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Garbage in, garbage out: Gun checks miss millions of fugitives

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, May 12, 2014
The Gannett Company is reporting that millions of fugitives can pass undetected through federal background checks and buy guns illegally because police departments across the country routinely fail to put their names into a national database that tracks people on the run from the law. From the article : Those background checks, conducted by the FBI, are designed to block fugitives, felons and...

The Motherhood Of A Shooter

by Laurel Yoshimoto
3:00pm Friday, May 09, 2014
Outdoor Wire Editor's Note: It's Mothers Day weekend and we hope every one of you has the chance to reach out to your Mom. Today, we let a Mom reach out to you. Contributing writer Laurel Yoshimoto shares her observations on being an "almost Mom" involved in a sport she loves. Next week, we'll have a report on another group of Moms who are also speaking out in defense of the Second Amendment and...

A look back at Ohio's journey to straight-walled cartridge rifles for deer hunting

by Larry S. Moore
7:00am Friday, May 09, 2014
I was recently privileged to be part of the effort to bring straight walled cartridge rifles, the effort formerly known as pistol caliber rifles (PCR), to Ohio. The experience was a thrilling, frustrating, challenging and wonderful trip through many meetings, open house events and networking with other organizations. There were moments of success and disappointment along with a fair number of...

Op-Ed: How the Firearms Industry Leads the Way on Gun Safety And What the Anti-Gun Activists Won’t Acknowledge

by Larry Keane
3:00pm Thursday, May 08, 2014
...Last [month], Michael Bloomberg re-launched his ongoing anti-gun effort, this time calling it Everytown for Gun Safety . The group claims to support a platform of issues for which the firearms industry has consistently been an advocate including reducing illegal gun trafficking and educating parents about the safe storage of guns. Essentially, this organization and others like it misleadingly...

Headline: Gun Rights Group Blasts Rules On Firearms In Foster, Childcare Homes

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, May 08, 2014
The Gongwer News Service reported recently on testimony offered in Columbus by Buckeye Firearms Association President Jim Irvine. From the article : Rules prescribing safety measures for foster parents were delayed this week after gun advocates warned that restrictions on firearm storage would likely be found unconstitutional. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services' foster care rules were...

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Southwest Ohio club has something for every shooter

by Larry S. Moore
3:00pm Wednesday, May 07, 2014
I've been shooting at Clinton County Farmers and Sportsmen Association (CCF&SA) occasionally for over twenty years. Every trip has been a pleasurable experience even if my scores were not as good as hoped. The friendly atmosphere of the organization was re-enforced when I visited the annual club open house. Mike Adams, who is the current President CCF&SA, explains, "Good things are...

Purdue Univ. researcher: More guns in schools equal fewer deaths

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, May 07, 2014
Professor Eric Dietz, Ph.D., the former director of Homeland Security for the state of Indiana and 22-year Army veteran, has released research showing that more guns in schools equal fewer deaths during active shooter situations. As reported by The Blaze.com, Dietz, now a professor at Purdue University and director of the school’s Homeland Security Institute, could be the guy who — once and for...

Ted Nugent at 2014 NRA Annual Meetings: "The freest man in America"

by Clarke Payne
3:00pm Tuesday, May 06, 2014
Uncle Ted gets standing ovation for gun ownership, traditional family values INDIANAPOLIS - Ted Nugent proclaimed the whole world sucked, but America did not suck that much, and with his blood brothers in Indy, it did not suck at all. One of the good guys, as the late Charlton Heston once called him, Nugent talked to a couple thousand of believers at the 2014 NRA Convention on Sunday, April 27...

REMINDER: Vote TODAY in the Buckeye State!

6:00am Tuesday, May 06, 2014
Tuesday, May 6 is Election Day in Ohio! Because voter turnout in primary elections is historically quite low, die-hard gun owners who Vote Freedom First are able to have an even bigger impact on election results. When one considers that the number of hunters, sportsmen, CHL-holders, NRA members, Buckeye Firearms Association donors and Second Amendment supporters in Ohio approaches 1 million...

Review: The 2014 NRA Annual Meetings

by Jim Irvine
3:00pm Monday, May 05, 2014
I attended the 2014 NRA Annual Meetings in Indianapolis, Indiana. Having attended these events for over a decade it is amazing how much they have grown in popularity. This years attendance was 75,267 fellow patriots. The Foundation dinner Thursday night was a huge gathering of thousands of like-minded patriots at the Lucas oil stadium, home to the Indianapolis Colts. This included dinner, silent...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. President Jim Irvine appears on The Daily Show

7:00am Monday, May 05, 2014
Buckeye Firearms Association President Jim Irvine appeared on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on April 29, 2014. The segment was part of comedy show's coverage of the 2014 NRA Annual Meetings held in Indianapolis. The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , Indecision Political Humor , The Daily Show on Facebook Are they biased against gun rights? Sure. Do they make fun...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc.'s Joe Eaton to participate in roundtable discussion at Dayton Peace Museum

3:00pm Friday, May 02, 2014
Buckeye Firearms Association's Treasurer Joe Eaton will be participating in a roundtable discussion on the proposed changes to Ohio's self-defense laws on Saturday May 3 at the Dayton Peace Museum ( www.daytonpeacemuseum.org ). Rep. Fred Strahorn (D-39) and others are scheduled to also participate in the discussion. This roundtable discussion will take place at 2:00pm as part of the current...

New name, same lie: Bloomberg gun control group loses board member after misrepresenting group's intentions

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, May 02, 2014
According to former members , as well as internal emails obtained by Buckeye Firearms Association and MediaTrackers.org, anti-gun-rights billionaire Michael Bloomberg's now-defunct gun control group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), sought to gain members by intentionally deceiving them on what the group was actually all about. Many mayors, both here in Ohio and across the nation, dropped out...

Firearms Industry Honors U.S. Rep. Bob Latta as 2013 Legislator of the Year

3:00pm Thursday, May 01, 2014
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry, honored U.S. Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio) as NSSF's 2013 Legislator of the Year at the organization's recent annual dinner in Washington, D.C., preceding the firearms industry's annual Congressional Fly-In. "We salute Congressman Latta for his...

Report: 10 years later - fewer restrictions, more concealed guns

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, May 01, 2014
Though the establishment media largely failed to mark the tenth anniversary of Ohio's concealed handgun licensure law on April 8, Gannett Company, publisher of a number of Ohio newspapers as well as USAToday , has finally published two lengthy articles to mark the event. The first article is entitled " 10 years later - fewer restrictions, more concealed guns ": When Ohio passed a law allowing...

Another Reason to be Concerned about Obama’s Surgeon General Nominee

3:00pm Wednesday, April 30, 2014
On Thursday (April 10], the anti-gun American College of Physicians (ACP) came out for the entire gun control agenda being pushed at the national level, adding to the suspicion that Dr. Vivek Murthy, President Obama's nominee for Surgeon General, would do the same if confirmed to the post. To the many newspaper editors who have suggested medicine has nothing to do with gun control, and NRA has no...

Crime drops as more Americans carry guns

by Gerard Valentino
7:00am Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Editor's Note: The following op-ed was published by the Cleveland Plain Dealer . Republished by permission of the author. A rebuttal written by Mrs. Toby Hoover, entitled "Promoting weapons everywhere fosters culture of fear", was also published . At this point in the debate over the role of guns in America, only the mainstream media and zealots cling to the false hope of gun control. Few, if any...

More People “Prohibited” by SCOTUS

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Tuesday, April 29, 2014
The Supreme Court of the US came down with a decision in March that effectively expands the base of people prohibited from purchasing or possessing firearms in this country. In a unanimous decision in the case US v. Castleman , the Court ruled that the law banning possession of firearms by anyone ever convicted of any crime of violence against a spouse or significant other – often referred to as...

Robbed and kidnapped, Ohio man pulls own gun and shoots attacker

by Chad D. Baus
11:00am Tuesday, April 29, 2014
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that a man was robbed, then kidnapped, was able to pull his own handgun and shoot his attacker. From the article : A man who told police that he shot a robber in the neck on the Hilltop on Friday evening claims he was abducted at gunpoint and was being driven to a cash machine to withdraw money, Columbus police said yesterday. Police identified the dead man as...

Op-Ed: Murder Motivation - Why Most of America is Immune to Gun Violence

by Chuck Michel
3:00pm Monday, April 28, 2014
What was your motivation for the murder you committed yesterday? If you can't answer that, then you are in the 99.996% of the population that also assassinated nobody. When it comes to guns, we already know that the largest cluster of gun deaths (61%) are suicides, and that suicide is a mental health problem than no gun or magazine ban prevents. The next largest cluster are gun crimes (35%), with...

ATF Bans More Ammo

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Monday, April 28, 2014
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has declared that Russian 7N6, 5.45x39 rifle ammunition is “armor piercing handgun ammunition,” and therefore illegal for importation into the US. The ammunition has been widely available in the US for decades and was originally designed for the AK74 service rifle, a smaller, lighter adaptation of the AK47. The “handgun ammunition” label...

Headline: The pistol-toting 'Angel of Mercy' that saved a driver from an angry Detroit mob

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, April 25, 2014
Recently, WJBK (Fox Detroit) published a moving interview with a woman who got her pistol and chose to intervene in a racially-charged mob attack on a driver whose car had struck a child who ran in front of his car. From the article : Almost one week has passed since the brutal attack of a driver in Detroit who stopped to help a little boy he had accidentally just hit with his car. In a bankrupt...

Justice Stevens’ Dishonest Diatribe Against the Second Amendment

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Friday, April 25, 2014
In a recently released book, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens calls for fundamental changes to the founding document of the United States. As a way of ginning up buzz about the book, the judge’s publicists gave a particularly controversial excerpt to the Washington Post for publication. That section deals with the former Justice’s opinions on “reforming” the Second Amendment...

The BATFE's "rubber band ruler"

by Jim Shepherd
3:00pm Thursday, April 24, 2014
After the ATF's raid on a pair of California gun companies, many in the firearms industry -myself included- wondered just what changed the ATF's collective mind what morphed unfinished polymer AR-style rifle lowers into finished-and unregistered "guns". It was a matter of no small amount of speculation. The speculation wasn't unfounded. It wouldn't be the first time the BATFE had suffered a...

Neighbors say Columbus home-owner acted in self-defense during home invasion

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, April 24, 2014
WBNS (CBS Columbus) is reporting that a homeowner may have acted in self-defense during a shooting in Southwest Columbus. From the article : Police were called to a home on Londonderry Avenue around 10 pm Friday night on a report of a homeowner shooting a robbery suspect. A neighbor told 10TV's Shelby Croft he heard multiple gun shots. Alex Mitchell said he ran outside to find the man shot in...

Zero-Tolerance Policies Now Exploited by Enterprising Bullies

3:00pm Wednesday, April 23, 2014
There is a long history of school administrators behaving like bullies when enforcing the irrational zero-tolerance policies that have ensnared scores of students. A recent case out of Vernon, N.J., however, suggests that the hysterical enforcement of these policies in some schools has reached a level where an actual peer bully can exploit zero-tolerance to torment a victim. This latest incident...

Headline: WWII vet, pistol-packing wife chase away would-be robber

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, April 23, 2014
WLWT (NBC Cincinnati) reported recently that a knife-wielding man was outgunned when he tried to rob an elderly Ohio couple. From the article : The 92-year-old World War II veteran and his 89-year-old wife were more than a handful for the alleged attacker. Investigators said Robert Kelly Jr. talked his way into a home in Springfield [Township], Ohio where he had previously done odd jobs. "I was...

Sen. Cornyn Sends Letter to Holder Demanding Answers on DOJ's Proposal to Push "Smart Guns"

3:00pm Tuesday, April 22, 2014
As we reported [yesterday], Attorney General Eric Holder recently testified on Capitol Hill that the country needs to spend $2 million to study "smart" gun technology, as part of a $382 million expenditure on what the Obama administration calls "gun safety." "Smart Guns" is a made-up term for a conceptual firearm that incorporates technology that theoretically permits the gun to be fired only by...

Grassroots education: Bloomberg's "Everytown" launched on Facebook - by pro-gun rights advocates

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Last week, anti-gun rights billionaire Michael Bloomberg announced that he was rebranding his gun control lobby apparatus under a new moniker, "Everytown for Gun Safety." Announcing plans to deploy staff in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington, Bloomberg told the New York Times...

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