When Democrat Matt Lundy needed gun owners' votes, he knew exactly what they wanted to hear. When asked about the two key components addressed in HB45/SB17 in Buckeye Firearms Association's 2010 candidate…
Legislation to Protect Gun Owners’ Rights, Reform Oversight of Federally Licensed Firearms Dealers Introduced in Congress
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Congressman Jason Altmire (PA-04) has joined with U.S. Congressman Steve King (IA-05) to introduce legislation that will clarify regulations and remove unnecessary restrictions on federally licensed firearms dealers and importers in the United States. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) Reform Act would modernize and improve the BATFE by amending and clarifying its policies.
“As part of my ongoing efforts to safeguard Americans’ Second Amendment rights, I want to make sure that federally licensed firearms dealers are not subject to poorly formulated and unnecessary regulations,” Congressman Altmire said. “The legislation that I have introduced will bring common-sense reform to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives so that it can do a better job of punishing lawbreakers and keeping guns out of the hands of criminals without placing undue restrictions on local businesses.”
CBS: Gun shop owner expressed concerns early on in “gunwalker” scandal
CBS News is reporting that damning, newly-obtained emails show that a key gun shop owner made explicit concerns in writing last year in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’ “gunwalking” scandal….
Buckeye Firearms Association’s Joe Eaton discusses restaurant carry legislation on Cincinnati’s 700WLW
On April 15, Buckeye Firearms Association Region Leader Joe Eaton was invited to discuss passage of SB17 by an overwhelming, veto-proof margin in the Senate with 700WLW’s The Big Show host Bill Cunningham.
Eaton did a superb job of explaining what the legislation will and won’t do for concealed handgun license-holders in restaurants that serve alcohol, and also addressed the disappointing delay in House Republican leadership bringing the legislation to a vote on the floor of the House.
Mugging of Plain Dealer employee and subsequent commentary offers lesson in mindset
A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. – Proverbs 22:3
by Chad D. Baus
On March 30, a Cleveland Plain Dealer employee was mugged in an isolated parking lot Wednesday night shortly after he left his office around 9:30 p.m.
There is little doubt doubt, given the history of The Plain Dealer‘s editorial animosity toward the practice of concealed carry, that employees are not allowed to exercise their right to bear arms for self-defense while at work, and it is equally likely that they are also prohibited from leaving a firearm in their motor vehicle while at work. As pro-self-defense rights advocates have long noted, policies like these result in employees being disallowed their right to bear arms for self-defense while traveling to and from work.
But this isn’t just another commentary about another violent crime in a gun free zone. It is, rather, a case study on the victim mindset that far too many Ohioans continue to labor under.
Buckeye Firearms Association’s Jim Irvine on The Sound of Ideas
Buckeye Firearms Association Chairman Jim Irvine was a studio guest on WCPN’s The Sound of Ideas on Thursday, April 21 at 9:00 AM Eastern. Jim discussed SB17 (Restaurant & Car Carry Rules…
Urge Your Representative To Cosponsor H.R. 822, The National Right to Carry Reciprocity Act Of 2011
Congressmen Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) have introduced vital legislation that will enable millions of permit holders to exercise their right to self-defense while traveling outside their home states.
There are now only two states that have no clear legal way for individuals to carry concealed firearms for self-defense. Thirty-nine states have shall-issue permit systems that make it possible for any law-abiding person to obtain a permit, while most of the others have discretionary permit systems.
H.R. 822 would make a major step forward for gun owners’ rights by significantly expanding where those permits are recognized.
Concealed carry debate delivered four times the communication as collective bargaining bill; CCW still portrayed as fringe issue
by Gerard Valentino
The Ohio media and anti-Second Amendment politicians are notorious for trying to portray gun rights as a fringe issue pushed by a small vocal minority. In contrast, the recent coverage of Senate Bill 5, which was designed to limit the collective bargaining rights of public unions, was covered as if the majority of Ohioans were riveted.
After SB5 passed and was signed into law, the Ohio media reported that less than 12,000 emails were sent to Governor John Kasich’s office, with 84% stating opposition to provisions of the bill. According to The Dayton Daily News, nearly two-thirds of the emails in opposition were from public union employees, or their relatives.
In contrast, former Governor Bob Taft received more than 53,000 phone calls, emails, letters and faxes on the issue of concealed carry – 42,000 faxes, letters and emails came from supporters of legal concealed carry in Ohio, and just over 3,700 against such a measure. Phone calls made to Taft’s office totaled 5,900 in favor of concealed carry reform and only 1,664 against.
Such overwhelming support for legal concealed carry proves that gun rights is not a fringe issue, but instead is an issue important to a large number of Ohioans. The numbers also show that Ohioans support gun rights by a large margin.
Yet, the Ohio media and anti-gun rights politicians still try to portray the gun lobby as a tiny group of extremists, and tries to convince Ohioans that all gun owners are middle-aged white rednecks.
Op-Ed: The Unconcealed Truth About Carrying Guns
by Steve Chapman
“Experience is a dear teacher,” said Benjamin Franklin, “but fools will learn at no other.” Give some credit to fools: At least they eventually learn from experience. What would Franklin say about people who don’t?
By that, I refer to gun control advocates alarmed that the Illinois legislature may vote to let licensed individuals carry concealed handguns. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence calls the measure “dangerous.” Kristen Rand of the Violence Policy Center says that it would lead to Tucson-style mass shootings as well as the killing of police.
But concealed-carry, as it is known, is not a radical notion in most of the country. Thirty-seven “shall-issue” states grant permits to carry to anyone meeting certain requirements, and 48 allow citizens to carry guns under some circumstances. The two holdouts? Wisconsin, where Republican Gov. Scott Walker has endorsed the idea, and Illinois, where Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn has not.
But Quinn has vexed many downstate Democrats by abolishing capital punishment and allowing same-sex civil unions. So speculation is that he may have to make it up to them by going along on concealed weapons.
Another business owner with concealed handgun license defends lives in armed robbery attempt
Cleveland Fox affiliate WJW is reporting that another Ohio business owner was able to defend his life and the lives of four others when two armed robbers entered a pet store and began yelling.
From the report:
Five minutes before closing the Neptunes Corner Pet Store on East 71st Street Saturday, Nick Akoury said he was startled by two men wearing ski masks and threatening him with a gun.
They are like, ‘This is a robbery, this is a robbery,” said Akoury, who told Fox 8 News there were two customers, his son and his manager in the store with him.
“He started yelling at me saying, ‘This ain’t no joke, this ain’t no joke. Give me all your money! You got five seconds!'”