While Media Chase “Fear” Narrative; Americans Make their Own Decisions on Buying Firearms

by Larry Keane
7:00am Thursday, January 19, 2017
Mainstream media always struggle to explain the fact that Americans choose to exercise their Second Amendment rights. In the last few days alone we have headlines suggesting the incoming Trump Administration and fear of hate crimes are behind soaring gun sales. Under the Obama Administration, gun sales surged. The media’s take: nutty people who already have guns are buying even more guns because...

Changes to Ohio concealed carry law coming March 21, 2017

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to announce that changes made to Ohio law via the recently-passed Senate Bill 199 will take effect on March 21, 2017. The changes and improvements made to Ohio law for gun owners include the following: Prohibit a business entity, property owner, or public or private employer from banning a person who has been issued a valid CHL from transporting or storing...

SHOCK: Persons obtain 7+ firearms without background check

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, January 17, 2017
To listen to President Obama and his gun ban extremist friends tell it for the past eight years, all we have to do to keep criminals from gaining access to firearms is to mandate that a background check be done before all transfers of firearms. Pass "universal" background checks, we're told, close the "gun show loophole," we're told, and we can stop mass shootings! Indeed, the Coalition to Stop...

BFA applauds latest OH Div. of Wildlife proposal re: straight-walled rifle cartridges for deer hunting

by Larry S. Moore
7:00am Monday, January 16, 2017
The Ohio Division of Wildlife has started the annual process of proposed rule changes for hunting and trapping seasons. The Division leadership presented the first proposals to the Ohio Wildlife Council on January 11. Buckeye Firearms Association sportsmen leader Larry Moore regularly attends the Wildlife Council meetings. Many of the proposals involved various small game, waterfowl and trapping...

773 Teachers and Staff Members Get "Armed" Active Killer Training

7:00am Friday, January 13, 2017
When an active killer targets a school, the standard protocol is to wait for law enforcement to arrive on the scene to stop the violence. In 2013, that protocol started to change for many schools with the introduction of the FASTER Saves Lives program, which provides lethal force training and medical response to teachers and staff members. Now after four years, FASTER Saves Lives has trained 773...

After Action Report: BFA's Low-Light/Flashlight class

by Clint Lake
7:00am Thursday, January 12, 2017
Being the training coordinator for BFA gives me the opportunity to take some of the classes in which I schedule. I don’t participate in every class we have, but I always load up the magazines and make sure I have plenty of CR123 batteries for low-light/flashlight classes. So many times the self-defense carrier goes to the square, indoor range and practices the things that they are good at, in a...

Lake County (OH) Third-Quarter CHL license revocations four times more than rest of state

by Jeffrey Frischkorn
7:00am Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Lake County’s 233 concealed carry permit revocations noted during the Ohio Attorney General’s third quarter reporting period is nearly four times the total number of similar revocations for all of the state’s other 87 counties combined. In all during the third quarter of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s concealed carry permit statistical report, the state revoked the documents of 297...

Teacher shames young hunter at NE OH school: "Killing animals is not what we do"

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, January 10, 2017
The Medina (OH) Gazette is reporting that a nine year-old first-year apprentice-licensed hunter, whose 2016 Youth Hunt resulted in the harvest of a mature 8 point buck, was later shamed and embarrassed by her teacher at school. From the article : Domonique Yatsko harvested her first deer on the last day of youth deer-gun weekend in November. It was an eight-point buck. To celebrate, a picture...

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