When Jeremy Bennett denied wildlife officers entry to his private business for a warrantless inspection, he was prosecuted. Despite committing no crime, or being under suspicion of an illegal act, Bennett faced a fine and the possibility of seven months in prison.

Owner of a taxidermy and deer processing business, Bennett sued for breach of the Fourth Amendment, and his case forced the state to abide by the Bill of Rights.

“What the government tried to get away with on my property shocks people, but this type of abuse of power consistently happens,” Bennett says. “If you’re a landowner, business owner, farmer, or concerned citizen, you must say something. It’s never the easy path, but it’s the right path to protect our freedoms.”

Something. Anything. Everything.

Surrounded by the sportsman’s paradise of Hocking County, Ohio, roughly 50 miles southeast of Columbus, Jeremy Bennett operates a taxidermy and deer processing shop built by his own hands in 2006, adjacent to a home shared with his wife and five children.

A self-taught bootstrapper, Bennett turned a hobby into a career—hunting to taxidermy to processing. “I grew up in farm country,” he explains. “My dad had a small hog operation and my grandparents had cattle. It was natural for me to get into taxidermy because the outdoors and animals were my passion. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to work in this field and I have the most wonderful customers in the world.”