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Ohio House concurs with Senate changes to HB 234; Act to be sent to Governor for consideration

by Chad D. Baus
3:08pm Wednesday, December 10, 2014
The Ohio House concurred with Senate changes to Am. Sub HB 234 by a vote of 69 - 16. Beginning early in this session (2013), the House held numerous hearings on and eventually passed multiple firearms-related bills. The House passed HB 203 (Concealed Carry & Self-Defense Law Reform), HB 234 (Allow Noise Suppressors While Hunting) and HB 454 (Rule Modification for Concealed Carry in School...

November 2014 Firearms Sales Checks Highest November on Record

3:00pm Wednesday, December 10, 2014
The November 2014 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,329,688 is the second highest November (following November 2012) on record for the 16-year-old system, with an increase of 1.7 percent compared to the November 2013 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,308,100. For comparison, the unadjusted November 2014 NICS figure of 1,797,163 reflects a 0.5 percent...

Service is a sacred duty of a free people

3:00pm Tuesday, December 09, 2014
What could be worse for a country than a generation that is unwilling to serve it? That's the most dangerous symptom of a national sickness. Service is a sacred duty of a free people — that's what Good Guys believe. >>> CLICK HERE to join the NRA or renew your membership now . If you know some good guys and gals, get them a gift membership.

LIVE streaming of important debate & floor votes on firearms legislation TODAY!

1:50pm Tuesday, December 09, 2014
Buckeye Firearms Association leaders will be on hand in the Statehouse today, Wednesday, December 10 , as important debate and a vote on firearms legislation (HB 234) are held in the Ohio House. Click here for more information on what is being considered today. You can view the hearings LIVE by clicking here , beginning at 1:00 p.m. in the House. The Ohio Channel is a service of Ohio's public...

[UPDATE!] Landmark firearms legislation passes Ohio Senate (Vote Tally, Bill Summary)

12:18pm Tuesday, December 09, 2014
The Ohio Senate has passed amended substitute House Bill 234 by a 24 - 6 vote. The bill will now head back to the House for a concurrence vote and on to the Governor. Earlier today, the Senate Civil Justice Committee, by a vote of 8-2 (with Democrat Sens. Skindell and Brown voting agains it), passed the bill out of committee. The committee has held numerous hearings on multiple firearms-related...

Shotgun disguised as Super Soaker highlights folly of Rep. Alicia Reece's 'Toy' Gun Control bill

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, December 09, 2014
In the wake of two incidents in Ohio this year where individuals wielding a pellet gun in a Walmart, and an airsoft gun on a playground, were shot and killed by police, Democrat State Representative Alicia Reece (D-Cincinnati) announced that she planned to introduce a 'toy' gun control bill modeled after California law. The bill, HB 681 ('Toy' Gun Control) , was introduced on Monday, December 8...

NSSF: Violent Crime Rate Continues to Drop & Public Believes Having a Gun in the Home Makes it Safer

by Steve Sanetti
3:00pm Monday, December 08, 2014
The FBI released its annual Crime in the United States report on Monday [November 10] revealing that the country in 2013 saw the violent crime rate fall another 5.1 percent from the previous year, so it is now at its lowest since 1978. Delving a little deeper, the murder and manslaughter rate fell 4.4 percent to the lowest level since 1968. This is very good news, and while it is being reported...

Senate committee schedules eighth hearing for SB 338 (Concealed Carry Reform) & HB 234 (Allow Noise Suppressors While Hunting)

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, December 08, 2014
Chairman Bill Coley has announced that the Senate Civil Justice Committee will be hearing testimony on SB 338, Sen. Joe Uecker's (R-Miami Township) Concealed Carry Law Reform Bill, next Tuesday, December 9 at 10:00 a.m. in the South Hearing Room. This will be the eighth hearing for this bill. Coley has also scheduled an eighth hearing for Rep. Cheryl Grossman's (R-Grove City) HB 234 (Allow Noise...

Sidney Schools' armed teacher program draws national attention as another Ohio school district considers same

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, December 05, 2014
Approximately one year ago, Sidney, Ohio school district went public with its involvement in a program offered by the Shelby Co. Sheriff's Office to arm teachers in the district. Since then, Buckeye Firearms Foundation has announced that over 300 teachers have been trained through its F.A.S.T.E.R. (Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response) program, and that more than 30 Ohio...

House passes HB 454 (Rule Modification for Concealed Carry in School Zones)

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, December 05, 2014
On Thursday, December 4, the Ohio House of Representatives passed Rep. Anne Gonzales' (R-Westerville) House Bill 454 , which seeks to correct several problems with current law regarding concealed handgun licenses' behavior in school zones. Current law is a mess , making it a felony offense for those with a concealed handgun license (CHL) to partake in normal activities while in possession of...

Book Review: Gun Control in the Third Reich

by Dr. Brian Anse Patrick
3:00pm Thursday, December 04, 2014
Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and "Enemies of the State," Stephen P. Halbrook, Independent Institute, 2014, 247 pages. A few years ago the American voluntary association, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, issued a poster showing Adolf Hitler giving the sieg heil salute and captioned: "All in favor of gun control raise your right hand." A truism throughout...

[UPDATE!] Progress in Senate on pro-gun rights bills as end of session draws near

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, December 04, 2014
Editor's Note: Things are changing rapidly as work continues on legislation. This article has been updated as new information became available. With as little as one week left in the legislative session, the Senate Civil Justice Committee took only minimal action Wednesday, December 3 on pro-gun legislation that has been pending for more than a year, but scheduled another hearing for Thursday,...

NSSF: Black Friday Highest Ever for NICS

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Wednesday, December 03, 2014
With the establishment media reporting a significant drop in Black Friday sales in many retail outlets, the National Shooting Sports Foundation is reporting that no such "shopper fatigue" reported among firearms purchasers. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reports that it processed 175,754 transactions on Nov. 28, Black Friday, making the day the highest Black Friday...

Gun safety education will help prevent tragic shootings; Calling real guns "fake," "toys," "replicas," etc. will not

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, December 03, 2014
In the wake of a second shooting this year by police in Ohio of a person holding a gun that was not a firearm, the establishment media continue to struggle with even using the correct terminology to describe these guns correctly (e.g. the Toledo Blade 's torturous headline, " What's Real, What's Not? Toys, deadly weapons difficult to distinguish "), and anti-gun legislators are proposing knee-...

Are we really a nation of laws?

3:00pm Tuesday, December 02, 2014
Is America really providing a level playing field for opportunity, safety and freedom if the game changes with your neighborhood or tax bracket? This isn't the nation the Good Guys want. >>> CLICK HERE to join the NRA or renew your membership now . If you know some good guys and gals, get them a gift membership.

"Only a handful of dates left": Republican-led Senate still plotting future for pro-gun rights bills

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, December 02, 2014
The Gongwer News Service is reporting that the Senate Civil Justice Committee chairman is saying bills to modify concealed carry laws and allow hunters to use noise suppressors could be combined as lawmakers look to move the measures before the end of the lame duck session. From the article : With just weeks to go before the end of the legislative session, Sen. Bill Coley (R-Liberty Twp.) said...

Headline: CCW instructors get jail for cutting class short

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Monday, December 01, 2014
The Lima News is reporting that two concealed carry instructors who released students more than two hours short of the mandatory 12-hour requirement have been sentenced to 30 days jail. From the article : Forest Gordon, 49, was sentenced on the charge of attempted complicity in falsification to obtain a concealed handgun license, a fifth-degree felony. Dain Stauffer, 37, of Cairo, was sentenced...

Plenty of Work Ahead

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Monday, December 01, 2014
Republicans won big on Tuesday, November 4. Not only did they gain the majority in the US Senate, they also picked up seats in the House, state legislatures, and governors’ offices. GunVoters played a significant role in many of those races. The question now is what the Republicans are going to do with their new-found power? They still have Barack Obama in the White House so they’re not going to...

Senate committee schedules sixth hearing for SB 338 (Concealed Carry Reform) & HB 234 (Allow Noise Suppressors While Hunting)

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, November 28, 2014
Chairman Bill Coley has announced that the Senate Civil Justice Committee will be hearing testimony on SB 338, Sen. Joe Uecker's (R-Miami Township) Concealed Carry Law Reform Bill, next Wednesday, December 3 at 9:45 a.m. in the Finance Hearing Room. This will be the sixth hearing for this bill. Coley has also scheduled a sixth hearing for Rep. Cheryl Grossman's (R-Grove City) HB 234 (Allow Noise...

Straight-walled cartridges bring excitement and concerns to Ohio deer gun season

by Larry S. Moore
7:00am Friday, November 28, 2014
The Ohio deer season and especially the upcoming deer gun week always generates a lot of hope and excitement. This year the added bonus of having our first rifle season using a limited number of straight-walled cartridges (SWC) for rifles is creating some additional excitement. As with anything new there is some confusion. So the first thing is a look at the rules and then some common-sense...

Thanksgiving: George Washington's 1789 Proclamation

7:00am Thursday, November 27, 2014
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor -- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful...

Youth Deer Gun Season Marks First Use of Rifles in Ohio

by Larry S. Moore
3:00pm Wednesday, November 26, 2014
The early youth deer gun season was less than thirty-minutes old when five-year old Braxton Taylor made Ohio history. Young Taylor was hunting on a family farm in Union County with his step-father Isaac Heyne when he harvested a doe. It was among the early deer taken with one of the new straight-walled cartridge (SWC) rifles. Taylor also has taken two deer with his crossbow this season. The...

Woman robbed at knife point at Kroger store; Moms (Don't) Demand Action

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Dayton, Ohio's NBC affiliate, WDTN, is reporting that a Dayton woman was robbed at knifepoint while returning a DVD outside a local Kroger - an incident that is sure to draw national attention due to claims by Michael Bloomberg's Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America that there is never a need to carry a firearm for self-defense in or near a grocery store. From the article : A Dayton woman...

Do you still believe in privacy?

3:00pm Tuesday, November 25, 2014
What kind of government spies on its own people? Demanding your privacy doesn't mean you're hiding something, it means you believe in something. The right to a private life is one of freedom's greatest blessings. That's what the Good Guys believe. >>> CLICK HERE to join the NRA or renew your membership now . If you know some good guys and gals, get them a gift membership.

Cleveland police shoot boy holding airsoft gun with orange tip removed; Democrat State Rep.'s knee-jerk reaction? California-style gun control bill

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, November 25, 2014
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that a 12-year-old boy was shot by police Saturday afternoon after officers say he reached for a gun after he was ordered to put up his hands. Police say the gun that was recovered was not a firearm, but that an orange safety tip had been removed. The media, and anti-gun politicians have been quick to draw parallels to the shooting of a man in a Beavercreek...

Op-Ed: California: One Step Closer to Shall Issue!

by Chuck Michel
3:00pm Monday, November 24, 2014
Federal Appeals Court Denies California Attorney General’s Bid to Overturn NRA Supported Legal Victory in Right to Carry Case A monumental February 14, 2014 ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the NRA sponsored case of Peruta v. San Diego County found that the San Diego County Sheriff’s policy of refusing to issue licenses to carry firearms in public unless an applicant could...

More Guns for Gabby, While Vets Lose Theirs

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Monday, November 24, 2014
We all know that Gabby Giffords was injured in a murderous attack by a deranged Democrat activist. We know that she suffered serious brain trauma and needed more than a year to regain even partial mobility and speech. We also know that she has staged a remarkable recovery becoming the figurehead of a gun control operation started by her husband, Mark Kelly. Rep. Giffords and Capt. Kelly often...

Associated Press misrepresents Akron police chief, claiming he blames concealed carry laws for officer's death

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, November 21, 2014
Northeast Ohio media are reporting that 32 year-old off-duty police officer Justin Winebrenner was shot and killed while trying to diffuse an unruly customer at a bar early Sunday, November 16, and the Associated Press appears to be hoping that they can convince readers that concealed carry laws are to blame. According to WJW (Fox Cleveland), authorities arrested Kenan Ivery, 35, in the shooting...

Senators hear from opponents in latest round of hearings on pro-gun rights bills

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Friday, November 21, 2014
The Senate Civil Justice committee met on Wednesday, November 19 to consider multiple firearms-related bills. HB 234 (Allow Noise Suppressors While Hunting) drew opposition testimony from Katriel Israel (written only). Ms. Israel asserted that suppressors are only for police and military, cause an increase risk of accidental shootings, and put hunters at risk. She offered no studies or even...

Ohio's Youth Deer-Gun Season is Nov. 22-23

3:00pm Thursday, November 20, 2014
COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio’s 12th annual youth white-tailed deer hunting season gives young hunters the opportunity to pursue the state’s most popular big-game animal on Nov. 22-23, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The youth deer-gun season is open to hunters with a valid youth hunting license and a deer permit. Youth hunters must be 17-years-old or younger at the time they...

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