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“Turn Tail and Run” Law Proposed

3:00pm Friday, May 04, 2012

Editor's Note: We typically reserve our satirical posts for April Fool's Day, but this one is too good to pass up. by Evan F. Nappen Washington, D.C. - Senator Lousenburg (D. NJ) has filed the "Turn Tail and Run" (TTR) bill in the U.S. Senate which, if passed, would preempt ALL State "Stand Your Ground" (SYG) laws. The new bill would impose a national duty to retreat at all times when one...

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Does YOUR financial institution support your Second Amendment rights?

7:00am Friday, May 04, 2012

by Chad D. Baus Two recent pieces of news drive home the importance of making sure that your bank respects your Second Amendment rights. Earlier this month, McMillan Group International, LLC announced that Bank Of America had severed ties with their company specifically because, in the years since they'd opened their accounts, McMillan had transitioned into a firearms manufacturing role. From a...

"Change" one vote at a time

3:00pm Thursday, May 03, 2012

by Sean Maloney, Esq. But I'm only one person; what can I do? The statement that "I'm only one person; my vote doesn't mean anything" has been discredited over and over again by razor-thin election victories throughout history. Remember "hanging chads" or "dimpled chads"? My point is, don't underestimate what you, one person, can do to change the outcome of, well, the world. Take this year's...

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Buckeye Firearms Association Responds to Attack on Representative Conditt's "Shooting" Fundraiser

7:00am Thursday, May 03, 2012

Several Democrats have joined with a gun control group to publicly attack State Representative Margy Conditt (Liberty Township, District 55) because of a fundraising event she has scheduled for May 12 at the Middletown Sportsmens Club where participants will have the opportunity to shoot GUNS. The group linked her fundraiser to a recent Ohio shooting where three students died and called her...

Hunters Bag Nearly 8,900 Wild Turkeys During First Week of Spring Season

3:00pm Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Season open until May 20 COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio hunters harvested a preliminary total of 8,898 bearded wild turkeys during the first week of the spring turkey-hunting season, which is open statewide through May 20, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Last year hunters checked 7,744 wild turkeys during the first week of the season. Top counties for wild...

Democrats attack State Rep. Margaret Conditt for supporting our Constitutional right to bear arms

11:13am Wednesday, May 02, 2012

by Sean Maloney, Esq. Some time ago I was approached concerning a fundraiser for my friend, and my Ohio State Representative, Margy Conditt. I came up with an idea that I thought would be a great one. Have a fundraiser where all those who attended would have the opportunity to exercise our God-given rights, as protected by our Founding Fathers by the Second Amendment to the United States...

Feinstein signals attempt to filibuster National Right to Carry legislation

3:00pm Tuesday, May 01, 2012

by Chad D. Baus The Associated Press reported recently that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who once infamously admitted on national television that her goal is to get American gun owners to "turn them all in," is trying to block votes on bills that would require a state to honor concealed gun permits from other states. From the article : The California Democrat wrote Majority Leader Harry Reid and...

Concealed carry - Why the uproar?

7:00am Tuesday, May 01, 2012

The following op-ed by Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson was originally published by The Columbus Dispatch . Republished with permission. by Ken Hanson April 8, 2012, marked the anniversary of a law that affects the lives of more than 270,000 Buckeyes. Ohio's concealed-handgun license law turned 8 years old on that Sunday afternoon. Notably absent from the festivities were...