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New York court: 'Innovative' gun control unconstitutional

6:00am Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Well, that was interesting. Our alert last week pointed out that “ [g]un control advocates are ceaseless innovators in the realm of limiting freedom ,” with one of these original ideas being so-called “red flag” gun confiscation laws. The alert added that these laws are open to challenge, citing United States v. Rahimi, 61 F.4th 443 (5th Cir. 2023), a case invalidating a federal firearms...

Ohio's 2023-24 deer hunting seasons approved

6:00am Monday, April 17, 2023
The Ohio Wildlife Council approved proposed hunting and trapping season dates for 2023-24, including deer bag limit changes in seven counties, during its regularly scheduled meeting April 12, according to an April 13 news release from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife. Deer hunting seasons Deer are Ohio’s most popular game animal. Seasons in 2023-24 will have similar...

African American gun ownership is up; here's why

by Larry Keane
6:00am Friday, April 14, 2023
Policy-makers are confounded. A recent report by The Hill showed that African Americans are the most directly impacted by what they call “gun violence.” At the same time, firearm purchases by African Americans rose steeply in recent years. Those two facts are not mutually exclusive and are linked in ways that gun control groups don’t want to admit. In other words, it’s the crime, stupid. And...

Alabama: House Republican majority moving anti-gun bills

6:00am Thursday, April 13, 2023
The supposedly pro-gun majority in the Alabama House has scheduled committee hearings for three anti-gun bills. House Bill 12 violates Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights by making it a Class A misdemeanor for lawful citizens to not inform law-enforcement, upon request, that they are carrying or possessing firearms. House Bill 28 removes certain exemptions for carry permit holders in order to...

NICS: March 2023 is fourth-highest March for gun sales, background checks

by Dean Weingarten
6:00am Wednesday, April 12, 2023
The National Instant Background Check System (NICS) gun sales and background checks for March 2023 are the fourth-highest on record since recording of background checks started in 1999. In March 2023, there were about 1.51 million gun sales and about 3.04 million background checks total. Having about half of background checks done for gun sales falls well within the expected range in recent years...

Second Amendment vs. 'innovative' gun control

6:00am Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Gun control advocates are ceaseless innovators in the realm of limiting freedom. They continually devise new and bizarre policies to undermine the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022) poses a serious problem for these gun control pioneers. In striking down New York’s discretionary carry...

New York court rules due process must be considered for 'red flag' orders

by Larry Keane
6:00am Monday, April 10, 2023
A New York court affirmed that due process rights must be taken into consideration when enforcing so-called “red flag” laws and vacated New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s executive order for enforcing Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs) or “red flag” orders. That is consistent with what NSSF has said from the beginning about ERPOs. If an individual is going to be deprived of fundamental...

Gun News Roundup - April 8, 2023

6:00am Saturday, April 08, 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: South Carolina on track to become 27th constitutional carry state ICYMI: DeSantis’ signature tips US into majority 'constitutional carry' nation with new Florida gun rights law Florida Sheriff Billy Woods: 'The bad...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs 'constitutional carry' into law

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth
6:00am Friday, April 07, 2023
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on April 3 signed into law House Bill 543, the "constitutional carry" legislation that allows Floridians to carry concealed weapons without a government-issued permit. HB 543 goes into effect July 1, making Florida the 26th state to enact "constitutional carry" legislation, according to a post on the governor's website . “Constitutional Carry is in the books...

Effort to require 60% for constitutional changes is essential to gun rights

by Rob Sexton
6:00am Thursday, April 06, 2023
Legislation in both the Ohio House and Senate that would require voters to approve any changes to the Ohio Constitution have received a lot of coverage — most of it negative — in the media these past few weeks. But like many things covered by the mainstream media, the press gets this issue wrong. House Joint Resolution 1 and Senate Joint Resolution 2 are essential to protect Ohio and are equally...

Self-refuting Washington Post: 'No one needs' gun 1 in 20 Americans already own

6:00am Wednesday, April 05, 2023
The Washington Post on March 29 published an editorial titled, “No one needs an AR-15 — or any gun tailor-made for mass shootings.” That piece followed an earlier series of articles about the AR-15 under the heading, “AMERICAN ICON: The gun that divides a nation.” Both efforts were meant to echo and amplify Joe Biden’s call to ban semiautomatic long guns and “large capacity” magazines. They were...

2nd Amendment Summit slated April 15 in Cincinnati

6:00am Tuesday, April 04, 2023
The "largest student-led gun rights conference in Ohio" is coming to Cincinnati this month. The 2nd Amendment Summit will bring together students, industry professionals, policymakers, and other influential voices in the firearms community to advocate for the right to keep and bear arms, according to Nicholas Fisher, summit conference director. The summit, which will begin with check-in,...

PODCAST: Good Gun Bills, Bad Gun Bills, and a Constitutional Joint Resolution

6:00am Monday, April 03, 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 94: Legislators have introduced 3 good pro gun bills and 2 really bad anti gun bills. Plus there's growing support for a pair of joint...

Gun News Roundup - April 1, 2023

6:00am Saturday, April 01, 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: Mother of Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale appears to have been gun control activist Nashville shooting shows America has a mental health crisis, not a gun problem Anti-gun protesters storm Tennessee state...

CCRKBA: Focus should be on mental health, not firearms

6:00am Friday, March 31, 2023
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says the facts support only one conclusion about the deadly shooting in Nashville on Monday: America has a mental health crisis, not a firearms crisis. “Firearms don’t have a brain to hate with, or a finger to pull their own trigger,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb in a March 28 post at ccrkba.org . “What happened Monday in Nashville...

Google's experimental AI chatbot Bard admits 'bias in favor of gun control'

by Chad D. Baus
1:00pm Thursday, March 30, 2023
Recently, I received an invitation to participate in an early experiment with Google's generative AI chatbot called Bard. After a week on the waiting list, I received notification that it was my turn to try Bard. My first questions to Bard dealt with simply understanding its purpose: Being a writer, I couldn't help but notice that Bard had referred to itself in the first person in its first...

BFA Testifies in Favor of SJR 2 to Protect Constitutional Rights

by Dean Rieck
6:00am Thursday, March 30, 2023
On Wednesday, March 29, 2023, Buckeye Firearms Association presented testimony in the Senate General Government Committee supporting Senate Joint Resolution 2 to amend the Ohio Constitution to require a vote of at least 60% of the electors to approve any constitutional amendment. This was the second hearing on this resolution, which seeks to raise the bar for altering Ohio's Constitution...

ODNR: New construction to begin at Delaware Wildlife Area Shooting Range

6:00am Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Delaware Wildlife Area’s shooting range hours will be adjusted beginning Wednesday, April 12, to allow for the construction of safety baffles and target positions for the 100-yard lanes, according to a March 28 news release from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife. Construction is estimated to last up to 12 weeks, during which time the 100-yard range will be closed. The...

Biden swiftly exploits Nashville shooting to push gun control demands

By Dave Workman
6:00am Tuesday, March 28, 2023
President Joe Biden wasted no time Monday to use the murders of six people at a private Christian grade school in Nashville , allegedly by a 28-year-old woman reportedly armed with two semiautomatic rifles and a handgun, to push his gun ban agenda. The shooter was killed by responding Nashville police officers. Fox News: The shooter was identified as Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a Nashville resident,...

Army veteran who shot armed gangster charged with murder by another Soros-backed DA

By Lee Williams
6:00am Monday, March 27, 2023
Most convicts would rather serve a year in a county jail or a state prison rather than six months in the Baltimore City Jail, which is dank, dirty and dangerous, especially for someone accused of murdering one of the city’s Crips gang members. Medically retired U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Alejandro Gonzalez has spent more than 16 months behind bars, accused of first-degree murder. He and his legal team...

Gun News Roundup - March 25, 2023

6:00am Saturday, March 25, 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: North Carolina: Right-to-carry expansion and permit-to-purchase repeal VETOED by Gov. Cooper Florida may soon loosen gun laws as lawmakers pass permitless carry bill Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee: ATF has been keeping...

Progressive prosecutor demonstrates why no one trusts more gun control

By Mark Oliva
6:00am Friday, March 24, 2023
District Attorney George Gascón is putting a "woke" soft-on-crime agenda ahead of community safety. Let the gun control zealots defend this. Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón had to be shamed into doing his job to protect his community from a would-be school murderer. DA Gascón refused to bring charges against a teen who allegedly posted threats against a school on social media and was...

Uvalde police, who had ARs, now blame ARs for 21 murders, not own cowardice

By Lee Williams
6:00am Thursday, March 23, 2023
Law enforcement is dangerous. That’s why departments issue handguns, spare mags, Tasers, pepper spray, batons, shotguns, ARs and body armor, and spend millions of taxpayer dollars every year making sure their officers know how to use deadly force with some modicum of proficiency. If you can’t accept the danger, do not apply. Pinning on a badge once came with an implied consent. It meant you were...

Bullying from anti-gun senators, AGs mounts for firearms purchase tracking

By Mark Oliva
6:00am Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Credit card companies "paused" firearms retail-specific merchant category codes. Suddenly, gun control advocates can’t live without them. Here’s why. There’s no bigger proof that the Merchant Category Code (MCC) specific to firearm retailers is really a bad idea than those losing their minds now that major credit card companies announced they won’t put it into practice. U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez (D...

U.S. taxpayers funding 'red flag' gun confiscation orders

6:00am Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Texans are paying for so-called “Red Flag” gun confiscation orders in New York. North Carolinians are bankrolling Extreme Risk Protective Orders (ERPOs) in New Jersey. Louisianans are footing the bill for gun confiscation orders in Maryland . Thanks to the 2022 federal gun control omnibus bill, titled the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), taxpayers in pro-gun jurisdictions are now...

PODCAST: Biden Signs Executive Order to Harass Gun Dealers and Other Malarkey

6:00am Monday, March 20, 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 93: Desperate to look tough on crime, Biden signs an executive order to harass gun dealers, accuse manufactures of marketing guns to...

ODNR Division of Wildlife accepting sign-ups for special spring hunting, fishing opportunities

6:00am Friday, March 17, 2023
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife is inviting all hunting and fishing enthusiasts to apply for spring 2023 controlled access opportunities available throughout the state. The online application period for special trout fishing and wild turkey hunting is open until March 31, according to a March 15 news release from the ODNR. Successful applicants for each opportunity...

NSSF: Biden ignores Constitution, Congress, signs anti-gun executive order

6:00am Thursday, March 16, 2023
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) posted March 14 that it takes exception with President Joe Biden’s Executive Order to increase gun control measures. In the name of “doing something,” the Biden administration is chilling fundamental Constitutional rights and simply rehashing existing law, many of which were previously supported by the firearm industry. “The Biden administration...

BFA Provides Testimony in Support of SB 58 to Prohibit Firearm Ownership Fees or Liability Insurance

6:00am Wednesday, March 15, 2023
On Wednesday, March 15, 2023, Buckeye Firearms Association presented testimony in the Senate Veterans and Public Safety Committee supporting SB 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, sponsored by Senator...

Hunting coalition files appeal on California youth marketing law

6:00am Tuesday, March 14, 2023
On March 10, the Sportsmen’s Alliance, Safari Club International and Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation appealed the denial of a preliminary injunction against a California statute that prohibits the "marketing" of firearms and firearm accessories to minors . The law, created with passage of AB 2571 in August 2022, put many youth-related hunting and education programs at risk due to the...

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