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State of “Gun Violence” in the United States

7:00am Thursday, August 29, 2019

Politicians treat so-called "gun violence" as a lever issue, hoping to energize their base and guilt law-abiding Americans into supporting policies that would have no effect on crime or help the mentally ill. Part of this effort entails presenting as large a number of fatalities as possible, and so researchers, the media, and anti-gun politicians combine suicide, homicide, accidents, legal...

Buckeye Firearms Association Responds to Governor DeWine's Press Conference on Background Checks

10:41am Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine today held a press conference to discuss a plan to fix the background check system for gun purchases in Ohio. This is part of the administration's overall initiative to address violent crime. The proposal is to enable law enforcement agencies to comply with existing reporting requirements and streamline the process both for adding criminal records to the background check...

Judges already have tools to keep guns from abusers

by Ken Hanson

7:00am Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Editor's Note: This article, by the late Ken Hanson , originally published in 2014 , shows that Buckeye Firearms Association has been fighting attempts to pass universal background checks for a very long time now. These words are as prescient today as they were when they were first published in the Columbus Dispatch . Recently, Everytown for Gun Safety published a report in support of new gun-...

Recent Poll Shows Gun Control Not as Popular as Some Would Like to Believe

3:00pm Tuesday, August 27, 2019

A recent Morning Consult/POLITICO poll, conducted immediately prior to the recent Democratic debates and gathering responses from 1,991 registered voters, asked about views toward the candidates, issues of potential importance in the election, voting intention, and the like. Of special concern to us were questions about gun policy (i.e., gun control). “Gun policy,” like “common-sense laws,” seems...

13 Anti-Liberty Bills Introduced by Ohio Lawmakers

by Dean Rieck

7:00am Tuesday, August 27, 2019

We see lawmakers introduce bills every legislative session that promise to reduce violence, but actually do little more than further infringe on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens with zero real-world benefits. This session is no different. We're only about one-fourth into the 2-year-long 133rd General Assembly and there are already 13 bills threatening our liberty. Needless to...

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Tell Your U.S. Senators and Representative to Oppose Gun Control

3:00pm Monday, August 26, 2019

In the wake of two recent criminal mass attacks, a number of gun control proposals have begun to circulate in our nation’s capital. None of these proposals would have prevented either of last weekend’s tragedies, but they all would restrict the rights of law-abiding gun owners. “Universal” Background Checks Won’t Stop Mass Shootings Every perpetrator of high-profile mass shootings has either...

Officials admit almost total failure to prosecute lying on background checks

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, August 26, 2019

After a mass killing, we see a predictable and frustrating pattern. Politicians in both parties sense the need to reestablish an image of being "in control" (after a violent criminal once again proves they are anything but in control). There is often a secondary felt need to shift blame, given that investigations usually reveal government failures that led to the criminal being able to perpetrate...

Op-Ed: Conservatives Should Be Very Skeptical Of ‘Red Flag’ Laws

by Josh Hammer

3:00pm Friday, August 23, 2019

For the first time in recent memory following a horrific mass shooting, there appears to be an emerging consensus of many elected Republicans and outside conservative voices that "something" must finally be done on the issue of guns. In particular, many Republicans seem eager to consider the state-level adoption and implementation of so-called "red flag" laws — otherwise known as "gun violence...