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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...

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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...

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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...