The Associated Press is reporting that anti-gun Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson plans to waste tax-payer money in a legal challenge to the state's new firearms law preemption statute. From the story: Local…
Author: Buckeye Firearms Association
Media promotes anti-gun poll to accompany veto override news
By Chad D. Baus In an effort to staunch the bleeding of the anti-gun lobby in Ohio, and in anticipation of a Senatorial veto-override, the Ohio media conspired to publicize a poll…
CCRKBA Applauds Ohio Senate, State Gun Rights Groups
For Immediate Release: December 12, 2006 BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today offered its congratulations to the Ohio State Senate for overriding anti-gun…
Senate overrides Governor’s Veto of HB347 21-12
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
On December 12, 2006, the Ohio Senate voted to override Governor Taft’s veto of HB347 by a vote of 21-12. The House previously voted 71-21 to override Governor Taft’s veto. House Bill 347 has now passed into law with an effective date in approximately 90 days, depending upon the exact filing and certification dates. This vote to marks the first joint override of an Ohio Governor’s veto in almost 30 years.
“We are gratified that the General Assembly recognized that Governor Taft and a few mayors were playing politics with important firearm law reforms. We recognize this was a difficult step, but the fact that so many voted for this bill and obtained the first veto override in nearly 3 decades demonstrates just how out of touch the Governor and a few big city mayors really are,” said Buckeye Firearms Chairman James Irvine. “Those opposed can look at the vote of a super majority and try and explain it away, but the cold, hard conclusion to be drawn is that Ohioans recognize gun control as the failure it is and understand that there is nothing to fear from trained, law abiding citizens being armed.”
“Cities are out of the firearm regulation business” said Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson. “As an attorney who litigates firearm rights cases and who also represents and has represented Municipalities, I can say that the mandatory attorney fee provision is a “big stick.” Tax payers are not going to be happy if their elected representatives have to pay $50,000 in attorney fees over futile attempts to continue enforce worthless local ordinances.
A (long overdue) GOP slap at Taft
The following is Buckeye Firearms Association’s response to today’s Toledo Blade editorial. Responses in red type.
Time Warp: Miss-Led writes as though the past two years never happened
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LTE: Stop curtailing rights of legal gun owners
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Is the OhioGOP (finally) getting the message from gun owners?
By Chad D. Baus On August 17, 2005, as a second conservative Republican announced his intention to contest the anti-gun Senator Mike DeWine in the GOP primary, a story in the Cincinnati…
Republicans choose Faber to replace Jordan
On December 4, The Hannah Report noted that the Ohio Senate Republican Caucus screening committee recommended Rep. Keith Faber (a three-time endorsee of this political action committee)) to fill the 12th Senate…
The letter the Cleveland Plain Dealer refused to print
Editor’s note: The Cleveland Plain Dealer has printed several front page stories about firearms, all with factual errors. The following was submitted to as a letter to the editor, but they chose not to allow this correct information in their paper. They have continued to show their bias by citing anti-gun sources, but refusing to cite information from sources that are actually knowledgeable with the subject at hand.