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Applications Being Accepted: Memorial Scholarship Honors Wildlife Officer Larry A. Hart

3:00pm Monday, February 16, 2015

EATON, Ohio — The Larry A. Hart Memorial Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce they are accepting applications for the Larry A. Hart Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is funded by the Ohio Wildlife Officers’ Lodge 143 of the Fraternal Order of Police and Twin Valley Rod and Gun Club of Preble County. Larry A. Hart was a thirty-year veteran of the Ohio Division of Wildlife. For most of...

BATFE To Ban Common AR-15 Ammo

7:00am Monday, February 16, 2015

In a move clearly intended by the Obama Administration to suppress the acquisition, ownership and use of AR-15s and other .223 caliber general purpose rifles, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives unexpectedly announced today that it intends to ban commonplace M855 ball ammunition as “armor piercing ammunition.” The decision continues Obama’s use of his executive authority to...

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Judge overturns federal interstate handgun sales ban

by Jim Shepherd

3:00pm Friday, February 13, 2015

Another big legal win for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) in a federal district court in Texas. While some sections of the country seem dead-set on putting more restrictions on firearms owners - especially the legal ones, other parts of the nation - even in federal courts- see things somewhat differently. In the case of Mance v. Holder (yes, that Holder- he's...

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Bloomberg’s Professional Liars Keep on Lying

by Jeff Knox

7:00am Friday, February 13, 2015

Claim that NRA wants “more guns for everyone, everywhere, anytime” is simply not true John Feinblatt, Mike Bloomberg’s top flunky in his gun control operations, [recently] doubled down on the anti-rights lobby’s lies in a piece on the leftist web site The Daily Beast . As I have been pointing out in my ongoing series about the lies of the anti-rights lobby, virtually everything that comes out of...

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Rep. Ron Maag introduces legislation to eliminate many 'no-guns' victim zones

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, February 12, 2015

by Chad D. Baus Ohioans would be able to carry concealed guns on college campuses, places of worship, day-care facilities, private airplanes, school safety zones and certain government buildings under House Bill 48, legislation introduced by Rep. Ron Maag, R-Lebanon. The bill is similar to HB 231, which Maag introduced in the previous General Assembly. That bill received several hearings but...

2015 NRA BOD elections include two candidates from Ohio

by Tim Inwood

3:00pm Wednesday, February 11, 2015

As regular readers of BuckeyeFirearms.org pages know, the NRA is the oldest and largest defender of our Second Amendment rights in the United States. Founded by Union officers in the years following the US Civil War, its mission has been to promote marksmanship and the shooting sports for over 144 years now. In the last century, they had to take on a new role: defending the Second Amendment from...

As Strickland considers Senate run, gun owners should consider his recent work in D.C.

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, February 11, 2015

On January 30, media reports were awash with news from the Youngstown Vindicator that "sources close to him" had "confirmed" that 73 year-old former Gov. Ted Strickland will run for the U.S. Senate next year. Two weeks later, however, the former governor's intentions are less clear. According to the Vindicator , Strickland told reporters during a conference call hosted by the Center for American...

Paranoia Leads to Tragedy: Connecticut college student's life ruined by gun control

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Just days after the horror at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a 23-year old college student in Connecticut was a victim of another gun-related tragedy. No guns were fired, no one was physically injured, but even so, a life was ruined. William Dong was licensed in Connecticut to carry a concealed handgun. He worked for an armored car company and, along with being a good student, and hard worker, he...