[ad_1] Here’s what you need to know: President Biden held his first news conference in the East Room of the White House on Thursday.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times President Biden said on Thursday that Republican efforts to limit voting rights were “sick” and “un-American,” vowing to prevent states from taking what he called “despicable” actions
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[ad_1] House Bill 2840 will be eligible for Senate floor action as soon as next week. Please contact your state senator and ask them to 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 that parents are able to
[ad_1] The NRA-ILA released a statement Wednesday urging the Alabama House of Representatives to lower the fee on the sale of lifetime concealed carry permits from $500 to $200. The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislation Action supports House Bill 477 creating the lifetime concealed carry permits, but opposes the raising of the fee from
[ad_1] Earlier this week, the Legislature passed two pro-gun bills and will soon be sending them to Governor Kim Reynolds for her signature. Please contact Gov. Reynolds and ask her to sign House File 621 and House File 756. House File 621 protects firearm dealers, manufacturers, distributors, etc., from frivolous lawsuits for the criminal or
[ad_1] Ted Cruz just had another one of his many childish tantrums, this time over the indignity of having to care if the Americans he was elected to govern live or die. The bodies of the ten shot dead by a gunman on Monday in Boulder, Colorado were hardly cold, yet Cruz was far more concerned about the tender
[ad_1] On Monday, the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee will consider gun safety legislation, Substitute House Bill 2089. Please click the “Take Action” button below to voice your support to this important firearm safety legislation. Substitute House Bill 2089 directs the state Board of Education to establish grade-appropriate curricula guidelines to teach firearm safety to K-12
[ad_1] Yesterday, Governor Laura Kelly signed Emergency Powers Legislation, Senate Bill 40, into law. Having passed the legislature with strong bipartisan support, the measure goes into effect immediately. Thank you to NRA Members and Second Amendment supporters who contacted their lawmakers in support of this important legislation. Senate Bill 40 provides protections for gun stores, ranges,
[ad_1] The Joint Committee on Government Administration and Elections is scheduled to consider legislation that would impose a gun free zone on all polling locations in Connecticut. Senate Bill 5 is scheduled to be considered tomorrow, and committee members need to hear from you! Senate Bill 5 creates a new, state level prohibition by prohibiting possession of a
[ad_1] The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that state governments can restrict people from openly carrying guns in public, effectively ending a person’s right to bear arms outside of their home. The court issued an en banc opinion in the case of Young vs. Hawaii over a lawsuit by a Hawaiian resident who
[ad_1] Ava decided to write to Tyshaun when she saw her mother cry after reading Cox’s story about him in The Post. Cox follows the children’s relationship as they FaceTime, bombarding each other with heart emojis, sending gifts (including stress toys), and commiserating and comforting each other as they open up about their “bad weeks.”
[ad_1] While President Biden considers a gamut of executive and legislative actions on gun control in the wake of two mass shootings, the federal agency tasked with enforcing existing gun laws remains without a permanent leader and hobbled by restrictions on its enforcement power. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or A.T.F., has
[ad_1] In the wake of a mass shooting in Boulder, Colo., Cruz says legislation he offered in 2013 could have prevented one of the deadliest such events in U.S. history, except Democrats “filibustered it, demanded 60 votes.” The claim is highly misleading. The man who committed the 2017 mass shooting in a Texas church, killing
[ad_1] BOULDER, Colo. — Law enforcement officials and former associates of a 21-year-old man accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket have described the suspect as prone to sudden rage — and disclosed that he was suspended from high school several years ago for a sudden attack on a classmate that left the
[ad_1] Colorado has been enacting gun control laws at a rapid clip for years, and yet none of those restrictions was able to prevent Monday’s horrific attack at a Boulder grocery store. Gun-rights supporters say that disconnect ought to give federal and state lawmakers pause as they ramp up calls for tougher firearms regulations in
[ad_1] In the ten years since the federal assault weapons ban expired, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has kept trying to renew the law, which she authored. In a press release this month honoring the 20th anniversary of the ban, she wrote, “The evidence is clear: the ban worked.” But gun violence experts say the exact
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[ad_1] From Hartmann Report American mass murders are a remnant of our slave patrols; RBG was right that Heller was wrongly decided and needs to be overturned
Another mass gun murder just happened in America, the seventh in seven days, and already “Second Amendment legislators” are offering the 2021 version of
[ad_1] CLOSE Ten people were killed, including a police officer, in a shooting at King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado. USA TODAY WASHINGTON – A series of high-profile mass shootings that have left communities grieving is renewing the country’s fierce debates over the place of firearms in American society and the merits of gun control. In less
[ad_1] Firearms Advocacy groups say that the AR-15 rifle is the most popular firearm in America, with an estimated 10 million versions of the original ArmaLite design now in civilian hands (Image courtesy of the National Rifle Association). WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the wake of the mass shooting that claimed 10 lives Monday in Colorado,
[ad_1] Originally published on August 3, 2012at: https://duluthreader.com/articles/2012/08/03/100731-what-were-the-brain-altering-psych-drugs-that-the The most recent episode in the peculiarly American epidemic of mass shootings happened yesterday, March 22, 2021, in Boulder, Colorado. Everybody knows the bare details as broadcast on the mainstream media and most people are expecting the seemingly inevitable – and illogical – revenge/retaliations against Middle Eastern
[ad_1] The shooter’s brother said he was ‘very anti-social’, ‘paranoid’ and thought that people were trying to kill him in high school. He is shown in social media photos from his Facebook page that has now been taken down. His brother also said he was bullied as a teenager Boulder grocery store shooter Ahmad Alissa
[ad_1] Written by Reid J. Epstein Hundreds of miles apart but at exactly the same time on Monday afternoon, a gunman opened fire in a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, and Iowa state Senate Republicans voted to gut the state’s law requiring permits to carry concealed weapons. The bill’s sponsor expressed relief that Iowans would be
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — With Congress unlikely to move quickly on gun legislation, the White House is pressing ahead with plans for a series of executive orders that President Biden expects to roll out in the coming weeks as a way of keeping up pressure on the issue. A day after Mr. Biden called on the
[ad_1] In the aftermath of the deadly mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., in 2018, cities across the country began passing their own gun control laws when state and federal governments failed to act. The city of Boulder, Colo., was one of them, unanimously adopting a wide-ranging ban on the sale and
[ad_1] With Daniel Lippman FIRST IN PI — BALLARD ADDS TOP WALSH AIDE: Eugene O’Flaherty, most recently corporation counsel for the city of Boston and a top aide to now-Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, has joined Ballard Partners as a partner as the firm looks to expand its congressional practice and ties to the new administration,
[ad_1] This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it Tuesdays and Thursdays. On an average day in the United States, more than 100 people are killed by guns. Whenever the fact of this ambient crisis rises back to the surface of national consciousness, as it has this
[ad_1] NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are both pushing for Congress to pass stricter gun laws, including an assault weapons ban. But getting any new gun legislation through an evenly divided Senate appears unlikely, CBS2’s Carolyn Gusoff reported Wednesday. “We are seeing tragedy after tragedy,” Harris said on
[ad_1] Sign up for our PoliticsNY newsletter for the latest coverage and to stay informed about the 2021 elections in your district and across NYC U.S. President Joe Biden urged Congress to swiftly pass gun control laws and may take action on his own to stop mass violence, the White House said on Tuesday, a
[ad_1] The Senate Judiciary has approved anti-self-defense legislation, Senate Bill 554. The measure now heads to the Senate floor for a full chamber vote. The measure is expected to receive a vote as early as tomorrow, and your State Senator needs to hear from you now! Senate Bill 554 will create new “gun-free zones” by giving authority
[ad_1] This past week and weekend, Governor Kristi Noem signed multiple pro-gun and self-defense bills into law. These important measures work to further strengthen and protect the Second Amendment right to self-defense in the Mount Rushmore State. Those measures enacted are outlined below: Senate Bill 100 provides protections for gun stores, ranges, or any other entity that engages in