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Op-Ed: Stand Your Ground makes sense

3:00pm Monday, May 07, 2012
These are sane laws that protect people by John Lott Call them what you will: "Stand Your Ground" or "Castle Doctrine" laws. Mayor Bloomberg and members of Congress, speaking on the House floor, go so far as to label them "shoot first" laws. This is a gross exaggeration — a slander, in fact, against legislation designed to reform a flaw in our treatment of self-defense. Earlier statutes...

"Change" one vote at a time

3:00pm Thursday, May 03, 2012
by Sean Maloney, Esq. But I'm only one person; what can I do? The statement that "I'm only one person; my vote doesn't mean anything" has been discredited over and over again by razor-thin election victories throughout history. Remember "hanging chads" or "dimpled chads"? My point is, don't underestimate what you, one person, can do to change the outcome of, well, the world. Take this year's...

Concealed carry - Why the uproar?

7:00am Tuesday, May 01, 2012
The following op-ed by Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson was originally published by The Columbus Dispatch . Republished with permission. by Ken Hanson April 8, 2012, marked the anniversary of a law that affects the lives of more than 270,000 Buckeyes. Ohio's concealed-handgun license law turned 8 years old on that Sunday afternoon. Notably absent from the festivities were...

How criminals get their guns

1:33pm Monday, April 30, 2012
The following article was originally published by The Lima News . Republished with permission. by Greg Sowinski LIMA - At a shooting inside a Lima bar earlier this month that injured four, police found an expensive handgun. Officers traced the gun to a burglary in American Township in the past year. The two men charged in connection with the shooting at Marko's bar on South Main Street were...

Nine Lessons Learned from the Oikos College Shooting

7:00am Friday, April 06, 2012
by Greg Ellifrtiz On Monday, April 2, a 43 year old man named One L. Goh opened fire in a classroom at Oikos University. Mr. Goh was a former student of the college in California. His rampage resulted in seven people killed and three more wounded. Six of the seven victims killed were women. Most had been shot at point-blank range. This was a tragic event, but it is not unprecedented and is likely...

Gun Show Fever! (It all began in Ohio)

7:00am Friday, March 23, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The latest issue of the NRA's American Hunter magazine features an interesting article by Philip Schreier, senior curator at the National Firearms Museum in suburban Washington D.C. Entitled "Gun Show Fever!," the article celebrates the sights, sounds and smells, the excitement and celebration of freedom that are today's gun show. From the article: The great thing about gun shows...

Another accidental firearm fatality prompts question yet again: Who is to blame when children have accidents with guns?

7:00am Monday, March 19, 2012
by Chad D. Baus As the editor of news content at BuckeyeFirearms.org, I peruse a great deal of gun-related news each and every day, and am usually among the first to learn of incidents involving accidental shootings. While nationwide statistics prove that at the same time gun ownership in America is at an all-time high , and firearm accident fatalities are at an all-time low (it is 3 times more...

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