[ad_1] Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., center, holds a news conference to announce a bipartisan update to the Violence Against Women Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. He is joined by, from left, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Sen.

[ad_1] On Friday, the House Judiciary Committee will hear Senate Bill 115, to enhance Utah’s firearm preemption law. The hearing will have an option to participate by video conference. To view the agenda and find information on participating, click here. Please contact committee members and ask them to SUPPORT SB 115. Senate Bill 115 1st Substitute

[ad_1] Yesterday, the San Jose City Council adopted File 22-138 in a final vote, to require gun owners to pay an annual tax and purchase liability insurance. It will go into effect in August. File 22-138, the amended ordinance, requires gun owners to pay an annual fee and have liability insurance coverage for firearm-related “death, injury,

[ad_1] “I think we can almost let out a sigh of relief,” said Republican Sen. Joni Ernst, a survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault who is a sponsor of the bill. “We need to get this over the finish line and we will.” The deal came after a controversial provision was dropped from the

[ad_1] SUNNYVALE — Former Mayor Anthony Spitaleri will fill the empty council seat vacated last year by Councilmember Mason Fong. In November, Fong resigned from his at-large council seat to take a job as Gov. Gavin Newsom’s deputy director for external affairs for northern California. Spitaleri, who was on the council from 2005 to 2014,

[ad_1] Maryland State Police have released the state crime statistics from 2021, and unsurprisingly, homicides and shootings have continued to follow an upward trend since 2013. This is despite former Governor, and brief presidential candidate, Martin O’Malley’s so-called “Firearm Safety Act” (FSA), which passed and was signed into law in 2013, and other anti-gun laws

[ad_1] Current law requires Ohioans to undergo eight hours of training and a background check to obtain a CCW permit. COLUMBUS, Ohio — Editor’s note: The above video originally aired Oct. 30, 2021. The state House is teeing up a final passage vote on legislation to remove training and background check requirements to carry a

[ad_1] The Solicitor General of Virginia, Andrew Ferguson, of the office of Attorney General Jason Miyares, stated in a letter to the U.S. Supreme Court that the Commonwealth of Virginia now supports the right to keep and bear arms outside the home in the NRA-backed NYSRPA v. Bruen case. Previous Attorney General, Mark Herring, had

[ad_1] Yesterday, the House General Laws committee voted to pass House Bills 1462 and 1660, to ensure law-abiding citizens may carry firearms for self-defense on public transit. They will now go to the House Rules-Legislative Oversight Committee for further consideration. House Bill 1462 and House Bill 1660 remove the prohibition on law-abiding citizens carrying firearms for self-defense on

[ad_1] Yesterday, the Senate State Affairs Committee passed Emergency Powers legislation, Senate Bill 1262.  The measure now heads to the Senate Floor where it could receive a vote by the end of the week. Please contact your State Senator and ask them to SUPPORT Senate Bill 1262. Senate Bill 1262 provides protections for gun stores, ranges, or any

[ad_1] Until very recently, “book bans” seemed like a term out of the past, or a phenomenon that erupted sporadically in a small school or library district in the most conservative areas of the country. But over the last several years, parents’ groups aggrieved by the left’s alleged influence K-12 education have been working tirelessly

[ad_1] Exclusive: NJ Gov. Murphy on gun legislation, criminal justice reform Fresh off inauguration for his second term in office, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy talks with the USA TODAY Network about what lies ahead. Ed Forbes and Michael V. Pettigano, NorthJersey.com Amid a sharp increase in gun violence during the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Phil Murphy

[ad_1] Today, the Ohio House Government Oversight Committee will hold a fourth hearing and vote on House Bill 325, to guarantee that Second Amendment rights remain protected during emergencies. Please contact committee members and ask them to SUPPORT HB 325. House Bill 325 declares firearm possession, transportation, carrying, commerce, training range access, as well as hunting

[ad_1] 2/11/22 Thursday SF Rally At SF Japanese Consulate! No More Fukushimas! Stop Restartinng NUKES in Japan 99th Action of NNA Committee Thursday February 11, 2021 3:00 PM San Francisco Japanese Consulate 275 Battery St/California St. San Francisco Sponsored by No Nukes Action Despite the fact that the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdowns still has not

[ad_1] Today, the Washington Senate amended an already extreme magazine ban bill to limit magazine capacity in the state to 10 rounds.  This measure is expected receive a vote ​at any time. Please contact your State Senator and ask them to STRONGLY OPPOSE Senate Bill 5078. Senate Bill 5078, bans the manufacture, possession, sale, transfer, etc., of magazines that “are

[ad_1] Liberal Bronx Democratic state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi — a champion of “defunding” the police, who once called cops “soulless” — is running for Congress in a new gerrymandered third congressional district that takes in the leafy suburbs of Long Island, Queens, Westchester and parts of the Bronx. Biaggi’s anti-police funding tweets — many of

[ad_1] Tomorrow, the House Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs will hear House Bill 2075, to make changes to Hawaii’s pistol permitting and registration system in an effort to comply with the recent Yukutake v. Connors court case decision. This is the companion to Senate Bill 3043, which was deferred in committee last week. The hearing will be held

[ad_1] For years, Fred Culp cast his vote for President without difficulty—until Republicans in North Carolina pushed through voter ID restrictions in 2013. Culp, who is Black, was born in South Carolina on the eve of World War II. He grew up during a time when Black people could enter white restaurants only through side

[ad_1] Tomorrow, the House Public and Behavioral Health and Human Services Committee is scheduled to consider Constitutional Carry legislation, House Bill 22-1033.  Please contact committee members and ask them to SUPPORT this important self-defense measure. HB22-1033 allows any law-abiding adult who is legally eligible to obtain a carry permit, to carry a handgun without first

[ad_1] Last Friday, NRA-ILA filed an amicus curiae (or friend of the court) brief in support of a petition to have the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rehear a challenge to ATF’s 2018 rule that classified bump stocks as machineguns. A three judge panel of the Fifth Circuit upheld ATF’s rule in December, and this

[ad_1] Due to the coded legalization of racial discrimination and the nefariousness of coded polarization of Black Americans, the backlash is America’s labor shortage. Labor is just another step in the process of excluding and eliminating Blacks from mainstream society. The first step stated in November of 1865 in Mississippi with a law that kept

[ad_1] On Tuesday, February 8th, the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee is scheduled to consider pro-gun legislation, Senate Bill 338. Please contact committee members and ask them to SUPPORT Senate Bill 338. Senate Bill 338, sponsored by Senator Michael Hough, allows an applicant to obtain preliminary approval for a wear and carry permit before obtaining the required

[ad_1] Mexico has long had the unfortunate reputation of being a violent country where drug cartels operate with seeming impunity. The country’s homicide rate has reached stratospheric levels, and shows little evidence of slowing down. In 1990, murders in Mexico occurred at a rate of roughly 17 per 100K of the population. An unsettling number,

[ad_1] The House select committee’s investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is ramping up roughly seven months after the panel was formed. The committee, which is composed of seven Democrats and two Republicans, has subpoenaed at least 82 people and organizations thus far as part of its probe into the facts, circumstances