News

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...

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...

Pages

Subscribe to our FREE Newsletter

Get weekly news and instant alerts on the latest laws and politics that affect your gun rights. Enjoy cutting-edge commentary. Be among the first to hear about gun raffles, firearms training, and special events. Read more.

We respect your privacy and your email address will be kept confidential.

Mission

Buckeye Firearms Association is a grassroots organization dedicated to defending and advancing the right of citizens to own and use firearms for all legal activities, including self-defense, hunting, competition, and recreation. Read more.

JOIN

© 2002-2026 Buckeye Firearms Association, PO Box 365, Arcanum, OH 45304. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Opinions belong to their authors. Nothing in this website should be considered personal legal advice. Privacy and Security Policy.

Website by: Midnet Media