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Firearm Tech: Are "Smart" Guns Even Realistic?

by Bob Baddeley
3:00pm Tuesday, September 27, 2016
At frustratingly regular intervals, the debate around gun control crops up, and every time there is a discussion about smart guns. The general idea is to have a gun that will not fire unless authenticated and authorized. There’s usually a story about a young person who invents a smart controller and another company that is struggling because they just can’t get “Big Guns” to buy into the idea. We...

The police shootings of three black men you've likely never heard of

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Issues of race and police-involved shootings continue to permeate the national conversation, but not every case draws the attention of the national media or organizations like #BlackLivesMatter. In choosing to write about this subject, I recognize I am entering dangerous waters. Persons on one side of this conversation are often unwilling to tolerate any mention of the fact that many of these...

Clearing semi-auto handgun malfunctions

by Michelle Cerino
3:00pm Monday, September 26, 2016
If you’ve shot a semi-auto handgun more than just a couple of times, it’s happened to you. Malfunctions are the bane of self-loading firearms. There are many causes of semi-auto handgun malfunctions; common ones include: poor technique by the shooter, mechanical problems, ammunition, dirt, improper lubrication, weak springs and magazines. With so many potential failures facing us, it’s important...

Dillon Sportsman Center Hosts Another Great Youth Shoot

by Andrea Jolly
7:00am Monday, September 26, 2016
It was another great turn out at Dillon Sportsman Center, in Nashport, Ohio for the 8th Annual Buckeye Youth Shoot. This event, open to all youth with a passion for shooting sports, is held each year on the second weekend in September with registration opening in June of the same year. Thanks to the generous support of the Buckeye Firearms Foundation, a $500.00 grant from Step Outside Ohio and...

Professor: Take Granny’s Gun

3:00pm Friday, September 23, 2016
Gun ban advocates, knowing their goals aren’t especially popular with the American people, have in recent years tried to couch their agenda in more innocuous-sounding terms. They don’t want to ban all guns, they’ll say, they just want to keep them out of the wrong hands. But once you start paying close attention to their claims, you realize that the “wrong hands” might be closer and more numerous...

LIVE VIDEO: Buckeye Firearms Assoc.'s Jim Irvine and Linda Walker to address Gun Rights Policy Conference

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, September 23, 2016
The Second Amendment Foundation’s 31st Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) in Tampa will be live streamed below on the conference days – Sept. 24 and Sept 25, 2016. Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) President Jim Irvine and Vice President Linda Walker will both be addressing the conference. Walker will be speaking on behalf of Chris Cox and NRA-ILA Saturday at 8:30 a.m. and Jim will be speaking...

Headline: These students are leaning toward colleges that allow concealed handguns on campus

7:00am Friday, September 23, 2016
Football games, Greek life, spacious dorm rooms, dining halls - these are all qualities aspiring college students typically take into consideration when choosing a school. But now, some students are eager to earn their degrees at schools where they can carry concealed handguns for protection. Caroline Graziano, a Virginia high school senior, says she would feel safer going to a school where...

Abracadabra! Gun Owners Reappear Like Magic!

3:00pm Thursday, September 22, 2016
People who tell pollsters that they own guns: Now you see them, now you don’t. A new poll from Pew Research has found that 44 percent of American households own guns, up a whopping 29 percent from the figure reported in a poll conducted for the same organization two years ago. Impressed by the incredible trend, the Washington Examiner reported, “more homes are reporting having a weapon inside,”...

TV ads show Strickland doubling down on sharp left turn to gun control

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, September 22, 2016
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that U.S. Senate candidate Ted Strickland, desperately behind in the polls, is releasing a new ad attacking Sen. Rob Portman for his opposition to Democrats' gun control measures. From the article : The 30-second spot, which will air in Cleveland and Columbus, features an Ohio veteran critical of Portman’s votes against comprehensive background checks and vote...

Taking Care of Your Guns Before You Store Them

by Barbara Baird
3:00pm Wednesday, September 21, 2016
(Image source: FreeImages.com/gulden erikli tüllük) After you purchase a gun, you must store it properly. But, just like that lovely vintage lace dress from your great grandmother or a treasured coin collection from your favorite uncle, you must take care of your newly acquired item properly before storing it. Make it a Clean Machine First thing you should do with any newly acquired gun is clean...

Hillary Clinton Labels Americans “Deplorable” and “Irredeemable”

7:00am Wednesday, September 21, 2016
If there’s one quality any aspiring president should have, it should be a love for America. And not just the America that supports that person’s candidacy, but the whole melting pot of people, backgrounds, cultures, and viewpoints that make up this great nation. On the other hand, hatred for America, or any significant part of it, should be a disqualifier. That’s just common sense. Even by that...

Criminal Mindset: “I Saw an Opportunity and I Took It.”

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Tuesday, September 20, 2016
(Image source: FreeImages.com/Phillip Collier) A couple weeks ago we got a call about a stolen bicycle. A college-aged female rode her bike to a local drug store and went inside. She didn’t lock up the bike. When she came out a couple minutes later, the bike was gone. Fortunately, several witnesses saw the theft and got a good description of the suspect. I found him and arrested him (still riding...

Illegal Blocking: College Sports Teams Disarming Athletes?

7:00am Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Editor's Note: Last year the Columbus Dispatch broke the news that Adolphus Washington had been suspended from the Ohio State Buckeyes football program after it was revealed that he was legally carrying a handgun when he was arrested for an unrelated offense. "[T]he revelation that he had the pistol violated one of Meyer’s four core values for the program: no drug or alcohol abuse, no weapons,...

National Hunting and Fishing Day takes place on September 24, 2016

3:00pm Monday, September 19, 2016
— In the 1960s, hunters and anglers embraced the era's heightened environmental awareness but were discouraged that many people didn't understand the crucial role that sportsmen had played - and continue to play - in the conservation movement. That all changed when sportsmen and women took a stand and embraced conservation through legislation and declarations in the coming years. The National...

Eric Trump discusses guns, hunting, and the Second Amendment

Larry S. Moore
7:00am Monday, September 19, 2016
The Trump family has been in the media for many years and, of course, much more so since Donald Trump entered the Presidential race. Perhaps you've seen his sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, on several outdoor and shooting sports shows. When the opportunity to interview Eric Trump presented itself during a visit to the Ohio Gun Collector's Association (OGCA) show and the Sportsmen's Alliance Rally, I...

FBI: 'Toy' gun control won't make officers' jobs any easier

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, September 16, 2016
Yet another deadly encounter has happened involving a young person who police say was wielding what turned out to be a BB gun, and it took only moments before gun control extremists began trying to take political advantage of the situation. Media throughout the state, across the nation and around the world are reporting on the death of Tyre King, a 13-year-old robbery suspect who was shot and...

BOOK REVIEW: Surviving a Mass Killer Rampage: When Seconds Count, Police are Still Minutes Away

by Dr. Timothy Wheeler
7:00am Friday, September 16, 2016
Surviving a Mass Killer Rampage: When Seconds Count, Police are Still Minutes Away , by Chris Bird (Privateer Publications, 2016, 408 pages). (Ammoland.com) Any reasonably informed American can tell you who Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were. Their names are indelibly linked with the name “ Columbine ” as the vile mass murderers of 13 people in the April 1999 incident of that name. But few know...

Clinton Supporter Blames NRA for Chicago Mother’s Murder

3:00pm Thursday, September 15, 2016
The self-proclaimed “Dean of Comedy,” radio talk show host Dean Obeidallah, has blamed a Chicago African-American mother’s murder, allegedly by repeat offenders, on NRA’s opposition to gun control, and he’s attacked GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump for attributing inner city murders to policies that Clinton supports. Earlier this month, the young woman was murdered while walking a baby...

Explaining the Objections to Background Checks

by Keith Coniglio
7:00am Thursday, September 15, 2016
Gun owners’ opposition to background checks is probably the most difficult position for non-owners (and even some owners) to fathom. They’re supposed to prevent “people who shouldn’t have them” from getting their hands on guns – or at least that’s what we’re told. But the objection isn’t about what they’re supposed to do, it’s the fact that they have been used to deny an increasing number of...

Fanning the Flames, or Hitch up that Asbestos Pantsuit

3:00pm Wednesday, September 14, 2016
The Trump for President website offers a “Pantsuit on Fire” t-shirt. We don’t know how brisk the sales are, but it’s a safe bet that sales are outperforming Ms. Clinton’s ratings as an honest candidate (in one August poll, only eleven percent of registered voters described Hillary Clinton as “honest and trustworthy”). Not too long ago, Shannon Watts, founder of the Everytown affiliate “Moms...

Appeals Court Rules That Non-Serious Convictions Do Not Erase 2A Rights

7:00am Wednesday, September 14, 2016
The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that individuals convicted of certain non-serious misdemeanor crimes do not lose their fundamental rights under the Second Amendment in a decision involving two separate cases brought by the Second Amendment Foundation. The unanimous ruling came from an en banc panel in the combined cases of Binderup v. the U.S. Attorney General and Suarez v. the...

New NSSF Initiative Focuses on Firearms and Suicide Prevention

by Bill Brassard
3:00pm Tuesday, September 13, 2016
With suicide accounting for nearly two-thirds of all firearm fatalities annually, the topic of suicide prevention deserves our attention. In recent years the national Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has worked with the Veterans Administration, the State of Utah and mental health agencies to help educate gun owners and the public on how to keep firearms safely out of reach of those who, during a...

Cincinnati news station given extensive access to FASTER class

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, September 13, 2016
WLWT (NBC Cincinnati) was given access to a FASTER class this summer, and the resulting coverage has been given nationwide attention. In the report, entitled " Confronting deadly school violence: Teaching teachers how to shoot back ," WLWT News 5 investigative reporter Todd Dykes provides an extensive look at Buckeye Firearms Foundation's Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency...

Recent UN Arms Trade Treaty Conference Marks Dangerous Shift in U.S. Policy

3:00pm Monday, September 12, 2016
August 22 marked the opening date of the week-long Second Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty in Geneva, Switzerland. It also marked a clear shift in U.S. strategy for dealing with this international gun control effort. Historically, UN meetings open with flowery remarks welcoming States Parties and others in attendance to the beginning of a week of discussions. This year that...

Hillary's 'solutions' for killing sprees don't address 2 core problems

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Monday, September 12, 2016
(Image source: FreeImages.com/Kerem Yucel) Democrats have declared gun control as one of their top campaign issues this year (though they call it “gun safety,” “gun reform” or “gun violence prevention” instead of gun control – those terms poll better). They are betting that GunVoters are not really the political powerhouse that we have been reputed to be, and that after atrocities like the San...

Yes, Hillary will abolish the Second Amendment

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Friday, September 09, 2016
Donald Trump was widely criticized by media, Democrats and even some Republicans after he made a joke regarding Second Amendment remedies to Hillary Clinton’s plan to “essentially abolish” the Second Amendment. As if “reporters,” commentators and politicians were all reading from the same script, they consistently pointed out that Clinton had no such intentions – in spite of the fact that this is...

Headline: Forming a Black Firearms Movement in Today’s Climate

by Ryan K. Smith
7:00am Friday, September 09, 2016
Photo: Jeannine A. Cook On a May afternoon at the “Solutionary License to Carry Drive” at the Philadelphia Firearms Academy, men and women filed inside, where they walked through a gun license application process and paid a $35 fee across the street at the official licensing center. Enrollees listened in on panels discussing gun safety, conflict resolution and more. It was the pilot program of a...

Doctor Prescribes Requiring a “Medical License” for Gun Ownership

3:00pm Thursday, September 08, 2016
In a recent Medical Economics blog, Dr. Monya De wrote a piece titled, “Obtaining an assault rifle should be as difficult as becoming a doctor.” In this outlandish article, De illustrates the difficulties medical students must go through in order to practice medicine. She calls them “model citizens, because model citizens should be the ones holding lives in their hands.” She lists the “strenuous...

Ted Strickland: We built him up; it’s our duty to take him down

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Thursday, September 08, 2016
(AP Photo/David Kohl) For nearly a decade, I’ve referred to Ted Strickland as a “friend.” It always hurts when you lose a friend, but it hurts more when the friend hurts you or betrays your trust. Such things are normally best handled quietly and privately, and I’ve long said I would not air dirty laundry, even as others have told me I must. I see now they are right; this is not just something I...

New York Times Issues Ridiculous Anti-NRA Screed

3:00pm Wednesday, September 07, 2016
At the same time establishment newspapers are openly abandoning their usual façade of impartiality in their news coverage, their editorial boards have been working overtime to elect Hillary Clinton. However, few have been doing Robby Mook and David Brock’s work for them quite like the New York Times, as evidenced by a ridiculous pro-Clinton/anti-NRA screed that appeared in the August 14 edition...

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