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Annual Attorney General Summary on Concealed Carry: 2017 sees record number of active licensees

by Jim Irvine

7:00am Wednesday, March 07, 2018

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the Concealed Handgun License (CHL) statistics for the fourth quarter of 2017 and the annual report. More Ohioans than ever are discreetly carrying firearms as they go about their day. 2017 saw a decline in initial applications compared to the prior year, which was the all-time high for demand. But with steady renewals of an ever-increasing...

Researchers: Schools are safer than they were in the 90s, and school shootings are not more common than they used to be

by Allie Nicodemo and Lia Petronio

3:00pm Tuesday, March 06, 2018

The deadly school shooting (last) month in Parkland, Florida, has ignited national outrage and calls for action on gun reform. But while certain policies may help decrease gun violence in general, it’s unlikely that any of them will prevent mass school shootings, according to James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern. Since 1996, there have...

Cleveland PBS: Ohio Program Provides Training for Teachers Who Want to Conceal and Carry

12:00pm Tuesday, March 06, 2018

The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has renewed the debate over whether teachers and other school personnel should be armed. Although the policy discussion continues, Ohio teachers already can take classes to learn how to defend themselves and their students if a threat arises. The Buckeye Firearms Foundation provides free training to teachers through...

Get Your Tickets for Buckeye Bash 2018

7:00am Tuesday, March 06, 2018

It's once again time for Ohio's patriots to assemble at our annual banquet to raise funds for Buckeye Firearms Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity that sponsors FASTER Saves Lives, youth shoots and grants for youth programs, and Second Amendment litigation and legal defense. As always, you will enjoy a great meal. And you're encouraged to enter the many raffles and auctions to win guns, gear,...

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Gun Control in the Buckeye State?

by State Representative John Becker

3:00pm Monday, March 05, 2018

Should we ban the AR-15? All semi-automatic firearms? Ban certain accessories? Close the so-called "gun show loophole"? (BTW, there is no such thing.) Raise the minimum purchase age? Register and heavily tax all guns and ammunition? Universal background checks? Require larger signage stating "No Guns Allowed" in schools? Create a "Gun Violence Awareness" month? Let's say we do one, some, or all...

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"My school's an easy target"

by Chad D. Baus

12:00pm Monday, March 05, 2018

On February 20, a 13 year-old seventh-grader in Jackson Twp., OH boarded a school bus concealing a .22 rifle. The Jackson Memorial Middle School student had been writing a school “attack” plan, inspired in part by the mass murder in a Parkland, FL high school just six days before. (His writing shows he had been thinking of attacking his school for a few months, but actively planning for only a...

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City leaders demand to be allowed to reinstate gun bans they rarely used

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, March 05, 2018

WBNS (CBS Columbus) is reporting that Columbus city officials are using the opportunity of the mass murder in a Parkland, FL high school to lobby for new gun control. From the article : Three Columbus city leaders have addressed a letter to Ohio Governor John Kasich, outlining their position on gun control. The letter is signed by Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther, Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein,...

Gun Owners Say Goodbye to Dick's Sporting Goods

by Dean Rieck

6:00pm Friday, March 02, 2018

It appears that Dick's is living up to its name. Buckeye Firearms Association is deeply disappointed that Dick's Sporting Goods has chosen to punish law-abiding gun owners by restricting sales of legal firearms based on the bad actions of a mentally ill individual in Florida who committed the Parkland school murders. While Dick's CEO Edward Stack says this is about helping to solve the problem,...