URGENT: The fate of the Second Amendment is in your hands!

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Hi Gang, Tim Inwood here, I write for BFA as well as the Cincinnatus Standard. Google my name and you will find a lot of my BFA stuff has been re-printed all over the web.

I am rather surprised to see so many have not heard of Buckeye Firearms. I have been linking most of my articles for them here for the last couple of years. Our chairman Jim Irvine has appeared on Fox News and as Linda mentioned our volunteers are frequently on with John Popp on NRA News. I did a program with him last year.

As Linda pointed out Buckeye Firearms Association was awarded the Grassroots Organization of the year at the Gun Rights Policy Conference last year. We are the premier pro gun group in Ohio. The reason Buckeye Firearms Foundation was created was so that we could file this brief. Under the law as BFA was structured we could not get involved in lawsuits like Heller. Last year at the SAF conference, when we were asking Alan Gura if we could give money individually he said no and that it was being taken care of. We had no idea that Alan would come and ask BFA legal counsel Ken Hanson to do an Amicus Brief, that is why this all appears so sudden. Please go to our website and look at our archives, you will see we have been around for awhile. Linda mentioned all the places and folks who have talked about us. She missed one though, Neal Boortz has talked about a couple of my articles on his show and linked them in his reading assignments. Here is a link to the one on the "Culture of sheep"

http://boortz.com/nuze/200705/05152007.html

This essay appeared on a website named the "Buckeye Firearms Association." Ohhhhhhhh! Guns! Gun nuts! Well, if you can get by that infantile reaction, you will enjoy Tim Inwood's "Time for the sun to set on the Culture of Sheep."

We got so much traffic we had to link this on Free Republic as it was crashing our servers. Anyways I hope we have put to rest this concept we are fly by night...

The Heller case is the most important Second Amendment case in the past 70 years. We are unlikely to see another like it in our life times. What ever we can do to re establish in law that the Second Amendment is a individual right, must be done. We are only asking for you help.
 
I've learned a lot, thanks for taking the time to provide some background on the organization.

Here's the google search I did the other day:

Results 1 - 10 of about 229 for "Buckeye Firearms Foundation"

I didn't find 229 results to be very significant. Now I know just how new the BFF is and why it was formed.

John
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Member www.vcdl.org

P.S. - FWIW, "vcdl" returned 42,100 results
 
Google search Buckeye Firearms

Web Personalized Results 1 - 10 of about 62,400 for buckeye firearms.

Buckeye Firearms is not new. Only the foundation so we could file the brief. Same organization, same great people! Same commitment to fighting for your gun rights!:D

Wow, I just googled Buckeye Firearms Foundation and came up with this:
Personalized Results 1 - 10 of about 40,200 for buckeye firearms foundation.
 
This is how you guys should have begun this thread and not as you did by allowing an unknown with 3 posts to yell "Charge" (as in credit card).
 
This is how you guys should have begun this thread and not as you did by allowing an unknown with 3 posts to yell "Charge" (as in credit card).
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Well as Linda pointed out we are all volunteers working from places scattered all over the State of Ohio. We donate a lot of our time and we don't make a dime doing it. Look at the number of articles I have written pro bono for the group and then look how many others are there doing the same and you will see a great deal of time and effort is donated for love of protecting OUR rights.

We are not in a central location and sometimes the little things are not that well coordinated. We are working via the internet and telephone we do not all see each other all that often. Though we are in some form of contact almost every day. The last time I saw Linda or others in the leadership was in October at the Gun Rights Policy Conference. As I said, we do things pretty much on our own to promote BFA, this is just such an event. In otherwords no one said Steve go post something on THR about the BFF today. He did it on his own in hopes of forwarding the effort to protect our gun rights.

We did not know Steve posted this here until we ran across it today. Anyway, I hope this clears up any questions.
 
Bless you guys for the great job, packaging however, is as important as the content inside, as any marketer will tell you. Now, at least we know you guys aren't scammers, can't be too careful y'know.
 
The Heller case is the most important Second Amendment case in the past 70 years. We are unlikely to see another like it in our life times. What ever we can do to re establish in law that the Second Amendment is a individual right, must be done. We are only asking for you help.
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I've heard plenty of good things about Buckeye, it's certainly not a scam.

What I'd like to see though is how a brief by Buckeye would have any different or unique arguments besides the others already out there.
 
Each entity who was invited to submit a brief, was given a topic to write on. SO, there should be no two briefs out there on the exact same angle.
 
You guys did a great job!

Pardon the way this thread started. There are three hundred million people in this country, with a comparable number of organizations. When someone we haven't seen (3 posts) shows up and asks for money without much more specifics, we're understandably a bit skeptical. That misunderstanding cleared up...

Read the brief, liked what I saw. A little heavy on individual anecdotes perhaps, a few more stats could help. However, the point is made: government is not our mother, and to forbid citizens arms without providing sufficient and liable service in return is simply intolerable. Nice demolition of DC's "people with guns make it too hard for us to care for them" whining.
 
"I just googled Buckeye Firearms Foundation and came up with this:
Personalized Results 1 - 10 of about 40,200 for buckeye firearms foundation"

Put quotes around your terms like I do when I'm doing a specific name search to weed out the unrelated combinations of search terms and you get next to zip.

What are Personalized Results? I thought I knew about everything about google. I guess not. Of course, I didn't discover that a buckeye was a horse chesnut until last year.

John
 
My latest article for BFA touches on the failure of the police to protect us. In part it discusses the Warren case.

http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/5417
“On March 16, 1975, three female roommates living in a townhouse in the District were awakened by the sound of the back door being kicked in. Before the woman sleeping in the second floor bedroom could react and flee, she was attacked by two men, who repeatedly beat, raped, and sodomized her. Two other women on the floor above heard their roommate's screams and acted. Carolyn Warren called police at 6:43 a.m. and was assured help was on the
way. She and her other roommate then crawled out a
window onto a roof for safety.
From their vantage, they saw a police car slowly drive past, then move on through a back alley, never stopping. The terrified women crawled back into the house and again called police. After hiding for half an hour and hearing silence downstairs, they assumed police had arrived. But when they descended to the second floor, they too were confronted by the attackers.

The police, in fact, did not respond at all to the second desperate plea for help. The three women were held captive for an unspeakable 14 hours of repeated beatings, rapes and assaults.

Warren and the other victims sued the District and the police department. In 1978, the D.C. Superior Court ruled, "a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen."

Later in 1981, the D.C. Court of Appeals went further and ruled, "The duty to provide public services is owed to the public at large, and, absent a special relationship between the police and an individual, no specific legal duty exists."

The decision in Warren v. District of Columbia had no effect whatsoever on either the politicians who had disarmed innocent Washingtonians or on the media, who continue to support the gun ban with the false argument that people should depend on police for protection.
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I have friends and relatives who wear a badge. They would agree that to tell the truth is not hammering the police...

Tim
 
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