[ad_1] On Monday, April 5, the Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Committee will hold a public hearing on LD 1015, which bans the use of traditional lead ammunition when hunting. Please contact your State Representative and ask them to OPPOSE LD 1015. Legislative Document 1015 prohibits the use of lead ammunition when hunting.  The use of lead ammunition is

[ad_1]   Janine Jackson interviewed Guns Down America’s Igor Volsky about ending gun violence for the March 26, 2021, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.       CounterSpin210326Volsky.mp3   New Press (2019) Janine Jackson: Other countries have misogyny and racism, untreated mental illness and bar fights and robberies. What they don’t have are weeks

[ad_1] The White House is trying to craft a series of executive actions for President Joe Biden to sign to try to limit gun violence, hoping they cannot be quickly dismantled in court, according to aides and gun safety groups. Among the measures being considered – and strongly encouraged by activists – is one directing

[ad_1] A panel sponsored by UConn, sparked a discussion about gun control amid the recent mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder. Photo by Sora Shimazaki from Pexels. On Thursday afternoon, the University of Connecticut sponsored the panel “Gun Laws in America: What Works and What’s Possible.” In the virtual event, Senator Chris Murphy (CT-D) affirmed, “What’s possible is not the

[ad_1] Yesterday, the Senate voted 13-8 to pass Senate Bill 6, to ban magazines over an arbitrary capacity limit, and also voted 13-8 to pass Senate Bill 3, to impose a Maryland-style “handgun qualified purchase card” and a handgun transfer registry, in Delaware. These bills now advance to the House for further consideration. Please contact your state representative and ask them

[ad_1] Michael Dombrowski: Advertisement: Pull the gun ads Since I shopped in the Table Mesa King Soopers for 8 years and having taken care of the property for W.W. Reynolds in 1992, I was really distraught over yesterday’s tragedy. When I went through today’s paper, I had to stop at the ad for Broomfield Pawn

[ad_1] CLOSE During his speech, Lee highlighted his budget and legislative priorities, including the state’s COVID-19 response, education, rural development and assistance for struggling families. Nashville Tennessean The Tennessee General Assembly passed a sweeping expansion of gun rights in the state in March, approving legislation to allow most adults to carry a handgun without receiving

[ad_1] On April 6th, the Assembly Public Safety Committee is hearing Assembly Bill 1223, to tax firearms and ammunition, and Assembly Bill 311, to restrict firearm “precursor parts” from display or sale at gun shows. Please contact committee members and ask them to OPPOSE AB 1223 and AB 311. Assembly Public Safety Committee Chair: Assembly Member

[ad_1] Tomorrow, the Oregon House is expected to vote on anti-gun Mandatory Storage Legislation, House Bill 2510.  It is extremely important that you contact your State Representative and ask them to OPPOSE House Bill 2510. House Bill 2510, sponsored by Representative Rachel Prusak (D-37), requires owners or possessors of firearms, to lock up their firearms and impose increased fines and strict liability penalties

[ad_1] Today a federal judge in Arizona sided with NRA-ILA and Safari Club International and held that hunters’ use of traditional ammo does not violate federal environmental law. The case dates back to 2012, when a group sued the U.S. Forest Service. The group alleged that by allowing hunters to hunt with traditional lead ammo

[ad_1] DATE: April 1, 2021  TO:   USF & NRA Members and Friends   FROM: Marion P. Hammer   USF Executive Director    NRA Past President    This week, several pro-gun bills continued to progress through the legislature.  SB-920, Liability of Persons Providing Areas for Public Outdoor Recreational Purposes by Sen. Jennifer Bradley (R), providing that owners may

[ad_1] Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee issued favorable reports for Senate Bill 6, to ban magazines over an arbitrary capacity limit, and Senate Bill 3, to impose a Maryland-style “handgun qualified purchase card” and a handgun transfer registry in Delaware. These bills now advance to the full Senate, where they will likely receive a floor

[ad_1] CLOSE President Biden urged Congress to pass gun safety measures while addressing a supermarket shooting in Boulder, Colorado. USA TODAY WASHINGTON – Back-to-back mass shootings in Georgia and Colorado underscore how loopholes and weak restrictions in gun laws enabled both suspects to get quick access to their weapons of choice in attacks that left 18 people

[ad_1] Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Print Photo by Chris Juhn Rep. Ilhan Omar in March at Avivo village An interview with U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar The MSR sat down with Rep. Omar last week after her recent visit to the U.S. border, where she expressed empathy with those desperately seeking entrance into the U.S.

[ad_1] Tomorrow, the Assembly Judiciary Committee will hold a work session and vote on Assembly Bill 42. This bill expands prohibited persons in Nevada. Please contact committee members and ask them to OPPOSE AB 42, or AMEND the bill to not expand the scope of prohibited persons beyond federal law.  Assembly Bill 42 is a bill that, on its face, focuses

[ad_1] Alabama lawmakers have not passed a single piece of pro-gun legislation in six years. Other states are enthusiastically passing a variety of bills to protect and advance Second Amendment rights for the benefit of law-abiding citizens. Just this year, legislatures in Montana, Tennessee, Iowa, and Utah have passed constitutional/permitless carry bills. Recently, Georgia passed

[ad_1] Yesterday, the General Assembly adjourned sine die from its 2021 legislative session. During this session, the House passed House Bill 175 to prohibit financial institutions from discriminating against firearm businesses. Unfortunately, the Senate did not take action on this critical bill, resulting in it failing to pass this year. As a small victory for

[ad_1] Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee voted to pass pro-gun legislation that fixes the handgun purchase process in the Granite State, by a vote of 5-2. Thanks to your strong support, this important legislation will advance this session, and will move to the State Senate for a floor vote tomorrow, April 1. Please contact your State Senator

[ad_1] Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear Senate Bill 6, to ban magazines over an arbitrary capacity limit. As previously scheduled, the committee will also hear Senate Bill 3, to impose a Maryland-style “handgun qualified purchase card” and a handgun transfer registry in Delaware. Please contact committee members and ask them to OPPOSE SB

[ad_1] Andrew Cuomo figured ambiguously but, as it has turned out, fatefully, in a remembrance of his father Mario Cuomo, written in 2015 by The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg on the occasion of the elder Cuomo’s passing. Hertzberg reprised Mario Cuomo’s maddeningly contradictory responses in 1993 to President Clinton’s offer to nominate him for the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Byron

[ad_1] When future Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to a federal appeals court in 2017, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., at the time ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, expressed concern over Barrett’s religious affiliation as a pious Roman Catholic identified with her church’s most conservative elements. “I think whatever a religion is,

[ad_1] What about that well-regulated militia part of the Second Amendment? (Theo Stroomer | The New York Times) Police vehicles in the parking lot of the Boulder King Soopers grocery store after a shooting that killed multiple people in Boulder, Colo., on Monday, March 22, 2021. By Christopher Smart | Special to The Tribune   |

[ad_1] Why has the Democratic Party not been canceled? With cancel culture running amok in our country, I am very curious about this movement. It has been suggested that everyone from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and even Abraham Lincoln be removed from public consciousness for their supposed sins of centuries past. Why then has no

[ad_1] As early as tomorrow, the Senate is expected to vote on Pro-Gun Omnibus Legislation, House Bill 2058, as well as Eddie Eagle Gun Safety legislation, House Bill 2089.  These measures are rapidly advancing through the Kansas Legislature, and your State Senator needs to hear from you! Proposed by Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, House Bill 2058 does the

[ad_1] The slaughter in Boulder, Colorado, coming on the heels of the slaughter in Atlanta, should make clear to everyone in the country that our nation’s gun policies are not working. Thirty-one people were murdered in Chicago in February, and there were 144 shootings. In one city in one month. The two political parties retreated

[ad_1] Yesterday, the Senate voted 34-18 to pass House Bill 218, to protect lawful gun owners during a declared state of emergency and further recognize all out-of-state carry permits. It now goes back to the House for concurrence. Please contact your state representative and ask them to CONCUR on House Bill 218. House Bill 218

[ad_1] Few guests at the Washington Hilton, a vast hotel rendered in curving Brutalist concrete, notice the simple plaque tucked away near a lower entrance designed for VIPs. It marks the spot where, 40 years ago today, President Ronald Reagan was shot and injured when would-be assassin John Hinckley fired six bullets in two seconds.

[ad_1] Few guests at the Washington Hilton, a vast hotel rendered in curving Brutalist concrete, notice the simple plaque tucked away near a lower entrance designed for VIPs. It marks the spot where, 40 years ago today, President Ronald Reagan was shot and injured when would-be assassin John Hinckley fired six bullets in two seconds.

[ad_1] With Daniel Lippman AZAR TO HEADLINE FUNDRAISER FOR FORMER CHIEF RUNNING IN SPECIAL ELECTION: Former HHS Secretary Alex Azar will headline a fundraiser tomorrow for his top aide running to replace the late Rep. Ron Wright (R-Texas), according to an invitation obtained by PI. — The fundraiser for former HHS chief of staff Brian

[ad_1] Joe Biden faces low approval ratings over his approach to gun violence after mass shootings. On March 25, President Joe Biden detailed his goals involving COVID-19, vaccine distribution and immigration in his first presidential news conference. The conference took place three days after 10 people died in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, but