By State Representative Lynn Wachtmann
For years, governments have enacted laws that state one’s home is a place where one should be free of prying and violent attack. Known as “Castle Laws,” they are often based on English Common Law from the 1700s. However, over the years many of these laws, while acknowledging the safety and protections of the home, have placed a burden on a person to retreat before being permitted to use force to defend themselves.
By John Longenecker
Grab a cup. This one’s about 2,000 words. [Dates reported in the following quotes were erroneous and have been corrected.]
Buckeye Firearm Association’s web site is seeing an amazing growth in visitors and new articles are being posted several times a week.
With everything that is going on, it is easy to miss some important and interesting articles. To make sure that you don’t miss anything, we are going to repost one of our more popular articles every Friday.
This week’s “Friday Flashback” is….
The uncomfortable truth about school shootings
By: Ken Hanson
By State Senator Steve Buehrer Imagine it is 10 p.m. on a Tuesday night. After turning out the lights and making sure all the doors in the house are locked, you retire…
By Chad D. Baus As if there aren’t enough anti-gun candidates sparring in one of the earliest presidential campaign seasons ever, it looks like there is about to be one more. Joining…
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that about 12 percent of all concealed handgun licenses issued since 2005 by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office have been to people 60 and older, and…
Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to announce that Senator Steve Buehrer’s Castle Doctrine legislation, which concerns protecting crime victims and restoring the presumption of innocence to those forced to act in self-defense, has received a committee assignment.
Click here to download this important three-page bill.
By Chris Chumita
There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are all worthy of mention.
What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens.
From a black bear attack in Utah to bear sightings in Ohio, these articles should be a part of your required reading!
Click on the “Read More…” link below for several days of headlines accompanied by short, concise pro-gun analysis.
By Tim Inwood
It came to my attention on June 12 that Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat of Louisiana, had his gun collection confiscated by the authorities in the wake of being indicted on June 8th.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Todd Tiahrt (R-Goddard) today blasted the organization behind a comprehensive campaign aimed at repealing current law that prohibits public release of critical data related to ongoing criminal…