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Upcoming Events for March 2009

2:05am Monday, March 09, 2009
Introduction to IDPA Clinic Date: March 14, 2009 Time: 9:30am - Finish Location: Pickaway County Sportsman Range - 8100 East Route 22, Circleville Ohio 43133 Cost: $10.00 -- Free for Ladies and Juniors (12 - 18) Deer and Turkey Expo Date: March 20-22, 2009 Time: Fri 2pm-9pm, Sat 9am-7pm, Sun 9am-4pm Location: Bricker Building -Ohio Expo Center(State Fairgrounds, 717 E. 17th Ave, Columbus, OH...

ODOT confirms all "NO GUNS" signs at rest stops and visitor centers have been removed

4:42pm Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Last fall, Buckeye Firearms Association was pleased to report that the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) had ordered all "NO GUNS" signs at state rest stops and visitor centers to be removed. This action was in response to passage and implementation of Senate Bill 184 , which included several major fixes to Ohio's concealed handgun licensure (CHL) law, including a change designed to allow...

Poachers Pay $13,277.60 for Illegally Killing Trophy Buck

12:05am Monday, February 16, 2009
Largest fine to date involving Ohio's updated restitution value for wildlife COLUMBUS, OHIO - Two men convicted of the illegal taking of white-tailed deer from Side Cut Metro Park in Maumee have been ordered to pay restitution of $13,277.60 according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The revised restitution law went into effect March 2008 and allows the ODNR...

The Traveler's Guide to the Firearm Laws of the Fifty States

8:14pm Friday, February 13, 2009
Why risk harassment, fines, confiscation, or even arrest when you travel? With this handy state-by-state legal guide, you can travel with confidence. Only $13.95 (plus $4 shipping). Read more ... MAIL ORDER: Send a personal check for $17.95 payable to Buckeye Firearms Foundation. Mail to Traveler's Firearm Guide, 15 West Winter Street, Delaware, Ohio 43015.

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's 18-21 Firearms Ownership Ban to be reintroduced

12:10am Friday, February 13, 2009
By Chad D. Baus & Ken Hanson, Esq. Even as the City of Cleveland continues to be the only municipality in Ohio illegally enforcing local firearm laws , while at the same time lying about it to the media, Buckeye Firearms Association has learned that the anti-Second Amendment, anti-self-defense, anti-hunting legislation which Mayor Frank Jackson tried unsuccessfully to get passed in the 127th...

SB49: Better to slowly burn a child to death than to shoot her with a gun?

12:05am Thursday, February 12, 2009
Editor's Note: The article below was originally published on June 17, 2008, about Senate Bill 348, introduced by Senator Eric Kearney (D-9). While that bill, which was co-sponsored by Senators Sue Morano (D-13), Teresa Fedor (D-11), and Capri Cafaro (D-32), died at the end of the 127th General Assembly, the necessity of republishing this article is again apparent, because Sen. Kearney has...

It is time for mandatory gun accident prevention education in schools

12:10am Thursday, February 05, 2009
By Chad D. Baus In the past month, no less than four Ohio children, aged eleven, ten, eight and four, have injured or killed people with firearms. Two of the victims, aged eight and two, were shot by their respective siblings. One of the victims, shot by his eleven year-old neighbor, was seven. Three of the victims died of their injuries. In all but one case (wherein a four year-old boy shot his...

LTE: The public protected in NRA permit move

12:05am Tuesday, January 20, 2009
January 14, 2009 Toledo Blade A guest editorial from the Columbus Dispatch titled "Kowtowing to the NRA" accuses Ohio lawmakers of caving in to pressure from the NRA to not pass a proposal to raise the fee for obtaining a concealed carry permit by almost 22 percent. In doing so, the editorial says the lawmakers have "failed to put the best interest of the taxpayers first." I strongly disagree.

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