Keep and Bear Radio

How Defending Your Life Can Land You in Prison

Armed self defense is almost NEVER like the movies. It can be fast, brutal, and terrifying! And you can get into serious legal trouble even if you do everything right.

Sean Maloney, criminal defense attorney, talks about the "affirmative defense," shocking real-world cases, and why he co-founded Second Call Defense to protect gun owners.

Why Doctors Turned Anti-Gun and What You Can Do About It

Doctors should focus on your health, not your politics. But in recent years, the medical profession has become more and more activist, pushing an anti-gun, anti-liberty agenda.

John Edeen, pediatric orthopedic surgeon in San Antonio and Membership Development Director with Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, talks about how it got this way and how to find pro-gun doctors.

Where's All the Ammo? Is it Government Hoarding? A Ploy to Drive up Prices? Aliens?

Where oh where has all the ammo gone? Is the government hoarding? Is it a corporate conspiracy to drive up ammo prices? Have aliens abducted all our ammo? It's time to demand some answers.

Mark Olivia, spokesman for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, reveals the truth about why the shelves are bare and ammo prices have shot through the roof.

David Kenik Talks About Guns and the Harsh Realities of Armed Self-Defense

When can you use lethal force in self defense? Is self defense just about guns? Can you actually take a life? Is .45 caliber more effective than 9mm or does that even matter any more? What's the one thing people almost never consider when they're thinking about a gun fight?

David Kenik, firearms instructor and author of the popular book Armed Response, reveals the answers to these and other vital questions.

Will NYSRPA v. Bruen Lead to the Next Landmark Gun Rights Decision?

It's been 13 years since the Heller case and 11 years since the McDonald case. Now, finally, another major gun rights case goes to the U.S. Supreme Court. And once again, Buckeye Firearms Association is part of the action.

BFA legal advisor Ron Lemieux discusses the amicus brief we submitted to the court and how this case could deliver another landmark decision on the Second Amendment.

Get a "Sneak Peak" Inside the Most Pressing Gun Rights Legislation of 2021

Discover why some sanctuary legislation runs too cold … or too hot. Find out who is really behind the Madison School legal case that, for the moment, has nixed armed school staff.

Hear our assessment of whether any of the current crop of anti gun bills in Ohio will pass. And see just how easy it is to track the progress of any gun bill.

Teenage Gun Owners, Revealing Firearm Research, and Shooting Sex Perverts

A court says Second Amendment rights apply to 18-year-olds. A major university study shows that more guns do NOT equal more crime. A woman is forced to shoot a home invader in her kitchen who is performing sex acts.

BFA's Legislative Affairs Director Rob Sexton discusses the good, the bad, and the ugly of recent news on this week's episode.

10 Things You Should NEVER Do After a Self-Defense Shooting

When it comes to armed self-defense, it's usually not the shooting itself that trips you up legally. More often than not, it's what you do afterward that gets you in hot water.

Sean Maloney, criminal defense attorney and co-founder of Second Call Defense, reveals common mistakes people make after defensive shootings that can get you arrested, prosecuted, and perhaps imprisoned.

Justice Scalia Drops the Hammer: The 2nd Amendment Means What it Says

In the previous podcast, Dick Heller, the man who saved the Second Amendment, talked about his victorious U.S. Supreme Court case, District of Columbia v. Heller.

So now it's time to hear from the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote the 2008 majority opinion in that case and forcefully argued that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right.

An Interview with Dick Heller, the Man Who Saved the Second Amendment

Before 2008, some people argued that the Second Amendment was merely a collective right, an outmoded concept related only to old-fashioned militias.

Dick Heller, the respondent in District of Columbia v. Heller, talks about how his landmark case changed America's view of the Second Amendment from the red-headed stepchild of the Constitution to the cornerstone of modern gun rights.