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BFA's Ken Hanson debates New York Mayor Bloomberg advisor on Columbus NPR talk show

7:00am Monday, May 24, 2010
On May 18, Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson was a guest the WOSU 820AM (NPR News Columbus) program "All Sides." Ken discussed issues surrounding illegal guns, and proposals to make it more difficult for terrorists and criminals to obtain weapons and explosives with host Ann Fisher other the guests on the show, City of New York First Deputy Criminal Justice Coordinator/...

SB239 (Restaurant/Car Carry) & SB247 (Restoration of Rights) scheduled for possible vote in Senate committee

9:43am Saturday, May 22, 2010
The Senate Judiciary on Criminal Justice Committee , chaired by Sen. Tim Grendell (R-18), has scheduled a hearing on Wednesday, May 26 at 9:00 AM in the Senate Building's South Hearing Room. Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson will offer testimony on SB239 , sponsored by Senator Shannon Jones and Senator Tim Schaffer to allow citizens who hold a valid concealed handgun...

2010 Ohio Spring Turkey Harvest Up For Third Year in a Row

3:00pm Friday, May 21, 2010
Hunters checked 21,909 wild turkeys during Ohio's four-week, statewide spring turkey-hunting season that ended May 16, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. The preliminary total represents nearly a 16 percent increase over last year's preliminary harvest number of 18,936.

Cleveland newspaper rolls out more tired arguments in editorial opposing restaurant carry legislation

7:00am Friday, May 21, 2010
By Gerard Valentino and Larry S. Moore The Cleveland Plain Dealer Editorial Page is a perfect example of the old cliché about insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. In their most recent anti-gun rant titled, " Ohio Senate should bury bill to permit concealed weapons in bars " they are speaking out against a bill that makes Ohio's concealed carry law...

The Uninvited Ombudsman Report, No. 85 - Obama State Department moves to ban importation of M1 Garand & M1 Carbine

3:00pm Thursday, May 20, 2010
Taken from the most recent "Page Nine", Alan Korwin's "The Uninvited Ombudsman Report" -------- 1- State Department Infringement The lamestream media told you: Nothing. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: I've just learned from a highly placed and reliable personal source that, in a quiet move to restrict gun ownership, the Obama White House has directly instructed the State Department to...

Racist cartoon attacking NRA over terror watch list presents fear, not fact

by Gerard Valentino
7:00am Thursday, May 20, 2010
A recent political cartoon run in several Central Ohio newspapers shows the severity of the anti-gun bias prevalent in the establishment media. The cartoon depicts a man wearing an NRA armband handing a rifle to a stereotype caricature of what is presumed to be a Muslim terrorist. Under the picture are the words "NRA fights effort to deny guns to people on terrorist watch list." ( Click here to...

FLASH: National Rifle Association files amicus brief in City of Cleveland v. State of Ohio preemption challenge

10:45am Wednesday, May 19, 2010
One week after Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, via the Solicitor General, filed a strong merit brief in support of Ohio's "preemption" law, R.C. 9.68, the National Rifle Association has followed suit, filing an Amicus , or "friend of the court," brief in support of upholding state law. Click here to download the NRA's brief. The National Shooting Sports Foundation has also filed an Amicus...

Three-Step Guide to 3-Gunning

7:00am Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Editor's Note: There are still a few spots open for the 2010 MultiGun Clinic , brought to you by Ohio Shooting Sports and Buckeye Firearms Association, with proceeds benefitting the Buckeye Firearms Foundation. If this article piques your interest, please register now ! By Jeff Johnston Tri-Gun Challenge competitor Neil Davies pulled into the Del-Tone/Luth gun club parking lot and wasted no time...

Winner announced in BFA's first gun giveaway!

3:00pm Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Samuel Sitton from Hernando Mississippi has won the Ithaca 12-gauge shotgun in our first gun giveaway. We just received the picture you see here of Sam proudly holding his new gun. Response to the giveaway was overwhelming. Well over 5,000 pro-gun patriots from Ohio and around the U.S. entered for a chance to win. We launched the giveaway for two reasons. First, we thought it would be fun. Second...

Early recap on NRA Annual Meetings: Record attendance "drives anti-gun folks crazy"

7:00am Tuesday, May 18, 2010
By Jim Shepherd As the curtain was rung down on the NRA Annual Meeting and Exhibitions in Charlotte, North Carolina, it appears another record-setting event will be headed for the record books. First, with nearly a third of the NRA's membership living inside a 150 mile radius of Charlotte, it seems the attendance records are pretty much going to be rewritten. Although we've not seen official...

Letter to Legislator: "There is simply no such thing as a 'gun show loophole.'"

3:00pm Monday, May 17, 2010
Editor's Note: The following letter was submitted by Buckeye Firearms Region Leader Larry S. Moore to a legislator who made comments to the media regarding the mythical "gun show loophole." Have you contacted your own legislator to inform them of the truth? The letter below provides an excellent template... May 2, 2010 The Honorable State Representative Clayton Luckie 77 S. High St 13th Floor...

Latest round of shoddy journalism in Ohio focuses on mythical "gun show loophole"

7:00am Monday, May 17, 2010
by Gerard Valentino Ohio's establishment media has a long history of taking sides in the debate on the right to keep and bear arms. In her coverage of the Dayton area gun show anti-gun protest at Hara Arena, Kelli Wynn of The Dayton Daily News managed to take that anti-gun bias to a new level. Her fawning and overly-sympathetic coverage of the protest was a slap in the face to fair-minded Ohioans...

Ohio Wildlife Officers Indicted

3:00pm Friday, May 14, 2010
By Larry S. Moore The situation with the indictments of the Brown County Wildlife Officer plus the Ohio Division of Wildlife Chief, Assistant Chief, District 5 (Xenia) Manager, Law Enforcement Administrator and Human Resources Administrator is widely reported. (See links below and the Buckeye Forum) There are lots of questions, rumors, counter-rumors and confusion over the case. First, a full...

Obama Supreme Court nominee was 'not sympathetic' as law clerk to gun-rights argument

7:00am Friday, May 14, 2010
By Chad D. Baus Bloomberg News is reporting that Elena Kagan, who was recently nominated by President Obama to the United States Supreme Court, said as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 that she was "not sympathetic" toward a man who contended that his constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol. According to Bloomberg News, Kagan made the...

April second highest all-time for background checks on firearm sales

3:00pm Thursday, May 13, 2010
Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,146,912(a) checks in April 2010, ranking the month the second highest April for most NICS checks. This figure, while being a 6.5 percent decrease from the 1,225,980 checks conducted in April 2009, is an increase of 21.9 percent over checks in April 2008. The total number of background checks reported...

Ohio Attorney General files merit brief defending constitutionality of statewide preemption law

7:00am Thursday, May 13, 2010
By Ken Hanson, Esq. Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, via the Solicitor General, filed a strong merit brief on Tuesday May 12 in support of Ohio's "preemption" law, R.C. 9.68. This law was enacted via HB347, which passed with overwhelming support in December 2006 over Governor Bob Taft's veto. HB347 remains the only veto-override in Ohio in the past three decades. As I noted at the time of...

Attorney General announces First Quarter 2010 CHL statistics

3:00pm Wednesday, May 12, 2010
By Jim Irvine Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray (D) has released the concealed handgun license (CHL) statistics for the first quarter of 2010. At the end of March, we had an all-time record of 188,665 Ohio residents licensed to carry concealed firearms. (See chart) During this election year, more politicians are touting their pro-gun stances and seeking our endorsements for use in radio and...

Man Pleads Guilty to Poaching $23,000 Trophy Buck

7:00am Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Largest restitution for a poached deer ever imposed in Ohio A Scioto County man pled guilty to four wildlife violations in Adams County Court on Friday, April 30 and was ordered to pay $23,572.05 in restitution, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. Johnny B. Clay, 37, of Minford pled guilty to four charges including taking a deer in a closed season,...

NSSF Provides Free Videos to Help Educators Teach Firearm Safety and Conservation

3:00pm Tuesday, May 11, 2010
The National Shooting Sports Foundation has launched an online campaign offering free educational videos about firearm safety and wildlife conservation to teachers and school administrators across the country. A longtime leader in promoting firearm safety and conservation education, NSSF is pleased to report that just several days into the campaign more than 4,500 DVDs have been ordered by...

Get Involved: National Training Week July 4-11

7:00am Tuesday, May 11, 2010
By Jeff Knox National Training Week, July 4 through 11, is set aside in conjunction with Independence Day to remind people that liberty and independence are closely tied to responsible possession of firearms. Every American owes a debt of thanks to our forebears who saw fit to enshrine the right to arms in our Constitution and to use that right to defend our liberty for the past 234 years...

Buckeye Firearms Association leaders speak at Second Amendment Town Hall

3:00pm Monday, May 10, 2010
On April 28, the Dublin Republican Club of Northwest Columbus sponsored a Second Amendment Town Hall meeting in Dublin, OH. Guest speakers included Col. Danny Bubp, a State Representative from the 88th District; Linda Walker, Buckeye Firearms Association Central Ohio Chair and winner of the NRA's Sybil Ludington Women's Freedom Award; Ken Hanson, Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair and...

Another city nullifies gun ban under statewide preemption; City of Cleveland still in violation of the law

7:00am Monday, May 10, 2010
By Chad D. Baus Even as the City of Cleveland continues to enforce its local gun control laws and waste tax payer money to fight state law prohibiting same in court, the City of Newark, OH is taking another route entirely at a council meeting to be held tonight.

Op-Ed: Law-abiding citizens don't commit crimes

3:00pm Friday, May 07, 2010
The following guest op-ed appeared in The Chillicothe Gazette on April 22, 2010. By Mike McCoy When Ohio's original legislation allowing law-abiding citizens to carry a concealed handgun passed in 2004, there were dire predictions by the anti-gun crowd that there would be shootouts in the streets or worse. Fast forward six years, and guess what? None of it happened. How could the anti-gun crowd...

Learn what is really takes to survive ... with the FIGHT! Integrated Concealed Carry class

12:22pm Friday, May 07, 2010
You may know how to use your gun, but do you know how to win a real fight? Now you have the chance to learn what it really takes to survive when it's up close and personal. Buckeye Firearms Foundation is pleased to announce that Brian LaMaster, President of Innovative Tactical Concepts, will teach his acclaimed FIGHT! Integrated Concealed Carry class on July 17 and 18, 2010. This 2-day class is...

Gun control laws fail to keep Time Square terror-bomber from purchasing a gun, yet oblivious Bloomberg demands more

7:00am Friday, May 07, 2010
By Chad D. Baus Judging by the events of the past week, it's a good thing for billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg that he uses taxpayer funds to hire others to carry guns for his protection ( even when he's visiting his mansion in the "no guns" country of Bermuda). If he carried a gun himself, he'd constantly be shooting himself in the foot. Take for example Bloomberg's reaction...

Buckeye Firearms Association's Jim Irvine on Armed American Radio

6:33pm Thursday, May 06, 2010
Buckeye Firearms Association Chairman Jim Irvine was a co-host on the Armed American Radio Network, in conjunction with the United States Concealed Carry Association, Sunday, May 9 from 8:00 - 11:00 PM Jim joined Armed American Radio (AAR) host Mark Walters and an impressive list of guests. Armed American Radio is broadcast live from the Intelligent Talk 920 WGKA studios in Atlanta and syndicated...

You are invited to the Buckeye Firearms Assoc. 2nd Annual Central Ohio Meet & Greet!

3:00pm Thursday, May 06, 2010
Please join us for an excellent meal and informative list of speakers, including Tim Schaffer (State Senator), Linda Walker (Buckeye Firearms Assoc. Central Ohio Chair and winner of the NRA's Sybil Ludington Women's Freedom Award), and Clint Lake (Buckeye Firearms Association Minute Man). The second annual Central Ohio BFA Meet & Greet will be held at Miller's Essenplatz Family Restaurant at...

Civil rights and double standards: Gun owners are forced to "show papers," but media say illegal aliens shouldn't have to

7:00am Thursday, May 06, 2010
By Tim Inwood I've been watching with some interest the fallout over the new Arizona law dealing with illegal aliens. I hear the news media moaning that the new law "makes it a crime to be an illegal alien." I'm not joking, that is exactly how they phrased it on several networks and cable news shows. Wow, that is what I always thought illegal meant. I really wish the media would think about what...

Governor Strickland to Hold Third Annual Youth Turkey Hunt

3:00pm Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Be a mentor, take a child hunting Saturday, May 8 marks the third annual Youth Turkey Hunt hosted by Governor Ted Strickland, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. "Governor Strickland and I are committed to mentoring youth in many Ohio outdoor pursuits," said Sean Logan, director of the ODNR. "Encouraging young people to enjoy the outdoors will...

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