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Introducing the Ken Hanson Constitutional Law Scholarship

7:00am Friday, September 13, 2019
Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) recently hosted a celebration of life for attorney and BFA co-founder Ken Hanson, who passed away on August 4, 2019. At this event, we announced the launch of the Ken Hanson Constitutional Law Scholarship both to honor our friend and to promote the study of Constitutional Law. This scholarship will be offered through our 501(c)(3) Foundation and all donations...

BFA testifies in support of HB 248 to remove background check requirement for antique firearms

7:00am Thursday, September 12, 2019
On Wednesday, September 11, 2019, Dean Rieck, Executive Director of Buckeye Firearms Association, testified before the Ohio House Federalism Committee in favor of House Bill 248 . Also in favor were Sean Maloney, testifying on behalf of the National Rifle Association , and Evan English, for Olde English Outfitters . Sponsored by Representative Jena Powell (R) and Representative Todd Smith (R), HB...

Husted, Yost and Others Honor Life of Second Amendment Warrior Ken Hanson

by Beth Lear
7:00am Wednesday, September 11, 2019
DELAWARE, Ohio — Second Amendment supporters from around Ohio and beyond gathered Saturday at Blackwing Shooting Center to celebrate and memorialize one of gun owners’ greatest allies and advocates – L. Kenneth (Ken) Hanson. Hanson, co-founder of Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA), passed away Sunday, August 4, 2019. He was 49 years old. Lt. Gov. John Husted, Attorney General Dave Yost and Ohio...

Op-Ed: California’s Background Check Law Had No Impact on Gun Deaths, Johns Hopkins Study Finds

by Jon Miltimore
7:00am Tuesday, September 10, 2019
The findings—which run counter to the conventional wisdom that gun control saves lives—have received almost no media attention. A new academic study has found that, once again , gun laws are not having their desired effect. A joint study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of California at Davis Violence Prevention Research Program...

Ohio concealed handgun license-holder stops man threatening McDonald's customers with knife

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, September 09, 2019
WCMH (NBC Columbus) is reporting that an Ohio concealed handgun license-holder used his firearm to disarm a man who was threatening McDonald's customers with a knife in Coshocton County. From the article : Sheriff’s determined when they arrived that the man, 22, from Coshocton, was making threats while inside the restaurant. A customer in the restaurant noticed the man and confronted him. The...

SHOCK: Persons obtain more than four dozen firearms without background check

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, September 06, 2019
According to so-called "common-sense" gun control extremists like Mark Kelly's "Giffords," all we have to do to keep criminals from gaining access to firearms is to mandate that a background check be done before all transfers of firearms. Pass "universal" background checks, we're told, close the "gun show loophole," we're told, and we can stop mass shootings! Indeed, Kelly's group (formerly known...

Walmart Caves in to Pressure while Rural King Stand Firm for Gun Rights

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Thursday, September 05, 2019
It's a study in contrast. One retailer caves in to pressure from gun control extremists. Another stands firm on Second Amendment rights. Walmart recently announced it would discontinue sales of rifle ammunition such as .223 and 5.56 caliber as well as stop sales of handgun ammunition. In Alaska, they will stop all handgun sales. Going even further, it is asking shoppers to stop open carry in...

Bill Clinton Touts Failed Gun Ban With Bogus Info

3:00pm Wednesday, September 04, 2019
Bill and Hillary Clinton just don’t draw like they used to. Shunned by much of his own party, (described by one Vanity Fair commentator as “2020’s bubonic plague”) the former president has been relegated to providing lazy commentary on the issues of the day. Such was the case this week when the would-be first gentleman penned an op-ed touting one of his presidential administration’s abject policy...

Headline: Man arrested in Cleveland three times in six months on gun charges: “I’ll never stop carrying a gun”

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, September 04, 2019
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting on an arrest that provides a perfect example of how criminals view gun control laws, and how impotent a so-called "universal" background check law would be to stop them. From Cleveland.com : A man arrested for the third time in six months on gun charges told Cleveland police “I’ll never stop carrying a gun” on his way to the county jail, police said. Lamar...

MSNBC Reporter Unwittingly Discovers the Importance of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

3:00pm Tuesday, September 03, 2019
Sometimes even the worst of the media inadvertently stumbles upon the truth. On April 30th, MSNBC reported that the socialist government of Venezuela was running over its citizens with armored vehicles amidst protests of the government’s ongoing tyranny. MSNBC reporter Kerry Sanders, seeking to explain how the government could oppress the population to this extent, invoked the disparity of power...

Op-Ed: Doing something to the Second Amendment for the sake of appearance would be disastrous

by Andrew P. Napolitano
7:00am Tuesday, September 03, 2019
The confiscation of guns from the law-abiding violates the Constitution When tragedy strikes, as it did in two mass killings earlier this month, there is always the urge to pressure the government to do something. Governments are animated by the belief that doing something — any demonstrable overt behavior — will show that they are in control. I understand the natural fears that good folks have...

Bulletproof your mind with Col. Dave Grossman - Nov. 16, 2019

7:00am Monday, September 02, 2019
We are excited to announce that in November we will host Lt. Col. Dave Grossman who will present his Bulletproof Mind seminar. When Saturday, November 16, 2019 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Where Cherry Valley Hotel & Event Center 2299 Cherry Valley Rd SE Newark, OH 43055-9393 WARNING: This intense, all-day class deals bluntly and graphically with real-world violence and lethal self-defense. We recommend...

Why Are So Many NRA Board Members Jumping Ship?

by Asher Stockler
3:00pm Friday, August 30, 2019
If you blinked, you might have missed it. In just a span of a few hours on Tuesday, news reports revealed that several National Rifle Association board members had resigned following a long string of recent defections, and that one of the organization's top lobbyists threw in the towel as well. This brings the total to seven directors on the NRA's board who have resigned since May. The gun-rights...

REPORT: Ohio Fundraising Scam Aimed at Gun Owners?

7:00am Friday, August 30, 2019
A recent investigative report by Cleveland.com suggests the leader of an Ohio organization may be running a fundraising scam, asking for donations purportedly to help pass pro-gun laws, then funneling the money to an out-of-state, for-profit business and pocketing the money along with family members. According to Cleveland.com , Chris Dorr, Executive Director of Ohio Gun Owners, and his brothers...

Spring Valley Range Modernization scheduled for September re-opening

by Larry S. Moore
3:00pm Thursday, August 29, 2019
NOTE: Buckeye Firearms Association leaders serve on the Division of Wildlife Range Committee and have played a key role in the Sportsmen's Alliance "Protect What's Right" campaign to get dollars into the Ohio budget for range upgrades around Ohio. There is still much work to do, but we are pleased to be part of this vital work for Ohio's millions of gun owners. The Spring Valley Wildlife Area...

State of “Gun Violence” in the United States

7:00am Thursday, August 29, 2019
Politicians treat so-called "gun violence" as a lever issue, hoping to energize their base and guilt law-abiding Americans into supporting policies that would have no effect on crime or help the mentally ill. Part of this effort entails presenting as large a number of fatalities as possible, and so researchers, the media, and anti-gun politicians combine suicide, homicide, accidents, legal...

Buckeye Firearms Association Responds to Governor DeWine's Press Conference on Background Checks

10:41am Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine today held a press conference to discuss a plan to fix the background check system for gun purchases in Ohio. This is part of the administration's overall initiative to address violent crime. The proposal is to enable law enforcement agencies to comply with existing reporting requirements and streamline the process both for adding criminal records to the background check...

Judges already have tools to keep guns from abusers

by Ken Hanson
7:00am Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Editor's Note: This article, by the late Ken Hanson , originally published in 2014 , shows that Buckeye Firearms Association has been fighting attempts to pass universal background checks for a very long time now. These words are as prescient today as they were when they were first published in the Columbus Dispatch . Recently, Everytown for Gun Safety published a report in support of new gun-...

Recent Poll Shows Gun Control Not as Popular as Some Would Like to Believe

3:00pm Tuesday, August 27, 2019
A recent Morning Consult/POLITICO poll, conducted immediately prior to the recent Democratic debates and gathering responses from 1,991 registered voters, asked about views toward the candidates, issues of potential importance in the election, voting intention, and the like. Of special concern to us were questions about gun policy (i.e., gun control). “Gun policy,” like “common-sense laws,” seems...

13 Anti-Liberty Bills Introduced by Ohio Lawmakers

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Tuesday, August 27, 2019
We see lawmakers introduce bills every legislative session that promise to reduce violence, but actually do little more than further infringe on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens with zero real-world benefits. This session is no different. We're only about one-fourth into the 2-year-long 133rd General Assembly and there are already 13 bills threatening our liberty. Needless to...

Tell Your U.S. Senators and Representative to Oppose Gun Control

3:00pm Monday, August 26, 2019
In the wake of two recent criminal mass attacks, a number of gun control proposals have begun to circulate in our nation’s capital. None of these proposals would have prevented either of last weekend’s tragedies, but they all would restrict the rights of law-abiding gun owners. “Universal” Background Checks Won’t Stop Mass Shootings Every perpetrator of high-profile mass shootings has either...

Officials admit almost total failure to prosecute lying on background checks

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, August 26, 2019
After a mass killing, we see a predictable and frustrating pattern. Politicians in both parties sense the need to reestablish an image of being "in control" (after a violent criminal once again proves they are anything but in control). There is often a secondary felt need to shift blame, given that investigations usually reveal government failures that led to the criminal being able to perpetrate...

Op-Ed: Conservatives Should Be Very Skeptical Of ‘Red Flag’ Laws

by Josh Hammer
3:00pm Friday, August 23, 2019
For the first time in recent memory following a horrific mass shooting, there appears to be an emerging consensus of many elected Republicans and outside conservative voices that "something" must finally be done on the issue of guns. In particular, many Republicans seem eager to consider the state-level adoption and implementation of so-called "red flag" laws — otherwise known as "gun violence...

Another board of education in Ohio votes to allow concealed carry for teachers

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, August 23, 2019
New Philadelphia, OH's Times Reporter reported this week that the Garaway Board of Education has passed a resolution to allow for armed staff at Garaway Schools. From the article : Garaway joins Newcomerstown, Indian Valley and Tusky Valley as Tuscarawas County schools that authorize armed staff members. “Additionally, we included a strict authorization policy and training measures that must be...

Help Us Celebrate a Patriot's Life

3:00pm Thursday, August 22, 2019
Recently, BFA Attorney and Legislative Chair Ken Hanson passed away. On September 7, we will celebrate his life and remember his impact on Second Amendment rights, and YOU are invited. When: Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019 2pm - 5pm (celebration of life at 3pm) Where: Black Wing Shooting Center 3722 Marysville Rd, Delaware, OH 43015 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FREE This will be a casual, fun event. Meet BFA...

AGAIN: Law enforcement action against man who made Internet threats proves strength of existing laws

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, August 22, 2019
On August 12, police in Mahoning County arrested a man charged with making online threats against federal law enforcement agents because they feared he would commit a mass shooting. Four days later, a similar arrest was made by New Middletown police in a separate case. BOTH of these cases are proof of what Buckeye Firearms Association leaders have been explaining to elected officials for some...

Report: Florida Man Has Firearms Rights Taken Away Over Mistaken Identity

by John Crump
3:00pm Wednesday, August 21, 2019
[On August 14], Jonathan Carpenter of Osceola County, Florida was sitting at home when a mail carrier knocked on his front door. The postal carrier asked Carpenter to sign for a certified letter from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Carpenter signed for it, but he was confused because he was not expecting anything from the state. He quickly opened it and was floored...

Great-grandson is latest member of anti-gun Cleveland mayor's family to be arrested for gun crime

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Lost in the midst of the terrible attacks on El Paso, Texas and Dayton, OH was the news that yet another relative of anti-gun Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson was arrested for committing a crime with a gun. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer : The 16-year-old great-grandson of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson was arrested on suspicion of shooting at Cleveland police officers, according to court documents...

“Universal” Background Checks Aren’t as Universally Popular as You’ve Been Led to Believe

3:00pm Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Advocates of so-called “universal” background checks constantly cite their own polling data to claim that the vast majority of Americans support these measures. But, when these measures have actually been presented to voters, support is nothing close to universal. Take for example the background check ballot initiatives on the 2016 ballots in Maine and Nevada. Question 3 in Maine, requiring...

Ohio legislators admit to predetermining votes on gun control legislation they've never read

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Persons on both sides of the debate over President Obama's so-called "Affordable Care Act" are likely never to forget Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's infamous advice to Congress: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." Apparently many Ohio legislators are ready to take a page from Pelosi, having told Ohio newspapers how they plan to vote on legislation they've never...

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