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Obama issues new executive actions on gun control, targets collectors instead of criminals

8:00am Friday, August 30, 2013
by Chad D. Baus National media are reporting that the Obama administration unexpectedly announced two new gun control measures on Thursday. The move came just two days after Obama promised, in a closed door meeting with some of the nation's most anti-gun rights mayors, that he was about to take unilateral action on guns . From FoxNews.com : Vice President Biden announced the new measures Thursday...

Join our fight with Mayor Bloomberg in Colorado! [LIVE UPDATES]

9:15pm Thursday, August 29, 2013
As you may know, Colorado will have a recall election on September 10 to remove two anti-gun senators from office. While Buckeye Firearms Association generally focuses on Ohio, this particular election involves New York City Mayor Bloomberg and could have national repercussions. Three BFA leaders have traveled to Colorado to help lead the fight. And you can be part of the battle as well. >...

As Colorado prepares to vote on recalling two anti-gun politicians, NYC Mayor Bloomberg (and BFA!) joins the fight

5:00pm Thursday, August 29, 2013
Editor's Note: As you will read below, New York City Mayor Bloomberg's anti-gun rights group keeps meddling in other states, and we're going to face them head on - right here in Ohio , and also in Colorado . Buckeye Firearms Association's Sean Maloney, Ken Hanson and Linda Walker are headed to Colorado to join this fight. We'll spend a tiny fraction of what Bloomberg and his allies have, but we'...

“Don’t Run in a Straight Line” and other Bad Advice

8:00am Thursday, August 29, 2013
by Greg Ellifritz When listening to experts describe how to flee from an attacker who is shooting, the most common statement heard is "Don't run in a straight line." Many people advocate running in a zig-zag pattern or running in a crouched position instead. A target that is small or that moves randomly will theoretically be more difficult to hit. A simple internet search find that zig-zag...

GRASSROOTS ALERT - Bloomberg coming to Columbus

5:15pm Wednesday, August 28, 2013
NOTE: Location of event has changed. It is now at McPherson Commons (Arch Park), 218 West St. near Nationwide Arena. We need REAL GUN OWNERS to show up Friday in Columbus to push back against Bloomberg's anti-gun propaganda! On Friday, August 30 the anti-firearm freedom group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns will be hosting a rally in Columbus attacking Senator Rob Portman and promoting measures that...

USSA: How to Deal with Anti-Hunters and Harassment

4:00pm Wednesday, August 28, 2013
As avid sportsmen and women, we may cross paths with our biggest foes: the anti-hunting community. Whether in the field, at a sporting event, a restaurant, or any other place, it is generally a rather unpleasant encounter. If this happens to you in the field, the question is: How should I handle this situation? Remember, hunter harassment is illegal in all 50 states! Over 25 years ago, USSA wrote...

Book Review: "Evil Invades Sanctuary: The Case for Security in Faith-Based Organizations"

8:00am Wednesday, August 28, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Long-time readers of this website will no-doubt recall the active killer attack at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, CO in 2007. After having killed two people and wounding two others at a YWAM training center, the 24 year-old killer set his sights on New Life Church. What he did not know was that the flock at New Life had protection from wolves such as him, in the form of...

Ohio's Squirrel Hunting Season Begins Sept. 1

4:00pm Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Ohio's squirrel hunting season opens Sunday, Sept. 1, when many hunters will go to the woods with the opportunity to take as many as six squirrels per day, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). Ohio's squirrel season is a longtime tradition for many hunters. Ample hunting opportunities are available for fox, gray, black and red squirrels. This is an excellent time to take...

What about the .22 Magnum?

8:00am Tuesday, August 27, 2013
by Greg Ellifritz After last week's article about using the .22 for self defense, I was deluged with queries about my self defense recommendations concerning the .22 Magnum cartridge. For those of you unfamiliar with the cartridge, HERE is a blog post from Cheaper Than Dirt about the round's history and capabilities. I'm quite fond of the .22 magnum round. The first handgun I ever owned as a kid...

CO gun control law backfires; Gun "buyback" cancelled due to "universal" background checks

3:00pm Monday, August 26, 2013
by Chad D. Baus KOAA (NBC Colorado Springs) reported recently that anti-gun rights organizers have had to cancel a so-called gun "buyback" at the request of Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle, who says Colorado's new gun laws would make it nearly impossible to comply. From the article : Pelle says a strict law that went into effect July 1 requires buyers to go to a licensed firearms dealer and...

911 calls detail last moments of woman’s life in Kenton murder

8:00am Monday, August 26, 2013
Editor's Note: I have listened to the audio tapes. They are absolutely heart-wrenching. If ever there was a reason to abandon the "dial 911 and wait" mindset, this is it. (Note too that no one in the news media have jumped on this terrible event as a reason to ban knives.) by Greg Sowinski The call to 911 made by a woman who would be stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend minutes later began in a...

Gun Crimes Plummet Even As Gun Sales Rise

4:00pm Friday, August 23, 2013
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has released a new infographic designed to counter the false impression many Americans have that gun-related crime has increased over the past 20 years, even though it has actually fallen dramatically. Fifty-six percent of Americans think crime with firearms has increased, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. However, data show that...

Using the .22 for Self Defense

8:00am Friday, August 23, 2013
by Greg Ellifritz Since my handgun stopping power study was published last month in American Handgunner Magazine, I've received several questions from readers about my data. I expected to be castigated by all the big bullet aficionados for reporting honest data about the "mouse gun" calibers. That wasn't what I received. All the email that I got was from .22 advocates telling me that I...

Op-Ed: Illegal Mayors

4:00pm Thursday, August 22, 2013
by C. D. Michel Incarcerating Michael Bloomberg may be the next news ironic item. If only! New York Mayor Bloomberg, America's self-appointed gun control financier and front man, established the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG). The group's typically innocuous and benign sound bites actually conceal an aggressive and extreme agenda, some rather disastrous shenanigans (such as a Keystone...

Nanny Bloomberg’s War on the Constitution

8:00am Thursday, August 22, 2013
by Jeff Knox About a month after the US Senate voted down a series of gun control amendments back in April, an article in the New Republic magazine boldly declared "This is How the NRA Ends: A Bigger, Richer, Meaner Gun Control Movement has Arrived." The article was a long diatribe regurgitating much of the stale tripe and distortion we've been hearing from the anti-rights movement for decades,...

Op-Ed: Gun toting teachers' names must remain private

4:00pm Wednesday, August 21, 2013
by John Lott Are people safer if criminals know who is carrying concealed handguns? Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel seems to think so. With school starting soon, he claims that if the Clarksville, Arkansas School District lets employees carry concealed handguns at school, their names must be made public. This is his second attempt to derail the school district's proposal. McDaniel's...

AG DeWine declares some school safety plans "useless"

8:00am Wednesday, August 21, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that, while all Ohio schools meet the legal requirement of having a school safety plan, many are outdated, incomplete or useless to law enforcement. State law requires schools to file reports on how they would handle an active killer incident or other emergency, the article observes, but there are no penalties for failing to file, and the...

Rumor Control: U.N. "Disarmament" Memo

8:00am Tuesday, August 20, 2013
As attacks on our Second Amendment rights continue, there is typically a corresponding uptick in the number of internet rumors concerning firearms, ammunition, and gun-control measures. The latest rumor involves the United Nations, a group that indeed poses an ongoing potential threat to our Second Amendment rights. However, this rumor was highly suspect right from the start. Pictures of the...

Ohio's children need protection...period.

8:00am Tuesday, August 20, 2013
by Mindy Whited On July 27, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published an op-ed by Renuka Mayadev entitled " Ohio's children need protection from guns ." In the article, Mayadev cites several tragic accidental shootings involving Ohio children as reasons for which Ohio should pass new gun control laws. I am a mom to five children ages 3-20. I agree that as a mom, our first priority should be keeping...

Piers Morgan Tells a Whopper

4:00pm Monday, August 19, 2013
If you have the misfortune to be familiar with Piers Morgan, the British former tabloid "reporter" and "talent judge" known on this side of the Atlantic as CNN's most overbearing gun control proselytizer, you won't be surprised at what he did on Tuesday. It began during an interview with military history expert A.W.R. Hawkins, as Morgan pushed his theory that more gun ownership leads to more...

Communications to Buckeye Firearms Foundation about Zimmerman Second Amendment Fund expose raging anti-gun mentality

8:00am Monday, August 19, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Nearly a decade ago, I came across an article by a Dr. Sarah Thompson, entitled " Raging Against Self Defense - A Psychiatrist Examines The Anti-Gun Mentality ." The article was originally published by Utah Gun Owners Alliance, where Dr. Thompson served as executive director, but I came across it on the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership's website. In the article, Dr...

Mayor Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun “No More Names” Tour Stops in Ohio

4:00pm Friday, August 16, 2013
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Columbus Dispatch reported that only about 40 anti-gun rights people attended this rally - less than the number of pro-gun counter protesters counted by the author, who states "I did a visual head-count at three different times throughout the morning, and the pro-Second Amendment side never had less than 23, and had 46 at its peak at 11:00 AM." As the author points out, in...

Unveiled: Gun ban extremists' secret playbook: Part 2

8:00am Friday, August 16, 2013
by Chad D. Baus A friend sent a very interesting document to me recently - one that is making its rounds through the gun rights community after having been leaked online. Entitled " Preventing Gun Violence Through Effective Messaging ," it is an 80-page playbook designed to help anti-gun rights extremists learn why they continue to get beat, and how to change their message so as to fool the...

MAIG outdoes Biden on self-defense

4:00pm Thursday, August 15, 2013
On August 2, Executive Director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns Mark Glaze managed the twin feat of offering self-defense advice that surpassed Vice President Joseph Biden's in its ignorance, while simultaneously making MSNBC's Chris Matthews seem like a voice of reason on the topic. While a guest on Matthews' Hardball, the host discussed with Glaze whether he would consider an attacker wielding...

Rare accidental shooting in concealed carry class puts focus on gun safety rules

8:00am Thursday, August 15, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Last week, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that a record number of Ohioans had obtained concealed handgun licenses in the second quarter of 2013, and showed an increase over the record number that had been obtained in the first quarter. Over 376,000 Ohio citizens are now licensed to carry handguns. This news was distributed across the state, and was picked up by the...

Senator Rob Portman responds to nagging anti-gun mayors group: Join me in supporting something that will work (or shut up)

4:00pm Wednesday, August 14, 2013
by Chad D. Baus After several expensive negative ad campaigns in Ohio failed to sway Sen. Rob Portman's firm support for the Second Amendment, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's and President Obama's gun control groups, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) and Organizing for Action (OFA), have switched to using the free media. Every few weeks, the groups will stage a press conference or other media...

Lucky man from Dayton wins 3-Gun EDC Raffle

8:00am Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Buckeye Firearms Association's roots go back when Ohio was fighting to get legal concealed carry. BFA made a name for itself as the "CCW" organization and concealed carry advocates remain our strongest supporters. So it's no surprise that a raffle with 3 different carry guns would sell 1,000 tickets within hours. And it's certainly no surprise that Scott of Dayton would have such a big smile on...

Translating Anti-Gun Propaganda into English

4:00pm Tuesday, August 13, 2013
In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four , a tyrannical government attempts to control how people think by, among other things, reducing language to "a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of IngSoc [English Socialism]" and "to make all other modes of thought impossible." In the IngSoc government's new language, Newspeak, the original meanings of many...

Poll: Americans want Senate to drop gun control

8:00am Tuesday, August 13, 2013
by Chad D. Baus If an alien being landed on earth, knowing nothing of our politics, and read the newspaper or watched a news broadcast, it'd be absolutely convinced that 90% of Americans are overwhelmingly demanding passage of gun control legislation that was proposed, debated and voted down in the United States Senate last spring. Even before the gavel had dropped on the first vote to kill the...

Pelosi Urges Congress to Uphold Constitution by Passing Gun Control

4:00pm Monday, August 12, 2013
Anti-gun U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) recently urged members of Congress to uphold their oath to "protect and defend" the Constitution by passing harsher gun control laws. Yes, Pelosi is proposing that Congress should support the Constitution by radically violating it. Such is the deconstructionist mindset of modern-day gun-control advocates. As reported by CNS News , Pelosi made...

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