Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) has not yet made any endorsements for any candidates in Ohio.

BFA has received many survey responses from candidates for various offices and is in the process of grading surveys and voting records. We will make our decisions carefully and issue our official endorsements soon.

The only "endorsement" the PAC has issued this year is for Ken Hanson, our legal Chair, who is running for a Board of Director position with the National Rifle Organization (NRA).

We understand that there is some confusion about whether or not we have endorsed in the GOP primary contest for State Auditor. We have not.

Friends of Seth Morgan issued a news release earlier today announcing that the Ohio Tea Party PAC had endorsed Seth Morgan for Auditor of State. The release included Buckeye Firearms Association in a list of coalition members. This left the impression that BFA endorsed Morgan. However, BFA did not cast a vote, and was not part of the 7/8ths majority that did vote in favor of the endorsement.

Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,243,211 checks in February 2010, ranking the month the second highest February (eighth highest month overall) for most NICS checks.

This figure, while being a 1.3 percent decrease from the 1,259,078 checks conducted in February 2009 -- the early stage of an ongoing surge in firearms and ammunition sales -- is an increase of 21.7 percent over checks in February 2008.

The total number of background checks reported since the beginning of NICS is 112,380,272.