[ad_1] Anti-gun politicians in Trenton will have their opportunity this week to lash out against New Jersey gun owners who secured a major victory last week in the United States Supreme Court. Concealed carry, which for decades has been denied to Garden State gun owners, was reaffirmed as the “law of the land” last week.
Month: June 2022
[ad_1] Rep. Boebert Wins Colorado Republican US House Primary 10:09 p.m. ET Trump-backed Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) easily blasted past her challenger, a veteran state lawmaker, to win the Republican primary on June 28. By 9:57 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Boebert had corralled more than 63 percent of the vote with 60 percent of precincts reporting. The
[ad_1] Oklahoma Republicans will sort through 10 candidates to select a candidate to run for U.S. Senator, two Mississippi GOP congressional incumbents face runoffs, and controversial Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) is being challenged by a party rival in her first re-election campaign. Those races are among the dozens of local, state, and congressional races
[ad_1] OXFORD, Ga. — Oxford City Council has approved a resolution that seeks to “improve” recent state and federal laws regarding firearms “without infringing on constitutional rights to bear arms” in reaction to recent mass shootings in Texas and New York state. The resolution stated that Oxford’s mayor and city council support state and federal
[ad_1] The Second Amendment has been the ongoing excuse for allowing private citizens to own military-style assault weapons. The conservative Supreme Court justices who are strict constitutionalists must know that when it was adopted in 1791, the Second Amendment covered only knives, muskets, long rifles, flintlock pistols and the like. Following the latest slaughter of
[ad_1] New Jersey’s acting Attorney General, Matthew J. Platkin, issued a directive “clarifying requirements for carrying firearms in public” a day after the historic ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assoc. v. Bruen on June 23. That ruling struck down as unconstitutional the handgun permitting regime in neighboring
[ad_1] I don’t know about anyone else, but this Marylander always felt a tad safer knowing that my fellow citizens could not walk around with handguns unless the State Police said it was OK. To get a permit to wear and carry one into the street, a Marylander had to have good reason. That is
[ad_1] “Typically American” has taken on a menacing tone in the wake of gun violence since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. Mass shootings happen every day and seem to be as American as apple pie. Wikipedia defines a “mass shooting” as an incident in which four people are shot. Between June 1 and
[ad_1] The House and Senate both passed a new bipartisan gun safety law, and while it was signed by the president and supported by two branches of government, there’s a fear that the Supreme Court will attempt to overrule the law. A Slate report expressed the concern on Monday after President Joe Biden signed the
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — The booing didn’t bother him. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, who was viciously jeered by hundreds of Texas Republicans at the party convention in Houston this month, said he had an inkling that might happen given his high-profile role negotiating the Senate’s bipartisan gun legislation. But the visceral intraparty criticism didn’t affect the
[ad_1] Last week, the United States Supreme Court handed down a huge victory for gun owners, confirming what has been known all along: that the 2nd Amendment is not a second class right and should not be treated as such. However, the California legislature is continuing their quest to completely undermine this inherent right to
[ad_1] Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Consequences for justiceswho deceived Congress Thomas Jefferson, in his letter to the Baptist Association, referred to the First Amendment as erecting a wall between church and state. The Supreme Court now thinks otherwise. There must be repercussions for one
[ad_1] This article was paid for by Raw Story subscribers. Not a subscriber? Try us and go ad-free for $1. Prefer to give a one-time tip? Click here. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chris Murphy may still look like a kid, but he doesn’t legislate like a sophomore these days. In 2006, he was first sent to
[ad_1] TALLAHASSEE — As they battle over a 2018 Florida law that raised the minimum age from 18 to 21 to buy rifles and other long guns, attorneys for the state and the National Rifle Association are trying to use a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling to bolster their arguments. The Supreme Court on Thursday
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — Sen. John Cornyn on Monday downplayed conservative criticism of the gun violence package he helped shepherd into law and defended the final product as evidence Congress can still come together behind bipartisan compromise to address pressing issues. Cornyn recounted being disappointed but hardly shocked at the raucous jeering that greeted his address
[ad_1] June 27, 2022 – Sacramento, CA – Senate Bills 906 and 1327 – two gun safety and reform measures – passed the Assembly Appropriations Committee last week. SB 906, authored by Senator Anthony J. Portantino (D – La Cañada Flintridge), prioritizes student and campus safety by promoting safe at-home storage of firearms and robust investigations
[ad_1] And the announcement comes four days after House Minority Leader Blake A. Filippi, a Block Island Republican, announced he will not seek re-election this year. “It is with a heavy heart that after nearly three decades in the state Senate I am deciding not to seek re-election to an institution that I deeply admire
[ad_1] Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) is seeking reelection this year and is running against two other Republicans for the primary. Six Democrats hope to win the candidacy, while one Libertarian and one Independent will be on the ballot in November. James Lankford (R) James Lankford was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2014, and he
[ad_1] On raising age for gun I’m writing this because people want to have laws to stop 18-year-old people from buying a weapon. If that is what the people and government of our nation want, then let’s stop taking 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds into the military and handing them guns to shoot, showing them how
[ad_1] click to enlarge Eric Greitens and a paramilitary goon squad prepare to break into an empty house in Greitens latest campaign ad. Can we please have a round of applause for disgraced ex-Governor Eric Greitens? Give a predator credit where credit is due. Missouri’s most famous violent abuser of women and children just pulled
[ad_1] There is a common thread between the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde, Texas, and Laguna Beach, California, the January 6 insurrection, everyday police lethality, and the overturning of Roe v Wade. Add to this list the critical race theory and queer American discussion bans in public schools across the country. It is the
[ad_1] Firearm-related deaths in the U.S. reached a new peak across age groups and surpassed motor vehicle accidents as the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in 2020, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and as noted in a May letter to the editor of the New
[ad_1] The latest bill could be the most important one passed in the country since 1993 Exactly a month after the incident in Texas where a gunman entered a school and shot 21 people, including 19 children, U.S. President Joe Biden signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed
[ad_1] Rewrite the past Sir — Witch-hunts resulted in the trial, torture and execution of thousands of women — although it was mostly the poor, the vulnerable and the social outcasts who were targeted. Women who did not conform to social norms were branded witches out of deep-rooted misogyny. It is thus encouraging that Scotland
[ad_1] Gun owners in Massachusetts with restricted licenses to carry will need to wait for laws — and attitudes — to change before they begin carrying concealed firearms in line with the expanded rights handed down last week by the Supreme Court, according to the leader of a local gun rights group. “As soon as
[ad_1] Senate Republicans handed President Biden a huge win with the nation’s first new federal gun-control law in decades, but the bipartisan deal and its tighter restrictions on firearms remain hugely unpopular across much of the GOP. Former President Donald Trump decried the new gun laws as an authoritarian assault on Second Amendment rights. He
[ad_1] Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) announced he will retire in November, and now 16 candidates are vying for his seat in the Senate. Inhofe, 87, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1986 and eventually won the vacant Senate seat from Democrat David Boren in 1994. Inhofe’s resignation sparked a special election this
[ad_1] “Today’s
ruling is a watershed win for good men and women all across America and is the
result of a decades-long fight the NRA has led.” This was the official
statement from long time NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre. He was so happy he couldn’t see
straight after the SCOTUS in a sweeping decision on
[ad_1] Biden signs gun legislation, says ‘it’s going to save a lot of lives’ The new legislation enhances background checks on young gun buyers, and encourages states to develop more and better “red flag” laws. Anastasiia Riddle, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – Proclaiming that “lives will be saved,” President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan gun bill Saturday designed to keep weapons
[ad_1] Palm Beach Post Editorial Board | Palm Beach Post If U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott can’t bring themselves to support even a watered-down, bipartisan first step toward easing gun violence amid a contagion of shootings nationwide, it’s time for Florida voters to find senators who will. Following the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in
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