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Buckeye Firearms Association announces 2010 general election grades and endorsements

by Jim Irvine

Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to announce our 2010 general election endorsements.

The biggest change you will note this year is that grades have been given to all candidates.* This is response to feedback from our supporters and candidates. We now list every candidate with a letter grade, or a "??" if we do not know anything about them. While it is possible for a "??" -graded candidate to be a supporter of your Second Amendment rights, most supporters know us and are known by us. Be careful.

What the grades mean:

A+ = a strong supporter who has done more than vote with us every time. They are candidates that have answered a call to do specific work to improve our laws. We have kept the A+ rating very rare so you can identify the best of the best.

A = a candidate who supports what we have done and what we have left to do.

B = a candidate who agrees with most of what we are doing and most of what we hope to accomplish in the upcoming legislative session.

C = a candidate who has been helpful with some issues but has been against us on others. Oftentimes they simply need education to help them understand our issue, but sometimes they have concerns that we can not address without unduly burdening the law-abiding gun owner.

D = someone who generally votes against us, but is not necessarily hostile towards our rights.

F = someone who has a terrible voting record, is openly hostile toward our rights, and/ or has worked or helped others to restrict our rights.

?? = Someone who did not return a candidate survey, has no voting record, and for whom we could not find any pertinent information relating to firearms rights.