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We need $30,000! The 2nd Amendment is at stake!

Please read this carefully. We have never needed your help more than we need it now! Dear Friend, Last year, in a historic decision, the U.S. Supreme Court clearly proclaimed that the Second Amendment is an individual right. Not a collective right. Not a right of the "militia." A right of each American citizen. You might think that would have ended the debate, but it didn't. Even after this...

Linda Walker accepts NRA's 2009 Sybil Ludington Women's Freedom Award in D.C.

Buckeye Firearms Association Central Ohio Chair Linda Walker made the trip to Washington D.C. recently to receive the National Rifle Association's 2009 Sybil Ludington Women's Freedom Award at the NRA's fall Board of Directors meeting. Walker shown here with other past recipients, from left: Marion Hammer 1995, Linda Walker 2009, Edie Reynolds 2007, Patty Clark 2005. According to the NRA, "the...

U.S. Supreme Court to hear another landmark gun rights case

DELAWARE, OH - The United States Supreme Court has accepted a second historic gun rights case. The ruling on this case could affect the laws of every state and city in the nation. McDonald v. City of Chicago focuses on "incorporation" of the Second Amendment. This means the court will be answering the question: Does the Second Amendment restrict state and city action, or just action by the...

FLASH: Supreme Court agrees to hear new Second Amendment case

We have just received word that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear another case on the individual rights of gun owners. A group of Chicago gun owners is challenging a lower appeals court ruling that while the Second Amendment guarantees individual rights on the federal level, it does not bar state or city governments from passing restrictions or outright bans on guns. Chicago imposes a handgun ban...

2009 Gun Skills Challenge a big hit!

By Clint Lake This year's Buckeye Firearms Gun Skills Challenge at the Pickaway Sportsmans Club went above and beyond all expectations! Located halfway between Circleville and Lancaster on Rt-22, Pickaway Sportsmans Club boasts no less that five pistol bays, a large rifle range, fishing, and primitive camping for its members. Needless to say, we were there for the pistol shooting, the great food...

Buckeye Firearms Association volunteer leaders deliver Second Amendment speeches at 9.12 Tea Parties

For those who couldn't join the more than one million people protesting massive government spending in Washington D.C. on 9.12, smaller events like it were held in cities and towns across the country. Buckeye Firearms Foundation Treasurer Gerard Valentino spoke to several hundred attendees at an event in Mansfield, and Buckeye Firearms Association Chairman Chad D. Baus spoke at a rally in Wauseon...

Ohio Division of Wildlife kicks off new season of Wild Ohio TV

Upcoming episode to feature Buckeye Firearms Association Region Leader Buckeye Firearms Region Leader and outdoor writer Larry Moore will be appearing in early September with segments on handgun hunting for deer with Todd Haines, Division of Wildlife District 5 Manager. The segments, which are part of "The Basics of Hunting", are scheduled to run approximately Sept 12, depending on the local...

20,000 TEA Party attendees hear BFA question John Kasich on gun rights in Ohio

By Joe Eaton Gun owners across these United States, and in Ohio particularly, have long questioned the one blemish on GOP gubernatorial-hopeful John Kasich's Second amendment record - his 1994 vote in favor of Bill Clinton's "Crime Bill", which outlawed several types of commonly owned firearms. This weekend's Townhall at the Cincinnati area Voice of America TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party rally...

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