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K.I.D.S© - A Proactive Approach to School Murders

by Ron Borsch
7:00am Friday, June 17, 2022
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on our website ten years ago today. The lessons it provides are every bit as prescient today as they were then...perhaps even moreso. EARLY CITIZEN AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OPTIONS Just as we have mistakenly treated the symptoms of a malady instead of the root cause, so too have we failed to adequately address the copycat root problem of Rapid Mass...

Civilian AR-15 Rifle: Our Senior Citizen

by Ron Borsch
7:00am Thursday, June 16, 2022
This honorable senior citizen has been disrespected and demonized by subversive elements that prefer American citizens to be unarmed. Permit me here to share a collection of clarification thoughts and expose more of the malicious opposing sound- bite propaganda and disinformation. Proudly made in America, the civilian AR-15 in .223 Remington is almost 60 years old. In 1957, three ArmaLite...

Plain Dealer/FOP credit BFA for Permitless Carry law taking effect

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, June 15, 2022
On June 13, 2022, Permitless Carry became legal in the Buckeye State. For many of us at Buckeye Firearms Association, it marks the culmination of two decades of work to restore Ohioans' constitutional right to bear arms for their defense and security. Ohio gun rights advocates have been working for this since a decade BEFORE the first poison pill-filled concealed carry bill was signed into law by...

Governor DeWine Signs SB 156 Knife Preemption Bill into Law

1:30pm Tuesday, June 14, 2022
On Tuesday, June 14, 2022, Governor Mike DeWine signed Senate Bill 156 to enact "knife preemption" in Ohio. Sponsored by Senator Kristina Roegner (R-Hudson), the new law prohibits “any ordinance, rule, regulation, resolution, practice, or other action or any threat of citation, prosecution, or other legal process” from inhibiting a person’s ability to “own, possess, purchase, acquire, transport,...

Gun Owners Must Stop (Another) Anti-Gun ATF Nominee

7:00am Tuesday, June 14, 2022
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from humiliated Biden nominee David Chipman. That is, of course, a good thing. After the anti-gun lobbyist was withdrawn as Biden’s nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) last year, he popped up, occasionally, to blame others for his failure to convince enough U.S. Senators that he was little more than a gun ban proponent...

PODCAST: Can Democrats Pass Their Massive Gun Control Package After Uvalde?

3:00pm Monday, June 13, 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 66: After the Uvalde school massacre, Democrats have gone all in on gun control. Can it pass the Senate? Are they forgetting gun...

Governor DeWine Signs HB 99 "Armed Teacher" Bill into Law

9:00am Monday, June 13, 2022
On Monday, June 13, 2022, Governor Mike DeWine signed House Bill 99 to return authority over school security programs to local school boards, including programs which allow teachers and staff to be armed. Sponsored by State Rep. Thomas Hall (R-Madison Twp.), this bill reverses an absurd ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court that requires school employees to receive the same training as police officers...

Ohio's Permitless Carry Law Goes into Effect Today, June 13, 2022

7:00am Monday, June 13, 2022
Beginning today, June 13, 2022, it is legal for a "qualifying" adult to carry a concealed handgun without a license in Ohio. Generally referred to as “permitless carry” or “constitutional carry,” Senate Bill 215 , which is now in effect, makes several key changes to Ohio’s concealed carry laws: Ohio’s concealed handgun license (CHL) will become optional. If you are currently qualified by law to...

Plain Dealer article proves beyond any doubt: 2A Movement is pure grassroots

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, June 10, 2022
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has published an article that editors no-doubt hoped would prop up the myth that, when it comes to Second Amendment rights at least, legislators are bought and paid for. What the article wound up proving is how little money has to do with this issue in Ohio, and how truly grassroots the effort to protect and resore our Second Amendment rights actually is. From the...

Follow the Science, Unless it Leads Where You Don’t Want to Go

7:00am Thursday, June 09, 2022
Researchers in California have published the results of a study evaluating the effectiveness of so-called “gun violence restraining orders” (a.k.a. “extreme risk protection orders” or “red flag” orders). Assembly Bill 1014, was enacted in California in 2014, and since then, 19 states and the District of Columbia have adopted similar laws. Authors of the study, Firearm Violence Following the...

Arming Teachers, a Countermeasure to Active Killers

by Ron Borsch
7:00am Wednesday, June 08, 2022
As a retired law enforcement officer, in my second career of training police officers, one of my proprietary courses was Tactical 1st Responder ©, the responses to Rapid Mass Murder©, which was eventually attended by officers from ten states. Having researched Rapid Mass Murder© by the random acts of active killers back to 1975, I discovered that the primary target of this type of homicide was...

Buckeye Firearms Association urges support for effort to send body armor to Ukraine's reserve units

7:00am Tuesday, June 07, 2022
The gun rights community throughout the United States has been paying close attention to the war in Ukraine since the early days in March, when the government began easing restrictions allowing civilians to carry arms outside their homes, and even distributing firearms to those willing to defend their homes and communities. For Americans who treasure their right to bear arms, there could be no...

Cincinnati: Man uses gun to stop home invasion assault

by Chad D. Baus
5:29pm Monday, June 06, 2022
WCPO (ABC Cleveland) is reporting that a man was forced to use his gun to stop a teen-aged attacker who invaded his 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-girlfriend. They...

PODCAST: Columbus Reveals Scheme to Regulate Guns Through Board Of Health

3:00pm Monday, June 06, 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 65: It's not unusual for politicians and activists to say that guns or gun violence is a public health crisis, but Columbus, Ohio, city...

Columbus Reveals Scheme to Regulate Guns Through Board Of Health

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Monday, June 06, 2022
Click here to listen to our podcast on this topic . The Ohio Legislature has made it crystal clear that it wants ONE set of consistent firearm laws across the state, and it has specifically forbidden municipalities from regulating guns in any manner. However, even though the state's "preemption" law, spelled out in Ohio Revised Code 9.68 , has been in force since March 2007 and was further...

Anti-gun Press Parrots Misleading Stats and Creates Outright Falsehoods

7:00am Friday, June 03, 2022
As NRA-ILA recently pointed out, gun control researchers and their establishment press lapdogs propagate misleading “science” to advance their political agenda. Sometimes this involves sophisticated statistical modeling, other times it involves the crude mischaracterization of data. The anti-gun advocates’ longest-running version of the latter involves conflating firearm-related deaths among...

Recent articles on Ohio gun thefts exposes fallacy of "universal" background checks

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, June 02, 2022
Every time a violent mentally-ill person chooses to use a firearm to carryout a mass killing, gun control extremists are quick to attempt to take advantage of the emotional aftermath with a renewed push for their pet legislation, even though, in almost every instance, nothing that they propose would have prevented the attack they're attempting to exploit. Such is the case in the wake of the...

2 BFA-Supported Bills Pass: HB 99 for School Security and SB 156 for Knife Preemption - Both Headed to Governor

7:27pm Wednesday, June 01, 2022
On Wednesday, June 1, 2022, the Ohio Senate passed House Bill 99 with a vote of 23-9. The House then passed the bill on concurrence 56-34. The bill now heads to the Governor's desk for his signature. Also with much less fanfare or debate, the Ohio House passed Senate Bill 156 with a vote of 57-32 to give knives the same "preemption" protection currently enjoyed by firearms. This bill also heads...

BFA Testifies in Favor of HB 99 for Local Control of School Security - Bill Passed Out of Committee

7:00am Wednesday, June 01, 2022
On Tuesday, May 31, 2022, Buckeye Firearms Association presented testimony in the Senate Veterans and Public Safety Committee supporting HB 99 to expressly exempt persons authorized to go armed within a school safety zone from a requirement to complete extensive peace officer basic training and return authority over security to local school boards. The bill was amended to include annual criminal...

Maybe You Should Reconsider Your Active Killer Response Strategy

by Greg Ellifritz
3:00pm Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Just a short post today to share a few of my most recent thoughts on how best to respond if you are caught up in an active killer attack. The [recent] Washington DC sniper attack...got me thinking quite a bit about things. If you haven’t seen news about the attack, read the following: Suspect in shooting that injured 4 found dead, officials say The killer created an elevated sniper hide and shot...

Cowardice Killed 19 Children in Uvalde, Texas

by Dean Rieck
5:00am Tuesday, May 31, 2022
I spent the weekend in Texas attending the NRA Annual Meeting. And I'm furious. Not because of the protestors harassing attendees. Or even because entertainers like Larry Gatlin, Don McLean, and Lee Greenwood, to their eternal shame, showed themselves to be fair weather friends and cancelled their appearance. Like many Americans following the unfolding investigation into the horrific killings at...

16th Annual Youth Outdoor Day at North Lawrence Fish and Game Club

3:00pm Friday, May 27, 2022
Announcing the 16th Annual Youth Outdoor Day, sponsored by the North Lawrence Fish and Game Club, Inc. When: Sunday June 12, 2022 Time 10:00 am-5:00 pm Rain or Shine Where: 15325 Lawmont St. NW North Lawrence, Ohio Youth Outdoor Day will accept 80 participants ages 10 through 18 years. Membership in N.L.F.G.C. is not necessary, but registration is required. Events and Activities: Air Rifle,...

DHS “Misinformation Governance Board” Could Seek to Sway Gun Debate

7:00am Friday, May 27, 2022
In late April, Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), made a bizarre announcement during a congressional hearing that DHS was forming what it called a “Mis- and Disinformation Governance Board.” The statement came in response to a question about how DHS was responding to supposed Russian interference in American elections. Mayorkas said the Board was intended...

FasterSavesLives.org: Reflecting on Tuesday’s murders at Robb Elementary School

7:00am Thursday, May 26, 2022
How many more kids must die before we learn? Once again we find our nation devastated by the loss of too many innocent lives. Another school killing. Innocent children slaughtered. Families destroyed. Brave teachers facing a murderous individual unarmed. How many times must this replay before those in charge listen to our nation’s experts and take concrete steps to save kid’s lives rather simply...

Meijer Grocery Stores Post Confusing No Gun Signs

by John Petrolino
7:00am Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Not long after the Buckeye State went permitless on carry regulations, Meijer grocery stores started posting blue signs in the form of a silhouette of a firearm crossed out by a bar. The problem is, these signs are not the typical signs as prescribed by Ohio law for those who wish to prohibit on-premises carry. So what do they mean? Upon seeing this sign, Ohio patriot Craig Fritz, a Lifetime NRA...

2022 Spring Youth Shoot a Rousing Success

7:00am Tuesday, May 24, 2022
The 2022 Spring Youth Shoot (May 14 and 15) at Dillon Sportsman Center in Nashport, Ohio, proved to be a success, with 77 youth participants and 52 adult volunteers in attendance. Sponsored by Buckeye Firearms Foundation, this special 2-day event offers youth the chance to camp, shoot, and compete in the great outdoors. Other sponsors include the Civilian Marksmanship Program, NRA, and Central...

PODCAST: Three New Bills to Infringe Your Gun Rights, and One Bill to Protect Them

3:00pm Monday, May 23, 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 64: Gun laws may change more frequently than any other other category of law. Whether it's laws to increase your liberty or laws to...

Two New York State attacks expose critical ongoing problems with criminal justice and mental health systems

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, May 23, 2022
In the past month, a man who hates white people went to a New York, NY subway with a plan to kill, and a man who hates black people went to a Buffalo, NY supermarket with a plan to kill. Besides both being racist, what else do they have in common? They have in common previous run-ins with criminal justice and mental health systems which allowed them to stay on the street, and to legally purchase...

Senate to hold hearings next week on Biden’s second choice to run ATF

by Lee Williams
3:00pm Friday, May 20, 2022
Senate hearings for Joe Biden’s second nominee to head the ATF, Steve Dettelbach, could begin as early as next week, Sen. Dick Durbin, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Politico. Officials withing the Biden-Harris administration have said they hope to refocus on Dettelbach’s nomination after the mass murder in Buffalo, New York. When Dettelbach, a Democrat, ran unsuccessfully for Ohio...

Squirrel hunts: An excellent way to introduce urban people to hunting!

by Eric M. Morris
7:00am Friday, May 20, 2022
Let’s face it, squirrel hunting has never been as popular as deer hunting, but chasing bushy tails can be an excellent way to introduce urban and inner-city people to the sport of hunting. Despite what some have been led to believe, urban and inner-city people do have an interest in hunting. While city dwellers may be more accustomed to seeing a squirrel sitting on a park bench, they will be...

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