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YOU are invited to attend SAF Leadership Training Conference May 12, 2007

12:10am Wednesday, March 28, 2007
On May 12, 2007 you have the opportunity to attend the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) Leadership training conference in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky (just across the river from Cincinnati). Buckeye Firearms Association leaders will be joining leaders of other grassroots organizations from Ohio and Kentucky. This event is free to participants and all costs for publications and lunch are provided...

Zumbo ‘Proud’ of Gunowners, Vows to Lead Charge for Right

12:05am Wednesday, March 28, 2007
March 20, 2007 Gun Week By Dave Workman, Senior Editor “I’m an idiot. I’m ignorant. My words obviously have come back to destroy my career.” Thus was the observation of outdoor legend Jim Zumbo, who told Gun Week in an exclusive interview that he harbors no ill feelings toward the legions of angry gunowners whose backlash has possibly cost him his livelihood, and perhaps his reputation. “I did it...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

11:21pm Tuesday, March 27, 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 an attack on a gas station clerk to an update on the JPFO movie, these articles should be a part of your required...

Two Cincinnati self-defense shootings grab headlines

12:10am Tuesday, March 27, 2007
The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Friday on the second of two self-defense shootings in that city in a matter of days. From the story: Jamie Buck was asleep early Friday when a sledgehammer shattered his side door’s window and a stranger burst into his rented home, demanding money or jewelry. That was the last demand Millard Brandenburg would ever make. Click on 'Read More' to continue the story...

Op-Ed: Law and Order and Guns - Rudy has some funny views on guns

12:05am Tuesday, March 27, 2007
He’d better beware if Thompson enters the race By John R. Lott, Jr. One person’s “reasonable and sensible” gun laws aren’t always another’s. So when Rudy Giuliani recognizes that the Second Amendment guarantees people the right to bear arms subject to “reasonable and sensible” laws, it really doesn’t tell us much. Yet one thing is for sure though: Giuliani is hardly a “strict constructionist” on...

Ten Threats To Our Ohio Gun Rights In 2007

12:10am Monday, March 26, 2007
By Alex Payton In August of 2006, the Buckeye Firearms Association produced a list of ten people who are threatening your Ohio gun rights. Since then, Ohio gun owners successfully passed HB347 and helped elect several pro-gun candidates. To some degree, all of the people who were previously listed are still threatening your Ohio gun rights, but there are now new threats that need to be addressed...

Nothing could be done until......

12:05am Monday, March 26, 2007
By Jim Irvine I sometimes watch a program on ER trauma on the Discovery Health Channel. They covered a common situation of a woman who was brutally beaten and tortured by her ex-boyfriend. Police arrived before he killed her, but not before significant physical and emotional damage had occurred. She had a restraining order against the man. She had expressed concerns for her safety to police, who...

Gun Owners, Child Molesters, and the Free Press

12:15am Friday, March 23, 2007
By J. R. Dunn The Roanoke Times is the latest newspaper to discover that just because something can be done does not mean it should be done. As reported by Michelle Malkin and others, the Times on March 11 ran an editorial titled "Shedding Light on Concealed Handguns" announcing that it was publishing a list of everyone in Virginia's New River Valley possessing a concealed carry permit. This type...

Op-Ed: Rudy's Gun-Control Agenda

12:10am Friday, March 23, 2007
March 20, 2007 HumanEvents.com By John Velleco The 2007 version of Rudy Giuliani defends his past support of gun control as a necessary evil to fight crime in a big city. When pressed recently about his views on the 2nd Amendment by Sean Hannity of Fox News, Giuliani attempted to tap dance around his gun-control record without alienating the 290 million Americans who don’t live in New York City...

FRIDAY FLASHBACK!: Violent Crime Rising......Or Is It?

12:05am Friday, March 23, 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.... Violent Crime...

ODNR appoints three deputy directors

2:00pm Thursday, March 22, 2007
March 22, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COLUMBUS, OH - Sean D. Logan, Director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, announced today three key executive personnel appointments at the agency. Joining the Director’s leadership team are Deputy Directors Anthony Celebrezze, Cathryn Loucas and Anthony Trevena. All three will be on board by mid April. Celebrezze has worked for the U.S. Sportsmen’s...

Repeal the 2nd Amendment? The anti-gun left in panic over the Parker decision

12:10am Thursday, March 22, 2007
By Tim Inwood This March has been wonderful. On Wednesday the 14th the provisions of HB347 became law. I no longer have to wrinkle my clothes trying to comply with the silly open carry provision in my car. That delighted me. But days before that, the great news came that the DC Circuit Court had finally issued a ruling in the Shelly Parker case , a ruling that turned out just as I had hoped it...

USCCA Magazine highlights BuckeyeFirearms.org writer

12:05am Thursday, March 22, 2007
Over the past several weeks, USCCA, the official magazine of the U.S. Concealed Carry Association, has published several online articles written by Buckeye Firearms Association Central Ohio Chair Gerard Valentino, which have appeared in the past on this website. Guns are Back on the Table How to Help Not the Same Old Doctors and Guns Article Each day, the all-volunteer staff at Buckeye Firearms...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

7:19pm Wednesday, March 21, 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 another mayor leaving Bloomberg's anti-gun group to another failure of the system, these articles should be a part...

Cleveland police union to NRANews: We won’t enforce illegal laws

2:19am Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Cam Edwards, host of Cam & Company at NRANews.com has followed up on a BuckeyeFirearms.org story published last week which revealed that Cleveland's police union is not pleased with Mayor Frank Jackson's order to ignore HB347. Cam interviewed Buckeye Firearms Association Region Leader Chris Chumita on his show last Friday about the story, and in a follow-up segment yesterday, Edwards blew the...

Enquirer reporter reveals proof that criminals don't get Ohio CHLs

12:10am Wednesday, March 21, 2007
By Chad D. Baus Greg Korte, the Cincinnati Enquirer reporter who recently found himself in the middle of a lawsuit by sending requests for the list of CHL-holders to all 88 Ohio county sheriffs, has published a blog article that graphically illustrates a fact long-held by this political action committee: Criminals do not apply for concealed handgun licenses, and are not deterred by gun control...

Tens of Thousands Safely Join Sportsmen's Ranks

12:05am Wednesday, March 21, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2007 The Families Afield Program led to an astounding jump in the number of new hunters in 2006. The spotless safety record of the freshmen underscores the fact that mentored youth are the safest in the field. Families Afield is a campaign established by the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance, National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), and National Wild Turkey Federation (...

LTE: Assault on 'assault' weapons unsound

12:15am Tuesday, March 20, 2007
March 19, 2007 Zanesville Times-Recorder The recent article by Dan Thomasson maligning the National Rifle Association is a new low, even for him. It appears that old Dan has finally lost control of his senses or is lying in his teeth. Take your pick. The nation's police chiefs have serious problems all right, but so called assault weapons are seldom used in crimes of any kind. The infamous ATF (...

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...

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