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Buckeye Firearms Association PAC 2016 Endorsees Overwhelmingly Successful on Election Day

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, November 09, 2016
Buckeye Firearms Association PAC endorsees were overwhelmingly successful on Election Day 2016. Every BFA PAC statewide endorsee sailed to victory. Pro-gun rights candidates were also victorious in many national races for U.S. House and Senate, as voters sought to repudiate President Obama and Hillary Clinton (the person he endorsed to carry on his agenda), including efforts to pass a universal...

ELECTION DAY 2016 - VOTE YOUR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS!!

7:00am Tuesday, November 08, 2016
THE POLLS ARE OPEN TODAY from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Download your Pro-Gun Voter Guide NEW! Use our BFA Voter App to look up candidates on your computer or mobile device: OhioGunVote.com by Jim Irvine Election Day is here. Buckeye Firearms Association has endorsed more county and local candidates than ever before. We have advised supporters on NRA-endorsed federal candidates for races we did not...

Labels Matter (Rebranding Gun Control)

3:00pm Monday, November 07, 2016
Proponents of gun control are fond of fiddling with terminology in an effort to make their “product” a better sell. “Gun control” has been rebranded as “gun safety,” new gun restrictions automatically are tagged with the prefix “common sense,” skeptical gun owners are “the gun lobby,” and “I support the Second Amendment” comes with the invisible caveat, “except when I don’t.” In a similar vein,...

GunVoters: List of 7 toss-up Senate races

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Monday, November 07, 2016
GunVoters don’t like to reward squishy Republicans, but in this very high-stakes election year, who you vote against is just as important – if not more so – as who you vote for. Just as many GunVoters distrust Donald Trump – especially after his unfortunate comments and missed opportunities during the first debate – but intend to vote for him anyway, as a vote against Hillary Clinton, so too are...

Bloomberg’s “Scientists” Hoping to “Disprove” Your Fundamental Rights

3:00pm Friday, November 04, 2016
On October 15, a group of researchers at the Michael Bloomberg funded Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research did what they are paid to do: deliver “evidence” to support the necessity of banning guns. This time, they went after firearms on college campuses. Spoiler alert: they determined “the research” showed it’s a bad idea. There are plenty of sound reasons to criticize the findings of...

Clinton's Top 4 Gun Lies

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Thursday, November 03, 2016
Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party have declared war on “the NRA,” meaning all gun owners. The truth is a frequent casualty in their war, as they inflate statistics, make false associations and offer up simplistic “solutions” that seem reasonable, but actually can’t possibly accomplish anything positive, while they do real harm to innocent people who have done nothing wrong and are not part...

Vote for Lisa Woods for State School Board in District 5

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Thursday, November 03, 2016
If you are a voter in State Board of Education District 5, I urge you to vote for our friend Lisa Woods for State School Board. This is a critical "down ticket" race that we can greatly influence because it relies on grassroots support, not money. School safety is a priority for every parent, but unfortunately not every school board. We need someone on the State School Board who can lead on the...

So What Are YOU Afraid Of?

by Jim Shepherd
3:00pm Wednesday, November 02, 2016
We hear a lot about what we as Americans fear. In fact, we're bombarded daily with a litany of things we're allegedly afraid of. But, the more often I hear a pundit or a politician say "Americans are afraid ..." my skeptical nature kicks in. I've heard we're afraid of so many things I wonder if everyone isn't curled up in a corner somewhere with their eyes screwed shut while we wait for some...

Clinton Pushes Semi-Auto Ban as Public Rejects Gun Bans in Record Numbers

7:00am Wednesday, November 02, 2016
Hillary Clinton has made clear that she would make gun control a top priority of her presidency, and has pointed to a new ban on commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms as one of her chief goals. At a June 17, 2014 CNN “town hall” event, Clinton was asked, “Do you think that reinstating the ban on assault weapons and banning high capacity magazines would do any good?” Clinton affirmed her support...

Trick or Treat Will Be Determined Next Week

by Jim Shepherd
3:00pm Tuesday, November 01, 2016
[On Monday], small children don[ned] their halloween costumes and go door-to-door to (hopefully) solicit something good from everyone who opens their doors to be greeted by their admonition: "Trick or treat." Halloween notwithstanding, no matter what "treats" children of today receive[d], their elder generations have actually left them with a handful of problems that make pandora's box look like...

Wayne LaPierre - An Urgent Message to the NRA's 5 Million Members

7:00am Tuesday, November 01, 2016
NRA Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer Wayne LaPierre looks at what eight years of a Barack Obama presidency has done to our once-great nation. And he warns what will happen if Hillary Clinton is elected. "She will launch an all-out war on the Second Amendment," declares LaPierre. "There is no red line President Hillary Clinton will not cross when it comes to attacking your...

SCARY: “Smart” Gun Glitches Confirm Gun Owner Concerns

3:00pm Monday, October 31, 2016
As part of his executive gun-control fixes, President Obama has endorsed so-called “smart” gun technology on the premise that if “you can’t unlock your phone unless you’ve got the right fingerprint, why can’t we do the same thing for our guns?” Never mind that smartphone technology is currently far from infallible. A fingerprint ID feature is liable to fail when it is cold outside, or when...

Are firearms owners under attack by the BATFE?

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Monday, October 31, 2016
Over the last few months, we've received an unusually high number of calls from people who have been legal gun owners for years, and in most cases decades, but now find themselves with firearms disabilities. In the past week I received a call from a gentleman who was renewing his CHL. But the sheriff said he no longer qualified and he was denied. And his current CHL was revoked. Nothing had...

Judge Strikes Newtown Parents' Suit Against Remington

3:00pm Friday, October 28, 2016
On October 17, a Connecticut Superior Court judge decided in favor of the Remington Outdoor companies, Camfour Holding and Riverview Sales and struck the amended case brought by some families of the victims in the Sandy Hook School tragedy based on allegations of negligent entrustment. In the decision, the judge said that the plaintiffs' allegations did not meet the narrow exception for "...

“Safe Storage” Media Blitz Ignores Historic Trend of Firearm Safety

7:00am Friday, October 28, 2016
For months, the Clinton campaign has dealt with a series of damaging and embarrassing email leaks that indicate widespread collusion between the campaign and the Democratic National Committee (during what was supposed to be a contested primary) and with the media (including in debates). This has reinforced the belief of many that the so-called “independent media” is anything but, and in fact...

Your Tactical Training Scenario - Haunted Forest Shooting

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Thursday, October 27, 2016
(Image source: FreeImages.com/mailsparky) Halloween is right around the corner. ‘Tis the season for scary houses and “haunted forests.” Have you ever thought about what you would do in one of these “haunted” houses or forests if real life gunplay starts to occur? Consider the following scenario: You are waiting in line to enter a “Haunted Forest”. The event is in a deeply wooded rural area...

Poll Shows Americans Fear Government Corruption and Gun Control Over Mass Shootings

7:00am Thursday, October 27, 2016
Hillary Clinton makes no bones about the fact that as president, she would seek to ban America’s most popular rifle, the AR-15. According to her own campaign website, “Military-style assault weapons do not belong on our streets. They are a danger to law enforcement and to our communities. Clinton supports keeping assault weapons off our streets.” Yet even some proponents of increased gun controls...

Our USA Today rebuttal on kid's safety

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Wednesday, October 26, 2016
My brother Chris and I are occasionally asked to offer up a counterpoint to an editorial in USA Today when the paper decides to talk about guns and gun laws. When they decided to offer up an editorial railing about negligent access to guns by children, they invited us to give the gun-owner perspective. These op-eds are always a challenge because we never know exactly what we’re arguing against,...

DO NOT underestimate the importance of Ohio Supreme Court races

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Wednesday, October 26, 2016
There has been much talk about the importance of the presidential election because of the Supreme Court justices that President Clinton or Trump will appoint. Those are critical issues. Ohio Supreme Court (OSC) justices are elected, not appointed. This year there are three OSC seats up for election. Buckeye Firearms Association PAC has endorsed in all three races. Those endorsed candidates are:...

Ohio woman holds armed home invader at gunpoint, praises Second Amendment

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Tuesday, October 25, 2016
A West Akron woman who held an armed home invader at gun point after waking to find the intruder in their bedroom took to social media to express her thanks for her Second Amendment rights. “This is why gun control is a bad idea,” she wrote. “We held him at bay until police arrived about 10 after 7. Did anyone die? No. Could anyone have died? Most certainly. Our guns saved our lives today...

The Fake "Grassroots" Effort to Take Your Guns

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Tuesday, October 25, 2016
In 2014, Mike Bloomberg combined his Mayors Against Illegal Guns and his recently acquired Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, into an umbrella corporation called Everytown for Gun Safety, which he pledged to fund to the tune of $50 million. The primary focus of the conglomerate has been criminalizing unapproved private firearm transfers under the misleading banner “universal background...

Gun Safety at Home - Make Your Kids Part of the Solution

3:00pm Monday, October 24, 2016
You've probably heard stories like this from time to time: Some children are playing inside. They start snooping around the house and find a gun on the top shelf of a bedroom closet. One thing leads to another and *bang* one of the kids pulls the trigger and his friend gets shot. Who's at fault is a legal question. But the question of who's "responsible" is clear. The gun owner, in this case the...

Politifact: In debate, Portman told the truth about Strickland's record on gun control

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, October 24, 2016
In an age where "truth" is seen as relative, media-run websites which claim to examine the veracity of a candidate's statements have been used to create new versions of the "facts." But credit goes to Politifact.com for their examination of U.S. Senator Rob Portman's (R-Ohio) comments about his opponent in a recent debate. In the debate, when a question was posed to him about the candidates’...

3 Essential Books on Concealed Carry

by Drew Beatty
3:00pm Friday, October 21, 2016
From our friends at Second Call Defense ... Part of the arsenal of any lawfully-armed citizen should be a library of books to enhance mindset, tactics and skills. Books written by authors who have been there, have trained others, or are subject matter experts provide the best education. Below are three books I recommend to help the lawfully-armed citizen stay sharp. Deadly Force: Understanding...

Work Locally with Your NRA-ILA Campaign Field Representative

3:00pm Thursday, October 20, 2016
Your NRA-ILA Campaign Field Representative (CFR) is an NRA-ILA staff person who is living in your area, coordinating our volunteer activities with one goal in mind--ensuring pro-Second Amendment voters turn out to "Vote Freedom First!" on Election Day. Your CFR is recruiting volunteers to: register voters, make phone calls, knock on doors, generate letters to the editor, distribute candidate...

Presidential candidates open final debate with discussion on Supreme Court and Second Amendment

by Chad D. Baus
10:01pm Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton opened the third and final debate of the 2016 campaign season with a discussion about their views on the Supreme Court of the United States and the future of the Second Amendment. Debate moderator Fox News' Chris Wallace opened the debate by asking both candidates the following question: "[T]he next president will almost certainly have at...

The Principals of Personal Defense: Coolness

by Gary Evens
3:00pm Wednesday, October 19, 2016
The 5th principal Jeff Cooper wrote about in his book, Principals of Personal Defense , is “Coolness”. If you are confronted with a violent assailant that intends to kill you or inflict serious bodily harm—i.e. cripple— you, you must be able to “keep your head” as you respond. You cannot afford to let fear and panic take control. Instead your response must be logical and well thought out (...

Gun banners lament blocked "safe" storage gun control bills, scoff at gun accident prevention education

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, October 19, 2016
On the heels of a joint project by The Associated Press and USA Today Network examining accidental shootings involving children, the Columbus Dispatch has published an article in which gun control extremists lament their inability to pass so-called "safe" storage laws in Ohio. They also reject the fact that real change can and should come in the form of education. From the article, entitled "...

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