[ad_1] The Alabama Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would allow Alabamians who still have their gun rights to purchase lifetime concealed carry permits. Senate Bill 308 is sponsored by state Sen. Randy Price, R-Opelika. SB308, as substituted, establishes the Alabama Uniform Concealed Carry Permit Act. The lifetime concealed carry permit would cost $300.
[ad_1] On April 6th, the Senate Judiciary and Ways and Means Committees will hold a joint hearing on House Bill 1366, to ban possession of home-built firearms. Please consider submitting testimony against HB 1366 through the Hawaii Legislative website. For help creating an account and submitting testimony, click here. House Bill 1366, sponsored by Patrick Branco (D-50), amends language regarding home-built firearms
[ad_1] In the quest for a lifetime carry permit, the sheriffs once again put immense pressure on the legislature, with claims of loss of funding and lies of safety concerns, even though we know neither will be the case. The Alabama Sheriffs Association wanted an absolutely absurd $500, and came back several times with several
[ad_1] This week, two anti-gun measures have made it to the floor in both chambers of the Colorado General Assembly. Please contact your lawmakers and ask them to OPPOSE Senate Bill 78 and House Bill 1106. Senate Bill 78 victimizes gun owners who suffer loss or theft of their property with a fine if they don’t report a
[ad_1] Today the NRA-ILA and Safari Club International filed to intervene in three cases challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to delist gray wolves in the lower 48 states, which will benefit hunters across the country. The plaintiffs in these three cases want to throw out the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to delist
[ad_1] MOSCOW — Aleksei A. Navalny, the imprisoned Russian opposition leader, has been denied visits from his doctors and lawyers. But one unlikely visitor to the notoriously harsh penal colony where he is being held did turn up this week: Maria Butina, the only Russian to serve prison time in the United States in relation
[ad_1] Yesterday, the Mississippi Legislature dropped the final gavel for the 2021 Legislative session, adjourning for the year. This year saw multiple pro-gun and pro-hunting measures introduced to protect our Second Amendment rights and hunting heritage. Unfortunately, both Senate Bill 2107 and House Bill 1231 were unable to make it out of conference committee just
[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] Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge helped lead a lawsuit against the Biden administration and threw her support behind the National Rifle Association in a pair of Wednesday legal filings. Thirteen states, including Arkansas, sued President Joe Biden’s administration Wednesday, claiming the $350 billion in pandemic relief funds for states and local governments “sets up
[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] Few statewide leaders have inherited as many unfinished tasks from their predecessors as incoming California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, whose to-do list includes an ongoing probe of pandemic unemployment fraud, reducing a backlog of guns held by people with felony convictions and resolving a dispute over how to pay for new investigations of fatal
[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] This gat crank, produced by a company called GatCrank, can be attached to a semiautomatic AR-15 to … [+] speed up the rate of fire. Josh Dempsey, GatCrank President Joseph Biden, a Democrat who owns guns, is proposing an aggressive gun control plan that targets assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and ghost guns. But unlike
[ad_1] A Morning Consult poll released Wednesday shows 59 percent of Republicans are against stricter gun control laws, which is 13 percent more than in 2019. After a handful of shootings, the Republicans’ stance opposing gun control hardens. The poll found that 59 percent of Republican voters oppose having stricter gun control laws in the United
[ad_1] Graphic by Ben Berman Mass shootings in our supermarkets, spas, movie theaters, schools, and churches. When will the violence stop? Divided communities of us vs. them, gun control vs. gun rights, freedom-takers vs. freedom-fighters. When will we learn to compromise? Now is our moment for change. As individuals and communities, we must begin to dismantle
[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] Sometime this spring, in an attempt to do something — anything — on gun control, the U.S. Senate will revive a bill that would require people who buy guns from unlicensed dealers to undergo federal background checks, closing a gap often called the “gun show loophole.” If it passes, this exceedingly modest measure will
[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