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HB 203 (Concealed Carry & Self-Defense Law Reform) scheduled for second hearing in House

4:00pm Friday, October 25, 2013
Chairman Mike Dovilla has announced that the Policy and Legislative Oversight Committee will be hearing proponent testimony on Representative Terry Johnson's (R-McDermott) HB 203 next Tuesday, October 29 at 10:00 a.m. in Statehouse Room 115. This will be the second hearing for this important bill. Chairman Dovilla has indicated that a substitute bill may be offered. Any persons who are interested...

Ammo shortages concentrated around areas where there are the largest numbers of gun owners/shooters and ranges

8:00am Friday, October 25, 2013
by Jim Shepherd After reading a lengthy email exchange between a group of friends that includes competition shooters, writers, law enforcement and instructors, on "what's causing the ammunition shortage" yesterday, it seemed high time to wander out and do some decidedly un-scientific research for myself. My first stop was the closest Walmart. I wandered into the sporting goods section and there...

Op-Ed: Watch Your Guns Around Obamacare

4:00pm Thursday, October 24, 2013
"There is nothing in Obamacare that prohibits another federal agency from compiling a database of gun owners." by Rachel Alexander What does gun control have to do with health care? As odd as it seems, Obamacare contains provisions that jeopardize gun ownership, especially for veterans. Anti-gun provisions were added to initial drafts of Obamacare legislation under the pretext of prohibiting...

U.S. History Textbook Continues Tradition of Misinterpreting Second Amendment

8:00am Thursday, October 24, 2013
Recent news out of Texas has pro-rights parents reaching for their children's backpacks after it was revealed that a popular textbook used to teach high school advanced placement U.S. history courses includes a shocking misinterpretation of the Second Amendment. Published by AMSCO School Publications, Inc., and titled, United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Exam, the 2010...

Double-Standards in D.C.

4:00pm Wednesday, October 23, 2013
As most Americans know, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives--and perhaps others in the Obama administration--knowingly allowed guns to be smuggled from the United States to Mexican drug-smuggling cartels, on the hope that the guns would be recovered at Mexican crimes scenes and eventually traced to sales in the United States. The goal of the effort, dubbed Operation Fast and...

Citizen Gun Owners – First Responders in Kenya

8:00am Wednesday, October 23, 2013
by Jeff Knox When two teams of cowardly, Muslim extremist terrorists stormed the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya last month, police and government forces were slow to respond, but local gun owners were not. Kenya has very strict gun laws, banning most semi-auto rifles, and tightly restricting possession of handguns, but, like New York City, those with the right connections, enough money...

Op-Ed: California - Living Proof of the Slippery Slope of Rational Apathy

4:00pm Tuesday, October 22, 2013
by C. D. Michel "It started with a coffee date. Now I'm married with kids. How the heck did that happen?" How indeed? Life sneaks up on us. Change occurs in tiny increments. Before you know it, the order of life has been inverted. It's the same with the law. Aristotle knew what he was talking about when he wrote "Jealously maintain...the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small...

BATFE Solicits Comments on Poorly-Conceived NFA Transfer Proposal

8:00am Tuesday, October 22, 2013
As we previously reported, the Obama administration, via the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, has proposed a new rule governing applications by legal entities such as trusts and corporations to make and transfer National Firearms Act (NFA) firearms. To justify the proposed rule, the administration and BATFE have stated that over 39,000 applications for transfers of NFA...

Flying With Guns

4:00pm Monday, October 21, 2013
by Greg Ellifritz I travel quite a bit. Most of my adventures take place in third world countries where I can't carry my gun. But whenever I travel anywhere in the United States, I bring a couple pistols...even when traveling by air. I flew out west for a camping trip with some friends a few weeks ago. As I was going through the airline firearms check procedures, it struck me that many of my...

Cincinnati.com online poll shows overwhelming support for pending gun rights legislation, opposition to gun control

8:00am Monday, October 21, 2013
by Chad D. Baus A Cincinnati.com interactive online poll , open since July, reveals overwhelming support for pending legislation that would improve or restore rights for gun owners in Ohio, while at the same time reveals massive opposition to proposed gun control.

New Antlerless Deer Muzzleloader Season a Success for Hunters

4:00pm Friday, October 18, 2013
COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio muzzleloader hunters enjoyed warm weather as they harvested 5,608 antlerless white-tailed deer during the new antlerless-only muzzleloader hunting weekend Oct. 12-13, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). "Ohio's first antlerless-only muzzleloader deer season was a success, and we are pleased so many hunters participated," said ODNR Director James...

Kentucky boy buys & brings gun to "no-guns" high school; Media fret about where he met the seller

8:00am Friday, October 18, 2013
by Chad D. Baus On Friday, October 11, a 15 year-old Kentucky boy brought a pistol to his high school. According to media reports, the boy never pulled the gun, but instead showed it to other students about two hours before Friday night's homecoming game. The boy's friends quickly informed their coaches and he surrendered the weapon and ammunition to school officials with no dispute. Several days...

Outrage(s) of the Week

4:00pm Thursday, October 17, 2013
Regular readers know that we report with great frequency on a veritable parade of ridiculous cases involving over-zealous school officials and their over-the-top enforcement of "zero-tolerance" rules. Well, here we go again. This week, we have not one, but four outrageous incidents of ridiculously enforced zero-tolerance policies to report. So, depending on your perspective, either the bar you...

Akron police chief: Background checks won't work to stop criminals, and "gun buybacks are a farce"

8:00am Thursday, October 17, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Last month, lost in the news media's attempts to blame law-abiding gun owners (and a rifle that wasn't even used) for a crazed man's attack on the Washington Navy Yard, came a report from the City of Akron, where Police Chief James Nice offered a very public explanation of why background checks, no matter how stringent, are never going to prevent criminals from obtaining them...

Abusing Amendment I to attack Amendment II

4:00pm Wednesday, October 16, 2013
by Tim Inwood On September 18th I was concerned Sarah Brady had briefly taken control of my local newspaper, considering the editorial cartoon and AP article that looked and sounded like propaganda straight from the Brady Campaign, an organization that never misses an opportunity to attack our Second Amendment rights. The article quoting rabid anti-gun politicians like Obama, Feinstein and anti-...

Portman To White House: U.S. Will Not Be Bound By U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

8:00am Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Washington, D.C., October 15, 2013 – Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman joined a bipartisan group of 50 U.S. Senators, including Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), in reiterating to President Obama that the Senate overwhelmingly opposes the ratification of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) and will not be bound by its obligations. "The U.S. cannot and will...

Headline: Suspect Shot in Alleged Home Invasion to be Taken Off Life Support

4:00pm Tuesday, October 15, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WSAZ (NBC Huntsville, WV) is reporting that a man who was critically injured after investigators say he was shot while he was breaking into a home in Portsmouth (OH) last Sunday evening has been taken off of life support. From the article : The shooting happened at a home in the 1000 block of 23rd Street around 9:30 p.m. Portsmouth Police say Keith Richards, 31, of Portsmouth,...

The Tallest Tale: U.K. Crime is Down…NOT

8:00am Tuesday, October 15, 2013
by Paul Gallant, Sherry Gallant, Alan J. Chwick, andJoanne D. Eisen On September 10, 2013, Piers Morgan, a British journalist and TV host in America on CNN, interviewed Emily Miller, author of Emily Gets Her Gun...but Obama wants to take Yours , and Opinion Page Senior Editor for the Washington Times . Miller, a Washington D.C. resident, "gained national attention for her 'Emily Gets Her Gun'...

Firearms Industry Praises Bipartisan Introduction of 2013 Sportsmen's Act in U.S. House

4:00pm Monday, October 14, 2013
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industries, today praised the bipartisan House leadership of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus (CSC) for introducing the Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act of 2013. CSC Co-Chairs, U.S. Reps. Bob Latta (R-Ohio) and Bennie...

Prosecutor gives his take on House Bill 203

8:00am Monday, October 14, 2013
The following article was originally published by The Lima News . Republished with permission. by Greg Sowinski LIMA — If Ohio lawmakers pass a measure dubbed the "stand your ground" bill, residents no longer will have a duty to retreat before using deadly force so long as they are lawfully at a place, Allen County Prosecutor Juergen Waldick told Elida Optimists on Tuesday. Waldick was asked to...

Virginia gubernatorial contest pits pro-gun Ken Cuccinelli against anti-gun Terry McAuliffe

4:00pm Friday, October 11, 2013
by Jeff Knox Polls say that popular Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is trailing former Democrat National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe in his bid for Governor of Virginia. If the polls are correct – or even close to being correct – the blame must rest upon the professional political strategists in the Cuccinelli camp. The only poll that really matters happens on Election Day, of...

Ohio Considers Self-Defense Law Changes

8:00am Friday, October 11, 2013
Editor's Note: - The following "Law You Can Use" Consumer Information Column, written by Buckeye Firearms Association Legal Chair Ken Hanson, is being provided by the Ohio State Bar Association to news outlets across the state. It has already been published at Akron.com . Q: I've been hearing about "stand-your-ground" laws in the news. What does Ohio law say about using lethal force in a self-...

We have a new address!

4:00pm Thursday, October 10, 2013
Buckeye Firearms Association and Buckeye Firearms Foundation have a new address. Our new address is: 495 East Mound Street, Suite 200 Columbus, Ohio 43215 Please direct all future postal correspondence to this new address. As Buckeye Firearms Association and Buckeye Firearms Foundation continue to grow in popularity and in terms of the projects we are engaged in, we needed a location in downtown...

Starbucks and Guns

8:00am Thursday, October 10, 2013
by Jeff Knox When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz posted a public letter asking gun owners not to bring their guns into Starbucks stores, some in the media and anti-rights crowd declared it a victory, while some in the gun-rights crowd called it a declaration of war. It was neither. As a company, Seattle-based Starbucks tends to lean left, supporting "progressive" causes and candidates, but when the...

ODNR Expands Deer Check System

4:00pm Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Landowners can check deer using mobile devices COLUMBUS, OH – An enhanced website will offer Ohio hunters a quick and easy way to check harvested white-tailed deer with their smartphones, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The enhanced site at www.ohiogamecheck.com was made available when the 2013-2014 deer-archery season began on Saturday, Sept. 28.

Want the facts concerning the proposed change to Ohio's ‘duty to retreat'? Don't look to the media or opponents of HB 203.

8:00am Wednesday, October 09, 2013
by Chad D. Baus In the lead-up to the return of the Ohio General Assembly from their summer break and the opening of hearings on several pro-gun rights bills, certain individuals and groups, along with their media accomplices, have ramped up their efforts to paint one particular provision in Rep. Terry Johnson's House Bill 203 as a "Stand Your Ground" bill. These groups, which have always opposed...

Federal Land Closures: Political Theatre at its Worst

4:00pm Tuesday, October 08, 2013
USSA Calls on President Obama to Take Action (Columbus) – As Washington D.C. faces another government shutdown, hunters, anglers and trappers across the country are facing a shutdown of their own. From Alaska to Florida, sportsmen and women are finding that the budgetary standoff in Congress is having a direct impact on their hunting or fishing season. The federal government has issued directives...

Senate.gov Invents Second Amendment Controversy

8:00am Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Perhaps we were too harsh on textbook publishers last week for botching the proper interpretation of the Second Amendment, as even those in charge of the official website of a body sworn to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States" apparently can't be expected to get it right. The official website of the United States Senate features a "Virtual Reference Desk" section on the...

Op-Ed: Bloomberg's Puppets Turn Their Sights on Ohioans' Second Amendment Rights

4:00pm Monday, October 07, 2013
by Ken Blackwell By now, you really would have thought Michael Bloomberg would have learned his lesson. The out-of-touch New York City mayor has lately made it his business to be in everyone else's business - whether that means trying to decide for New York residents what they are allowed to eat or drink, or trying to tell people from other states what to think of their elected officials. More...

Not a Peep from Obama: Violent Crime Now at a 42-Year Low

8:00am Monday, October 07, 2013
Last week, the FBI released its national crime report for 2012. By a slight margin, the nation's violent crime rate decreased in 2012--relative to 2011--making it the lowest it has been since 1970. Compared to 1991, when it hit an all-time high, violent crime is down by 49 percent. The nation's murder rate was unchanged in 2012; still lower than any time since 1963 and at nearly an all-time low...

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