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2012 Southwest Ohio Gun Skills Challenge

3:00pm Tuesday, August 21, 2012

by Joe Eaton This bi-annual event held in Oxford, Ohio is certainly hitting its stride. The Southwest Gun Skills Challenge was started in 2008 to provide local shooters a smaller and more family-focused version of our premier shooting event, the Buckeye Blast, which is held at Tactical Defense Institute every other year in April. This year's shoot was exactly what we hoped it would be. The...

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Reports: Colorado U. to segregate dorms for students with gun permits

7:00am Tuesday, August 21, 2012

by Chad D. Baus In the wake of a Colorado Supreme Court decision in March upholding an appeals-court ruling that struck down Colorado University's gun ban, CU has announced that it will segregate dorms for students who have valid permits to carry concealed weapons, The Denver Post reports . From the article: The University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs...

Anti-gun and Anti-Hunting Radicals Attack U.S. Trap Shooter

3:00pm Monday, August 20, 2012

Corey Cogdell is a two time U.S. Olympian. She shoots trap--and she is one of the best in the world. She is also a big game hunter. And she has been pretty successful at that as well. But when it was publicized as a part of her Olympic bio that she is a hunter, hunting opponents showed their true nature in a series of vile and violent tweets. Here are just a few: "I hope that someone someday...

Mexican Drug Cartel Used "Fast and Furious" Gun in Failed Assassination Plot

7:00am Monday, August 20, 2012

Just when you think the news about the disastrous "Fast and Furious" gun-walking operation can't possibly get any worse, a U.S. government report has disclosed that Mexican drug cartel operatives used a firearm from the infamous scheme in a failed attempt to assassinate a high-ranking Mexican law enforcement official. According to a recent Daily Caller article, the gun "was seized in Tijuana in...

Op-ed: The benefits of arming 14-year-olds

8:29pm Friday, August 17, 2012

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared at WorldNetDaily.com . Republished with permission of the author. by Gerard Valentino For the second time this year, the 24-hour news outlets are reporting that a 14-year-old boy used a gun to thwart a violent home invasion. The most recent case took place in Phoenix, Ariz., and the boy not only saved his own life, but also saved two younger...

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Second Amendment at stake in Ohio - READ THIS

8:28pm Friday, August 17, 2012

Dear Second Amendment Patriot, Buckeye Firearms Association doesn't come to you every day asking for help. If you've been following us for a while, you know we don't cry wolf. But I'm asking for your help today. That's because this is an urgent matter that you probably won't hear about from any other source. And it involves the future of gun rights in Ohio. So PLEASE ... give me just 5 minutes of...

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Shooter gets a bang out of National Matches at Camp Perry

3:00pm Friday, August 17, 2012

by Jeff Thomas CAMP PERRY – As the National Matches at Camp Perry wind down and shooters leave after another successful year, it goes without saying it was one heck of a fun time. But isn't it always? I don't know about you, but the National Matches in High Power rifle shooting at Camp Perry is one of my favorite places in the world to be in late July and early August. It goes without saying I...

Interview Request to Ohio Mayor Sets Off Alarms for Bloomberg, Media Matters

7:00am Friday, August 17, 2012

by Jesse Hathaway Before responding to a simple May 2012 interview request from Media Trackers Ohio, an employee of Columbus, Ohio Mayor Michael Coleman forwarded the request to Mayor Bloomberg's office and a liberal D.C. consultant, who in turn immediately alerted Media Matters for America. The Coleman staffer, R. Lee Roberts, receives a Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) salary but works from...