Evidently, the House is likely to pass a bill that would require states to respect concealed-carry permits issued in other states — even if the traveler’s home state has very different criteria for awarding a permit.
From CBSNews.com A new poll indicates that more and more people now have guns in their homes, and that America’s attitude towards gun-control may be shifting. According to a new Gallup poll, 47 percent of Americans report having a gun on their property, up from 41 percent a year ago. It’s the highest number Gallup [...]
By The Washington Times The House Judiciary Committee’s decision last week to leave the District’s strict gun laws alone — at least for now — appears consistent with the tea party’s resistance to federal “tyranny” but at odds with the GOP-backed movement’s strict adherence to language in the Constitution. The Republican-controlled committee voted 24-3 last [...]
By Associated Press, Forbes.com SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown’s says he has signed a measure that bans the open carrying of handguns in California. The law, AB144, makes it a misdemeanor to carry an exposed and unloaded gun in a public place. The governor’s office made the announcement in a statement early Monday morning. [...]
By Tom Ramstack – AHN News Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Congress plans to hear testimony Tuesday on a bill that would allow licensed gun owners to carry their firearms across state lines without notifying anyone. Like other gun disputes, this one comes with heated opinions on both sides. Gun advocates, such as the [...]
By Dave Workman, Seattle Gun Rights Examiner Labor Day weekend in New York City saw 46 people get shot, one of them fatally, and now the Bellevue-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says the casualty count amounts to “a pitiful demonstration of the abject failure of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun [...]
We have to imagine that a time will come (maybe, let’s say, around the year 2150) when gun rights will be a settled legal issue in our country and there will be little to fight over.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot, the White House is preparing to propose some new steps on gun safety, though they’re likely to fall short of the bold measures activists would like to see.
By Brian Charles, Staff Writer Posted: 04/21/2011 10:19:44 PM PDT | Pasadena Star-News PASADENA – Gun-rights advocates strolled through Old Pasadena on Thursday night strapped with unloaded guns to protest a firearms law proposed by state Assemblyman Anthony Portantino. The gun-toting protesters were from South Bay Open Carry, a gun-rights advocacy group. With .357s, Glocks [...]
By Judson Berger, FOXNews.com The Illinois House has approved a bill that would keep private the names of state gun owners, as lawmakers battle to prevent the attorney general from opening up those files to the public. The bill passed Friday on a 98-12 vote and heads next to the Senate. It was drafted in [...]
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