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Gun Control Groups Push Hollywood to Produce Even More Anti-gun Propaganda

7:00am Friday, February 26, 2021
Gun control advocates are once again pushing the entertainment industry to produce anti-gun propaganda with the explicit goal of advancing failed firearm legislation. The renewed overt effort will strike some as superfluous, given Hollywood’s lengthy track record of anti-gun agitprop and left-wing political monoculture. In early January, entertainment industry magazine Variety published a lengthy...

Man defends own life when two robbers attack...then one followed him home

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, February 25, 2021
Cleveland media are reporting that a 24 year-old man was able to defend his own life with a firearm when two men approached and attempted to rob him outside a convenience store. From Cleveland.com : The 24-year-old man called police and said two men robbed him at the gas station and that he shot one of the robbers, according to police. He told police he left the gas station and that the other...

Trudeau’s Toxic Gun Ban: No Buy-in to the “Buyback”

7:00am Wednesday, February 24, 2021
There is new evidence of problems with the implementation of the “assault weapons” ban imposed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on May 1, 2020. Readers will recall that under the Liberal Government’s scheme, over 1,500 firearms and devices listed in a government regulation immediately became a “prohibited” firearm or “prohibited device,” as did “any variants or modified versions.”...

H.R. 127 - The Federal Bill That Seeks to Crush Personal Gun Ownership in America

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Tuesday, February 23, 2021
H.R. 127, sponsored by Shelia Jackson Lee (D-TX) in the 117th Congress is one of the most outrageous and aggressive anti-gun bills ever introduced. While it falls short of banning guns outright and repealing the Second Amendment, it comes very close to doing just that. The scope and ferocity of this bill cannot be overstated. This is legislation intended to punish law-abiding gun owners and crush...

Millions of New Gun Owners, Now What to Do with Them?

by Jim Curcuruto
7:00am Monday, February 22, 2021
With a record setting year for the firearm industry behind us, many industry professionals are starting to ask; “Now what?” Before answering that question, let’s take a look at some statistics that made 2020 a record year. Using adjusted FBI NICS data as a proxy for firearm sales, 2020 recorded a massive 60 percent increase over 2019. The record 21+ million adjusted background checks in 2020...

FLASHBACK: Rush Limbaugh praises Buckeye Firearms Assoc. response to Sandusky Register

3:00pm Friday, February 19, 2021
[Editor's Note: As the nation continues to mark the passing of talk radio titan Rush Limbaugh, we thought we'd republish this 2007 article documenting the time Rush covered Buckeye Firearms Association's efforts to raise awareness about the dangers of news media publishing lists of concealed handgun license-holders' names. Godspeed Rush!] On Friday, July 6, 2007, America's #1 talk radio host...

Akron mothers get concealed handgun licenses in response to rising crime

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, February 19, 2021
WKYC (NBC Cleveland) is reporting that, as crime rose over the summer, Rev. Roderick Pounds helped 386 Akron mothers obtain their Ohio concealed handgun licenses. From the article : Overall, the city of Akron reported 50 homicides last year, a 52% increase from 2019. Police statistics show gun-related crimes are up even more--78%. This comes even as police seized over 940 guns. ... Experts blame...

NSSF Commends Rep. Jeff Duncan’s Introduction of the Hearing Protection Act

3:00pm Thursday, February 18, 2021
NEWTOWN, Conn. – The NSSF®, the firearm industry’s trade association, commends U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan’s (R-S.C.) introduction of the Hearing Protection Act, H.R. 95. The legislation was introduced with 36 original co-sponsors. The bill would remove firearm suppressors from the list of definitions under the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA), eliminating onerous and duplicitous background checks...

Biden Begins Gun Control Push

7:00am Thursday, February 18, 2021
On Sunday, President Biden used the three-year anniversary of the criminal attack in Parkland, Florida to call “on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets.” There is nothing “commonsense”...

4 Ohio Pro-Gun Bills (and 1 Anti-Gun Bill) to Watch

by Dean Rieck
3:00pm Wednesday, February 17, 2021
At midnight on December 31, 2020, the 133rd Ohio General Assembly ended. All bills not passed at that time died. Immediately, the 134th General Assembly began, launching a new 2-year period to change the laws of the state. Over the last two weeks, several gun-related bills have been introduced: HB 12 - ENFORCE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS (Sponsor: Diane V. Grendell) To provide for a writ of mandamus or...

Tissue Sample Confirmed Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease in One Wild Ohio Deer

7:00am Wednesday, February 17, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife has identified a positive test for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a wild Ohio white-tailed deer in Wyandot County. The Division of Wildlife is gathering additional details about the adult male deer taken by a hunter on private property. Tissue samples were submitted for testing by a taxidermist and the...

The Old Rabbit Hunter

by Larry S. Moore
3:00pm Tuesday, February 16, 2021
The upland game season is here and I have been running my beagles. I thought about how long I've been hunting with beagles and chasing rabbits. I thought about how that started with family in Kentucky. The next thought was about an old friend and hunting buddy from nearly forty-years ago. He was an old rabbit hunter when I met him sometime around 1976, as best as I can recall. I was about twenty-...

Ohio A.G.Dave Yost joins Attorneys General Amicus Brief in New York Carry Case at the Supreme Court

7:00am Tuesday, February 16, 2021
In December, The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) partnered with the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association and asked the Supreme Court to hear a challenge to New York’s restrictive process for issuing concealed carry licenses. Today, the NRA-ILA applauds the 23 Attorneys General who filed an amicus brief in support of that petition. That effort was led...

Podcast Episode 2: Pushing for Constitutional Carry and Limiting Emergency Powers

3:00pm Monday, February 15, 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 , and Spotify . Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear every episode. *** Episode 2: 2020 turned out to be crazy year in many ways. But BFA chalked up solid legislative victories. So now that it's a new year and we're...

LV Sun Finally Reveals Biden Interview That Exposes Depths of Anti-Gun Views to Public

7:00am Monday, February 15, 2021
Those who stay involved in the efforts to defend the Second Amendment have always known President Joe Biden is, to put it lightly, no friend to gun owners. During his campaign for the White House last year, the legacy media did everything they could to conceal that fact. The Las Vegas Sun recently revealed that it went so far as to bury an interview with candidate Biden that showed not just his...

Headline: Former Youngstown police officer sentenced for falsifying concealed-carry records

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, February 12, 2021
WKBN (CBS Youngstown) reported recently that a former Youngstown police officer has been sentenced for running what Mahoning County Sheriff Jerry Greene calls a “CCW certificate mill.” From the article : Phil Chance, Jr....was accused of taking money to provide concealed-carry permits. He never had the proper certification, so the permits were useless. ... Chance is a former Youngstown police...

The complete expert op-ed on teachers with guns Cleveland.com refused to print

by Ron Borsch
7:00am Thursday, February 11, 2021
[Editor's note: On January 30, Cleveland.com published an editorial board roundtable entitled " Should Ohio teachers with CCW permits be allowed to carry on school premises? " Conclusions ranged from "bad idea" and "irresponsible" to "lunatic" and "tragedy waiting to happen," but NO FACTS were offered to back up their opinions. Retired police officer, trainer and Rapid Mass Murder expert Ron...

Ohio Attorney General Yost's office develops searchable stolen gun database

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's office has developed an online tool designed to help potential buyers of used guns detect if the gun is stolen. From the Columbus Dispatch : The Ohio Stolen Guns Database contains the serial numbers of stolen guns "as reported to the Law Enforcement Automated Data System (LEADS) by law enforcement agencies throughout the state and authorized for release to the...

BATFE Leadership Push Biden to Target Pistol Stabilizing Braces and Unfinished Receivers

7:00am Tuesday, February 09, 2021
Just in case anyone needed further proof that much of the federal bureaucracy is more interested in serving themselves and left-wing political interests than public service, news broke...that rogue elements of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) had been conspiring with Joe Biden’s transition team to enact gun control by executive fiat. At the top of these anti-gun...

BFA Announces New Podcast - Keep and Bear Radio

3:03pm Monday, February 08, 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 , and Spotify . Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear every episode. *** Episode 1: On January 4, 2021, Governor Mike DeWine signed Senate Bill 175, which included the repeal of Ohio’s unjust law that requires victims of...

“Unity” President Vows to “Defeat” America’s Oldest and Largest Civil Rights Group

7:00am Monday, February 08, 2021
Joe Biden wants Americans to believe that he will focus on what he calls “the renewal of a politics that’s about solving problems – not stoking the flames of hate and chaos.” Yet what “problem” is Biden promising to “solve” before he even takes office? Why the “defeat” of the National Rifle Association, a group of over 5 million Americans of all different backgrounds from all different walks of...

ATF agent sues Columbus police over armed confrontation/tazing incident

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, February 05, 2021
WOSU (NPR Columbus) reported recently that a special agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms is suing the Columbus police department after a July 7, 2020 incident in which Columbus police officers handcuffed and tazed him. The entire incident was caught on body cam. According to the suit, the ATF agent was trying to confiscate an illegally-held firearm when the suspect called...

Two CHL-holders use guns to defend own lives in separate incidents

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, February 04, 2021
Due to the ongoing pandemic and the chaotic aftermath of the presidential election, two self-defense incidents involving concealed handgun license (CHL) -holders went almost unnoticed in Ohio. First, from the Dayton area, on November 17, and as reported by WHIO (CBS Dayton) : A man is dead after a woman shot him before he crashed into an apartment in the 1900 block of Palisades Drive Friday...

FN Rifle / Sig Pistol Combo Raffle - $3,000 Prize Package

3:00pm Wednesday, February 03, 2021
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USFWS Releases Map of WSFR-Funded Target Shooting Ranges

7:00am Wednesday, February 03, 2021
Finding a place to shoot safely is now easier than ever thanks to a new interactive tool premiered recently by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) as part of its 83-year partnership with states, industry and individual firearms users who help pay for wildlife and natural resource conservation, hunter education and public shooting ranges through the Wildlife Restoration Program. Millions...

Biden Plots Sneak Attack Against U.S. Firearms Industry

7:00am Tuesday, February 02, 2021
Joe Biden has unveiled his agenda for his first 100 days in the White House, and his list includes an initiative aimed at nothing less than the destruction of the U.S. firearms industry. This is what would happen if Biden succeeds in his pledge to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. Imagine if firearm manufactures and sellers – even those who strictly followed the laws enacted...

Ohio’s Changing Knife Laws

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Monday, February 01, 2021
Ohio has some of the most vague and confusing knife laws in the country. When I teach a knife class, I generally have to take more than 30 minutes to explain the intricacies of the legal requirements in the state. Despite all that explanation, I still can’t guarantee to keep my students out of jail. As it’s currently written, any object that could cause serious physical harm or death is illegal...

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