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Memorial Day 2011 - Remembering Those Who Gave All to Defend Our Rights

7:00am Monday, May 30, 2011
By Jim Irvine We are often thanked for all we do to secure firearms rights in Ohio, but this Memorial Day, it's important to remember all those who have come before us, and won all of the big battles. It is only through their sacrifice and perseverance that we are able to fight today's battles. While it's easy to get caught up in the moment of your own struggles, our lives as we know them would...

Court Orders Cleveland to Stop Enforcing Local Gun Control

1:32pm Wednesday, May 25, 2011
"Cities are out of the firearm regulation business." - Ken Hanson, Dec. 12, 2006, following the veto-override of Gov. Taft on Ohio's Statewide Preemption Law (HB347) Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Brian Corrigan has ordered Cleveland to stop any enforcement of 19 separate local gun control ordinances, effective immediately. Buckeye Firearms Foundation is the lead Plaintiff in the case, which...

"The Lundy List": Three legislators who indicated they'd vote for Restaurant & Car Carry before they voted against it

7:00am Monday, May 16, 2011
Last month, Republican House Speaker William Batchelder made headlines when he revealed that his 59-member caucus was unable to muster the 50 votes necessary for passage . A review of our 2010 candidate surveys showed that, so long as everyone kept their word, the votes were there. However, sources in the Statehouse told us that some were considering breaking their word and voting against the...

Ohio House Representatives receive letters from BFA and concerned constituents upon return to Columbus

3:01pm Monday, May 02, 2011
by Chad D. Baus Ohio House Representatives returning from spring recess on Monday received a letter from Buckeye Firearms Association addressing the status of Ohio's Restaurant & Car Carry Rules Fix legislation (HB45/SB17). The House version of the legislation, HB45, received five hearings in the House Committee on State Government and Elections before being passed on a 12-10 mostly party...

Buckeye Firearms Association's Linda Walker elected to the NRA’s Board of Directors

7:00am Monday, May 02, 2011
The leadership team of Buckeye Firearms Association is proud to announce that our very own Linda Walker has been elected to a position on the National Rifle Association's Board of Directors. The NRA made the public announcement in Pittsburgh at the NRA Annual Meetings on Saturday. Linda Walker has been a tireless supporter and fighter for our Second Amendment rights for several years. She joined...

Lorain Morning-Journal editorial: "Lundy’s duplicity over endorsement should be a concern to voters"

3:00pm Friday, April 29, 2011
by Chad D. Baus On Monday, April 25, Buckeye Firearms Association exposed Rep. Matt Lundy (D) for having lied on his 2010 candidate survey by publishing an article at BuckeyeFirearms.org, issuing a press release to hundreds of news outlets in Ohio, emailing thousands of pro-gun voters, and sharing these facts in a newspaper advertisement published last week in newspapers that cover his district,...

Plain Dealer editorial on restaurant carry offers proof of the power of grassroots gun groups

7:00am Tuesday, April 26, 2011
by Ken Hanson, Esq. Saturday April 23, 2011 marked a personal milestone for me. On this day, I personally became enough of a pain-in-the-ass to The Cleveland Plain Dealer that my name earned search meta-tag status on Cleveland.com. In a hysterical (in both the "funny" sense and "foaming at the mouth, chewing the carpet" sense) editorial column, Plain Dealer columnist Brent Larkin lamented the...

Letter-writers provide facts on restaurant carry legislation to Columbus Dispatch readers

3:00pm Monday, April 25, 2011
by Chad D. Baus Newspapers across the state have responded to the Ohio Senate's overwhelming, bi-partisan passage of SB17 (Restaurant & Car Carry Rules Fix legislation) with the typical 'Chicken Little' cries that we have come to expect from the biased media. In an editorial entitled " Cold beer, hot lead go together...how? " The Cleveland Plain Dealer 's Connie Schultz, wife of anti-gun U.S...

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