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Fire department allows firefighters to carry weapons

3:00pm Monday, May 06, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The Springfield News Sun reported recently that an area fire department is allowing its personnel to carry concealed guns for personal defense. From the article : The Bethel Twp. fire department is the only Ohio department allowing firefighters to carry guns, the president of the state fire chiefs' association believes. The department's chief said a crisis last week is one reason...

Exploding Targets Considered Illegal Under Ohio Law

7:00am Monday, May 06, 2013
by Greg Ellifritz I recently became aware of a published legal opinion from the Ohio State Fire Marshal’s Office. I've copied the full opinion below, but the Cliff's Notes version is that if you shoot a commercially purchased or homemade exploding target in Ohio, you could face felony charges! I know these binary explosive targets are legal under Federal law, but this opinion says they aren't...

Castle Doctrine law helps homeowners who suffer home invasions in Toledo and Columbus

3:00pm Friday, May 03, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WBNS (CBS Columbus) is reporting that an eastside apartment resident fired at burglars inside his home early Wednesday morning, April 24. Under Ohio's Castle Doctrine law, if someone unlawfully enters or attempts to enter an occupied home or temporary habitation, or occupied car, citizens have an initial presumption that they may act in self defense, and will not be second-guessed...

NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits underway today

12:00pm Friday, May 03, 2013
[Editor's Note - several Buckeye Firearms Association leaders are on hand in Houston this week for the NRA meetings. If you see them, be sure to say "hi!".] by Jim Shepherd [Today begins] the one hundred and forty second edition of the NRA's Annual Meeting & Exhibitions. The booths are up, prepped and ready for a crowd anticipated to be larger than last year's 72,000+ in St. Louis. It will be...

Attackers who attempted to rob concealed handgun license-holder sentenced to 20 years in prison

7:00am Friday, May 03, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that Devante L. Michael, 19, and Alexander C. Pinkston, 22, were sentenced to 20 years in prison after both men pleaded guilty in March to aggravated robbery and felonious assault with gun specifications. Last October, then men attempted to rob a man who, as it turned out, wasn't just another helpless victim. From the article : The scars on his...

Headline: "Gun shop’s name on youth jerseys concerns parents" [UPDATE: Bar's logo of armed man drinking apparently does not]

3:00pm Thursday, May 02, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The Toledo Blade is reporting that a local gun shop's sponsorship of a youth baseball team in Bedford Township, just across the border from Toledo in Michigan, has some parents crying foul about "the message it sends." From the article : Todd Bruning wanted to sponsor the Cubs because his two children play on the team. But when players got their jerseys Thursday, some parents were...

Attorney General announces First Quarter 2013 CHL statistics; Demand for CHL’s skyrocketed in first quarter

7:00am Thursday, May 02, 2013
by Jim Irvine Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the concealed handgun license (CHL) statistics for the first quarter of 2013. Almost every record regarding concealed carry was broken last quarter. No matter how you measure it, despite what President Obama and Bloomberg say, Americans don't want more gun control, they want more guns, and the ability to carry them in more places...

Huffington Post seeks to document impact of gun violence, but will they report on the lives saved by use of a gun?

3:00pm Wednesday, May 01, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The Huffington Post is circulating an email to Ohio residents seeking to "document the nationwide impact of gun violence." Wednesday, April 24, 2013 A Message From The Huffington Post Hello from HuffPost Open Reporting - This is a one-time email to our readers in Ohio. We're working on a project to document the nationwide impact of gun violence, and we need your help. Since the...

More Ohio pastors allow armed church security; Gun ban extremist objects

7:00am Wednesday, May 01, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WHIO (CBS Dayton) is reporting that "churches across the country and here in the Miami Valley are responding to violence by putting their trust in God and taking security into their own hands." From the article : At Phillips Temple in Trotwood, armed security guards routinely patrol the church grounds and stand watch inside during services and events. It is a visible presence that...

Illinois Hoplophobes Over a Barrel: Let ‘em Roll!

3:00pm Tuesday, April 30, 2013
by Jeff Knox The state of Illinois is the only state in the union that does not offer provisions for regular citizens – those who are not law enforcement or security guards – to carry a gun in public. Last December, the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled that the ban is unconstitutional and gave the state 180 days to come up with an acceptable framework for citizen carry. Now, if the...

Attorney General DeWine, Senator Hughes Announce Violent Career Criminal Act

7:00am Tuesday, April 30, 2013
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and Ohio Senator Jim Hughes (R-Columbus) today announced new legislation aimed at reducing the number of gun crimes in the state of Ohio. They were joined by Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney Ron O'Brien, whose office has aggressively targeted violent gun crimes. "During my first year in office as Ohio's Attorney General, it became...

More Turkey Hunters Successful on Ohio's Opening Day

3:00pm Monday, April 29, 2013
COLUMBUS, OH – For the opening day of Ohio's 2013 spring wild turkey season, hunters harvested 2,762 wild turkeys, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The 2013 opening day total is a 24 percent increase from the 2012 opening day tally when 2,227 turkeys were killed. This year, Ashtabula County had the most checked wild turkeys of the opening day with 114 turkeys...

FOP fundraising letter conceals the organization's anti-gun agenda

7:00am Monday, April 29, 2013
by Larry S. Moore I received my annual copy of the Fraternal Order of Police fund-raising letter asking for my support. I've been ignoring these letters for close to twenty years now. I was about to unceremoniously deposit this one into File 13 when I thought maybe I should read it this time. My wife shook her head, noting that my political blood pressure doesn't need any help from the FOP. The...

NRA-ILA's Chris W. Cox: Message to Gun Owners on Their Victory in the Senate

3:00pm Friday, April 26, 2013
by Chris Cox While both sides in the gun control debate regroup after our victory in the Senate earlier this week, I want to give credit where credit is due. The credit for [last] Wednesday's defeat of gun control goes to the countless gun owners and other Americans who drew a line in the sand—who sent emails and letters and made phone calls to their U.S. senators, urging them to protect private...

As the U.S. Senate debated gun control in D.C., citizens used guns to protect themselves in Ohio

7:00am Friday, April 26, 2013
by Chad D. Baus News of the (failed) push to pass gun control legislation in the U.S. Senate, as well as the terror attack on Boston, dominated the media last week for good reason. But here in Ohio, a series of events that might otherwise have received wider news coverage went virtually unnoticed. Saturday, April 13 Toledo Police say a homeowner shot and killed a man who was attempting to break...

It is time for America to learn about Beslan: School safety discussions in the wake of the Chechen terrorist attack on Boston

7:00am Thursday, April 25, 2013
"Denial kills you physical, mentally, and financially. It has no survival value. Chew it up, spit it out, get rid of it. Moment of truth today - no more denial. Rid yourself of every ounce." - Lt. Col. Dave Grossman by Chad D. Baus Despite the fact that all the gun control laws in Connecticut (or New York or Colorado) and all the "no-guns" signs in schools and all the "security" measures being...

Gun confiscation already underway

3:00pm Wednesday, April 24, 2013
by Thomas Lucente And so it begins. The gun grab. Liberal politicians keep telling us they don’t want to take away our guns. "I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won't take your handgun away," President Barack Obama has said. "There's no way Uncle Sam can go find out whether you have a gun," Vice President Joe Biden said. Tell that to David Lewis, 35, of Erie...

Chechen terrorists in Boston expose the fallacy of gun control laws

7:00am Wednesday, April 24, 2013
by Chad D. Baus As I listened to the play by play coverage of the Boston bombing terrorists' rampage through the streets of the city late Thursday night and Friday morning, I knew it was only a matter of time before the media began on their quest to find out where the two Chechen terrorists got the guns they used to kill one police officer and wound another. Many journalists, I knew, would pursue...

Public Approval of Hunting Highest Since 1995

3:00pm Tuesday, April 23, 2013
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation reports that a new survey shows 79 percent of the American public approve of hunting. This marks the highest level of support for hunting since 1995, according to data compiled by Responsive Management, an independent research firm. The nationwide scientific survey showed the public's approval of hunting rose five points in the past year,...

Chelby Kosto: Irresponsible Dayton reporter supports local rapist

7:00am Tuesday, April 23, 2013
by Katie Dattalo For the past few months, I, along with Buckeye Firearms Association, been covering an issue about our local media and their love-affair with a rapist in our community who has been organizing several anti-gun protests. Last weekend, another protest was organized by Jerome McCorry, founder of the Adam Project and Ceasefire Dayton. He's also a convicted rapist: The fact that McCorry...

Op-Ed: Universal Background Checks Aren’t

3:00pm Monday, April 22, 2013
by C. D. Michel In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, America’s gun control movement was momentarily reenergized. Many reasoned voices sought solutions for such events, which unimpassioned analysis showed to mainly be a mental health issue. Gun control groups also concurred on the mental health aspect, then squandered that brief moment of collaboration by tossing their...

Project Veritas exposes Piers Morgan and movie-makers' hypocrisy on issue of guns

7:00am Monday, April 22, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Project Veritas, whose mission is to investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions in order to achieve a more ethical and transparent society, recently released a video investigation under the headline "Hypocrites in Hollywood Want Guns Confiscated, But Won’t Remove Them From Their Own...

Ohio's Spring Wild Turkey Hunting Season Begins April 22

3:00pm Friday, April 19, 2013
Youth-only hunt set for April 20-21 COLUMBUS, OH – The start of spring ushers in Ohio's annual wild turkey hunt, and hunters can enjoy the warmer weather in pursuit of this popular game bird. According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), the 2013 Ohio spring hunting season opens Monday, April 22, with the youth wild turkey season opening Saturday and Sunday, April 20-21. "Ohio has...

V. P. Biden pledges more executive action on guns from Obama “later this week," White House corrects

12:00pm Friday, April 19, 2013
by Chad D. Baus We the People have spoken through our representatives in Congress. We do not want law-abiding Americans' Second Amendment rights curbed in the name of "doing something" about the horrific attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School. We do not want our legislators to pass things that feel good but that will do nothing to prevent these types of mass killings. Unfortunately, Vice...

BFA's Linda Walker to speak at Central Ohio's Dillon Sportsman Center Grand Opening Event April 27

7:00am Friday, April 19, 2013
by Aaron Kirkingburg The Dillon Sportsman Center is under new management and will be re-opening April 27th at 9am to welcome the public. Trap and skeet fields will be open, and all houses have been outfitted with new Atlas AT400 machines. Signup sheets for trap and skeet leagues will be available in the range house. The 100yd rifle range has six cement shooting benches available, with room to set...

Winner announced in the EOTWAWKI Guns & Survival Gear Raffle

3:00pm Thursday, April 18, 2013
Just look at the smile on that man's face! That's the smile of someone who's just won over $3,200 worth of guns and gear that will help him survive the end of the world as we know it. Domestic terrorism. Civil unrest. Comet strike. Nuclear war. Zombie invasion. Whatever the scenario, Heath from Cambridge is now ready to bug out and survive if the unthinkable happens. This lucky patriot had the...

Manchin-Toomey anti-gun rights amendment defeated; "Assault weapons" & "high capacity" magazine bans defeated

4:31pm Wednesday, April 17, 2013
This article was updated as new information became available. by Chad D. Baus The United States Senate has failed to achieve the necessary 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster of the Manchin-Toomey amendment to Chuck Schumer's "universal background checks" bill, S. 649. The amendment, which was supported by Sen. Schumer, had been hailed by the media just last week as the best chance of...

Cops say gun control proposals do nothing to stop crime

3:00pm Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The following article was originally published by The Lima News . Republished with permission. by Greg Sowinski LIMA - A national survey of police officers show overwhelming support for the Second Amendment while opposing many federal gun control proposals they say would do little, if anything, to stop crime. Those beliefs are supported by some local officers, as well. The national survey was...

Manchin-Toomey is gun registration: "Background gun-check records are saved."

7:00am Wednesday, April 17, 2013
by Alan Korwin The so-called "background check" bill is really about gun registration -- ultimate and imminent registration of every gun and gun owner in America. The mandatory paper records are saved -- nobody denies that. Federal agents use those all the time. The electronic records have virtually no controls on them. They go into a system designed as a recording device. This bill vastly...

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