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To the Editor: Schools Safer with Trained Staff

3:00pm Monday, October 16, 2017

The following letter to the Columbus Dispatch editor was published in response to a Dispatch "news" article entitled " Why does nothing ever change after mass shootings? " I respond to the Oct. 3 Dispatch.com article “Why does nothing ever change after mass shootings?” If the definition of “nothing” is simply repeating the same pathetic sound bites about “rapid-fire weapons” or “hidden loaded...

SHOCK: Persons obtain 70+ firearms & thousands of rounds of ammo without background check

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, October 16, 2017

According to so-called "common-sense" gun control extremists like Mark Kelley's "Americans for Responsible Solutions," all we have to do to keep criminals from gaining access to firearms is to mandate that a background check be done before all transfers of firearms. Pass "universal" background checks, we're told, close the "gun show loophole," we're told, and we can stop mass shootings! Indeed,...

Buckeye Firearms Foundation President Jim Irvine responds to CBS Evening News coverage of FASTER Saves Lives program

by Jim Irvine

3:00pm Friday, October 13, 2017

CBS Evening News attended a level II FASTER Saves Lives class this summer. Their story aired September 19, 2017 and is available on the web here . The report contains footage of training and interviews with school staff that participated. It also includes discussion with Abby Clements, a teacher from Newtown fighting to keep guns out of schools. From the story: "Never in a million years would I...

2017 CCRKBA Grassroots Organization of the Year Award goes to Buckeye Firearms Association

7:00am Friday, October 13, 2017

For the third time, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has honored Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) with its coveted Grassroots Organization of the Year Award "in recognition of the tireless hard work and dedication to the preservation of the individual right to keep and bear arms by its members.” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb presented the award at the 32nd Gun Rights...

Melissa Bachman headlines annual Sportsmen Alliance Ohio Rally

by Larry S. Moore

3:00pm Thursday, October 12, 2017

The Sportsmen's Alliance held the annual Ohio Rally at the Villa Milano Banquet Center in Columbus. Sportsmen and women from across Ohio flocked to the event anxious to see friends and, perhaps, win a gun or the grand prize shopping spree. Conspicuously absent from the event were the Division of Wildlife leadership at the Chief and Assist Chief level. Also absent were any officials from the...

Cincinnati prosecutor: Key Bank told hero cop who stopped robbery not to come back

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, October 12, 2017

Lost in the media frenzy that naturally followed the attack on concert-goers in Las Vegas was news that an off-duty police officer was banned from a Cincinnati Key Bank branch after heroically engaged a pair of would-be bank robbers. According to WCPO (CBS Cincinnati), the officer, Mount St. Joseph University Police Officer Carl Rauschenberger, was visiting the Key Bank on Springdale Road in...

Gun grabbers again seek to enslave Americans

by Thomas Lucente

3:00pm Wednesday, October 11, 2017

There are many mysteries in this universe such as who was Jack the Ripper, who was D.B. Cooper, where is Jimmy Hoffa. Nothing is more boggling, however, than the leftist mindset. There are many well-educated leftists; yet, they remain willfully ignorant when it comes to the responsibility of living in a free society. Either that or they despise the idea of a free society. Neither option is...

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Is Australian-style gun confiscation possible in the U.S.?

by Dean Rieck

7:00am Wednesday, October 11, 2017

After high-profile shootings, gun control advocates and prominent political figures, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, often point to Australia's infamous “buyback” program as an example of what U.S. lawmakers should consider for a solution. They claim that since it worked there, it could work here. But could it work here? In other words … 1) Could it reduce murders? 2) Could it be...