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Straight-walled cartridge rifles approved for hunting white-tailed deer in Ohio!

3:00pm Thursday, April 10, 2014

Ohio Wildlife Council Approves 2014-2015 Hunting Regulations COLUMBUS, OH – The Ohio Wildlife Council approved new white-tailed deer hunting regulations at its meeting on Wednesday, April 9, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). Among new regulations are decreased deer bag limits in many counties, and hunters may use straight-walled cartridge rifles during the 2014 deer-...

Op-Ed: Fort Hood attack: My son, our soldiers, are defenseless, sitting ducks

by John Lott

7:00am Thursday, April 10, 2014

The Obama administration hasn’t learned anything from the massacres at Fort Hood in 2009 or the Washington Navy Yard last year. For all my research on how to stop or prevent mass public shootings and all the victims at these attacks that I have talked to over the years, the attack this week at Fort Hood was different. My son Ryan, who is stationed at Fort Hood and recently back from a tour in...

To the Editor: Concealed-carry stand was wrong

3:00pm Wednesday, April 09, 2014

The following letters to the editor of the Toledo Blade were published on April 3, 2014 in response to an editorial calling on the Ohio Senate and Governor Kasich to oppose H.B. 203: Your March 24 editorial “Standing down” asserts that Ohio House Bill 203, which would remove the “duty to retreat” from a violent attacker who is threatening one’s life, “would almost surely encourage gun violence —...

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Buckeye Firearms Association's Linda Walker re-elected to the NRA’s Board of Directors

7:00am Wednesday, April 09, 2014

The leadership team of Buckeye Firearms Association is proud to announce that our very own Linda Walker has been re-elected to a second 3-year term on the National Rifle Association's Board of Directors. The NRA will make the public announcement at the Members Meeting in Indianapolis at the NRA Annual Meetings on Saturday, April 26, 2014. Linda Walker has been a tireless supporter and fighter for...

Ohio’s concealed-carry law has good track record

by Ken Hanson, Esq.

3:00pm Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Editor's Note: The following was originally published in The Columbus Dispatch . Republished with permission of the author. Today marks the 10-year anniversary of licensed concealed carry in Ohio. According to the end-of-year report prepared by the Ohio attorney general in December, more than 408,000 Ohioans are carrying concealed-carry licenses. To put this into perspective, at least 1 in 20...

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Ohio concealed handgun licenses: A decade of saving lives

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Today, April 8, 2014, marks the ten year anniversary of concealed handgun licenses in Ohio. I could not even begin to give an accurate estimate the number of hours that I and my fellow volunteer leaders at Buckeye Firearms Association have put into efforts to get the law passed, and subsequently to get it improved - I am sure it is in the hundreds of thousands. Every so often, I am reminded why...

Cleveland police internal memo: Citizens can openly carry guns in public

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Monday, April 07, 2014

WOIO, Cleveland's CBS affiliate, has obtained a memo distributed to all Cleveland police officers advising them on the fact that open carrying a handgun is a legal activity in the state of Ohio. In 2012, a similar memo was issued to officers in Cincinnati. Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to see this accurate analysis of the legality of open carry and issues regarding law enforcement...

Ohio Gun Rights Timeline - A Journey Towards Freedom

by Joe Eaton & Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, April 07, 2014

As law-abiding citizens celebrate the tenth anniversary of Ohio's concealed handgun licensure law, we thought it would be helpful to document the Buckeye State's more than 225 year-history of gun rights, with specific focus on efforts to restore the rights all Ohioans once enjoyed. Despite much progress, the fight is far from over! 1788 July The first Ohio law to establish and regulate a militia...