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BREAKING NEWS: ATF Posts Proposed Rule Change to Upend the Firearm Industry

3:41pm Tuesday, May 11, 2021
We recently reported on a leaked ATF document outlining a proposed rule 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...

Demand (and lawsuit?) prompt Summit Co. Sheriff to open second Ohio CHL office

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Demand for Ohio concealed handgun licenses (CHLs) has been extremely heavy for over a year now, and some sheriff's offices have done better than others at accommodating the increase. One place where citizens continue to experience significant delays is Summit County, where Cuyahoga Falls resident Thomas Jakupca II decided to file a complaint in Summit County Common Pleas Court accusing the...

Biden’s Anti-gun Lies are Too Much Even for Legacy Press Fact Checkers

7:00am Monday, May 10, 2021
With President Joe Biden securely in office and the 2024 presidential election 43 months away, the mainstream press has determined it an acceptable time to expose the frequent fibber’s most flagrant falsehoods. This week saw a plethora of so-called “fact-checkers” take issue with the blatantly false statements Biden made while announcing his “initial actions” on gun control on April 8. In touting...

Preventing School Shootings: Observe…Investigate…Intercede

7:00am Friday, May 07, 2021
The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center recently released a report on targeted school violence that didn’t seem to get much attention from the media. After reading it, we can understand why, as it doesn’t easily fit into the standard legacy media paradigm of exploiting tragedy to “prove” that guns are bad, and we need new laws to further restrict access to them. This report...

A Radical Idea: It’s Not the Gun, it’s the Criminal

7:00am Thursday, May 06, 2021
Rahm Emanuel, recently the mayor of Chicago and who has previously served as a member of the Clinton Administration and as President Obama’s White House chief of staff, proposed a few curious gun control ideas while appearing as a panelist on ABC’s This Week program on March 28. To get Republican support and pass new gun control laws, he said, Democrats must “focus[] on the criminal, not the gun...

Focusing Gun Owners’ Political Strength – All PACs Are Local

by MarkPA
7:00am Wednesday, May 05, 2021
We are constantly told that it is only big money that counts in politics. Perhaps this is so. But what if that’s merely an intimidation tactic? By convincing your enemy that you have the invincible weapon, your enemy will shrink from the fight. The gun controllers have long complained that the big money of the evil gun industry controlled Congress-critters with lavish contributions. We know this...

State Outright Recognition for Right-to-Carry Permits Helps Protect All Gun Owners

7:00am Tuesday, May 04, 2021
Longtime gun rights supporters know that gun owners need to stick together. Over/under shotgun and revolver aficionados help to fight semi-automatic bans, because their guns would be next on the chopping block. Those over 21 fight firearms restrictions on 18-21-year-olds, because such gun controls diminish the Second Amendment right, deter future gun owners, and weaken the shooting community...

PODCAST: How Ordinary Citizens Can Join the Battle for Second Amendment Rights

3:00pm Monday, May 03, 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 11: National and state organizations do a lot of the heavy lifting for gun rights. But what can YOU do when you see a bad law...

Ohio Democrat gubernatorial wanna-bes push "smart gun" technology

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, May 03, 2021
Several Ohio Democrat mayors, including two gubernatorial-hopefuls (Nan Whaley, mayor of Dayton, and John Cranley, mayor of Cincinnati), have joined a "consortium" aimed at encouraging production of so-called "smart-gun" technology. From Ideastream.org : The Gun Safety Consortium is requesting proposals for "smart gun" products like quick-access gun locks and safes and systems to enhance...

Month of headlines about mass murders masks fact that guns are used to PROTECT lives every day

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, April 30, 2021
Lost in headlines about several mass murders around the country is the fact that law-abiding gun owners use firearms to protect themselves or loved ones every single day, with little to no attention from the establishment media. For example, here in Ohio, on March 1, WEWS (ABC Cleveland) reported that a homeowner who had already scared off a would-be thief who had attempted to steal his ATV was...

Leaked ATF Rule Would Upend Firearm Industry

3:00pm Thursday, April 29, 2021
On April 20th, The Reload published what appears to be a leaked draft of an ATF proposed rule . The leaked document purports to be a proposed rule to change the regulatory 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...

NRA Opposes David Chipman for ATF Director

7:00am Thursday, April 29, 2021
During a press conference on Thursday, April 8, President Biden announced that he would once again be targeting law-abiding gun owners by ordering ATF to develop two new restrictive regulations. Aiming to accessorize the Department of Justice’s anti-gun leadership team, Biden announced his nomination of gun control lobbyist David Chipman for Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms,...

Grand jury does not indict after self-defense shooting

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Wednesday, April 28, 2021
WXIX (Fox Cincinnati) is reporting that a grand jury examined evidence in a March 29 shooting incident and returned no indictment. From the article : A fight that led to a deadly shooting in Hamilton on Monday, March 29 was an act of self-defense, court documents say. According to police, the shooting happened at 8:07 a.m. at 408 S. 7th Street. The police report stated the first suspect threw a...

Supreme Court Grants Cert in Second Amendment Concealed Carry Case

7:00am Tuesday, April 27, 2021
On April 26, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear an NRA-backed case challenging New York’s restrictive concealed-carry-licensing regime. This sets the stage for the Supreme Court to affirm what most states already hold as true, that there is an individual right to self-defense outside of the home. This case challenges New York’s requirement that applicants demonstrate “proper cause” to carry a...

PODCAST: Myths, Lies, and Distortions About Guns in Movies and TV

3:00pm Monday, April 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 10: TV and movies are great for entertainment, but not so great for education. Unfortunately, that's where most people learn most...

In New Executive Gun Control Push, Biden Seems to Throw Obama, and Himself, Under the Bus

7:00am Monday, April 26, 2021
Many have come to realize that Joe Biden rarely seems to make much sense, especially when speaking publicly. At his recent Rose Garden ceremony, where he announced his latest assault on the Second Amendment, he lied a number of times, and garbled the name of the federal agency tasked with enforcing federal gun laws. At the Rose Garden ceremony, Biden announced these six actions: “The Justice...

Indiana red flag law fails to stop FedEx killer

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Friday, April 23, 2021
Gun ban extremists have always been quick to try and take advantage of mass murders to further their political goals. In recent years, after a shooting occurs, one of the first things many in the anti-Second Amendment crowd run to the cameras to promote are so-called red flag laws. In the wake of a mass killing in Las Vagas, despite having campaigned as reformed politician on the issue of the...

Portage Co. Sheriff’s Dept. under fire for denying CHL applicant over music video

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Thursday, April 22, 2021
A Cleveland area man is threatening legal action after being denied a concealed handgun license renewal because of an image found in a social media post. Lamont Gist told WOIO (CBS Cleveland) that he went to Portage County to renew his license because they had open appointments, something many counties did not have at the time due to the ongoing pandemic. He was shocked when he was told that his...

Main Stream Media Super Spreaders

7:00am Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Americans are all too familiar with the background details of mass shooters; it’s hard not to be when media accounts of high-profile tragedies focus their coverage on the attackers, their background, and their motives. This coverage actually gives other deranged individuals something to emulate – and can help spread these tragedies. “Shooters get enormous attention: their name, photo, motivations...

Kamala Harris is Lying. She and Others are Coming After Your Guns

7:00am Tuesday, April 20, 2021
On Wednesday March 24, Vice President Kamala Harris sat for a segment with “CBS This Morning” in which she advocated for a raft of gun control measures. During her anti-gun rant, the former senator from California tried to give the impression that anti-gun politicians are not interested in taking Americans’ firearms, stating, “Stop pushing the false choice that this means everybody's trying to...

PODCAST: How Women are Taking the Lead on Gun Rights Through the “DC Project”

3:00pm Monday, April 19, 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 9: Gun control advocates think the only people who care about guns and the Second Amendment are men. But today, gun owners are a...

When Gun Rights advocacy and "Back the Blue" efforts collide

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, April 19, 2021
I have been involved in gun rights advocacy for two decades now - enough time to see a lot of change, and do some changing myself. One of the more interesting changes I've been noting in recent years is a growing number of conservatives on social media who are conflating their "pro-gun" politics with their "back the blue" politics. Such people react very negatively to questions about law...

Firearm Industry Economic Impact Rises 232% Since 2008

3:00pm Friday, April 16, 2021
NEWTOWN, Conn. – The total economic impact of the firearm and ammunition industry in the United States increased from $19.1 billion in 2008 to $63.5 billion in 2019, a 232 percent increase, while the total number of full-time equivalent jobs rose from approximately 166,000 to over 342,330, a 106 percent increase in that period, according to a report released by the National Shooting Sports...

The Future of American Policing

by Greg Ellifritz
7:00am Friday, April 16, 2021
I had two different friends send me messages [recently] requesting my thoughts on what policing is going to look like in the future. I thought about it quite a bit and here are my predictions. We have to recognize that police are a part of our society as a whole. Our society is changing and those changes will drive all future changes in police work. As I see it, there are four primary cultural...

Please Urge Your U.S. Senators to Oppose Biden and Schumer’s Gun Control!

3:00pm Thursday, April 15, 2021
Joe Biden is calling for a nationwide ban on commonly-owned firearms and magazines used for hunting, recreational shooting and self-defense! He is also calling on Chuck Schumer and the U.S. Senate to take up and pass gun control bills H.R. 8 and H.R. 1446. This legislation won’t have any impact on crime or criminals, doesn’t address America’s broken mental health system and doesn’t address the...

House Committee Removes Gun Crime Items from Budget Bill

7:00am Thursday, April 15, 2021
The newly released Substitute House Bill 110 , which is the state's two-year operating budget, no longer includes several items regarding sentences for crimes that involve firearms. The items were included in Governor Mike DeWine's Executive Budget but were not retained in the House version of the budget bill that is under consideration by the House Finance Committee. Once the House has approved...

Ohio House and Senate Introduce Knife Preemption Bills: HB 243 and SB 156

by Dean Rieck
7:00am Wednesday, April 14, 2021
On April 12, 2021, Senate Bill 140 went into effect. It made two significant changes to Ohio law: it repealed the ban on the manufacture and sale of "switchblade," "spring blade" and "gravity" knives and it cleared up the confusion about carrying knives by defining a knife, razor or cutting instrument as a "deadly weapon" or "weapon" ONLY if it is used as a weapon. This is a welcome change, given...

Ohio Wildlife Council Approves 2021-22 Hunting Regulations

7:00am Tuesday, April 13, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Wildlife Council approved all 2021-22 hunting regulations during its regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Hunting season dates and limits are proposed by Division of Wildlife biologists. Regulations for the 2021-22 white-tailed deer hunting seasons were included in...

PODCAST: Project Appleseed - Preserving American Values Through Rifle Marksmanship

3:00pm Monday, April 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 8: The values our founding fathers relied on to win our independence and make America a great nation, such as integrity,...

Improvements to Ohio self-defense law take effect; Chicken Littles offer same old predictions

by Chad D. Baus
7:00am Monday, April 12, 2021
On April 6, 2021, changes to Ohio's self-defense law, made possible by passage of SB 175 , took effect in Ohio. This was the result of an historic effort by Buckeye Firearms Association to abolish the "duty to retreat," an unfair and dangerous policy in Ohio law related to the use of lethal force in self-defense. This bill brings Ohio into line with as many as 35 other states that have some form...

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