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The Tragedy Litmus Test – Another Failure of the Anti-Gun Culture

7:00am Tuesday, January 18, 2011
by Gerard Valentino The tragic events in Arizona are an unfortunate litmus test to see if the anti-gun community will truly use any tragedy for political gain. Based on the actions of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, it is clear the anti-gun community failed such a test in a horrible fashion. Just a few...

Statewide Muzzleloader Deer Hunting Season Concludes

3:00pm Monday, January 17, 2011
Archery season continues until February 6 Hunters took 17,108 deer during Ohio's four-day muzzleloader season, January 8-11, with Tuscarawas County again leading the state with 914 deer checked. In 2010, a preliminary total of 24,078 deer was taken during muzzleloader season, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. Counties reporting the highest number...

Arizona Shooting Leads to Repeat of Inaccuracies

7:00am Monday, January 17, 2011
by Jim Shepherd Last weekend's shooting rampage in Arizona was a senseless crime against decency, and totally without reason. Trying to portray the actions of an obviously disturbed twenty-two year old shooter as anything other than the actions of a lunatic simply don't wash. Despite the fact it appears the attack was planned and executed, no sane individual would set out on a Saturday morning...

The Legacy of WWII Veteran Dick Winters Lives on in Arizona

3:00pm Friday, January 14, 2011
Editor's Note: This article is also featured today at WorldNetDaily.com by Gerard Valentino During the wall-to-wall coverage of the Arizona spree killing and attempted assasination of a U.S. Congresswoman, a small news blurb was hardly noticed by most of America - Major Richard Winters of "Band of Brothers" fame died in his rural Pennsylvania home. For those not familiar with his story, Richard...

Delaware city councilman calls for lift of state's ban on concealed carry in public buildings

7:00am Friday, January 14, 2011
by Chad D. Baus In the wake of a shooting at Florida school board meeting, and the mass shooting in Arizona that accompanied as assassination attempt against U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Delware, Ohio city councilman is says it's time that the statewide ban on concealed carry in public buildings be lifted. From the article : Delaware City Council members this week discussed security measures...

December sees 9.9% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year

3:00pm Thursday, January 13, 2011
The FBI has released its National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figures for December 2010. NSSF-adjusted figures (1,133,371) show a 9.9 percent increase over NSSF-adjusted figures from December 2009 (1,031,344). For calendar year 2010, the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 9,436,182 is a decrease of 1 percent over the NSSF-adjusted figure of 9,534,131 in calendar year 2009. In...

Loose cannons in the media are wrong to place blame for Tucson attack on anyone but the killer

7:00am Thursday, January 13, 2011
by Chad D. Baus Within minutes of learning of the tragic mass murder in Tuscon, Arizona last Saturday, the establishment media began shooting from the hip on who they thought was to blame. They knew nothing about the killer, but it was clear they were cocked and ready with a template that fit their jaded view of anyone who owns a gun. Reporters were loaded for bear. Without even a shred of proof...

White House Delays Multiple Sales Reporting Requirement for Long Guns

3:00pm Wednesday, January 12, 2011
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) is reporting that an ATF proposal to require federally licensed firearms retailers to report multiple sales of rifles has been placed on hold by the White House amid stiff opposition from the firearms industry and NRA. Specifically, the ATF requirement calls for firearm retailers to report multiple sales, or other dispositions, of two or more semi-...

Arizona Shootings: Next to the killer, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann was the Worst Person of the Day

7:00am Wednesday, January 12, 2011
by Gerard Valentino The attack of a ruthless and mindless killer on Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Federal Judge John Roll and a group of innocent bystanders was a terrorist act, just as 9/11 was a terrorist attack. Every American should be outraged and saddened by the cowardly actions of the murderer. Terrorism has many faces and in this case it appears a lone, deranged individual...

CCRKBA Deplores Arizona Shooting and Subsequent Exploitation

3:00pm Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is condemning Saturday's attempted assassination of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the murders of six people including a federal judge and a 9-year-old child, for which a 22-year-old Tucson man is now facing charges. "Our sincere sympathy and sorrow goes to the victims of this heinous crime, and their families, who are in...

Op-ed: The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel

3:00pm Monday, January 10, 2011
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds Shortly after November's electoral defeat for the Democrats, pollster Mark Penn appeared on Chris Matthews's TV show and remarked that what President Obama needed to reconnect with the American people was another Oklahoma City bombing. To judge from the reaction to Saturday's tragic shootings in Arizona, many on the left (and in the press) agree, and for a while hoped...

What went wrong – why gun owners got next to nothing in the last General Assembly

7:00am Monday, January 10, 2011
by Jim Irvine The 128th General Assembly (2009-2010) is history. SB239 (Restaurant & Car Carry Rules Fixes) and SB247 (Restoration of Rights) are dead. Despite having the broad support in the Senate, the House and Governor Strickland, these important bills never passed. We will examine what when wrong, and where we go from here. Long-time readers of this web site may remember that we tried to...

Ten Threats To Our Ohio Gun Rights In 2011

7:00am Friday, January 07, 2011
by Gerard Valentino In order to defend our rights, we have to know who or what threatens them. While there are actually too many threats to mention, as we have for the past five years, we again seek to list some of the more potent threats to our Ohio gun rights. To some degree, all of the threats that were previously listed are still dangerous to our rights. However, some of those threats have...

Exposed: Ohio anti-gunners' 2008 & 2009 IRS returns

7:00am Thursday, January 06, 2011
"A person who has a gun sees danger. We will have more shootings, more accidents." - Toby Hoover, Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, when asked in 2001 about attempts to pass a concealed carry law in Ohio By Chad D. Baus As the State of Ohio celebrates completion of another successful year of concealed carry, with applications and renewals continuing at a healthy pace, it is time once again...

A Plethora of New Pistols

3:00pm Wednesday, January 05, 2011
by Jim Shepherd With this being the centennial year of the venerable 1911-pistol design, it seems nearly ever gun company is planning on rolling out a commemorative 1911 model. They range from the basic "as-issued in 1911" pistol that's made to be shot, to the highly decorated, gold inlaid, over-the-top commemoratives that are made to be admired, not fired. Confidentiality agreements...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. endorsees dominate Senate majority leadership in 129th General Assembly

7:00am Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Buckeye Firearms Association endorsees have been elected by Republicans and Democrats to a majority of leadership positions in their respective caucuses for the 129th General Assembly. Senate Republicans have picked former BFA endorsee Sen. Tom Niehaus (New Richmond) as Senate President. The caucus also chose the following former endorsees to join Niehaus in leadership: Sens. Keith Faber (Celina...

Gun owners among candidates considered to chair Republican National Committee

3:00pm Tuesday, January 04, 2011
by Chad D. Baus TheDailyCaller.com is reporting that a woman who has a sizeable firearms collection is among those being considered to chair the Republican National Committee. From the article : Following a debate among the five candidates to be chairman of the Republican National Committee on Monday, the presumed front-runner Reince Priebus ran from the room to avoid reporters' questions, while...

Ohio author brings Johnson's Island Civil War Prison Camp, and a treasure hunt for antique firearms, into a modern family's life

7:00am Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Secret on Johnson's Island, Book One of Adventures on the North Coast , is a 220 page historical fiction for youth. Avery Perkins is a modern day ten year-old, whose family has recently moved from Columbus to Bayview, a little town that sits in the mouth of the Sandusky Bay which flows into Lake Erie on Ohio's North Coast. This adventure begins when they anchor their boat in the sandbar off...

Media cheer as pro-gun bills with strong legislative support die at the hand of one man

7:00am Monday, January 03, 2011
by Gerard Valentino The editorial boards of The Columbus Dispatch , Toledo Blade , Dayton Daily News and Cleveland Plain Dealer have become little more than glorified television weatherman – they all seem to get everything wrong and still have the blind arrogance to tell Ohioans what is coming next. Then again, perhaps it isn't fair to put the weatherman in the same category as Ohio’s leftist...

Governor-elect Kasich appoints anti-gun Highway Patrol bureaucrat to superintendent position

7:00am Friday, December 31, 2010
by Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch reported recently that Governor-elect John Kasich has appointed Maj. John Born to serve as the next superintendent of the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP). The name John Born is quite familiar to pro-gun rights activists who were in the Buckeye State for the fight to pass a shall-issue concealed carry law, and his appointment to the top post in the...

Ohio’s Statewide Muzzleloader Season Open January 8-11

3:19pm Thursday, December 30, 2010
Ohio's popular muzzleloader deer season is set to open statewide January 8-11 according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife. Last year, hunters checked 24,078 white-tailed deer during the statewide hunt. A total of 210,361 deer have been harvested so far this season when combining the adult and youth gun seasons, early muzzleloader season, gun weekend, and the first...

Ted Strickland's final legacy for Ohio’s gun owners is anti-gun

7:00am Thursday, December 30, 2010
by Chad D. Baus Despite a Sportsmen for Strickland effort that pushed Ted Strickland over the top in the 2006 election for Governor, and another Sportsmen for Strickland effort in 2010 that attracted disenfranchised Republican gun owners and nearly boosted him over John Kasich in a year that should have given the GOP an easy win, and despite having earned "A"-ratings and endorsements from the...

Ohio Supreme Court sides with gun owners, upholds Ohio's preemption law

11:11am Wednesday, December 29, 2010
The Ohio Supreme Court has, in a 5-2 opinion, once again ruled that Ohio's "preemption" law is valid. In a case brought by the City of Cleveland against the State of Ohio, the court held that R.C. 9.68 is valid in all respects, including, but not limited to, the mandatory attorney fee provision against any city that attempts to violate a citizen's right to self-defense.

Fatal Columbus-area carjacking prompts New Year's Resolution

7:00am Wednesday, December 29, 2010
by Ken Hanson The Christmas season is usually a time of joy and happiness for families. A time to take a short break from work, spend quality time with extended family and "pay forward" the magical experience of Santa to the young children in your lives. Just as sure as joyous, lasting memories being created, there is bound to be unfathomable tragedy in the lives of a few families, in a season...

ATF Overreaches Again – Threatens Rights

3:00pm Tuesday, December 28, 2010
by Jeff Knox The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has a long history of excess and overreaching and they're at it again. Using exaggerated reports of gun smuggling from the US into Mexico as their justification, the agency has filed for an Emergency Regulation requiring gun dealers to keep track of their customers and file special reports to ATF whenever a customer...

To the Editor: 'No need' to carry firearms into bars or restaurants that serve alcohol?

7:00am Tuesday, December 28, 2010
In response to The Dayton Daily News ' recent editorial excoriating attempts to pass SB239 (Restaurant & Car Carry Rules Fix), two letter writers, including BFA Region Leader Larry Moore, wrote to set the facts straight.

Tuscarawas County Leads State in Weekend Deer-Gun Harvest Numbers

3:00pm Monday, December 27, 2010
Hunters killed 21,064 deer on December 18-19, during the weekend of gun hunting, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The extra weekend of gun hunting was first offered in 2006 in response to hunters' request for additional weekend days to pursue white-tailed deer, the state's number one big game animal. In 2009, hunters took 19,900 deer during those...

Attorney General announces Third Quarter 2010 CHL statistics

7:00am Monday, December 27, 2010
by Jim Irvine Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray (D) has released the concealed handgun license (CHL) statistics for the third quarter of 2010. During the quarter ending September 2010, Ohio surpassed 200,000 outstanding concealed handgun licenses. The quarter ended with a record of approximately 208,350 Ohio residents licensed to carry concealed firearms. (See chart) We are in our seventh...

Merry Christmas from Buckeye Firearms Association

7:00am Friday, December 24, 2010
Merry Christmas to one and all from all of us at Buckeye Firearms Association. Our best gift is the friendship and support given by each of you throughout the year. As we reflect on the year's passing, we count our many blessings, remember our losses, and give thanks for those who helped us through it all. We each need to take time to appreciate our friends and family during this special time of...

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