http://www.nraila.org/60http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12634ATF agents are stepping up enforcement activities in the region near the Mexican border. Tactics include questioning the neighbors of gun buyers and searching gun buyer's homes.NRA-ILAThu, 02 Jul 2009 10:28:26 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12642Isle of Wight county likely will repeal a new ordinance that prohibits concealed weapons from being taken into public parks and recreational facilities. State law says that local governments can't adopt ordinances controlling the use, sale, possession or transportation of firearms. NRA-ILAThu, 02 Jul 2009 09:34:19 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12641Arizona bar and restaurant owners are waiting to see if Governor Jan Brewer signs the bill that would allow law-abiding citizens to carry a gun into a restaurant or bar. Marc Peagler, who owns the Silver Spur Saloon in Cave Creek, is all for the bill. "I favor the law because there are examples all across the United States of concealed carry laws doing more good than harm, by leaps and bounds," Peagler told KTAR.NRA-ILAThu, 02 Jul 2009 09:33:16 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12640Delaware hunting license sales have declined nearly 30 percent since 1982, and the number of licensed hunters throughout the United States is following a similar trend. One of the main reasons for declining numbers of hunters and participants in outdoors sports is that fewer young people are being introduced to hunting, fishing and shooting sports.NRA-ILAThu, 02 Jul 2009 09:32:15 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12639Johnny Depp is keen on teaching his children to handle guns. The 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star, who learnt shooting at the age of six in Kentucky where he grew up, wants to pass on his experience to his kids.NRA-ILAThu, 02 Jul 2009 09:31:20 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12638Shiga prefectural police regard the incident, in which a hunter with a gun permit allowed TV personality Noburo Harada, 57, to momentarily handle the rifle during the show, as a serious breach of a law concerning the storage and management of firearms So much so, in fact, that on June 12, the prefectural police referred the case to prosecutors. As a result, the hunter, aged 49, along with a 60 year old TV producer and a 37 year old director of the show, could face charges of violating the swords and firearms control law.NRA-ILAThu, 02 Jul 2009 09:30:21 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/NewsReleases.aspx?ID=12636NRA-ILAWed, 01 Jul 2009 13:30:35 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12633Completing training for a concealed weapons permit is now possible online or by video, under a new law that takes effect today. The measure covers applicants for any firearms training or safety course or class, including an electronic, video, or online course, conducted by a state-certified or National Rifle Association-certified firearms instructor, the law says.NRA-ILAWed, 01 Jul 2009 09:23:40 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12632The Arizona House has approved a bill to allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry a gun into a business that serves alcohol.NRA-ILAWed, 01 Jul 2009 09:22:48 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12631Starting July 1st, it'll cost you more to get a right-to-carry permit in Georgia. The state is raising its fees at a time when more and more people are looking into getting a permit. NRA-ILAWed, 01 Jul 2009 09:21:50 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12630State residents serving active military duty and home on leave can hunt or fish without a license.NRA-ILAWed, 01 Jul 2009 09:19:49 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12629Gun owners from across Cape Town have been streaming into dealerships in the vain hope of retrieving the weapons they either sold or handed over voluntarily, in the wake of a Pretoria High Court ruling that the old licenses are still valid. But police have warned that this does not mean that people who handed in their guns can now retrieve them, even though they have not yet been destroyed.NRA-ILAWed, 01 Jul 2009 09:18:14 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12628Local governments and advocates for firearms owners are gearing up for a summer face off over how far to take a new state law that lets people with carry permits bring handguns into parks.NRA-ILATue, 30 Jun 2009 08:59:23 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12627Some gun owners proudly wore their weapons into a Louisville, Ky., church Saturday. The "Bring Your Gun to Church Day" was an idea to celebrate guns and God.NRA-ILATue, 30 Jun 2009 08:58:26 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/NewsReleases.aspx?ID=12626NRA-ILAMon, 29 Jun 2009 17:30:57 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12625More and more Ohioans are carrying concealed weapons, with an enormous increase this year alone. Most officials attribute that increase to the fear that Barack Obama`s administration in the White House will take away guns, coupled with the struggling economy and an increase in crime.NRA-ILAMon, 29 Jun 2009 10:45:13 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12624Across the Kansas City area, record numbers of people like Poynter are applying for permits to carry concealed weapons. The surge reflects the fears of rising crime in a down economy and concerns that the election of President Barack Obama might bring new limits on gun rights.NRA-ILAMon, 29 Jun 2009 10:44:26 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12623Two new pieces of legislation related to guns are making their way through Sacramento — and making gun store owners in the Mid-Valley frustrated at what they call political myopia.NRA-ILAMon, 29 Jun 2009 10:43:43 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12622The secret government “Terrorist Watch List,” reportedly already swelled to more than 1.1 million names, will have an addendum, if gun control advocates in Congress have their way. This new addendum — also to be cloaked in secrecy — would empower the U.S. Attorney General to deny a person the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights to purchase a firearm.NRA-ILAMon, 29 Jun 2009 10:42:20 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12621Amidst an epic financial crisis, they've apparently decided that portraying the Governor as a gun banner is a distraction needed to win re election. But they haven't done their homework and have picked a discredited issue fabricated by the gun ban lobby that's going to badly misfire and embarrass the Governor, not only for what it focuses on, but also for what it ignores.NRA-ILAFri, 26 Jun 2009 09:08:18 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12620An Arizona House committee has made dramatic changes to a Senate approved bill allowing people with concealed weapons permits to carry guns into businesses that serve alcohol. The version approved Thursday by the House Judiciary Committee eliminates a requirement in the Senate bill that a bar also must serve food to be covered.NRA-ILAFri, 26 Jun 2009 09:07:20 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12619Prosecutors have withdrawn a weapons related charge against a Wright man, citing Wyoming's "castle doctrine" law on self defense. An attorney says it may be the first time the year old statute has been used in Wyoming.NRA-ILAFri, 26 Jun 2009 09:05:50 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12618Ken Pagano, the pastor of the New Bethel Church, is passionate about gun rights. He shoots regularly at the local firing range, and his sermon two weeks ago was on "God, Guns, Gospel, and Geometry." And on Saturday night, he is inviting his congregation of 150 and others to wear or carry their firearms into the sanctuary to "celebrate our rights as Americans!" NRA-ILAFri, 26 Jun 2009 09:04:56 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12617Police are intimidating South African gun owners and defrauding citizens of their lawful property, black firearm owners said on Thursday. Chairman of the Black Gun Owners Association of South Africa (BGOASA), said the police had "legalized" theft and fraud.NRA-ILAFri, 26 Jun 2009 09:04:03 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12616Senate Republicans took aim Wednesday at Judge Sonia Sotomayor's views on gun rights, saying that as a federal appeals court judge in New York, she had dismissed the right to bear arms as not "fundamental" and complaining that she had ruled that only the federal government, not the states, can enforce the Second Amendment.NRA-ILAThu, 25 Jun 2009 09:22:35 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12615This year, Sotomayor was part of a three judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York that held the 2nd Amendment did not apply to the states. At a news conference Wednesday, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other senators said they were concerned about the decision and pledged to grill Sotomayor about it at her confirmation hearings, which begin July 13.NRA-ILAThu, 25 Jun 2009 09:21:43 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12614Sen. Jeff Sessions took aim Wednesday at U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's position on gun ownership rights, warning at a news conference that one recent ruling would "eviscerate" constitutional protections in much of the country if it were to become law. NRA-ILAThu, 25 Jun 2009 09:20:44 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12613A lobbyist representing liquor license holders says his organization has reached a deal to support a bill that would allow guns in establishments that serve alcohol.NRA-ILAThu, 25 Jun 2009 09:19:43 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12635Citing the vital need to protect Americans from overzealous federal agents, Congressman Zack Space (OH-18) today issued a challenge to those Members of Congress who supported his Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) reform legislation, but have yet to sign on this Congress. NRA-ILAThu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12608The Obama administration wants to expand the 50 year old ban on importing "switchblades" to include folding knives that can be opened with one hand, stirring fears the government may on the path to outlawing most pocket knives. Critics, including U.S. knife manufacturers and collectors, the National Rifle Association, sportsmen's groups and a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill.NRA-ILAWed, 24 Jun 2009 09:39:47 GMT