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Compromise At What Cost?

3:00pm Tuesday, April 16, 2013
by Jim Shepherd With the United States Senate now moving toward the eventual passage of legislation that is more anti-gun owners than anti-crime, anti-gun legislators and the media are starting to celebrate another baby-step toward their ultimate goal: disarmament of the private citizen. That sounds fatalistic, but even as New York Governor Cuomo calls proposed compromise legislation a "sell-out...

The “Pro-Gun” provisions of Manchin-Toomey are actually a bonanza of gun control

7:00am Tuesday, April 16, 2013
by Dave Kopel The Toomey-Manchin Amendment which may be offered as soon as Tuesday to Senator Reid's gun control bill are billed as a "compromise" which contain a variety of provisions for gun control, and other provisions to enhance gun rights. Some of the latter, however, are not what they seem. They are badly miswritten, and are in fact major advancements for gun control. In particular: 1. The...

Senate bill would turn law-abiding gun owners into felons

3:00pm Monday, April 15, 2013
A new bill would make it a crime to "transfer" your gun to a spouse for more than seven days. by Dave Kopel Public-opinion polls about "universal background checks" for gun sales show widespread support. While President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg talk about "gun sales," the actual legislation moving through Congress aims to regulate far more than sales. It would turn almost every gun owner into a...

Gun show protest cancelled after Buckeye Firearms Assoc. highlights organizer's status as a convicted rapist

7:00am Monday, April 15, 2013
by Chad D. Baus On Friday, Dayton's FOX affiliate reported that Jerome McCorry had planned to stage another protest outside the Bill Goodman Gun & Knife Show at Dayton's Hara arena. What they did not report, as is frequent in news coverage of similar protests staged by McCorry in the past, is that McCorry is a convicted rapist . Quite obviously, we believe that part of McCorry's past should...

Sex offender to stage another protest demanding that law-abiding citizens disarm

10:54am Friday, April 12, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WRGT (Dayton FOX) is reporting that a protest is being planned for Saturday's Bill Goodman Gun and Knife Show at Hara Arena. The article reports that protest is being organized by Rev. Jerome McCorry. What the article fails to report, as is all too common with Dayton media outlets, is that McCorry is a registered sex offender . From the article : "We'll be out on Saturday to march...

Study: "Universal" background checks not likely to reduce gun crime; Reps. Heard & Patmon push UBC bills in Ohio anyways

7:00am Friday, April 12, 2013
Using 20-year-old data, President Obama recently claimed that as many as 40 percent of gun purchases take place without a background check (Remarks by the President, March 28, 2013). He suggested that requiring background checks for all gun purchases will reduce gun violence by keeping dangerous people from acquiring firearms. To determine if the 40 percent estimate is accurate today,...

Headline: Second Amendment - Right to bear arms in action

3:00pm Thursday, April 11, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The Canton Repository recently visited three of the ten Stark County, Ohio companies licensed to manufacture firearms, and published an excellent follow-up article. From the article : Inside a plain-looking single-story green building near Meyers Lake, Dennis DeVault and his employees have outfitted competitive trap and clay shooters across the country for 23 years. From the...

Senate may vote today to end private sales at gun shows and online; Sen. Portman "undecided" if he'll join filibuster

7:00am Thursday, April 11, 2013
[UPDATE: Sen. Rob Portman joins 31 Senators voting against moving the bill to the floor. Filibuster attempts proved unsuccessful, however, as 16 other Republicans including John McCain voted with the anti-gun rights majority. Portman said he hasn't seen the specific language of the Toomey-Manchin amendment described below, and thus could not yet say whether or not he could support it. by Chad D...

March sees 26.3% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 34th straight month over month increase

3:00pm Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The March 2013 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,501,730 is an increase of 26.3 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,189,152 in March 2012. For comparison, the unadjusted March 2013 NICS figure of 2,197,116 reflects a 28.1 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,715,125 in March 2012. This marks the 34th straight month that...

Best case scenario: Obama and Bloomberg prove they know nothing about the guns they seek to ban

7:00am Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Worst case scenario: They are intentionally lying, and hoping you don't know the difference It has been widely reported that the killer in the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut last year was a semi-automatic AR-15 stolen from its rightful owner. In fact, it was for precisely that reason that President Obama said that gun control will be a "central issue" of his...

VIDEO: Shelby County teachers take aim

3:00pm Tuesday, April 09, 2013
by Chad D. Baus As we reported in February, Shelby Co. Sheriff John Lenhart's office has implemented a concealed carry/ firearms training course for school administrators and select teachers. WDTN (NBC Dayton) is reporting on a range session that was recently conducted as a part of this important training: Shelby County teachers take aim Chad D. Baus is the Buckeye Firearms Association Vice...

State FOP proposes stripping ability of boards of education to arm school employees

7:00am Tuesday, April 09, 2013
by Chad D. Baus If there was any doubt left for Ohioans that the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) is an anti-gun rights, anti-Second Amendment organization that cares more about protecting the jobs of its members than it does the very safety of our school children, it should be removed after they hear news that the FOP is pushing to strip the right of Boards of Education to arm staff to protect...

OGCA makes significant donation to Buckeye Firearms Foundation teacher training

3:00pm Monday, April 08, 2013
by Larry S. Moore OGCA check presentation - From left to right: Larry Moore, BFA; Robert Ray Preston, OGCA First Vice President; Joe Eaton, BFA; Fred L. Kolb, OGCA BoD; and Charles D. Rush, OGCA Second Vice President The momentum behind the Buckeye Firearms Foundation's efforts to train our teachers to respond to school violence continues to grow. The program received a major boost when the Ohio...

Headline: Local schools analyzing NRA safety recommendations, Firearms group raises funds for teacher training

7:00am Monday, April 08, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The Middletown Journal is reporting that Ohio schools are analyzing the results of a recently-released $1 million, 225-page study on school safety funded by the NRA. From the article : Schools should train selected staff members to carry weapons and should each have at least one armed security officer to make students safer and allow a quicker response to an attack, the director...

Op-Ed: Race and the Gun Debate

3:00pm Friday, April 05, 2013
The No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34: being murdered with a gun. by Juan Williams This week much of the talk about gun control concerns New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's $12 million ad campaign to put pressure on senators in key states to support legislation that he backs. Or the talk is about the National Rifle Association's pushback against the...

First Buckeye Firearms Foundation-funded training class for Ohio teachers is a success; It won't be the last

7:00am Friday, April 05, 2013
by Jim Irvine The training class that Buckeye Firearms Foundation proposed at a town hall meeting following the mass murder of teachers and school children in Newtown, Connecticut, has been completed. The class of 24 teachers, administrators, and school employees attended a three day class at Tactical Defense Institute (TDI) in Adams County, Ohio on March 25-27. The weather was cold and at times...

Biden: Gun-Ban Legislation "Just the Beginning" -- Pelosi: "Not the End of the Day for this Issue"

3:00pm Thursday, April 04, 2013
[Last] week, Vice-President Joe Biden, and House Minority Leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), showed us--once again--how thorough their contempt is for our Constitutionally guaranteed Second Amendment rights. According to a Washington Times article, on a Wednesday conference call organized by "Mayors Against Illegal Guns," Biden referred to current anti-gun legislation and told his anti-gun...

Sen. Rob Portman issues strong statement condemning gun control proposals in D.C. and the U.N.

7:00am Thursday, April 04, 2013
"I support the good work being done here in Ohio to provide appropriate training to teachers and administrators who have permission from their local school boards to carry." - United States Senator Rob Portman by Chad D. Baus As a candidate for the U.S. Senate, Republican Rob Portman was unabashed in his support for the Second Amendment. In September 2010 his campaign released a flyer which...

U.N. Passes gun Control Treaty: International and National Gun Battles Looming

3:00pm Wednesday, April 03, 2013
by Jim Shepherd With yesterday's passage of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, the Obama administration added more fuel to the fire of critics who refer to the "imperial presidency" rather than the "current administration." Reversing previous national policy to endorse a gun control treaty that would essentially allow the United Nations to have the final say on any firearms exports, the...

Do people have the right to own any semiautomatic rifle, magazine size? Yes

by Ken Hanson
7:00am Wednesday, April 03, 2013
The following op-ed by Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson was originally published by The Columbus Dispatch . Republished with permission. We, the people, have the constitutional right to own semiautomatic rifles and the standard-capacity magazines designed for those rifles. The plain words in the U.S. and Ohio constitutions establish this, so long as those words are given...

NSSF objects to U.S. government abandoning position that U.N. treaty must be based on international "consensus"

3:00pm Tuesday, April 02, 2013
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation today strongly objected to the last-minute reversal of the U.S. government position regarding the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. In the closing hours of negotiations on Thursday, March 28, the government abandoned its previous insistence that the treaty be approved only through achieving "consensus" of all the member states. Requiring...

Murder in Ohio church during Easter services "the will of Allah"

7:00am Tuesday, April 02, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Yet another murder occurred over the weekend in a so-called "gun free" zone in Ohio, and church officials are thankful the death toll wasn't higher. From The Star Beacon : Children screamed in terror and hid under the pews at Hiawatha Church of God in Christ on Sunday, witnesses said, as an Ashtabula man was shot and killed by his son just after the Easter service. Richard Riddle...

Big City Schools Ask for More Money; Voters Are Shocked!

by Ken Hanson, Esq.
3:00pm Monday, April 01, 2013
COLUMBUS, OHIO - The Newton, CT school shootings were a tragedy. Nationwide, the debate has ignited over what to do in response to these shootings. In response, big-city school districts have dismissed arming teachers in favor of more anti-bullying programs, locked doors, door buzzers, security cameras, "no guns" signs, gun bans, candle-light vigils and a supply of sacrificial animals as an...

Gun-Banners Follow a Proud Civil Rights Tradition

7:00am Monday, April 01, 2013
by Ken Hanson, Esq. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Faced with political and legal threats to existing, and proposed, gun-control laws, activists have borrowed a page from those who blazed the trail before them – the American civil rights movement. "It really crystalized, for me, when people laughed when I suggested homeowners randomly fire guns in the air to deter crime," said Vice President Joe Biden. "It...

Urgent Message to All Ohio NRA Members

3:00pm Friday, March 29, 2013
Dear Ohio NRA Member: The U.S. Senate is currently scheduled to vote on several anti-gun bills during the week of April 8. One, the so-called "universal background check" bill being pushed by Senator Chuck Schumer, would criminalize the private transfer of firearms between law-abiding citizens. This legislation would make it illegal for a family member to transfer a firearm to another family...

HB495: Definition of "unloaded" gun is now fixed for all Ohioans; "No Guns" signs come down in Statehouse parking garage

7:00am Friday, March 29, 2013
by Ken Hanson and Sean Maloney HB495, sponsored by Rep. Terry Johnson (R) and passed into law last December, became effective March 27, 2013, and is now the law of the land. The reforms make three changes to current law: Eliminates the "demonstrated competency" requirement for second and future CHL renewals, making CHL training similar to a hunting license. Fixes the definition of a "loaded gun"...

Messages of thanks pour in from school employees after attending Buckeye Firearms Foundation-funded training opportunities

3:00pm Thursday, March 28, 2013
In addition to its much-publicized Armed Teachers Training Program, Buckeye Firearms Foundation is supporting various types of educational opportunities all over the state of Ohio. Following are just a few of the many responses we have received from people who have attended the training. ...I received a rare chance to be a guest of yours for the teachers conference Saturday morning [March 16]. I...

First class for Buckeye Firearms Foundation-funded Armed Teachers Training Program held at Tactical Defense Institute

7:00am Thursday, March 28, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The first Armed Teachers Training Program class was conducted this week at Tactical Defense Institute in Adams County. The Columbus Dispatch has published the first coverage of the training, which was funded by Buckeye Firearms Foundation. From the article : Arming teachers in classrooms is the best way to stop more mass murders, said Jim Irvine, the president of the Buckeye...

Holster Review: Comp-Tac delivers solid, worry-free belt carry

3:00pm Wednesday, March 27, 2013
by Dean Rieck When I needed a new belt holster for my Glock 17, I knew exactly where to look: Comp-Tac. I'm not one of those guys who likes to collect three dozen holsters. I want one holster that suits my needs and will last forever. In this case, I needed a new holster for my full-size Glock, which I use primarily for training and fun shoots. I've used a Kydex paddle holster from another well-...

McCain emerges as key senator in creating universal gun registration scheme; Bloomberg targets Ohio Sen. Rob Portman in ads

7:00am Wednesday, March 27, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The Hill is reporting that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has emerged as a key player in Senate Democrats' battle to move legislation to impose a so-called "universal" background check gun registration scheme that would force law-abiding gun owners to get permission from the government before any private transfer of firearms, even among family members. From the article : McCain and...

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