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Why regulating or banning bump stocks is wrong

by Jim Irvine

7:00am Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Since the massacre at the country music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada there has been an enormous amount of attention given to bump stocks and the politics of regulating or banning them. If you care about human life, this is the wrong thing to focus on – no matter how you feel about firearms or the Second Amendment. Nearly 60 people died. Well over 500 more were injured. Some of the victims will...

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2Adoc.com Will Connect Patients with Gun-Friendly Providers

by Dr. Arthur Przebinda

7:00am Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Patients want to trust their provider to not make mistakes and to not lie to them. Unfortunately, when it comes to guns, medical organizations have not been living up to that expectation. Medical associations have been insinuating an anti-gun political agenda into the patient-doctor relationship for decades. Patients are routinely being asked about gun ownership. Worse, many physicians commit...

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...