Guns in the News

Toledo Blade editorial continues string of anti-gun writing, misrepresents Ohio restaurant carry legislation

7:00am Tuesday, March 09, 2010
By Gerard Valentino A recent Toledo Blade editorial about pro-gun reform in Ohio reads like something out of the anti-gun playbook from 1999. The anti-gun hit piece titled "Get a Handle on Guns" uses a series of misleading statements and outright lies to push a misinformed agenda. By making the claim that guns and alcohol don't mix, the author tries to imply that legislators are advocating...

Buckeye Firearms Association's Ken Hanson & Jim Irvine on Armed American Radio

2:10pm Saturday, March 06, 2010
Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chairman Ken Hanson was a guest on the Armed American Radio Network Sunday, March 7 at 8:30 p.m. Ken discussed the McDonald v. City of Chicago oral arguments , as well as his candidacy for NRA Board of Directors with Armed American Radio (AAR) host Mark Walters in conjunction with the United States Concealed Carry Association. Buckeye Firearms Association...

Feds funding Ohio study that could lead to regulating shooting ranges in attempt to decrease suicide rates

7:00am Friday, March 05, 2010
In most cases, suicide is a solitary event and yet it has often far-reaching repercussions for many others. It is rather like throwing a stone into a pond; the ripples spread and spread. - Alison Wertheimer, "A Special Scar" By Chad D. Baus According to a recent cover story by Steph Greegor in Columbus' The Other Paper , two incidents of suicide that have been carried out at an Ohio shooting...

Athens News editor corrects false comments about Buckeye Firearms Association after readers respond

7:00am Wednesday, March 03, 2010
By Chad D. Baus On Thursday, February 25, Athens News editor Terry Smith, who also teaches journalism courses at Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, published an editorial on the topic of the state and national tea party movement in which he encouraged Congressman Democrat Zack Space to refuse an invitation to appear at an event. While the greater scope of Smith's article falls...

McDonald v. City of Chicago oral arguments transcript released

2:43pm Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Download our pdf to read the transcript of oral arguments in McDonald v. City of Chicago . . The Court has refused a media request to promptly release the audiotape. Analysis from Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson, the attorney of record for Buckeye Firearms Foundation, which filed friend-of-the-court briefs in both the McDonald and Heller Supreme Court cases, is...

SCOTUSBlog.com post-hearing analysis: Second Amendment extension likely

12:15pm Tuesday, March 02, 2010
By Lyle Denniston The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed poised to require state and local governments to obey the Second Amendment guarantee of a personal right to a gun, but with perhaps considerable authority to regulate that right. The dominant sentiment on the Court was to extend the Amendment beyond the federal level, based on the 14th Amendment's guarantee of "due process," since doing so...

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