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FBI: Number of reported rapes in the country rose 9.6% in 2015

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Wednesday, February 03, 2016

Editor's Note: Police in the hometown of Ohio University say there is a serial rapist on the loose in the southeastern Ohio college town of Athens. The victims were all young women walking home in the middle of the night. Ohio colleges and universities are currently barred by state law from allowing their students to exercise their Second Amendment rights. HB 48 seeks to change that . According...

Active killer murders four in Canada town, high school; President Obama silent

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, February 03, 2016

"This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries." - President Barack Obama In late January, a 17 year-old used a shotgun to shoot at least nine people in the remote northern Saskatchewan community of La Loche. Four are dead, including the attacker's two brothers, who he killed at home before going to the high school . The description of the attack at the school was sadly...

Op-Ed: Preserving Our Second Amendment Rights

by Judge Colleen Mary O'Toole

3:00pm Tuesday, February 02, 2016

As a judge on the Eleventh District Court of Appeals, covering northeastern Ohio, I often consider cases concerning our vital right to bear arms as established in the United States Constitution and as upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court the case of District of Columbia v. Heller . It is no coincidence that the right to bear arms is enshrined in the Second Amendment, which immediately follows the...

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Cincinnati homeowner repeatedly dials 911; waits nearly an hour for help to arrive

7:00am Tuesday, February 02, 2016

The Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting that a couple and their 9 and 7 year-old daughters were forced to wait nearly an hour after dialing 911 while a disorderly man on their front porch grew increasingly disoriented and violent. From the article : Michelle Gardner...grew increasingly frightened as the disorderly man was kicking and hitting on her doors and windows at 4360 Hamilton Ave. with a...

Chief Justice Barack Obama?

3:00pm Monday, February 01, 2016

Here’s perhaps the most compelling argument we’ve heard against Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House. Continuing her streak of adopting terrible (and perhaps planted) suggestions raised at campaign stops, Clinton on Tuesday called the appointment of Barack Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court “a great idea,” according to anarticle in the Washington Examiner. Should that happen, Obama’s continued...

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Why Gun Owners Distrust Obama

by Dean Rieck

7:00am Monday, February 01, 2016

Editor's Note: The following op-ed was published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Sunday, January 31. President Obama has expressed dismay that gun owners and Second Amendment advocacy groups such as Buckeye Firearms Association and the NRA don't trust him on the issue of gun control. He has even mocked gun owners as “conspiracy” minded and paranoid. But gun owners have many perfectly logical...

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Another Ohio sheriff calls for citizens to obtain concealed carry licenses

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Friday, January 29, 2016

In the days following the terrorist attack in San Bernadino, CA, several law enforcement officials across the nation, and at least two sheriffs in Ohio , made news by urging citizens to obtain concealed handgun licenses to protect against terror. A Buckeye Firearms Association supporter from Seneca County forwarded an article about this important turn of events to his sheriff, William Eckelberry...

Senate Candidate P.G. Sittenfeld (D) Proposes Ohio Constitutional Amendment to Infringe Constitutional Rights

7:00am Friday, January 29, 2016

COLUMBUS, OH - Working with anti-gun activists, U.S. Senate candidate P.G. Sittenfeld has called for a constitutional amendment to repeal Ohio's preemption law which prohibits cities from enacting laws that are more strict than state law. "It's a ridiculous proposal," said Dean Rieck, Executive Director of Buckeye Firearms Association. "Preemption was a solution to a serious problem in Ohio where...