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Enjoy a Free Day at Ohio’s Public Ranges in August

7:00am Friday, August 12, 2022
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife and the National Shooting Sports Foundation are partnering to host Free Range Day at five of Ohio's premier public shooting ranges on Saturday, Aug. 20. Visit one of the following public shooting ranges on Free Range Day to gain hands-on experience and instruction with firearms at no charge from certified...

North Canton Removes Illegal No Gun Sign in Price Park After Complaint

by Dean Rieck
3:00pm Thursday, August 11, 2022
Ohio cities cannot ban guns in public parks. That's been the rule for nearly two decades ever since concealed carry became legal in the state. In fact, the Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that cities cannot ban firearms in municipal parks because it conflicts with a general state law that permits qualifying adults to carry a concealed weapon on any public property other than at locations...

Red Flag Orders Enable Political Abuse

7:00am Thursday, August 11, 2022
So-called “Red Flag” orders, or Emergency Risk Protection Orders, are designed to empower the government to confiscate Americans’ firearms without due process of law . Aside from allowing run-of-the-mill malicious actors to indulge personal grudges against law-abiding gun owners, in the current politically-charged environment these laws enable the government to target those with First Amendment-...

Commonly Owned: NSSF Announces Over 24 Million MSRs in Circulation

7:00am Wednesday, August 10, 2022
NEWTOWN, Conn. — NSSF®, the firearm industry trade association, updated the industry estimate of Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) in circulation in the United States to 24,446,000 since 1990. That is an increase of over 4.5 million rifles since the last estimate was released in 2020. The estimate is derived from NSSF research, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Annual Firearms...

“Assault Weapon”— The All Purpose Pejorative

7:00am Tuesday, August 09, 2022
“Assault weapon” is a meaningless and politically elastic term. Demonstrating that the agenda drives the definition, President Biden’s nominees to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) both refused to commit to any intelligible definition. David Chipman, Biden’s initial and unsuccessful choice for ATF director, famously flubbed a straightforward request to define an “...

PODCAST: Answers to 5 Common Legal Questions About Carrying Firearms

7:00am Monday, August 08, 2022
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 74: What force of law do no-gun signs actually have? Can an officer legally take your gun during a traffic stop? What's the difference...

Eli Dicken — 15 seconds, 400 Uvalde cops — 77 minutes

by Lee Williams
3:00pm Friday, August 05, 2022
It’s not easy to second guess a law enforcement officer’s actions during a deadly force encounter unless you were there, unless you saw precisely what the officer saw — from their perspective — and felt what the officer felt, including a massive jolt of adrenaline. Deadly force encounters happen at the speed of life. They’re unbelievably quick — a couple seconds or less. Trying to judge whether...

Farcical “Assault Weapons” Ban Mark-up Showed Contempt for Facts, Law, and Dignity

7:00am Thursday, August 04, 2022
A recent Gallup poll asked Americans about their level of trust in various institutions. Of the 16 options, the one respondents identified as LEAST trustworthy – with only 7% expressing a “Great deal” or “Quite a lot” of confidence in it – was Congress. This was just below television news (at 11%) but also below such things as big business, large technology companies, banks, and small business...

95% of BFA PAC Endorsed Candidates Win Primary Election on Aug. 2

3:00pm Wednesday, August 03, 2022
It's been an exhausting and confusing election year so far. We've had two Primary Elections, and still have the November General Election to go. In yesterday's #2 Primary, 10 out of 10 BFA PAC Senate endorsees won, and 48 out of 51 House endorsees won. To be fair, not every candidate had challengers. And in many districts, there were cancelled primaries, candidates added late, or candidates who...

Pickaway Co. home invasion ends with intruder dead

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, August 03, 2022
The Scioto Post reported recently that a man was shot and killed after he invaded a Pickaway Co. home just before midnight. From the article : According to the report on July 14, 2022 at 2338 hours, Sheriff’s department was dispatched to 10565 Thrailkill Road on a shooting and a suspected burglar in the residence. Dispatch advised that the caller stated someone had gained entry into their home...

ODNR Offers Annual Ohio Women’s Outdoor Adventures Weekend

3:00pm Tuesday, August 02, 2022
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) is excited to announce the 8th annual Ohio Women’s Outdoor Adventures weekend, which will be held at Hueston Woods State Park and Lodge, Sept. 16-18. Hosted by ODNR divisions of Parks and Watercraft, Forestry, and Wildlife, Ohio Women’s Outdoor Adventure is a weekend program that introduces women to outdoor skills such as boating,...

VOTE YOUR GUN RIGHTS TODAY - Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022

7:00am Tuesday, August 02, 2022
Today, Tuesday, August 2, 2022, is Ohio's second Primary Election. If you have not already voted, make sure you go to your polling location and VOTE YOUR GUN RIGHTS! Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Click here to see BFA PAC grades and endorsements for today's election . Note: If you're looking at this on a phone, you may need to turn your screen sideways to see all the grades and...

PODCAST: Democrats Blame Gun Makers for Crime and Push Predatory Lawsuits and Gun Bans

3:00pm Monday, August 01, 2022
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 73: The U.S. House Oversight Committee attacks gun makers for the acts of criminals. And Democrats are pushing laws to sue gun makers...

Author of Cincinnati bump-stock ban guilty of bribery & attempted extortion

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, August 01, 2022
In 2018, then-Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld led efforts to get City Council to ban bump stocks within the city limits. We told Sittenfeld and his fellow council members that the law would be struck down, and that the legal fight would wind up costing the city's taxpayers dearly. He didn't listen. We sued, and we won. Four years later, Sittenfeld has a different sort of legal problem...

House Passes H.R. 1808 Assault Weapons Ban of 2022 - TAKE ACTION NOW

6:35pm Friday, July 29, 2022
On Friday evening, July 29, 2022, the U.S. House passed H.R. 1808, the so-called Assault Weapons Ban of 2022. The highly partisan vote was 217 to 213. Two Republicans voted in favor, including Chris Jacobs (NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), while five Democrats voted against, including Henry Cuellar (TX), Jared Golden (ME), Vicente Gonzalez (TX), Kurt Schrader (OR) and Ron Kind (WI). This is a...

Op-Ed: CHL-Holder Does in 15 Seconds What 376 Law Enforcement Officers Couldn't Do in 77 Minutes

by Nick Arama
7:00am Friday, July 29, 2022
(Photo rendering credit: RightJournalism.com) We’ve written about the actions of the “good guy with a gun” Eli Dicken — the 22-year-old hero who shot and killed the Greenwood Park Mall mass shooter in Greenwood, Indiana. ... More details are emerging that show how God must have been with Dicken in his actions, because they surely were amazing. The killer went into the bathroom near the food court...

TAKE ACTION: Tell Your Representative to Oppose Federal Gun Control

7:00am Thursday, July 28, 2022
The House Judiciary Committee has passed H.R. 1808, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2022, and H.R. 2814, the Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act. Either or both of these bills could come before the U.S. House at any time for a vote. Both of these bills are designed with one and only one goal: to attack law-abiding gun owners and blatantly infringe the Constitutionally-protected...

Shooting Through Bags and Purses

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Although I generally don’t advise my students to carry their firearms off body, I recognize that lots of folks carry guns in purses and bags. One of the stated “advantages” of such a carry method is the fact that you can fire the gun from inside the bag or purse without removing it in an emergency situation. Maybe. Maybe not. At [a recent] Rangemaster Tactical Conference, I assisted my friend Eve...

The Exciting Sport of 3-Gun Shooting

by Tony Mandile
3:00pm Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Try this fun test of speed and accuracy, using rifles, pistol and shotguns One of the fastest-growing shooting sports in the country right now is the action-packed multi-gun competition commonly known as “3-gun.” Getting started in 3-gun competition is easy. Find a shooting range in your area that puts on 3-gun matches. Then spend some time watching and learning, also, don’t be afraid to ask...

New Hunter Biden Revelations Further Undermine President’s Gun Control Effort

7:00am Tuesday, July 26, 2022
On June 2, President Joe Biden gave a speech in which he demanded that Congress enact a gun ban and other severe gun control measures that he has supported throughout his political career. Among the policies Biden listed was the criminalization of private firearm transfers – sometimes inaccurately termed “universal background checks.” Biden commanded, “We should expand background checks to be —...

PODCAST: Media Calls Elisjsha Dicken a Hero, But Remain Clueless About Armed Civilians

3:00pm Monday, July 25, 2022
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 72: 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken used his concealed handgun to stop a mass murderer at an Indiana mall in about 15 seconds. And the media...

Announcing the 2022 Fall Youth Shoot - Sep 10-11

7:00am Monday, July 25, 2022
Don't miss the 2022 Fall Youth Shoot. REGISTER TODAY When: Saturday and Sunday Sep 10-11, 2022 Where: Dillon Sportsman Center 5200 Pleasant Valley Road Nashport, OH 43830 Cost: Only $5 per Youth Adult Volunteers Free Weekend Camping Free Fall is coming soon and it will be time for our second Youth Shoot of 2022! This is a great opportunity to get the kids outside in the fresh air and have some...

A Short Commentary on Hunting Ethics

by Bret Collier
7:00am Friday, July 22, 2022
As readers of the Hunting Wire know, I run a pretty active collegiate new hunter program out of my office here at LSU. For about the last decade, each year my partners and I run around 80 college students studying natural resources through our program, introducing them to hunting as a mechanism for wildlife conservation. For those of us who are already hunters, we understand the stages of hunting...

Ohio Resource Connection Builds Network for Vendors and Landowners

7:00am Thursday, July 21, 2022
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new website, the Ohio Resource Connection , aims to build a network of forestry and wildlife professionals, habitat vendors, and landowners in the Buckeye State, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The Ohio Resource Connection is a partnership between ODNR’s Division of Wildlife and Division of Forestry, along with the Ohio Society of American...

Mentoring New Deer Hunters in Under-Represented Communities

3:00pm Wednesday, July 20, 2022
According to a national survey that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducts every five years, of the approximately 11.5 million licensed hunters in the U.S., 90% are male and 97% are Caucasian. There is a growing movement within the outdoor industry to provide equitable access to underrepresented communities and diversify hunting, so it more closely represents American demographics today...

Hateful Comments Prove Elisjsha Dicken Really Is a "Good Samaritan"

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Wednesday, July 20, 2022
It's unusual to see the news media report anything good about guns or gun owners. But they couldn't ignore how a 22-year-old man used his concealed handgun to stop a mass murderer who opened fire at a food court in a Greenwood, Indiana, mall on July 18, 2022. CNN, Newsweek, ABC, BBC, and other news outlets, published accounts of how Elisjsha Dicken, a young man shopping with his girlfriend,...

A Century of Opposition to New York’s Sullivan Law

3:00pm Tuesday, July 19, 2022
On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York’s discretionary carry licensing regime as a violation of the Second Amendment right to bear arms in the NRA-backed case NYSRPA v. Bruen. The law at issue was the modern version New York’s Sullivan Law, which was enacted in 1911. Named for notorious Tammany Hall political boss “Big” Tim Sullivan, the law imbued bribery and favoritism into the...

More Crime, Same (Lame) Gun Control Proposals

7:00am Tuesday, July 19, 2022
On April 20, FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate warned a meeting of law enforcement officers that “violence, homicides and aggravated assaults” are now “occurring at an appalling rate” in America: “We’re seeing a disturbing violent crime surge across the country.” The FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) data for 2020 (the most recent reporting year) shows that the rates of...

PODCAST: Government Incompetence, a Creepy ATF Arrest, and UPS Intimidation

3:00pm Monday, July 18, 2022
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 71: Why did Miami police conduct a "Guns 4 Ukraine" gun buyback when it was clearly illegal? Was the California release of personal gun...

State Senate Candidate Wilkin Earns Rare A+ Endorsement from BFA-PAC

7:00am Monday, July 18, 2022
In a session that saw the top priorities of gun owners advance, State Representative Shane Wilkin, who is now a candidate for the Ohio Senate District 17 in Southwest Ohio, was a true champion for the Second Amendment. Tapped by House Speaker Bob Cupp to chair the powerful Government Oversight Committee, Wilkin shepherded through the most controversial bills of the General Assembly. Because of...

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