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August is National Shooting Sports Month. Join the +ONE movement and invite someone to the range!

7:00am Monday, July 26, 2021

August is National Shooting Sports Month®, a time to celebrate one of America’s great pastimes — target shooting — a safe, fun activity enjoyed by millions of people across the country, with millions more wanting to take their first shots. Research by the National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®) shows that 24 million Americans are very interested in learning about the shooting sports, making...

Gun Control Research Methods: Close Enough

3:00pm Friday, July 23, 2021

Social science methods are not perfect, but that has never stopped anti-gun researchers from making outlandish claims. Most recently, a team of researchers led by Doctor Apurva Bhatt from the University of Missouri Kansas City sought to evaluate the effect of changes in Missouri firearms laws on suicides among teenagers and young adults. Their analysis is burdened by a fundamental disregard of...

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Gun Control “Redlining” - Journalist Demands Realty Records Show Gun Owners

7:00am Friday, July 23, 2021

In a series of tweets on June 8, Virginia Heffernan, a Harvard-educated columnist for The Los Angeles Times, wrote: “Real-estate listings should include prevalence of gun-ownership in a 50-mile radius and number of annual mass shootings in the region. Time to change what a ‘bad neighborhood’ is.” In follow-up tweets she added, “…and introduce a meaningful tax on guns and gun violence. No one...

Renew Your Pride in America - Attend a Project Appleseed Rifle Marksmanship Event

3:00pm Thursday, July 22, 2021

Project Appleseed isn’t a gun club or a militia, nor is it a historical society. Instead, it's a non-partisan group of men and women (known as the Revolutionary War Veterans Association) who are committed to upholding the values and principles of America’s founding fathers. They use rifle marksmanship instruction as a gateway to help bring our nation’s history to life and to show that many of the...

IRS Leak Shows Government Can’t Be Trusted with Gun Owner Data

7:00am Thursday, July 22, 2021

On June 8, ProPublica published a story titled, “The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax.” The salacious item focused on how America’s ultra-wealthy navigated the Internal Revenue Code to lessen their tax burden. ProPublica relied on “a vast cache of IRS information,” including individuals’ private tax returns, that it presumably...

Armed woman detains four men outside her apartment after intoxicated male attempts to gain entry

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Wednesday, July 21, 2021

The Scioto Post reported recently that a woman was able to utilize a firearm to protect her two young children, herself and another female when an intoxicated male tried to gain entry into her apartment. From the article : Officers responded to E Canal St for a report of a person with a gun. Officers arrived to find multiple individuals arguing in front of C Building Apartments. Four individuals...

Sportsmen's Alliance achieves victory for Ohio outdoors-lovers in state budget bill

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, July 21, 2021

When House Bill 110, the state budget bill for fiscal year 2022-2023, became law, it contained important improvements to Ohio law that were the result of lobbying efforts by the Sportsmen's Alliance, of which Buckeye Firearms Association is a member. From the Columbus Dispatch : Rob Sexton, a lobbyist and political strategist who advocates for hunting, fishing and gun interests, called the budget...

ODNR Offers 7th Annual Ohio Women’s Outdoor Adventures Weekend

3:00pm Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Outdoor education and skill building courses for women returns COLUMBUS, Ohio – The 7th Annual Ohio Women’s Outdoor Adventures weekend will kick off on Friday, September 17 and run through Sunday, September 19 at Salt Fork State Park. This annual event held by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) combines boating, fishing, and outdoor skills with other activities focused on nature and...