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$27,000 in Prizes at the NRA/Springfield M1A Match

3:00pm Friday, August 10, 2012

FAIRFAX, Va. - The sixth annual NRA/Springfield M1A Match will take place this weekend at the NRA National Rifle and Pistol Matches in Camp Perry, Ohio. The richest High Power event ever held, Springfield Armory is offering more than $27,000 in cash and merchandise prizes. "The National Matches at Camp Perry are a world-class event thanks to partners like Springfield Armory and their sponsorship...

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Sheriff breaks up illegal Columbus-area CCW course certificate scheme

7:00am Friday, August 10, 2012

by Chad D. Baus WCMH (NBC Columbus) is reporting that three people are facing charges, accused of helping falsify licenses to carry a concealed handgun. From the article : According to Franklin County Sheriff Zach Scott, an undercover investigation began in April 2012 into the issuance of fraudulent training certificates to obtain a CCW permit. The sheriff's office said that through the...

U.S. Shooters Tally Four Olympic Medals

3:00pm Thursday, August 09, 2012

HANCOCK, GRAY AND EMMONS ADD MEDALS TO U.S. OLYMPIC EFFORT... Following the unprecedented achievement by Kim Rhode of individually medaling in five straight Olympic Games, three other Americans distinguished themselves by standing on the award-winners' podium. Vincent Hancock, gold medalist in the 2008 Olympics in Men's Skeet, became the first shotgun shooter to successfully defend a skeet title...

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Op-Ed: Concealed weapons save lives

7:00am Thursday, August 09, 2012

The evidence is clear: Massacres are stopped by legally armed citizens by John Lott [The] horrible shooting in Colorado occurred in yet another place where guns are banned. And that's consistent with a trend: With a single exception, every multiple-victim public shooting in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed since at least 1950 has taken place where citizens are not allowed...

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Time Magazine editor-at-large admits "overwhelming sentiment" for "gun control" at most major news organizations

7:00am Wednesday, August 08, 2012

by Chad D. Baus Most gun owners who follow political issues closely already know how biased the establishment media are against guns, even though it isn't often a journalist actually admits it. But that is exactly what happened when Time Magazine editor-at-large Mark Halperin, appeared last week on MSNBC and confessed a broad media consensus to curtail gun rights: "If you walk the halls of most...

Pigs fly, it's snowing in Hell, the world as we know it has ended, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes a pro-gun op-ed

7:00am Tuesday, August 07, 2012

by Chad D. Baus The Cleveland Plain Dealer has a long history of fighting against Ohioans' right to keep and bear arms for self-defense, a right enumerated not just in the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment, but in our Ohio Constitution as well (Article 1, Section 4). In the years prior to passage of Ohio's concealed carry law, The Plain Dealer often utilized the editorial page, as well as the...

Buckeye Firearms Foundation Inc. Files Amicus Brief in Woollard Case

5:17pm Monday, August 06, 2012

On August 6, 2012, Buckeye Firearms Foundation Inc., a 501(C)(3) Foundation supporting all legal uses of firearms, filed an Amicus Brief in a Maryland case that may well end up being the next U.S. Supreme Court case on gun rights. The case is Woollard et al v. Gallagher et al. Woollard is the gun owners' “side” of the case and they are represented by Alan Gura. The District Court ruled Maryland’s...

John Farquhar wins 2012 Zombie Apocalypse Gun & Gear Raffle

3:39pm Monday, August 06, 2012

By Dean Rieck On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 John Farquhar of Mad Duck Firearms Training in West Elkton, OH won the $3,500 prize package for our first gun raffle, benefiting Buckeye Firearms Foundation. "I'm surprised I won," said John. "I bought several tickets, but I really just wanted to support the work of the Foundation. I had a little extra cash after completing one of my self-defense classes...