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Congress Needs to Hear from YOU on National Right to Carry!

7:00am Monday, November 13, 2017
As the first session of this Congress comes to a close, the media is focusing on the administration’s plan for tax cuts. And while it’s certainly true federal officials have their hands full reigning in the excesses of the last administration, our elected officials need to hear from law-abiding gun owners to ensure that they protect and expand the right to keep and bear arms. With the clock...

Senate Bill 180 (Fix Burden of Proof/ Concealed Carry Modernization) scheduled for second hearing

7:00am Friday, November 10, 2017
Senator Kevin Bacon (R-Minerva Park), who chairs the Judiciary Committee, has announced a second hearing for Senate Bill 180 (Concealed Carry Modernization) on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 10:15 a.m. in the North Hearing Room. The committee will consider proponent testimony. Buckeye Firearms Association President Jim Irvine will testify in support of the bill. SB 180, introduced last month by...

It's "the nut behind the bolt" that make guns dangerous

by Jim Shepherd
7:00am Thursday, November 09, 2017
Despite attempts to link Sunday's mass shooting [in Texas] and the carnage in Las Vegas to a "gun problem" in the United States, I'm not buying. And not just because I happen to believe in two things that aren't particularly smiled on in today's "post-Christian" society: the Second Amendment and God. Guns, like rental trucks, are inanimate objects. As I was taught as a youth, "it's the nut behind...

Attack on Texas church draws attention to Ohio ban on concealed carry in places of worship

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, November 08, 2017
Once again, a mass murder has occurred in a public place - the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. One again, a mentally-deranged individual obtained his firearms after passing background checks gun control extremists continue to claim will put an end to such attacks. Once again, political opportunists are following the gun ban extremists' secret playbook , using "pain and anguish...

REMINDER: Vote TODAY in the Buckeye State!

10:07am Tuesday, November 07, 2017
Tuesday November 7 is Election Day in Ohio. Primary and general election days are the only two days each year where we have the ability to vote on our future. We will vote on statewide issues and local candidates. Some have asked why these local races are important, when none of the winners will hold an office where they will vote statewide gun issues. A large number of our current House of...

#Don'tDigTheRig (Of XDs and Sticky Holsters)

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Tuesday, November 07, 2017
Concealed Nation has a regular feature on its website called #DIGTHERIG. It consists of reader submitted photos about their individual chosen concealed carry weapon and holster choices. A huge variety of guns and holsters are featured. All are carried by someone. Unfortunately, some of the choices are less than optimal. Concealed Nation doesn’t provide any commentary about whether the CCW choices...

Learn More about Police Through Your Local “Citizen Academy”

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Monday, November 06, 2017
Like many Americans, I've been following the national discussion about policing for many years. But I question whether this "discussion" benefits anyone. As with so many public issues, this one has become starkly political and binary. Either you think police are insensitive brutes violating rights at every opportunity or you think police are being unfairly blamed for the actions of a few bad...

Your Tactical Training Scenario- Pistol as Impact Weapon

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Friday, November 03, 2017
Have you ever considered using your handgun as an impact weapon? Before you do, you may want to think about a few things. Take a look at this article . A cop used his pistol to break a car window and accidentally cranked off a round. Don’t think that trying to break a window with the butt of a pistol is an isolated incident. I’m aware of an officer from a police department near me doing the same...

See With A Hunter's Heart

by Craig Springer
7:00am Thursday, November 02, 2017
I can see the old Ohio farm with the eyes of my heart, anytime that I like. I intersected with its fallow fields and fence lines for what was really only a brief period of my youth before moving back out West. And every time that I look, the mental image is always the same: It's November. Fat raindrops patter stalks of grasses that lie flat to the ground. Sodden soil curls like dough around my...

Anti-Gun Billionaire George Soros Pumps $18 Billion into His Political Apparatus

7:00am Wednesday, November 01, 2017
[Recently] it was announced that hedge fund billionaire and radical left-wing activist George Soros has infused his Open Society Foundations with a gift of $18 billion. According a New York Times report, Soros funneled the money to the organization over the course of several years. The paper also called the Hungarian immigrant’s gift, “one of the largest transfers of wealth ever made by a private...

SCARY: Anti-Gun Congresswoman Introduces Magazine Ban, Aims Slippery Slope at the Gun on Your Hip

7:00am Tuesday, October 31, 2017
[Recently] Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D-CT) introduced H.R. 4052, a ban on what she is calling “large capacity ammunition feeding devices.” Esty’s bill would ban any “magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device that has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than 10 rounds of ammunition … .” It exempts firearms with “an attached tubular device designed to...

NRA Doesn’t ‘Buy’ Politicians, but Gun Controllers Do

7:00am Monday, October 30, 2017
The gun control movement often exhibits a dearth of critical thinking skills. Nowhere is this more apparent than in much of the gun control community’s insistence on claiming that NRA has the resources and ability to “buy” politicians. Whenever gun control enters the national spotlight anti-gun activists and the media level this lazy charge. Editorial pages are replete with cartoons depicting...

UK: Growing Support for Arming More Police

7:00am Friday, October 27, 2017
The UK’s fear of firearms, and potential weapons of all kinds, is well-documented. Subjects are urged not to carryany item, such as pepper spray, that might be adapted for self-defense. Officers take to social media to boast of “weapons sweeps” that turn up old kitchen knives, baseball bats, and sharpened sticks. In 2009, the Home Office even contemplated replacing traditional glass pint glasses...

Washington Post Employs Deceptive Tactic on “Children” and Guns

3:00pm Thursday, October 26, 2017
The Washington Post has surpassed the Brady Campaign and Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety to take a place alongside the New York Times as the premier anti-gun propagandists in the country. While those gun control groups have been known to pervert the facts to fit their agenda, a recent Post article and accompanying editorial go where even the most hardline gun control groups no longer...

Everytown and Hollywood Launch New Campaign Against Pro-gun Legislation

7:00am Thursday, October 26, 2017
In the wake of the still-unfolding Harvey Weinstein scandal, one might have thought that America would receive a brief reprieve from Hollywood’s ceaseless moralizing. However, on October 18, 2017, Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety, actress Julianne Moore, and handful of other entertainers launched a new effort aimed at NRA and the right to keep and bear arms. Dubbed #RejectTheNRA, the...

House passes Sub. HB 142 (Modify LEO Notification) [UPDATE: VOTE TALLIES]

by Chad D. Baus & Jim Irvine
11:27am Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Substitute House Bill 142 (Modify LEO Notification), sponsored by Representatives Scott Wiggam (R-Wooster) & Glenn Holmes (D-McDonald), has been passed by the House of Representatives with a bi-partisan 69-24 vote. As originally introduced, HB 142 sought to eliminate the requirement that, when detained for a law-enforcement purpose, a concealed handgun license (CHL) holder must "promptly...

Concealed Carry Is Mainstream: Ohio Issuing 16 Licenses per Hour

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the Concealed Handgun License (CHL) statistics for the second quarter of 2017. The Buckeye State has established another record for number of people with an Ohio CHL. During the second quarter Ohio Sheriff’s issued 22,306 initial CHL’s, 14,647 renewed CHLs and 12 Temporary Emergency Licenses (TELs). There are now over 627,000 active Ohio CHL’s,...

Sub. HB 142 (Modify LEO Notification) scheduled for vote in House

by Chad D. Baus & Jim Irvine
3:00pm Monday, October 23, 2017
Substitute House Bill 142 (Modify LEO Notification), sponsored by Representative Scott Wiggam (R-Wooster), has been scheduled for a vote in the House of Representatives tomorrow, October 24. As originally introduced, HB 142 sought to eliminate the requirement that, when detained for a law-enforcement purpose, a concealed handgun license (CHL) holder must "promptly inform" an approaching law...

Let's talk about what REALLY reduces violent crime

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Monday, October 23, 2017
Whenever there's a violent crime involving a gun, the response from gun control advocates is predictable. They always say, "let's talk about more gun laws." High-capacity magazine bans. Assault weapon bans. Universal background checks. No gun zones. Ammo taxes. Microstamping. You name it, gun control groups want it. The problem is, their proposals seldom have any relationship to the crime they're...

SHOCK: Persons obtain 26 firearms without background check

3:00pm Friday, October 20, 2017
According to so-called "common-sense" gun control extremists like Mark Kelley's "Americans for Responsible Solutions," 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,...

Gun Control Group Sues Slide Fire Solutions

by Jim Shepherd
7:00am Friday, October 20, 2017
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence has joined Las Vegas law firm Eglet Price in a class-action lawsuit against Slide Fire Solutions, LP, alleging the company "negligently" manufactured and marketed their "device" that "enabled the killer to turn the country music festival into a war zone." Mass murderer Stephen Paddock used several of the slide fire stocks on his rifles to commit the nation...

New Bipartisan Bump Stock Bill Would Actually Ban All Semi-Automatic Rifles

by Sean Davis
7:00am Thursday, October 19, 2017
A new gun control proposal in Congress that is being pitched as a bipartisan bump stock ban would actually ban all semi-automatic rifles in the United States, according to an analysis of the proposed bill. The legislation, which was drafted by Rep. Carlos Curbelo, a Florida Republican, never bans bump stocks by name. Instead, the proposal bans any person from possessing or making any part that...

Why regulating or banning bump stocks is wrong

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Since the massacre at the country music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada there has been an enormous amount of attention given to bump stocks and the politics of regulating or banning them. If you care about human life, this is the wrong thing to focus on – no matter how you feel about firearms or the Second Amendment. Nearly 60 people died. Well over 500 more were injured. Some of the victims will...

2Adoc.com Will Connect Patients with Gun-Friendly Providers

by Dr. Arthur Przebinda
7:00am Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Patients want to trust their provider to not make mistakes and to not lie to them. Unfortunately, when it comes to guns, medical organizations have not been living up to that expectation. Medical associations have been insinuating an anti-gun political agenda into the patient-doctor relationship for decades. Patients are routinely being asked about gun ownership. Worse, many physicians commit...

To the Editor: Schools Safer with Trained Staff

3:00pm Monday, October 16, 2017
The following letter to the Columbus Dispatch editor was published in response to a Dispatch "news" article entitled " Why does nothing ever change after mass shootings? " I respond to the Oct. 3 Dispatch.com article “Why does nothing ever change after mass shootings?” If the definition of “nothing” is simply repeating the same pathetic sound bites about “rapid-fire weapons” or “hidden loaded...

SHOCK: Persons obtain 70+ firearms & thousands of rounds of ammo without background check

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, October 16, 2017
According to so-called "common-sense" gun control extremists like Mark Kelley's "Americans for Responsible Solutions," 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,...

Buckeye Firearms Foundation President Jim Irvine responds to CBS Evening News coverage of FASTER Saves Lives program

by Jim Irvine
3:00pm Friday, October 13, 2017
CBS Evening News attended a level II FASTER Saves Lives class this summer. Their story aired September 19, 2017 and is available on the web here . The report contains footage of training and interviews with school staff that participated. It also includes discussion with Abby Clements, a teacher from Newtown fighting to keep guns out of schools. From the story: "Never in a million years would I...

2017 CCRKBA Grassroots Organization of the Year Award goes to Buckeye Firearms Association

7:00am Friday, October 13, 2017
For the third time, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has honored Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) with its coveted Grassroots Organization of the Year Award "in recognition of the tireless hard work and dedication to the preservation of the individual right to keep and bear arms by its members.” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb presented the award at the 32nd Gun Rights...

Melissa Bachman headlines annual Sportsmen Alliance Ohio Rally

by Larry S. Moore
3:00pm Thursday, October 12, 2017
The Sportsmen's Alliance held the annual Ohio Rally at the Villa Milano Banquet Center in Columbus. Sportsmen and women from across Ohio flocked to the event anxious to see friends and, perhaps, win a gun or the grand prize shopping spree. Conspicuously absent from the event were the Division of Wildlife leadership at the Chief and Assist Chief level. Also absent were any officials from the...

Cincinnati prosecutor: Key Bank told hero cop who stopped robbery not to come back

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, October 12, 2017
Lost in the media frenzy that naturally followed the attack on concert-goers in Las Vegas was news that an off-duty police officer was banned from a Cincinnati Key Bank branch after heroically engaged a pair of would-be bank robbers. According to WCPO (CBS Cincinnati), the officer, Mount St. Joseph University Police Officer Carl Rauschenberger, was visiting the Key Bank on Springdale Road in...

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