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2013 - The Year In Review

7:00am Tuesday, December 31, 2013
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 2013. January: The year begins where 2012 ended, as the country continues to discuss yet another horrific mass murder which occurred in a place where guns are banned. Images from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT and news of 20 children being ruthlessly murdered...

PETA to Mauling Victim: Grin and Bear It

3:00pm Monday, December 30, 2013
On December 13th, PETA "Special Projects" Division Manager Alicia Woempner lived up to the group's reputation for bizarre extremism when she sent a letter scolding 18-year-old hunter and bear mauling victim Camille Bomboy. In the dispatch, Woempner urges the recovering teen to "reflect on [the] incident" and "abandon hunting." Earlier in the week, Bomboy had been the victim of a vicious bear...

Dozens of Ohio Schools Change Gun Policies to Defend Students

7:00am Monday, December 30, 2013
by Jason Hart Dozens of school districts across Ohio made some allowance for handguns on campus in the year following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, a recent Buckeye Firearms Foundation (BFF) survey found. "There are at least 20 different school districts in Ohio that have authorized individuals such as teachers, administrators and parents to carry firearms in...

Op-Ed: Blowing Smoke

3:00pm Friday, December 27, 2013
by C. D. Michel The only thing cigarettes and guns have in common is that they both produce smoke. But if a pack of duplicitous San Francisco lawyers gets their way, your guns will soon be classified as a public health hazard and regulated like seat belts and Marlboros. On November 14th, 2013 the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence (LCPGV) held a public meeting that was streamed live to fellow...

Headline: Cleveland pays out settlement in gun lawsuit, will review law over weapon seizures

7:00am Friday, December 27, 2013
by Chad D. Baus How do you turn a $400 gun into almost $7,000? Have it confiscated by the City of Cleveland. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reporting recently that Cleveland has agreed to give Derrick Washington his gun back and pay $6,750 in a settlement over a federal lawsuit that drew outrage from gun-rights advocates over the police department's seizure of Washington's weapon in a case in which...

Op-Ed: Clustered criminals habituate homicide

3:00pm Thursday, December 26, 2013
by C. D. Michel Nearly 50% of all gun homicides involve only 4% of inner city gangsters. This is common, but not widely publicized, knowledge. It's a fact deliberately underemphasized by the Brady Campaign, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, and other gun ban advocates at the Happy Acres Home For the Terminally Bewildered. But a recent study by a sociology...

Democrat who thinks Second Amendment is obsolete announces candidacy for Ohio Supreme Court

7:00am Thursday, December 26, 2013
by Chad D. Baus The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported last week that State Rep. Tom Letson, a 2012 BFA D-rated Democrat from Warren, has announced his candidacy for the Ohio Supreme Court next year against incumbent Justice Sharon Kennedy (R). Letson, who is term limited and cannot run for re-election in the House, publicly announced his intention to run during the Ohio Democratic Party's executive...

Merry Christmas from Buckeye Firearms Association

3:00pm Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Merry Christmas to one and all from all of us at Buckeye Firearms Association. Our best gift is the friendship and support given by each of you throughout the year. As we reflect on the year's passing, we count our many blessings, remember our losses, and give thanks for those who helped us through it all. We each need to take time to appreciate our friends and family during this special time of...

State of Ohio considering more discriminatory rules for gun owners who foster children in need; Comment period closing soon

7:00am Tuesday, December 24, 2013
by Jim Irvine The State of Ohio is holding an open comment period on rules regarding foster care. While you may not be interested in becoming a foster parent, you should understand that rules in one government agency are often used to justify similar rules in a different place. In short, everything is related. Current foster care rules are covered in the Ohio Administrative Code . Rules regarding...

To make schools safer, arm trained and trusted employees

3:00pm Monday, December 23, 2013
Editor's Note: The following op-ed was originally published by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Republished with permission of the author. by Kevin O'Brien Karl Pierson didn't fit the profile. He wasn't a certified loser. He wasn't a wallflower. He didn't spend 18 hours a day locked in his room battering his brain with death metal. He was a Boy Scout. He was a member of the Arapahoe High School debate...

Lessons from another school shooting

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Monday, December 23, 2013
While we still don't know all the details, it is possible to learn from early reports on a school shooting near Denver. We can look at what worked and what did not. Those who care to make schools safer will choose to copy aspects that worked. Unfortunately our recent survey shows that many school officials have chosen to ignore the life-saving lessons and leave untold thousands of children at...

A Cautionary Tale for Concealed Handgun Licensees on Third Party Self-Defense

3:00pm Friday, December 20, 2013
by Greg Ellifritz Recently at work I responded to a chaotic situation. It started out as an "Officer in Trouble" call...the one we never want to hear. That's the call that is saved for only the most dire situations. When a fellow cop airs that code, every other cop within 10 miles (regardless of jurisdiction) rolls out. And by "roll out," I mean move heaven and earth to get to the scene as...

Introduction to Firearm Suppressors

Larry S. Moore
7:00am Friday, December 20, 2013
Call them suppressors, silencers, mufflers or "a can," but by whatever name you wish, the use of suppressor seems to have an identity problem. While the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) primarily uses the words firearm muffler or silencer, I prefer the term suppressor. Suppressors are legal for Ohio residents to own but not legal for hunting use. As I investigated the...

To the Editor: Views change on response to shootings

3:00pm Thursday, December 19, 2013
The following letter to the editor of the Columbus Dispatch was submitted by Ken Hanson, Buckeye Firearms Association's Legislative Chair and published on December 12, 2013. On Dec. 14, 2012, a deranged coward entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and committed 26 murders. Saturday's anniversary gives our nation a moment to reflect upon what happened that day. As someone who has...

The Next Gun Rights Assault

7:00am Thursday, December 19, 2013
by Jeff Knox Rights advocates around the country need to be on the lookout for an insidious new tactic being launched by Mike Bloomberg and his mercenary minions. Their latest line of attack is mental health. This actually isn't so much a new approach as a refocusing and turbo charging of an older plan. The strategy is to use the wide acceptance of the idea that the mentally ill should not have...

Tactical Training Scenario - Carjacking and Denial

3:00pm Wednesday, December 18, 2013
by Greg Ellifritz Place yourself in Carolyn Meadows' shoes. It's mid day and you are leaving a large grocery store. You get into your car and start to back out of the parking space only to be startled by a shirtless man yelling and banging on the rear of your car. The man is blocking the car from completely leaving the parking space and if she accelerated, she would hit the man. What would you...

Washington Post: "In Ohio, momentum favors gun rights movement"

7:00am Wednesday, December 18, 2013
by Chad D. Baus An article published in our nation's capital on December 11 documents the progress made by gun rights activists in Ohio in 2013. From the Washington Post : This year, more than 82,000 new concealed-carry weapons licenses were issued in Ohio through September — more than any full year since the system was enacted in 2004... ...Ohio is not alone: By the end of October, 11 states had...

Cleveland CHL-holder defends own life when violently attacked by two armed robbers

3:00pm Tuesday, December 17, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WOIO (CBS Cleveland) is reporting that a 24 year-old concealed handgun licensee was forced to defend his own life after two armed robbers beat and pistol-whipped him inside his own home. From the article : 19 Action News has learned the 24-year-old homeowner returned home and was approached by two men in his driveway who attempted to rob him. The suspects forced the homeowner...

BOOK REVIEW: Emily Gets Her Gun…But Obama Wants to Take Yours

7:00am Tuesday, December 17, 2013
By Jim Irvine I've had the pleasure of hearing Emily Miller address groups to tell her story of becoming a D.C. gun owner several times. Emily is a delightful person, has an interesting story to tell and does a great job telling it. She has won numerous awards for her series, "Emily Gets her Gun" which appeared in the Washington Times . Her book, by the same title, details her journey from an...

Toledo homeowner fights back during attempted home invasion

3:00pm Monday, December 16, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WTVG (ABC Toledo) reported recently that a man defended himself and his girlfriend when a man forced his way through a window in an attempted home invasion. From the article : A Toledo man is recovering after he was shot, possibly during an attempted home invasion, Thursday morning. Antione Garrett told police he and his girlfriend woke up to the sound of someone breaking into...

CNN Poll: Fading support for stricter gun control exposes reason why extremists move immediately to exploit tragedy

7:00am Monday, December 16, 2013
by Chad D. Baus CNN reported recently that "as memories fade from last December's horrific school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, a new national poll indicates that support for stricter gun control laws appears to be fading, too." While CNN's premise that only a fading memory can explain the decline in support for gun control is bogus, the findings are none-the-less encouraging. From the...

Obama and Bloomberg Use December 14 to Promote Gun Control

3:00pm Friday, December 13, 2013
Google "Organizing for Action" (OFA), supposedly a non-partisan, grassroots group, and you get www.barackobama.com . Likewise, click on the preceding link, and it takes you to the Organizing for Action website. Despite OFA's innocuous-sounding name, the Chicago-based group is an arm of the Obama political machine, the successor to a similar Obama store-front put together after his 2008 election,...

School safety for active killer events

7:00am Friday, December 13, 2013
Editor's Note: The following article editorial was published on December 3 edition of the Sidney Daily News . School officials in that city, with the support and aid of the Shelby Co. Sheriff, have implemented a program to provide armed staff members inside the schools, and are struggling with a resistant local police chief. by Jim Irvine Everyone wants schools to be safe, but how is that best...

Op-Ed: Predictions by anti-gun crowd rarely come true

3:00pm Thursday, December 12, 2013
by Mike McCoy Law-abiding citizens are likely to soon see several improvements to Ohio’s concealed carry law. In a bipartisan vote Tuesday, the Policy and Legislative Oversight Committee of the Ohio House of Representatives voted to send House Bill 203 to the full House. This was an important step in moving this legislation to passage. ...What the misnamed stand your ground provision actually...

School safety – what teachers tell us about your kid’s school

9:40am Thursday, December 12, 2013
by Jim Irvine Saturday, December 14, 2013 marks the one year anniversary since a coward murdered his mother, stole her gun and her car, then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where he brutally murdered his mother, six school employees and 20 innocent children before committing suicide. Buckeye Firearms Foundation recently surveyed school employees to find out what has...

Op-Ed: Women the 'Holy Grail' of gun rights movement

3:00pm Wednesday, December 11, 2013
by Raquel Okyay Women seeking to arm themselves and their daughters are figuring out that guns are not 'taboo' but a powerful means of protection. "Women are the holy grail of the Second Amendment movement," said Skip Coryell nationally recognized firearm expert and author of the newly released The Shadow Militia. The Second Amendment will stand or fall depending on the way women vote, he said. "...

Survey shows nearly two dozen Ohio schools authorize carrying of guns to improve kids' safety

9:41am Wednesday, December 11, 2013
by Jim Irvine Saturday, December 14, 2013 marks the one year anniversary since a coward murdered his mother, stole her gun and her car, then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. There he broke a window through which he entered the school, murdered several administrators then walked down the hallway and shot teachers before killing a classroom full of children. All told...

Ohio Hunters Harvest more than 75,000 Deer during Weeklong Gun Season

3:00pm Tuesday, December 10, 2013
COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio hunters checked 75,408 white-tailed deer during the weeklong gun hunting season, Dec. 2-8, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). "With the muzzleloader season and almost two months of archery hunting yet to come, Ohio hunters have many more opportunities to harvest a deer," said Scott Zody, chief of the ODNR Division of Wildlife. Hunting is the best and...

November 2013 firearms sales checks second-highest on record

7:00am Tuesday, December 10, 2013
The November 2013 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,308,100 is a decrease of 14.2 percent compared to the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,525,177 in November 2012. For comparison, the unadjusted November 2013 NICS figure of 1,805,759 reflects a 9.6 percent decrease from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,997,703 in November 2012. NSSF-adjusted NICS for...

U.S. Rep. Bob Latta Introduces New Sportsmen's Act, HR 3590

3:00pm Monday, December 09, 2013
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industries, today noted that Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus (CSC) Co-Chair Bob Latta (R-Ohio) has introduced HR 3590, a new bipartisan version of the Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act of 2013. Earlier this year, Latta and...

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