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Study: "Universal" background checks not likely to reduce gun crime; Reps. Heard & Patmon push UBC bills in Ohio anyways

7:00am Friday, April 12, 2013

Using 20-year-old data, President Obama recently claimed that as many as 40 percent of gun purchases take place without a background check (Remarks by the President, March 28, 2013). He suggested that requiring background checks for all gun purchases will reduce gun violence by keeping dangerous people from acquiring firearms. To determine if the 40 percent estimate is accurate today,...

Headline: Second Amendment - Right to bear arms in action

3:00pm Thursday, April 11, 2013

by Chad D. Baus The Canton Repository recently visited three of the ten Stark County, Ohio companies licensed to manufacture firearms, and published an excellent follow-up article. From the article : Inside a plain-looking single-story green building near Meyers Lake, Dennis DeVault and his employees have outfitted competitive trap and clay shooters across the country for 23 years. From the...

Senate may vote today to end private sales at gun shows and online; Sen. Portman "undecided" if he'll join filibuster

7:00am Thursday, April 11, 2013

[UPDATE: Sen. Rob Portman joins 31 Senators voting against moving the bill to the floor. Filibuster attempts proved unsuccessful, however, as 16 other Republicans including John McCain voted with the anti-gun rights majority. Portman said he hasn't seen the specific language of the Toomey-Manchin amendment described below, and thus could not yet say whether or not he could support it. by Chad D...

March sees 26.3% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 34th straight month over month increase

3:00pm Wednesday, April 10, 2013

The March 2013 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,501,730 is an increase of 26.3 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,189,152 in March 2012. For comparison, the unadjusted March 2013 NICS figure of 2,197,116 reflects a 28.1 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,715,125 in March 2012. This marks the 34th straight month that...

Best case scenario: Obama and Bloomberg prove they know nothing about the guns they seek to ban

7:00am Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Worst case scenario: They are intentionally lying, and hoping you don't know the difference It has been widely reported that the killer in the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut last year was a semi-automatic AR-15 stolen from its rightful owner. In fact, it was for precisely that reason that President Obama said that gun control will be a "central issue" of his...

VIDEO: Shelby County teachers take aim

3:00pm Tuesday, April 09, 2013

by Chad D. Baus As we reported in February, Shelby Co. Sheriff John Lenhart's office has implemented a concealed carry/ firearms training course for school administrators and select teachers. WDTN (NBC Dayton) is reporting on a range session that was recently conducted as a part of this important training: Shelby County teachers take aim Chad D. Baus is the Buckeye Firearms Association Vice...

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State FOP proposes stripping ability of boards of education to arm school employees

7:00am Tuesday, April 09, 2013

by Chad D. Baus If there was any doubt left for Ohioans that the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) is an anti-gun rights, anti-Second Amendment organization that cares more about protecting the jobs of its members than it does the very safety of our school children, it should be removed after they hear news that the FOP is pushing to strip the right of Boards of Education to arm staff to protect...

OGCA makes significant donation to Buckeye Firearms Foundation teacher training

3:00pm Monday, April 08, 2013

by Larry S. Moore OGCA check presentation - From left to right: Larry Moore, BFA; Robert Ray Preston, OGCA First Vice President; Joe Eaton, BFA; Fred L. Kolb, OGCA BoD; and Charles D. Rush, OGCA Second Vice President The momentum behind the Buckeye Firearms Foundation's efforts to train our teachers to respond to school violence continues to grow. The program received a major boost when the Ohio...