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Several firearms-related bills scheduled for sponsor testimony in House committee

by Chad D. Baus
4:39pm Thursday, April 30, 2015
Chairman Ron Maag has announced that the House State Government will be hearing sponsor testimony on several firearms-related bills next Wednesday, May 6 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 121. Bills for which their sponsors will be testifying are: HB 20 (Rule Modification for Concealed Carry in School Zones) - Reps. Gonzales/Koehler HB 35 (Prohibit seizure/registry of firearms) - Reps. Retherford/Hood HB 48 (...

Off-duty police officer and Ohio CHL-holder respond to sounds of shooting in Dayton

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Thursday, April 30, 2015
The Dayton Daily News is reporting that an off-duty police officer and an Ohio CHL-holder responded to sounds of shooting at 10:15 a.m. on Monday morning. According to the report, multiple shots were fired in what was described as a “drug deal gone bad” (as though there are drug deals that go good?). The shots fired were from the suspects shooting at each other, and up to 15 rounds struck a...

The Video Every Child - and you - Need to See

7:00am Thursday, April 30, 2015
FAIRFAX, Va. – In spring 2015, the NRA introduced a brand new Eddie Eagle video. Started in 1988, the Eddie Eagle GunSafe program has reached more than 28 million children with an important safety message. Eddie has a modernized look and some new friends—the Wing Team. Together, they learn what to do if they ever find a gun: STOP! Don’t touch. Run away. Tell a grown-up. From a letter anouncing...

Texas and Wisconsin to recognize Ohio concealed handgun licenses issued on or after 3/23/15

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Editor's Note: This article has been corrected to reflect the latest information on New Hampshire. On March 23, 2015, the date House Bill 243 went into effect, Attorney General Mike DeWine issued a press release announcing that Ohioans with concealed handgun licenses will be able to use those licenses "in five additional states." Pursuant to changes adopted in House Bill 234 of the 130th General...

Reality of NRA Convention Defies Anti-Gun Media Stereotype

7:00am Wednesday, April 29, 2015
To say that the agenda-driven media often attempts to portray NRA and gun owners in a negative light is an understatement. Some ignorant writers and political commentators try to label NRA as extremists; or worse. Others claim that gun owners exercising their right to carry will resurrect the "Old West" and that laws recognizing this right "seem almost designed to encourage violence." The actions...

NSSF: Cleveland Out of Running to Host Future Firearms Industry Summit

3:00pm Tuesday, April 28, 2015
The National Shooting Sports Foundation has released the following press release in response to the City of Cleveland's new gun control laws . In recent months, the city of Cleveland, Ohio, has been working with NSSF to be considered as the host location for a future NSSF Industry Summit. Given Cleveland’s excellent revitalization efforts in recent years, its number of good hotels and wealth of...

Two New Classes Scheduled for Buckeye Firearms Association

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Tuesday, April 28, 2015
The Buckeye Firearms Association is Ohio’s premier gun rights advocacy group. They work hard behind the scenes to ensure that the firearms/CCW rights of Ohioans remain secure. I support this group every year by teaching a couple classes. BFA gets a large percentage of the tuition fees for these classes. It’s a win/win. If you enroll in one of these classes, you get quality training and your...

NRA Scores Important Victory for American Hunters and Sport Shooters

3:00pm Monday, April 27, 2015
Fairfax, Va. – The National Rifle Association on Apr. 23 claimed victory for beating back an Obama administration policy that would have essentially stopped American hunters and sport shooters from travelling internationally with their personal firearms and ammunition. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that it is returning to its previous system of facilitating the...

FasterSavesLives.org featured in Springfield News-Sun article on school safety

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, April 27, 2015
Buckeye Firearms Foundation's FasterSavesLives.org is featured in a lengthy Springfield News-Sun article exploring the topic of school safety. The article, entitled "Some Ohio school districts have guns at the ready, " notes that an estimated 30 Ohio school districts include guns in their security plans, and that 144 more teachers are being trained through the FASTER program this summer. From the...

Illinois license-holder stops Chicago man who was firing into a crowd of people

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, April 24, 2015
The Chicago Tribune reported this week that an Illinois concealed handgun license-holder was able to stop a man who was firing his gun into a crowd of people last Friday. According to Assistant State's Attorney Barry Quinn, the driver who shot and wounded a gunman who opened fire on a crowd of people had a concealed-carry permit and acted in the defense of himself and others. From the article : A...

Senator Portman casts nauseating vote to confirm Loretta Lynch as U.S. Attorney General

by Jim Irvine & Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, April 24, 2015
Last month, the New York Times reported that Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) was among a handful of Republican senators upon whom Loretta Lynch's confirmation for United States Attorney General swung. After a lengthy confirmation process, and by a 56-43 vote, Lynch was confirmed. Portman was a key senator whose support made Lynch's confirmation possible. The National Rifle Association opposed Lynch'...

Project ChildSafe Releases New Firearm Safety Video

3:00pm Thursday, April 23, 2015
First-of-its-kind resource from NSSF encourages open conversations between parents and children about firearm safety NEWTOWN, Conn. - The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) today released a new, first-of-its-kind educational resource, the "How to Talk to Your Kids about Firearm Safety" video. The video, starring champion shooter and mother Julie Golob, encourages parents to have "the talk...

Cleveland council president claims new gun control law was never about violence, but "values"

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, April 23, 2015
On Monday, April 20, and after nine months of debate that included receiving testimony from Buckeye Firearms Association's Ken Hanson , the Cleveland City Council passed a watered-down version of gun control legislation that had been proposed by Mayor Frank Jackson in 2014. According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer , after passing the law, Council President Kevin Kelley stated that "the legislation...

7 Things You Need to Buy With Your Handgun

by B. Gil Horman
3:00pm Wednesday, April 22, 2015
If you are in the market for a handgun, then you have plenty to think about in regard to choosing a make, model and caliber that will fill your needs. But it's a mistake to think that buying the gun is where the purchase ends. Handguns are not ordinary tools that can just be tossed in a drawer like a wrench or a hammer. To properly store, maintain and use a pistol or a revolver, you need to...

A Failure to Acknowledge Reality

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Wednesday, April 22, 2015
I took a call a couple of weeks ago at work. A woman was reporting that she had been “attacked” by an aggressive dog several times over the last year. As I talked to her to find out what happened, I learned that a neighbor’s dog regularly barks at her as she walks past the neighbor’s house. The dog is restrained by an “invisible fence” and does not leave its yard. The woman told me “Every time I...

Honing the Concealed-Carry Mindset

by B. Gil Horman
3:00pm Tuesday, April 21, 2015
We live in an amazing modern world of turn-key solutions. Especially in America, we have an astounding variety of tools, technology and instant access to information at our finger tips for solving our day-to-day problems. While many of these assets are convenient, they can make us mentally lazy if we let them. We could start to think that being in possession of the "right" or "best" equipment...

Yes, you heard correctly: Buckeyes may now carry in the Keystone State!

by Tim Inwood
7:00am Tuesday, April 21, 2015
[Editor's Note: As this news began to circulate, we received a good number of emails and inquiries on our Facebook page seeking confirmation. Our delay in publishing this article is due to two factors: 1) a desire to confirm the information with the Ohio Attorney General's office - which we have done - and 2) the editor was at the NRA Annual Meetings and then took a family vacation. Apologies for...

REVIEW: SIG Sauer P320- Tomorrow's SIG Today

by Wiley Clapp
3:00pm Monday, April 20, 2015
They have that SIG look to them—blocky slide sitting well above the receiver, gracefully shaped butt section, simplified controls. Unquestionably, a strong family resemblance that says the innovative designers up in New Hampshire have a new series of pistols ready for your consideration. However, there are several features that are quite different, and the most significant is the absence of a...

The 21-Foot Rule Revisited

by Jim Wilson
7:00am Monday, April 20, 2015
In 1983, Dennis Tueller, a police officer, published an article discussing the need to defend against an attacker armed with a knife or blunt weapon. Through his tests and studies he determined that a person would be in danger if the attacker came at him from 21 feet or less. In short, the attacker could get to his victim before the victim was able to draw and accurately fire his handgun. While...

Op-Ed: Hollywood Actors Who Support California Gun Laws

by Chuck Michel
3:00pm Friday, April 17, 2015
California has some of the toughest gun laws in the country. This pleases many Hollywood gun control activists, who continue to promote efforts for legislation around the country to regulate firearms and the purchase of guns. California received the top rating for the strongest gun reform measures in a 2013 state analysis by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Law Center to Prevent...

Ohio Deputy's case is latest to highlight bad laws, unreasonable prosecutions, unequal justice

by Jeff Knox
7:00am Friday, April 17, 2015
In recent years I’ve often written about people entangled in our nation’s complex, confusing, and irrational gun laws. People like David Olofson, who was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for illegal transfer of a “machine gun” after his standard, semi-auto, AR – with no altered or modified parts – malfunctioned and produced hammer-follow doubles and triples. Or FBI Special Agent John...

ATF & DOJ: Corruption in Action

by Jeff Knox
3:00pm Thursday, April 16, 2015
As I was graduating from high school in Prescott, Arizona, My father, Neal Knox, was in Washington, D.C. making war plans as the head of NRA’s lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative Action. By the following year, Dad had publicly declared war on the BATF and the Gun Control of 1968. From Dad’s perspective, BATF had been actively waging war on gun owners for years, and he had left his dream...

BATFE "Air Force" Grounded Again

7:00am Thursday, April 16, 2015
Everyone likes the song that begins “Off we go, into the wild blue yonder.” Maybe the BATFE likes it a little too much. Days after the BATFE had its ears trimmed by Congress after trying to ban M855 ammunition, a D.O.J. Inspector General audit has revealed that over the last few years, the agency spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars trying to achieve one of its long held ambitions, a...

New Lawmakers Inform President of their Opposition to the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

3:00pm Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Recently, a group of 12 freshman Senators expressed their opposition to ratification of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty in a letter to President Barack Obama. Secretary of State John Kerry signed the UN ATT on behalf of the U.S. on September 25, 2013. In their letter, the new Senators cited an October 15, 2013 letter to the president signed by 50 Senators from the 113th Congress that...

Your Tactical Training Scenario- Defeating Pepper Spray

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Have you ever thought about what you might do if a criminal sprays you in the face with pepper spray? That scenario happened recently in New Jersey when a shoplifter sprayed two store security guards who confronted her after she stole some merchandise. The spray incapacitated the security guards and the woman escaped to a nearby hotel. When confronted by hotel security, she sprayed them as well...

"Choke Point" Hearings Yield Predictable Responses From FDIC Chairman

3:00pm Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Last year, we began reporting on the Obama administration’s "Operation Choke Point" and the use of federal financial services regulators to harass and intimidate banks and financial service providers who maintain relationships with legal but so-called "high risk" merchants or businesses. By leaning on the banks, the regulators hope to cause them to sever relationships with these businesses,...

Buckeye Firearms Association Leader Elected to NRA Board of Directors

7:00am Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Sean Maloney of Liberty Township, Ohio, has been elected to the NRA Board of Directors. A gun rights attorney, Buckeye Firearms Association leader, NRA Benefactor Life member, and co-founder of Second Call Defense, Maloney won the election for the 76th seat on the NRA Board of Directors. Voting took place on April 10 and 11 during the 2015 NRA Annual Meeting in Nashville. "I am happy to have this...

Rule Change May Devastate International Travel for Hunters and Shooters

3:00pm Monday, April 13, 2015
The Obama administration’s relentless assault on the Second Amendment continues as the State Department implements a new rule which catches American hunters and sport shooters in a web of bureaucratic red-tape when traveling outside the United States. Coming close on the heels of the withdrawn BATFE ammo ban we reported on last week, an unmistakable pattern of abuse is beginning to emerge,...

U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance holds annual legislative reception

by Larry S. Moore
7:00am Monday, April 13, 2015
The annual U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance (USSA) legislative reception once again attracted sportsmen and women along with many elected officials to the Downtown Athletic Club in Columbus. It was attended by a "who's who" in Ohio government, as well as, major Ohio sportsmen organizations. Governor John Kasich stopped by and addressed the crowd. Senate President Keith Faber also spoke. Lt. Governor...

1st Quarter Firearms Sales Checks Second Highest Q1 on Record

3:00pm Friday, April 10, 2015
The March 2015 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,187,823 is the fourth highest March on record for the 16-year-old system, with a decrease of 3.0 percent compared to the March 2014 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of1,224,705. For comparison, the unadjusted March 2015 NICS figure of 2,001,245 reflects a 19.2 percent decrease from the unadjusted NICS...

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