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Feds funding Ohio study that could lead to regulating shooting ranges in attempt to decrease suicide rates

7:00am Friday, March 05, 2010
In most cases, suicide is a solitary event and yet it has often far-reaching repercussions for many others. It is rather like throwing a stone into a pond; the ripples spread and spread. - Alison Wertheimer, "A Special Scar" By Chad D. Baus According to a recent cover story by Steph Greegor in Columbus' The Other Paper , two incidents of suicide that have been carried out at an Ohio shooting...

Townhall meeting: Patriots rally in support of the Second Amendment Marches

7:00am Thursday, March 04, 2010
By Nick Arnold On February 20th, over 40 local patriots rallied at Black Wing Shooting Center in Delaware, OH to support the Ohio and national Second Amendment Marches. Literature and promotional material regarding the marches and trip-planning information was disseminated to the participants. Buckeye Firearms Association volunteers Steve Loos and Sara Arnold, along with myself, welcomed guests...

USSA: Anti-hunting legislator likely head of key House committee for sportsmen

3:00pm Wednesday, March 03, 2010
The next chairman of a key house committee with oversight over federal funding for wildlife conservation has a long history of opposing hunting, trapping, and gun ownership. U.S. Representative Jim Moran (D- VA) is expected to be named Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies. This subcommittee oversees funding for the Department of...

Athens News editor corrects false comments about Buckeye Firearms Association after readers respond

7:00am Wednesday, March 03, 2010
By Chad D. Baus On Thursday, February 25, Athens News editor Terry Smith, who also teaches journalism courses at Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, published an editorial on the topic of the state and national tea party movement in which he encouraged Congressman Democrat Zack Space to refuse an invitation to appear at an event. While the greater scope of Smith's article falls...

McDonald v. City of Chicago oral arguments transcript released

2:43pm Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Download our pdf to read the transcript of oral arguments in McDonald v. City of Chicago . . The Court has refused a media request to promptly release the audiotape. Analysis from Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson, the attorney of record for Buckeye Firearms Foundation, which filed friend-of-the-court briefs in both the McDonald and Heller Supreme Court cases, is...

SCOTUSBlog.com post-hearing analysis: Second Amendment extension likely

12:15pm Tuesday, March 02, 2010
By Lyle Denniston The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed poised to require state and local governments to obey the Second Amendment guarantee of a personal right to a gun, but with perhaps considerable authority to regulate that right. The dominant sentiment on the Court was to extend the Amendment beyond the federal level, based on the 14th Amendment's guarantee of "due process," since doing so...

Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray defends Second Amendment rights against cities like Cleveland and Columbus

12:06pm Tuesday, March 02, 2010
By Chad D. Baus As we reported last November, Attorney General Richard Cordray is a co-sponsor on an amicus brief in landmark gun rights case heard earlier today by the United States Supreme Court. The brief, which Cordray's office and its counterpart in Texas led the writing of and which was signed by 38 state attorneys general, argues that these rights should be protected from undue...

Op-Ed: Will the Supreme Court Recognize the Truth About Chicago's Handgun Ban?

7:00am Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Editor's Note: The United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in the Second Amendment case, McDonald, et al., v. Chicago, et al. (08-1521). The Court has refused a media request to promptly release the audiotape. The written transcript of today's argument will be released later in the day. The argument is scheduled for one hour, starting at 10 a.m. Check back for more coverage...

Ohio's white-tailed deer hunters have a successful season

3:00pm Monday, March 01, 2010
Hunters kill more than 260,000 deer for the first time A total of 261,314 deer were killed during Ohio's 2009-10 hunting season, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. This season's total surpasses the 2008-09 record total of 252,017. "Ohio deer hunters had another great year and continue to play a vital role in managing Ohio's deer herd. They've...

Homeowner defends self when men invade his home; Toledo Blade describes robber as the "victim"

7:00am Monday, March 01, 2010
vic·tim    [vik-tim] –noun 1. a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency By Chad D. Baus A north Toledo homeowner and concealed handgun license (CHL)-holder was the victim of an attempted home robbery last week, and yet in an article covering the homeowner's act of defending himself and shooting two intruders, the Toledo Blade refers only to the dead robber as a "victim...

2009 Attorney General Summary on Concealed Carry: Another record year for Ohio concealed handgun licenses

2:24pm Friday, February 26, 2010
Demand continues to soar for concealed carry licenses in Ohio By Jim Irvine Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray (D) has released the concealed handgun license (CHL) statistics for the fourth quarter of 2009 and the year-end report, Ohio Concealed Handguns Law - 2009 Annual Report . There were 10,687 concealed handgun licenses (CHL's) issued for the period of October through December 2009,...

NRA Board of Directors: The Importance of the Bullet Ballot

7:00am Friday, February 26, 2010
Readers are aware that Ken Hanson, Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair, is on the ballot for the National Rifle Association's Board of Directors. The Ballots are located in the March edition of your NRA magazine. ( American Rifleman , American Hunter , and America's 1st Freedom ) Ken's bio and qualifications can be reviewed in this article or at his Web site . Buckeye Firearms...

Public Comment Invited on Ohio Wildlife Issues

3:00pm Thursday, February 25, 2010
Open houses will be on a Saturday The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife invites the public to its annual Open Houses on Saturday, March 6, 2010, from 12:00 noon until 3 p.m. "At each open house location, fish and wildlife biologists along with law enforcement officers will be on hand to answer questions," said David M. Graham, chief of the Division of Wildlife...

Please Join Buckeye Firearms Association For a Candidates Forum March 9th

7:00am Thursday, February 25, 2010
For the fifth year in a row, Buckeye Firearms Association has teamed up with the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance, as well as several other conservation & firearms-related groups, to host a candidate's forum. The event will take place in Columbus on March 9th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., and we hope you will make plans to attend! Several Buckeye Firearms Association leaders and volunteers will be on...

Federal agency that labeled millions of gun owners as "rightwing extremists" criticized for casual loss of firearms

3:00pm Wednesday, February 24, 2010
By Chad D. Baus Agents and officers of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that 289 of their handguns, shotguns or automatic rifles had been lost or stolen between 2005 and 2008, the agency's inspector general said in a report released last week. Some of the weapons were left in places such as fast-food restaurant restrooms, bowling alleys and clothing stores. From the...

Officials and statistics agree: No need to fear an end to the ban on guns in national parks

7:00am Wednesday, February 24, 2010
A new law allowing concealed carry in national parks went into effect on February 22, and according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer , the change "got more resistance from the weather than from the handful of visitors in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Monday.

States Get "Humane" Rating from HSUS; Sportsmen's group applauds Ohio and other states with low scores

3:00pm Tuesday, February 23, 2010
We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States...We will take it species by species until all hunting is stopped in California. Then we will take it state by state. - Humane Society of the United States Executive Director Wayne Pacelle The nation's largest anti-hunting group, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), has issued "report...

Headline: "Mrs. Strickland pleases PETA by saying no to fur"

7:00am Tuesday, February 23, 2010
According to the Columbus Dispatch , the anti-hunting animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is applauding Ohio first lady Frances Strickland for not wearing fur. From the story : PETA said it recently sent surveys to first ladies across the country asking them whether they wear fur, and that Strickland was among the first to respond, "No, I do not wear fur." "We're...

HB158 (certified instructors' CHL fee exemption) scheduled for testimony in House committee

3:00pm Monday, February 22, 2010
House Bill 158, which seeks to add instructors who are certified to teach courses that meet the requirements of Ohio's concealed handgun license (CHL) law to the list of persons who are exempted from paying a fee to obtain a CHL, has been added to the House Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security agenda for proponent, opponent and interested party testimony, Tuesday, February 22 at 3:...

Chicago Tribune's Steve Chapman claims Obama is "anti-gun control," ignores proof to the contrary

7:00am Monday, February 22, 2010
By Chad D. Baus In a recent opinion piece ( "Obama Anti-gun? No, anti-gun control" ), Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Champan referenced "Obama's overall refusal to do anything to advance gun control." I contacted Mr. Chapman to advise him that Obama has, in fact, called for the advance of gun control by urging the U.S. Senate to ratify a United Nations treaty on small arms control. I provided a...

Brady gun control group releases study documenting their irrelevance

3:00pm Friday, February 19, 2010
By Ken Hanson, Esq. On February 18, 2010, Handgun Control Inc. (now known as "The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence") released their annual "State Scorecards" , grading states on how closely a state agrees with the gun ban movement's agenda. "As the nation's largest, non-partisan, grassroots organization leading the fight to prevent gun violence, the Brady Campaign, with its dedicated...

CA Police Officer Suggests Shooting Open Carry Advocates

7:00am Friday, February 19, 2010
By Gerard Valentino MercuryNews.com is reporting that an East Palo Alto, CA police officer allegedly posted comments on Facebook to advocate shooting citizens who open carry. Detective Rod Tuason's comments angered pro-gun supporters and should have angered all citizens with the flippant tone he took while he discussed killing another human being. From the story: Detective Rod Tuason apparently...

Park officials say little will change under new CCW in national parks rules; Gun ban extremists see "increased risk"

3:00pm Wednesday, February 17, 2010
A new law allowing licensed concealed carry in national parks takes effect on February 22 , and park officials "do not expect a major impact with the easing of firearm restrictions." But that isn't stopping anti-gun extremists from crying foul:

Ohio's Trapshooting Hall of Fame Museum leaving soon for Sparta, Illinois

7:00am Wednesday, February 17, 2010
By Larry S. Moore I had not visited the Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA) since the last Grand American event was held in Vandalia in August of 2005. I returned to pay one last visit to the Trapshooting Hall of Fame Museum located at the ATA headquarters. Returning to what many trap shooters still consider hallowed grounds was bittersweet. I could almost hear the rapid "pop-pop-pop" as...

New Rule On Guns In National Parks Takes Effect February 22

3:00pm Tuesday, February 16, 2010
On February 22, a new law on guns in national parks takes effect. The law repeals a National Park Service rule that has long prohibited Americans from lawfully possessing firearms in national parks for self-defense. The new law, passed last spring by an overwhelming bipartisan vote in the U.S. Senate, will allow people to possess, carry and transport firearms in national parks, in accordance with...

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