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Eye Gouges vs. Finger Peels

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Wednesday, October 05, 2016

Read the story below. It’s a prime example of everything that shouldn’t happen in a fight, but sometimes does anyway. Victim at WIBW-TV hangs on to attacker despite punishment The story describes a situation where an irate man attacked several people who were working at a TV news station. The man was upset that the station would not air a story about his difficulties in working with the...

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VIDEO: BFA's Linda Walker discusses status of Ohio political contests on NRA News

7:00am Wednesday, October 05, 2016

Election Day is just over a month away, and NRA News invited Buckeye Firearms Association Vice President Linda Walker to discuss the status of various important contests in Ohio between pro-gun rights candidates and vehement anti-Second Amendment extremists.

Report on “Unprecedented” Criminal Firearm Misuse in Melbourne Undermines Hillary and Obama’s Calls for Australia-Style Gun Control

3:00pm Tuesday, October 04, 2016

While anti-gun politicians like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tout Australia’s gun control laws as a model for the United States, recent reporting on crime in Melbourne from newspaper The Age revealed the limitations of Australia’s stringent laws. According to the paper, “Despite Australia’s strict gun control regime, criminals are now better armed than at any time since then-Prime Minister...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. PAC announces endorsements for Ohio General Assembly

by Jim irvine

7:00am Tuesday, October 04, 2016

Buckeye Firearms Association PAC has announced our endorsements for Ohio House and Ohio Senate . We have previously issued endorsements for candidates for U.S. Senate , Ohio Supreme Court and many local elections . I also encourage you to support NRA-endorsed candidates for federal offices. We have considered over 400 candidates this year. The endorsement committee has reviewed candidate surveys...

The Myth of Chicago’s “Lax” Gun Laws

3:00pm Monday, October 03, 2016

The escalating murder rate in Chicago has given rise to a new claim – that Chicago gun laws are lax, weak, and ineffective. Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson recently argued that “[i]f we had the gun laws in Chicago that L.A. and New York have, we would see our violent crime cut in half.” New York Police Commissioner Bill Brattonrepeated the remark, declaring that Chicago’s problem “has...

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Hillary in 1993: Let's Double the the Gun Tax

7:00am Monday, October 03, 2016

WASHINGTON — Americans for Tax Reform has released more evidence of Hillary Clinton's long held desire to impose new and higher gun taxes. Previously, ATR's HighTaxHillary.com exposed her 1993 endorsement of a new 25 percent national retail sales tax on guns. But unreported since 1993 is Clinton's support for a doubling of the current federal excise tax on guns. In a closed-door meeting, she told...

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Everytown’s “Grandad” Misses the Mark

3:00pm Friday, September 30, 2016

Proponents of Maine’s Question 3, regulating every firearm sale and “transfer” (a change in possession, without a sale or change in ownership) have released a television ad urging voters to support this misguided ballot measure. In the ad by the Everytown for Gun Safety affiliate, grandpa is shown in the woods with his young grandson. Grandpa says the shotgun he has is the same one his...

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Faith in gun bans: Magical Thinking

by Jeff Knox

7:00am Friday, September 30, 2016

My brother Chris and I were once again asked to offer up a rebuttal to an editorial in USA Today newspaper [recently]. Unfortunately, the paper rescinded the offer when Chris Cox, executive director of NRA’s lobbying division, offered to do the job. This is the longer version of what we had to say. In their editorial, the USA Today editors called for a ban on “assault weapons.” They talked about...