News

300th educator graduates F.A.S.T.E.R. class in Ohio

by Jim Irvine & Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, July 25, 2014
Last week, Buckeye Firearms Foundation held the 13th F.A.S.T.E.R. (Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response) class in Ohio. Created by Buckeye Firearms Foundation in partnership with Tactical Defense Institute, the class is designed specifically for school staff to enable them to quickly, safely, and appropriately respond to an active killer in a school setting and offer...

Beretta Will Relocate All Manufacturing to Gallatin, Tennessee

3:00pm Thursday, July 24, 2014
Beretta U.S.A. Corp., located in Accokeek, Maryland, announced today that it has decided to move its manufacturing capabilities from its existing location to a new production facility that it is building in Gallatin, Tennessee. The Gallatin facility is scheduled to be opened in mid-2015. Beretta U.S.A. had previously planned to use the new Gallatin, Tennessee facility for new machinery and...

Do armed citizens help decrease crime? Detroit police chief and Ohio attorney general say YES

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, July 24, 2014
Detroit Police Chief James Craig is giving his city's armed residents - the law-abiding ones - credit for a large drop in crime, and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine agrees, telling WKEF (ABC Dayton) it just might keep the bad guys away. First, from the Detroit News : Detroit has experienced 37 percent fewer robberies in 2014 than during the same period last year, 22 percent fewer break-ins of...

Service Pistol Warm-Up, EIC Matches Prime Competitors for 2014 National Trophy Pistol Match Season

by Ashley Brugnone
3:00pm Wednesday, July 23, 2014
CAMP PERRY, OH – The 2014 National Trophy Pistol Match Season began with a little stretching of the mind and loosening of the competitive muscles as the Pistol Small Arms Firing School (SAFS) and Service Pistol Warm-Up Matches readied competitors for the week ahead. SAFS was held on July 7 to a class of 305 new and experienced shooters. During the school, participants receive basic instruction on...

The Cause and Effect of Rapid Mass Murder©

by Ron Borsch
7:00am Wednesday, July 23, 2014
The protocol for our “Rapid Mass Murder”, ( RMM ©) database is “ Within 20 minutes, 4 or more murdered at the same time and public place ”. Worldwide, along with support from probable cause evidence, we also count incidents of attempted RMM© by random actors in schools and workplaces. We do not tally military, police, terrorist or gang actions. By design, our protocol gives us a very specific,...

Obama Administration Bans Import of Popular Russian Firearms

3:00pm Tuesday, July 22, 2014
[Last] week, the Treasury Department used authority delegated to it by the president, under Executive Order 13661 , to sanction Russian gun maker Kalashnikov Concern (formerly Izhmash). In the United States, the manufacturer is best known for its popular Saiga rifles and shotguns. While ostensibly a measure to curb aggression by some in the Russian Federation, the move does bar from importation...

Firearms Training: So What Do I Need to Learn?

by Gary Evens
7:00am Tuesday, July 22, 2014
If you agree with my premise that firearms training is the responsible thing to do, then you next need to determine how much training you need. The primary purpose of training is to measure your abilities against some pre-defined standard of performance. In the case of required training, such as what is included in Ohio’s concealed carry law, the performance standard is established by lawmakers...

Op-Ed: Guns Still Safer than Cars, and Most Everything Else

by Chuck Michel
3:00pm Monday, July 21, 2014
It is indeed too bad that cars and guns are not treated the same way. If they were, accidental automobile deaths might become nearly non-existent. In a recent editorial (“Guns, cars and dead Americans”, 10/24/2013) the Post-Gazette bemoaned many things, and opined with a level of inaccuracy not tolerated at shooting ranges. The editorial’s gist was that government regulation and legislation made...

Castle Doctrine: It's not just for gun owners

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, July 21, 2014
Ask someone to define the term "Castle Doctrine," and you will get a variety of answers, in part because, like "Stand Your Ground," it is a marketing term used to describe a variety of self-defense laws in various states around the country. It is likely, however, that the varied definitions will likely contain a common theme - one involving the use of a firearm to defend oneself. While the laws...

June 2014 Firearms Sales Checks Third Highest June on Record

3:00pm Friday, July 18, 2014
The June 2014 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 805,571 is the third highest June on record for the 16-year-old system, even with a decrease of 7.6 percent compared to the June 2013 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 872,025. For comparison, the unadjusted June 2014 NICS figure of 1,375,135 reflects an 8.2 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure...

Anti-Gun Activist: Ban All Detachable-Magazine Semi-Automatics

7:00am Friday, July 18, 2014
Recently, a longtime firearm prohibition advocate confirmed at least two points that people who follow the gun control debate have long known. First, anti-gun activists have not abandoned the holy grail of their agenda, getting handguns banned. Second, they will never be content with an “assault weapons” ban that applies only to external features of semiautomatic firearms and not to the operating...

Obama’s Biggest Frustration: Reality

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Thursday, July 17, 2014
Obama’s talk of gun control is a political diversion. When the President of the United States is asked about his proudest achievements and his greatest frustrations in office, and his response is to decry the lack of action to restrict the enumerated constitutional rights of Americans, that’s a diversion. Obama could have talked about the slow creeping economic “recovery.” He could have talked...

Cleveland mayor outlines new gun control proposals to city council

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, July 17, 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. This week, the exact language of the proposals was released . According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer , the proposal would: Require gun offenders to register with the city's safety department within five days of either being released from...

Op-Ed: Brady, Bunk and Santa Barbara

by Chuck Michel
3:00pm Wednesday, July 16, 2014
The Brady Campaign was oddly mute at first about the recent tragic Santa Barbara slayings. Could it be because half of the victims were killed with a knife – three young men were stabbed to death before the killer ever chambered a round? Perhaps. More likely it is because California ranks #1 on the Brady Scorecard for strict gun control laws, none of which stopped a criminally insane, mentally...

USSA: Sportsmen’s Act Stalls in U.S. Senate

7:00am Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Just days after the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to proceed to debate on the bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2014 (S. 2363), the measure hit a roadblock over amendments to the bill. The bill, sponsored by Senators Kay Hagan (D-NC) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), counts nearly half the Senate as co-sponsors and contains the top priority issues for the sportsmen’s community, including the USSA...

Court Finds that Terrorist Watchlist Lacks Constitutional Safeguards

3:00pm Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Gun owners wary of government overreach in the name of "public safety," take heed. We all agree that laws should seek to keep firearms out of the hands of dangerous people. But the details of these laws are important. Who is considered "dangerous"? What information supports that decision? Who gets to make "dangerousness" determinations and by what standards? Who provides oversight or review of...

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...

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