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Staccato 'Built for Heroes' Raffle - Big $5,000 Prize Package

6:00am Monday, July 15, 2024
We were feeling patriotic coming out of the Independence Day celebrations. So when we talked to Black Wing Shooting Center about doing an extra special raffle for July, they didn't miss a beat. "You need to offer a Staccato. They're our No. 1-selling high-end pistol. They shoot like 1911s but have all the advantages of a modern design. We can barely keep them in stock."

Citigroup finances 'weapons of war' while refusing banking services to firearms industry

by Joe Bartozzi
6:00am Thursday, July 11, 2024
Citigroup, the international banking giant worth over $300 billion, is holding steadfast to its refusal to provide services to firearm businesses that won’t knuckle under to its gun control demands but is standing by its decision to finance actual weapons of war.

Buckeye Firearms Association PAC Endorses Bernie Moreno for U.S. Senate

6:00am Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Buckeye Firearms Association PAC has announced its endorsement of Bernie Moreno for U.S. Senate . "We're thrilled to throw our support behind Bernie Moreno and help throw out anti-gun, F-rated Sherrod Brown," said Linda Walker, Board President of Buckeye Firearms Association. BFA-PAC leaders sat down with Moreno in May at his campaign headquarters in Columbus to discuss his campaign and stance on...

SCOTUS rejects cases challenging Illinois sporting-rifle ban, for now

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth
6:00am Tuesday, July 09, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court announced July 2 that it would not review challenges to Illinois' new law that makes it a felony to possess what the state brands as "assault weapons," a term that is defined to include AR-15s. The high court denied petitions to hear six separate cases on the ban because the lower court had not yet issued a final judgment.

PODCAST: The ATF, Cincinnati, and Others Get Slapped Down by the Supreme Court

6:00am Monday, July 08, 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 116: The US Supreme Court recently ruled that courts, not agencies such as the ATF, should interpret laws. And an Ohio court told...

BFA PAC Announces Grades and Endorsements for Nov. 5, 2024, General Election

6:00am Friday, July 05, 2024
It's time, once again, to issue grades and endorsements to help you vote your gun rights and elect pro-Second Amendment candidates. CLICK HERE to see our grades and endorsements . Volunteers on the BFA PAC Endorsement Committee spend countless hours reviewing candidate survey answers, legislative voting records, and other information to assign grades and select certain candidates for endorsement...

2024 BFA-PAC Grades and Endorsements for the Ohio General Election

7:43pm Wednesday, July 03, 2024
Back to Main Voter Guide Page BFA-PAC is focusing primarily on federal legislative candidates (U.S. Senate and U.S. House), Ohio legislative candidates (Ohio Senate and Ohio House) and select judicial candidates (Ohio Supreme Court and District Courts of Appeal). NOTES: ? generally means the candidate did not submit a survey and/or we do not yet have sufficient information to issue a grade. "q"...

AG Yost: New fingerprint scanners granted to Ohio courts will bolster criminal-records system

6:00am Wednesday, July 03, 2024
A grant program designed to enhance the accuracy and completeness of Ohio’s criminal-records repository will pay for 77 new devices that courts across the state will use to capture defendants’ fingerprints for submission to the database, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced July 2.

Red flag laws, universal background checks might seem divine, but devil is in details

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth
6:00am Tuesday, July 02, 2024
It's like clockwork with anti-gun government leaders, who promote policies that lead to crime and then rush to blame law-abiding gun owners, the state legislature, and even guns themselves when those policies result in negative statistics. Then they promote the flawed concepts of red flag laws and universal background checks, which sound great until you take a closer look at them.

Violent crime skyrocketing under Biden, according to his favorite data source

by Lee Williams
6:00am Monday, June 24, 2024
“Crime is either up or it’s down, but Joe (Biden) wants to have it both ways, depending upon who he’s talking to,” said nationally syndicated talk radio host, Mark Walters, who first spotted the trend. “And it was only a matter of time before the rest of that GVA data came back to bite him.”

Chicago editorial board: 'Worryingly,' law-abiding gun owners defend themselves

by Matt Manda
6:00am Thursday, June 20, 2024
Earlier this month, Chicagoans witnessed a weekend that saw at least 71 people shot. Citizens there are considering arming themselves, and that is too much for the Tribune's editorial board, which went out and did the most editorial board thing possible and decried such an idea.

NRA files amicus brief with Ninth Circuit over California billy club ban

6:00am Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Any prohibition on bearable arms — whether firearms, billy clubs, or something else — must be supported by “history and tradition,” as the Supreme Court held in NYSRPA v. Bruen. NRA’s brief argues that California’s ban on billy clubs is unsupported by history and tradition and is therefore unconstitutional.

Buckeye Firearms Association applauds U.S. Supreme Court ruling on bump stocks

6:00am Monday, June 17, 2024
In a 6-3 ruling on Friday, June 14, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a ban on so-called "bump stocks," finding that the Justice Department exceeded its authority by reclassifying the device as a "machine gun." "We're pleased with this ruling," said Dean Rieck, Executive Director of Buckeye Firearms Association. "For years, this device had been considered legal. Then the Justice Department...

Is Biden threatening war on U.S. citizens during repeated gun control trope?

by Mark Oliva
6:00am Friday, June 14, 2024
President Joe Biden spoke to Everytown for Gun Safety’s “Gun Sense University” in Washington in a “rinse, lather, repeat,” performance of nearly every other gun control speech he has delivered since he announced his candidacy for the White House. This time, he accentuated his threat to wage war on law-abiding gun owners who cherish their Second Amendment rights.

Pew data reveals what gun control supporters expect from a Biden reelection

by Salam Fatohi
6:00am Thursday, June 13, 2024
Pew Research Service released a Cultural Issues and the 2024 Election report that shows there’s a stark difference in the way those who support more gun control and those who support gun rights see the issue of lawful gun ownership in America and what it means for the 2024 election. Pew Research Service surveyed 8,709 adults, including 1,166 registered voters, in April on the political values of...

Will anti-gun groups pressure Biden to again view veterans as 'mental defectives'?

6:00am Tuesday, June 11, 2024
In March, we reported on an appropriations rider that corrected a longstanding and shameful practice by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of reporting beneficiaries to NICS as “mental defectives” prohibited from having guns, merely because they had been determined to need financial oversight. Now a new military appropriations bill is making its way toward Joe Biden’s desk, and this time he...

PODCAST: Do more guns cause more crime? No. And here's proof.

6:00am Monday, June 10, 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 115: Gun control advocates say more guns = more crime. Specifically, the more guns there are the more murders will be committed. But is...

In NYT fashion, Old Gray Lady designs interactive tool to help readers determine need for self-defense gun

by Mark Oliva
6:00am Wednesday, June 05, 2024
Leave it to those reporters at The New York Times to be ever-thinking about ways to keep their readers informed and involved. The Old Gray Lady published an online, interactive tool to demonstrate to readers how important self-defense is, especially in the home.

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