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D.C.’s Gun Ban Is Itself Banned!

12:10am Tuesday, March 20, 2007
By John Longenecker As you may have heard the week of March 9th, 2007, the Court Of Appeals tossed out the Washington, D.C. gun ban and declared it unconstitutional. That’s right – Unconstitutional. It may go to the Supreme Court, but for now, it’s ruled by an Appeal Courts and it has legal significance. There is a 30-day stay of execution, I believe, and D.C. Mare Fenty has announced that his...

Responding to Brady: The Letter the Blade refused to print

12:10am Monday, March 19, 2007
Editor's Note: The following letter was submitted to the Toledo Blade in response to an op-ed written by the John Shanks, Director of the Law Enforcement Relations for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. True to form, Shanks jumped at the opportunity to dance in the blood of a slain Toledo police officer, who died despite a plethora of failed Toledo gun control laws . The anti-gun Blade has...

State Officials Recognize Influence of Sportsmen’s Movement

12:10am Monday, March 19, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 15, 2007 (Columbus) – Ohio legislators were reminded Tuesday night that sportsmen are an active, voting constituency that wants to work with elected officials to protect and advance wildlife conservation in the Buckeye State. Nearly 140 leaders of Ohio hunting, trapping and fishing groups demonstrated the power of the sportsmen’s movement when they gathered at the...

OhioGOP one step closer to pro-gun leader

12:15am Friday, March 16, 2007
By Chad D. Baus Despite reports in recent weeks that Ohio GOP chairman Bob Bennett was considering an abandonment of his plan to orchestrate an orderly transfer of power within the OhioGOP via the creation of the position of Deputy Chairman, the Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that the party's central committee voted on March 9 to create a deputy director position. The person to fill it will...

Plain Dealer: Pro gun 'journalist' seeks lists of permits

12:10am Friday, March 16, 2007
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that "a gun-rights group critical of journalists who have published lists of conceal-and-carry permit holders is now seeking the same information." From the story: Jeff Garvas, president of Ohioans For Concealed Carry Inc., has asked the state's sheriffs for -- and in some cases has received -- the names and addresses of the permit holders, citing his role...

FRIDAY FLASHBACK!: Self-Defense Bill of Rights: Part 2

12:05am Friday, March 16, 2007
Buckeye Firearm Association's web site is seeing an amazing growth in visitors and new articles are being posted several times a week. With everything that is going on, it is easy to miss some important and interesting articles. To make sure that you don't miss anything, we are going to repost one of our more popular articles every Friday. This week's "Friday Flashback" is.... Self-Defense Bill...

NBC Cleveland: City Police do not support Mayor's defiance of state law

12:10am Thursday, March 15, 2007
Toledo and Columbus no longer enforcing failed local gun control laws On Wednesday, March 14, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson announced that he would defy the will of the Ohio General Assembly as expressed in HB347 - legislation which made all firearms laws uniform across the Buckeye State. At a press conference staged at the Police Briefing Room, Jackson told reporters that he will ignore state...

Ohio State Highway Patrol's ''plain sight'' champion on his way out

12:05am Thursday, March 15, 2007
By Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch reported this week that Col. Paul D. McClellan, the current Superintendent of the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP), has announced his retirement. The retirement of McClellan, who made Buckeye Firearms' 2006 list of Ten People Who Are Threatening Your Ohio Gun Rights , comes at an ironic time for Ohio concealed handgun license-holders. Also being retired this...

Go-it-alone: Financially-challenged City of Cleveland sues over preemption

9:51am Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Today the City of Cleveland filed a declaratory judgment against the State of Ohio to fight the enactment of Ohio Revised Code (ORC) Section 9.68. Click here to download the press release. (.pdf) ORC Section 9.68: "(A) The individual right to keep and bear arms,being a fundamental individual right that predates the United States Constitution and Ohio Constitution, and being a constitutionally...

Wednesday, March 14: HB347 takes effect today

12:15am Wednesday, March 14, 2007
The long awaited end to one of the dumbest provisions of Ohio's original concealed carry law is here. For the first time in the almost three years since Ohio's concealed carry law took effect, CHL-holders are no longer required to carry their holstered firearm in "plain sight" while in a motor vehicle. The unpopular, unsafe requirement was struck from Ohio's law by HB347, a bill which became law...

Guns may now be concealed; AP’s anti-gun bias to remain in plain view

12:10am Wednesday, March 14, 2007
By Ken Hanson In another exercise of pointing out bias in reporting, lest we all become so used to it we find it acceptable, John McCarthy of the Ohio Associated Press serves up another heaping serving of bias in his “coverage” of HB347 going into effect. As we examined previously with an example from the Toledo Blade, some of the bias is subtle, some of it not so much. As before, we encourage...

Book Review: The Ohio Guide to Firearms Laws

12:15am Tuesday, March 13, 2007
By Jim Irvine Attorney and Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson has done a magnificent job with the second edition of “The Ohio Guide to Firearms Laws.” This is the definitive book on Ohio’s firearms laws, including concealed carry. It is updated to reflect the changes HB347 made to Ohio’s laws, as well as some real “Gotcha’s” that have come to light because of poor drafting...

Dispatch: Hunters’ concealed-carry a hot topic

12:10am Tuesday, March 13, 2007
The Columbus Dispatch's Dave Golowenski has written an article noting that Ohio's Wildlife division sees benefits of CHL-holders being able to tote a concealed handgun while hunting. From the story: While there is bound to be some honest disagreement on the matter, concealed-carry advocates figure the woods will be safer in coming years. "A hunter should be able to carry a gun for self-defense,"...

Record number of Buckeye state deer harvested in 2006-2007 season

12:05am Tuesday, March 13, 2007
237,316 deer harvested; tops previous record of 216,443 set in 2004 COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio deer hunters took a record 237,316 deer during the 2006-07 hunting season and for the third year in a row the harvest surpassed 200,000, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The total number of deer taken was 13 percent above last year's season total of 209,513. "...

The importance of the Parker (D.C. gun ban) case

12:10am Monday, March 12, 2007
By Ken Hanson The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is making some significant and breathtaking progress in the field of Second Amendment jurisprudence. SAF, together with Virginia attorney Alan Gura, has come up with an exquisite legal strategy to get the question of the Second Amendment as a fundamental, individual right squarely before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in the...

CCW for Hunters Proposal Submitted to Ohio Wildlife Council

12:05am Monday, March 12, 2007
Buckeye Firearms was the only statewide firearms group to have a leader in attendance at the Ohio Wildlife Council meeting on Tuesday, March 8. The Division of Wildlife reported on the comments from the March 4 open houses, formally submitted the proposals for consideration and answered questions from Wildlife Council Members. In summarizing the comments from the open houses, Dave Risley noted...

FLASH – DC COURT OF APPEALS STRIKES DOWN GUN BAN!

12:13pm Friday, March 09, 2007
In what may be the most earth-shattering case on the Second Amendment ever, a panel of three Appellate Judges has thrown out the D.C. gun ban, ruling once and for all that the Second Amendment Guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms. During a congratulatory phone call between Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson and Plaintiff’s Attorney Alan Gura, Alan noted: “...

Owning the Power to Control My Destiny

12:10am Friday, March 09, 2007
By Linda Walker I have great respect and adoration for financial guru, Suze Orman. She is an intelligent, financially brilliant and witty lady (If she's anti gun, please don't tell me!) Recently I watched The Suze Orman show on the local PBS channel. The show was entitled "Women & Money". Now you ask, what does that have to do with gun rights? Certainly Buckeye Firearms Association hasn't...

FRIDAY FLASHBACK!: Self-Defense Bill of Rights: Part 1

12:05am Friday, March 09, 2007
Buckeye Firearm Association's web site is seeing an amazing growth in visitors and new articles are being posted several times a week. With everything that is going on, it is easy to miss some important and interesting articles. To make sure that you don't miss anything, we are going to repost one of our more popular articles every Friday. This week's "Friday Flashback" is.... Self-Defense Bill...

Radio report: State to Hear from Public on Handguns and Hunting Issue

12:10am Thursday, March 08, 2007
89.7 WKSU, which is a service of Kent State University and Ohio Public Media, reported this week on the outcome of Sunday's Ohio Division of Wildlife Open Houses. Aside from the obligatory inflammatory language we've grown to expect from the anti-gun media ("Some Ohio concealed-carry permit holders want laws changed so they can pack small-caliber heat in the woods during hunting season."), the...

2008: Gun Control Candidates Need Not Apply

12:05am Thursday, March 08, 2007
By John Longenecker For the American electorate, candidates who commit to the concealed carry bills and who see them signed into law will show a deeper respect for citizens and the law of the land than gun control obsessives. How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

6:54am Wednesday, March 07, 2007
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 home owner fighting back to a petition to stop another assault rifle ban, these articles should be a part of your...

Report: Gun accident deaths now at all-time low

12:10am Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Article originally published in America's 1st Freedom magazine, March 2007 issue According to data released recently by the National Center for Health Statistics, between 2003-2004 gun accident deaths in the United States fell 11 percent and the per capita rate of such accidents fell 12 percent, to their lowest points in recorded history. Over the last 20 years, along with a steady increase in...

2008 Pilot Program: Repeal All Gun Laws For Five Years

12:05am Wednesday, March 07, 2007
By John Longenecker Given the successes of those states issuing concealed carry permits to citizens, I suggest a nationwide pilot program: the repeal of all anti-gun laws – all 22,000 of them — for a period of five years. This includes a moratorium on all new gun laws for five years, and suspension of all court cases pending for weapons charges with the exception of violent crimes involving a gun...

The Uninvited Ombudsman Report - No. 25

12:05am Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Taken from this week’s “Page Nine” Alan Korwin’s “The uninvited Ombudsman Report” 4- Toys For Police The lamestream media told you: In order to reduce violence, protect the innocent, and fight rampant corruption in Mexico, Mexican federales confiscated all firearms from the police in Tijuana. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Article: Dealers claim need for self-defense

12:05am Monday, March 05, 2007
By Chad D. Baus As a fourth-generation car dealer working in my family business, I took special interest in a story recently published in the industry trade publication Used Car News, highlighting stories proving the dangers of being a car dealer, and interviewing several dealers who have taken steps to be prepared to defend themselves. Click on 'Read More' for the entire story. From the story:...

Concealed Carry for Hunters Proposed by OH. Div of Wildlife

3:36pm Sunday, March 04, 2007
Division of Wildlife Open House Update By Larry S. Moore Today the Division of Wildlife put forth a proposal href=" http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article3526.html " target="_blank"> src=" http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/publicfiles/OhioDNRlogo.gif " height=140 width=110 border=0 align="right">to allow concealed carry for hunters who possess a concealed handgun license. The Division of...

WTOL Toledo story proves city's gun control policies a failure

12:15am Friday, March 02, 2007
By Chad D. Baus WTOL.com (CBS Toledo) recently published an article entitled "In Toledo, Guns are Easy to Get, Even for Teenagers". A simple scan of the story proves beyond all doubt that Toledo's many gun control laws, which city officials claim are essential crime-fighting tools, have been a complete failure at meeting their stated goals. From the story: Detective Keith Dressel died from a...

League of Ohio Sportsmen honors award-winners

12:10am Friday, March 02, 2007
By Larry S. Moore On February 17, 2007, the League of Ohio Sportsmen recognized some leading conservationists, foresters, etc. Hunter Educator of the Year – Phyllis Herrington Phyllis has gone above and beyond the call of duty in the preparations and teaching of Hunter Education classes. She has frequently run virtually all the classes in Williams County. She has a natural love of the outdoors...

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