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Ohio Cities Slow to Comply With State Gun Laws

4:00pm Friday, September 20, 2013
by Jesse Hathaway Numerous Ohio cities including Westerville and Oberlin have gun laws on the books conflicting with House Bill 347 (HB 347), which was introduced in 2005 and gave the state government sole regulatory authority over gun laws in the Buckeye State starting in March 2007. Ohio Revised Code (ORC) section 9.68, instituted by HB 347, provides for "uniform laws throughout the state...

Poll: Only 33% Think Stricter Gun Laws Might Have Prevented Navy Yard Shooting

8:00am Friday, September 20, 2013
by Chad D. Baus A new poll has found that, despite the latest mass shooting by a mentally-ill person at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, support for more gun control has fallen to its lowest level in over a year. According to the poll, most Americans don't think tougher gun control would have prevented this week's killings anyway. From Rasmussen Reports : Just 33% of American Adults believe it...

Op-Ed: Crazier than liberals

4:00pm Thursday, September 19, 2013
by Ann Coulter There's been another mass shooting by a crazy person, and liberals still refuse to consider institutionalizing the dangerous mentally ill. The man who shot up the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, Aaron Alexis, heard voices speaking to him through the walls. He thought people were following him. He believed microwave ovens were sending vibrations through his body. There are also...

Washington Navy Yard attack: Still more questions than answers, but one thing is clear

8:00am Thursday, September 19, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Once again, our nation has suffered loss at the hands of man who had sought treatment for mental illness, and once again the discussion has quickly focused on "what went wrong?" and "who or what can we blame?" The usual suspects are certainly being presented. First to the microphone was California Senator Diane Feinstein, blaming a rifle that, as it turns out, apparently wasn't...

Dayton business owner defends self from armed robbers: "It was the wrong place to rob"

4:00pm Wednesday, September 18, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WHIO (CBS Dayton) is reporting that Dayton police will not pursue charges against a business owner who shot a man that tried to rob his store last Sunday night. From the article : Thomas Mauro, 59, owner of the 3rd Base Drive Thru, 3535 Linden Ave., told police that two white males came into his business and approached the clerk in an attempt to rob the store. Mauro, who was in...

Townhall on Stand Your Ground

10:51am Wednesday, September 18, 2013
WSYX ABC6 in Columbus has announced a townhall to be broadcast live on Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 7-8pm at the OSU Union. Watch online, Time Warner Ch. 990, Insight Ch. 189, WOW Ch. 141, or over the air Ch. 6.2. Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson will serve as a panelist. The townhall will be about the bill currently being considered to introduce "stand your ground" to...

Active Killer Response for the Armed Citizen

8:00am Wednesday, September 18, 2013
by Greg Ellifritz On January 8, 2011 Jared Loughner shot 20 people in the parking lot of an Arizona grocery store. In law enforcement terminology, this type of crime is called an "Active Shooter" or "Active Killer" event. In this kind of incident, one or more shooters are trying to kill as many people as possible. The shooters may or may not be politically motivated. Most of these events last...

New York Times: Burden More Gun Buyers with "Woefully Flawed" FBI Checks

4:00pm Tuesday, September 17, 2013
In a scathing editorial published August 18, titled, A Flawed Background-Check System , the New York Times takes to task the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the detrimental effect the agency's inability to conduct accurate checks has had on job seekers. The Times notes that "F.B.I. background checks are widely viewed as the gold standards but are in fact woefully flawed, often based on...

Real World .22s for Self Defense

8:00am Tuesday, September 17, 2013
by Greg Ellifritz I've recently received quite a bit of feedback on carrying and using the .22 as a self defense weapon. I had no idea how many of you rely on the rimfire for a defense round! There are a lot of people packing .22s out there! I occasionally carry either my S&W 317 or 351 as self defense weapons in low threat situations…usually while working in the yard or garage. They are...

Gun Control Costing States… Literally

4:00pm Monday, September 16, 2013
In recent months, several traditionally anti-gun states, and Colorado, have enacted laws that abuse the rights of the average citizen and offend their corporate citizens. The situation has led to an exodus of gun manufacturers to more friendly climes, with anti-gun states losing the significant tax revenue and jobs these companies provide. Amongst the companies that have chosen to relocate is...

Let’s Kick Bloomberg While He’s Down: Colorado Victory - Proof and Opportunity

8:00am Monday, September 16, 2013
by Jeff Knox Colorado Senate President John Morse and State Senator Angela Giron are both out of a job as of September 10 when vote-counts showed that recall elections against the pair were successful. Morse lost in a close race, while Giron was effectively trounced. The recall effort was initiated by angry GunVoters after the legislature passed, and the Governor signed, a gun control bill which...

A Good Reason Why Congress Shouldn't Fund Gun Control Research

4:00pm Friday, September 13, 2013
It’s no news that the NRA supports not only the Second Amendment, but also other parts of the Bill of Rights, including the First Amendment’s protection of the right to express one’s political opinion. That was made that pretty clear in the debate over Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, in which the Supreme Court ultimately struck down restrictions on the ability of the NRA and other...

Hamilton homeowner shoots and kills attacker after being stabbed multiple times

8:00am Friday, September 13, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The Cincinnati News reported recently that a Hamilton resident shot and killed a man who stabbed him during a robbery. From the article : Chad Gabbard, 44, of Hamilton was shot to death at 11 p.m. inside 1860 Parrish Ave. in Hamilton, said Hamilton Police Sgt. Ed Burns. Gabbard tried to rob Robert D. Shoemaker, 38, who was found on the front porch with three stab wounds to the...

Cleveland.com Writer Acknowledges Inaccurate Reporting on Gun Law

4:00pm Thursday, September 12, 2013
Editor's Note: This report is a follow-up to an article posted at BuckeyeFirearms.org on September 9, in which we attempted to make sense of an Cleveland.com article by Jeff Piorkowski. by Jesse Hathaway A correction to an inaccurate Cleveland.com story about House Bill 203 (HB 203) is forthcoming, after communications between Media Trackers, Northeast Ohio Media Group reporter Jeff Piorkowski,...

Report: Ohio Education Association Helps Obama Campaign Lobby for Gun Control

8:00am Thursday, September 12, 2013
by Chad D. Baus MediaTrackers.org reported recently that The Ohio Education Association (OEA) is assisting Organizing for Action (OFA) in its lobbying for new gun control laws, using social media accounts maintained with teachers' mandatory union dues. From the article : The afternoon of August 22, OEA linked to a BarackObama.com gun control petition from the union's official Facebook page: At...

Colorado sends a message to politicians: Vote against your constituents, and your constituents will vote against you

12:00pm Wednesday, September 11, 2013
by Jim Irvine After very hard-fought, highly-contested recall races in Colorado, which saw hundreds of thousands of dollars from out of state, the votes are counted. Two anti-gun, anti-freedom, anti-self-defense Democrats who voted to trample on individual rights and support a radical agenda being pushed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg have been voted out of office. The importance of these...

One of these news reports is not like the others... Columbus ABC buries news of Bloomberg anti-gun group's failed rally

8:00am Wednesday, September 11, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Last week, Buckeye Firearms Association volunteers made national news after they succeeded in out-numbering a tiny rally (mostly-paid staffers) organized by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The turn of events was covered by everyone from the Washington times to Breitbart.com, all of whom noted the fact that MAIG produced a tiny turnout, with BFA...

Common-sense restrictions

4:00pm Tuesday, September 10, 2013
by Aaron Kirkingburg and Jim Irvine We often hear calls for "common-sense" firearms restrictions. All these restrictions on the transfer, ownership and use of firearms is common sense to those who dislike others' ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights without undue infringement. But what about the First Amendment? As with all rights, there are limitations. One cannot yell "FIRE!" in a...

Why the NSA surveillance program matters for the universal background check debate

8:00am Tuesday, September 10, 2013
by Mike Horning, PhD Last week's anti-gun protest in Columbus seemed to fizzle when BFA supporters turned it into a pro-gun rally , but that doesn't mean the debate on universal background checks is even close to being over. If the lack of gun control support suggests anything, it is that Ohioans aren't interested much in Mayor Bloomberg's efforts to bring New York-style gun laws to the state of...

"Thank God I had a gun!": Dog awakens woman to home invader; Glock ends the confrontation

3:00pm Monday, September 09, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The Cincinnati News is reporting that a disabled 64-year-old woman, who just got her license to carry a concealed weapon in June to protect herself, repeatedly fired her gun at an intruder during an attempted home invasion robbery last week. From the article : "I can shoot good. If I'd a had my glasses on, I probably would have shot better," said Mabel Fletcher. "But who thinks...

Misinformed South Euclid Council President David Miller sponsors resolution opposing guns in bars...two years late

8:00am Monday, September 09, 2013
South Euclid Police Chief Kevin Nietert also seems unaware of current state law on the subject by Chad D. Baus The Cleveland Plain Dealer 's Cleveland.com is reporting that South Euclid, Ohio Council President David Miller has sponsored a council resolution opposing a portion of House Bill 203 involving proposed modifications to Ohio's self-defense law, as well as another modification to Ohio law...

Op-Ed: How to keep gun rights for the long term

4:00pm Friday, September 06, 2013
Editor's Note: The following op-ed, which can be read in its entirety at WorldNetDaily.com, was written by Buckeye Firearms Foundation Board of Directors member Gerard Valentino. Students of history and pro-gun advocates know that every case of genocide or political oppression was preceded by the confiscation of privately owned firearms. We also know that it wasn't the immortal words Thomas...

August 2013 firearms sales checks down 2.5% from last year, still up 24.6% from two years ago

4:00pm Thursday, September 05, 2013
The August 2013 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,016,559 is a decrease of 2.5 percent compared to the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,042,924 in August 2012. For comparison, the unadjusted August 2013 NICS figure of 1,408,468 reflects a 7.0 percent decrease from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,514,696 in August 2012. This NSSF-adjusted NICS figure...

Buckeye Firearms Association Flips Mayors Against Illegal Guns Rally

8:00am Thursday, September 05, 2013
by Jesse Hathaway Nearly 100 liberty-minded activists from across Ohio flipped the script of a Friday, August 30 Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) rally in Columbus, expressing their disapproval of the national gun control organization's ongoing attempts to limit Ohioans' Second Amendment rights. The rally, organized by MAIG regional director Patrick Barnacle, was attended by only one gun...

Families Offered Free Day at the Spring Valley Range

4:00pm Wednesday, September 04, 2013
Family Outdoor Skills Day September 21st XENIA, OH – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife is sponsoring a Family Outdoor Skills Day on Saturday, September 21st, 2013. The event will feature shotgun, rifle, pellet gun, and archery shooting activities and instruction. This family-friendly day will be held at Spring Valley Shooting Range in Greene County from noon to...

Delphos man wins court battle to get CCW license

8:00am Wednesday, September 04, 2013
The following article was originally published by The Lima News . Republished with permission. by Greg Sowinski A Delphos veteran who sued the sheriff after he was denied a concealed carry license said Thursday he knew he would win while sharply criticizing the sheriff. "The sheriff overstepped his authority and broke the law. I tried twice to tell him before filing the lawsuit and he treated me...

Op-Ed: 206 Trayvon Martins, Ignored

4:00pm Tuesday, September 03, 2013
by. C. D. Michel Over the last year, more than 200 black seventeen year olds were murdered in the United States. None of them were Trayvon Martin. It is the perception of conflict and violence that drives our attention. So it comes as no surprise that politicians try to drive our attention toward issues with which they can make political points, and away from the real issues that are difficult to...

Bloomberg anti-gun group all smoke and mirrors

by Dean Rieck
8:00am Tuesday, September 03, 2013
"What exactly happens when you throw a political rally an no one shows up - except your opposition?" WBNS (CBS Columbus) 10TV's Jim Heath says the question was answered at a rally organized by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) and President Obama's Organizing For Action (OFA) in Columbus on Friday... Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) plays a good PR game...

Obama issues new executive actions on gun control, targets collectors instead of criminals

8:00am Friday, August 30, 2013
by Chad D. Baus National media are reporting that the Obama administration unexpectedly announced two new gun control measures on Thursday. The move came just two days after Obama promised, in a closed door meeting with some of the nation's most anti-gun rights mayors, that he was about to take unilateral action on guns . From FoxNews.com : Vice President Biden announced the new measures Thursday...

Join our fight with Mayor Bloomberg in Colorado! [LIVE UPDATES]

9:15pm Thursday, August 29, 2013
As you may know, Colorado will have a recall election on September 10 to remove two anti-gun senators from office. While Buckeye Firearms Association generally focuses on Ohio, this particular election involves New York City Mayor Bloomberg and could have national repercussions. Three BFA leaders have traveled to Colorado to help lead the fight. And you can be part of the battle as well. >...

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