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Gun News Roundup - September 2, 2022

3:00pm Friday, September 02, 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: Biden Adds To His Ever-Growing List of Lies, Threats as He Continues His Push Against Gun Rights New NRA-ILA Backed Lawsuit Challenges New York's Unconstitutional Carry Restrictions UPS Releases New ‘Woke’ Rules for...

Brace Yourself: Biden Administration Reinterprets “Firearm,” Prepares Crackdown

7:00am Friday, September 02, 2022
When we say “brace yourself,” we’re not kidding. The pistol brace rule is coming as well. But first, a different sort of crackdown was unleashed on the nation this week, as an ATF rule published on April 26 finally took effect on Wednesday. The regulation is entitled “ Definition of `Frame or Receiver' and Identification of Firearms .” That rule is so cumbersome, complex, sprawling, and...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. exam of Hamilton Co. court records reveals problems with criminal justice system

by Chad D. Baus
3:00pm Thursday, September 01, 2022
On June 9, the Cincinnati Enquirer and USA Today Network published the results of an investigation they had done in an attempt to get some more concrete predictions about what life in Ohio with permitless carry would look like. To do so, they took a look at court data - specifically people who had been charged with gun possession violations in Hamilton and Delaware Counties - in order to...

A massive oops by the Civilian Marksmanship Program

by Lee Williams
7:00am Thursday, September 01, 2022
CMP needs to be fully transparent about the crisis they created. For a few hours Friday, August 26, the leadership of the Civilian Marksmanship Program, or CMP, appeared to have lost their minds. It’s either that or the storied nonprofit — which can trace its lineage back to 1903 when Teddy Roosevelt created the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice — had been taken over by anti-gun...

Biden Pushes 9mm Handgun Ban, Harris Wants to Ban Common Semi-autos

7:00am Wednesday, August 31, 2022
If anyone was still questioning the Biden-Harris administration’s devotion to banning and confiscating law-abiding Americans’ firearms, all doubt has been erased. On May 31, President Joe Biden once again stated that he wants to ban 9mm firearms. Speaking with reporters outside the White House about a purported encounter with a “trauma doctor,” Biden stated, They said a .22-caliber bullet will...

Gun Control is About Stripping Rights NOT Stopping Crime

7:00am Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Economics has a concept called “revealed preference.” The gist is that a person’s observed actions reveal more about their preferences than what a person might profess to prefer. As applied to anti-gun politicians, despite all the noise they might make about stopping the criminal misuse of guns, their actions reveal that their policies are designed to attack the rights of law-abiding Americans...

PODCAST: Discover Who’s Behind the Media’s Phony Mass Shooter Statistics

3:00pm Monday, August 29, 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 77: Not that long ago, the news media generally reported that there were a couple dozen or so "mass shootings" every year. But more...

Headline: Organization advocates, empowers African American gun ownership

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, August 29, 2022
Spectrum News reported recently on a trend that is sure to spark fear in the hearts of anti-gun rights Democrats everywhere - the continuing and increasing growth in gun ownership and concealed carry usage among people of color. From the article : To combat negative stereotypes against firearms and encourage others to learn proper gun safety, a Columbus man is working to get more people at the...

New York Times: Gun Control Less Popular Than Advertised

7:00am Friday, August 26, 2022
By now you’ve seen the claim countless times. According to gun control advocates and their media lapdogs, some 90-percent of Americans support the criminalization of private firearm transfers – misleadingly termed by its proponents as “universal background checks.” In a rare instance of journalistic integrity, the New York Times has published an article debunking this bogus gun control talking...

“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...

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”...

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...

House-Passed Gun Ban Shows the Importance of the Election This November

7:00am Wednesday, August 17, 2022
On Friday [July 29], after a last-minute rule change to allow its consideration, the United States House of Representatives passed H.R. 1808. Authored by Rep. David N. Cicilline (D-RI), H.R. 1808 would ban the most popular semiautomatic rifles in America, many popular semiautomatic shotguns, and the magazines that come with firearms commonly used for self-defense. The bill would also put millions...

Permitless Carry win: News media discovers previous gun laws were enforced more heavily against black residents

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, August 16, 2022
In the run-up to passage of Ohio's Permitless Carry law, all manner of arguments were leveled by anti-Second Amendment opponents in the media. Some of the most egregious were claims that the proposed law was somehow an overt threat to people of color. Indeed, certain Democrat legislators even took to the floor of their respective chambers to argue about the racist nature of Senate Bill 215. Four...

PODCAST: Argument Highlights from the Landmark Supreme Court Bruen Case

3:00pm Monday, August 15, 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 75: On June 23, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn. v. Bruen, finding that the...

BFA PAC Aq-rated candidate sends anti-gun Republican packing

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, August 15, 2022
State Central Committee races aren't sexy. They're not races you'll see expensive TV ads for. In fact, there's a good chance nine out of ten voters won't even know what these elected positions do. The Republican State Central Committee is the governing power of the Ohio Republican Party (ORP). It recruits and endorses candidates for federal and state offices. One man and one woman are elected as...

Enjoy a Free Day at Ohio’s Public Ranges in August

7:00am Friday, August 12, 2022
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife and the National Shooting Sports Foundation are partnering to host Free Range Day at five of Ohio's premier public shooting ranges on Saturday, Aug. 20. Visit one of the following public shooting ranges on Free Range Day to gain hands-on experience and instruction with firearms at no charge from certified...

North Canton Removes Illegal No Gun Sign in Price Park After Complaint

by Dean Rieck
3:00pm Thursday, August 11, 2022
Ohio cities cannot ban guns in public parks. That's been the rule for nearly two decades ever since concealed carry became legal in the state. In fact, the Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that cities cannot ban firearms in municipal parks because it conflicts with a general state law that permits qualifying adults to carry a concealed weapon on any public property other than at locations...

Red Flag Orders Enable Political Abuse

7:00am Thursday, August 11, 2022
So-called “Red Flag” orders, or Emergency Risk Protection Orders, are designed to empower the government to confiscate Americans’ firearms without due process of law . Aside from allowing run-of-the-mill malicious actors to indulge personal grudges against law-abiding gun owners, in the current politically-charged environment these laws enable the government to target those with First Amendment-...

Commonly Owned: NSSF Announces Over 24 Million MSRs in Circulation

7:00am Wednesday, August 10, 2022
NEWTOWN, Conn. — NSSF®, the firearm industry trade association, updated the industry estimate of Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) in circulation in the United States to 24,446,000 since 1990. That is an increase of over 4.5 million rifles since the last estimate was released in 2020. The estimate is derived from NSSF research, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Annual Firearms...

“Assault Weapon”— The All Purpose Pejorative

7:00am Tuesday, August 09, 2022
“Assault weapon” is a meaningless and politically elastic term. Demonstrating that the agenda drives the definition, President Biden’s nominees to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) both refused to commit to any intelligible definition. David Chipman, Biden’s initial and unsuccessful choice for ATF director, famously flubbed a straightforward request to define an “...

PODCAST: Answers to 5 Common Legal Questions About Carrying Firearms

7:00am Monday, August 08, 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 74: What force of law do no-gun signs actually have? Can an officer legally take your gun during a traffic stop? What's the difference...

Eli Dicken — 15 seconds, 400 Uvalde cops — 77 minutes

by Lee Williams
3:00pm Friday, August 05, 2022
It’s not easy to second guess a law enforcement officer’s actions during a deadly force encounter unless you were there, unless you saw precisely what the officer saw — from their perspective — and felt what the officer felt, including a massive jolt of adrenaline. Deadly force encounters happen at the speed of life. They’re unbelievably quick — a couple seconds or less. Trying to judge whether...

Farcical “Assault Weapons” Ban Mark-up Showed Contempt for Facts, Law, and Dignity

7:00am Thursday, August 04, 2022
A recent Gallup poll asked Americans about their level of trust in various institutions. Of the 16 options, the one respondents identified as LEAST trustworthy – with only 7% expressing a “Great deal” or “Quite a lot” of confidence in it – was Congress. This was just below television news (at 11%) but also below such things as big business, large technology companies, banks, and small business...

95% of BFA PAC Endorsed Candidates Win Primary Election on Aug. 2

3:00pm Wednesday, August 03, 2022
It's been an exhausting and confusing election year so far. We've had two Primary Elections, and still have the November General Election to go. In yesterday's #2 Primary, 10 out of 10 BFA PAC Senate endorsees won, and 48 out of 51 House endorsees won. To be fair, not every candidate had challengers. And in many districts, there were cancelled primaries, candidates added late, or candidates who...

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