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BFA endorsees to pack Senate majority leadership for 134th General Assembly

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, November 13, 2020
Buckeye Firearms Association endorsees have been elected by Senate Republicans to a majority of leadership positions for the 134th General Assembly, which convenes in January. The incoming Senate Republican Caucus re-elected BFA 2020 "A"-rated Sen. Matt Huffman (R-Lima) to serve as Senate President. The other members of next year's Senate Republican leadership team are: 2018 "A"-rated Sen. Jay...

Latest Guns & Ammo "Best States for Concealed Carry" shows slight improvement for Ohio, with MUCH work still to do

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, November 12, 2020
Each year, Guns & Ammo ranks the “Best States for Gun Owners,” their survey of each state’s gun laws and firearms culture. In the past, Guns & Ammo has also focused on each state’s concealed carry laws but had not released a “Best States for Concealed Carry” piece since 2015. Lots has changed since then, and in 2020 the good people at Guns & Ammo decided it was time to revisit the...

Most Election Polling is Garbage, Gun Control Polling is Too

7:00am Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Americans are still divided over the reported results of the 2020 election, but one issue that is bringing the country together is a shared disgust of opinion polling. Several “mainstream” polling firms, and the legacy media outlets that tout their bogus findings, have disgraced themselves with wildly inaccurate predictions that managed to tilt almost entirely in a single direction. Gun owners...

Buckeye Firearms Association comments on Bloomberg lawsuit against state

9:32am Tuesday, November 10, 2020
The Buckeye Firearms Association is still combing through the entire lawsuit filed by the cities of Columbus and Dayton against the state of Ohio and will issue a full statement in the coming days. In the meantime, we would remind Ohioans that we've made clear many times that we believe the state, as well as municipalities and the federal government, should focus on enforcing existing laws before...

Bloomberg Sets More Campaign Cash on Fire, Spending Big and Accomplishing Little

7:00am Tuesday, November 10, 2020
With all the drama surrounding the unfolding national election, here at least is some comic relief: mega-gun control funder Michael Bloomberg continued his 2020 streak of burning through huge mountains of political cash with little or nothing to show for it. As we noted at the time, Bloomberg’s own failed bid to buy the Democrat presidential nomination set him back over $1 billion in a campaign...

Spring Valley Range Reopens to the Public

by Larry Moore
7:00am Monday, November 09, 2020
It has been a long and rocky road. A real journey through all the twists and turns of a very major construction project with the added adventure of the COVID-19 impact. The effort has been diligent and time consuming for both the contractor and the ODNR Division of Wildlife personnel. What started as discussions to upgrade the extremely popular Spring Valley Wildlife Area (SVWA) Range, located in...

Plan For The Worst - Preparing for Abduction and Restraint

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Friday, November 06, 2020
Read the following story and tell me if you are prepared to handle a situation even remotely similar to this. This woman was abducted, bound and gagged with duct tape, transported to a Detroit alley, set on fire, and shot. It truly shows the extent of savagery that some criminals are capable of. Pregnant Woman, Unborn Baby Survive Being Abducted, Set on Fire, Shot If you think stories like this...

Law Professors Make Case for Second Amendment Rights in Uncertain Times

7:00am Thursday, November 05, 2020
Americans have made clear that they value their Second Amendment rights, especially during uncertain times. Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic and then widespread civil unrest, Americans have bought firearms in record numbers. Through September, the FBI had processed a record-setting 28,826,449 total National Instant Criminal Background Check System checks for 2020. With three months of the year...

Most BFA PAC endorsed candidates win in 2020 General Election

by Dean Rieck
12:30pm Wednesday, November 04, 2020
In a hotly-contested election, the vast majority of BFA PAC endorsed candidates enjoyed solid wins. Some close races have not yet reported final results. However, so far, 83% of endorsed candidates won their contests, including Justice Sharon Kennedy and U.S. Representative Jim Jordan. With a few exceptions, the endorsement committee focused on the U.S. Congress, Ohio Supreme Court, and the Ohio...

ELECTION DAY 2020 - VOTE YOUR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS!!

12:20am Tuesday, November 03, 2020
THE POLLS ARE OPEN TODAY from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Election Day is here. We hear it every two years, "This is the most important election of our lifetime!" Obviously, every election can’t be "the most important." But it can be the most important one to date. Today is a critical election for Ohio, for the U.S.A, and for freedom-loving gun owners everywhere. These are trying times. But in such...

Photo Tour - The NEW Spring Valley Shooting Range

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Monday, November 02, 2020
After two years of upgrades, Spring Valley Shooting Range is now open to the public. And after a private tour with Division of Wildlife leadership and staff, I can tell you it was worth the wait. Spring Valley has always been the Division's most popular range, but the new range is world-class in every respect and is sure to become a recreational destination for the entire region. To give you just...

ICYMI: Eric Trump Meets with Ohio Sportsmen and Second Amendment Leaders

by Larry S. Moore
3:00pm Friday, October 30, 2020
On Thursday, January 16, 2020, LEPD Firearms & Range hosted a Sportsmen / Second Amendment roundtable with Eric Trump. Leaders from across Ohio, representing the state's leading Second Amendment and sportsmen organizations, were invited. LEPD owners Eric Delbert, Phil Delbert and Lori Delbert were most gracious hosts. Attendees included: Dean Rieck, Executive Director, representing Buckeye...

ICYMI: Biden-Harris Would Weaponize ATF Against Firearm Retailers

7:00am Friday, October 30, 2020
NEWTOWN, Conn. – NSSF®, the trade association for the firearm industry, is focusing on former Vice President Joe Biden’s radical antigun campaign promise turn the Bureau of Alcohol. Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from its’ mission as the nation’s firearms regulatory bureau into a bludgeon to wield against firearm retailers to close off the means by which law-abiding Americans obtain...

Political Elite Value Their Own Safety, NOT YOURS

3:00pm Thursday, October 29, 2020
The hypocrisy of the pampered political elite on the topic of personal safety is reaching breathtaking new levels. No longer content to merely deprive the citizenry of the means with which to defend themselves, politicians in some jurisdictions are depriving residents of police protection as well. All the while, these contemptible figures have shown a keen interest in making arrangements to...

NSSF Praises Senate Confirmation, Swearing in of Justice Amy Coney Barrett

7:00am Thursday, October 29, 2020
NEWTOWN, Conn. – NSSF®, the trade association for the firearm industry, praised the U.S. Senate confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was sworn into the U.S. Supreme Court by Justice Clarence Thomas in a White House ceremony. Justice Barrett fills the vacancy on the court left following the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Justice Barrett joins at least four other U.S. Supreme...

Anti-Gun Organization Prepared to Launch National Group of Gun Owners Who Apparently Don’t Like Guns

3:00pm Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Yes, that title doesn’t make much sense, but neither does a group that promotes banning firearms starting a national organization called Gun Owners for Safety. Nonetheless, The Hill recently reported that the anti-gun group Giffords is doing just that. This effort is being sold as an expansion of the group’s campaign to fool gun owners at the state level into supporting an agenda that is clearly...

Spring Valley Shooting Range Reopens Friday, Oct. 30, 2020

7:00am Wednesday, October 28, 2020
The new shooting range at the Spring Valley Wildlife Area is opening to the public on Friday, Oct. 30, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The Spring Valley shooting facility was previously closed for repairs and major enhancements, as well as construction of a new Outdoor Education Center. The $5.5 million range improvements include upgraded...

Gun Control May be Wasting Away, But Not Because of COVID

7:00am Tuesday, October 27, 2020
A recent article on a gun control news site laments that the COVID-19 pandemic has thwarted ballot initiatives to expand gun bans and restrictions. Initiatives in Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio and Oregon have stalled, allegedly due to the difficulty in collecting signatures. “Without the pandemic, we certainly would have been able to collect the signatures that we needed,” says a supporter of the...

Biden Focuses Prohibitory Ambitions on “Gun Parts,” Among (Many, Many) Other Gun Control Items

3:00pm Monday, October 26, 2020
Ever since he clinched the Democrat presidential nomination, we have been warning America’s gun owners that Joe Biden is no “moderate” when it comes to gun control. Simply scrolling through the extensive gun control agenda published on his official campaign website should make that point abundantly clear. It is a wish-list for (and likely compiled by) America’s most ambitious firearm prohibition...

Biden highlights future anti-gun administration with talk of a Kasich cabinet position

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, October 26, 2020
As if Ohio gun owners didn't already have enough reason to fear a Biden presidency, the former vice president gave still more reason to be concerned when he announced that former Ohio Gov. John Kasich is being considered for a cabinet position. From the Cincinnati Enquirer : Kasich, who lost the GOP presidential primary to President Donald Trump in 2016, has been a vocal critic of Trump for years...

Gun News Roundup - October 23, 2020

3:00pm Friday, October 23, 2020
Fighting for Second Amendment rights, and exercising those rights freely and effectively, starts with being informed. Here's a quick roundup of important stories in the news recently: Anti-Gun Organization Prepared To Launch National Group Of Gun Owners Who Apparently Don’t Like Guns Mich. police chiefs' leader: Cops can't enforce open carry ban at polls Why Destroying Guns Is Bad For Cities...

Everytown’s Election Tactics Show Gun Control Isn’t Popular in Swing Districts

7:00am Friday, October 23, 2020
The gun control segment of billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s left-wing political apparatus isn’t feeling the courage of their purported convictions these days. Understanding that their message of civilian disarmament won’t play with an electorate wracked with concerns over COVID-19, a spike in violence in many jurisdictions, and politician-tolerated civil unrest, Everytown for Gun Safety has used...

Ohio Supreme Court Races: The Fate of Ohio Gun Rights Hangs in the Balance

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, October 22, 2020
There is urgent news about the upcoming election. Ohio Supreme Court Justices Sharon Kennedy and Judi French are up for re-election , and Supreme Court races are at the top of gun ban extremists' wish list. Candidates for Ohio Supreme Court Justices are elected to six year terms. So if an anti-gun candidate wins next month, they will be ruling on Second Amendment-related cases for at least six...

Canada’s Gun Confiscation Program: Past is Prologue

3:00pm Wednesday, October 21, 2020
For observers familiar with Canada’s long–gun registry, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s scheme to implement his “assault weapons” ban is already giving off a whiff of déjà vu. Under the Trudeau government’s ban and confiscation program announced on May 1, over 1,500 firearms and devices listed in a government regulation immediately became a “prohibited” firearm or “prohibited device,” as did “any...

DeWine continues to hijack "coronavirus press conferences" to push gun control

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, October 21, 2020
I have a confession to make. I have listened to every single one of Governor Mike DeWine's "coronavirus" press conferences. Every one when they were happening daily, and every one now that they're coming twice a week. Every single one. Some might call it taking one for the team, and others might call it down-right masochism. In truth, it's a habit that began with a desire to try and read the tea...

Hunter Recruitment: Are We Doing It Right?

by Paul Wait
7:00am Tuesday, October 20, 2020
As the hunting population ages, new approaches are needed to bolster our ranks “Take a kid hunting.” It’s a slogan we’ve all heard countless times. When we take an eager youngster along on a hunt, we’re doing our part to introduce a new potential hunter to the ducks, the calls, the decoys, the dogs, the blind. And it makes us feel good, because we believe we’re helping to create “the next...

Judge Barrett Picks Second Amendment Case as Her “Most Significant” Ruling

7:00am Monday, October 19, 2020
The confirmation hearings of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, [began] on October 12th before the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Judge Barrett was previously nominated by President Trump to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and confirmed in that position by the Senate three years ago. During...

Biden would ban and criminalize most popular selling centerfire rifle - the modern sporting rifle

7:00am Friday, October 16, 2020
NEWTOWN, Conn. – NSSF®, the trade association for the firearm industry, is focusing on former Vice President Joe Biden’s radical antigun campaign promise to ban, register and confiscate the most popular selling centerfire rifles – the modern sporting rifle – sold in America today. Biden borrowed a page from the failed campaign of Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke to craft an agenda that would hobble...

Survey: Gun Owners Overwhelmingly Favor Trump for President

by Dean Rieck
3:00pm Thursday, October 15, 2020
Every election season, we are bombarded with surveys and polls purporting to tell us what voters think and what their intentions are. The 2020 general election is no exception. However, after the 2016 presidential election where polls appeared to confirm the near certainty of a Hillary Clinton win, who in fact went on to lose to Donald Trump, trust in the predictive power of polling has waned...

America's liberals were never going to fight fair in Supreme Court battle

by Larry Keane
7:00am Thursday, October 15, 2020
Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court has undoubtedly moved the idea of the nation’s top court operating as an originalist judiciary from a conservative dream to an anticipated reality. A court where the majority interprets the law as written, as opposed to legislating from the bench, has massive implications for many issues, and especially positive ones for America’s...

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