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7:00am Wednesday, January 16, 2013
by Jim Shepherd The Los Angeles Times is reporting that a Staten Island, New York school panel has passed a resolution recommending armed, retired New York City police officers be hired to patrol local schools as a part of an increased security proposal. The Times is also reporting, however, that the city's Board of Education has already said "no way" to the plan. It points out two important...

NBC's David Gregory will not be prosecuted for breaking the D.C. large capacity magazine ban

3:00pm Tuesday, January 15, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Politico is reporting that NBC's David Gregory, who in inadvertently displayed the fallacy of gun bans for anyone who was watching when he violated the District of Columbia's ban on large capacity magazines, will not face charges. From the article : D.C. attorney general Irvin Nathan on Friday said he would decline to prosecute in the case involving the Sunday show host and any...

Nemerov: Toledo Blade Makes School Defense About Itself

7:00am Tuesday, January 15, 2013
by Howard Nemerov First the good news: A rural Ohio school district has decided to arm staff in order to make students safer from insane people looking for notoriety. From The Toledo Blade : Montpelier schools may be the first in Ohio to ramp up security by authorizing employees to carry weapons. The district has about 1,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade and 75 teachers in one...

Biden Says, "Critically Important to Act" on Guns - Opens Door to Executive Action [UPDATE: Obama agrees - Exec Action on guns]

3:00pm Monday, January 14, 2013
The Obama administration is seeking to institute a far more sweeping gun-control agenda than simply reinstating the failed Clinton bans on "assault weapons" and "high-capacity" magazines. While the administration seeks to ban whole classes of firearms, a working group led by longtime gun control supporter Vice-President Joe Biden is also seriously considering proposals for a national registration...

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...

Greene County resident inducted into the NMLRA Black Powder Hall of Fame

3:00pm Friday, January 11, 2013
by Larry S. Moore Greene County resident Marty Murphy has been involved in the shooting sports nearly all his life. He has served both the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association (NMLRA) in a variety of positions. He was recently inducted into the NMLRA Black Powder Hall of Fame. The words on his plaque provide some insight to the commitment and impact...

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...

Media fact checker destroys Piers Morgan's anti-gun argument

7:41pm Wednesday, January 09, 2013
by Dean Rieck When some blithering idiot like Piers Morgan starts arguing for more gun control, don't you wish you had all the statistics at your fingertips so you could crush them to dust? One reporter did just that after seeing Morgan's interview with Alex Jones. Morgan insisted that England is a land of rainbows and unicorns when it comes to violent crime and that the U.S. is swimming in blood...

Q&A on Armed Teacher Training Program

4:34pm Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Over 1,000 educators have applied for training! On December 20, 2012, Buckeye Firearms Foundation announced the Armed Teacher Training Program. The original intent was to simply offer free firearm training to 24 teachers in order to show that teachers could be an effective deterrent to mass murder in schools. In just three weeks, we received well over 1,000 requests for this training. So while...

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...

Ohio CHL-holder shoots robbery suspect, protects two month-old son

3:00pm Tuesday, January 08, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WBNS (CBS Columbus) is reporting that a Columbus man said that he fought back when a man tried to rob him at gunpoint in his driveway west Columbus Monday night. From the article : Kelby Smith, 34, told police he was in the driveway of the home on Crescent Drive just before 9 p.m. when he was approached by a robber. Smith said that he had his 2-month-old in a car carrier and 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...

Two Ohio newspapers issue editorials condemning publishing of NY gun owners' names and addresses

7:00am Tuesday, January 08, 2013
by Chad D. Baus In the wake of the horrific mass murder in at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut last month, one New York newspaper, Gannett Company's The Journal News of White Plains, N.Y., decided to punish people who had nothing to do with the crime by publishing an interactive map with the names and addresses of handgun permit owners in New York's Westchester and Rockland counties. When...

Op-ed: The Left Bullies the NRA

3:00pm Monday, January 07, 2013
by Ben Shapiro On Christmas Eve, seven people were shot in the city of Chicago. The media made little mention of the shootings, since they're now routine in Chicago -- the city has seen some 500 shootings in 2012 alone. The vast majority of the shooters are black, and the vast majority of the victims are black. Many of the victims are under the age of 18: Anton Sanders, 15, shot on Jan. 20;...

Headline: White House prepares to defeat NRA with speedy legislation

7:00am Monday, January 07, 2013
"I believe in the Second Amendment. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won"t take your handgun away... I am not going to take your guns away. So if you want to find an excuse not to vote for me, don't use that one because it just ain't true. It ain't true." - Barack Obama, 2008 "As a result of direct conversations that I've had with Barack Obama, if you are a...

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-...

Central Ohio BFA Meet & Greet Jan. 13

7:00am Friday, January 04, 2013
by Aaron Kirkingburg Buckeye Firearms Association will host a Central OH Meet & Greet on Sunday, January 13 at Stacy's Homestyle Buffet in Heath, Ohio. Meet & Greets have become a good way to meet new people, put a face and name to fellow Second Amendment advocates and share fellowship together. Social hour will begin at 4:00PM. The restaurant is carry friendly! BFA Minute Man Aaron...

ODNR Division of Wildlife to Hold Muzzleloader Deer Season in January

3:00pm Thursday, January 03, 2013
Ohio's white-tailed deer muzzleloader hunting season will open statewide Jan. 5-8, 2013, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Ohio hunters have harvested 188,853 deer this season. During the 2012 four-day muzzleloader season, 19,459 deer were harvested. Ohio deer hunters must possess the proper permits. Regardless of zone, method of taking or season...

The Gun Control Debate: Assumption, Generalization, and Emotion

7:00am Thursday, January 03, 2013
by Hal Baker A sad reality of life is that those who are hell bent on destruction will find a way to destroy. As a result, we are left sitting in the fog of confusion that always follows tragedy. Beyond the fog, there is always an uproar from the media, politicians, and a portion the general populace crying for the government to do more to protect us. Following 9/11, fear drove us to seek out and...

Late-Season Deer Hunting Opportunities Available in Ohio

3:00pm Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Muzzleloader season opens Jan. 4 COLUMBUS, OH - As the calendar turns to 2014, Ohio hunters have another opportunity to pursue white-tailed deer when muzzleloader season opens Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). Deer-muzzleloader season runs through Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014. "Muzzleloader season offers a great late-season opportunity for hunters to...

Gun owners are like most other people - we just want a safe society

3:00pm Wednesday, January 02, 2013
by Jeff Thomas Like all of you, the tragic mass killing at a Connecticut school made my heart sink. What people who seek gun control do not seem to realize is that we, as gun owners, want a safe community to live in and raise our families, a safe work environment, and safe schools for our children to learn. We are not crazy people, as the anti-gun crowd portrays us. We are fathers, mothers, Scout...

Armed Teachers: Over 600 Have Applied for Training

7:00am Wednesday, January 02, 2013
After the mass murder at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school, Buckeye Firearms Foundation announced that they would provide free firearms training to teachers and school administrative staff . So far, the Armed Teacher Training Program has attracted more than 600 applicants from all parts of Ohio and several from other states, including Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana,...

Meet the Brady Center's newest "assault weapon": Your upland/waterfowl/skeet/trap shooting shotgun

7:00am Wednesday, January 02, 2013
by Jeff Riley Several years ago, published at BuckeyeFirearms.org, I detailed the Brady Center for the Prevention of Gun Violence's call for banning "any ammunition that can penetrate ballistic armor" worn by law enforcement. This of course would ban almost any rifle ammunition used by big game and deer hunters in the United States. For years, gun-grabbers like the Brady Center have claimed that...

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