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SCOTUS Reverses and Remands Two NRA-ILA Backed Magazine Cases

7:00am Friday, July 15, 2022
One week after our landmark victory in NYSRPA v. Bruen , the Supreme Court issued orders in two other NRA-ILA backed cases. Those cases, ANJRPC v. Bruck and Duncan v. Bonta , challenge New Jersey and California laws that ban magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. The Third and Ninth Circuits, over dissents, upheld the bans by balancing the state governments’ safety...

Hunting license sales down by 1.9% in 2021, but remain above pre-pandemic levels

7:00am Thursday, July 14, 2022
The 2022 National R3 Symposium wrapped up [recently] in Broken Arrow, OK. The 220 participants representing over 100 different organizations with a vested interest in hunting and shooting sports were the first to lay eyes on data released from the Council to Advance Hunting and the Shooting Sport (Council), documenting a slight decrease in hunting license sales in 2021. “It’s important to note...

CMP Celebrates Opening of the 2022 National Matches with Double First Shot Ceremony

by Ashley Dugan
3:00pm Wednesday, July 13, 2022
CAMP PERRY, Ohio – On the beautiful, sun-filled morning of July 12, the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) hosted the opening event of the 2022 National Rifle and Pistol Matches – the First Shot Ceremony. The First Shot serves as a welcoming for guests, participants, volunteers and staff eager to start the annual National Matches – held at the Camp Perry National Guard Training Facility. The...

Apply For Ohio’s Controlled Hunts in July

7:00am Wednesday, July 13, 2022
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Applications for Ohio’s controlled public land hunting opportunities will be accepted beginning Friday, July 1, 2022, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. These hunts provide special chances for hunters to pursue deer, waterfowl, doves, and more on public lands during the 2022-23 season. The application period is open for all hunters...

California Leaks Personal Data of Carry Permit Holders

7:00am Tuesday, July 12, 2022
On Monday June 27, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the launch of the California Department of Justice (DOJ)’s Firearms Dashboard Portal. The data tool was designed to give granular firearm transaction and Concealed Carry Weapons (CCW) permit holder data to anyone visiting the DOJ’s website. However, astute users quickly realized that the dashboard could be used to access the...

PODCAST: Republicans Attack Pro-Gun Funding and Democrats Defy a Ruling on Bearing Arms

3:00pm Monday, July 11, 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 70: Why are Republicans sponsoring a federal bill to gut funding for pro-gun programs? What's the fallout from the recent Supreme Court...

July 4 attack in Illinois: Gun control laws fail to uphold supporters' promises

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, July 11, 2022
We hear it every time another mentally-ill person commits mass murder: If we want to stop these kinds of things, we need a red flag law. If we want to stop these kinds of things, we need to limit people under 21 from obtaining firearms. If we want to stop these kinds of things, we need to require firearms licensing. If we want to stop these kinds of things, we need universal background checks...

Situational Awareness for Concealed Carry

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Friday, July 08, 2022
Now that most states have a process allowing citizens to legally carry concealed handguns, many of you may be carrying a firearm more frequently, or just starting to carry for the first time. A common mistake I see with a great number of my students is an obsessive focus on acquiring and carrying the “right” firearm and associated gear at the expense of neglecting more vital aspects of self...

Your Tactical Training Scenario…Position of Disadvantage

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Thursday, July 07, 2022
You are walking home from the grocery store and carrying several bags of food. Two men are walking behind you and yell out to you: “Hey Johnny!” You turn and tell them your name isn’t “Johnny” and that they have mistaken you for someone else. They apologize and you continue walking home. Within seconds, you are hit from behind and knocked to the ground. Your attacker stabs you in the armpit...

BFA Opposes Bill That Would Gut Funding For Shooting Ranges and Sportsmen

7:00am Wednesday, July 06, 2022
H.R.8167 , sponsored by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA), would repeal an 85-year old law that funds countless programs in Ohio, and across America, for gun owners and sportsmen. "This bill would scrap one of the most successful programs in American history," said Dean Rieck, Executive Director of Buckeye Firearms Association. "It has produced billions of dollars for shooting ranges, firearms and hunter...

Firearm Industry Surpasses $15 Billion in Pittman-Robertson Excise Tax Contributions for Conservation

7:00am Tuesday, July 05, 2022
NEWTOWN, Conn. — NSSF®, the firearm industry trade association, marked a milestone achievement when firearm and ammunition manufacturers topped $15 billion in contributions to the Wildlife Restoration Trust Fund since its inception in 1937. “This is an achievement for which all in the firearm and ammunition industry are proud,” said Joe Bartozzi, NSSF’s President and CEO. “This historic milestone...

PODCAST: Rep. Shane Wilkin on Passing Permitless Carry and His Senate Campaign

3:00pm Monday, July 04, 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 69: If you ask the average person how a bill gets passed, they'll probably say it's all about the public hearings. But really, it's more...

Independence Day 2022

by Rick Jones
7:00am Monday, July 04, 2022
Editor's Note: We've been posting this article each Independence Day since 2007. This year it takes on an even more special meaning, as we mark the passing away of its author, our long-time friend Rick Jones . With the upcoming holiday, let's look at what it might mean to some people…a day off with pay, just a day off, family, friends, cookouts, reunions or just a day to lounge and watch the...

Public Welcome to Witness CMP’s Traditional National Matches First Shot Ceremony in July

7:00am Friday, July 01, 2022
The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) is excited to announce the 2022 First Shot Ceremony, set to take place Tuesday, July 12, at the Camp Perry National Guard Training Facility near Port Clinton, Ohio. The First Shot Ceremony serves as a welcoming event for guests, participants, volunteers and staff eager to start the 2022 National Matches – an event that has assembled marksmen and women at...

Choke Point “Lite”

3:00pm Thursday, June 30, 2022
Ten years ago, the Obama Administration introduced “Operation Choke Point,” a program to weaponize the banking industry and financial service providers against certain lawful businesses and merchants. Implemented by Eric Holder’s Department of Justice and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the ostensible objective was to fight consumer fraud by cutting off access to credit and bank...

ATF Partners with Anti-gun Researchers to Expand Agency’s Power

7:00am Thursday, June 30, 2022
On May 17, the Department of Justice announced the release of a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives publication titled the National Firearms in Commerce and Trafficking Assessment (NFCTA). The report is the result of the Biden-Harris Administration’s April 2021 “Initial Actions to Address the Gun Violence,” which called for the creation of “an annual report on firearms trafficking...

BFA-PAC Announces Grades and Endorsements for August 2, 2022 Ohio Primary

7:00am Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Because lawmakers struggled to finalize district maps, the Ohio Primary Election for 2022 has been divided into two separate elections. The first was on May 3 and included federal candidates (U.S. Senate and U.S. House), Ohio statewide candidates (Governor, Attorney General, Auditor of State, Secretary of State, Treasurer of State,) and Judicial candidates (Ohio Supreme Court and other judicial...

“[A]ll We Need You to Do is Give us the Gun”: U.K. Launches National Firearm Surrender Campaign

3:00pm Tuesday, June 28, 2022
On March 12, a two-week campaign was launched in the United Kingdom to encourage subjects of Her Majesty the Queen to surrender firearms, ammunition, weapons, and any other object even vaguely reminiscent of a gun to local police stations. An official with the National Police Chief’s Council assured citizens that they will receive amnesty for any otherwise illegal possession or transport involved...

Biden Signs Federal Gun Control Bill

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Tuesday, June 28, 2022
On Saturday, June 25, 2022, President Biden signed S.2938, the so-called "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act." The mainstream media are hailing this bill as a great victory and Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), one of the bill's champions, claims it will "save thousands of lives." But this legislative Frankenstein, cobbled together by Republicans and Democrats frantic to "do something," is unlikely...

PODCAST: Victory! U.S. Supreme Court Rules Citizens Have Right to Carry Guns

3:00pm Monday, June 27, 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 68: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that New York's law requiring citizens to show "proper cause" to get a concealed carry license...

Cincinnati: Man uses gun to stop home invasion assault

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, June 27, 2022
WCPO (ABC Cincinnati) reported recently that a man was forced to use his gun to stop an attacker who invaded his girlfriend's home. From the article : West Chester police said 20-year-old Andrew Tyson entered a home on Timberrail Court around 3:30 a.m. Saturday without the homeowner's permission. According to the man and woman who called 911 from inside the house, the woman was Tyson's ex-...

Op-Ed: Would four gun controls considered by Congress prevent mass shootings?

by Jacob Sallum
7:00am Friday, June 24, 2022
The New York Times reckons that four gun control measures Congress is considering “might have changed the course of at least 35 mass shootings” since 1999 — one-third of attacks in which a gunman killed at least four people. While that conclusion is excessively optimistic, the newspaper is at least asking the right question: Are new restrictions on firearms likely to work as advertised? President...

Victory! U.S. Supreme Court Rules Citizens Have Right to Carry Guns

by Dean Rieck
3:00pm Thursday, June 23, 2022
On Thursday, June 23, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that "the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual's right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home." This landmark ruling strikes down onerous New York regulations requiring citizens to show "proper cause" in order to get a license to carry a concealed handgun in public. In some places, such as New York City,...

Understanding America’s Rifle, the AR-15

7:00am Thursday, June 23, 2022
The term “modern sporting rifle” was coined to describe today’s very popular semiautomatic rifle designs, including the AR-15 and its offspring. These rifles are used by hunters, competitors, a lot of Americans seeking home-defense guns and by many others who simply enjoy going to the range. Though modern sporting rifles are increasingly popular, they are too often misunderstood. The central...

DeWine: It 'doesn't make sense' to make teachers train 700 hours to carry gun in classes

by Dean Rieck
3:00pm Wednesday, June 22, 2022
On Wednesday, June 15, 2022, The Columbus Dispatch published an op-ed by Governor Mike DeWine explaining his reasoning for signing House Bill 99 . This bill effectively returns authority over school security to local school boards where it belongs. For decades, locally-elected school boards managed their own security. Then Bloomberg-funded Everytown attorneys came to Ohio to launch a lawsuit with...

ALERT: Urge Your Senators to Vote NO on Gun Control Package!

8:00am Wednesday, June 22, 2022
A gun control package is headed to the U.S. Senate floor. Bill sponsors are trying to capitalize on emotion and a false sense of bipartisanship to bypass hearings, markups and amendments before anyone has a chance to understand the full implications of the legislation. The bill would treat some people as guilty unless proven innocent by spending federal taxpayer dollars to encourage states to...

Former Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's great-grandson charged with aggravated murder

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, June 22, 2022
WEWS (ABC Cleveland) is reporting that former Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's great-grandson Donald Jackson-Gates has been charged with fatally shooting a man last month. From the article : Last week, Jackson-Gates was arrested on an aggravated murder charge for the shooting death of Chris’Shon Coleman on May 14. Authorities say Jackson-Gates allegedly shot and killed Coleman on East 40th Street...

Biden Administration Moves to Ban Lead Ammunition

7:00am Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Following through on their commitment to environmental radicals that it would ban lead on federal public land, today the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) released proposed regulations that begin this process on National Wildlife Refuges across the country. The Biden Administration’s proposal lays the groundwork for additional lead prohibitions on refuges and provides a precedent that will be...

PODCAST: Surprise! A Total of 9 Pro-2A Bills Have Been Signed in the Last 3 Years

3:00pm Monday, June 20, 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 67: Ohio Governor DeWine signs a bill for knife preemption and another to enable school staff to be armed. And surprisingly, that brings...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost Issues Updated CCW Manual

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Monday, June 20, 2022
As of Monday, June 13, 2022, it is legal for "qualifying adults" to carry a concealed handgun in Ohio without a license . Attorney General Dave Yost has issued an updated manual summarizing Ohio's concealed carry laws and explaining the two ways you may now carry in the state, with or without a license. Click here to view or download the manual as a PDF . Whether you plan to carry with a license...

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