[ad_1] WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives approved a spending package that includes legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Mike Bost (IL-12) to protect veterans from losing their Second Amendment rights without due process. Bost’s proposal, which restricts the Department of Veterans Affairs’ from automatically submitting veterans’ names for background checks when they need

[ad_1] OPINION A tenderpreneur’s lament Andrew Donaldson | 06 March 2024 Andrew Donaldson on Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu’s allegations against Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula A FAMOUS GROUSE STRANGE as it may seem, but Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s current spot of bother reminds me of Charles Dickens’s boundlessly optimistic character, Wilkins Micawber. Perhaps this is due to an apparently routine matter of balancing household expenses

[ad_1] COLUMBIA — A bill allowing adults to legally carry handguns without a permit while increasing penalties for felons illegally toting is heading to Gov. Henry McMaster’s desk. The governor is expected to quickly sign it into law, as he’s been demanding that legislators send him the so-called felon-in-possession piece of it as a way

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — The top advocate for the gun industry in Washington is spending more than ever to influence the federal government. The group accuses President Joe Biden of waging war on the Second Amendment. It resists any effort to create universal background checks and argues that attempts to crack down on untraceable “ghost guns” are

[ad_1] What do unions do? Theda Skocpol and Lainey Newman argue in their new book Rust Belt Union Blues — Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away From the Democratic Party that an overlooked aspect of being in a union is the identity and personal meaning that unions provide. Unions, as Skocpol and Newman view it,

[ad_1] CNN  —  Former President Donald Trump, now the presumptive Republican nominee, has made a number of promises on the campaign trail, including rolling back car pollution rules, building 10 new cities and appointing a special prosecutor to investigate President Joe Biden and his family. While some of Trump’s plans are lacking in detail, here are

[ad_1] AUSTIN (Nester) — Rep. Stan Gerdes and Tom Glass are battling to be House District 17’s GOP nominee.  The race involves Bastrop, Burleson, Caldwell, Lee and Milam counties but, like many races for state representative, it reflects an ongoing rivalry in Austin. Click here for election results Gerdes, who is backed by Gov. Greg

[ad_1] (The Center Square) – Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and Attorney General Josh Stein will face off for governor of North Carolina in the general election this fall. Respective primaries were called less than 45 minutes after polls closed. Robinson won the Republican primary on Tuesday and Stein prevailed among the Democrats. Neither was a

[ad_1] Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina won the state’s Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, according to preliminary results from the Associated Press. Robinson, the first African American to hold his current office, has attracted attention for his statements and staunch support of Second Amendment rights. On Tuesday, he won the Republican gubernatorial nomination for

[ad_1] RICHMOND — An angry Walmart employee in Chesapeake purchased a gun Nov. 22, 2022. Hours later, six of his co-workers were dead. Only a few months later, a 6-year-old student in Newport News brought his mother’s firearm to school and shot his teacher. In December, a 2-year-old girl in Hampton died after she accessed a

[ad_1] We wouldn’t want the week to go by without a word of congratulations to the National Rifle Association, one of America’s most venerable and distinguished civil rights organizations. The worst of the legal onslaught launched by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Letitia James has passed. Despite their best efforts to close the doors

[ad_1] America’s oldest gun manufacturer, Remington, is officially closing its plant in New York this month and moving to Georgia after more than 200 years in the Empire State. America’s oldest gun manufacturer, Remington, is officially closing its plant in New York this month and moving to Georgia after more than 200 years in the

[ad_1] An interesting summary of the historical background to this pending Supreme Court case (in which I’m Counsel of Record, and which the ACLU’s Legal Director, David Cole, will be arguing on March 18), by the ACLU’s Jennesa Calvo-Friedman: More than 60 years ago the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment bars the government

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[ad_1] I am a lifelong outdoorsman, strong supporter of the Second Amendment and serial exerciser of my Second Amendment right. I chair the Senate Fish, Game and Forestry Committee that has jurisdiction over hunting, fishing and forestry laws in South Carolina. I authored the constitutional amendment guaranteeing South Carolinians’ right to hunt and fish, am

[ad_1] The South Dakota Legislature’s main run has hit its final week, with lawmakers facing major decisions ranging from finalizing the budget to addressing prison construction and a controversial pipeline measure. District 18 Sen. Jean Hunhoff (R-Yankton) and Reps. Mike Stevens (R-Yankton) and Julie Auch (R-Lesterville) appeared at Saturday’s final Cracker Barrel of the session.

[ad_1] Maria Isa at a 2022 event (photo by Sarah Whiting) UPDATED March 12: The House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee heard a bill co-authored by Representative Maria Isa Perez-Vega (DFL-65B), representative of District 66B, to enable local governmental units around the state to restrict or prohibit the possession of dangerous weapons on public

[ad_1] It’s concerning when we have folks seeking to restrict our Second Amendment rights. Maybe even more so when we see how ignorant the people in power who are looking at these issues are about guns.  I wrote last week about how Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson somehow thought that bump stocks would make

[ad_1] Karina Gonzalez, 48, and her 15-year-old daughter were fatally shot by her husband, Jose Alvarez, in their Little Village home on July 3, 2023. Before she was killed, Gonzalez had obtained a civil order of protection against her husband, which required law enforcement to remove his Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) card. But he never

[ad_1] Good morning. I’m Samantha Young, a reporter at KFF Health News who covers health-care politics and policy in California, including the impact of gun violence. Please send tips and story ideas to syoung@kff.org. Not a subscriber? Sign up here. Today’s edition: Congress released six funding bills ahead of Friday’s shutdown deadline. A popular Obamacare

[ad_1] MARION, Ill. — The day after former President Donald Trump endorsed his congressional opponent, a scorned Darren Bailey who had deeply coveted Trump’s backing took to Facebook to deliver another of his near-daily video devotionals to supporters. “I am so confident of victory because I believe that you know that you’re not going to

[ad_1] A parallel exists between Wayne La Pierre, former leader of the National Rifle Association, and Clarence Thomas, a Supreme Court justice. Both men have damaged public trust in their respective institutions. As a gun owner and hunter, I have watched over the last few decades as the NRA increasingly polarized its membership via publications,

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[ad_1] The Florida House passed legislation on Friday to lower the legal firearm purchase age from 21 to 18 years. The NRA-ILA reported that the bill, HB 1223, passed the House by a vote of 76-35. It was legal to buy a long gun in Florida at age 18 until shortly after the February 14, 2018, Parkland

[ad_1] Russell Phipps Russell A. Phipps of Hopkinton, a 102-year-old World War II veteran, passed away peacefully on Feb. 25 at The Residence of Valley Farm, a premium senior living facility in Ashland. He was surrounded by his two children and very close hospice workers.  He was husband to his beloved wife, Doris, for 71