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REMINDER: The Ohio CHL license renewal extension ENDS on June 30

by Dean Rieck

3:00pm Tuesday, June 08, 2021

Last year, Governor DeWine signed House Bill 614 , with an amendment to extend Concealed Handgun License (CHL) expiration dates. Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) helped the Ohio legislature draft and pass the amendment to address the alarming logjam of people struggling to get their CHL applications and renewals processed at that time. Here are the two changes that amendment made: If your...

Skill Set: Politeness

by Tiger McKee

7:00am Tuesday, June 08, 2021

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. -- Robert A. Heinlein It’s getting more difficult, every day, to make it through your day without someone committing a seriously rude offense. People purposely cut you off in traffic; if you don’t slam...

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PODCAST: SPECIAL EDITION: News Conference Introducing Emergency Powers Legislation

3:00pm Monday, June 07, 2021

Buckeye Firearms Association has launched a podcast called Keep and Bear Radio . The podcast is hosted on the Podbean platform and is also available on Apple , Google , Spotify , and iHeartRadio . Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear every episode. *** Episode 16: Governments have shown they are willing to infringe on Second Amendment rights during times of emergency, at the very times...

NICS Numbers Tell a Story

7:00am Monday, June 07, 2021

We write about NICS numbers regularly because they provide a ready-made finger on the pulse of American gun owners. As we saw last year, NICS numbers confirm what we’re all thinking. Politicians talking about banning commonly owned firearms? NICS numbers rise. Bureaucrats releasing prisoners as a virus rages? NICS numbers rise. Readers know the rest. Self-reliance and firearms ownership are time-...

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Canada’s “Dead” Long-Gun Registry Still Used by Police

7:00am Friday, June 04, 2021

A year after Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his sweeping ban on firearms, shocking new revelations have emerged concerning the repudiated long gun registry and the federal police agency responsible for implementing and enforcing Canada’s gun laws. According to reports by the Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA) and news media, there is good reason to believe that the Royal...

SCOTUS asked to take up State v. Weber, Ohio case with Second Amendment implications

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, June 03, 2021

A man whose conviction for holding an unloaded shotgun in his home while drunk was upheld by the Ohio Supreme Court is taking his case to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The case is State v. Weber , which as has been noted on our site , "involves a situation where despite the defendant’s wife telling police there was no longer a problem, they pressed their way in. There they...

FBI’s Shadow Gun Bans Threaten First and Second Amendment Rights

7:00am Wednesday, June 02, 2021

For several years the FBI has been operating a shadow gun ban regime whereby Americans who are not prohibited from possessing firearms under federal law are being denied their Second Amendment rights without due process. This extralegal practice was brought to light again in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit case Turaani v. Wray . The case revealed that the FBI’s current...

US Department of Justice: Active Killer Incidents 2000-2018

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Tuesday, June 01, 2021

The US Department of Justice released a useful publication titled Active Shooter Incidents: Topical One-Pagers 2000-2018 . The publication is an 18-page summary of active shooter statistics for every attack that met the FBI definition between the years 2000 and 2018. It is a valuable reference for anyone who is interested in the topic. I suggest that you read the entire document, but for those...