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Biden ATF criminalizes tens of thousands of private firearms sellers

6:00am Monday, April 15, 2024
We have long been warning of the rule the Biden ATF has been preparing to redefine who is considered a firearms “dealer” under U.S. law. The administration’s explicit objective was to move as close to so-called “universal background checks” for firearm sales as possible. Well, look at what just happened.

New Class: America's Rifle - How to Select and Outfit Your AR-15

6:00am Friday, April 12, 2024
The AR-15 is the most popular rifle in America. That's because it's designed specifically to be modular and readily adaptable to any number of uses, from hunting to competition to self-defense. However, it can also be challenging to understand and sort through all the options given the huge number of manufacturers, calibers, barrel lengths, accessories, price points, and other considerations. BFA...

Despite slick marketing, LA-based nonprofit 97Percent is 100% anti-gun

by Lee Williams
6:00am Thursday, April 11, 2024
The California-based nonprofit 97Percent took its name from a debunked Quinnipiac poll that claimed 97% of Americans supported mandatory background checks. The group calls the remaining 3% “loud voices who have crowded out conversation and prevented collaboration between gun owners and non-gun owners.”

Thoughts on how places of worship should handle concealed carry permissions

by Bob Jewell
6:00am Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Firearms instructor Bob Jewell gives his take on how churches and other places of worship should consider concealed carry permissions among congregants, working backward from “as if an incident has occurred” and asking what procedures, paperwork, and training should be in place to address all the questions that will come up in the aftermath.

Clinton-appointed judge exempts NRA members from fed's pistol brace rule

6:00am Tuesday, April 09, 2024
The National Rifle Association of America (“NRA”) on April 1 announced a major legal victory, as a Texas court enjoined the “pistol brace rule” from taking effect against its members. The legal win is the most expansive ruling of its kind to date — protecting millions of NRA members across the nation.

BFA celebrates 20 years of legal concealed carry in Ohio

by Dean Rieck
6:00am Monday, April 08, 2024
Over the course of a decade filled with political drama and dire predictions, Ohio legislators introduced seven separate bills in an attempt to bring concealed carry to Ohio. Finally, on Jan. 8, 2004, House Bill 12 made it to the desk of Gov. Bob Taft, who signed the bill, and made Ohio the 46th state to legalize concealed carry. The new law went into effect 20 years ago today, on April 8, 2004...

ERPO: DOJ's dangerous 'red flag' distribution center

by Larry Keane
6:00am Friday, April 05, 2024
The Department of Justice has created the national Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center to provide “training and technical assistance” to law enforcement, judges, lawyers, clinicians, victim service advocates, activist organizations and behavioral health professionals so they can work to implement laws that allow for firearm seizures.

SIG M400 V2 Don't "TREAD" On Me Raffle - $3,010 Prize Package

6:00am Wednesday, April 03, 2024
ONLY OHIO RESIDENTS 21 OR OLDER MAY ENTER NOTE: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO "LOG IN" TO BUY TICKETS. There are NO physical tickets for this raffle. You will NOT get a number at the time of your purchase. We will randomly assign ticket numbers AFTER ALL 1,000 TICKETS HAVE BEEN SOLD or after raffle ticket sales are closed and provide these numbers to participants before the drawing. You've undoubtedly seen...

SCOTUS looks at government 'blacklists'

6:00am Tuesday, April 02, 2024
Much of the attention recently in the U.S. Supreme Court was on the oral arguments in National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo, No. 22-842, a First Amendment case on whether government officials may use their regulatory authority to effect a “blacklisting campaign” to silence and punish entities like the NRA for their pro-gun advocacy.

PODCAST: Winners, Losers, Drama, and Dirty Tricks in Ohio's Primary Election

6:00am Monday, April 01, 2024
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 112: 92% of BFA PAC-endorsed candidates win in the 2024 Ohio Primary Election. The U.S. Senate race attracts national attention, along...

VP Harris marks Parkland shooting anniversary with bribe to states that push 'red flag' law

by Matt Manda
6:00am Friday, March 29, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Parkland, Florida, to mark the anniversary of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School tragedy, where a murderer killed 17 Americans and injured 17 more. Harris used the occasion to peddle more gun control, including "red flag" laws.

Terrorism is a disease; constitutional carry is the cure

by Lee Williams
6:00am Thursday, March 28, 2024
“The threats from homegrown violent extremists that is jihadist-inspired, extremists, domestic violent extremists, foreign terrorist organizations, and state-sponsored terrorist organizations all being elevated at one time since October 7, though, that threat has gone to a whole other level,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said recently. This is why we have fought so hard to restore our Second...

BFA seminar: Active-shooter expert Ed Monk shows why 'run, hide, fight' is all wrong

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth
6:00am Tuesday, March 26, 2024
When active-shooter expert Ed Monk told a crowd during the Buckeye Firearms Association "Active Shooter Threat and Response" seminar that the "run, hide, fight" approach is wrong and then showed lots of on-the-scene video evidence — some of it graphic — and verifiable statistics to back it up, he spoke with credibility.

Retired SCOTUS Justice Breyer gaslights Bruen decision

by Larry Keane
6:00am Monday, March 25, 2024
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer writes in his latest book that originalism and textualism get it wrong — especially when it comes to the Second Amendment. He says justices aren’t historians and expecting them to know the history of how a law was drafted at the time doesn’t help the Supreme Court when it comes to “answering contested historical questions or applying those answers...

Anti-gun Democrats seek to undermine law passed to protect veterans’ rights

6:00am Thursday, March 21, 2024
Last week we reported on a major breakthrough on behalf of veterans who risked losing their Second Amendment rights because of a long-running scheme by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to report certain beneficiaries to the federal background check database as prohibited “mental defectives.” Now they are using the usual anti-gun tactics of fearmongering, misinformation, and gaslighting.

TODAY is Ohio's 2024 Primary Election - VOTE for Frank LaRose and our other pro-gun candidates

6:00am Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Ohio's 2024 Primary Election is TODAY, March 19. With the Biden administration pushing gun control, the ATF overstepping its authority, and the ongoing attack by cities right here in Ohio on your Second Amendment rights, it's more important than ever to VOTE YOUR RIGHTS! Click here to see our Voter Guide for the 2024 Ohio Primary . We especially urge you to vote for Frank LaRose for U.S. Senate...

Is Biden 'open border' policy funding illegal firearms trafficking that Mexico is suing over?

by Larry Keane
6:00am Monday, March 18, 2024
Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against U.S. firearm manufacturers has a sick and twisted wrinkle. The Biden administration’s “open border” policy is funding the same violent narco-terrorists that plague Mexico with violence, murders, corruption and sending illicit drugs into America.

ATF director laments congressional, Americans' distrust to upend 2A

by Mark Oliva
6:00am Friday, March 08, 2024
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Steven Dettelbach joined CBS’s Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan to talk about violent crime committed with firearms and the tools he wants from Congress. The problem is those requests have already been rejected by Congress for good reason.

California again violates Constitution by disarming individuals based on vacated offenses

by Dean Weingarten
6:00am Thursday, March 07, 2024
The U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California granted summary judgment Feb. 28 to three individuals whose Second Amendment rights were unconstitutionally violated by the state of California. The case began over five years ago.

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