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Long Guns for Self- Defense: The AR-15 (aka The “Modern Sporting Rifle”)

by Gary Evens
3:00pm Tuesday, March 11, 2014
The semi-automatic AR-15 is the most popular rifle in the United States. There are several reasons for this. One is that follow ing every major conflict that the U.S. has fought, the veterans of that conflict have sought to acquire firearms similar to those they used to fight with. Following World War I, there was a great move in the U.S. to adopt the bolt-action rifle. Prior to that time, the...

Training – how much is enough?

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Tuesday, March 11, 2014
How much training should be required to obtain a concealed handgun license (CHL)? Carrying a firearm is a constitutionally-protected right, but carrying concealed has been ruled a privilege. It is in the public’s best interest that people carrying concealed firearms do so safely, so the state can mandate training, but how much training does it take to make someone safe with a gun? When does it...

HB 234 (Allow Noise Suppressors While Hunting) scheduled for possible vote in House committee

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Monday, March 10, 2014
Chairman David Hall has announced that the House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee will be hearing all testimony on Representative Cheryl Grossman's (R-Grove City) HB 234 Tuesday March 11, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. in Statehouse Room 116. This will be the fourth hearing for this important bill. Chairman Hall has indicated that an amendment may be offered before a possible vote is held...

Anti-Gun Groups Fail to Remove Second Amendment Content from Facebook

7:00am Monday, March 10, 2014
In recent months, anti-gun groups such as Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), the Brady Campaign and others have been putting increasing pressure on Facebook (and its associated platform, Instagram) to prohibit any online content that references the private sale of firearms. The demands to Facebook were based on the false premise that guns were being sold illegally through these forums simply...

LaPierre Blasts Mainstream Media, Administration at CPAC

The Outdoor Wire
3:00pm Friday, March 07, 2014
Editor's Note: As an Official NRA News Partner, we broadcast the speech live. If you missed it, you can watch a replay by clicking here . "A little over a year ago, I offered the answer for school violence," said the NRA's Wayne LaPierre, "and the media elite called every nasty name imaginable. Fortunately, Americans disagreed." That was the opening shot, and LaPierre never stopped firing at the...

Will you survive a gunfight?

by Gary Evens
7:00am Friday, March 07, 2014
That is a difficult question to answer. Most individuals that are concerned about their personal safety to the extent that they have obtained a concealed handgun license feel they are adequately trained to deal with a hostile encounter should they be confronted with one. Unfortunately nothing could be further from the truth. Greg Ellifritz, writing on the Buckeye Firearms Association website,...

Headline: Ohio State pistol team finding success shooting ‘in relative obscurity’

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Thursday, March 06, 2014
The Ohio State University's campus newspaper, The Lantern , is reporting on the undefeated OSU pistol team's final preparations for the 2014 NRA Intercollegiate Pistol Championships March 8-13. From the article : In 15 years as the head coach, James Sweeney has led the pistol team to five national titles and coached seven student-athletes to 23 NRA collegiate individual championships, including...

Why we have no tolerance for ''zero tolerance''

by Ken Hanson & Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, March 06, 2014
You can relax! Thanks to quick and decisive action, a 10 year-old menace will no longer be stalking his next victim within the halls of Columbus City Schools, at least for a while. Thank you, zero tolerance, for removing this predator. In case you missed the original story , a Columbus fifth-grader has been suspended from school for pointing a “level 2 lookalike firearm” (that is public school...

Op-Ed: Dumbing Down UC Davis

by Chuck Michel
3:00pm Wednesday, March 05, 2014
When a researcher’s opening remarks are a demonstrable lie, you tend to disbelieve everything they say afterward. So naturally we are discussing Garen Wintemute, the stoat-faced director of UC Davis’ Violence Prevention Research Program. To create a false controversy in an effort to generate attention for Wintemute’s latest alleged research effort, a few news organizations (I stumbled across the...

Rapes and robberies on Ohio college campuses highlight fallacy of "no-guns" zones

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Recent incidents of violence on two of Ohio's largest college campuses are once again drawing attention to the plight of our state's defenseless college students. On the campus of The Ohio State University, The Lantern is reporting that University Police issued a public safety notice regarding a reported rape in an on-campus residence hall. From the article : Recent information about the rape,...

Op-Ed: Obama’s surgeon general nominee Dr. Vivek Murthy is a radical gun grabber

by Emily Miller
3:00pm Tuesday, March 04, 2014
President Obama is using every executive power in his arsenal to infringe on Second Amendment rights. His latest maneuver is to nominate a rabidly anti-gun doctor to be the next U.S. surgeon general. Dr. Vivek Murthy is facing Senate approval in upcoming weeks. Dr. Murthy is the 36-year-old president and co-founder of Doctors for America, a group that advocates for Obamacare and gun control laws...

Former Bloomberg ally confirms ‘Mayors’ group’s goal is gun confiscation

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, March 04, 2014
Via an op-ed published by the Poughkeepsie Journal , Poughkeepsie, NY Mayor John Tkazyik has confirmed what readers of BuckeyeFirearms.org have known for quite some time - billionaire Michael Bloomberg's "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" is after far more than just "bring[ing] attention to the problem of illegal guns." From the op-ed : I’m the mayor of one of the largest cities in the Hudson Valley,...

California Carry Restrictions Ruled Unconstitutional

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Monday, March 03, 2014
But the wheels of justice are likely to turn slowly Citizens have a right to bear arms outside the home for self-defense, says a three-judge panel of the Federal Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. They ruled that California’s restrictive system banning most open carry and severely restricting concealed carry is in violation of the Second Amendment. That’s good news, but Californians shouldn’t...

2013 Attorney General Summary on Concealed Carry: Record 89% Increase in Ohio Concealed Handgun Licenses

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Monday, March 03, 2014
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the Concealed Handgun License (CHL) statistics for the fourth quarter of 2013 and the annual report. It was a record-setting year, ending with over 400,000 Ohioans licensed to carry concealed handguns. New records were set for the initial licenses issued and most licenses renewed in a year. Demand for CHLs finished the year strong. It was the...

U.S. Firearm Production Sets Record in 2012: AR-15 Production Up Over 100%

3:00pm Friday, February 28, 2014
The number of firearms manufactured in the U.S. for sale to American customers hit an all-time high in 2012, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (BATFE) new Firearms Manufacturers and Export Report. American firearm manufacturers produced roughly 8.3 million firearms for sale in the U.S., a new record, up 33 percent from the 6.2 million produced for American...

CNN cancels Piers Morgan's anti-gun prime-time show

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, February 28, 2014
CNN has announced that it is ending anti-gun British journalist Piers Morgan's prime-time talk show amidst dismal ratings. From coverage by Reuters : A source at CNN said network president Jeffrey Zucker had made the decision to cancel the show following a series of discussions with Morgan about its future. Morgan, 48, could not immediately be reached for comment but acknowledged in a New York...

Speech police: Bloomberg bunch pressures Facebook and Instagram to ban discussions about gun sales on social sites

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Thursday, February 27, 2014
It isn't just your Second Amendment rights billionaire Michael Bloomberg is after - it's your First Amendment rights as well. Forbes.com is reporting that Bloomberg's Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense In America and Mayors Against Illegal Guns are seeking to put pressure on Facebook to prohibit discussions about the legal sale or trade of guns between individuals on its platforms. From the article...

Bible in front pocket saves bus driver from gunshots, but why does Dayton RTA still ban CCW?

by Chad D.Baus
7:00am Thursday, February 27, 2014
The recent shooting of a Dayton city bus driver is the latest in a long string of violent incidents that draw attention to the illegal ban on guns in city busses in Dayton and other Ohio cities. From WCPO (ABC Dayton) : Authorities say a Bible may have saved the life of a Dayton bus driver Monday morning. A New Testament Bible was in the front pocket of Regional Transit Authority bus driver...

PCR - Division of Wildlife Open House Critical Step

by Larry S. Moore
3:00pm Wednesday, February 26, 2014
The ODNR Division of Wildlife has proposed a Buckeye Firearms Association supported regulation to add Pistol Caliber Rifles (PCR) to the Ohio deer gun season. The upcoming Open Houses on March 1 are a critical last hurdle for PCR in Ohio. The PCR proposal has enjoyed strong support from sportsmen across Ohio and the response to the Division of Wildlife PCR survey in 2013 as overwhelming. Buckeye...

Headline: Passerby shoots, kills dog attacking woman, then keeps walking

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, February 26, 2014
WLWT, Cincinnati's NBC affiliate, is reporting that a woman being attacked by a dog Friday was saved when a passerby drew a concealed handgun and shot the dog. From the report : The attack happened in the 2100 block of Selim Avenue in East Price Hill about noon on Friday. Cincinnati police officers said the victim was attacked by the dog after it broke free from its chain in a backyard. A mail...

Op-Ed: Executive Disorder

by Chuck Michel
3:00pm Tuesday, February 25, 2014
With another stroke of his executive pen, President Obama has again confirmed his anti-Second Amendment agenda. On August 29, 2013, the White House issued a press release declaring two executive actions going into effect. The first proposed change is to federal regulation to require background checks and law enforcement approval before firearms regulated under the National Firearms Act or “NFA” (...

Ohio: Suppressor Bill Awaits Approval by House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee

7:00am Tuesday, February 25, 2014
After having received several hearings by the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, House Bill 234, sponsored by state Representative Cheryl Grossman (R-23) still awaits passage by this committee. This important pro-hunting legislation would revise state law to allow a person to use a noise suppressor attached to a firearm while hunting game birds or wild quadrupeds in the Buckeye...

Op-Ed: Bloomberg's latest stats on school gun violence ignore reality

by John R. Lott
3:00pm Monday, February 24, 2014
Are schools and colleges dangerous places, with lots of gun violence? Some groups paint a picture of these places being particularly unsafe. Supposedly both murders and firearm suicides are very common at educational institutions. Last Wednesday, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s two groups, Moms Demand Gun Sense in America and Mayors Against Illegal Guns, jointly released a report that...

Former BCII head says arming teachers is way to stop school killers

by Greg Sowinski
7:00am Monday, February 24, 2014
The following article was originally published by The Lima News . Republished with permission. LIMA — A man who has been one of the state’s top cops told fellow officers Friday communities need to take steps such as arming teachers and changing their approach to the war on drugs to protect and better society. Former Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation head John Lenhart was...

Public Invited to Comment on Ohio's 2014-2015 Hunting Season Proposals

3:00pm Friday, February 21, 2014
Input also accepted online at www.wildohio.com COLUMBUS, OH – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) invites public comments regarding the 2014-2015 hunting, trapping and fishing regulations at open houses on Saturday, March 1, from 12-3 p.m., and online through Sunday, March 2. Input concerning proposed hunting season dates, bag limits and rule changes will be accepted during open...

Elida pupil faces possible expulsion after bringing knives to school

by Greg Sowinski
7:00am Friday, February 21, 2014
The following article was originally published by The Lima News . Republished with permission. ELIDA — An Elida Middle School student plotting to kill the principal and others arrived at the school Wednesday armed with weapons but stopped just short of carrying out his plan. The 13-year-old boy is a seventh-grader at Elida Middle School. He had three knives, a box cutter, a miniature baseball bat...

Op-Ed: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Air Conditioners Cause Rapes

by Chuck Michel
3:00pm Thursday, February 20, 2014
I was reminded of an old criminologists' inside joke when recent news reports announced that global warming will lead to higher crime rates (which is odd since crime in America has been in a two decade decline while global temperatures have crept upwards). Long ago someone noticed that more rapes occurred during the summer months, and also noticed people ran their air conditioners during the...

No Guns on Gun Ban Signs?

7:00am Thursday, February 20, 2014
When it comes to the anti-gunners' viewpoint, don't be too hasty in thinking that things can't get more ridiculous than they already are, because--as this story illustrates--they most assuredly can. [Recently], the Daily Caller reported that, in response to a law requiring the posting of small, "no guns allowed" stickers where the carry of concealed firearms is still banned, some school officials...

Op-Ed: ‘Gun control’ advocates' arrests highlight irony and hypocrisy

by David Codrea
3:00pm Wednesday, February 19, 2014
In an incident seen by some as a bit of supreme irony, a local “gun control” proponent has been arrested on two felony charges for bringing a concealed handgun into a New York elementary school, causing “an hours long lockdown,” The Buffalo News reported Friday. "Dwayne Ferguson ... was a well-known face in the movement for the SAFE Act, the state law that made carrying a gun on school property a...

Two Anniversaries Gun Control Supporters Aren't Celebrating

7:00am Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Gun control supporters have lately used the 20th anniversary of Bill Clinton's signing of the Brady Act into law as an excuse to repeat their demand for "universal" background checks. Even though most people who commit crimes with guns defeat the Brady Act by getting their guns by theft, on the black market, or from straw purchasers, anti-gunners have portrayed the law as having saved countless...

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