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Man defends child and mother when abusive ex-boyfriend breaks in

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, March 09, 2021
A man says he was forced to defend his child and the mother when her abusive ex-boyfriend broke into her home at 5:30 a.m. From Cleveland.com : Officers went to a home on the 4000 block of East 57th Street, just north of Harvard Avenue in the city’s Broadway-Slavic Village neighborhood, and found a man suffering multiple gunshot wounds at the top of a staircase, Ciaccia said. Paramedics took the...

ACTION ALERT: Urge Committee to Support HB 89 and Repeal "Duty to Inform"

3:00pm Monday, March 08, 2021
On Tuesday, March 9 at 9 a.m., the House State and Local Government Committee is hearing House Bill 89 to amend Ohio’s “duty to inform” law. They will hear proponent and opponent testimony and possibly vote on the bill. HB 89 would clarify Ohio law so that law-abiding gun owners understand how and when to notify a law enforcement officer that they are carrying a firearm. Current law requires gun...

PODCAST: Duty to Retreat and the Legal Justification for Lethal Force

3:00pm Monday, March 08, 2021
Buckeye Firearms Association has launched a podcast called Keep and Bear Radio . The podcast is hosted on the Podbean platform and is also available on Apple , Google , and Spotify . Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear every episode. *** Episode 3: If someone is threatening your life, do you have to retreat before using lethal force? It depends on what state you live in. If you live in...

Toledo mayor names gun violence manager, cites criminal record as resume enhancer

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, March 08, 2021
The City of Toledo has a long history of electing anti-gun rights mayors, who then proceed to support gun control initiatives which do nothing to reduce the rising crime they are supposed to be addressing. From a failed ban on so-called "Saturday Night Specials" that unfairly targeted would-be gun owners in lower income brackets, to illegal confiscations of law-abiding citizens' firearms and...

Plain Dealer: New Ohio concealed handgun licenses jumped 78% during chaotic 2020

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, March 05, 2021
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that statistics released by the Ohio Attorney General's office show new Ohio concealed handgun licenses (CHLs) jumped 78% in 2020 over the previous year, while renewed licenses reached their third-highest annual total ever. From the article : Last year, Ohio sheriffs issued 96,892 new conceal-carry licenses – the most since 2016 and the third-most in the...

Buckeye Firearms Association Testifies in Favor of HB 89 to Abolish Duty to Inform

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Thursday, March 04, 2021
On Wednesday, March 3, 2021, the House State and Local Government Committee heard testimony on House Bill 89 to repeal the "duty to inform." Current law states that if you have a concealed handgun license (CHL) and are carrying a handgun, you must "promptly" notify a law enforcement officer who stops you for any official purpose. But when is "promptly"? This is confusing and can lead to...

Senator Cecil Thomas Introduces 4 Gun Control Bills ... Again

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Wednesday, March 03, 2021
Here we go again. Ohio Senator Cecil Thomas has resurrected 4 failed and pointless gun control bills that died at the end of the last legislative session. The bill numbers are different. But the rights-crushing content remains the same. Let's take a quick look in numerical order. Buckeye Firearms Association strongly opposes ALL of these bills. SB 73 - MANDATE UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECKS (Sponsor...

Two pro-gun bills to receive hearings this week

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, March 02, 2021
Representative Scott Wiggam (R-1), who chairs the House State & Local Government Committee, has announced a second hearing for two pro-gun rights bills: HB 62 - DESIGNATE OHIO A SECOND AMENDMENT SANCTUARY (Sponsors: Mike Loychik, Diane V. Grendell) To designate the State of Ohio as a Second Amendment Sanctuary State and to name this act the Ohio Second Amendment Safe Haven Act. HB 89 - REPEAL...

Gun Sales Reach Record Highs in 2020 Especially Among African Americans and First-time Gun Buyers

7:00am Monday, March 01, 2021
NSSF, Project ChildSafe and NAAGA Emphasize Gun Safety, Training And Responsible Storage NEWTOWN, Conn. – The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), Project ChildSafe® and the National African American Gun Association (NAAGA) are responding to record high gun sales in 2020, particularly among African Americans and first-time gun buyers, by providing free educational resources and tips on...

Gun Control Groups Push Hollywood to Produce Even More Anti-gun Propaganda

7:00am Friday, February 26, 2021
Gun control advocates are once again pushing the entertainment industry to produce anti-gun propaganda with the explicit goal of advancing failed firearm legislation. The renewed overt effort will strike some as superfluous, given Hollywood’s lengthy track record of anti-gun agitprop and left-wing political monoculture. In early January, entertainment industry magazine Variety published a lengthy...

Man defends own life when two robbers attack...then one followed him home

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, February 25, 2021
Cleveland media are reporting that a 24 year-old man was able to defend his own life with a firearm when two men approached and attempted to rob him outside a convenience store. From Cleveland.com : The 24-year-old man called police and said two men robbed him at the gas station and that he shot one of the robbers, according to police. He told police he left the gas station and that the other...

Trudeau’s Toxic Gun Ban: No Buy-in to the “Buyback”

7:00am Wednesday, February 24, 2021
There is new evidence of problems with the implementation of the “assault weapons” ban imposed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on May 1, 2020. Readers will recall that under the Liberal Government’s scheme, over 1,500 firearms and devices listed in a government regulation immediately became a “prohibited” firearm or “prohibited device,” as did “any variants or modified versions.”...

H.R. 127 - The Federal Bill That Seeks to Crush Personal Gun Ownership in America

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Tuesday, February 23, 2021
H.R. 127, sponsored by Shelia Jackson Lee (D-TX) in the 117th Congress is one of the most outrageous and aggressive anti-gun bills ever introduced. While it falls short of banning guns outright and repealing the Second Amendment, it comes very close to doing just that. The scope and ferocity of this bill cannot be overstated. This is legislation intended to punish law-abiding gun owners and crush...

Millions of New Gun Owners, Now What to Do with Them?

by Jim Curcuruto
7:00am Monday, February 22, 2021
With a record setting year for the firearm industry behind us, many industry professionals are starting to ask; “Now what?” Before answering that question, let’s take a look at some statistics that made 2020 a record year. Using adjusted FBI NICS data as a proxy for firearm sales, 2020 recorded a massive 60 percent increase over 2019. The record 21+ million adjusted background checks in 2020...

FLASHBACK: Rush Limbaugh praises Buckeye Firearms Assoc. response to Sandusky Register

3:00pm Friday, February 19, 2021
[Editor's Note: As the nation continues to mark the passing of talk radio titan Rush Limbaugh, we thought we'd republish this 2007 article documenting the time Rush covered Buckeye Firearms Association's efforts to raise awareness about the dangers of news media publishing lists of concealed handgun license-holders' names. Godspeed Rush!] On Friday, July 6, 2007, America's #1 talk radio host...

Akron mothers get concealed handgun licenses in response to rising crime

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, February 19, 2021
WKYC (NBC Cleveland) is reporting that, as crime rose over the summer, Rev. Roderick Pounds helped 386 Akron mothers obtain their Ohio concealed handgun licenses. From the article : Overall, the city of Akron reported 50 homicides last year, a 52% increase from 2019. Police statistics show gun-related crimes are up even more--78%. This comes even as police seized over 940 guns. ... Experts blame...

NSSF Commends Rep. Jeff Duncan’s Introduction of the Hearing Protection Act

3:00pm Thursday, February 18, 2021
NEWTOWN, Conn. – The NSSF®, the firearm industry’s trade association, commends U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan’s (R-S.C.) introduction of the Hearing Protection Act, H.R. 95. The legislation was introduced with 36 original co-sponsors. The bill would remove firearm suppressors from the list of definitions under the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA), eliminating onerous and duplicitous background checks...

Biden Begins Gun Control Push

7:00am Thursday, February 18, 2021
On Sunday, President Biden used the three-year anniversary of the criminal attack in Parkland, Florida to call “on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets.” There is nothing “commonsense”...

4 Ohio Pro-Gun Bills (and 1 Anti-Gun Bill) to Watch

by Dean Rieck
3:00pm Wednesday, February 17, 2021
At midnight on December 31, 2020, the 133rd Ohio General Assembly ended. All bills not passed at that time died. Immediately, the 134th General Assembly began, launching a new 2-year period to change the laws of the state. Over the last two weeks, several gun-related bills have been introduced: HB 12 - ENFORCE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS (Sponsor: Diane V. Grendell) To provide for a writ of mandamus or...

Tissue Sample Confirmed Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease in One Wild Ohio Deer

7:00am Wednesday, February 17, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife has identified a positive test for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a wild Ohio white-tailed deer in Wyandot County. The Division of Wildlife is gathering additional details about the adult male deer taken by a hunter on private property. Tissue samples were submitted for testing by a taxidermist and the...

The Old Rabbit Hunter

by Larry S. Moore
3:00pm Tuesday, February 16, 2021
The upland game season is here and I have been running my beagles. I thought about how long I've been hunting with beagles and chasing rabbits. I thought about how that started with family in Kentucky. The next thought was about an old friend and hunting buddy from nearly forty-years ago. He was an old rabbit hunter when I met him sometime around 1976, as best as I can recall. I was about twenty-...

Ohio A.G.Dave Yost joins Attorneys General Amicus Brief in New York Carry Case at the Supreme Court

7:00am Tuesday, February 16, 2021
In December, The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) partnered with the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association and asked the Supreme Court to hear a challenge to New York’s restrictive process for issuing concealed carry licenses. Today, the NRA-ILA applauds the 23 Attorneys General who filed an amicus brief in support of that petition. That effort was led...

Podcast Episode 2: Pushing for Constitutional Carry and Limiting Emergency Powers

3:00pm Monday, February 15, 2021
Buckeye Firearms Association has launched a podcast called Keep and Bear Radio . The podcast is hosted on the Podbean platform and is also available on Apple , Google , and Spotify . Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear every episode. *** Episode 2: 2020 turned out to be crazy year in many ways. But BFA chalked up solid legislative victories. So now that it's a new year and we're...

LV Sun Finally Reveals Biden Interview That Exposes Depths of Anti-Gun Views to Public

7:00am Monday, February 15, 2021
Those who stay involved in the efforts to defend the Second Amendment have always known President Joe Biden is, to put it lightly, no friend to gun owners. During his campaign for the White House last year, the legacy media did everything they could to conceal that fact. The Las Vegas Sun recently revealed that it went so far as to bury an interview with candidate Biden that showed not just his...

Headline: Former Youngstown police officer sentenced for falsifying concealed-carry records

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, February 12, 2021
WKBN (CBS Youngstown) reported recently that a former Youngstown police officer has been sentenced for running what Mahoning County Sheriff Jerry Greene calls a “CCW certificate mill.” From the article : Phil Chance, Jr....was accused of taking money to provide concealed-carry permits. He never had the proper certification, so the permits were useless. ... Chance is a former Youngstown police...

The complete expert op-ed on teachers with guns Cleveland.com refused to print

by Ron Borsch
7:00am Thursday, February 11, 2021
[Editor's note: On January 30, Cleveland.com published an editorial board roundtable entitled " Should Ohio teachers with CCW permits be allowed to carry on school premises? " Conclusions ranged from "bad idea" and "irresponsible" to "lunatic" and "tragedy waiting to happen," but NO FACTS were offered to back up their opinions. Retired police officer, trainer and Rapid Mass Murder expert Ron...

Ohio Attorney General Yost's office develops searchable stolen gun database

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's office has developed an online tool designed to help potential buyers of used guns detect if the gun is stolen. From the Columbus Dispatch : The Ohio Stolen Guns Database contains the serial numbers of stolen guns "as reported to the Law Enforcement Automated Data System (LEADS) by law enforcement agencies throughout the state and authorized for release to the...

BATFE Leadership Push Biden to Target Pistol Stabilizing Braces and Unfinished Receivers

7:00am Tuesday, February 09, 2021
Just in case anyone needed further proof that much of the federal bureaucracy is more interested in serving themselves and left-wing political interests than public service, news broke...that rogue elements of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) had been conspiring with Joe Biden’s transition team to enact gun control by executive fiat. At the top of these anti-gun...

BFA Announces New Podcast - Keep and Bear Radio

3:03pm Monday, February 08, 2021
Buckeye Firearms Association has launched a podcast called Keep and Bear Radio . The podcast is hosted on the Podbean platform and is also available on Apple , Google , and Spotify . Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear every episode. *** Episode 1: On January 4, 2021, Governor Mike DeWine signed Senate Bill 175, which included the repeal of Ohio’s unjust law that requires victims of...

“Unity” President Vows to “Defeat” America’s Oldest and Largest Civil Rights Group

7:00am Monday, February 08, 2021
Joe Biden wants Americans to believe that he will focus on what he calls “the renewal of a politics that’s about solving problems – not stoking the flames of hate and chaos.” Yet what “problem” is Biden promising to “solve” before he even takes office? Why the “defeat” of the National Rifle Association, a group of over 5 million Americans of all different backgrounds from all different walks of...

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