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Using the .22 for Self Defense

8:00am Friday, August 23, 2013
by Greg Ellifritz Since my handgun stopping power study was published last month in American Handgunner Magazine, I've received several questions from readers about my data. I expected to be castigated by all the big bullet aficionados for reporting honest data about the "mouse gun" calibers. That wasn't what I received. All the email that I got was from .22 advocates telling me that I...

Op-Ed: Illegal Mayors

4:00pm Thursday, August 22, 2013
by C. D. Michel Incarcerating Michael Bloomberg may be the next news ironic item. If only! New York Mayor Bloomberg, America's self-appointed gun control financier and front man, established the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG). The group's typically innocuous and benign sound bites actually conceal an aggressive and extreme agenda, some rather disastrous shenanigans (such as a Keystone...

Nanny Bloomberg’s War on the Constitution

8:00am Thursday, August 22, 2013
by Jeff Knox About a month after the US Senate voted down a series of gun control amendments back in April, an article in the New Republic magazine boldly declared "This is How the NRA Ends: A Bigger, Richer, Meaner Gun Control Movement has Arrived." The article was a long diatribe regurgitating much of the stale tripe and distortion we've been hearing from the anti-rights movement for decades,...

Op-Ed: Gun toting teachers' names must remain private

4:00pm Wednesday, August 21, 2013
by John Lott Are people safer if criminals know who is carrying concealed handguns? Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel seems to think so. With school starting soon, he claims that if the Clarksville, Arkansas School District lets employees carry concealed handguns at school, their names must be made public. This is his second attempt to derail the school district's proposal. McDaniel's...

AG DeWine declares some school safety plans "useless"

8:00am Wednesday, August 21, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that, while all Ohio schools meet the legal requirement of having a school safety plan, many are outdated, incomplete or useless to law enforcement. State law requires schools to file reports on how they would handle an active killer incident or other emergency, the article observes, but there are no penalties for failing to file, and the...

Ohio's children need protection...period.

8:00am Tuesday, August 20, 2013
by Mindy Whited On July 27, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published an op-ed by Renuka Mayadev entitled " Ohio's children need protection from guns ." In the article, Mayadev cites several tragic accidental shootings involving Ohio children as reasons for which Ohio should pass new gun control laws. I am a mom to five children ages 3-20. I agree that as a mom, our first priority should be keeping...

Rumor Control: U.N. "Disarmament" Memo

8:00am Tuesday, August 20, 2013
As attacks on our Second Amendment rights continue, there is typically a corresponding uptick in the number of internet rumors concerning firearms, ammunition, and gun-control measures. The latest rumor involves the United Nations, a group that indeed poses an ongoing potential threat to our Second Amendment rights. However, this rumor was highly suspect right from the start. Pictures of the...

Piers Morgan Tells a Whopper

4:00pm Monday, August 19, 2013
If you have the misfortune to be familiar with Piers Morgan, the British former tabloid "reporter" and "talent judge" known on this side of the Atlantic as CNN's most overbearing gun control proselytizer, you won't be surprised at what he did on Tuesday. It began during an interview with military history expert A.W.R. Hawkins, as Morgan pushed his theory that more gun ownership leads to more...

Communications to Buckeye Firearms Foundation about Zimmerman Second Amendment Fund expose raging anti-gun mentality

8:00am Monday, August 19, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Nearly a decade ago, I came across an article by a Dr. Sarah Thompson, entitled " Raging Against Self Defense - A Psychiatrist Examines The Anti-Gun Mentality ." The article was originally published by Utah Gun Owners Alliance, where Dr. Thompson served as executive director, but I came across it on the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership's website. In the article, Dr...

Mayor Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun “No More Names” Tour Stops in Ohio

4:00pm Friday, August 16, 2013
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Columbus Dispatch reported that only about 40 anti-gun rights people attended this rally - less than the number of pro-gun counter protesters counted by the author, who states "I did a visual head-count at three different times throughout the morning, and the pro-Second Amendment side never had less than 23, and had 46 at its peak at 11:00 AM." As the author points out, in...

Unveiled: Gun ban extremists' secret playbook: Part 2

8:00am Friday, August 16, 2013
by Chad D. Baus A friend sent a very interesting document to me recently - one that is making its rounds through the gun rights community after having been leaked online. Entitled " Preventing Gun Violence Through Effective Messaging ," it is an 80-page playbook designed to help anti-gun rights extremists learn why they continue to get beat, and how to change their message so as to fool the...

MAIG outdoes Biden on self-defense

4:00pm Thursday, August 15, 2013
On August 2, Executive Director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns Mark Glaze managed the twin feat of offering self-defense advice that surpassed Vice President Joseph Biden's in its ignorance, while simultaneously making MSNBC's Chris Matthews seem like a voice of reason on the topic. While a guest on Matthews' Hardball, the host discussed with Glaze whether he would consider an attacker wielding...

Rare accidental shooting in concealed carry class puts focus on gun safety rules

8:00am Thursday, August 15, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Last week, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that a record number of Ohioans had obtained concealed handgun licenses in the second quarter of 2013, and showed an increase over the record number that had been obtained in the first quarter. Over 376,000 Ohio citizens are now licensed to carry handguns. This news was distributed across the state, and was picked up by the...

Senator Rob Portman responds to nagging anti-gun mayors group: Join me in supporting something that will work (or shut up)

4:00pm Wednesday, August 14, 2013
by Chad D. Baus After several expensive negative ad campaigns in Ohio failed to sway Sen. Rob Portman's firm support for the Second Amendment, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's and President Obama's gun control groups, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) and Organizing for Action (OFA), have switched to using the free media. Every few weeks, the groups will stage a press conference or other media...

Lucky man from Dayton wins 3-Gun EDC Raffle

8:00am Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Buckeye Firearms Association's roots go back when Ohio was fighting to get legal concealed carry. BFA made a name for itself as the "CCW" organization and concealed carry advocates remain our strongest supporters. So it's no surprise that a raffle with 3 different carry guns would sell 1,000 tickets within hours. And it's certainly no surprise that Scott of Dayton would have such a big smile on...

Translating Anti-Gun Propaganda into English

4:00pm Tuesday, August 13, 2013
In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four , a tyrannical government attempts to control how people think by, among other things, reducing language to "a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of IngSoc [English Socialism]" and "to make all other modes of thought impossible." In the IngSoc government's new language, Newspeak, the original meanings of many...

Poll: Americans want Senate to drop gun control

8:00am Tuesday, August 13, 2013
by Chad D. Baus If an alien being landed on earth, knowing nothing of our politics, and read the newspaper or watched a news broadcast, it'd be absolutely convinced that 90% of Americans are overwhelmingly demanding passage of gun control legislation that was proposed, debated and voted down in the United States Senate last spring. Even before the gavel had dropped on the first vote to kill the...

Pelosi Urges Congress to Uphold Constitution by Passing Gun Control

4:00pm Monday, August 12, 2013
Anti-gun U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) recently urged members of Congress to uphold their oath to "protect and defend" the Constitution by passing harsher gun control laws. Yes, Pelosi is proposing that Congress should support the Constitution by radically violating it. Such is the deconstructionist mindset of modern-day gun-control advocates. As reported by CNS News , Pelosi made...

Unveiled: Gun ban extremists' secret playbook: Part 1

8:00am Monday, August 12, 2013
by Chad D. Baus A friend sent a very interesting document to me recently - one that is making its rounds through the gun rights community after having been leaked online. Entitled " Preventing Gun Violence Through Effective Messaging ," it is an 80-page playbook designed to help anti-gun rights extremists learn why they continue to get beat, and how to change their message so as to fool the...

"Mayors for Gun Control"

4:00pm Friday, August 09, 2013
We often report on anti-gun New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the follies of his gun control advocacy group "Mayors Against Illegal Guns." In the past--at one of their particularly low points--we were even compelled to detail a long list of criminal acts attributed to MAIG members. These days, some members of the group are disenchanted and are quitting MAIG. The New York Post reported...

Attorney General announces Second Quarter 2013 CHL statistics; Demand for CHLs stays in stratosphere

8:00am Friday, August 09, 2013
by Jim Irvine Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the concealed handgun license (CHL) statistics for the second quarter of 2013. After a record setting period like the first quarter, a return to "normal" is expected, but that is not what happened. The second quarter surpassed the record numbers established in the first quarter and proves that was not just a one quarter fluke. Every...

Obama and Holder have spoken out on Zimmerman verdict, but why?

4:00pm Thursday, August 08, 2013
by Tim Inwood In the wake of the Zimmerman verdict, the President and Attorney General have commented. Their comments, however, weren't really pertaining to the case, as neither firearms nor stand your ground was really at issue. Obama wants to use a case where the pistol was purchased legally with a background check and where the owner had a valid CCW card to push for more gun control. That's...

Headline: At Least 7 States Now Have Armed Staff in Schools

8:00am Thursday, August 08, 2013
by Chad D. Baus U.S. News & World Report has published an article documenting yet another school system in yet another state that has made a commitment to protect its students as our society protects its rock stars and politicians. From the article : An Arkansas school district said Tuesday it planned to arm more than 20 teachers and administrators – the first district in the state to do so,...

ATF Confiscating Drop-In Auto-Sears

4:00pm Wednesday, August 07, 2013
by Jeff Knox Agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, or ATF, have begun confiscating gun parts known as drop-in auto sears, or DIAS. A DIAS is a simple toggle device which, when installed in an AR-type rifle, along with several other critical fire-control parts, can convert a semi-auto AR into a full-auto assault rifle. The devices were originally unregulated...

Media Trackers interviews Representative Maag on his bill to reduce Ohio’s “Unarmed Victim Zones"

8:00am Wednesday, August 07, 2013
by Jesse Hathaway Ohio Representative Ron Maag (R-Lebanon) introduced House Bill 231 (HB 231) to reduce the number of what he calls "unarmed victim zones," areas where law-abiding Ohioans with concealed handgun licenses are prevented from carrying firearms, on July 11. Maag's proposal, which has eight Republican cosponsors, seeks to align Ohio's concealed carry restrictions more closely with...

July sees .02% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 38th straight month over month increase

4:00pm Tuesday, August 06, 2013
The July 2013 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 855,259 is an increase of 0.2 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 853,355 in July 2012. For comparison, the unadjusted July 2013 NICS figure of 1,271,571 reflects a 1.4 percent decrease from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,289,585 in July 2012. This marks the 38th straight month that NSSF-...

Headline: Black Legislative Caucus Circulates Petition To Stop Stand Your Ground Bill

8:00am Tuesday, August 06, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Despite nationally publicized proof that blacks benefit from Florida 'Stand Your Ground' law at disproportionate rate , Columbus' WBNS (CBS Columbus) is reporting that the Legislative Black Caucus is circulating petitions to keep a Stand Your Ground law from being adopted here in Ohio. From the report : "I think it's absolutely dangerous to have to elevate it to Stand Your Ground...

Review: Pistol Basics with Dave Spaulding

4:00pm Monday, August 05, 2013
by Gary Evens It was just a couple of years ago that I ran across a series of firearms training videos sponsored by Ruger Firearms that featured Dave Spaulding. I found the videos very informative and I really liked the way Dave explained things. I thought that I'd like to take a course from this guy if the opportunity ever presented itself — not that I thought it would ever happen. Then just a...

To the Editor: Coleman’s plan would not stem gun violence

4:00pm Saturday, August 03, 2013
The following letter to the editor of the Columbus Dispatch was published on Sunday, August 25: In his recent interview with WBNS-TV (Channel 10), Mayor Michael B. Coleman illustrated what is wrong with his position on gun control when he lamented seeing "an AK-47 being used in our city against police." Fully automatic AK-47 machine guns are heavily regulated by the federal government, requiring...

George Zimmerman thanks Buckeye Firearms Foundation

1:37pm Saturday, August 03, 2013
In a letter dated July 29, 2013, Mark O'Mara conveys the sincere thanks of George Zimmerman for the donations raised by Buckeye Firearms foundation on his behalf. Click on the letter to see a full-sized image. Here's the text of the letter: July 2, 2013 Ken Hanson, Esquire Buckeye Firearms Foundation 15 West Winter Street Delaware, Ohio 43015 Re: Donations Dear Mr. Hanson: This is to acknowledge...

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