[ad_1] (BIVN) – The Hawaiʻi Police Department on Wednesday announced that it has revised the permitting process for a license to carry concealed and unconcealed firearms. The move comes as a result of the July 23, 2022, Supreme Court of the United States decision in the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association,

[ad_1] U.S. Senate candidate Pat Chesbro speaks at at Bartlett Club political forum event at the Anchorage Senior Center on August 11, 2022. (Marc Lester / ADN) I’m voting for Pat Chesbro for Alaska’s U.S. senator because I care about woman’s rights, the health of our planet and curbing gun violence. Pat Chesbro is 100%

[ad_1] By Jonathan Allen VANDERWHACKER MOUNTAIN WILD FOREST, N.Y. (Reuters) – Gunfire has long echoed in New York’s Adirondack Mountains. Children blast skeet from the sky after school and parents mingle and compete at the shooting range. In the fall, hunters in fluorescent orange fan through the forests, stalking deer. So June’s landmark ruling by

[ad_1] SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) -When Rick Knobe was Sioux Falls Mayor, high school students could still have their guns in a gun rack in the back of their pickup on school grounds. But, the world has changed greatly, and Knobe believes we should adapt for the safety of our neighbors and family.

[ad_1] Six candidates will face off in this summer’s Republican Party primary for Assembly District 6. The winner will gain the GOP nomination in the race to succeed Republican Gary Tauchen, 68, of Hartland, in Shawano County. Tauchen announced in January that he plans to retire when he completes this term. He won a four-way primary

[ad_1] WELCOME, Md. – A 16th week had passed with no arrest in the murder of Patrice Parker’s son, another week in which she had struggled through grief for him and fear for herself and her surviving daughters. It wasn’t just that the person who had turned a gun on 24-year-old Markelle Morrow was still

[ad_1] The senator representing Texas shared his opinions, proposed solutions and more regarding the Uvalde school shooting. AUSTIN, Texas — After the Uvalde school shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers in May, we’ve seen many proposals from state and federal leaders that are meant to better protect students and staff.  Today, we’re talking

[ad_1] An Orthodox resident in Monsey takes a firearm training class with the Tactical Defense Initiative. (Courtesy) By Jacob Henry July 21, 2022 (New York Jewish Week) — In the heavily Orthodox hamlet of Monsey in upstate New York, a Jewish gun owner is threatening a lawsuit to block Gov. Kathy Hochul’s efforts to limit

[ad_1] “Monsters shall always be with us, but in earlier days they did not roam free. As a psychiatrist in Massachusetts in the 1970s, I committed people–often right out of the emergency room–as a danger to themselves or to others. I never did so lightly, but I labored under none of the crushing bureaucratic and

[ad_1] EDITOR’S NOTE: Eli Dicken engaged and shot at the Greenwood mall gunman from approximately 30 yards away. This story inaccurately set up the targets at 30 feet away. WESTFIELD, Ind. — An expert marksman says he is impressed by the man who shot and killed the shooter at the Greenwood Park Mall on Sunday.

[ad_1] Shannon Watts, a gun control activist and the founder of Moms Demand Action, claims that defensive gun use in the United States is “rare” and that laws allowing people to carry guns increase gun crime. Both of her claims are dubious at best. After an active shooter was killed by a law-abiding gun owner

[ad_1] Just imagine: Hours after a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago, Florida Republicans did something more than tweet out prayers from a hundred miles away: they showed up at the crime scene, stood in the blood-smudged hallways where 17 students and teachers were killed and surveyed the carnage

[ad_1] Good Monday morning. A new poll of Florida’s 13th Congressional District shows Democrat Eric Lynn with a lead over Republican Anna Paulina Luna. Conducted by David Binder Research, the poll of 600 likely General Election voters found Lynn with 45% support compared to 43% for Luna. Additionally, pollsters found Lynn’s supporters were more concrete

[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment Shooters Grill, the gun-themed restaurant where the servers packed heat and which helped propel its hard-line conservative owner into the halls of Congress, served its last Swiss & Wesson burger over the weekend in the small Colorado town named, appropriately enough, Rifle. The Glenwood Springs Post Independent published a

[ad_1] Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down, a new documentary about the former congresswoman turned gun control activist, opens on the National Mall dotted with bouquets like a somber orchard – 40,000 white flowers for lives lost to gun violence in the US in 2019, 5,000 orange ones for the increase in 2020. She walks with

[ad_1] Rein in influence and power of CourtI find the sudden direction of the Supreme Court disturbing.The Court’s dismissal of previous judicial decisions on women’s health, environment, gun violence and separation of church and state reveals an astonishing arrogance and ignorance of critical situations facing people and country.I hope something can be done to limit

[ad_1] By EMILY SAWAKED   STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY Prep Charter School located on t. Ann’s Avenue in the South Bronx begin a march from their school on Wednesday, June 8, 2022 to mark Gun Violence Awareness Month and in memory of their school friend, Angellyh Yambo, 16, who was fatally shot in April, along

[ad_1] (The Center Square) – A new California law that limits firearm marketing to minors is facing legal challenges from sporting associations and gun rights groups – representing what could be the first of several legal challenges brought against new gun laws in the state.  A group of guns rights organizations and shooting sports associations

[ad_1] Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional to require gun owners to show “a good and substantial reason” to carry a concealed weapon, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has lifted those restrictions for Marylanders [“Citing court decision, Hogan orders relaxation of concealed-carry rules,” Metro, July 6]. Our communities already are

[ad_1] In modern U.S. history, you can count on one hand the number of Supreme Court cases that clarify what the Second Amendment really means. The Bruen ruling is one of them. In the recent ruling for New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, the court spoke, for the first time, that

[ad_1] By the time Highland Park police arrived at Robert Crimo III’s home in September 2019, there had already been several signs of trouble. A reported suicide attempt. Domestic violence calls to his family home. And then someone contacting police to say they heard Crimo had threatened people at the house, and that he had

[ad_1] New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs gun laws after string of shootings Gov. Kathy Hochul signed 10 gun-related bills, including one which will prohibit New Yorkers under the age of 21 from buying semi-automatic rifles. Patrick Colson-Price, Associated Press Imagine this scenario: It’s 4:30 p.m. A busy work day is ending and another evening

[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment The US Supreme Court’s decision last month to strike down an 111-year-old New York law mostly prohibiting the concealed carry of firearms has not won a lot of admirers in legal academia. Saul Cornell of Fordham called it “one of the most intellectually dishonest and poorly argued decisions in

[ad_1] On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in a 6-3 vote in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, found that Americans have a right to carry firearms in the street for self-defense, striking down a New York gun law that required applicants to justify why they needed to carry a

[ad_1] By Tinashe Chingarande, Special to the AFRO The court exercised its federal power to uphold Second and Fourteenth Amendment rights Marylanders who want to conceal a weapon no longer have to prove that they have a “good and substantial reason” for wanting to hide a weapon. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan issued a statement on

[ad_1] The law makes it a felony crime to carry a gun into a new list of sensitive places, including: government buildings, places of worship, libraries, parks, zoos, schools, summer camps and homeless shelters, Law enforcement officials and registered security guards are among those exempt from the sensitive-place restrictions. (Reuters) New York state has passed

[ad_1] On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Eric Bolling The Balance,” New York gubernatorial candidate and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) contrasted New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) declaration that she doesn’t “need to have numbers” to justify gun control proposals with her hesitation to repeal cashless bail due to a lack of data to justify repealing

[ad_1] As Americans get ready to celebrate their freedoms on Independence Day we at NewsBusters wanted to remind our readers how liberal journalists and celebrities devoted an entire month to attacking their Second Amendment rights.  They spent all of June blaming law-abiding gun owners for the actions of crazed gunmen as they pushed for new

[ad_1] After striking down restrictions on carrying concealed firearms in California and other states, the Supreme Court told an appeals court Thursday to reconsider the legality of California’s ban on gun magazines that can hold more than 10 cartridges. The court’s order, in an appeal by an affiliate of the National Rifle Association, signaled the

[ad_1] (The Center Square) – Starting Friday, it will no longer cost money for people in South Dakota to receive their concealed carry permit. Senate Bill 212, passed by lawmakers and signed by Gov. Kristi Noem, removed the fee. “It will not cost you a penny to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights in South Dakota.