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Review: The 2014 NRA Annual Meetings

by Jim Irvine

3:00pm Monday, May 05, 2014

I attended the 2014 NRA Annual Meetings in Indianapolis, Indiana. Having attended these events for over a decade it is amazing how much they have grown in popularity. This years attendance was 75,267 fellow patriots. The Foundation dinner Thursday night was a huge gathering of thousands of like-minded patriots at the Lucas oil stadium, home to the Indianapolis Colts. This included dinner, silent...

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Buckeye Firearms Assoc. President Jim Irvine appears on The Daily Show

7:00am Monday, May 05, 2014

Buckeye Firearms Association President Jim Irvine appeared on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on April 29, 2014. The segment was part of comedy show's coverage of the 2014 NRA Annual Meetings held in Indianapolis. The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , Indecision Political Humor , The Daily Show on Facebook Are they biased against gun rights? Sure. Do they make fun...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc.'s Joe Eaton to participate in roundtable discussion at Dayton Peace Museum

3:00pm Friday, May 02, 2014

Buckeye Firearms Association's Treasurer Joe Eaton will be participating in a roundtable discussion on the proposed changes to Ohio's self-defense laws on Saturday May 3 at the Dayton Peace Museum ( www.daytonpeacemuseum.org ). Rep. Fred Strahorn (D-39) and others are scheduled to also participate in the discussion. This roundtable discussion will take place at 2:00pm as part of the current...

New name, same lie: Bloomberg gun control group loses board member after misrepresenting group's intentions

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, May 02, 2014

According to former members , as well as internal emails obtained by Buckeye Firearms Association and MediaTrackers.org, anti-gun-rights billionaire Michael Bloomberg's now-defunct gun control group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), sought to gain members by intentionally deceiving them on what the group was actually all about. Many mayors, both here in Ohio and across the nation, dropped out...

Firearms Industry Honors U.S. Rep. Bob Latta as 2013 Legislator of the Year

3:00pm Thursday, May 01, 2014

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry, honored U.S. Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio) as NSSF's 2013 Legislator of the Year at the organization's recent annual dinner in Washington, D.C., preceding the firearms industry's annual Congressional Fly-In. "We salute Congressman Latta for his...

Report: 10 years later - fewer restrictions, more concealed guns

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, May 01, 2014

Though the establishment media largely failed to mark the tenth anniversary of Ohio's concealed handgun licensure law on April 8, Gannett Company, publisher of a number of Ohio newspapers as well as USAToday , has finally published two lengthy articles to mark the event. The first article is entitled " 10 years later - fewer restrictions, more concealed guns ": When Ohio passed a law allowing...

Another Reason to be Concerned about Obama’s Surgeon General Nominee

3:00pm Wednesday, April 30, 2014

On Thursday (April 10], the anti-gun American College of Physicians (ACP) came out for the entire gun control agenda being pushed at the national level, adding to the suspicion that Dr. Vivek Murthy, President Obama's nominee for Surgeon General, would do the same if confirmed to the post. To the many newspaper editors who have suggested medicine has nothing to do with gun control, and NRA has no...

Crime drops as more Americans carry guns

by Gerard Valentino

7:00am Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Editor's Note: The following op-ed was published by the Cleveland Plain Dealer . Republished by permission of the author. A rebuttal written by Mrs. Toby Hoover, entitled "Promoting weapons everywhere fosters culture of fear", was also published . At this point in the debate over the role of guns in America, only the mainstream media and zealots cling to the false hope of gun control. Few, if any...