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Experience Ohio’s Premier Public Shooting Ranges During Free Event

7:00am Friday, July 30, 2021
Experienced and beginning recreational shooters are invited to visit any of Ohio’s premier public shooting ranges on Saturday, Aug. 14, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. during Free Range Day, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. On this date, the shooting range permit requirement is waived at all Division of Wildlife Class A, B, and C shooting ranges. The...

New Program Connects Ohio Hunters with Participating Landowners

3:00pm Thursday, July 29, 2021
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife recently launched a new incentive program that provides a path for Ohio hunters to access participating landowner properties during the hunting season. Enrollment for the Ohio Landowner and Hunter Access Partnership program is underway now. Once enrolled, participating landowners receive annual payments ranging from $2 to $30...

Man accused in Toledo's Savage Park shooting arrested on gun charge week prior

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, July 29, 2021
In early June, as he stumped for a package of gun control proposals he's been promoting since 2019, Governor Mike DeWine (R) warned that we were on the verge of a "summer of violence" and claimed "we need to toughen our laws." But as the summer wears on, more and more examples are proving that it isn't a lack of gun control laws that is resulting in the violence, but rather a lack of enforcement...

Tactical Training Scenario- “They’re Putting On Ski Masks”

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Wednesday, July 28, 2021
I once responded to a very unique call in my cop job. The details might generate some critical thinking on the part of my readers. A woman and her infant child were parked outside a small electronics store on a busy thoroughfare in the suburban city where I work. She was waiting to provide a ride home to her sister and her best friend, both of whom were working in the store. Five minutes before...

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson continues to shift blame for problems literally in his own back yard

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Ohio gun owners are very familiar with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, even if they are blessed to live outside of Cuyahoga County. Throughout his years as mayor, Jackson has sought to punish law-abiding gun owners for the violence in his crime-plagued city again and again and again. His latest effort comes via a letter to President Joe Biden, signed by 27 other mayors, asking for help to reduce...

PODCAST: Get a "Sneak Peak" Inside the Most Pressing Gun Rights Legislation of 2021

3:00pm Monday, July 26, 2021
The Keep and Bear Radio podcast is hosted on the Podbean platform and is also available on Apple , Google , Spotify , and iHeartRadio . Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear every episode. *** Episode 23: Discover why some sanctuary legislation runs too cold … or too hot. Find out who is really behind the Madison School legal case that, for the moment, has nixed armed school staff. Hear...

August is National Shooting Sports Month. Join the +ONE movement and invite someone to the range!

7:00am Monday, July 26, 2021
August is National Shooting Sports Month®, a time to celebrate one of America’s great pastimes — target shooting — a safe, fun activity enjoyed by millions of people across the country, with millions more wanting to take their first shots. Research by the National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®) shows that 24 million Americans are very interested in learning about the shooting sports, making...

Gun Control Research Methods: Close Enough

3:00pm Friday, July 23, 2021
Social science methods are not perfect, but that has never stopped anti-gun researchers from making outlandish claims. Most recently, a team of researchers led by Doctor Apurva Bhatt from the University of Missouri Kansas City sought to evaluate the effect of changes in Missouri firearms laws on suicides among teenagers and young adults. Their analysis is burdened by a fundamental disregard of...

Gun Control “Redlining” - Journalist Demands Realty Records Show Gun Owners

7:00am Friday, July 23, 2021
In a series of tweets on June 8, Virginia Heffernan, a Harvard-educated columnist for The Los Angeles Times, wrote: “Real-estate listings should include prevalence of gun-ownership in a 50-mile radius and number of annual mass shootings in the region. Time to change what a ‘bad neighborhood’ is.” In follow-up tweets she added, “…and introduce a meaningful tax on guns and gun violence. No one...

Renew Your Pride in America - Attend a Project Appleseed Rifle Marksmanship Event

3:00pm Thursday, July 22, 2021
Project Appleseed isn’t a gun club or a militia, nor is it a historical society. Instead, it's a non-partisan group of men and women (known as the Revolutionary War Veterans Association) who are committed to upholding the values and principles of America’s founding fathers. They use rifle marksmanship instruction as a gateway to help bring our nation’s history to life and to show that many of the...

IRS Leak Shows Government Can’t Be Trusted with Gun Owner Data

7:00am Thursday, July 22, 2021
On June 8, ProPublica published a story titled, “The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax.” The salacious item focused on how America’s ultra-wealthy navigated the Internal Revenue Code to lessen their tax burden. ProPublica relied on “a vast cache of IRS information,” including individuals’ private tax returns, that it presumably...

Armed woman detains four men outside her apartment after intoxicated male attempts to gain entry

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Wednesday, July 21, 2021
The Scioto Post reported recently that a woman was able to utilize a firearm to protect her two young children, herself and another female when an intoxicated male tried to gain entry into her apartment. From the article : Officers responded to E Canal St for a report of a person with a gun. Officers arrived to find multiple individuals arguing in front of C Building Apartments. Four individuals...

Sportsmen's Alliance achieves victory for Ohio outdoors-lovers in state budget bill

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, July 21, 2021
When House Bill 110, the state budget bill for fiscal year 2022-2023, became law, it contained important improvements to Ohio law that were the result of lobbying efforts by the Sportsmen's Alliance, of which Buckeye Firearms Association is a member. From the Columbus Dispatch : Rob Sexton, a lobbyist and political strategist who advocates for hunting, fishing and gun interests, called the budget...

ODNR Offers 7th Annual Ohio Women’s Outdoor Adventures Weekend

3:00pm Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Outdoor education and skill building courses for women returns COLUMBUS, Ohio – The 7th Annual Ohio Women’s Outdoor Adventures weekend will kick off on Friday, September 17 and run through Sunday, September 19 at Salt Fork State Park. This annual event held by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) combines boating, fishing, and outdoor skills with other activities focused on nature and...

PODCAST: Teenage Gun Owners, Revealing Firearm Research, and Shooting Sex Perverts

3:00pm Monday, July 19, 2021
The Keep and Bear Radio podcast is hosted on the Podbean platform and is also available on Apple , Google , Spotify , and iHeartRadio . Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear every episode. *** Episode 22: A court says Second Amendment rights apply to 18-year-olds. A major university study shows that more guns do NOT equal more crime. A woman is forced to shoot a home invader in her...

Woman calls police to get wanted man out of her house; Officers charge her with "failure to notify;" confiscate her gun

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, July 19, 2021
In the fight to change the law regarding the duty to promptly notify a law enforcement officer that one is legally exercising their right to bear arms in the State of Ohio, Buckeye Firearms Association is often asked what harm is the current law actually causing. We have, of course, pointed out that no one can define what "promptly" means, and that there are no standards for when and how to...

"STRONG Ohio" water-carrier Matt Dolan begins "listening tour" for Senate run

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Friday, July 16, 2021
One would be hard-pressed to find a gun owner over the age of 35 in this state (perhaps even in this entire country) who doesn't remember the problems Mike DeWine created for the Second Amendment while he served in the United States Senate. After he was voted out of office and returned to state politics, his record on the Second Amendment, first as state attorney general and now as governor, has...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost joins 21 other AG's in support of a decision that struck down California’s ban on "assault weapons"

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, July 16, 2021
Fox News is reporting that Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) has joined attorneys general from 21 states in filing a court brief in support of a decision that struck down California’s ban on "assault weapons" – which the liberal state has now appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court. From the article : The coalition, led by Arizona, is urging the Ninth Circuit to uphold a lower court decision to...

New Study Shows More Guns Do NOT Equal More Crime

by Dean Rieck
3:00pm Thursday, July 15, 2021
A new study proves once again what we've been saying for years: more guns do not lead to more crime. Axios is reporting on a study from researchers at the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California. They examined the sharp spike in homicides in 2020 to see if they could link it to the equally sharp spike in gun purchases during the same time period. Their conclusion?...

ATF’s Behavior Paints Ominous Picture for Biden’s “Crackdown” on FFLs

7:00am Thursday, July 15, 2021
According to the president and his ever-obliging attorney general, a “crackdown” is coming on America’s federally licensed gun dealers (FFLs), with “zero tolerance” for allegedly illegal behavior. While no decent person – least of all the NRA or its members – supports arming dangerous criminals, a recent case from Texas provides disturbing hints as to what this policy might look like in practice...

Court of Appeals Affirms Second Amendment Rights Start at Age 18 for Handguns

by Dean Rieck
3:00pm Wednesday, July 14, 2021
On Tuesday, July 13, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that 18, 19, and 20-year-olds share Second Amendment rights with every other U.S. adult and should have the ability to legally purchase handguns. You can read the full decision in Hirschfeld v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives . The case involved Tanner Hirschfeld and Natalia Marshall,...

NSSF Hitting Airwaves to Urge “NO” Vote on David Chipman for ATF

7:00am Wednesday, July 14, 2021
NEWTOWN, Conn. — The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®) is making its first-ever television commercial debut in a spot that is urging U.S. senators to oppose President Joe Biden’s nomination of David Chipman for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The television ad spots will appear in West Virginia and Maine. “This is monumental for NSSF and it...

Woman forced to shoot man caught performing sex acts in her kitchen

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, July 13, 2021
WTOL (CBS Toledo) reported recently that a woman was forced to use her firearm to defend herself when she discovered a home invader performing sex acts in her kitchen. From the article : Toledo police say a woman shot a man who walked into her home and was conducting inappropriate acts in her kitchen around 3 a.m. Monday. Police say 38-year-old Joshua Hall, a homeless man, walked into the home of...

Who pays for the Ohio Division of Wildlife?

by Larry Moore
3:00pm Monday, July 12, 2021
Sportsmen pay the bills. Sportsmen have heard from the Ohio Division of Wildlife personnel that they are actively managing the funds - the sportsmen and women's dollars - and making wise use of that resource just as with natural resources. What does that mean, how is it accomplished and where does the Division of Wildlife receive their funding? While I had some glimpse into the process, I...

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

7:00am Monday, July 12, 2021
The Keep and Bear Radio podcast is hosted on the Podbean platform and is also available on Apple , Google , Spotify , and iHeartRadio . Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear every episode. *** Episode 21: 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 you do afterward that gets you in hot water. Sean...

The “Date Night” Restaurant Robbery

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Friday, July 09, 2021
[S]ome friends and I had a discussion on my Facebook page about [an] incident where two off-duty police officers (husband and wife) interrupted a robbery in progress at a local restaurant. The incident was captured on surveillance video. The two cops spread out, flanked the bad guy at gunpoint and gave verbal commands. The bad guy fled. They gave chase and caught him outside. If you aren’t...

Your Tactical Training Scenario - Surprise Attack

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Thursday, July 08, 2021
Have you ever been hit in the head? How did you perform immediately after it happened? Now imagine being hit in the back of the head with a hammer. Do you still think you could make your sub-one second draw? Look at what happened to this guy . He was trying to buy a metro pass when a man walked up behind him and hit him in the back of the head with a hammer. That was the very first indication...

“Serious Errors” in FBI Reports of Shooting Incidents

7:00am Wednesday, July 07, 2021
Dr. John Lott, Jr. of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) recently released a paper written while he was a Senior Advisor for Research and Statistics at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy. His paper, Corrections to the FBI’s Reports on Active Shooting Incidents (May 31, 2021), examines the FBI’s previously released reports on “active shooter incidents” (ASI). The FBI...

Resistance to Violent Crime: What Does the Research Show?

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Tuesday, July 06, 2021
Take a moment to imagine one of the following scenarios: While stopped in traffic at an inner-city intersection, a man with a gun approaches you. He begins striking your closed window with the weapon, demanding that you give him your car. You fear that if you get out and comply with the criminal’s demands he may drive away with your two small children who are strapped into their child seats in...

PODCAST: Justice Scalia Drops the Hammer: The 2nd Amendment Means What it Says

3:00pm Monday, July 05, 2021
Buckeye Firearms Association has launched a podcast called Keep and Bear Radio . The podcast is hosted on the Podbean platform and is also available on Apple , Google , Spotify , and iHeartRadio . Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear every episode. *** Episode 20: In the previous podcast, Dick Heller, the man who saved the Second Amendment, talked about his victorious U.S. Supreme Court...

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