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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...

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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,...

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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 –...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...