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Reality Check: Gun Sales, Carry Permit Numbers Remain Strong

7:00am Tuesday, December 27, 2022

As President Joe Biden winds down 2022 by continuing to push for " much stricter gun laws ” and describing "the idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased” as "sick,” ordinary Americans appear to have a healthy disdain for his gun control agenda. The most recent Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) statistics on the " top ten highest days ” for National Instant Criminal Background...

Activists Sue New Jersey Over New Unconstitutional Concealed Carry Law

7:00am Monday, December 26, 2022

The Second Amendment Foundation recently filed a federal lawsuit against the State of New Jersey, challenging the state's new gun control law prohibiting licensed concealed carry in an expanded list of so-called "sensitive places," and further criminalizes carrying an operable handgun "while in a vehicle." Joining SAF are the Firearms Policy Coalition, the Coalition of New Jersey Firearm Owners,...

Merry Christmas from Buckeye Firearms Association

7:00am Saturday, December 24, 2022

Merry Christmas to one and all from all of us at Buckeye Firearms Association. Our best gift is the friendship and support given by each of you throughout the year. As we reflect on the year's passing, we count our many blessings, remember our losses, and give thanks for those who helped us through it all. We each need to take time to appreciate our friends and family during this special time of...

NSSF Denounces U.S. Senate Confirmation OF Operation Choke Point Architect to FDIC

7:00am Friday, December 23, 2022

NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, condemned the U.S. Senate’s confirmation of Martin J. Gruenberg as Chair and Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Gruenberg led the FDIC from 2011-2018, during which the Obama administration conducted the illegal Operation Choke Point scheme to deny banking services to firearm businesses. NSSF opposed...

Research Experiment Exposes Key Problem with Anti-gun Social Science

7:00am Thursday, December 22, 2022

Social science is in the midst of a replication crisis. This means the findings of many published social science papers cannot be reproduced and are likely invalid. A new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) sheds light on the scale of the problem and calls into question the veracity of social science research in general, including that which anti-gun...

Ohio Gun Hunters Check 15,163 Deer During Extra Weekend

7:00am Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Ohio hunters checked 15,163 deer during the extra weekend of deer gun hunting on Saturday, Dec. 17 and Sunday, Dec. 18, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. In the same two-day period over the last three years, hunters checked an average of 12,944 deer. Hunters took 9,619 deer on the same weekend in 2021. Deer hunting occurs in all 88 Ohio counties,...

Incrementalism in Action: Anti-Gun Governor Targets Lawfully Registered Firearms for Seizure

7:00am Tuesday, December 20, 2022

There are two absolutes in gun control strategy, and both were on display recently when Gov. Ned Lamont (D-CT) proposed to renege on a promise twice made to the state's law-abiding gun owners: that they could keep their newly-banned firearms if they registered them with the state. Connecticut has passed two bans on so-called "assault weapons," one in 1993 and then an expanded version in 2013...

PODCAST: Seminar Preview - How to "Read" the Body Language of Dangerous People

1:00pm Monday, December 19, 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 87: Ninety percent of all communication is non-verbal. But if you can't understand what other people are telling you through their body...