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PODCAST: The Media Lies About Gun Owners - New University Study Reveals the Truth

3:00pm Monday, January 10, 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 47: The news media spins facts into fear to keep us watching, reading, and clicking to line their pockets. And one of the lies they keep...

The Columbus Dispatch Publishes BFA's Rebuttal on Constitutional Carry

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Monday, January 10, 2022
After seeing multiple pieces in The Columbus Dispatch opposing Constitutional Carry, including one from the Editorial Board , I decided to submit a response. Here is my guest column published on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022. For 20 years, I've been listening to alarmists predict blood in the streets every time legislators introduce a bill to enable greater freedom for law-abiding gun owners. The...

Using Collegiate Hunting to Develop Wildlife Policy Leaders

by Bret Collier
7:00am Friday, January 07, 2022
“Educating from a tree stand” This weekend I will be taking my daughter deer hunting with me on our family farm. Growing up in a house with a father who is a wildlife biologist and a mother who is an oceanographer, the kiddo is no stranger to nature and the peculiarities of those of us that study it. She swims like a fish, will be scuba certified in a year or 2, has helped me clean deer and ducks...

The Second Amendment Now Comes with Government-Issued “Harmful Language Alert”

7:00am Thursday, January 06, 2022
The absurdity and dysfunction of the Biden Administration have become so pervasive that it’s easy to become numb to it all. But some things it does are still so outrageous and inconceivable – touching on the very identity of the nation itself – that it is worth pausing to take stock of just how far the U.S. has fallen as a country in the short time Joe Biden has occupied the White House. The...

“You’ve Reached 911, Please Hold …”

7:00am Wednesday, January 05, 2022
A standard talking point of gun prohibitionists is that in these modern times, ordinary people don’t need their own firearms because the police will protect them from criminals. Last year, no less than David Chipman, President Biden’s failed nominee to lead the ATF– employed then as a senior policy advisor for the Giffords anti-gun group – mocked first-time gun owners as delusional because the “...

Tracing Spurious Claims

7:00am Tuesday, January 04, 2022
Since leading anti-gun researchers acknowledged no connection between the 2020 surge in firearms sales and violence, unscrupulous anti-gun advocates must cite underwhelming statistics as meaningful evidence. That’s what The Trace did, in an article written in collaboration with FiveThirtyEight. We’d expect a more sophisticated analysis from FiveThirtyEight, but this is what Nate Silver’s outfit...

PODCAST REPLAY: 10 Things You Should NEVER Do After a Self-Defense Shooting

3:00pm Monday, January 03, 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 46: When it comes to armed self-defense, it's usually not the shooting itself that trips you up legally. More often than not, it's what...

Buckeyefirearms.org: Top 10 News Items of 2021

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, January 03, 2022
In 2021, we published approximately 300 news articles, along with other types of content. Over the years, we have published approximately 13,500 articles, covering elections, legislation, and all manner of events and information of interest to Second Amendment supporters. Ours is an international audience. Beyond the U.S., we receive the most visits from Canada, United Kingdom, China, Australia,...

A Year in American Gun Ownership

3:00pm Friday, December 31, 2021
This is the season of holiday festivities, family gatherings, and retrospectives. We don’t operate on seasons, though. Gun owners didn’t wait for a holiday to air their grievances; they took every opportunity to let their legislators and the ATF know where they stood on infringement. Americans exercised their 2nd Amendment rights every day. This isn’t hyperbole – we leave that to the experts –...

Happy New Year - 2021 in Review

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Friday, December 31, 2021
Buckeye Firearms Association is an award-winning organization , recognized throughout Ohio and across America as a leading gun rights advocate. We've been reforming Ohio's gun laws for 17 years. And before that, many of our leaders had been Second Amendment advocates for decades. We were the driving force for bringing concealed carry to Ohio so law-abiding citizens could defend themselves,...

Sixth Circuit Bails-Out ATF on Bumpstocks

7:00am Thursday, December 30, 2021
Last month, the Sixth Circuit failed to achieve the majority necessary to correct the ATF’s shifting classifications of bump stocks as “machine guns.” NRA-ILA’s amicus brief opposed the ATF’s legal authority to arbitrarily criminalize legal firearms. Because the judges split 8-8, the flawed bump stock rule is being reinstated. This is only one of several challenges supported by NRA-ILA. In...

Making the Most Out of Your Harvest

by Brenda Weatherby
7:00am Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Making the most of a harvest can sound simple, but it is a complex subject and has been a journey for me over the last decade. Careful thought before, during, and after the hunt has brought me to where I am today. This list of tips from Timber2Table is an excellent example of the many factors I grew to understand as my hunting experience expanded. The author’s message is clear – many things can...

Would-be armed robber flees after confronted by restaurant worker with gun

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Cleveland.com is reporting that a man armed with a handgun attempting to rob a restaurant ended up fleeing the store empty-handed after a clerk pulled out his own firearm. From the article : Police say the suspect entered the Broaster Chicken on the 100 block of South Portage Path at about 7:15 p.m. Wednesday. The man initially placed an order for several items. As clerk collected the items, the...

PODCAST REPLAY: Guns on the Go - Tips for Traffic Stops, Carry, Reciprocity, and Airline Travel

3:00pm Monday, December 27, 2021
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 45: If you're carrying a gun, what's the right way to handle a traffic stop? How do you legally transport firearms across state lines?...

Ohio FOP union president pens ironic op-ed opposing Constitutional Carry while expressing newfound love for Ohio CHL law

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, December 27, 2021
Benjamin Franklin once made the observation that "in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” It is clear that the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) labor union did not exist in Franklin's day, or the Founding Father would no-doubt have added a third certainty: FOP opposition to Ohioans' Constitutional right to bear arms The latest example comes in the form of a guest op-ed...

Merry Christmas from Buckeye Firearms Association

7:00am Friday, December 24, 2021
Merry Christmas to one and all from all of us at Buckeye Firearms Association. Our best gift is the friendship and support given by each of you throughout the year. As we reflect on the year's passing, we count our many blessings, remember our losses, and give thanks for those who helped us through it all. We each need to take time to appreciate our friends and family during this special time of...

Voice of Leadership: Sidestepping Stereotypes and Propelling Outdoor Diversity

by Eric M. Morris
7:00am Thursday, December 23, 2021
Do we want to increase outdoor diversity, or are we just paying lip service to the matter? This is a question I ask myself. Most people are familiar with the ongoing efforts within the hunting and outdoor industries to increase the racial diversity among America's hunters and outdoors people. Many have noticed how disproportionately “white” hunting and the outdoors have become. This unequal...

Ohio’s Extra Gun Weekend Delivers Additional Deer Harvest

7:00am Wednesday, December 22, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio hunters harvested 9,392 deer during the extra weekend of gun hunting on Saturday, Dec. 18 and Sunday, Dec. 19, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Over the past three years, hunters checked an average of 12,734 deer during the same two-day period. The top 10 counties for deer taken during the 2021 two-day deer gun season include...

Now We Know There are Armed Good Guys on Our Streets

by Rob Morse
7:00am Tuesday, December 21, 2021
The mainstream news media sells shock and revulsion to keep us watching through their many advertisements. Politicians lie to us so we will vote for them. Both have told us that guns are frighteningly dangerous and that we'd be safer if more honest citizens were disarmed. We're tempted to believe them if that is all we know. Now, we have data that calls their story into question. We confirmed...

PODCAST: 2021 Year End Report on Ohio Gun Legislation

3:00pm Monday, December 20, 2021
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 44: 2021 is coming to a close. So where are we with all the pro Second Amendment bills moving through the House and Senate? Are we...

Can You Catch COVID-19 from Deer?

by Jim Heffelfinger
7:00am Monday, December 20, 2021
As if we needed something else to worry about as we close out the second year of living with COVID-19. News reports are showing up regularly warning that a lot of whitetail deer have COVID and so we now need to take precautions in the woods. Deer are pretty good at socially distancing from us despite our best efforts to get closer. In the last two years, nationwide participation in hunting and...

Firearms in Common Use

7:00am Friday, December 17, 2021
Think of the foremost applications of a firearm. Self-defense and protection have become the primary motivation for Americans’ acquisition of firearms, but the prevalence of defensive gun use remains disputed. New research, conducted in support of a brief for the Supreme Court, offers more evidence that a large number of Americans have used a firearm to defend themselves, their loved ones, or...

Senator Grassley Blocks Gun Control on Senate Floor

7:00am Thursday, December 16, 2021
On December 2, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) attempted and failed to pass H.R. 8, the dangerously flawed, so-called “universal” background check bill. As you may recall, Nancy Pelosi and her anti-gun allies in the U.S. House passed this misguided legislation earlier this year. H.R. 8 would do nothing to prevent crime, could not be enforced without a federal gun registry, and would turn...

Ohio Senate Passes SB 215 for Constitutional Carry

3:59pm Wednesday, December 15, 2021
On Wednesday, December 15, 2021, the Ohio Senate brought Senate Bill 215 to the floor and passed it with a vote of 23 to 8. The bill now moves to the House. Sponsored by Senator Terry Johnson, SB 215 is a Constitutional Carry bill that seeks to make concealed carry licensing optional as well as change the requirement to "promptly" inform a law enforcement officer when carrying a concealed handgun...

NY AG: “In Some Parts of New York State, You Can Find a Gun More Easily Than You Can Find an Apple”

7:00am Wednesday, December 15, 2021
A local paper quoted New York State Attorney General Letitia James as saying, recently, “What’s so tragic is that in some parts of New York State, you can find a gun more easily than you can find an apple.” Problem is, New York State is flush with apples. According to the U.S. Apple Association, out of the 32 states that grow apples commercially, New York State is the second largest producer of...

CALL TO ACTION: SB 215 for Constitutional Carry Headed to Floor Vote

5:11pm Tuesday, December 14, 2021
On Tuesday, December 14, 2021, the Ohio Senate Veterans and Public Safety Committee held a third and final hearing for Senate Bill 215 (Constitutional Carry) and voted 5 - 2 to pass the bill out of committee. The bill now moves to the Senate floor for a vote. Sponsored by Senator Terry Johnson, SB 215 seeks to make concealed carry licensing optional as well as remove the duty to "promptly" inform...

SB 215 (Constitutional Carry) to receive third Senate committee hearing, possible vote

7:00am Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Senator Frank Hoagland (R-Mingo Junction), who chairs the Senate Veterans & Public Safety Committee, has announced a third hearing for SB 215 (Constitutional Carry), sponsored by Sen. Terry Johnson. The Chair has indicated amendments may be considered before a possible vote. The hearing will be held later today, Tuesday, December 14 at 2:30 p.m. in the North Hearing Room at the Statehouse, 1...

PODCAST: 2021 Headlines in the Fight for Second Amendment Rights Across America

3:00pm Monday, December 13, 2021
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 43: Constitutional Carry is sweeping the country. Ohio and other states seek to limit the power of government during emergencies. David...

As resources dwindle, wildlife suffers

by Jim Shepherd
7:00am Monday, December 13, 2021
To the surprise (and chagrin) of many outside the industry, hunters and anglers aren’t neither the most prolific nor profligate consumers of the outdoors. Via the contributions of tax dollars via Pittman-Robertson act, they voluntarily contribute funds to help preserve, protect and defend the nation’s wild resources. As participation numbers fall (despite the increased, but likely temporary,...

How To Form a Marksmanship Team, From Someone Who’s Done It

by Ashley Brugnone
3:00pm Friday, December 10, 2021
As part of its mission, the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) has been dedicated to the development and longevity of youth shooting sports around the country. With several junior programs currently established in each state, aspiring young marksmen are fortunate to have a number of venues available to continue their growth – yet, there’s always room for more. The thought of starting a team can...

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