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NSSF Action Alert: Oppose Petition to Ban Traditional Ammunition

3:00pm Thursday, August 05, 2010

All Gun Owners, Hunters and Shooters, The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) -- the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry -- urges you to contact the Environmental Protection Agency to oppose a petition filed August 3 by the extremist Center for Biological Diversity to ban traditional ammunition. Your right to choose the ammunition you hunt...

Buckeye Firearms Association and third party candidates

7:00am Thursday, August 05, 2010

Buckeye Firearms Association has received several inquiries about why there are no third party candidates listed among our graded and endorsed candidates for the 2010 general election . BFA has received surveys from some third party candidates in this election cycle. In the primary, we did choose to grade candidates in several contests where there were contested races on a third party ballot...

History Channel's 'Top Shot' casting call deadline nears

3:00pm Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Show off your shooting skills with pistol, rifle and shotgun and earn a chance to win $100,000 in prizes on the History Channel's competition show "Top Shot." Producers are seeking participants with outstanding shooting skills and a big personality to take on the show's physical challenges with multiple guns. To apply, e-mail [email protected] with your name, city/state, phone number, a...

Anti-gun Columbus judge's comment elicits no outrage from sympathetic media

7:00am Wednesday, August 04, 2010

by Gerard Valentino The Columbus Dispatch ran an article this past week that included a quote which illustrates the insidious nature of the anti-gun mindset. The article in question covered the sentencing of two men who were convicted of having a gun in a bar. While letting the two convicted criminals know their fate, Common Pleas Judge John F. Bender stated: "If I had my way, handguns would be...

Buckeye Firearms Association announces 2010 general election grades and endorsements

7:00am Tuesday, August 03, 2010

by Jim Irvine Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to announce our 2010 general election endorsements. The biggest change you will note this year is that grades have been given to all candidates.* This is response to feedback from our supporters and candidates. We now list every candidate with a letter grade, or a "??" if we do not know anything about them. While it is possible for a "??" -...

Letter to the Editor: OSU Dean's anti-gun letter poorly researched

6:00pm Monday, August 02, 2010

The following letter by Buckeye Firearms Foundation board member Gerard Valentino was published in the Aug. 2 edition of The Columbus Dispatch in response to a letter entitled " Guns in bars are public health threat ":

Washington Times: "Kagan's Snowe job on gun rights"

7:00am Monday, August 02, 2010

Obama nominee is a threat to the Second Amendment The more it looks like the Senate will confirm Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, the more gun owners should worry. Yesterday, Sen. Olympia J. Snowe of Maine became the fourth Republican to stand behind President Obama's nominee on the phony basis that Ms. Kagan supports gun rights. Mrs. Snowe explained in a press release that, "as a longtime,...

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Urge Senate to Pass Firearms Excise Tax Reform Now

3:00pm Friday, July 30, 2010

On June 29, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Firearms Excise Tax Improvement Act of 2010 (HR 5552) by a vote of 412 to 6. The bill is now pending in the Senate. This legislation corrects a longstanding inequity in the Internal Revenue Code by permitting firearm and ammunition manufacturers to pay the federal excise tax payment on a quarterly basis, like other industries that support...