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Op-Ed: D.C. Gun Ban Proponents Ignore the Facts

1:05am Wednesday, March 12, 2008
By John R. Lott, Jr. and Maxim Lott FOXNews For gun control proponents and opponents a lot is riding on a former security guard for the Supreme Court Annex. Next Tuesday , the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether the District of Columbia's ban on handguns and its requirement that any rifles or shotguns remain locked violates the plaintiff, Dick Heller's, constitutional rights. Whatever...

Senate Committee Postpones Hearing/ Vote on "Castle Doctrine" Legislation

2:45pm Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Last week we were pleased to announce that Senate Bill 184, Ohio's Castle Doctrine bill, had been added to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice's agenda for Wednesday and Thursday of this week for the purpose of adopting amendments and voting on a substitute bill. Unfortunately, Buckeye Firearms Association has received word that committee chairman Tim Grendell has run into an...

They're Coming for Your Guns

1:10am Tuesday, March 11, 2008
By Brian S. Stewart Tucked into the final paragraph, a recent story in U.S. News and World Report highlighted the Washington D.C. Police Gun Recovery Unit, a unit of about two dozen officers whose mandate is exactly as it sounds: Every day about two dozen officers fan out across the city's roughest neighborhoods, stopping drivers and pedestrians for traffic and other offenses and executing...

Op-Ed: Why you should carry every day

1:05am Tuesday, March 11, 2008
By Gerard Valentino World Net Daily Several spree killings in non-permissive places like colleges or in states that don't have concealed-carry laws have blasted the gun-control debate back onto the national stage. Pro-gun advocates accurately pointed out that in Illinois, where two of the spree killings took place, citizens are denied their constitutional right to self-defense through the right...

CCRKBA says press purposely downplays key role of armed student in Jerusalem

1:05am Monday, March 10, 2008
An armed student at Jerusalem’s Mercaz Haray seminary played a crucial role in stopping a gun-wielding terrorist Thursday, but the American press is downplaying his heroism because it proves that armed students can stop campus gunmen, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. Yitzhak Dadon, 40, was described as “a private citizen who had a gun license and was able to...

When Liberals Rationalize

12:10am Friday, March 07, 2008
By Ken Hanson, Esq. Professor Laurence Tribe has published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that has some folks scratching their heads bloody. In this piece, Tribe interjects his opinion on the D.C. v. Heller case about to be argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Typical of his genus ( liberis thinkeumsupremis ), Tribe's piece is a splendid example of intellectual obfuscation.

HB264/SB184: Castle Doctrine scheduled for multiple hearings and possible vote in Senate committee!

4:14pm Thursday, March 06, 2008
Senate Bill 184, Ohio's Castle Doctrine bill, has been added to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice's agenda for Wednesday, March 12 at 10:00 a.m. in the Senate Building's North Hearing Room. The purpose for Wednesday's hearing is so that the committee may adopt amendments via a substitute bill. The following day, Thursday, March 13 at 9:00 a.m., the committee will reconvene in the...

Op-Ed: Columbine To Va. Tech To NIU - Gun-Free Zones Or Killing Fields?

12:05am Thursday, March 06, 2008
By John R. Lott, Jr. As Northern Illinois University restarts classes this week, one thing is clear: Six minutes proved too long. It took six minutes before the police were able to enter the classroom that horrible Thursday, and in that short time five people were murdered, 16 wounded. Six minutes is actually record-breaking speed for the police arriving at such an attack, but it was simply not...

Ohio Primary Election Results - a good day for gun owners

10:17am Wednesday, March 05, 2008
The results are in, and it was a very encouraging night for Ohio gun owners in the races for which Buckeye Firearms Association made endorsements and recommendations. Overall, we are extremely pleased with the outcome of the primary contests we saw as important for Ohio gun owners. As usual there were several examples which proved just how crucial pro-gun Ohioans' involvement in their party...

Mobility-Impaired Disabled Hunter Access

12:10am Wednesday, March 05, 2008
By Larry S. Moore The upland game rabbit season has been pretty tough on me this year. My oldest female Beagle, Lucky, is 14 and has not been able to hunt. She is just too slow in her old age. My male, Hank, has encountered some heart issues so I am not running him very much. He is 10 and I was really hoping for a couple more years in the field with him. Both dogs jump at the gates and bark to go...

Op-Ed: Guns Save Lives

12:05am Wednesday, March 05, 2008
By John Stossel It's all too predictable. A day after a gunman killed six people and wounded 18 others at Northern Illinois University, The New York Times criticized the U.S. Interior Department for preparing to rethink its ban on guns in national parks. The editorial board wants "the 51 senators who like the thought of guns in the parks -- and everywhere else, it seems -- to realize that the...

Colorado CHL-holder Recalls Encounter With Church Gunman

12:10am Tuesday, March 04, 2008
The story of concealed handgun license-holder Jeanne Assam's brave actions to stop a murderous rampage killer in Colorado Springs, Colorado's New Life Church won't soon be forgotten. From CNSNews.com : "She probably saved over 100 lives," the Brady Boyd, the pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, said on Monday. The female guard, a church member dressed in plain clothes, killed the...

Attorney General announces Fourth Quarter 2007 CHL statistics

12:05am Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Recent improvements to law spark surge in demand for concealed handgun licenses By Jim Irvine Attorney General Marc Dann has released the concealed handgun license statistics for the fourth quarter of 2007. There were 5,058 regular licenses, and 22 temporary emergency licenses issued, bringing the total to 109,142 licenses issued to carry a concealed handgun. Nearly 22,000 law-abiding citizens...

Toledo concealed handgun license-holder defends own life during robbery attempt

3:49pm Monday, March 03, 2008
By Chad D. Baus The Toledo Blade is reporting that another Ohio CHL-holder is alive today because he had the means to protect himself when attacked. The newspaper, which editorialized against concealed carry both before and after it became law (one editorial board member went so far as theorize on how he would disarm the entire American population ), and which prohibits its newspaper carriers...

To my gun-owning Democrat friends: How could you vote for either one?

12:10am Monday, March 03, 2008
By Chad D. Baus I've spent the last few weeks examining the choices left on the GOP primary ballot. I thought on this Ohio Primary eve I would take a look the choices my pro-gun Democrat friends are facing. In Ohio alone, approximately 1/2 million people have hunting and/ or concealed handgun licenses. More importantly, Ohio gun owners made up 27 percent of the total vote in Ohio in the year 2000...

It really is ok to be liberal and support individual gun rights

12:05am Monday, March 03, 2008
By John Salyers Yes, really. Democrats throughout Ohio and across the country would be well advised to take a closer look at elected officials like Ohio's Governor Ted Strickland and U.S Congressman Zack Space. These gentlemen are both true to the Democrat party and yet are unwavering in their support of protecting our individual right to bear arms. And believe it or not folks, it's working for...

Biased media annoyed that victims dare resist

12:10am Friday, February 29, 2008
By Tim Inwood I have had enough experience with the anti-gun /self-defense bias in the press to begin to wonder if there is something wrong with the water used at major journalism schools in this country - some toxic agent that it wipes out all logical function of the brain. As I read “Use Of Deadly Force: Store Owners Fighting Back” by Brendan Keefe, an article done for WCPO Channel 9 (...

Jarrod Martin - 70th Ohio House District

12:05am Friday, February 29, 2008
By Larry S. Moore The 70th Ohio House District (representing Xenia, Beavercreek, Fairborn and Bath Township) has a crowded field of entrants in the Republican primary. I’ve met all the candidates. They are all good men with a variety of backgrounds, small business owners, professionals and family men. So what sets Jarrod Martin apart? What made the difference that would cause me to volunteer to...

Why a convention center in Wilmington was Ohio's safest place last weekend

12:10am Thursday, February 28, 2008
By Chad D. Baus Regular readers of this website will recall that the last time a member of the media from Cincinnati went to a gun show, the results were atrocious. A November 2007 hatchet-job by NBC Cincinnati's Eric Flack contained ridiculous references to everything from 90-round SKS rifles to the Columbine school massacre, all in an effort to aid his gun ban lobby friends in their efforts to...

Op-ed: Even at VT all issues not addressed

12:05am Thursday, February 28, 2008
By Karl Spaulding On April 16, 2007, 32 people were murdered by a fellow student at Virginia Tech. On Feb. 14, there was another college shooting with five people killed. In the week previous to that, several more shootings at colleges and high schools made the news. Anyone who reads the Virginia Tech Review Panel report (available on the Internet through the Virginia governor's Web site) will...

HB473: Aiding mobility-impaired hunters

12:10am Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Last week, Buckeye Firearms Association volunteer Bob Harsanje and Dave Graham, Chief of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ (ODNR) Division of Wildlife, offered proponent testimony before the Ohio House Finance & Appropriations Committee on House Bill 473. Proposed by State Rep. Peter Ujvagi (D - Toledo), at the urging of and guidance from Harsanje and fellow hunter, HB473 would, among...

Interior Department To Propose New Rules Regarding Right-to-Carry In National Parks

12:05am Wednesday, February 27, 2008
After nearly five years of effort by NRA-ILA, the U.S. Department of the Interior has finally responded to the many requests for a change in its policy on carrying and transporting firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges. In a letter hand-delivered today to the U.S. Senators who wrote him asking for this policy change, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has directed Lyle Laverty,...

Presidential candidates need to address the real issues for gun owners

12:10am Tuesday, February 26, 2008
"I’ve been a hunter all my life" and other phony appeals By Brian S. Stewart In the pantheon of cringe-worthy attempts to fabricate 2nd amendment bona fides, presidential candidates of the last several years have provided more than their fair share. From the infamous "Small Varmints"-Gate of the early Mitt Romney campaign to Hillary Clinton’s desperate revelation that she too used to be quite the...

LTE: Don't ask gun-permit holders to be police

12:05am Tuesday, February 26, 2008
February 21, 2008 Columbus Dispatch The Sunday article "Gun-permit renewals near" contained a statement that must be addressed. Dispatch Staff Reporter Randy Ludlow rightly quoted Chief Deputy Steve Martin of the Franklin County Sheriff's Office that there had been no incidents involving concealed-carry license holders during the first four years under the law. But then Ludlow added, "On the...

Perfect Storm for Gun Owners: Ohio Presidential Primary edition

12:10am Monday, February 25, 2008
By Chad D. Baus My story " Perfect storm for gun owners? McCain, DeWine and Giuliani join forces ", was published at BuckeyeFirearms.org only a little more than 24 hours after the outcome of Super Tuesday was known. In that commentary, I wrote about how anti-gun former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's endorsement of Senator John McCain , and anti-gun former Senator Mike DeWine's work as McCain's...

Students for Concealed Carry on Campus responds to Brady conspiracy accusations: 'Prove it'

12:05am Monday, February 25, 2008
Four months after Peter Hamm, spokesperson for The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, verbally attacked the college-based, grassroots organization Students for Concealed Carry on Campus , telling a Fox News reporter, "You don't like the fact that you can't have a gun on your college campus? Drop out of school," he is stepping up the rhetoric. Not content with encouraging college students to...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

6:34pm Saturday, February 23, 2008
By Chris Chumita There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are all worthy of mention. What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens. From a mentally sisabled teen being abused for hours to a robbery at a drive-through, these articles should be a part of...

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