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Buckeye Firearms Association Mourns Loss of Rick Jones

7:00am Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Ohio lost a great man on January 4, 2022. Rick Jones, Life NRA member and lifelong gun owner and sportsman, worked for decades to advance Second Amendment rights. He was a proud "country boy" who learned firearm basics from his grandmother, a traditional Kentucky woman who grew up shooting as a way of life. Rick was a Region Leader and founding member of BFA whose work goes back to the very...

PODCAST: The Media Lies About Gun Owners - New University Study Reveals the Truth

3:00pm Monday, January 10, 2022

The Keep and Bear Radio podcast is hosted on Podbean and is also available on Apple , Google , Spotify , iHeartRadio and many other platforms. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear every episode. How to Listen to Podcasts on Your Mobile Phone *** Episode 47: The news media spins facts into fear to keep us watching, reading, and clicking to line their pockets. And one of the lies they keep...

The Columbus Dispatch Publishes BFA's Rebuttal on Constitutional Carry

by Dean Rieck

7:00am Monday, January 10, 2022

After seeing multiple pieces in The Columbus Dispatch opposing Constitutional Carry, including one from the Editorial Board , I decided to submit a response. Here is my guest column published on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022. For 20 years, I've been listening to alarmists predict blood in the streets every time legislators introduce a bill to enable greater freedom for law-abiding gun owners. The...

Using Collegiate Hunting to Develop Wildlife Policy Leaders

by Bret Collier

7:00am Friday, January 07, 2022

“Educating from a tree stand” This weekend I will be taking my daughter deer hunting with me on our family farm. Growing up in a house with a father who is a wildlife biologist and a mother who is an oceanographer, the kiddo is no stranger to nature and the peculiarities of those of us that study it. She swims like a fish, will be scuba certified in a year or 2, has helped me clean deer and ducks...

The Second Amendment Now Comes with Government-Issued “Harmful Language Alert”

7:00am Thursday, January 06, 2022

The absurdity and dysfunction of the Biden Administration have become so pervasive that it’s easy to become numb to it all. But some things it does are still so outrageous and inconceivable – touching on the very identity of the nation itself – that it is worth pausing to take stock of just how far the U.S. has fallen as a country in the short time Joe Biden has occupied the White House. The...

“You’ve Reached 911, Please Hold …”

7:00am Wednesday, January 05, 2022

A standard talking point of gun prohibitionists is that in these modern times, ordinary people don’t need their own firearms because the police will protect them from criminals. Last year, no less than David Chipman, President Biden’s failed nominee to lead the ATF– employed then as a senior policy advisor for the Giffords anti-gun group – mocked first-time gun owners as delusional because the “...

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Tracing Spurious Claims

7:00am Tuesday, January 04, 2022

Since leading anti-gun researchers acknowledged no connection between the 2020 surge in firearms sales and violence, unscrupulous anti-gun advocates must cite underwhelming statistics as meaningful evidence. That’s what The Trace did, in an article written in collaboration with FiveThirtyEight. We’d expect a more sophisticated analysis from FiveThirtyEight, but this is what Nate Silver’s outfit...

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PODCAST REPLAY: 10 Things You Should NEVER Do After a Self-Defense Shooting

3:00pm Monday, January 03, 2022

The Keep and Bear Radio podcast is hosted on Podbean and is also available on Apple , Google , Spotify , iHeartRadio and many other platforms. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear every episode. How to Listen to Podcasts on Your Mobile Phone *** Episode 46: When it comes to armed self-defense, it's usually not the shooting itself that trips you up legally. More often than not, it's what...