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Columbus Files Yet Another Lawsuit Seeking to Infringe Gun Rights

by Dean Rieck

6:00am Monday, May 22, 2023

Here we go again. On the heels of Judge David M. Gormley's ruling to prohibit the city of Columbus from enforcing its unlawful firearm ordinances, Columbus has filed another complaint against the state of Ohio. Like its first complaint filed in 2019, the new complaint seeks to turn back Ohio's "preemption" law in ORC 9.68 , which Buckeye Firearms Association helped to pass, so that Columbus and...

Gun News Roundup - May 20, 2023: Columbus wastes more taxpayer funds on endless fight against gun owners

6:00am Saturday, May 20, 2023

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: Columbus again suing state in endless legal battle over gun rights Meanwhile, Columbus mayor asks Short North businesses to close early to curb violence U.S. Supreme Court allows Illinois 'assault weapons' ban to...

Homicide: A 'red state' or 'blue city' problem?

6:00am Friday, May 19, 2023

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s gun control group, Everytown for Gun Safety, ranks the 50 states on how well they have comported their laws to the organization’s civilian disarmament agenda. In doing so, the group describes New Hampshire, with its few gun control laws, as a “national failure.” That descriptor might come as a surprise to residents of the bucolic northern New England state...

Biden caught using fake data to gaslight Americans on 'mass' shootings

by Lee Williams

6:00am Thursday, May 18, 2023

President Joe Biden has always struggled with the truth. Whenever he wanders off script and speaks extemporaneously, he invents personal anecdotes — boldfaced lies, actually — in which he assigns himself the starring role. Whether he’s getting arrested in South Africa for trying to bust into Nelson Mandela’s prison cell, or bravely confronting AR-toting hunters in a Delaware swamp or going toe-to...

NRA-ILA-backed lawsuit challenges Maryland’s unconstitutional carry restrictions filed in federal court

6:00am Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Maryland has become the latest state to defy the United States Supreme Court’s Bruen decision with the passage of SB 1 and HB 824. It has also become the latest state to get hit with an NRA-ILA backed lawsuit challenging those restrictions. Just one month after Bruen was decided, a Maryland court found it was “self-evident” that Maryland’s carry permitting regime was also unconstitutional. “In...

Columbus' anti-gun virtue signaling: All show, useless for security

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth

6:00am Tuesday, May 16, 2023

A false sense of security is not true security. Doing things for show does nothing to protect people's lives. Yet that's exactly what continues to occur throughout our country. Every time an atrocity involving a firearm occurs, virtue-signaling politicians, media outlets, and talking heads rush to blame firearms and "the gun lobby." Then comes the barrage of people far too willing to forgo their...

PODCAST: Gun Rights on the August Ballot and the Ohio House Insurrection

6:00am Monday, May 15, 2023

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 96: The Ohio House passed a resolution for a special August election to protect our state constitution from outside special interests...

Gun News Roundup - May 13: Biased media take aim at 2A

6:00am Saturday, May 13, 2023

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 — with a few examples of biased reporting against 2A: Mayor Ginther renews calls for gun control after violent weekend in Columbus Adults age 18 to 20 can't be barred from buying handguns from licensed dealers, judge...