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Buckeye Firearms Assn. informs Ohio mayors of proof they've been misled by Mayors Against Illegal Guns; 11 drop out - Has yours?

7:00am Monday, January 14, 2013
This article will be UPDATED as more mayors drop out. by Chad D. Baus Buckeye Firearms Association has put Ohio members of New York City Mayor Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) on notice: They were misled when they agreed to join the group, and they no longer have any excuse to claim they didn't know. In late Spring 2011, after Florida Carry, Inc. founder Sean Caranna uncovered...

Montpelier, Ohio school board decision: Staff will be armed

7:00am Friday, January 11, 2013
More than two dozen northwest Ohio teachers sign up for free concealed carry class by Chad D. Baus The Bryan Times is reporting that staff members in Williams Co., Ohio's Montpelier Schools will soon be armed. From the article : The district's board of education voted Wednesday to adopt a policy allowing certain individuals to carry concealed firearms on the premises. The decision came in the...

NRA-certified instructor holds free concealed carry class for school employees

7:00am Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Editor's Note: The author's name is being withheld to protect the identities of the school officials involved in these classes. As a service to the schools in my community, I decided to offer an Ohio Concealed Carry Class to any local school employee free of charge. I did not know what to expect or what the response would be. I put the word out with a few phone calls to teachers I knew who had...

December Record Month for NICS Checks; 58.6% increase marks 31st straight month over month increase; New record also set in Ohio

3:00pm Tuesday, January 08, 2013
by Chad D. Baus According to a press release from the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the December 2012 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 2,237,731 is an increase of 58.6 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,410,937 in December 2011. For comparison, the unadjusted December 2012 NICS figure of 2,776,105 reflects a 49.7 percent increase...

2013: The Year Ahead

3:00pm Friday, January 04, 2013
by Jim Irvine We begin a new year and a new legislative session with many unknowns. This has the potential to be the best and the worst year gun owners have had in a generation. It is possible that we enjoy one extreme at the state level while enduring the other at the federal level. We begin with Buckeye Firearms Foundation. For the first time, it is possible that our educational 501(c)(3) non-...

2012 - The Year In Review

7:00am Monday, December 31, 2012
By Chad D. Baus While there is far too much to cover in a single article, we reflect on some of the important events of 2012. January: The year begins with continued debate over whether or not Canton police officer Daniel Harless, who was caught on dash-cam video verbally assaulting and threatening to "execute" a concealed handgun licensee, deserved to be fired. Harless is terminated, and the...

Op-Ed: Guns, Mental Illness and Newtown

7:00am Thursday, December 20, 2012
There were 18 random mass shootings in the 1980s, 54 in the 1990s, and 87 in the 2000s. by David Kopel Has the rate of random mass shootings in the United States increased? Over the past 30 years, the answer is definitely yes. It is also true that the total U.S. homicide rate has fallen by over half since 1980, and the gun homicide rate has fallen along with it. Today, Americans are safer from...

Across the nation and around the world: BFA brings facts to an extremely emotional nation following Connecticut killings

7:00am Wednesday, December 19, 2012
by Chad D. Baus In the wake of the Auroro, CO "no-guns" theater shooting, Buckeye Firearms Association published an article entitled " How long is too long to wait to defend the Second Amendment? ," in which we discussed the dilemma we face each time another deranged lunatic decides to murder as many people as they can in a "no-guns" zone. In the article, I outlined how the media and gun control...

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