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“Significant” Problems with NY Red Flag Law

7:00am Thursday, August 25, 2022

As New York officials prepare to defend that state’s new and almost certainly unconstitutional gun licensing law, the president of the state’s bar association has called attention to “significant deficiencies” in another law, the “extreme risk protection order” (a.k.a. “red flag”) law. New York’s “extreme risk protection order” law, enacted in 2019, allows a court to issue a civil order that...

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When Seconds Count, the Police are Only Hours Away

7:00am Wednesday, August 24, 2022

After violent unrest and looting in 2020 that Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot admitted had “spread like wildfire” throughout parts of Chicago, the mayor nonetheless “urged Chicagoans not to take matters into their own hands in this concealed carry state. ‘Do not pick up arms and try to be police. If there’s a problem, call 911,’ she said. ‘We will respond.’” Chicago residents, it seems, have little...

Pittman-Robertson Contributions Now Top $15 Billion for Wildlife Conservation

by Mark Chestnut

7:00am Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Most people involved with hunting know that hunters and sport shooters fund the vast majority of wildlife conservation in the United States through license fees and taxes on guns, ammo and other equipment. Yet it’s likely that few realize just how much that tax levied on guns and gear at the manufacturer level actually contributes to the states for conservation projects. According to the National...

PODCAST: Senator Dolan Pushes Red Flag, Gun Owner Permission Slips, and Universal Background Checks

3:00pm Monday, August 22, 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 76: Ohio Senator Matt Dolan has introduced "Strong Ohio 2.0," a leaner version of his previous gun control bill, complete with Red Flag...

Permitless Carry win: News outlet discovers old gun control laws were enforced unequally against black Ohioans

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, August 22, 2022

Senate Bill 215, Ohio's permitless carry bill, had no shortage of left-wing opponents, and chief among them was the Ohio news media. The editorials (sometimes masquerading as news articles) written in opposition are too numerous to name here. And the attacks didn't stop when the bill was signed. Four days after Gov. Mike DeWine signed the bill into law, the Columbus Dispatch published an op-ed...

Busting ATF’s “Myth”-Busting

3:00pm Friday, August 19, 2022

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives appears to understand that it has an image problem. According to a recent item from the Washington Times, the ATF has been handing out flyers at gun shows that are designed to bust some “myths” about the agency. Titled “ATF Myths: Not everything you hear is true,” the ATF document juxtaposes a list of supposed “myths” with purported “facts”...

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Sen. Matt Dolan Pushes Red Flag, Gun Owner Permission Slips, and Universal Background Checks

by Dean Rieck

7:00am Friday, August 19, 2022

Here we go again. Senator Matt Dolan, sponsor of the failed SB 221 "Strong Ohio" gun control bill from the last legislative session, has introduced a new bill with some of the same ill-conceived ideas. SB 357 presents what can only be described as "Strong Ohio 2.0," a leaner version of his previous bill. However, it regurgitates ideas we opposed in SB 221, including "safety protection orders" and...

Supreme Court Signals It May Rein In Federal Rulemakers

7:00am Thursday, August 18, 2022

While most of the attention from the end of the United States Supreme Court’s last term focused on several landmark cases, including a major win for gun owners in the NRA-supported case New York State Rifle and Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen , SCOTUS also issued a decision that may substantially limit federal authority to regulate firearms. In West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency , the...