The Senate Criminal Justice Committee will meet on Monday, February 20, 2023, to vote on Senate Bill 150, the Senate companion to House Bill 543, the constitutional carry bill. The hearing will take place in the Knott Building (room 412) at 3 p.m. Please attend in order to show your support for SB 150 and help Florida become the 26th constitutional carry state!

Despite the thousands of requests that House members received to oppose HB23-1165, a bill that allows counties the authority to ban shooting on private property within their jurisdiction, the House passed the bill on a party-line vote. HB23-1165 has been sent to the State Senate. Please contact your Senator today and urge them to vote NO on

Yesterday, anti-gun lawmakers filed bill packages to criminalize private transfers, require firearms be made unavailable for self-defense, and allow Second Amendment rights to be suspended without due process. Please contact your lawmakers and ask them to OPPOSE these gun control schemes. Senate Bills 76, 77, and 78 further criminalize private transfers of firearms by expanding

The North Carolina Senate voted 29-19 to pass Senate Bill 41, a bill that recognizes law-abiding citizens’ right to self-defense while attending a church with a school attached and, also, repeals the redundant permit-to-purchase system. The House passed, House Bill 49, a similar pro-self-defense bill to Senate Bill 41, by a vote of 77-43. Garnishing bipartisan support in

Today, the House Judiciary Committee voted to pass Senate Bill 10, the Campus Self-Defense Act, to ensure that law-abiding adults are not stripped of their right to self-defense when they cross an arbitrary boundary onto a college campus. It now goes to the House floor for further consideration. Please contact your delegate and ask them

Tomorrow, Thursday, February 16th, the House of Representatives will vote on Senate Bill 98, a bill that removes the requirement to be re-fingerprinted for the renewal of the enhanced permit. Please contact your representative today, and urge them to support SB 98.  Also, earlier this week, the House Judiciary Committee defeated HB 1213, a bill that mandated firearm

Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed Senate Bill 40, a bill that repeals the permit-to-purchase a firearm requirement. Senate Bill 41, a bill that recognizes law-abiding citizens’ right to self-defense while attending a church with a school attached, became part of Senate Bill 40 and advanced as well.  Now Senate Bill 40 eliminates the redundant background check

Today, the Senate voted 36-12 to pass Senate Bill 5006, an anti-gun bill that hijacks a suicide prevention measure. It will now go to the House for further consideration. Please contact your state representative and ask them to OPPOSE SB 5006. Senate Bill 5006 turns a suicide prevention measure into a prohibition on an individual’s Second Amendment rights. When individuals in crisis

On Friday, February 17, the New Mexico House Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on mandatory waiting period and semiautomatic firearms ban/magazine limit legislation: * House Bill 100 by Rep. Andrea Romero (D-Santa Fe), expands New Mexico’s so-called “universal background check” law to include a mandatory 14-day waiting period on all firearm purchases. This criminal protection bill would add

Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee voted 16-7-2 to advance Representative Bobby Cox’s House Bill 3594, the constitutional carry bill, to a floor vote. H 3594 recognizes the right of law-abiding adults to carry a firearm for self-defense without having to first pay fees or obtain government permission, while also increasing penalties for criminals caught with firearms. Please use

Today, at 9AM, the House Judiciary Committee will hear House Bill 2667 and, at 2PM, the Senate Military Affairs, Public Safety and Border Security Committee will hear Senate Bill 1300. These bills ensure that law-abiding adults are not stripped of their right to self-defense when they cross an arbitrary boundary onto a college campus. Please use the Request to

Tomorrow, at 9:00AM, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing on Senate Bill 10, the Campus Self-Defense Act, to ensure that law-abiding adults are not stripped of their right to self-defense when they cross an arbitrary boundary onto a college campus. Please contact committee members and ask them to pass SB 10 without

On Thursday, February 16th, the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee will be holding executive sessions to vote on numerous gun bills. Please contact committee members now and ask them to OPPOSE ALL anti-gun measures that would place further burdens on law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen! Some of the latest in this line of

Last week, the Hawaii Legislature considered several anti-gun bills, and three more anti-gun bills are already scheduled to be heard tomorrow, starting at 2PM, by the House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee. Please consider submitting testimony AGAINST HB 426, HB 804 and HB 984 through the Hawaii Legislative website. For help creating an account and submitting testimony, click here.

Last week, the House Judiciary Subcommittee killed the remaining anti-Second Amendment bills. Despite efforts from the anti-gun majority in the Senate to restrict your rights, no gun control bills have advanced. The following bills were voted down by the Subcommittee: Senate Bill 918 bans selling or carrying many firearms and magazines that law-abiding citizens commonly own

Tomorrow, Tuesday, February 14th, at 11:00 a.m., the Judiciary Committee will hear and vote on Senate Bill 40, a bill that repeals the permit-to-purchase a firearm requirement. Please use the link below to contact the committee members and ask them to support SB 40. Expediency is more important than ever when it comes to the

Last Friday, February 10th, was the deadline for the majority of bills to pass from their chamber of origin to the opposite chamber. Despite efforts by anti-gun legislators to restrict your rights, no gun control bills have advanced. NRA-ILA would like to thank the pro-Second Amendment majorities in the State Senate and the House of Representatives

The annual NRA-ILA Jay M. Littlefield Award recognizes individual NRA members for their meritorious defense of the Second Amendment. Late last year, awards were presented to two individuals for their selfless commitment to upholding and supporting the Second Amendment. Dennis Barthenheier, owner of Wisconsin Firearms Training Center in Brookfield, Wisconsin, received the award for his invaluable

In the face of a furious backlash against changes proposed to Bill C-21, Canada’s Liberal government has dropped two expansive amendments to the bill. Gun rights groups, opposition politicians and ordinary Canadians opposed the bill because it would not only criminalize mainstream hunting and sport shooting firearms lawfully owned by millions of individuals – guns

Joe Biden gave another State of the Union (SOTU) speech last week, and, as most anticipated, it included an attack on our right to keep and bear arms.  Biden has hammered away at this theme throughout his term in the White House, and there was nothing in his latest broadside against gun owners that showed

Today, the Judiciary Committee voted on a bipartisan vote, 5-0-1-2, to advance Legislative Bill 77, the constitutional carry bill. LB 77 recognizes the right of law-abiding adults to carry a firearm for self-defense without having to first pay fees or obtain government permission. It is now up for a floor vote. Please use the link below to contact

Despite the thousands of letters the Transportation, Housing & Local Government Committee members received to oppose HB23-1165, the committee passed the bill on a party-line vote. HB23-1165 allows counties the authority to ban shooting on private property within their jurisdiction. Please contact your representative today respectfully asking them to vote NO on HB23-1165.  Banning shooting on

Today, two cases challenging California laws were appealed to the Ninth Circuit. The first case challenges Assembly Bill 173. That bill allows the state to disclose gun owners’ highly sensitive information to universities for “research” purposes. That information includes the individual’s name, address, place of birth, phone number, occupation, driver’s license or ID number, race,

More Anti-Gun Bills Up for Hearings on Friday & Saturday On Thursday afternoon, the New Mexico House of Representatives passed House Bill 9, firearms owner liability legislation, on a 37-32 vote.  The measure now moves to the New Mexico Senate for committee referrals and hearings.  Please begin calling your State Senators in opposition to HB 9. 

Yesterday, in a bipartisan collaborative effort, Speaker of the House Cathy Tilton and Senator Scott Kawasaki introduced House Bill 61 and Senate Bill 63. These companion bills, which are similar to legislation considered in previous years, ensure that Second Amendment rights remain protected for Alaskans during emergencies. They have been assigned to the Community and Regional Affairs Committees of

Today and tomorrow, two senate committees will consider bills that will protect and enhance Second Amendment rights in Arizona. Please use the Request to Speak application (RTS) on the Arizona State Legislature website to ask them to SUPPORT Senate Bills 1331 and 1109. Today, starting 2:00PM, in the Senate Education Committee: Senate Bill 1331 exempts law-abiding parents

Tomorrow morning, February 9, 2023, at 8:30 a.m. the Judiciary Finance and Civil Law committee will meet in Capitol Room 120 to vote on HF 14, a universal background check scheme bill, and HF 15 a “red flag” bill. The so-called “Red Flag” orders, or Emergency Risk Protection Orders, are designed to empower the government to confiscate Americans’ firearms

The New Mexico House of Representatives will vote any day now on House Bill 9 by Rep. Pamela Herndon (D-ABQ), a bill that creates back-door storage requirements by imposing criminal penalties on gun owners if a third-party minor accesses and displays, brandishes or injures someone with their firearm. It is important that you keep contacting your State Representatives and keep urging them

Today, the House Judiciary Subcommittee voted to advance House Bill 3594, the constitutional carry bill. HB 3594 recognizes the right of law-abiding adults to carry a firearm for self-defense without having to first pay fees or obtain government permission, while also increasing penalties for criminals caught with firearms. HB 3594 is assigned to the Judiciary

Yesterday, the Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee voted to advance House Bill 543, the constitutional carry bill. It is now assigned to the Judiciary Committee, which will soon schedule it for a hearing. This puts Florida one step closer to becoming the 26th constitutional carry state. Please contact committee members and