[ad_1] SACRAMENTO (CBSLA/AP) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Thursday that the state will appeal a recent ruling by a federal judge which overturned the state’s decades-long assault weapons ban. A California-legal featureless AR-15 style rifle is displayed for sale at a booth at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show at the Orange
Month: June 2021
[ad_1] Late Tuesday, the Colorado General Assembly adjourned from its 2021 Regular Session. This adjournment came after multiple anti-gun bills were sent to the desk of Governor Jared Polis for his consideration. NRA Members and Second Amendment supporters are encouraged to continue contacting Governor Polis urging him to VETO Senate Bill 256, House Bill 1298
[ad_1] Yesterday, The Connecticut General Assembly adjourned from its 2021 Regular Session. This year, NRA Members and Second Amendment supporters worked hard to contact their legislators in opposition to multiple anti-gun measures, preventing many from advancing. Unfortunately, House Bill 6355 was passed and is now sitting on the desk of Governor Ned Lamont. Please contact
[ad_1] Yesterday, Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) opposing the recently proposed rule: Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached “Stabilizing Braces”. On June 7th, ATF published a new notice of this proposed rulemaking on its website. The rule
[ad_1] Written by John Cole, Managing Editor and PoliticsPA Staff The special election date is announced for the state House’s 113th District, while two state Senators were sworn-in to office on Wednesday. Here is the Playbook. HD113: Special Election Set For November 2: The special election is to fill the open state House seat
[ad_1] These are discouraging times for Californians who advocate for gun control laws. Nine days after San Jose endured the worst mass shooting in Bay Area history, federal Judge Roger T. Benitez of San Diego threw out California’s 30-year-old law banning assault-style weapons. It was bad enough that Benitez nonsensically likened an AR-15 rifle to
[ad_1] Congressman Mo Brooks, R-Alabama, on Tuesday spoke to the Fayette County Republican Party at their regular monthly meeting at the Fayette County Civic Center. Brooks is a candidate for U.S. Senate. “I am an eyewitness to the events that are going on,” Brooks said. “I report things to you as they happened without the
[ad_1] As election returns started rolling in from the Democratic primary Tuesday, Republicans started boasting about having the most diverse statewide ticket in Virginia history. Although Democrats nominated a candidate for lieutenant governor who describes herself as an “Afro Latina, Lebanese, Irish woman,” Republicans can boast they have a ticket that has candidates from Northern
[ad_1] Gun. (File Photo: IANS) By Shivaji Sengupta Greek statues, with bullet-holes for eyesBlinded as Eros, with surprise,Lover and loved…(Lawrence Durrell) Yes, it has happened again and again and again…This time in Santa Clara, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Nine people were killed by a disgruntled worker of the Valley Transportation Authority. One
[ad_1] Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Push is on to burystate’s power lines We have become complacent in watching our world fall apart and allowing politicians to do the bare minimum or nothing at all to make a difference in the face of devastation. Fires
[ad_1] The federal judge who overturned California’s decades-old assault weapons ban last week opened his 94-page ruling with an eye-opening analogy. “Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment,” US District Judge Roger T. Benitez wrote. In another section, he downplayed the
[ad_1] Yesterday, the Maine House rejected two anti-gun measures, LD 976 and LD 999, as well as a pro-gun measure, LD 1052. Their report on these bills now heads to the Senate where they are able to bring the measures up for a vote. Please contact your State Senator and ask them to OPPOSE LDs 976
[ad_1] Yesterday, the Senate voted 30-19 to concur with the House on Senate Bill 43, to expand the ability of citizens to defend themselves and their loved ones while attending religious worship. It will now go to Governor Roy Cooper for his consideration. Please contact Gov. Cooper and ask him to sign SB 43. Senate
[ad_1] In April, a federal judge sided with NRA-ILA and Safari Club International and held that hunters’ use of traditional ammo does not violate federal environmental law. Late last month, this decision was appealed to the Ninth Circuit. This case has been ongoing since 2012, when a group sued the U.S. Forest Service alleging that
[ad_1] Post Views: 125 courtesy of Flickr-CCBYNCND2.0 The First Amendment and issues regarding gun control remain a prominent issue of debate in the United States, and the popularity of this issue has grown exponentially over the past decade. With the level of bipartisanship in the country, as exhibited by the stark contrast between the ideologies
[ad_1] In May, Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers that the Department of Justice’s civil rights work was “critical to protecting the American dream.” Since then DOJ has made clear that Garland’s selective definition of “civil rights” has no room for the Second Amendment or even basic due process under the law. Moreover, contrary to
[ad_1] On June 7th, ATF published a new notice of proposed rulemaking on its website entitled Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached “Stabilizing Braces”. The proposed rule has not yet been published in the Federal Register, and interested parties will have 90 days to comment on the proposed rule once it is published. The rule
[ad_1] In the right-wing media, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is among the extremists who is often portrayed as a victim of “cancel culture” — and Lindell’s critics are responding that given his willingness to promote outright lies and bogus conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election and his efforts to disenfranchise millions of Americans who
[ad_1] This session, the South Carolina General Assembly passed the strongest Second Amendment legislation in the last 25 years. Governor Henry McMaster signed it into law promptly. Unfortunately, those who are supposed to be working towards the common goal of protecting and advancing Second Amendment rights for law-abiding citizens are spreading lies against the lawmakers
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Let’s face it: right now, we Americans know something about dystopias, up close and personal. And here, I’m not just thinking of the almost 600,000 (or is it more than 900,000?) Americans we’ve lost to
[ad_1] Gun-rights groups and firearms manufacturers decried a rule proposed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) at the request of President Joe Biden that would deem most firearms with stabilizing pistol braces illegal, saying that millions of lawfully abiding gun owners would be affected. “It will be the largest gun registration, destruction,
[ad_1] ALBANY — The State Legislature on Tuesday passed a bill that supporters say will be the first law in the nation to allow firearms manufacturers and sellers to be sued for the use of their guns in crimes, ending their immunity from lawsuits under federal law in New York. The Legislature on Tuesday also
[ad_1] ALBANY — The State Legislature on Tuesday was poised to enact what supporters say will be the first law in the nation to allow firearms manufacturers and sellers to be sued for the use of their guns in crimes, ending their immunity from lawsuits under federal law in New York. The Legislature on Tuesday
[ad_1] I got some mail last week from the National Rifle Association. They wanted money. I would have been inclined to donate years ago, when I remembered the NRA as the sponsor of my gun safety classes when I was a kid. That was when the NRA advocated for the Second Amendment by emphasizing responsible
[ad_1] It was no secret President Joe Biden’s nominee to direct the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, David Chipman, supports a ban on commonly-owned semiautomatic firearms like the AR-15 and wants to force current “assault weapons” owners to register their firearms with the federal government through the National Firearms Act or forfeit their
[ad_1] Roger Benitez, a federal judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, ruled Friday that parts of the state’s 32-year ban on assault weapons are unconstitutional. The ruling followed a suit filed in 2019 against the state’s attorney general by three California residents and the San Diego County Gun Owners
[ad_1] Yesterday, Governor Steve Sisolak signed Assembly Bill 286 into law. AB 286 essentially bans home-building firearms for personal use by prohibiting private individuals from possessing certain unregulated components commonly used by hobbyists to make their own firearms. Existing law already bans prohibited persons, such as felons, from possessing any firearm, whether home-built or commercially produced. Rather than
[ad_1] There is likely an appealing candidate for just about every Republican voter out there in the 37th Assembly District. After all, there are eight people running in the primary for the July special election, set for June 15. Seeking to replace Watertown’s John Jagler in the position in the primary election are William Penterman,
[ad_1] John Paul Stevens, a justice of the Supreme Court from 1975 to 2010, wrote an interesting book, “Six Amendments” which included a study of the Second Amendment. To review a little background, on April 19, 1775, with the British troops marching toward Concord, Massachusetts, to take away the muskets from the troublesome colonists, the
[ad_1] by Jeff Gross, contributing writer The course of the Second Amendment at the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) just took another very positive turn for the better. There are now 4 cases involving the carrying of firearms in public. The 4th and latest is the Young vs State of Hawaii. This case will address the issues of
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