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22 year-old Buckeye state college student helps U.S. troops improve aim

1:05am Monday, March 17, 2008

By Ken Gordon The Columbus Dispatch The photo looks like one of those "Which one doesn't belong?" deals. Seven U.S. Army Rangers stand in fatigues and combat boots. In their midst stands a smiling college kid in tennis shoes, jeans and a hoodie. The only similarity is they all hold M-16 rifles. Sam Ohlinger, that smiling college kid, was teaching those professional soldiers how to better use them...

Cincinnati City Council sees need for guns; reverses Mayor's decision to weaken security at City Hall

1:05am Friday, March 14, 2008

By Chad D. Baus Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory has gone to great lengths over the years to prove his anti-gun, anti-self defense creds. As a State Senator, Mark Mallory spoke out against persons who participated in open carry 'Defense Walk' demonstrations (they were protesting an Ohio Supreme Court ruling upholding what was then a 100 year-old ban on concealed carry) and voted against the...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. Legislative Chair Ken Hanson offers House testimony on 'Castle Doctrine'

12:10am Friday, March 14, 2008

Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson delivered testimony Thursday before the House Criminal Justice Committee in support of 'Castle Doctrine' legislation currently receiving consideration in both the House and Senate. Following is the complete testimony delivered on behalf of Buckeye Firearms Association on HB264/SB184 .

Mobility-impaired hunting opportunities improved with passage of Buckeye Firearms Assoc.-supported legislation

1:05am Thursday, March 13, 2008

Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to announce passage of Senate Bill 209, which will, among other things, create mobility-impaired access lanes on various public hunting lands of the Ohio Division of Wildlife. In late February, after accepting testimony from Buckeye Firearms Association's Bob Harsanje and Larry S. Moore, the House Finance & Appropriations Committee voted to amend HB473...

"Security for Faith-Based Organizations Seminar" at greater Cincinnati's Creation Museum

1:10am Wednesday, March 12, 2008

By Chad D. Baus Can we take the lessons learned in blood and lives at Columbine and the World Trade Center and apply them so we'll never take this [path] again, or do we have to wait until our kids die?" - Lt. Col. Dave Grossman Concerns over security at places of worship are increasing in the wake of massacre after massacre in "no-guns" (victim disarmament) zones across the country. With an...

Op-Ed: D.C. Gun Ban Proponents Ignore the Facts

1:05am Wednesday, March 12, 2008

By John R. Lott, Jr. and Maxim Lott FOXNews For gun control proponents and opponents a lot is riding on a former security guard for the Supreme Court Annex. Next Tuesday , the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether the District of Columbia's ban on handguns and its requirement that any rifles or shotguns remain locked violates the plaintiff, Dick Heller's, constitutional rights. Whatever...

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Senate Committee Postpones Hearing/ Vote on "Castle Doctrine" Legislation

2:45pm Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Last week we were pleased to announce that Senate Bill 184, Ohio's Castle Doctrine bill, had been added to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice's agenda for Wednesday and Thursday of this week for the purpose of adopting amendments and voting on a substitute bill. Unfortunately, Buckeye Firearms Association has received word that committee chairman Tim Grendell has run into an...

They're Coming for Your Guns

1:10am Tuesday, March 11, 2008

By Brian S. Stewart Tucked into the final paragraph, a recent story in U.S. News and World Report highlighted the Washington D.C. Police Gun Recovery Unit, a unit of about two dozen officers whose mandate is exactly as it sounds: Every day about two dozen officers fan out across the city's roughest neighborhoods, stopping drivers and pedestrians for traffic and other offenses and executing...