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Early recap on NRA Annual Meetings: Record attendance "drives anti-gun folks crazy"

7:00am Tuesday, May 18, 2010

By Jim Shepherd As the curtain was rung down on the NRA Annual Meeting and Exhibitions in Charlotte, North Carolina, it appears another record-setting event will be headed for the record books. First, with nearly a third of the NRA's membership living inside a 150 mile radius of Charlotte, it seems the attendance records are pretty much going to be rewritten. Although we've not seen official...

Letter to Legislator: "There is simply no such thing as a 'gun show loophole.'"

3:00pm Monday, May 17, 2010

Editor's Note: The following letter was submitted by Buckeye Firearms Region Leader Larry S. Moore to a legislator who made comments to the media regarding the mythical "gun show loophole." Have you contacted your own legislator to inform them of the truth? The letter below provides an excellent template... May 2, 2010 The Honorable State Representative Clayton Luckie 77 S. High St 13th Floor...

Latest round of shoddy journalism in Ohio focuses on mythical "gun show loophole"

7:00am Monday, May 17, 2010

by Gerard Valentino Ohio's establishment media has a long history of taking sides in the debate on the right to keep and bear arms. In her coverage of the Dayton area gun show anti-gun protest at Hara Arena, Kelli Wynn of The Dayton Daily News managed to take that anti-gun bias to a new level. Her fawning and overly-sympathetic coverage of the protest was a slap in the face to fair-minded Ohioans...

Ohio Wildlife Officers Indicted

3:00pm Friday, May 14, 2010

By Larry S. Moore The situation with the indictments of the Brown County Wildlife Officer plus the Ohio Division of Wildlife Chief, Assistant Chief, District 5 (Xenia) Manager, Law Enforcement Administrator and Human Resources Administrator is widely reported. (See links below and the Buckeye Forum) There are lots of questions, rumors, counter-rumors and confusion over the case. First, a full...

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Obama Supreme Court nominee was 'not sympathetic' as law clerk to gun-rights argument

7:00am Friday, May 14, 2010

By Chad D. Baus Bloomberg News is reporting that Elena Kagan, who was recently nominated by President Obama to the United States Supreme Court, said as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 that she was "not sympathetic" toward a man who contended that his constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol. According to Bloomberg News, Kagan made the...

April second highest all-time for background checks on firearm sales

3:00pm Thursday, May 13, 2010

Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,146,912(a) checks in April 2010, ranking the month the second highest April for most NICS checks. This figure, while being a 6.5 percent decrease from the 1,225,980 checks conducted in April 2009, is an increase of 21.9 percent over checks in April 2008. The total number of background checks reported...

Ohio Attorney General files merit brief defending constitutionality of statewide preemption law

7:00am Thursday, May 13, 2010

By Ken Hanson, Esq. Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, via the Solicitor General, filed a strong merit brief on Tuesday May 12 in support of Ohio's "preemption" law, R.C. 9.68. This law was enacted via HB347, which passed with overwhelming support in December 2006 over Governor Bob Taft's veto. HB347 remains the only veto-override in Ohio in the past three decades. As I noted at the time of...

Attorney General announces First Quarter 2010 CHL statistics

3:00pm Wednesday, May 12, 2010

By Jim Irvine Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray (D) has released the concealed handgun license (CHL) statistics for the first quarter of 2010. At the end of March, we had an all-time record of 188,665 Ohio residents licensed to carry concealed firearms. (See chart) During this election year, more politicians are touting their pro-gun stances and seeking our endorsements for use in radio and...