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Dumbed Down: New OPOTC Rifle Qualification Course

3:00pm Wednesday, June 05, 2013

by Greg Ellifritz The Ohio Peace Officer's Training Academy revised the statewide police rifle qualification course of fire last week. Like several other recent revisions, it was a step in the wrong direction. Rather than make the rifle qualification more challenging or more relevant, they dumbed it down. Slower time constraints, no shooting on the move, shorter distances, no multiple targets, no...

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Ohio gun owner to home invader: "If you move, you're gonna go to the morgue."

7:00am Wednesday, June 05, 2013

by Chad D. Baus WTOV (NBC Steubenville) and WPXI (NBC Pittsburgh) reported this week that a Steubenville, OH woman was able to exercise her Second Amendment and self-defense rights to protect herself during a home invasion. From WPXI : Police arrested a burglar in the act Thursday morning after the owner of the home he targeted held him at gunpoint. Authorities said Tammy Takach was sleeping...

Zanesville man chooses the winning number in the Ultimate AR Raffle

3:00pm Tuesday, June 04, 2013

When the winning number was drawn for the recent Ultimate AR Raffle , we figured we'd hear from the winner right away. The prize, after all, was an AR-15 with a Pelican case, Eotech tactical holographic sight, Magpul accessories, and more, valued at nearly $3,000. But the Memorial Day weekend came and went and we didn't hear from anyone. Did we have a winner? Yes, we double and triple checked the...

The truth about kids and guns

7:00am Tuesday, June 04, 2013

by Larry S. Moore Cynthia Tucker is the latest liberal journalist to use the death of a child to promote the agenda of gun control. In case you missed it, the Sparks family lost their child in a preventable gun accident. Since then the family has been dragged through the major media outlets as an example of why gun safety is a child safety issue and calls for more laws. The left-leaning media...

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Gun control laws target law-abiding gun owners, not criminals

3:00pm Monday, June 03, 2013

by Jeff Knox Dustin Reininger is serving a five-year sentence with a three-year minimum before he's eligible for parole. His crime? Pulling off the highway to get some rest during a long drive. Reininger, a veteran of both the Army and the Air Force, and a former police officer, was moving from Maine back to Texas, but only made it as far as New Jersey. He got tired and parked behind a building...

We're Renaming the Armed Teacher Training Program ... Introducing "FASTER"

7:00am Monday, June 03, 2013

by Jim Irvine Last December, Buckeye Firearms Foundation made world-wide news with the introduction of our Armed Teacher Training Program. The program has now been up and running for several months, and along the way we've received some helpful feedback from educators as to how we can best communicate about the program to others in their profession. Some are opposed to the idea of "guns in...

WKYC Investigator Tom Meyer falls short of the truth in report on felons obtaining hunting licenses

3:00pm Friday, May 31, 2013

by Larry S. Moore WKYC (NBC Cleveland) Investigator Tom Meyer screamed the headlines "Hundreds of convicted felons in Ohio -- many of them violent -- are getting state licenses to hunt, even though it's illegal for them to have guns..." . This is the latest alarmist reporting aimed at gun owners and hunters. It's the kind of reporting that we've come to expect - long on hype and short on real...

Review: Attorney General DeWine's School Shooting DVD

7:00am Friday, May 31, 2013

by Jim Irvine Attorney General Mike DeWine has mailed a two-disc DVD set to all Ohio schools. The DVD is titled, "School Shootings: How to be aware, prepare, and be a first responder in a crisis." It covers educator training presented by the Attorney General's Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy (OPOTA). In his introduction, AG DeWine notes that he is "sorry that we have to do this." He notes...