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Merry Christmas from Buckeye Firearms Association

7:00am Friday, December 24, 2021

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...

Voice of Leadership: Sidestepping Stereotypes and Propelling Outdoor Diversity

by Eric M. Morris

7:00am Thursday, December 23, 2021

Do we want to increase outdoor diversity, or are we just paying lip service to the matter? This is a question I ask myself. Most people are familiar with the ongoing efforts within the hunting and outdoor industries to increase the racial diversity among America's hunters and outdoors people. Many have noticed how disproportionately “white” hunting and the outdoors have become. This unequal...

Ohio’s Extra Gun Weekend Delivers Additional Deer Harvest

7:00am Wednesday, December 22, 2021

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio hunters harvested 9,392 deer during the extra weekend of gun hunting on Saturday, Dec. 18 and Sunday, Dec. 19, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Over the past three years, hunters checked an average of 12,734 deer during the same two-day period. The top 10 counties for deer taken during the 2021 two-day deer gun season include...

Now We Know There are Armed Good Guys on Our Streets

by Rob Morse

7:00am Tuesday, December 21, 2021

The mainstream news media sells shock and revulsion to keep us watching through their many advertisements. Politicians lie to us so we will vote for them. Both have told us that guns are frighteningly dangerous and that we'd be safer if more honest citizens were disarmed. We're tempted to believe them if that is all we know. Now, we have data that calls their story into question. We confirmed...

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PODCAST: 2021 Year End Report on Ohio Gun Legislation

3:00pm Monday, December 20, 2021

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 44: 2021 is coming to a close. So where are we with all the pro Second Amendment bills moving through the House and Senate? Are we...

Can You Catch COVID-19 from Deer?

by Jim Heffelfinger

7:00am Monday, December 20, 2021

As if we needed something else to worry about as we close out the second year of living with COVID-19. News reports are showing up regularly warning that a lot of whitetail deer have COVID and so we now need to take precautions in the woods. Deer are pretty good at socially distancing from us despite our best efforts to get closer. In the last two years, nationwide participation in hunting and...

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Firearms in Common Use

7:00am Friday, December 17, 2021

Think of the foremost applications of a firearm. Self-defense and protection have become the primary motivation for Americans’ acquisition of firearms, but the prevalence of defensive gun use remains disputed. New research, conducted in support of a brief for the Supreme Court, offers more evidence that a large number of Americans have used a firearm to defend themselves, their loved ones, or...

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Senator Grassley Blocks Gun Control on Senate Floor

7:00am Thursday, December 16, 2021

On December 2, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) attempted and failed to pass H.R. 8, the dangerously flawed, so-called “universal” background check bill. As you may recall, Nancy Pelosi and her anti-gun allies in the U.S. House passed this misguided legislation earlier this year. H.R. 8 would do nothing to prevent crime, could not be enforced without a federal gun registry, and would turn...