Tuesday November 8 is Election Day in Ohio. Primary and general election days are the only two days each year where we have the ability to vote on our future. We will…
Author: Buckeye Firearms Association
Six Ohio State students victimized in violent robberies, five at gunpoint [UPDATE: Again…so make that seven, six at gunpoint]
Columbus' CBS affiliate, WBNS 10TV, reported last week on two separate incidents in which students of The Ohio State university were victimized by armed robbers. From the first article, from October 28:…
EDITORIAL: Democrats cling to their guns
Obama scares women and liberals into the gun store Gun ownership is on the rise in some surprising places. As much as President Obama would have us believe that only small-town yokels…
Industry Insight & A Presidential Candidate Taking Your Question
by Jim Shepherd
If you could ask the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination a question, what would it be?
Foreign policy?
Second Amendment?
Jobs?
When did a successful career as a businessman become a negative when running for what is the CEO’s position for the biggest business in the world?
What it’s like to be vilified by your own race because you’re not a liberal?
At this point, the apparent front-runner appears to be Herman Cain, although the race with Mitt Romney is pretty close to a photo finish.
But Cain’s giving political operatives on both sides of the aisles fits.
He’s decidedly not a professional politician, says pretty much what he thinks, and isn’t bashful about putting forward suggestions for the course of the country -knowing they’re going to be mercilessly dissected by the other candidates for the nomination and the Democratic party.
That’s tough to handle if you’re a fellow Republican. It’s especially tough to tear down another candidate’s ideas when you haven’t offered any concrete plans of your own.
The problem compounds for the Democrats because, well, Herman Cain’s -gasp- black.
As a black conservative, Cain has the Democrats trying every tool in their political operative tool bag. He’s been called “a black man who knows his place” had “Old Man River” sung at the mention of his name, and been called “the black friend of the Tea Party”- as in “Well, I have a black friend…”.
Pretty rough treatment of a black man from modest means who’s worked his way up in the business world, but that’s what happens when you screw around with preconceptions and politics.
Through it all, he’s managed to pretty much remain his own man. In itself, that’s enough to make him intriguing.
Until yesterday, I didn’t know he was the black guy in the cowboy hat I saw strolling the aisles of SHOT Show last January. Heck, until yesterday, I didn’t care.
Today, we should all care. And be encouraged by the fact that he was visiting the outdoor industry’s biggest event before it was a purely political visit. He was there because he wanted to be.
2010 Second Amendment March featuring Yost and Husted sparks proposed rule change: Statehouse grounds to be no-guns victim zone?
by Chad D. Baus
The Columbus Dispatch reported recently that on October 20 the unelected Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board voted to prohibit concealed guns on the property surrounding the Statehouse.
From the article:
“The thought was that the board wants to be proactive as we continue to have more events outside,” said Gregg Dodd, the board’s deputy director.
“The board’s intent is to make the Statehouse the people’s house, inclusive and acceptable to everybody, and we just want to assure that all families that are visiting and the Downtown work force that it continues to be a safe gathering place.”
Dodd did not explain how the board believes a policy banning people who are legally exercising a constitutional and statutorial right is more “inclusive,” or why they believe ensuring that only criminals will have guns on the Statehouse grounds is more “safe.”
According to the article, much of the impetus for the change stemmed from the Ohio Second Amendment Rally which was held last year in conjunction with a rally that occurred a week later in Washington, D.C. The article says the board wanted to bar attendees at the Second Amendment March from “packing heat,” but was told by the attorney general’s office that no policy existed for a ban.
The event featured speakers including Dave Yost (now Auditor of State), State Senator Tim Grendell and Jon Husted (now Secretary of State), and their comments made at the rally are highly ironic in light of the proposed rules change:
Ohio firearm inventor honored at Works Museum – you are invited
Republished with permission of the Ohio Gun Collector’s Association. (OGCA)
“The Art of War” art gallery exhibit at The Works museum in Newark, Ohio will highlight the advancement of weaponry and contributions made to the Remington Gun Company by an industrious Ohio inventor, Joseph Rider.
The heart of this exhibit, “The Rider,” is a biography of Rider’s life-long successes, inventions and his 25-year partnership with Remington & Sons Armory. He was also once the wealthiest man in Newark, Ohio.
Displayed will be a collection of Remington Rolling Block Rifles, and carbines along with some of Rider’s first patent designs on vest-pocket pistols. Also feated are many Civil War artifacts and Licking County’s role in that war. This exhibit was created by the Works Firearms Curator and OGCA member Tracie Hill.
The December issue of the NRA magazine will pay tribute to Rider with an informative article written by famous American firearms authors, Roy Marcott and, local historian, Scott Gowans. Marcott’s article will emphasize how Joseph Rider’s ideas impacted the history of firearms and saved Remington & Sons from bankruptcy prior to the Civil War. From his first firearm, U.S. patent designs on percussion revolvers, his business relationship with Remington & Sons for a quarter of a century, to how his improvements led to the most famous single-shot rifle ever manufactured, the Remington Rolling Block Rifle.
Caught on video: Anti-gun Columbus Mayor Coleman comes unhinged
by Chad D. Baus
As many of our readers are aware, Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman has consistently worked against the Second Amendment and the Constitution during his long term as mayor. The Ohio chairman of the anti-gun group Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), Coleman and his city council enacted an unenforceable assault weapons ban in 2005, which caused the NRA to pull plans to hold their annual meetings in the city in 2007, which would likely have poured upwards of $25 million dollars into the Ohio economy. Coleman also drove the Ohio Gun Collectors Association out of town with unreasonable demands he put upon the association and its vendors.
Now, on the eve of his latest re-election bid, Coleman has been caught on tape exhibiting exactly how fanatical he is in opposition to the Second Amendment.
H.R. 822 — National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act — Heading to House Floor; Contact your Representative Now!
As we’ve been reporting week in and week out, H.R. 822 — the “National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011” is very good legislation for gun owners. The time is past due to dispel the alarmist rhetoric about the bill, and to set the record straight.
Most of the misguided, unfounded, and incorrect characterizations circulating lately regarding H.R. 822 have come from the anti-gun groups and media. However, a small number of vocal and supposedly “pro-gun” groups continue to report falsehoods, despite clear evidence to refute their assertions. Though they claim to be on the side of America’s gun owners and the Second Amendment, their stance on this measure proves otherwise.
One group claimed H.R. 822 would include anti-gun amendments that would create “disastrous federally mandated infringements on our rights.”
But, as we recently reported, the House Judiciary has already considered amendments to H.R. 822, and all anti-gun amendments offered that would weaken or gut the legislation were defeated.
SC Sheriff: “Our form of justice is not making it.” “Carry a concealed weapon.”
by Chad D. Baus Advice given by Spartanburg County, SC Sheriff Chuck Wright to citizens concerned about a recent spate of violent crimes is making national headlines. The controversy? Wright advised people…