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PODCAST: Gun Confiscation has Begun in Canada - Could it Happen in the U.S.?

6:00am Monday, October 20, 2025
The Keep and Bear Radio podcast is hosted on Podbean and is also available on Apple , 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 128: Canada has not only outlawed a growing list of firearms, they are ramping up a program to confiscate so-called "assault style weapons" from...

NSSF targeted by craziest anti-gun lawsuit seen in years

by Lee Williams
6:00am Friday, October 17, 2025
According to the lawsuit Cocanour et al. v. National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc., which was filed late last month, the NSSF — the trade association for the firearms industry — has “disregarded the privacy of firearms buyers by gathering their personal info into a database for political purposes.” However, the NSSF did nothing wrong.

BFA testifies for SB 273 to give retailers, law enforcement civil immunity for firearm storage

6:00am Thursday, October 16, 2025
Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) submitted testimony this week to the Ohio Senate Armed Services, Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee in support of Senate Bill 273. If passed, the bill would provide guidelines and civil immunity for the voluntary storage of firearms by retailers and law enforcement agencies as a service to citizens.

Second Amendment holds more weight than 'Uncle Dick's deer stand'

by Jenn Jacques
6:00am Wednesday, October 15, 2025
In a Senate Judiciary Committee Oversight Hearing last week, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi faced questions regarding her leadership of the Justice Department. But Sen. Amy Klobuchar used her time questioning the nation’s top law enforcement official to repeat her canned comment about her ‘Uncle Dick’s deer stand’ when reiterating support for legislation that would infringe upon citizens’ Second...

Another lawsuit challenges National Firearms Act constitutionality

by F Riehl, Editor in Chief
6:00am Tuesday, October 14, 2025
In what could become one of the most consequential Second Amendment battles in decades, a coalition of gun-rights organizations filed a new lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, challenging the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act of 1934.

Sen. Johnson introduces legislation to fix serious problems in Ohio

by Dean Rieck
6:00am Monday, October 13, 2025
Senator Terry Johnson (R-McDermott) has introduced two new pieces of legislation, Senate Bills 278 and 279, that seek to fix serious problems across Ohio. BFA helped pass preemption protections nearly 20 years ago, mandating that gun laws are dealt with exclusively at the state level. Ohio Revised Code 9.68 outlines the rules clearly: cities and other political subdivisions are forbidden from...

Move and shoot, or shoot and then move? Here's an in-depth look

by Travis Pike
6:00am Wednesday, October 08, 2025
Adding movement to your shooting can change the game. It’s easy to get sucked into the static world of range work, where we don’t do much moving. In the real world, bad guys aren’t polite enough to stand still. Movement can be a big part of fighting. With that in mind, is it better to move and shoot at the same time, or to move, shoot, and then move?

Why aren't we safe in church?

by Rob Morse
6:00am Monday, October 06, 2025
A murderer attacked a Latter-day Saints church in Michigan. I was talking to a friend who is in a leadership position in his local LDS church. Our conversation was the evening before the Michigan attack. I asked if LDS churches allow their members to go armed in church.

Canada public safety minister on gun confiscation: 'Don’t ask me to explain the logic'

6:00am Friday, October 03, 2025
There have been multiple developments on the Canadian gun grab and ban in the last few days, but the most astounding has got to be a leaked bombshell recording of the Liberal public safety minister, Gary Anandasangaree, discussing what he really thinks of the law and its enforcement prospects.

North Carolina: Update on permitless-carry legislation

6:00am Thursday, October 02, 2025
Editor's note: Many Ohioans frequently visit the Carolinas, so this particular bill is relevant to those traveling there. Last week, the North Carolina General Assembly briefly returned from recess and re-referred Senate Bill 50, Freedom to Carry NC, to the House Rules Committee. The House then withdrew S50 from committee and placed it on the House calendar for a veto override vote Oct. 20.

NSSF issues guidance related to commercial business during federal government shutdown

Provided by NSSF
4:06pm Wednesday, October 01, 2025
National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has issued the following guidance related to conducting commercial business in the firearms industry after it was announced that the federal government shutdown was inevitable as of 12:01 a.m. today, Oct. 1.

Canada gun grab: Amnesty expiration nears as top officials sow confusion

6:00am Monday, September 29, 2025
Canada’s Liberal government has used “buyback” to describe the 2020 mandatory “assault weapon” confiscation law in an attempt to make the scheme appear less hostile to property rights and responsible gun owners and more palatable to the general public. Recent pronouncements on the gun ban and confiscation have veered even further down the road of disingenuous political messaging.

BFA-sponsored Protecting Houses of Worship class earns participants' praise

by Angela Armstrong
6:00am Thursday, September 25, 2025
A recent "Protecting Houses of Worship" training brought together community members, church leaders, and safety volunteers with a shared mission: to safeguard places of worship while preserving their welcoming environment. Here's what participants had to say about it.

NRA files brief in challenge to federal suppressor registration mandate

6:00am Wednesday, September 24, 2025
The National Rifle Association, American Suppressor Association, and Independence Institute filed an amicus brief Sept. 17, urging the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to grant rehearing en banc (in full court) in a challenge to the National Firearms Act’s registration requirement for suppressors.

Ohio House bill would let certain officials carry concealed firearms in government facilities

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth
6:00am Tuesday, September 23, 2025
A new gun-related bill introduced in the Ohio House of Representatives would give certain state officials, judges, and magistrates permission to carry a concealed handgun in a government facility of the state or a political subdivision.

Protecting Houses of Worship - November 1 in Mayfield Heights

6:00am Monday, September 22, 2025
Does your church or organization have a security team ready to go and are they prepared to counter an active killing event? This all-new training class scheduled Nov. 1 at Cornerstone Community Church in Mayfield Heights is designed as an intro to help identify security needs, as well as organizational and team training standards.

Latest 'survey' shows why Johns Hopkins project is special interest, not research

by Salam Fatohi
6:00am Thursday, September 18, 2025
The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Gun Violence Solutions released its 2025 National Survey of Gun Policy. Unsurprisingly, the report states it surveyed twice as many non-gun owners as gun owners and 500 more self-described Democrats than self-described Republicans. Keep that in mind when considering these “findings.”

Gun rights update: 90% of states now have open carry

by Dean Weingarten
6:00am Wednesday, September 17, 2025
The number of states that ban the open carry of firearms has again been reduced to five. On Sept. 10, 2025, Florida’s First District Court of Appeal published a unanimous opinion that the Florida ban on the open carry of firearms in public is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment and cannot be enforced in Florida.

Armed citizens: more than an America-only concept

6:00am Tuesday, September 16, 2025
You'll frequently see stories about law-abiding citizens here in the United States who, by exercising their rights protected under the Second Amendment, bring an end to violent criminal assaults. Occasionally, stories like that occur in other countries. Israel, for example, has seen firsthand the value of loosening gun restrictions recently.

Buckeye Firearms Association blasts Sylvania Prosecutor's Office for illegal prosecution of gun owner

6:00am Thursday, September 11, 2025
Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) is calling on prosecutors in Sylvania, Ohio, to drop charges against Vontae Garrett, a U.S. Army veteran and former special-deputy sheriff, and to stop violating Ohio law and the civil rights of law-abiding citizens. “This is the single most outrageous prosecution our organization has witnessed in more than 20 years,” said Dean Rieck, BFA's executive director. “...

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