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It's time to step up!

12:10am Tuesday, February 13, 2007
By John Salyers A quick perusal of the February edition of American Hunter magazine made me think about a few things in more detail. The reader comments and self defense stories in the first few pages of every issue are always a favorite read. My attention was especially drawn to the Editor's comments this month.

Cleveland court decides to control guns, not criminals

12:10am Monday, February 12, 2007
By Ken Hanson According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer , the Cleveland Municipal Court has launched a program that they think will help clear up some 25,000 outstanding warrants and get guns out of criminal hands. The scheme calls for known, wanted criminals to walk into a police station, turn in a gun, and walk out without posting bail for their outstanding warrants. Far be it from us to rain on...

AP: Stings on Ohio gun shops questioned

12:05am Monday, February 12, 2007
The Associated Press is reporting federal officials believe private investigators hired by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to conduct undercover sting operations on gun shops in Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia could be breaking the law, and the dealers caught making illegal sales in the stings will not face criminal prosecution. From the story: “Although a decision has...

Fear the guy with 3000 lb weapon, not the concealed one

12:15am Friday, February 09, 2007
By Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch recently published a graphic enumerating data involving arrests of aggressive drivers in 2006 (click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized graphic). href="http://www.dispatch.com/2007/02/05/aggressivedrivingarrests.gif" target="_blank"> src="http://www.dispatch.com/2007/02/05/aggressivedrivingarrests.gif" height=150 width=134 border=0 align="right">...

Hannity ask Giuliani the right questions on guns

12:10am Friday, February 09, 2007
On Monday, February 5, 2007, Republican Presidential hopeful (and, according to polls, frontrunner) Rudy Giuliani appeared on FOXNews' "Hannity & Colmes" . To his credit, co-host Sean Hannity grilled Giuliani on some of the controversial issues upon which the former mayor finds himself in opposition to the GOP base. A partial transcript, devoted to their discussion on gun issues, follows. As...

FRIDAY FLASHBACK! A Woman's Right To Choose

12:05am Friday, February 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.... A Woman’s Right to...

Kevin DeWine Makes Bid for Deputy Chairman, Ohio Republican Party

12:10am Thursday, February 08, 2007
By Larry S. Moore Since the November 2006 elections many political pundits have wondered about the future direction and leadership of the Ohio Republican Party (ORP). More than a few columns were written conjecturing whether ORP Chairman Bob Bennett would step down or not. Many gun owners hoped Bennett would be gone. It is now known that Bennett intends to stay for another term but has laid the...

Op-Ed: Second Amendment Freedoms Aided the Civil Rights Movement

12:05am Thursday, February 08, 2007
February 6, 2007 By Ken Blackwell Townhall.com Prominent and indispensable among our rights is the "right of the people to keep and bear arms." Second Amendment rights, never to be infringed, were posited by our nation’s founders as among the most essential tenets of the free and just republic they sought to establish. The empowering freedom of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

7:06pm Wednesday, February 07, 2007
By Chris Chumita There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio than 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 anti-gunner running for president to the Tattoo Gypsy commenting on CCW, these articles should be a part of...

Petition Congress to create a John Moses Browning holiday

12:10am Wednesday, February 07, 2007
A fitting tribute to a great American gun designer and patriot By Tim Inwood The other day while perusing the pages of The High Road I learned that a petition is being circulated to create a national holiday and postage stamp to celebrate the life of John Moses Browning. Interesting idea - an uphill battle will lie ahead of that , I thought to myself. I can see the anti-gunners fighting this idea...

Concealed Carry of Weapons Superior To Taking Weapons, S. 388: Part I

12:05am Wednesday, February 07, 2007
By John Longenecker It’s good to see the right kind of bill moving through Congress. U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) has introduced S. 388 – the equivalent of H.R. 226 – which is a national Right-To-Carry bill for reciprocity for state carry licensees for concealed weapons. In short, any person with a valid concealed carry permit issued by a state would be recognized to legally carry in any...

WDTN's ''Getting the guns'' far short of complete story

12:10am Tuesday, February 06, 2007
The following comments were submitted by Buckeye Firearms Association's Larry S. Moore to Dayton's WDTN News 2, in response to a news investigation on Dayton's problem with gun violence. The entire TV broadcast can be viewed by clicking here . Overall, your story was well done. I do, however, have several concerns. First, let's call Dayton's problem what it is....a crime problem...an out of...

Editorial analysis: New York Sun logic vs. Toledo Blade emotion

12:05am Tuesday, February 06, 2007
By Chad D. Baus Anti-gunners have been trying to make much of late out of a series of stories published last week by the Florida Sun-Sentinel, which revealed that among those who have been issued Florida CCW licenses, 1,400 were people who pleaded guilty or no contest to felonies but qualified because of a loophole in the law, 216 were people with outstanding warrants, 128 were people with active...

Concealed carry for hunters – your opportunity to make a difference

12:10am Friday, February 02, 2007
By Aaron Kirkingburg & Larry S. Moore The Ohio Division of Wildlife is once again holding its annual open house meetings for each district. These meetings will be held on March 4th at the District Offices in districts 1-4 and at the Greene County Fish and Game clubhouse for district 5. These public forums are held every year in order to give Ohio hunters, trappers and anglers a chance to...

FRIDAY FLASHBACK!: How Elections Matter

12:05am Friday, February 02, 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.... How Elections...

Where's the outrage about nutty anti-gun reporting?

12:10am Thursday, February 01, 2007
By Chad D. Baus A recent op-ed from Philadephia Inquirer columnist Karen Heller, entitled "Where's the outrage about gun violence?" has me asking a few questions of my own: Where is the outrage about nutty anti-gun reporting? How can so many people who shovel provably false statements on their readers keep their jobs? And was columnist Karen Heller some type of Freudian pen name playing off of...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

7:05pm Wednesday, January 31, 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 trophy buck to the fight for CCW in Wisconsin, these articles should be a part of your required reading! Click on...

Armed criminals attack churchgoers during services

12:10am Wednesday, January 31, 2007
By Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch reported this week that two criminals brought a pistol into a church and began robbing churchgoers during Mass. Due to a state law which prohibits firearms in places of worship, all the victims were unarmed. Thankfully, however, that did not transform at least five of the churchgoers into a victim mindset. From the story: Five men old enough to qualify for...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. Endorsees pack Senate Judiciary Comm. on Crim. Justice

12:05am Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Buckeye Firearms Association has learned that five of our former Endorsees have been appointed, along with two other pro-gun legislators to fill the nine-member Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice, where any firearms law reform bills are likely to be given consideration. Click on 'Read More' for complete details. align="right"> Senate President Bill Harris (pictured in a 2005...

Dave Kopel's Presidential candidates on the Second Amendment

12:10am Tuesday, January 30, 2007
By Chad D. Baus On January 15, I examined the early 2008 Presidential contenders and their collective (weak) stance on gun rights. Pro-gun author/ blogger Dave Kopel recently published his own preliminary assessment of some of the people who have been listed as likely or definite candidates, which was published recently at The Volokh Conspiracy . Following is Kopel's preliminary look at some of...

Senate Version Of National Right-To-Carry Bill Introduced

12:05am Tuesday, January 30, 2007
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) recently introduced S. 388--the Senate version of H.R. 226, a national Right-to-Carry reciprocity bill that would provide national reciprocity for state carry licensees. This legislation would allow any person with a valid carry permit or license issued by a state to carry a concealed firearm in any other state if they meet certain criteria. The bill would not...

Security firm sued in Toledo Jeep plant shooting

12:10am Monday, January 29, 2007
By Chad D. Baus Last week, the Toledo Blade reported that an employee who was wounded during a shooting rampage two years ago at DaimlerChrysler AG's Toledo North Assembly plant has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the facility's security firm. From the story: Michael Toney, a manager who was among four workers shot by Myles Meyers, claims that Wackenhut Corp. was negligent in allowing...

Let's Truly Prevent Violent Crime

12:05am Monday, January 29, 2007
The following was submitted to this website as News Commentary. If you are a writer and have material you would like to be considered for publication, please use the SUBMIT News feature. The link can always be found in the top-left info block on the homepage. By Michael A. Kotch Determining effective solutions to the violence, which threatens our communities requires real honest efforts to keep...

Book Review: ''Thank God I had a Gun''

12:15am Friday, January 26, 2007
By Jim Irvine Self defense stories are as unique as the individuals involved. I have read hundreds of such stories and talked personally with many individuals involved in life and death struggles. Most get no media coverage, and the ones that do get covered are generally given only a couple paragraphs that invoke questions, provide few answers and often contain errors caused by the authors...

FRIDAY FLASHBACK!: Your Job Or Your Life

12:10am Friday, January 26, 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.... Your Job Or Your...

Op-ed: Gay rights, gun rights cross here

12:05am Friday, January 26, 2007
Editor's Note: Self-described "gun bigot" Roberta de Boer accepted an invitation to a Toledo firing range. She may not have come away a convert (yet?), but personal interactions like these with uninformed journalists are important, and we hope they occur more in the future. January 21, 2007 By Roberta de Boer We'd been shooting for a while by the time the amiable chatting started up. This was...

Ohio Supreme Court won't hear Beatty appeal

10:24am Thursday, January 25, 2007
The Toledo Blade is reporting that the Ohio Supreme Court voted 5-2 (Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton and Justice Judith Ann Lanzinger dissenting) against hearing the appeal of Bruce Beatty, who was convicted of carrying a concealed handgun into Toledo's Ottawa Park in protest of a city ordinance. From the story: The move upholds lower-court rulings that Toledo's prohibition on firearms in public...

Report: Conservation Group, Unions Joining Forces

12:10am Thursday, January 25, 2007
By Larry S. Moore On January 16, the Washington Post reported 20 labor unions with nearly 5 million members are joining forces with a Republican-leaning umbrella group of conservationists -- the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership -- to put pressure on Congress and the Bush administration. From the story: The Union Sportsman's Alliance, to be rolled out in Washington on Tuesday after...

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