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Media Promotes Bloomberg Propaganda

7:00am Tuesday, July 15, 2014
A free press is a good thing for America to have. A free press that doesn’t parrot and exaggerate anti-gun propaganda would be even better. For example, take Natalie DiBlasio’s article for USA Today on Wednesday [June 25], titled "More kids die in shootings than statistics show." For starters, the title doesn’t even accurately reflect the article’s content. The article concerns the claim by...

To the Editor: Gun owners often use firearms for protection

3:00pm Monday, July 14, 2014
The Sentinel-Tribune of Bowling Green has published a letter to the editor written by Buckeye Firearms Association's Chad D. Baus in response to an editorial entitled " Middle ground for gun laws? " In her June 25 editorial, "Middle ground for gun laws?", Jan Larson-McLaughlin writes that "as someone who reads Associated Press stories from across the nation every day, I must say that I can't...

Above All, Politics: Senate kills Bipartisan Sportsman's Act of 2014

by Jim Shepherd
7:00am Monday, July 14, 2014
If there were ever any doubts that Washington is broken, [last Thursday's] action in the Senate on the Bipartisan Sportsman's Act of 2014 should permanently erase them. The U.S. Senate failed to pass a vote that would have advanced the Bipartisan Sportsman's Act of 2014. Granted, the bill had picked up 81 amendments - many of which had neither anything to do with the outdoors or the support of...

Headline: Concealed-carry group sues Ohio State, says gun ban is too broad

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, July 11, 2014
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that the national Students for Concealed Carry Foundation filed a lawsuit against The Ohio State University in Franklin County Common Pleas Court this week, alleging that the university’s code of conduct violates state law because it bans students from keeping guns in their cars on campus and carrying guns while representing the university off campus. From the...

Harry Reid May Call for Vote on Gun Control Legislation: Says, "We Need Some More Votes"

7:00am Friday, July 11, 2014
Gun control activists have recently renewed their efforts to gain ground on Capitol Hill. As we reported this week, they continue to exploit high-profile national tragedies in an attempt to push their anti-gun agenda. They use grieving victims to falsely claim that enacting their “reforms” would have prevented these tragedies. Anti-gun groups sponsored by former New York City Mayor Michael...

Action needed: Pennsylvania attorney general rescinding reciprocity agreements

3:00pm Thursday, July 10, 2014
According to reports from our neighbors to the east, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane (D) has been busy recently, rescinding her state's reciprocity agreements with other concealed carry states. Pennsylvania no longer honors any non-resident concealed carry license from any state, and Kane seems intent on voiding reciprocity/recognition with as many states as possible. Ohio has never...

Hillary Clinton: Gun Control Opponents Are Terrorists, Not Entitled to Viewpoint

7:00am Thursday, July 10, 2014
Hillary Clinton hasn’t said that she’s running for the Democrat Party’s 2016 presidential nomination, but lately she’s been going out of her way to make sure that gun owners know what a Hillary presidency would be like for them. On Monday [June 16], during an interview on CNN Newsroom, Mrs. Clinton made clear that at age 66, she still hasn’t outgrown the zealotry of her youth. With anger...

Firearms industry economic impact nearly doubles in five years

3:00pm Wednesday, July 09, 2014
The total economic impact of the firearms and ammunition industry in the United States increased from $19.1 billion in 2008 to $37.7 billion in 2013, a 97 percent increase, while the total number of full-time equivalent jobs rose from more than 166,000 to more than 245,000, a 48 percent increase in that five-year period, according to a new National Shooting Sports Foundation report. Stephen L...

Ask Your U.S. Rep. to Oppose Wide-Ranging Gun Control Bill--H.R. 4783

7:00am Wednesday, July 09, 2014
Recently, we reported that U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, had introduced what he is calling the "Promoting Healthy Minds for Safer Communities Act of 2014." In truth, we noted, the bill -- H.R. 4783 -- is largely composed of gun control measures that mirror, and supplement, acts being pursued in the states by Michael Bloomberg and his "...

Former MAIG Boss: Gun Control Wouldn't Stop Mass Murderers

3:00pm Tuesday, July 08, 2014
Mark Glaze, who just resigned as executive director of Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), now says that the gun control restrictions MAIG supports are “a mismatch,” where crimes committed by mass murderers are concerned. “It is a messaging problem” for gun control supporters “when a mass shooting happens and nothing that we have to offer would have stopped that mass shooting...

Second Amendment once again at stake in Ohio

7:00am Tuesday, July 08, 2014
Dear Second Amendment Patriot, BFA-endorsed Sharon Kennedy is running for re-election as Ohio Supreme Court Justice. Running against her is a 2012 BFA PAC D-Rated Democrat who thinks the Second Amendment is obsolete. So, once again, the Second Amendment and our Constitutionally guaranteed rights are at stake here in Ohio. What you have to understand is this: no matter what pro-gun laws we have,...

CMP-USMC Junior Highpower Clinic Set to Further Advance Junior Talents

3:00pm Monday, July 07, 2014
CAMP PERRY, Ohio - The National Trophy Rifle Matches is not only a place where the most talented marksman in the world are named, it's also where they are made. Training clinics such as the CMP-USMC Junior Highpower Rifle Clinic, set to take place July 15-17, are plentiful during the Matches to further develop the already gifted shooters who visit Camp Perry. The CMP-USMC Junior Highpower Clinic...

U.S. House acts to stop U.N. Arms Trade Treaty and gun bans on Army Corps of Engineers-managed property

7:00am Monday, July 07, 2014
Bill Passes with Language Delaying Funding of U.N. Arms Trade Treaty On Tuesday, June 24, 2014, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee passed the State Foreign Operations bill, containing language prohibiting funds to be used for the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty prior to a full ratification of the treaty by the U.S. Senate. Specifically, section 7061 states: "None of the funds appropriated by this Act...

Op-Ed: Thomas Jefferson’s “Assault Rifle” – The Girardoni Air Rifle

by Steve Straub
3:00pm Friday, July 04, 2014
The Girardoni air rifle was a 22-shot, magazine-fed, nearly silent .46 caliber repeating rifle adopted in 1780 by the Austrian Army. Thomas Jefferson purchased two of these rifles, which he sent west with Lewis and Clark. Does it have a high-capacity magazine? Got it! Is it capable of firing 22 aimed shots in a minute? Got it! Is it a military weapon? Got it! Was it manufactured during the...

Independence Day 2014

by Rick Jones
3:00pm Thursday, July 03, 2014
With the upcoming holiday, let's look at what it might mean to some people…a day off with pay, just a day off, family, friends, cookouts, reunions or just a day to lounge and watch the fireworks. As for me, I think of our Constitution, our founding fathers, our Bill of Rights, our military men and women who are performing their duties to protect our freedom. “FREEDOM”. We say it often, exclaiming...

Headline: Dayton store owner shoots, kills suspected robber

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, July 03, 2014
Dayton news media are reporting on an armed robbery case in which a store owner successfully defended himself from two armed assailants. From WHIO (Dayton CBS) : The owner of Step N Style, a clothing store in Dayton, fatally shot a person following an attempted robbery this morning. Police said the incident appears to be self-defense. Shortly after 11 a.m., two people walked into the store at...

World War II Soldiers Honored During 2014 National Trophy Matches First Shot Ceremony

3:00pm Wednesday, July 02, 2014
CAMP PERRY, Ohio – In recognition of the heroism many soldiers displayed 70 years ago to the day, at the Battle of Saint Lo in Normandy, France, and the Battle of Saipan in the South Pacific, the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) will be bringing the sights and sounds of these great conflicts to the shores of Lake Erie at 10 a.m. on Monday, July 7, 2014. Please join us at the ranges of Camp...

Celebrating Independence

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Wednesday, July 02, 2014
"The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and...

National Hunting and Fishing Day to Take Place September 27, 2014

3:00pm Tuesday, July 01, 2014
Each year, outdoorsmen and women celebrate efforts taken to conserve our heritage. National Hunting and Fishing Day is important to each. Conserving wildlife and the lands that house what we all enjoy are of the utmost importance. This year the National Shooting Sports Foundation once again announces its continued, major sponsorship of National Hunting and Fishing Day. NHF Day is set to take...

Tusk to tusk: This is our battle too

by Tim Inwood
7:00am Tuesday, July 01, 2014
It may surprise those who are quicker to visit a gun show than an art museum, but many of the latter will actually feature a firearms display. Guns are frequently objects that artists have lavished loving, hard work on with ornate engraving, gold, silver and ivory inlay, if not full ivory stocks. You see, even those who may not like guns can still appreciate guns when they are done as art. One...

Op-Ed: Don Kates – Second Amendment Centerpost

by Chuck Michel
3:00pm Monday, June 30, 2014
Don Kates is a catalyst in the chemical reaction of criminology and Second Amendment constitutional law scholarship. More than most people, Kates efforts were responsible for the reconfirmation of that individual right by the United States Supreme Court. Kates is the intersection of a stereotypical college professor (which he is) and a rabid activist (which he might deny). Yet his intelligent...

NSSF: Hunting on Public Lands at Risk!

7:00am Monday, June 30, 2014
You may have seen the news that the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), along with other anti-hunting groups and individuals, filed a petition with the Interior Department demanding rules against hunting with traditional ammunition on public lands - one-fifth of the total land area in the U.S. We warned this was coming after their playbook was discovered. After all, this is the same HSUS...

National Trophy Pistol Matches to Commence in July at Camp Perry

3:00pm Friday, June 27, 2014
CAMP PERRY, Ohio - Spectators and competitors are invited to witness the excitement and fierce competition at the National Trophy Pistol Matches, being fired on July 13, 2014 at Camp Perry. A total of 24 National Trophies are earned by talented teams and individuals each year in such highly regarded events as the President's Pistol Match, National Trophy Individual Match and the National Trophy...

Cleveland mayor proposes "new" gun control laws; Buckeye Firearms Assoc. threatens lawsuit

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, June 27, 2014
On Tuesday, June 17, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson held a press conference and announced his plans to enact several "new" gun control measures in his city. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer : Jackson wants to place a limit on gun buys to one every 90 days and create a gun registry that would require convicted gun offenders to register with police once a year for four years. He wants to restrict gun...

Supreme Court Tightens Definition of Straw Purchase

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Thursday, June 26, 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court released their decision [last] week in the case of Abramski v. US , which involved a former police officer, Abramski, who purchased a gun for an uncle in another state. Neither Abramski nor his uncle was prohibited from purchasing or possessing firearms. In fact, since the uncle lives in a different state, Abramski subsequently transferred the gun to his uncle through a...

Gun rights advocates are the REAL "gun safety" proponents

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Thursday, June 26, 2014
In all of the hype and hullabaloo between gun groups and anti-gun groups, one thing that should not ever be forgotten is that guns can be very dangerous if not handled properly. For people like my family, gun safety is ingrained from birth – possibly passed down genetically – and then reinforced on a constant basis. But even so, it’s easy to make a mistake, and one momentary slip with a gun can...

Op-Ed: Gunfight, two Permit Holders, two off Duty Police, one Attacker

by Dean Weingarten
3:00pm Wednesday, June 25, 2014
It is commonly said by those opposed to the second amendment, that police will not be able to discern armed citizens who are legally carrying guns from criminals, and that armed confrontations will then result in widespread carnage. Here is an example where it did not happen. From fox16.com : Investigators said Qandil confronted his estranged wife, Tabitha Qandil, 31, Grayson Herrera, 23, and...

SCOTUS Swings Against Gun Owners

by Jim Shepherd
7:00am Wednesday, June 25, 2014
It seems the most powerful justice on the Supreme Court of the United States today isn't Chief Justice John Roberts, it's Justice Anthony Kennedy. With Kennedy's vote in hand, Justices Sandra Sotomeyer, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan issued a majority opinion that the federal ban on gun purchases for another person - even if that person is legally allowed to own a gun - is...

Rifle Small Arms Firing School Returns to CMP National Trophy Matches

3:00pm Tuesday, June 24, 2014
CAMP PERRY, Ohio – Learn how to fire a real M16 rifle in a safe and relaxed environment at the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s (CMP) Rifle Small Arms Firing School (SAFS), held Wednesday, July 16-17, during the National Rifle and Pistol Matches at historic Camp Perry. The school is structured toward teaching new shooters, so no past firearm experience is required. Students will learn basic...

Constitutional Malpractice: Ideological Doctors and the Gun Control Debate

by Tim Inwood
7:00am Tuesday, June 24, 2014
The Obama administration has ushered in an unfortunate era of ideological doctors mixing medicine and politics with results that will make the country sick. Currently this White House is pushing for Dr. Vivek Murthy to be the next Surgeon General of the United States. However, the administration seems more interested in the man's devotion to Obama's agenda than in his medical credentials. He will...

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