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Local Food Banks Benefit from Generosity of Ohio Hunters

3:00pm Monday, April 30, 2012
COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio deer hunters donated more than 104,400 pounds of venison to local food banks through the 2011-12 deer hunting season, according to Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry (FHFH) and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The venison donation equals approximately 417,600 meals for Ohioans in need. A total of 2,088 deer were donated during this...

How criminals get their guns

1:33pm Monday, April 30, 2012
The following article was originally published by The Lima News . Republished with permission. by Greg Sowinski LIMA - At a shooting inside a Lima bar earlier this month that injured four, police found an expensive handgun. Officers traced the gun to a burglary in American Township in the past year. The two men charged in connection with the shooting at Marko's bar on South Main Street were...

Buckeye Firearms Association's Sean Maloney needs your help to get on the NRA Board of Directors

7:00am Monday, April 30, 2012
Editor's Note: Here's a message from Sean Maloney, one of our Volunteer Leaders who help protect and advance your firearm rights. Please give Sean the support he needs to collect signatures and move toward a position on the NRA Board of Directors. If you are an NRA Life Member or higher or if you have been a regular annual member for 5+ consecutive, uninterrupted years, email Sean today at...

Canadian Shooting Sports Association: "Long-gun registry finally destined for scrap heap of history"

3:00pm Friday, April 27, 2012
OTTAWA -- Good riddance to the long-gun registry -- possibly the most unfair and useless legislation ever to have been passed by Parliament of Canada. In the wake of many hours of debate and anti-gun rhetoric from the opposition and lobbyists, the Conservative party has successfully laid the registry to rest with Royal Assent on Bill C-19. Few issues have prompted so many Canadians to sound off...

Ohio concealed handgun licenses numbers on the rise, but opponents of reforms remain despite success of program

7:00am Friday, April 27, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The Dayton Daily News is reporting that in the eight years since Ohio passed a concealed weapons law, county sheriffs have issued 296,588 concealed handgun licenses, with more than half of those coming since President Barack Obama was elected. Despite the obvious popularity and success of the law, the DDN provides quotes from local law enforcement bureaucrats who are expressing...

Ohio's Spring Turkey Season Underway

3:00pm Thursday, April 26, 2012
Ashtabula County leads harvest on opening day COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio hunters harvested a preliminary total of 2,227 bearded wild turkeys on the first day of the spring turkey-hunting season, which is open statewide through May 20, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. In 2011, a preliminary total of 2,646 wild turkeys were killed on opening day. Top...

Another Ohio homeowner exercises self-defense right by shooting would-be robber during home invasion

7:00am Thursday, April 26, 2012
by Chad D. Baus WEWS (ABC Cleveland) is reporting that a homeowner shot a man who broke into his house on Mardale Avenue around 11 a.m. Wednesday. From the article : Police at the scene said it appears the robber tried breaking into a neighbor's home first, but couldn't get inside. That's when they think the robber broke out a kitchen window at a home next door in the 5300 block of Mardale Avenue...

Rep. Michael DeBose (D), remembered for becoming pro-concealed carry after mugging, dies at 58

7:00am Wednesday, April 25, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that State Rep. Michael DeBose, a Cleveland Democrat, has passed away at the age of 58. From the article : DeBose, 58, had struggled for several years with Parkinson's syndrome. He entered the Clinic Sunday with an infection. The lifelong Clevelander represented District 12 from 2002 to 2010, when term limits forced him out. He'd also been a...

EPA Denies Anti-Hunting Group's Latest Petition to Ban Traditional Ammunition

3:00pm Tuesday, April 24, 2012
NSSF Calls Upon Congress to Pass the 'Hunting, Fishing and Recreational Shooting Sports Protection Act' NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 9 denied yet another frivolous petition by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) -- an established anti-hunting group -- calling for a ban on the traditional ammunition (containing lead-core components) for hunting and...

SB332: Better to slowly burn a child to death than to shoot her with a gun?

7:00am Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Editor's Note: The article below was originally published on June 17, 2008, about Senate Bill 348, introduced by Senator Eric Kearney (D-9). That bill died at the end of the 127th General Assembly. Kearney reintroduced the bill again in 2009, as SB49, and we again published this article by way of response, on February 12, 2009. SB49 died at the end of the 128th General Assembly. But the necessity...

Op-Ed: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal

3:00pm Monday, April 23, 2012
By Katie Pavlich Operation Fast and Furious is the deadliest and most sinister scandal in American history. A scandal so big, it's worse than Iran-Contra and makes Watergate look like a high school prank gone wrong. In the early days of the Obama Administration, President Obama claimed his goal was to stop the trafficking of guns from the United States into the hands of violent Mexican drug...

Second Amendment Foundation chalks up more legal victories

7:00am Monday, April 23, 2012
BELLEVUE, WA - A Federal District Court Judge in Massachusetts has granted summary judgment in a Second Amendment Foundation case challenging that state's denial of firearms licenses to permanent resident aliens. U.S. District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodcock concluded that "the Massachusetts firearms regulatory regime as applied to the individual plaintiffs, contravenes the Second Amendment." The...

Op-Ed: Where’s the ‘Probable Cause’?

3:00pm Friday, April 20, 2012
by John Lott The charges brought against George Zimmerman sure look like prosecutorial misconduct. The case as put forward by the prosecutor in the "affidavit of probable cause" is startlingly weak. As a former chief economist at the U.S. Sentencing Commission, I have read a number of such affidavits, and cannot recall one lacking so much relevant information. The prosecutor has most likely...

Public opinion poll: "Most Americans back gun lobby, right to use deadly force"

7:00am Friday, April 20, 2012
by Chad D. Baus According to a recent news report, a Reuters/ Ipsos poll has found that most Americans support the right to use deadly force to protect themselves - even in public places - and have a favorable view of the National Rifle Association, the main gun-lobby group. From the article : The online survey showed that 68 percent, or two out of three respondents, had a favorable opinion of...

Ohio Spring Turkey Hunting Season Opens April 23

3:00pm Thursday, April 19, 2012
COLUMBUS, OH - This year's spring wild turkey season opens in all 88 Ohio counties on Monday, April 23 and continues through Sunday, May 20, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. "Ohio has again experienced a record low wild turkey hatch, with last year's nesting season negatively impacted by rainfall and flooding," said ODNR Wildlife Biologist Mike...

House Passes Historic Sportsman/Conservation Legislation

7:00am Thursday, April 19, 2012
by Jim Shepherd It seems appropriate on the 237th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride that we announce the House of Representatives' passage of a huge block of legislation known as the Sportsman's Heritage Act of 2012. H.R. 4089 is actually the compilation of four bills, all designed to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, fishing and shooting: H.R. 1558 amends the Toxic...

HB495 (Reciprocity & Concealed Carry Modernization) assigned to House State Government and Elections Committee

3:00pm Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to announce that HB495, introduced in late March by Representative Terry Johnson (R-McDermott) to reform Ohio concealed carry law to protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners and continue a trend toward making Ohio law similar to other states, has received a committee assignment.

Romney addresses attendees at NRA Annual Meetings; Members have concerns, but seem ready to support "anybody but Obama"

7:00am Wednesday, April 18, 2012
by Chad D. Baus Much to the dismay of two-thirds of GOP voters (who consistently voted against him throughout the primary), Rick Santorum's departure from the Republican primary last week all but locked up the nomination for Mitt Romney. Romney's poor record on the issue of gun rights is quite well-documented , though as a presidential candidate in 2008 and again in 2012 he has changed his tune...

Buckeye Firearms Association works with governor's office to protect gun owners on drug trafficking bill

3:00pm Tuesday, April 17, 2012
by Jim Irvine Senate Bill 305, introduced to combat hidden compartments in vehicles used to transport illegal drugs, is not a "gun bill." However, as with any law, SB305 could have unintended consequences for gun owners who use safes and compartments to secure their firearms in their vehicles. As a pro-gun group, we view our narrow mission as protecting firearm rights. When we made Governor John...

Op-Ed: Campus commandos, or safer students?

7:00am Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Editor's Note: The following op-ed was originally published on April 11, 2012. Would conceal carry on campus prevent school shootings like Oikos? by David Lewis The Oikos University tragedy managed to occur just in time to coincide with the first day of the annual campus gun ban protest. Students this week will wear empty holsters to class to symbolically represent what they see as a...

Ohio Wildlife Council Approves 2012-13 Hunting and Trapping Regulations

3:00pm Monday, April 16, 2012
Deer hunters have until noon the following day to check in their deer COLUMBUS, OH – The Ohio Wildlife Council approved hunting and trapping regulations for the 2012-13 hunting seasons, during the April 4 meeting, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Seven west-central Ohio counties will move from deer Zone A to Zone B; those counties are Auglaize,...

Headline: Remington Arms Company threatens to pull plant out of New York in response to Bloomy-backed gun bill

3:00pm Friday, April 13, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The New York Daily News reported recently that one of the world's major gun manufacturers is threatening to pull its plant out of New York over a gun bill pushed by Mayor Bloomberg. From the article : Remington Arms Company, in a recent letter to Gov. Cuomo, said it may be forced to bail on the Empire State if a law requiring bullet casings to carry unique markings is enacted...

NBC attack on Remington Arms Company glosses over key facts

7:00am Friday, April 13, 2012
by Jim Shepherd Reasonable doubt is a powerful thing. In a court of law, reasonable doubt is enough to compel a jury to issue a not guilty verdict. In the court of public opinion, however, reasonable doubt is enough to lead to a predisposition of guilt. That is a powerful distinction. It's a distinction not lost on the television professionals at NBC News. That distinction, coupled with a...

Armed American Radio's Mark Walters to President Obama: "If I had a son, he'd look like Brian Terry"

3:00pm Thursday, April 12, 2012
Mark Walters, host of nationally syndicated Armed American Radio opened the Easter Sunday broadcast with a bold comparison between Obama's concern about Trayvon Martin and slain Border Patrol Agent, Brian Terry. Armed American Radio is broadcast live from the Intelligent Talk 920 WGKA studios in Atlanta and syndicated nationally by Salem Radio Network.

Bar shooting: "No guns" sign fails to save the day

7:00am Thursday, April 12, 2012
by Jeff Thomas Look what we have here. One of those magical signs that stops anyone with a gun from entering. The sign's great powers were set up to keep people from bringing guns into any place posting it - the anti-gunners' version of kryptonite. Criminals check your gun into your glove box before entering. And by the way, for all the robbers out there: if your mask blocked your vision on the...

Remington Fires First Shot in Round Two of NBC War

3:00pm Wednesday, April 11, 2012
by Jim Shepherd In 2010, NBC News' "Dateline" ran a report purportedly telling the story of Remington's knowingly allowing their entire 700 series of bolt-action rifles to be sold despite knowing that the rifle's trigger system had a basic safety flaw. Essentially, "Dateline" reported Remington had knowingly sold more than five-million unsafe bolt action rifles, despite knowing - for decades-...

Buckeye Firearms Association endorses Sharon Kennedy for Ohio Supreme Court

7:00am Wednesday, April 11, 2012
by Sean Maloney Buckeye Firearms Association has endorsed Sharon Kennedy for Ohio Supreme Court Justice, for the November 6, 2012 general election. Ohio Supreme Court races are among the most important races Ohio voters make, but it's difficult to know where the candidates are on important issues. We as pro-Second Amendment activists, gun enthusiasts on every level, including Concealed Handgun...

Protect Your Rights! Act Now to Support Legal Transportation of Firearms

3:00pm Tuesday, April 10, 2012
When Congress passed the Firearms Owners' Protection Act (FOPA) in 1986, one of the key provisions of the bill was intended to protect the rights of gun owners to legally transport their firearms between locations where they are legally allowed to possess them. Unfortunately, some local jurisdictions have chosen to ignore federal law and the courts have upheld these infringements on Second...

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