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United Nations' OEWG finalizes plan to regulate ammunition

6:00am Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Late into the night 9 June, the United Nations' Open-Ended Working Group on Conventional Ammunition (OEWG) concluded its development of a new global framework to address existing gaps in through-life conventional ammunition management despite the dissociation of the Russian Federation and their bedfellows Belarus. Created through General Assembly resolution purporting to address problems arising...

Issue 1: Why Ohio's Constitution Should be Hard to Amend

by Dean Rieck
6:00am Monday, June 12, 2023
There are many reasons to vote yes to support Issue 1 on the Aug. 8 ballot . But for Ohio's 4 million gun owners, the primary reason is that gun control advocates seek to end run our legislature and dramatically infringe Second Amendment rights. Ordinarily, when gun control groups want to regulate guns, they work with left-leaning legislators to introduce a bill. If it makes its way through the...

Study: Restrictive gun control laws 'unlikely' to solve youth gun violence

1:00pm Friday, June 09, 2023
A first-of-its-kind study published in late May in the American Medical Association’s JAMA Network Open concluded that community-level “social vulnerability” factors like poverty, unemployment, crowded housing, and minority status were much more likely than “permissive” gun control laws to be strongly associated with a high gun-violence death rate among youth. “Our results suggest that...

BFA Testifies in Support of SB 58 to Prohibit Requiring Firearms Liability Insurance

by Dean Rieck
6:00am Thursday, June 08, 2023
On Wednesday, June 7, 2023, Buckeye Firearms Association presented testimony in the Ohio House Insurance Committee supporting Senate Bill 58 to prohibit requiring firearm liability insurance or being required to pay a fee for the possession of a firearm, part of a firearm, its components, its ammunition, or a knife. This was the second hearing for this legislation in the House, sponsored by...

40 million Americans refuse to comply with Biden's ATF pistol brace rule

by Gary Marbut
1:00pm Wednesday, June 07, 2023
I have seen various estimates of the percentage of pistol brace owners who have complied with the new BATFE rule that deems braced pistols to be subject to prohibition or registration as Short Barreled Rifles (SBR) under the National Firearms Act (NFA). The most defensible estimates seem to be around 2.5% compliance. The most generous estimates come in near 8% compliance, while other estimates...

Help us WIN on Issue 1 - Ask for Your FREE Barn Banner

6:00am Wednesday, June 07, 2023
We The People Convention is offering FREE barn banners to support Issue 1 and protect Ohio's constitution. A YES vote on Issue 1 protects our Constitution and Second Amendment rights from deep-pocketed, out-of-state interests. By passing Issue 1, the People will ensure constitutional changes are widely accepted and declare that Ohio’s Constitution is not for sale to gun grabbers like Mike...

Win this Ruger PCC and support the DC Project Women for Gun Rights

6:00am Tuesday, June 06, 2023
The DC Project is a nationwide organization of women committed to safeguarding the Second Amendment. They are a non-partisan initiative of daughters, mothers, and sisters that believe education is the key to firearm safety and violence prevention, not legislation. They counter the disinformation gun control groups circulate by informing our friends, families, communities, and legislators with the...

Ohio Farm Bureau supports BFA-backed constitutional amendment: Issue 1

by Ohio Farm Bureau staff
6:00am Monday, June 05, 2023
Note from Buckeye Firearms Association: Ohio Farm Bureau on May 26 published this editorial in support of the BFA-backed Issue 1 , which would raise the threshold to 60% to approve Ohio Constitution amendment proposals. Issue 1, a ballot initiative that asks Ohio voters if the state should strengthen the petition process and raise the threshold to 60% for approving constitutional amendment...

Time's up: Is your AR-style pistol brace registered as short-barreled rifle?

by Jeff Knox
6:00am Friday, June 02, 2023
Note: This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended as, nor should it be considered, personal legal advice. If you currently own an AR-style pistol and you also possess a brace that can be attached to that pistol, then you are subject to felony prosecution as of the end of May unless you file, or have filed, paperwork to register it as a short-barreled rifle . The easiest...

Journal of the American Medical Association wrong on guns — again

By Lee Williams
6:00am Thursday, June 01, 2023
The first edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association was published July 14, 1883. It contained a transcript of the annual address then-AMA president, Dr. W. Brodie, made during the group’s annual meetings in Cleveland, Ohio. Brodie told the delegates that “in the very near future, if not now, cremation will become a sanitary necessity in the large cities and populous districts of...

SAVE THE DATE - 2023 Fall Youth Shoot - Sep. 9-10

6:00am Wednesday, May 31, 2023
When: Saturday and Sunday Sep. 9-10, 2023 Camping on-site starting Friday night, Sep. 8 Registration will open closer to the event. Watch your email for our alert. Where : Tusco Rifle Club 2132 Midvale Mine Rd SE Dennison, OH 44621 Cost: Only $10 per Youth Adult Volunteers Free Weekend Camping Free Make sure to save the date and mark it on your calendar! The Fall Youth Shoot will take place on...

REGISTER TO VOTE in the August 8 Special Election for Issue 1

6:00am Tuesday, May 30, 2023
It is vital that all gun owners in Ohio VOTE YES on Issue 1 in the August 8 Special Election. So please make sure you're registered. If not, follow the simple instructions below. A YES vote on Issue 1 protects our Constitution and Second Amendment rights from deep-pocketed, out-of-state interests. By passing Issue 1, the People will ensure constitutional changes are widely accepted and declare...

PODCAST: Lies, Lies, and More Lies About Guns and Gun Control

6:00am Monday, May 29, 2023
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 97: They lie about gun free zones. They lie about the racist roots of gun control. They lie about gun control laws saving lives. But the...

DoD recommends private gun registration, centralized storage on bases, other absurdities

by John Farnam
6:00am Friday, May 26, 2023
As we witness our Armed Forces recruitment efforts repeatedly falling drastically short of even minimum maintenance goals, the Department of Defense, in its infinite wisdom, now cynically manufactures yet another significant reason for young Americans not to enlist. Under the laughable pretext of “lethal-means reduction,” a new DOD report, “ Preventing Suicide in the U.S. Military:...

BFA Responds to Columbus Dispatch Editors' Attack on Gun Rights Lobbying

by Dean Rieck
6:00am Thursday, May 25, 2023
The Columbus Dispatch has never been a friend of law-abiding gun owners in Ohio. For as long as I can remember, they've used their bully pulpit in support of gun control. But that's not surprising. Many, if not most, metropolitan newspapers are staffed by people who support all manner of civil rights, except for the one enumerated as "Amendment II" of the U.S. Constitution. Urban liberals really...

NSSF challenges California's law promoting frivolous firearms industry lawsuits

6:00am Wednesday, May 24, 2023
NSSF, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, filed a challenge to California’s unconstitutional firearms industry liability law, AB 1594 , that was passed last year and signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The law encourages civil suits against the firearm industry for the damages caused by the criminal actions of remote third parties. This law is an affront to the U.S. Constitution and abuses...

No, Obama and other gun grabbers don’t aim to treat firearms like cars

6:00am Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Always one for lame platitudes, Barack Obama recently suggested that gun control has become too politicized and that firearms should be regulated like motor vehicles. Speaking with CBS Mornings, the former president offered something of a kinder, gentler version of his 2008 bitter clingers statement, opining, I think somehow, and there are a lot of historical reasons for this, gun ownership in...

Columbus Files Yet Another Lawsuit Seeking to Infringe Gun Rights

by Dean Rieck
6:00am Monday, May 22, 2023
Here we go again. On the heels of Judge David M. Gormley's ruling to prohibit the city of Columbus from enforcing its unlawful firearm ordinances, Columbus has filed another complaint against the state of Ohio. Like its first complaint filed in 2019, the new complaint seeks to turn back Ohio's "preemption" law in ORC 9.68 , which Buckeye Firearms Association helped to pass, so that Columbus and...

Gun News Roundup - May 20, 2023: Columbus wastes more taxpayer funds on endless fight against gun owners

6:00am Saturday, May 20, 2023
Fighting for Second Amendment rights, and exercising those rights freely and effectively, starts with being informed. Here's a quick roundup of important stories in the news recently: Columbus again suing state in endless legal battle over gun rights Meanwhile, Columbus mayor asks Short North businesses to close early to curb violence U.S. Supreme Court allows Illinois 'assault weapons' ban to...

Homicide: A 'red state' or 'blue city' problem?

6:00am Friday, May 19, 2023
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s gun control group, Everytown for Gun Safety, ranks the 50 states on how well they have comported their laws to the organization’s civilian disarmament agenda. In doing so, the group describes New Hampshire, with its few gun control laws, as a “national failure.” That descriptor might come as a surprise to residents of the bucolic northern New England state...

Biden caught using fake data to gaslight Americans on 'mass' shootings

by Lee Williams
6:00am Thursday, May 18, 2023
President Joe Biden has always struggled with the truth. Whenever he wanders off script and speaks extemporaneously, he invents personal anecdotes — boldfaced lies, actually — in which he assigns himself the starring role. Whether he’s getting arrested in South Africa for trying to bust into Nelson Mandela’s prison cell, or bravely confronting AR-toting hunters in a Delaware swamp or going toe-to...

NRA-ILA-backed lawsuit challenges Maryland’s unconstitutional carry restrictions filed in federal court

6:00am Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Maryland has become the latest state to defy the United States Supreme Court’s Bruen decision with the passage of SB 1 and HB 824. It has also become the latest state to get hit with an NRA-ILA backed lawsuit challenging those restrictions. Just one month after Bruen was decided, a Maryland court found it was “self-evident” that Maryland’s carry permitting regime was also unconstitutional. “In...

Columbus' anti-gun virtue signaling: All show, useless for security

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth
6:00am Tuesday, May 16, 2023
A false sense of security is not true security. Doing things for show does nothing to protect people's lives. Yet that's exactly what continues to occur throughout our country. Every time an atrocity involving a firearm occurs, virtue-signaling politicians, media outlets, and talking heads rush to blame firearms and "the gun lobby." Then comes the barrage of people far too willing to forgo their...

PODCAST: Gun Rights on the August Ballot and the Ohio House Insurrection

6:00am Monday, May 15, 2023
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 96: The Ohio House passed a resolution for a special August election to protect our state constitution from outside special interests...

Gun News Roundup - May 13: Biased media take aim at 2A

6:00am Saturday, May 13, 2023
Fighting for Second Amendment rights, and exercising those rights freely and effectively, starts with being informed. Here's a quick roundup of important stories in the news recently — with a few examples of biased reporting against 2A: Mayor Ginther renews calls for gun control after violent weekend in Columbus Adults age 18 to 20 can't be barred from buying handguns from licensed dealers, judge...

Federal judge: Barring adults age 18-20 from buying handguns unconstitutional

by John Crump
12:47pm Friday, May 12, 2023
A federal district court judge in Virginia has declared the federal prohibition of handguns being transferred to gun owners under 21 by federal firearms licensees (FFLs) unconstitutional . The case, Fraser v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), was brought by four Virginia men between the ages of 18 and 20 who wanted to purchase handguns from a gun store. John “Corey”...

Washington Post: 'Democratic AGs are Using the Courts to Win on ... Gun Control'

6:00am Friday, May 12, 2023
With all due respect to the Washington Post, the headline to the recent article referenced in the title of this piece reminds us of the iconic phrase uttered by the character Inigo Montoya in the 1987 film Princess Bride. “You keep using that word (in this case, words, as in “courts” and “win”). I do not think it means what you think it means.” A headline announcing “using the courts to win on…...

BFA-backed constitutional amendment for 60% threshold to appear on August ballot

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth
3:07pm Wednesday, May 10, 2023
UPDATE: SJR 2 will appear on the ballot on August 8 as "Issue 1." Vote YES for Issue 1. The Ohio House of Representatives today (May 10) passed Senate Joint Resolution 2 , getting us one step closer to requiring a 60% threshold for changes to the Ohio Constitution. The House voted 56-32 to put the measure on the Aug. 8 ballot. Only a simple majority vote was needed. The final vote on the...

BFA delivers thousands of email messages to key House members urging support for SJR 2

6:00am Tuesday, May 09, 2023
The window for the Ohio House of Representatives to place an issue on the ballot to protect Ohio’s Constitution, including our gun rights, is closing fast. To give people a chance to vote on Senate Joint Resolution 2 (SJR 2), it must be passed by the House and Senate by Wednesday, May 10. That's why we sent an action alert to our Ohio-based supporters Monday morning asking them to contact House...

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