[ad_1] With the 2021 legislative session winding down, a critical self-defense bill is still sitting in the Senate awaiting floor action. Please contact your state senator and ask them to promptly SUPPORT HB 2840. House Bill 2840 allows law-abiding citizens to store their loaded firearms in their locked personal vehicles while parked on school grounds. This ensures

[ad_1] Today, the House Criminal Justice Committee passed Constitutional Carry Legislation, Senate Bill 118, sending the measure to the House Floor for full consideration.  Please contact your State Representative and ask them to SUPPORT Senate Bill 118. Senate Bill 118 removes the requirement for law-abiding individuals to obtain a concealed handgun permit before being allowed to carry concealed, a

[ad_1] On Monday, May 17, the Minnesota Legislature adjourned from their 2021 Regular Session.  This session, your NRA-ILA constantly monitored over 50 pro-and anti-gun measures.  Thanks to contact from NRA Members and Second Amendment supporters, we were able to prevent multiple anti-gun measures from being passed this session, including: HF 694 /SF 894 would have

[ad_1] Yesterday, Emergency Powers Legislation, Senate Bill 136, was passed out of the Senate Community and Regional Affairs Committee.  The measure is expected to be considered by one more committee before floor action.  Please contact your Senator and ask them to SUPPORT Senate Bill 136.  Senate Bill 136, sponsored by Sen. Myers, and co-sponsored by seven other

[ad_1] Texas Legislature Adjourns on May 31st With twelve days left in session, House and Senate conferees have not issued a conference report resolving their differences on House Bill 1927 for their respective legislative chambers to take a final vote on.  This is the time when massive horsetrading is taking place and bills like HB 1927 become leverage to break logjams on other unrelated legislation. 

[ad_1] Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro (D-6) used an emergency measure to revive the gun free zone expansion language that was amended out of Assembly Bill 286 earlier this session as a new bill: Senate Bill 452. With less than two weeks remaining in the 2021 legislative session, expect this bill to move quickly.

[ad_1] Constitutional attorney Royal Alexander talks about the Supreme Court ruling earlier this week, a decision that upheld both privacy and gun rights. The Court ruled unanimously Monday that police seizing a Rhode Island man’s firearms was illegal and in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights. “This, to me, is the the court reasserting its

[ad_1] NRA member and country superstar Alan Jackson just released his first album of all new music in six years! Where Have You Gone is Jackson’s 16th studio album and includes 21 new tracks. You can purchase the album at https://strm.to/AJWhereHaveYouGone. If you prefer to stream your music, you can find the album here https://strm.to/AJWhereHaveYouGone. Jackson – a member of both

[ad_1] They consistently allow acquisitive mega-corporations to become even more mega. Facebook bought Instagram. Google bought YouTube. Disney seemingly owns every valuable intellectual property under the sun, from Marvel’s galaxy of superheroes to the stormtroopers and Jedi knights of Star Wars, and Amazon is on pace to own what’s left. But they also prohibit smaller

[ad_1] Tomorrow, May 19, the Maine Senate will vote on an anti-gun measure, Legislative Document 805, that would allow municipalities to impose a gun-free zone on polling locations across Maine.  This measure may move to the House for a floor vote as well.  Please contact your Senator and Representative and ask them to OPPOSE LD

[ad_1] Today, the Colorado House and Senate exchanged multiple anti-gun bills.  Senate Bill 256, House Bill 1298 and House Bill 1299 will now be considered by the chamber opposite their origin.  Please contact your State Lawmakers and ask them to OPPOSE these anti-gun measures. House Bill 1298 allows for the indefinite delay of firearm transfers. Current state law

[ad_1] After it was slapped with a lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general alleging fraud and abuse, the National Rifle Association filed for bankruptcy in federal court in Dallas in a bid to reorganize and move to Texas. It was a brazen effort to try to evade New York officials enforcing the laws

[ad_1] By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court has placed itself back on the frontlines of the U.S. culture wars by taking up major cases on abortion and guns, with rights cherished by millions of Americans – and potentially the future of the nation’s top judicial body itself – on

[ad_1] The U.S. corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in occupied Palestine as if the United States is an innocent neutral party to the conflict. In fact, large majorities of Americans have told pollsters for decades that they want the United States to be neutral in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But U.S. media and

[ad_1] LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – Democrats have been unsuccessfully trying to expand the state’s limited gun background check law since 2016, and they announced today they are not giving up. WLNS’ Tim Skubick says this is a fight between the Democrats and the National Rifle Association (NRA.) The Democrats contend that 90% of citizens want

[ad_1] Today, Governor Henry McMaster signed House Bill 3094 into law. This bill allows citizens who hold a Concealed Weapons Permit (CWP) to carry a handgun in the manner they choose, whether openly or concealed. In addition, it also eliminates the $50 application fee for a CWP. This law takes effect in 90 days. NRA

[ad_1] With a lengthy waiting period, an ever-expanding semi-auto ban, a shrinking handgun roster, and broken background checks on ammunition purchases, California is scraping the constitutional floor with their gun control. In fact, with NRA-backed NYSRPA v. Corlett before the U.S. Supreme Court, we may soon discover that many California jurisdictions’ administration of the state License to Carry statute is well below

[ad_1] On Tuesday, May 18, the Senate Consumer Protection Committee will be meeting online at 10 a.m. and will discuss S.1048A by Sen. Zellnor Myrie.  This ill-conceived legislation contends that illegal use of firearms is a public nuisance and attempts to hold manufacturers responsible.  Rather than hold criminals accountable, anti-gun Democrat legislators are looking to

[ad_1] On April 21st, your NRA-ILA announced that we will be spending at least $2 Million in the fight against Federal Gun Control. As part of this concentrated effort to fight Biden’s Gun Control Agenda, your Grassroots team has been traveling around the country to educate our members and supporters on not only the importance of being

[ad_1] In the run-up to the 2020 election, most of the Democratic candidates were united in pushing for a national “gun buyback” program. Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted, “The federal government must ban assault weapons and implement a buyback program to get assault weapons off the streets.” Candidate and now Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned on

[ad_1] Based on hard, empirical data, the vast majority of Americans have no idea who Samantha Bee is. She has a “comedy” show on basic cable, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, but hardly anybody really watches it. Her ratings tend to be pretty low, with what could generously be described as a niche audience of

[ad_1] The researchers behind The Violence Project mass shooting database launched the next phase of their work on Friday, May 14th. The Off-Ramp Project is a set of resources designed to help prevent mass shootings by getting people in crisis the help they need. Criminologist James Densley and psychologist Jill Peterson begin with an insightful

[ad_1] NRA has often lamented about how the legacy media long-ago abandoned any semblance of neutrality when it comes to the issue of gun control. Most people expect “news” coverage to simply report the facts related to the events of the day—including events related to public policy discussions—then let the public decide what those facts

[ad_1] In a blunt opinion piece from the Washington Post editorial board, the National Rifle Association was scorched for decades of corruption and self-dealing, saying that gun advocacy group is finally facing a “reckoning.” With a federal judge tossing out the NRA’s bankruptcy case after “finding that the nation’s largest gun rights groups had filed

[ad_1] Photo of old book courtesy shutterstock By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Monday, May 10, the 130th day of 2021. There are 235 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven in Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the