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Brady Campaign "A+" Politician Guilty of Weapons-Related Racketeering

3:00pm Tuesday, July 14, 2015

The Sacramento Bee reports that former California State Sen. Leland Yee, a gun control advocate rated "A+" by the Brady Campaign, has pled guilty to weapons-related racketeering charges in an organized crime case and now faces 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Talk about hypocrisy. Last year we noted that in 2012, Yee said "no one will convince me it's anything other than a joke to say that...

Buckeye Firearms Association's Linda Walker featured on Outdoor Channel’s NRA All Access

7:00am Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Beginning today, Linda Walker, Vice President of Buckeye Firearms Association and a member of the NRA's Board of Directors will be featured on The Outdoor Channel's "NRA All Access." This week's episode is entitled “ Real Estate Agents: Why I Carry .” The show will air on Tuesday, July 14 at 9:30 AM and 2:00 PM, and again Wednesday, July 15 at 7:00 PM. Walker has been a real estate agent for over...

June 2015 Firearms Sales Checks Highest June on Record; 2nd Qtr is second highest on record

3:00pm Monday, July 13, 2015

The June 2015 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 886,825 is the highest June on record for the 17-year-old system, with an increase of 10.1 percent compared to the June 2014 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 805,571. The second quarter 2015 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 2,793,230 is the second highest second quarter on record — a 4.5 percent increase over...

BFA President Jim Irvine debates latest efforts to push gun control on Columbus NPR

7:00am Monday, July 13, 2015

Buckeye Firearms Association President Jim Irvine was a guest on WOSU 89.7FM's "All Sides with Ann Fisher," discussing the state of efforts to push gun control in the wake of the mass murder in a "no-guns" church in Charleston, S.C. with host Ann Fisher. Irvine was preceded by obviously anti-gun rights U.S. News & World Report news editor Joseph P. Williams, who recently published an article...

Make No Mistake: “The Trace” is No Impartial News Organization

by Larry Keane

3:00pm Friday, July 10, 2015

Editor's Note: TheTrace.org recently contacted Buckeye Firearms Association about the closing of the media access loophole. The resulting article, entitled "Another State Just Made It Impossible for Reporters to Access Concealed Carry Records," is posted here . Readers Beware. Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently revealed a new tactic in his ongoing campaign to impose his anti-gun agenda on Americans...

Buckeye Firearms Foundation allows Cleveland's FOX 8 exclusive access to Ohio teacher firearms training

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, July 10, 2015

Editor's Note: Those interested in FASTER (Faculty/Administrator Safety Training & Emergency Response) training still have time to apply for classes this summer! CLICK HERE NOW ! While the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary has faded in the minds of many, Buckeye Firearms Foundation continues to provide training to ensure that it may never happen again. Recently, the Foundation provided...

Were Guns "Much More" Strictly Regulated in the 1920s and 1930s?

3:00pm Thursday, July 09, 2015

[Recently], Time magazine published a piece that pushes the narrative that today's firearms laws are permissive in comparison to those of the early 20th century. Titled, " Guns Were Much More Strictly Regulated in the 1920s and 1930s than They Are Today ," the piece contends that "Those who look to America's past to extol a time when nothing stood between an American and a gun need to look again...

Pivotal Case on "Bearing" Arms in Public Heard by Federal Appellate Court in California

3:00pm Wednesday, July 08, 2015

The never-ending battle against defiance of the Second Amendment saw another skirmish yesterday with oral arguments in the rehearing of the critically important NRA-supported case of Peruta v. San Diego County. As we reported earlier this year, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had initially ruled favorably for the plaintiffs. The panel decision held that the...