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Toy Guns “Bad”! Toy Grenades “Good”!?

7:00am Thursday, June 10, 2021
It is not really news that anti-gun hysteria among extremists and media elites has been at (what we can only hope is) peak insanity for some time, as the efforts to demonize law-abiding gun owners expanded to demonizing kids at play and beloved cartoon characters. Under Covid restrictions, while children learned virtually in their own homes, obvious toys elicited ridiculous responses from school...

Your Tactical Training Scenario - A Pistol Whipping and Gun Disarm

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Wednesday, June 09, 2021
You are out for a walk at night. You have your CCW pistol concealed under your shirt. You are set upon by two robbers, one of whom is armed with a pistol. He uses that pistol to smash you in the head and then orders you to the ground. What do you do? That’s what happened to a man in the story below. Read the short story and think about how you would have solved the problem. Man beaten by armed...

REMINDER: The Ohio CHL license renewal extension ENDS on June 30

by Dean Rieck
3:00pm Tuesday, June 08, 2021
Last year, Governor DeWine signed House Bill 614 , with an amendment to extend Concealed Handgun License (CHL) expiration dates. Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) helped the Ohio legislature draft and pass the amendment to address the alarming logjam of people struggling to get their CHL applications and renewals processed at that time. Here are the two changes that amendment made: If your...

Skill Set: Politeness

by Tiger McKee
7:00am Tuesday, June 08, 2021
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. -- Robert A. Heinlein It’s getting more difficult, every day, to make it through your day without someone committing a seriously rude offense. People purposely cut you off in traffic; if you don’t slam...

PODCAST: SPECIAL EDITION: News Conference Introducing Emergency Powers Legislation

3:00pm Monday, June 07, 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 16: Governments have shown they are willing to infringe on Second Amendment rights during times of emergency, at the very times...

NICS Numbers Tell a Story

7:00am Monday, June 07, 2021
We write about NICS numbers regularly because they provide a ready-made finger on the pulse of American gun owners. As we saw last year, NICS numbers confirm what we’re all thinking. Politicians talking about banning commonly owned firearms? NICS numbers rise. Bureaucrats releasing prisoners as a virus rages? NICS numbers rise. Readers know the rest. Self-reliance and firearms ownership are time-...

Canada’s “Dead” Long-Gun Registry Still Used by Police

7:00am Friday, June 04, 2021
A year after Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his sweeping ban on firearms, shocking new revelations have emerged concerning the repudiated long gun registry and the federal police agency responsible for implementing and enforcing Canada’s gun laws. According to reports by the Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA) and news media, there is good reason to believe that the Royal...

SCOTUS asked to take up State v. Weber, Ohio case with Second Amendment implications

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, June 03, 2021
A man whose conviction for holding an unloaded shotgun in his home while drunk was upheld by the Ohio Supreme Court is taking his case to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The case is State v. Weber , which as has been noted on our site , "involves a situation where despite the defendant’s wife telling police there was no longer a problem, they pressed their way in. There they...

FBI’s Shadow Gun Bans Threaten First and Second Amendment Rights

7:00am Wednesday, June 02, 2021
For several years the FBI has been operating a shadow gun ban regime whereby Americans who are not prohibited from possessing firearms under federal law are being denied their Second Amendment rights without due process. This extralegal practice was brought to light again in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit case Turaani v. Wray . The case revealed that the FBI’s current...

US Department of Justice: Active Killer Incidents 2000-2018

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Tuesday, June 01, 2021
The US Department of Justice released a useful publication titled Active Shooter Incidents: Topical One-Pagers 2000-2018 . The publication is an 18-page summary of active shooter statistics for every attack that met the FBI definition between the years 2000 and 2018. It is a valuable reference for anyone who is interested in the topic. I suggest that you read the entire document, but for those...

PODCAST: Second Amendment Sanctuary: Fighting Unconstitutional Gun Control

3:00pm Monday, May 31, 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 15: All across America, cities, counties, and states have been declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries in a desperate...

NSSF Commends Sen. Cornyn’s Concealed Carry Reciprocity Legislation

7:00am Monday, May 31, 2021
Legislation Would End Patchwork of Confusing Gun Law for CC Permit Holders NEWTOWN, Conn. – The NSSF®, the firearm industry’s trade association, commends U.S. Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) introduction of S. 1522, the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. The legislation was introduced with 30 original co-sponsors – over 30 percent of the U.S. Senate – to protect law-abiding concealed...

CNN surprised that female, minority & LGBTQ+ communities support gun rights

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, May 28, 2021
With the National Rifle Association having been weakened in recent years due to scandal-ridden mismanagement, gun control extremists have hoped they might finally have a chance in Congress. But the mainstream media are finally discovering what we have long known - the gun rights "tent" is very, very large, and the NRA is but one of many tent poles. From a CNN article entitled, " The fight against...

Chuck Schumer Pronounces Lawful, Regulated, Licensed Firearms Dealers are ‘Evil’

by Larry Keane
3:00pm Thursday, May 27, 2021
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has one word for lawful, regulated and licensed firearm retailers. Evil. In remarks to media pushing his gun control agenda, Sen. Schumer said, “…the evil gun dealers, pushed by the NRA, have used gun shows as a major way to get guns into the hands of people without a background check.” What is evil is the senator’s twisted distortions to...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost joins 19 other AGs in opposing Biden nominee to head ATF

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, May 27, 2021
Fox News is reporting that Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) has joined attorneys general from 20 states by sending a letter to the Senate on Tuesday, calling on lawmakers to reject David Chipman, President Biden’s nominee for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), over his affiliations with gun control organizations. From the article: "The Second Amendment is the...

PODCAST: Emergency Powers Legislation: Preventing Infringements of 2A Rights During Emergencies

7:00am Wednesday, May 26, 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 14: When the COVID crisis hit the U.S. in 2020, some government officials around the country reacted badly, abused their power,...

Rep. Wiggam and Sen. Schaffer Announce Second Amendment Emergency Power Bills

3:00pm Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Flanked by both state and national firearms groups that protect the rights of gun owners, State Representative Scott Wiggam (R-Wayne County) and State Senator Tim Schaffer (R-Lancaster) held a news conference at the Ohio Statehouse on Tuesday, May 25, 2021, and announced the introduction of companion bills that define the scope of government power as it relates to firearms during a time of a...

URGENT: Tell the ATF You Do NOT Want the Definition of a Firearm to Change

7:00am Tuesday, May 25, 2021
We recently reported on a proposal by the ATF to change the definition of frame or receiver and alter federal marking requirements for firearms. The rule, if implemented, would completely upend the firearm industry by changing what parts must legally be considered a “firearm” under federal law. The ATF has now posted this rule for comments from the public. CLICK HERE to read the document . This...

Assault on Firearms Industry Continues

7:00am Monday, May 24, 2021
Joe Biden mentioned a number of the anti-gun goals he has set during his recent address to Congress, but for some reason, he did not mention his support for bankrupting the firearms industry through endless, meritless lawsuits. This is an odd oversight, considering he mentioned that, if he could be granted only one anti-gun accomplishment by God, this is what he would ask for. The comment was...

New York Times Throws ATF Pity Party

7:00am Friday, May 21, 2021
It’s time once again for that lamest of all biennial traditions – the publication of a lengthy New York Times or Washington Post opinion piece disguised as news that commiserates about the purportedly beleaguered state of the ever-so valiant Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). As if taking direction directly from the Democratic National Committee, the institutional gun...

Concealed handgun license-holder acquitted by jury of his peers, found to have acted in self-defense

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, May 20, 2021
The Columbus Dispatch reported recently that a jury heard the facts of a shooting that involved an Ohio concealed handgun license-holder, and determined that the man had acted in self-defense. From the article : A Franklin County jury decided Friday that a 32-year-old man with a concealed-carry permit was acting in self defense when he fatally shot another man during a confrontation at a Far East...

HB 227 (Constitutional Carry) to receive second House committee hearing Thursday

3:00pm Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Representative Shane Wilkin (R-Hillsboro), who chairs the House Government Oversight Committee, has announced a second hearing for HB 227 (Constitutional Carry) , sponsored by Reps. Brinkman and Jordan. The hearing will be held on Thursday, May 20 at 9:00 a.m. in the Room 121 at the Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH 43215. The committee will hear proponent testimony. Constitutional Carry...

Biden Goes All in On Calls for Extreme Gun Control

7:00am Wednesday, May 19, 2021
President Biden dropped any pretense at “moderation” in his first address to a joint session of Congress since assuming the presidency. However much he tried to pad the early parts of his speech with bland, feel-good rhetoric, his remarks on gun control demonstrate that he is radical, out of touch, ill-informed, and bent on persecuting his political enemies over prioritizing important issues of...

Excitement builds for CMP National Matches 2021

by Larry S. Moore
7:00am Tuesday, May 18, 2021
For the shooters of the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP), the excitement of returning to Camp Perry for the National Matches is building. The forced hiatus of 2020 was a bitter pill. Now they are ready to return to the home ground of the competitive rifle and pistol shooting world. It is a certainly a great tradition where some have been coming for generations. Welcoming the shooters this year...

PODCAST: Discrimination Against the Firearm Industry and the Bill That Aims to Stop It

3:00pm Monday, May 17, 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 13: The financial sector has been discriminating against the firearms industry for decades. The Obama administration even...

Hunter Biden Incident Shows that Gun Laws are for the Little People

7:00am Monday, May 17, 2021
There is a central hypocrisy at the heart of the gun control effort. High-profile gun control-supporting politicians, the Hollywood elite, and billionaire tycoons, will advocate to strip ordinary Americans of their right to defend themselves and their family, all the while enjoying the security that armed men with guns provide. As Hunter Biden’s 2018 firearm incident shows, this hypocrisy extends...

Permitless Carry Wave Sweeps the Nation

7:00am Friday, May 14, 2021
Gun control advocates seem conflicted recently about how to mischaracterize the NRA. Does it still exercise “undue influence,” or is it now “on the ropes” with the ascendance of anti-gun politicians controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress? Whatever they try to tell you, the numbers don’t lie. The strength of our pro-gun advocacy efforts and the peoples’ support for the right to...

Rep. Scott Wiggam Introduces HB 297: Firearm Industry Non-Discrimination (FIND) Act

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Thursday, May 13, 2021
Ohio State Representative Scott Wiggam has introduced House Bill 297, the Firearm Industry Non-Discrimination (FIND) Act . This critical legislation would stop corporations seeking government contracts from discriminating against the firearm and ammunition industry and infringing on the ability of law-abiding citizens to exercise their Second Amendment rights. "There are far too many so-called '...

PODCAST: Biden’s Lies, Smart Guns, ATF Shenanigans, and Other Disturbing News

3:00pm Wednesday, May 12, 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 12: Would you be surprised if we told you President Biden was lying about gun laws? Probably not. Because he is. And he told some...

NSSF Hails Rep. Barr’s ‘Fair Access to Banking Act’

7:00am Wednesday, May 12, 2021
The NSSF®, the firearm industry’s trade association, applauded U.S. Rep. Andy Barr’s (R-Ky.) introduction of the Fair Access to Banking Act. The much-needed legislation will pick up where the Fair Access to Financial Services Banking Rule left off, which was proposed by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency until the Biden administration “paused” publication of the finalized rule. The...

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