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Fireworks Expected This Week...But No Celebration in Wake of Fast & Furious Scandal

3:00pm Monday, January 30, 2012

by Jim Shepherd [This] week, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will once again question United States Attorney General Eric H. Holder about Operation Fast and Furious. F&F was the fatally flawed 2009 DEA anti-gunrunning operation supposedly designed to trace illegal firearms to Mexican drug lords. Instead, it went tragically...

State of Arizona investigating feds over "Fast and Furious" gun-running fiasco; Chief in U.S. Attorney's office takes the Fifth

7:00am Monday, January 30, 2012

by Chad D. Baus The Washington Times is reporting that Arizona's state legislature will open its own investigation into the Obama administration's disgraced gun-running program, known as "Fast and Furious." From the article : [Arizona State House] Speaker Andy Tobin created the committee, and charged it with looking at whether the program broke any state laws — raising the possibility of state...

2011 was a year of successes for gun owners, but there is plenty of reason to stay vigilant

3:00pm Friday, January 27, 2012

by Joe DeBergalis With all the success of the gun rights movement in recent years, this might sound like a broken record, but 2011 was a banner year for gun rights. From the halls of Congress to state assemblies across the country, lawmakers heard the voices of gun owners loud and clear and enacted the legislation we were looking for. In the state legislatures, the biggest win was the culmination...

OOPS: Fremont, OH police chief claims civilians aren't allowed to possess magazines that hold over nine rounds

7:00am Friday, January 27, 2012

by Chad D. Baus In a media report Monday, January 23, City of Fremont Police Chief Tim Wiersma misstated Ohio gun law. In a Thursday phone conversation with Buckeye Firearms Association Chairman Jim Irvine, Wiersma said he has spent the rest of the week answering phone calls and letters from citizens seeking to correct him. In the WTOL (CBS Toledo) report on how one of his department's officers...

Reps. Maag & Thompson introduce HB422 (Repeal LEO notification) and HB425 (CCW in state-owned parking garages)

3:00pm Thursday, January 26, 2012

by Chad D. Baus State Reps. Ron Maag (R-Lebanon) and Andy Thompson (R-Marietta) have introduced two bills that seek to reform, or "de-Taft," portions of Ohio's concealed carry law. House Bill 422 seeks to repeal requirements that a concealed carry licensee inform an approaching law enforcement officer that the licensee is a licensee and is carrying a concealed handgun. According to Rep. Maag,...

Four months later: Columbus Dispatch writes more about restaurant carry fears instead of facts established since law took effect

7:00am Thursday, January 26, 2012

by Chad D. Baus On January 23, 2012 The Columbus Dispatch published an article by reporter Dean Narciso, entitled "Guns not welcome in some bars, restaurants." While filled with speculation on the terrible things that opponents still predict will happen under Ohio's restaurant carry law, the article is curiously absent of any recognition of the fact that the law has already been in place for four...

Rumor Alert: The Vehicle Gun Theft “Epidemic”

3:00pm Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Long before Al Gore "created" the Internet, gun owners were busy perfecting grassroots networking. Today, gun owners have an almost unlimited number of ways to spread information crucial to our community. And, while the Internet is certainly an indispensible tool for protecting our rights, an unfortunate side effect has been the fast and easy spread of rumors. The latest of these, appearing on...

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2012 Events and Goals for Buckeye Firearms Association

7:00am Wednesday, January 25, 2012

by Jim Irvine Recently, leaders of Buckeye Firearms Association met to discuss and plan the coming year. Concealed carry and firearms legislation, elections and endorsements, and fun events were all on the agenda. It's going to be an exciting year. Events On the events front, we start with the Buckeye Bash on February 11. This event is a huge amount of work for us, but the items for auction...