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Don't misinterpret the bloodbath, GOP

7:00am Monday, November 08, 2010
Editor's Note: The following piece was submitted by BFA volunteer Tim Inwood on October 24. Pressing election-related news prevented it from being published earlier, but it is certainly impressive to see how clear Inwood's crystal ball was. As you read the following, consider this election night quote from Florida Senator-elect Marco Rubio: "We make a grave mistake if we believe that tonight...

Post Election Action is Critical for Sportsmen

3:00pm Friday, November 05, 2010
by Rob Sexton The dust has only begun to settle on Tuesday night's sweeping decision by Americans to re-make the face of our government once again. Both in the nation's capitol and in the states, Republicans made gains that will substantially shape the future of the country and, of course, the lives of many sportsmen and women. The difference this time will be all about priorities. The vast...

The Second Amendment’s Great Election Night

7:00am Friday, November 05, 2010
by David Kopel The Second Amendment had a great night on Tuesday. Across the nation, the right to arms is stronger than ever, and the stage has been set for constructive reforms in 2011. U.S. Senate: The net result of Tuesday was a gain of +6 votes on Second Amendment issues. In not a single U.S. Senate seat did the gun control lobby gain ground. Three open seats switched from anti-gun to pro-gun...

The Uninvited Ombudsman Report, No. 92 - Phoenix Censors "Gun-Safety Ads for Kids"

3:00pm Thursday, November 04, 2010
Taken from the most recent "Page Nine", Alan Korwin's "The Uninvited Ombudsman Report" -------- Format Change For This Edition -- I need a break from dissecting the endless nonsense from the "news" media. It's the same old same old -- the global Muslim jihad is disguised as "terrorism," political coverage is a horse race with little factual content allowed; abject silliness and fluff is presented...

American Hunters and Shooters: Another faux gun group bites the dust

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, November 04, 2010
by Chad D. Baus In 2000, Monster.com billionaire Andrew McKelvey committed more than $12 million toward the creation of the "Americans for Gun Safety." McKelvey had always donated to Handgun Control Inc., but eventually decided that the gun control movement's best chance of success was going to come about by fooling Americans into thinking they were actually pro-gun. "I told them that Handgun...

Election 2010: Pro-gun rights voters play major roll in statewide contests

7:00am Wednesday, November 03, 2010
by Chad D. Baus & Jim Irvine The voters have spoken. While a lot can and will be said about this election, as a non-partisan, one-issue PAC, our post-election analysis will stay focused on observations regarding how the outcome will affect gun rights issues in the months and years to come. U.S. Senate: In a must win race for gun owners, Rob Portman (R) defeated anti-gun and F-rated Lee Fisher...

"How John Kasich lost my vote only days before the election" and other letters from gun owners voting freedom first

1:00pm Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Buckeye Firearms Association has taken its share of criticism from partisans who don't like our one-issue, non-partisan approach to evaluating, grading and endorsing candidates. But we've also heard from many people who are voting freedom first. It's Election Day, and we've said all we need to say until the polls close and the results are known. So here are a few examples from what YOU, our...

Election Day 2010: Vote TODAY in the Buckeye State!

7:00am Tuesday, November 02, 2010
by Jim Irvine Election Day is finally here. Candidates are exhausted. Relationships are stressed. We are all emotionally ready to put this bitter election season behind us. Tonight we will know the political landscape that will shape the future of our local communities, our state, and our nation. It bears repeating, elections matter. If you have not already done so, get out and vote today...

Final round: Mythbusting gubernatorial campaign claims

9:33am Monday, November 01, 2010
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." - Ecclesiastes 1:9 By Chad D. Baus & Jim Irvine While it may seem that the events of the past week, involving misleading attacks against candidates endorsed by Buckeye Firearms Association, are something new and unprecedented, in fact we've seen it all before. In 2004, a mailer was sent...

Tomorrow, it's only a day away...

3:00pm Friday, October 29, 2010
by Jim Shepherd Next Tuesday, I hope your day planner begins the same as mine. At the top of my agenda in big red letters is a four-letter word that defines why we're the country everyone loves to hate, but can't wait to visit. The four letters: VOTE. Yep, that glorious Tuesday when all the months of ceaseless mud, bull and hyperbole slinging stops - at least for a few hours - as citizens...

Anti-Gun DeWine Throws 'Hail Mary' Gun Mailers

7:00am Friday, October 29, 2010
by Chad D. Baus & Ken Hanson They haven't come right out and said it, but judging by two election eve mailers, anti-gun Attorney General candidate Mike DeWine and his cousin Kevin, who chairs the Ohio Republican Party, hope and believe gun owners are idiots. Conspicuously absent from almost all DeWine for Attorney General general election campaigning to date is any mention of firearm/hunting/...

Gubernatorial Candidates Battle Over Guns

3:00pm Thursday, October 28, 2010
(Firefox users: If you have any trouble viewing the embedded video, click here to read the story transcript.) In related news, the Ohio Elections Commission has found "no probable cause" to support Kasich/Bubp's false accusations that Strickland lied. Strickland campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith celebrated this morning's ruling. "Today, the Kasich campaign's worst nightmare was realized when the...

Kasich Campaign Desperate to Spay/Neuter the Gun Vote

7:00am Thursday, October 28, 2010
by Ken Hanson Conspicuously absent from almost all Kasich-Taylor campaigning before mid-October was any mention of firearm/hunting/sporting rights. There is a simple explanation for this. John Kasich's record on firearm rights is horrible . He is not being dinged for a single vote, or a few votes. Rather, Kasich has earned the ire of every state-based firearm group based upon many of his official...

Report: Scalia takes Kagan to the gun range

3:00pm Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The website "The Daily Caller" is reporting that according to two witnesses, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia took fellow Justice Elena Kagan out for a lesson in skeet shooting at his shooting club in Virginia last week. From the article : The witnesses saw Scalia at the Fairfax Rod and Gun Club, where he is a member, around noon on Wednesday of last week. He was with a woman who was...

DOWN TO THE WIRE: After two years of focus on the economy, the final Ohio gubernatorial battle is being fought over gun rights

7:00am Wednesday, October 27, 2010
by Jim Irvine After two years of excusing his practice of ignoring pro-gun voters by saying the election will be about the economy, John Kasich now finds himself in the final week of an election battle that is being waged on the very ground he forfeited earlier in the campaign. Polls indicated Kasich had a double digit lead two months ago. But then Ted Strickland set out to inform voters about...

Upland Game Hunting Season Begins November 5

3:00pm Tuesday, October 26, 2010
The season for three of Ohio's most popular game species—ring-necked pheasant, cottontail rabbit and bobwhite quail—begins Friday, November 5, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. "The state's cottontail population has been very good for the last several years, and this year should provide some excellent opportunities for sportsmen," said Nathan...

Compare Ted Strickland and John Kasich on Gun Rights

7:00am Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Polls from Rasmussen Reports, Fox News, CNN/Time, CBS News/ The New York Times , The Dayton Daily News /Ohio Newspaper Poll and the Ohio Poll/ University of Cincinnati are all saying the same thing - Ohio's gubernatorial contest between incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland and Republican challenger John Kasich is down to a separation of only a couple of points, and within the polls' margin of error...

Landlord with concealed handgun license shoots enraged former tenant using his car as weapon

3:00pm Monday, October 25, 2010
The Dayton Daily News is reporting that a landlord was forced to shoot a former tenant who had used his car to destroy his property, threaten his tenants, and eventually pin the landlord to a building in his apartment complex. From the article : At 4:43 p.m. Saturday, the landlord of an apartment complex at 317 N. Smithville Road called police to report that a former resident was trespassing on...

Two more die behind a "no guns" sign

7:00am Monday, October 25, 2010
by Jim Irvine There was a double murder on Friday at Park-Ohio in Cleveland. The business has "no guns" signs posted, but as we have seen demonstrated many times, killers do not obey the signs. The victims always obey them, and are dead. Maybe that was part of the killer's plans. The accused killer was a former employee. He knew company policy and protocol. He likely knew of the "no guns" signs...

Op-Ed: Medical Journal Bias on Guns

3:00pm Friday, October 22, 2010
by John Lott, Jr. Medical journals are not always the objective, purely scientific publications we might think that they are. Their editors have increasingly strayed into politics at the expense of scientific accuracy. For example, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine has over the last few months published a number of extremely biased and poorly done studies on gun control. One of the...

Letter to the Editor: "Rob Portman clearly the better choice"

7:00am Friday, October 22, 2010
Editor's Note: The following letter to the editor of The Dayton Daily News , written by Buckeye Firearms Association Region Leader Larry S. Moore, was published on October 19, 2010. To the Editor: The Dayton Daily News endorsement of Lee Fisher was not any surprise. Rob Portman is our family's choice and clearly the best choice for Ohio. I was part of the recent Outdoor Writers of Ohio interviews...

Hunters and Other Outdoors Enthusiasts Need to be Aware of a New Pest

3:00pm Thursday, October 21, 2010
Coshocton County is the only known affected area Black-legged ticks, some infected with Lyme disease, are known to be in the Coshocton county area. A population of these small ticks had not been established before in Ohio, according to The Ohio State University (OSU) tick biologist Dr. Glen Needham. The adult ticks are actively looking for hosts, such as people, pets or deer, not only this fall,...

Wisconsin Court Finds State Carry Ban Unconstitutional -- Time for Voters to Act!

7:00am Thursday, October 21, 2010
In a ruling that is likely to renew the debate over Wisconsin's laws on carrying firearms, a county trial court has found that a state statute's total ban on carrying concealed weapons violates the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The ruling, issued Oct. 12 by Judge Jon M. Counsell of the Clark County Circuit Court, dismissed an indictment against Joshua Schultz, who had been arrested...

Cleveland clings to gun control until the bitter end

7:00am Wednesday, October 20, 2010
by Ken Hanson, Esq. On October 12, 2010, the Ohio Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Cleveland's challenge to the constitutionality of R.C. 9.68. R.C. 9.68 is the provision of Ohio law generally referred to as Ohio's preemption law, which was implemented over Governor Taft's veto of House Bill 347. Trying to predict the outcome of a court case based upon oral argument is pure folly, but...

Ohio Supreme Court Justice Race Clarification

3:00pm Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Contrary to a recent campaign claim by Supreme Court Justice Judith Lanzinger, she is not currently endorsed by Buckeye Firearms Association in the upcoming Nov. 2 election for Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. Lanzinger's campaign specifically listed Buckeye Firearms Association among its list of endorsees on their website, as well as in campaign literature. As a grassroots organization run by...

Toledo boy finds gun, knows what to do

7:00am Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Why aren't we teaching EVERY child in Ohio these principles? by Chad D. Baus The Toledo Blade is reporting that when 11 year-old Mason Knannlein found a gun laying in the yard, he had his grandfather to thank for having educated him to know what to do in such a situation. From the article : The whitish top on the handgun lying in the grass in front of a West Toledo home was what caught Mason...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. endorsee Peter Corrigan polls within margin of error against F-rated Dennis Kucinich

7:00am Tuesday, October 19, 2010
by Chad D. Baus The theme for incumbents in the 2010 elections seems to be that "no one is safe," and that sentiment is exemplified in recent private poll results revealed by The Weekly Standard for an Ohio congressional race. According to the report, Buckeye Firearms Association endorsee Peter Corrigan, a Republican who earned our highest grade possible as a non-incumbent (B*), is polling with...

SAF sues Eric Holder, FBI over misdemeanor gun rights denial

3:00pm Monday, October 18, 2010
Acting on behalf of a Georgia resident and honorably discharged Vietnam War veteran, the Second Amendment Foundation filed a lawsuit last week against Attorney General Eric Holder and the Federal Bureau of Investigation over enforcement of a federal statute that can deny gun rights to someone with a simple misdemeanor conviction on his record. The lawsuit was filed in United States District Court...

Video: Ohio Supreme Court hears case challenging statewide preemption City of Cleveland v. State of Ohio

7:00am Monday, October 18, 2010
On Tuesday, October 12, the Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments from the City of Cleveland in defense of the city's assault-weapons ban and registration requirement for handguns, as well as reasons why the State Attorney General's office says the anti-gun laws should be struck down. The state's top court has released an audio and video recording of the arguments in the case known as City of...

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