Police Work Going to the Dogs?

For quite some time, law enforcement has utilized the extremely sensitive sense of smell dogs possess to help with their work detecting illicit, and often quite dangerous, items. Most people are familiar with the concept of drug-sniffing dogs, which have been utilized to try to diminish the flow of illegal drugs across our border and in our neighborhoods. Explosive-sniffing dogs have been trained...

Skill Set: Sudden Violence

Most people have a sanitized concept of violence. Unless you’ve been involved in an attack – violent assault, law enforcement, military service and such – it’s hard to understand just how sudden assaults occur, the short distances involved and the timing. In order to combat violence, you have to become familiar with the details. Violent attacks in real life are nothing like in movies or...

ACTION: Urge Gov. DeWine to Sign Permitless Carry Bill

On Wednesday, March 2, 2022, the Ohio House voted 58-36 to pass Senate Bill 215, sponsored by Sen. Terry Johnson. If signed into law, this bill makes it legal in Ohio to carry a concealed handgun with or without a license. About an hour later, the Senate concurred with a vote of 24-9. This means the bill moves to the governor's desk! So now what happens? After passage through the House and Senate...

Biden Lies to Push Assault on Second Amendment

It has become axiomatic that, when we write about Joe Biden commenting on guns, we will be reporting that he has uttered something patently false. In fact, there are usually several things that he gets completely wrong, and often the things he gets wrong are things he repeatedly gets wrong. And it’s not just us, or others in the pro-gun community, who are calling out the president for being wrong...

PODCAST: The Invasion of Ukraine, Armed Citizens, and the True Meaning of the Second Amendment

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 55: What we're witnessing in Ukraine is a brutal, real-time demonstration of why gun ownership should be regarded as a basic human right...

Testimony on police shooting of Ohio CHL-holder Casey Goodson reveals new details

The Columbus Dispatch is reporting on details from a court hearing which shed new light on the shooting of Ohio CHL-holder Casey Goodson by a Franklin County Sheriff's deputy over one year ago. At the time of the shooting, Peter Tobin, the U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio who was later forced to apologize for having spoken too soon in deeming the deputy' actions to be "justified,"...

U.S. Air Force ordered to pay $230 million in damages after Texas church shooting

In the wake of every multiple-victim public shooting, anti-Second Amendment extremists run to the nearest microphone to blame America's "lax" gun laws for the loss of life. On the other hand, Second Amendment advocates point out that the reason many of these attackers had access to firearms it is the lack of enforcement of existing gun control laws. A federal judge in Texas has now sided with...

Ohio Attorney General's 2021 Concealed Carry Report shows record renewals

On March, 1, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost issued Ohio’s Law on Concealed Handguns annual report showing that 202,920 concealed carry licenses were issued in Ohio in 2021. This number marked a 20% jump over the number issued in 2020, and was made up of 94,298 new licenses and 108,622 renewals. From coverage by the Cleveland Plain Dealer : The number of new conceal-carry licenses issued in 2021...

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