks

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Monday, January 19, 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 improvements in the background check process to obtain an Ohio concealed handgun license (CHL). There has been a considerable amount of discussion and misinformation related to HB 234 (and HB 203) relating to the provision making the background check for...

Media Fail: Americans' Gun Purchases Are Soaring

3:00pm Friday, January 16, 2015
Lately, along with gun control supporters claiming that the number of gun owners is declining, some in the media have been saying that Americans’ gun purchases are declining as well. Last summer, Time.com went so far as to say--and we’re not kidding, here--that guns are one of the 10 Things Americans Have Suddenly Stopped Buying. And this week, a Washington Post headline, Gun sales in Virginia...

December 2014 Firearms Sales Checks Second Highest December on Record

7:00am Friday, January 16, 2015
The December 2014 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,624,524 is the second highest December on record for the 16-year-old system, with an increase of 7.5 percent compared to the December 2013 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,510,529. For comparison, the unadjusted December 2014 NICS figure of 2,301,386 reflects a 13.2 percent increase from the...

Hunters Encouraged to Attend Ohio's Deer Hunting Summits

3:00pm Thursday, January 15, 2015
Ohio hunters and others interested in the state’s white-tailed deer management programs have the opportunity to provide feedback about hunting regulations and season structures on Saturday, Jan. 24, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The first part of each summit will offer updates from ODNR Division of Wildlife staff, including Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)...

Is Your Concealed Carry Gear Up to Speed?

by Gary Evens
7:00am Thursday, January 15, 2015
In mid-July [2014] I found myself once again on the range at the Greene County Fish and Game Association with Dave Spaulding and Brian “Bucky” Buchanan from Handgun Combatives; Larry Moore, Joe Eaton, and Clint Lake from the Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA); and about fifty-five others. We were all there for “Pistol Basics with Dave Spaulding”, a fund-raiser course Dave does to help benefit BFA...

Get your Traveler's Guide - FREE Shipping

5:56pm Wednesday, January 14, 2015
NEW and UPDATED for 2015 - The Traveler's Guide to the Firearm Laws of the Fifty States is the ultimate reference for gun owners who are traveling to or through other states. For each state, this slim paperback summarize the laws in just one page to give you quick, at-a-glance advice for staying legal and out of trouble. If you own or carry a gun, don't hit the road without your new copy of the...

Bell Rings for Anti-Gun Senator Barbara Boxer

3:00pm Wednesday, January 14, 2015
California's junior U.S. senator, Barbara Boxer (D), announced this week that she will not seek re-election in 2016. The announcement follows a statewide poll last year, indicating that Boxer's support among Californians had slipped. Moreover, in the November 2014 elections, her party became the minority in Congress' upper house, resulting in her loss of the chairmanship of the Senate Environment...

The One Thing You Can Do for Rights in 2015

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Wednesday, January 14, 2015
It is mind-boggling that we’re now living in 2015. I like to think I’m not so old, but I also remember when 2001 was a distant date in a science fiction movie. I’m still waiting for the flying car I was promised. But flying cars weren’t the only things we were promised back in the good old days. Looking back at when we were looking forward to these days, I remember predictions about a coming ice-...

Good guys don't seek the spotlight, but deserve it

3:00pm Tuesday, January 13, 2015
What does it mean for our country when entertainment seems more valuable than anything else? But there are still hundreds of millions of Americans working as hard as ever. Good Guys who don't seek the spotlight but deserve it. >>> CLICK HERE to join the NRA or renew your membership now . If you know some good guys and gals, get them a gift membership.

Community organizer critical of police shoots unarmed man!

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, January 13, 2015
KSAZ (FOX Phoenix) recently ran a news report about an event that I believe should become a part of media, politicians' and "community organizers'" experience in cities in Ohio and throughout the country. In the report, Jarrett Maupin, an activist known for leading marches on the Phoenix Police headquarters after officers shot an unarmed man who reportedly fought with them, and FOX 10's Troy...

BATFE Rings in the New Year with More Executive Gun Control

3:00pm Monday, January 12, 2015
On January 2, BATFE issued its first ruling of 2015. Identified as ATF Rul. 2015-1, it significantly expands the scope of activities that BATFE considers to be “manufacturing” for purposes of the Gun Control Act (GCA). While BATFE claims this ruling is simply a “clarification” of their prior position taken in ATF Rul. 2010-10, 2015-1 is clearly an attempted expansion of the definition of...

Another Ohio school investigates arming staff to protect its students

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, January 12, 2015
In the immediate aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre in late 2012, gun ban extremists sought to use the incident to achieve their legislative goals, despite the fact that nothing they were proposing would have prevented the terrible attack. Buckeye Firearms Foundation, on the other hand, set about to do something that has already been proven a success in several incidents around the country -...

Firearms Training: “Lights, Camera, Action!”

by Gary Evens
3:00pm Friday, January 09, 2015
[T]he use of videos to supplement your firearms training...can be useful in demonstrating basic and advanced techniques because they can focus on a single aspect and let you observe how to properly perform the step from several different angles. It is often much easier to understand complex concepts visually than it is to have them explained to you with words or in writing. The disadvantages of...

Buckeyefirearms.org: Top Ten News Items of 2014

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, January 09, 2015
On average, we publish two articles a day and 10 to 12 articles a week. Over the years, we have published approximately 10,000 articles, covering elections, legislation, and all manner of events and information of interest to Second Amendment supporters. As content editor for BuckeyeFirearms.org, it's always interesting to look back over the year to see which articles captured the most interest...

Taking Care of Your Guns Before You Store Them

by Barbara Baird
3:00pm Thursday, January 08, 2015
After you purchase a gun, you must store it properly. But, just like that lovely vintage lace dress from your great grandmother or a treasured coin collection from your favorite uncle, you must take care of your newly acquired item properly before storing it. Make it a Clean Machine First thing you should do with any newly acquired gun is clean it. If it’s brand spanking new, it’ll need at least...

Ohio concealed handgun licensees involved in separate self-defense incidents

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, January 08, 2015
According to news accounts, two Ohio concealed handgun license-holders, one from Toledo and one from Cincinnati, were involved in separate incidents in which they were forced to defend their lives from violent attackers. Cincinnati's CBS affiliate, WKRC, reported recently that a North Fairmount homeowner was forced to shoot a man who police say was trying to break into his residence. Under Ohio's...

Gun Safety Begins With You

by Tom McHale
3:00pm Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Did you know? The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s Project ChildSafe program helps coordinate distribution of firearm safety kits which include a free cable-style gun lock. Since Project ChildSafe’s inception, more than 36 million safety kits have been donated throughout the U.S. Firearm-related fatalities in the U.S. have been decreasing consistently since record keeping began in 1903 and...

Choosing a Handgun to Carry Concealed is an Exercise in the Art of Compromise

by Gary Evens
7:00am Wednesday, January 07, 2015
It seems there is a lot of discussion on the various firearms blogs over the merits of one particular model/style of handgun over another for concealed carry. The reality is that there is no “ideal” concealed carry handgun that meets everyone’s needs. ...[T]he handgun you end up using for your personal protection will inevitably be a compromise. Usually that “compromise” involves the size (and...

Anti-Gun Groups: Even Their Names Are Lies

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Tuesday, January 06, 2015
Advocates for gun control are liars. They specialize in taking some little snippet of fact and presenting it in a way that totally misrepresents reality. Statements like “3000 children are killed with guns every year,” don’t inform people that most of those “children” are late-teen gang-bangers who are actually killed by adults, or that accidental firearm deaths among children and youths have...

California police shooting exposes impotence of 'toy gun control' laws

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, January 06, 2015
On November 23, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published an article entitled " In wake of Cleveland boy's shooting death, Ohio lawmaker to introduce legislation requiring that BB guns, air guns be brightly colored ," in which the author discussed legislation that is being promoted by Rep. Alicia Reece (D - Cincinnati), requiring all BB guns, air rifles and airsoft guns sold in Ohio to be brightly...

New Guns: What to Do When You Take Them Home

by Tisma Juet
3:00pm Monday, January 05, 2015
Everyone takes several factors into consideration when purchasing a firearm. What am I planning on using it for—personal protection, hunting or target shooting? Of those firearms that fit my uses, how do I narrow the field and make a choice? Does the gun I like fit me physically? Are the features and cosmetics enough for me? One question that should be at the top of everyone’s list is where and...

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