Ohio Gun Owners Executive Director Chris Dorr responded Friday to State Rep. Gary Click’s (R-Vickery) public attacks with a 28-minute video on the organization’s Facebook page, calling Click a “damned liar” and laying out what he described as a rigged endorsement and fundraising system connecting Click, House Speaker Matt Huffman, and the Buckeye Firearms Association.

The video was Dorr’s detailed rebuttal to a Facebook post Click published Thursday in which the incumbent state representative called Dorr a “fraud,” accused him of altering survey answers, and claimed Dorr had harassed female legislators in a Statehouse parking garage. Click had also changed his Facebook profile picture to an image of himself aiming a scoped rifle — a move Dorr mocked in the video.

Dorr denies Click’s allegations point by point

Dorr denied each of Click’s claims directly.

On Click’s allegation that Dorr altered his survey answers: “That’s a lie. We don’t do that here at Ohio Gun Owners. He’s making that up completely.”

On Click’s claim that Dorr called Seneca County Sheriff Fred Stevens and former Sheriff Christopher Hilton profane names over their opposition to SAPA: Dorr did not deny criticizing the sheriffs but said they failed to read the legislation. He said he offered to meet with Click and the sheriffs to walk them through the bill, but Click never took him up on it.

“Not only did those two sheriffs not read the bills, but Gary Click himself admitted to me in person outside of the House chamber that he never read the bill and he was relying on other people to give him information about what the bill would do,” Dorr said.

On Click’s claim that the bill would prevent the Seneca County Sheriff’s Office from housing undocumented immigrants, partnering with a federal drug task force, and using NIBIN — the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network — Dorr said both the previous and current versions of SAPA explicitly state that nothing in the bill would prevent Ohio law enforcement from accessing those functions.

On Click’s accusation that Dorr stalked female legislators in a parking garage: “This actually never happened. He’s a damned liar. And as a former pastor, he should know better than to bear false witness against somebody.”

TiffinOhio.net was unable to independently verify either Click’s original allegations or Dorr’s denials.

Dorr identifies Click’s gun as a Remington 870

Dorr also took aim at Click’s new profile photo, identifying the firearm as a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun with a slug barrel and scope — a common deer hunting gun, not the kind of firearm typically associated with Second Amendment advocacy.

“If that’s proving your Second Amendment bona fides, that’s pretty sad,” Dorr said, adding that Click’s pose appeared “clearly unnatural.”

$39,000 to Huffman’s PAC

The bulk of Dorr’s video focused on what he described as a circular fundraising arrangement between Click, Speaker Huffman, and the Ohio House Republican Organizational Committee, or OHROC — the House GOP’s campaign PAC controlled by the speaker.

Dorr said that in 2025 alone, Click’s campaign committee transferred $4,000, $10,000, and $25,000 to OHROC — a total of $39,000 sent to Huffman’s PAC. TiffinOhio.net has previously reported that 65.6% of Click’s total fundraising since 2020 has come from corporate PACs and industry groups, while individual donors within the 88th District account for just 13.9% of his campaign war chest.

Dorr described how the system works: Huffman agrees to appear as the guest of honor at a Click fundraiser. That signals to Columbus lobbyists and special interest groups that Click is a leadership-approved candidate. The lobbyists attend and donate. Click then transfers large portions of that money back to OHROC, which in turn runs Click’s campaign — designing mailers, producing ads, and making media buys.

“Nothing about this is grassroots whatsoever,” Dorr said. “A guy like Gary Click has no clue how to do all of those things, so this is the rigging that’s going on.”

Dorr scrolled through Click’s campaign finance records on screen during the video, pointing to contributions from labor unions, construction trade groups, the Ohio Automobile Dealers Association, and other industry PACs.

Dorr accuses Buckeye Firearms of coordinating with leadership

Click has prominently cited his endorsement from the Buckeye Firearms Association as proof of his pro-gun record. Dorr spent a significant portion of the video arguing that BFA’s endorsements are coordinated with House leadership rather than based on legislators’ actual voting records.

“What Buckeye Firearms has done and is doing right now and has always done is they wait for House leadership to come out with their endorsement slate and then Buckeye Firearms Association comes out with theirs and they custom tailor it to make sure that they are in perfect alignment with House leadership,” Dorr said.

He cited what he described as a pattern of BFA endorsements that contradicted gun rights positions, including endorsing Mike DeWine in the 2018 gubernatorial primary despite DeWine’s prior F rating from the NRA for co-sponsoring a reauthorization of the federal assault weapons ban; endorsing John Kasich despite what Dorr said was Kasich’s later push for red flag legislation; and endorsing legislators who went on to sponsor red flag gun confiscation bills, including former Reps. Mike Haney and Peggy Lehner.

Dorr also pointed to BFA giving current House Public Safety Committee Chair Cindy Abrams an A rating despite Abrams refusing to allow sponsor testimony on what Dorr called the three most important pieces of pro-gun legislation before the General Assembly: the Ohio Freedom to Carry Act, the Ohio Second Amendment Protection Act, and the Ohio Self-Defense Act.

TiffinOhio.net reached out to the Buckeye Firearms Association for comment on Dorr’s allegations. No response was received prior to publication.

Click’s gun record

Dorr said Ohio Gun Owners could not find any record of Click ever having been the primary sponsor of a major piece of gun legislation during his time in the Ohio House.

“He has never sponsored a major gun bill in his life that we could find,” Dorr said.

Click has not disputed that he voted to table the Second Amendment Preservation Act in December 2024. In his Thursday Facebook post, Click said he sided with local law enforcement on the issue and that the bill’s current version includes amendments he pushed for — which he said Dorr now calls “the Click amendments.” Click said he told Dorr he would vote for the revised bill.

Ohio Gun Owners gave Click a C-minus rating for the 2026 primary. Click refused the organization’s candidate survey in both 2024 and 2026.

Primary context

Click is seeking what would be his final consecutive term in the Ohio House due to term limits. He faces Republican challenger Eric Watson of Tiffin in the May 5 primary. Democrat Aaron Jones of Tiffin is running in the general election.

Watson completed the Ohio Gun Owners candidate survey with a 100% pro-gun score and has made Second Amendment legislation a central part of his platform. Ohio Gun Owners is running paid ads in the district contrasting Watson’s and Click’s gun records.

The Buckeye Firearms Association and Ohio Gun Owners have been publicly at odds for nearly a decade. BFA has called Ohio Gun Owners a “false flag group.” Investigations by The Trace and The Daily Beast, Cleveland.com, and NPR have documented allegations that the Dorr family’s network of gun organizations across more than a dozen states functions primarily as a fundraising operation, funneling donor money through a family-owned for-profit consulting firm. Dorr moved to Ohio from Iowa in 2016 to start Ohio Gun Owners.