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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...

Headline: Local schools analyzing NRA safety recommendations, Firearms group raises funds for teacher training

7:00am Monday, April 08, 2013

by Chad D. Baus The Middletown Journal is reporting that Ohio schools are analyzing the results of a recently-released $1 million, 225-page study on school safety funded by the NRA. From the article : Schools should train selected staff members to carry weapons and should each have at least one armed security officer to make students safer and allow a quicker response to an attack, the director...

Op-Ed: Race and the Gun Debate

3:00pm Friday, April 05, 2013

The No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34: being murdered with a gun. by Juan Williams This week much of the talk about gun control concerns New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's $12 million ad campaign to put pressure on senators in key states to support legislation that he backs. Or the talk is about the National Rifle Association's pushback against the...

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First Buckeye Firearms Foundation-funded training class for Ohio teachers is a success; It won't be the last

7:00am Friday, April 05, 2013

by Jim Irvine The training class that Buckeye Firearms Foundation proposed at a town hall meeting following the mass murder of teachers and school children in Newtown, Connecticut, has been completed. The class of 24 teachers, administrators, and school employees attended a three day class at Tactical Defense Institute (TDI) in Adams County, Ohio on March 25-27. The weather was cold and at times...

Biden: Gun-Ban Legislation "Just the Beginning" -- Pelosi: "Not the End of the Day for this Issue"

3:00pm Thursday, April 04, 2013

[Last] week, Vice-President Joe Biden, and House Minority Leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), showed us--once again--how thorough their contempt is for our Constitutionally guaranteed Second Amendment rights. According to a Washington Times article, on a Wednesday conference call organized by "Mayors Against Illegal Guns," Biden referred to current anti-gun legislation and told his anti-gun...

Sen. Rob Portman issues strong statement condemning gun control proposals in D.C. and the U.N.

7:00am Thursday, April 04, 2013

"I support the good work being done here in Ohio to provide appropriate training to teachers and administrators who have permission from their local school boards to carry." - United States Senator Rob Portman by Chad D. Baus As a candidate for the U.S. Senate, Republican Rob Portman was unabashed in his support for the Second Amendment. In September 2010 his campaign released a flyer which...

U.N. Passes gun Control Treaty: International and National Gun Battles Looming

3:00pm Wednesday, April 03, 2013

by Jim Shepherd With yesterday's passage of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, the Obama administration added more fuel to the fire of critics who refer to the "imperial presidency" rather than the "current administration." Reversing previous national policy to endorse a gun control treaty that would essentially allow the United Nations to have the final say on any firearms exports, the...

Do people have the right to own any semiautomatic rifle, magazine size? Yes

by Ken Hanson

7:00am Wednesday, April 03, 2013

The following op-ed by Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson was originally published by The Columbus Dispatch . Republished with permission. We, the people, have the constitutional right to own semiautomatic rifles and the standard-capacity magazines designed for those rifles. The plain words in the U.S. and Ohio constitutions establish this, so long as those words are given...