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Criminologist Says Media Reports Make Mass Murder More Common

by Dean Rieck

7:00am Thursday, September 29, 2022

The media love reporting on mass murders. In today's 24/7 news cycle, these stories, especially those involving schools, generate massive clicks, ratings, and profit for media outlets. The reports follow a familiar pattern. And reporters tend to ask the same questions, such as "Why did he do it?" or "Could someone have stopped him" or "Should we ban the gun he used?" Though they seldom ask one of...

Renovated Indian Creek Shooting Range Open to the Public

3:00pm Wednesday, September 28, 2022

NOTE: Buckeye Firearms Association leaders serve on the Division of Wildlife Range Committee and have played a key role in the Sportsmen's Alliance "Protect What's Right" campaign to get dollars into the Ohio budget for range upgrades around Ohio. There is still much work to do, but we are pleased to be part of this vital work for Ohio's millions of gun owners. BFA Leader Larry Moore attended the...

Gun Control Reveals Merchant Code is Stepping Stone to Watchlists and Bans

by Larry Keane

7:00am Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Gun control groups are pulling back the curtain to reveal that their plan to add a firearm and ammunition-specific Merchant Category Code (MCC) for gun retailers isn’t about tracking guns. It’s about tracking you. Andrew Ross Sorkin, a New York Times columnist who proposed this idea years ago, penned a column outlining the “next steps.” That revealed that the pressure campaign by federal...

Largest Gun Owner Survey Ever Proves Gun Grabbers Wrong about Everything

by Dean Rieck

7:00am Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Gun control advocates like to portray American gun owners in a highly unflattering way. According to them, we're a a tiny group of radicals. Hardly anyone uses guns to defend themselves. Owning multiple guns is unusual and suspicious. Few people have any use for AR-15s or magazines over 10 rounds. Gun owners are primarily old, fat, white, racist men. And so on. However a massive survey of...

PODCAST: The Nefarious New Scheme to Track Credit Card Sales at Gun Stores

3:00pm Monday, September 26, 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 81: Gun grabbers have come up with a sneaky new way to infringe your rights, this time using a "merchant category code" to track credit...

Make SURE you're registered to vote in the upcoming election on November 8

7:00am Monday, September 26, 2022

NOTE: If you live outside Ohio, click here for voter registration information . The Voter Registration Deadline in Ohio is Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. That's just a couple weeks from now. If you value to your Second Amendment rights, you need to VOTE in the upcoming election on November 8. And you need to vote for candidates who respect your rights. But you can't vote if you're not registered. Use...

Gun News Roundup - September 23, 2022

3:00pm Friday, September 23, 2022

Fighting for Second Amendment rights, and exercising those rights freely and effectively, starts with being informed. Here's a quick roundup of important stories in the news recently: BFA PAC Endorses Kennedy, Fischer and DeWine for Ohio Supreme Court in 2022 General Election 24 State AGs Warn Credit Card CEOs: ‘Consumer Protection, Antitrust’ On Table Growing backlash over new gun laws in...

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Survey Shows Americans Support Armed Teachers to Stop School Shootings

by Dean Rieck

7:00am Friday, September 23, 2022

John Lott recently reported that a Rasmussen survey showed overwhelming support for armed teachers. On August 21-22, 2022, the new national survey asked 1,000 American adults the following question: Some communities have trained teachers to carry firearms to protect students against school shootings. Is this a good idea or a bad idea? By a 49%-to-37% margin, respondents said it was a good idea...