Gun Rights Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
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 [...]
Constitution, Gun Rights Monday, August 1st, 2011
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.
Gun Rights Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
By Buck Sexton, The Blaze A few days ago, the Blaze reported on the low-key plans of the Obama administration to increase the penalties for certain gun law violations, and add steps to the background checks for legal gun ownership. Today the administration’s plans are beginning to come into effect. Through an Executive Order, the [...]
Gun Rights Saturday, July 9th, 2011
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.
Gun Rights Monday, July 4th, 2011
CHICAGO — Gov. Pat Quinn on Saturday signed into law a measure barring the public from knowing who holds a firearm owner identification card in Illinois.
Gun Rights Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
MADISON — Dylan Fredericks doesn’t carry a gun, but he plans to after Gov. Scott Walker signs into law legislation making it legal to carry concealed weapons in Wisconsin.
Constitution, Gun Rights Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
The Lewis & Clark Conservative Tea Party wants the City Commission to review Helena’s gun law.
Fla. sued over ban of doctors asking about guns
Gun Rights Monday, June 6th, 2011
The Associated Press, The Sacramento Bee TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is suing to overturn Florida’s new law that bans doctors from asking patients about gun ownership. The center filed the suit Tuesday in a Miami federal court on behalf of three doctors and three physicians groups. They claim the [...]
Restricting firearms makes us less safe
Gun Rights Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Monday, 25 April 2011 11:43 Written by Erich Pratt | USA Today Several states are passing Stand Your Ground laws and loosening their concealed carry laws, making it easier for people to defend themselves … and that’s a good thing. Consider what happens when decent people can’t protect themselves. Amanda Collins was a student at [...]
Gun-rights activists pack heat as form of protest in Pasadena
Gun Rights Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
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 [...]