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Holder Floats Taxpayer-Funded "Smart" Gun Research

3:00pm Monday, April 21, 2014
[Last week] week, Attorney General Eric Holder testified on Capitol Hill that what America needs at this pivotal moment in its history is to spend $2 million for "smart" gun technology, as part of a $382 million expenditure on what the Obama administration calls "gun safety." Translation: Federal "universal" background checks, "assault weapon," and "large" magazine legislation was defeated in the...

Seventy-two killed resisting gun confiscation in Boston

by Author Unknown
7:00am Monday, April 21, 2014
Boston – National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed on April 19 by elements of a para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw. Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the...

NRA Opposes Administration's Plan to Broaden Reach of Mental Health-Related Gun Bans

3:00pm Friday, April 18, 2014
On Monday, NRA filed formal comments in opposition to a plan by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) to expand the categories of persons prohibited under federal law from acquiring or possessing firearms because of having been "adjudicated as a mental defective" or "committed to a mental institution." The proposal is commonly referred to by its BATFE docket number, 51P...

Billionaire Bloomberg's $50 million plan to take your gun rights away

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, April 18, 2014
One nice thing that can be said for the gun ban extremists from the 1970's - at least they were honest. Groups like Handgun Control Inc. and the Coalition to Ban Handguns didn't try to hide what they are. These days, however, the same people who were involved in those groups are involved in groups like the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence or the Violence Policy Center. Then there's...

ATF Rules Against SIG SAUER MPX

by Jim Shepherd
3:00pm Thursday, April 17, 2014
While filming last season's studio segments for "Guns & Gear" TV, SIG SAUER brought several of their new guns to the studio as highlights of their 2014 products. One caught the eye of everyone -including production crew members who normally had no interest. It was, even to a "gun person" a strange-looking thing. The "thing" was SIG's new MPX carbine. OK, a 9mm carbine isn't all that big a...

2014 Buckeye Bash is one to remember

by Larry S. Moore
7:00am Thursday, April 17, 2014
Celebrating 10 successful years of concealed carry with many of the people who made it happen April is the ten-year anniversary since concealed carry in Ohio went into effect. House Bill 12 was sponsored by State Representative James Aslanides. Sheriff's offices were jammed as lines formed to apply for a Concealed Handgun License (CHL). Opponents screamed that shoot-outs would be on every corner...

"News" Magazines Pretend Murthy Confirmation is a Public Health Imperative

3:00pm Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Defensive gun uses far outnumber suicides with guns and the availability of guns has no effect on suicide rates. Nevertheless, from time to time over the last 28 years, gun control supporters have tried to discourage people from owning guns by suggesting that gun suicides outnumber defensive gun uses. Last week was one of those times, all premised upon the notion that gun suicides are a public...

Information War Brewing?

by Jim Shepherd
7:00am Wednesday, April 16, 2014
During dinner Monday night, my wife mentioned something "strange" that happened at work. While ordering computer equipment for her office, the company she was buying from had started asking her some "random" personal questions in order "to make certain" she was the person whose name and password she'd logged in under. She was, but found it odd that the company would be asking, for instance, who...

For Gun Controllers Honesty is NOT the Best Policy

3:00pm Tuesday, April 15, 2014
[Recently], Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) expressed to the audience of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher that he hopes the Democratic Party come outs, not just in favor of more gun control, but against the Second Amendment itself. This is merely the latest episode of an elected official pulling back the curtain on the extreme contempt with which some politicians view the Second Amendment. The...

Contact Your Senators to Stop Feinstein's Proposed Semi-Auto Firearm Importation Ban

7:00am Tuesday, April 15, 2014
As we reported last week, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), sponsor of the federal "assault weapon" and "large" magazine "ban" of 1994-2004, is asking President Barack Obama to direct the BATFE to reinterpret a provision of the Gun Control Act of 1968 to prohibit the importation of various semi-automatic firearms and their parts. In a letter to Obama, the text of which was included in an...

Allow the military to defend themselves at home like they defend us overseas

by Jim Shepherd
3:00pm Monday, April 14, 2014
In the past five years, 30 people have died on military bases in the United States. Not in training accidents, in murders. They've been murdered in the course of going through their daily duties by whacked-out shooters. Twice, Fort Hood, Texas has experienced that horror. And soldiers -and frustration- of being inside the equivalent of a fair-sized city, full of trained -and unarmed -warriors...

Gun ban extremists seek to prevent Ted Nugent from playing Toledo-area summer concert

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, April 14, 2014
Josh Horwitz, of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV), an anti-gun group formed in 1974 as the National Coalition to Ban Handguns, has apparently decided it's not just the Second Amendment that he opposes - it's the First Amendment as well. At least, that is, when the person wanting to exercise his First Amendment rights is rocker Ted Nugent. As we reported earlier today, because gun ban...

Anti-Gunners Want Help from Whom?

3:00pm Friday, April 11, 2014
Gun bans, magazine bans, a background check expansion designed to pave the way for gun registration, and efforts to prevent people from carrying firearms for protection are all serious business. However, it's sometimes healthy to be able to see a little humor in things that are otherwise not humorous. Take anti-gun activists' latest tactic, for example. Thus far unable to convince a majority of...

School Knife Attack: No Blood Dancing by Anti-Gun Rights Extremists

by Jim Shepherd
7:00am Friday, April 11, 2014
With 20 high school students stabbed or cut by a 16-year old classmate at Franklin Regional Senior High School in Murraysville, Pennsylvania, the typical media saturation coverage is not at the level you might expect. For this normally quiet, upscale town of 20,000, it was another one of those "it can't happen here" moments. And they're quietly dealing with the shock and sadness that accompanies...

Straight-walled cartridge rifles approved for hunting white-tailed deer in Ohio!

3:00pm Thursday, April 10, 2014
Ohio Wildlife Council Approves 2014-2015 Hunting Regulations COLUMBUS, OH – The Ohio Wildlife Council approved new white-tailed deer hunting regulations at its meeting on Wednesday, April 9, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). Among new regulations are decreased deer bag limits in many counties, and hunters may use straight-walled cartridge rifles during the 2014 deer-...

Op-Ed: Fort Hood attack: My son, our soldiers, are defenseless, sitting ducks

by John Lott
7:00am Thursday, April 10, 2014
The Obama administration hasn’t learned anything from the massacres at Fort Hood in 2009 or the Washington Navy Yard last year. For all my research on how to stop or prevent mass public shootings and all the victims at these attacks that I have talked to over the years, the attack this week at Fort Hood was different. My son Ryan, who is stationed at Fort Hood and recently back from a tour in...

To the Editor: Concealed-carry stand was wrong

3:00pm Wednesday, April 09, 2014
The following letters to the editor of the Toledo Blade were published on April 3, 2014 in response to an editorial calling on the Ohio Senate and Governor Kasich to oppose H.B. 203: Your March 24 editorial “Standing down” asserts that Ohio House Bill 203, which would remove the “duty to retreat” from a violent attacker who is threatening one’s life, “would almost surely encourage gun violence —...

Buckeye Firearms Association's Linda Walker re-elected to the NRA’s Board of Directors

7:00am Wednesday, April 09, 2014
The leadership team of Buckeye Firearms Association is proud to announce that our very own Linda Walker has been re-elected to a second 3-year term on the National Rifle Association's Board of Directors. The NRA will make the public announcement at the Members Meeting in Indianapolis at the NRA Annual Meetings on Saturday, April 26, 2014. Linda Walker has been a tireless supporter and fighter for...

Ohio’s concealed-carry law has good track record

by Ken Hanson, Esq.
3:00pm Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Editor's Note: The following was originally published in The Columbus Dispatch . Republished with permission of the author. Today marks the 10-year anniversary of licensed concealed carry in Ohio. According to the end-of-year report prepared by the Ohio attorney general in December, more than 408,000 Ohioans are carrying concealed-carry licenses. To put this into perspective, at least 1 in 20...

Ohio concealed handgun licenses: A decade of saving lives

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Today, April 8, 2014, marks the ten year anniversary of concealed handgun licenses in Ohio. I could not even begin to give an accurate estimate the number of hours that I and my fellow volunteer leaders at Buckeye Firearms Association have put into efforts to get the law passed, and subsequently to get it improved - I am sure it is in the hundreds of thousands. Every so often, I am reminded why...

Cleveland police internal memo: Citizens can openly carry guns in public

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Monday, April 07, 2014
WOIO, Cleveland's CBS affiliate, has obtained a memo distributed to all Cleveland police officers advising them on the fact that open carrying a handgun is a legal activity in the state of Ohio. In 2012, a similar memo was issued to officers in Cincinnati. Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to see this accurate analysis of the legality of open carry and issues regarding law enforcement...

Ohio Gun Rights Timeline - A Journey Towards Freedom

by Joe Eaton & Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, April 07, 2014
As law-abiding citizens celebrate the tenth anniversary of Ohio's concealed handgun licensure law, we thought it would be helpful to document the Buckeye State's more than 225 year-history of gun rights, with specific focus on efforts to restore the rights all Ohioans once enjoyed. Despite much progress, the fight is far from over! 1788 July The first Ohio law to establish and regulate a militia...

Buckeye Firearms Association's Jim Irvine on Armed American Radio Sunday night!

4:04pm Sunday, April 06, 2014
Buckeye Firearms Association Chairman Jim Irvine co-hosted the Armed American Radio Network Sunday, April 6 from 8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Jim discussed the tenth anniversary of concealed carry in Ohio with Armed American Radio (AAR) host Mark Walters. Armed American Radio is broadcast live from the Crossbreed Holster Studios in Atlanta and syndicated nationally by Salem Radio Network. Click here to...

U.S. Supreme Court Gives Broad Reading to Federal Firearm Prohibition for "Domestic Violence"

3:00pm Friday, April 04, 2014
Since 1996, the so-called "Lautenberg Amendment" (named for its sponsor, Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)), has banned the acquisition or possession of firearms by anyone convicted of a "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence." Applicable crimes are limited to those that have "as an element, the use or attempted use of physical force, or the threatened use of a deadly weapon" and that are...

Prosecution of Athens Co. Sheriff threatens to expose CHL records

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, April 04, 2014
The Athens Messenger is reporting that the prosecution of a suspended Athens County Sheriff Patrick Kelly, who was indicted last month by a grand jury on 25 counts, threatens to expose concealed handgun licensees' private, personal information in that county. From the article : Special prosecutors in the case of suspended Athens County Sheriff Patrick Kelly are seeking a court order to prevent...

AGAIN: Almost 20 dead and wounded in "no guns" U.S. Army victim zone

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Thursday, April 03, 2014
No one knows for sure who said it, but the one about defining insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result looms large in the wake of third active killer attack on a domestic U.S. military facility since President Obama took office. Military officials told reporters that an Iraq war veteran who suffered from mental health issues opened fire on fellow...

House passes HB 234 (Allow Noise Suppressors While Hunting) [UPDATE: Vote Tallies]

by Chad D. Baus
3:34pm Wednesday, April 02, 2014
HB 234 sponsored by Representative Cheryl Grossman (R-Grove City), a bill that seeks to allow a person to use a noise suppressor attached to a gun while hunting game birds or wild quadrupeds, has passed the Ohio House with a 76-15 vote, and will now be forwarded to the Ohio Senate for consideration. Buckeye Firearms Association has previously provided testimony in support of the bill. The use of...

Suit seeks injunction to stop unworkable microstamping law

3:00pm Wednesday, April 02, 2014
NEWTOWN, Conn. – The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (SAAMI) have filed a motion for a preliminary injunction on behalf of their members against the State of California in Fresno Superior Court to prevent enforcement of the state's microstamping law. The state statute enacted in 2007, but not made effective until May 2013,...

Man defends own life with gun when confronted by two attackers

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, April 02, 2014
WBNS (CBS Columbus) and other Columbus news stations are reporting on a self-defense shooting that happened over the weekend. From WBNS : Police said a man shot a teenager in self-defense around 2:15 a.m. Saturday in the area of east Morrill Avenue and Woodrow Avenue. Callers reported hearing seven gunshots as they called 911 after the shooting. Shawndell T. Bryant was rushed to Grant Medical...

Headlines You're Not Going to See

by Jim Shepherd
4:00pm Tuesday, April 01, 2014
Today is, Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - April Fool's Day. The day people are supposed to play stupid jokes on each other to get a rise out of the other person. At that point, you can say "April Fools" and laugh at their being so naive as to fall for your old "there's a spider on your shirt collar" joke. Here's a word of warning: some who are really afraid of spiders (arachnophobia) don't see those...

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