Maloney wrote an editorial for the Liberty News Now website on September 29, 2015 entitled "The 2nd Amendment Needs Your Help" in which he stated, "Certainly there is a better indicator of a person’s character than their views on my right to self-defense, right? Not to me. I believe that a politician’s moral compass can be determined by how they reference free men and women the right to defend themselves. That is the indicator that I believe to be the most telling. Broken down, it speaks volumes. If a candidate for public office believes depriving a law abiding citizen of their God-given, fundamental rights [to own and carry firearms], based upon the actions of another deranged, mentally ill, or evil human being, is the right thing to do, then that is all I need to know. What more is there that can possibly justify their decision to leave me helpless to die, by preventable attack? ... Since Cain murdered Abel, we have known that the only thing that stops evil is the immediate ability to fight back with sufficient force stop evils threat."

On May 17, 2015, Maloney expressed his support for Ohio HB 48 in an interview with the Record-Courier. HB 48 would allow the carrying of concealed firearms into churches, daycare centers, private aircraft, college campuses and government buildings. "By allowing a potential victim to defend their own life in more places, it makes law-abiding citizens safer, deters would-be mass murderers and protects the public in general," Maloney told the Courier.

On July 18, 2013, the Buckeye Firearms Association launched a fundraiser in support of George Zimmerman, the Florida resident who shot and killed unarmed African-American teenager Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012 and was later acquitted in a controversial "Stand Your Ground" case. "Whatever you might think about the Zimmerman verdict, the fact remains that we are a nation of laws, not mob justice," the association's website read. "George Zimmerman was tried in a court of law and found not guilty, and that entitles him to continue exercising all his rights, including his Second Amendment right to own a firearm." The donations collected by Buckeye Firearms were to be used to replace Zimmerman's gun, holster and "other gear." Maloney told U.S. News & World Report: "Since [Zimmerman] was acquitted he should have the ability to protect himself and his life and to be an American citizen."

On June 28, 2007, Buckeye Firearms published personal information about Matt Westerhold, the managing editor of the Sandusky Register, on its website. Specifically, Buckeye Firearms published "Westerhold's auto records, a traffic citation, a partial Social Security number, an address for property he owned, and details about his divorce and ex-wife. It also included information on how one might find out which public school Westerhold's 12-year-old daughter attended, which bus she took there, and how a photo of the girl from her school yearbook could probably be found in the local library." They did this because the Sandusky Register published a list of the names and birth dates of some 2,500 concealed carry permit holders in Ohio on the newspaper's website. Westerhold stated that he had been getting calls from readers following the adoption of Ohio's concealed carry law in 2004 who wanted to know if their neighbors had guns. He decided to publish the information "as a public service."