April 26, 2012
Students and staff members at Kentucky universities may keep guns and other deadly weapons in a car's glove compartment, but the schools may continue to regulate them elsewhere on campus, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The high court in Frankfort found that while two Kentucky laws conflict on the issue, lawmakers "expressed a strong public policy" in favor of exempting a person's vehicle from the restrictions on deadly weapons on campus
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May 21, 2012
The active duty soldier who had his guns confiscated by the District of Columbia two years ago will have his property returned by Memorial Day. It took the help of a high-powered lawyer, two U.S. Senators, a member of Congress and national publicity to force the obstinate District to show some respect for the Constitution. It should never happen again.
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May 21, 2012
The debate over California’s strict gun control laws is about to heat up in Sacramento and it’s all because of what we reported a few weeks ago.
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May 21, 2012
A very well-informed fifth-grader at Oak Grove Elementary School reportedly followed procedure when he found a loaded gun on the playground at the school Friday. Officials have not released the name of the student, but are planning on presenting a certificate to him Monday, according to Bob Gault, media relations coordinator for the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office. Deputy Jay Lawson, the school’s Resource Officer teaches students throughout the year by using the “Eddie Eagle” safety program. Lawson had taught the students at the school to recognize danger through a “GunSafe” presentation, documented in the Eddie Eagle program which is associated with the National Rifle Association. Just after 10 a.m. Friday, the fifth-grader found a loaded .22-magnum pistol laying near the swing set area on the playground at the school.
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May 21, 2012
Federal courts could soon decide a fight between Congress and Attorney General Eric Holder on the Operation Fast and Furious gun-running scandal. If Republicans persevere, this is a battle that Holder should lose in what would be a humiliating defeat for President Barack Obama.
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May 18, 2012
Sioux Falls city attorneys might ask Mayor Mike Huether to change an executive order that bars firearms from city property.The order does not have the force of law, and the lawyers’ review of it has garnered particular interest from gun-rights advocates who think it violates state law and the state and U.S. constitutions.
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May 18, 2012
Texas Sen. John Cornyn said Wednesday that he wants to know whether murdered Immigrations & Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata “was a victim of a second Texas-based gun-walking operation similar to Fast and Furious.”
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May 18, 2012
Republicans are trying to ensure the District respects the full constitutional rights of our military personnel. The House this week is expected to take up a measure by Rep. Phil Gingrey, Georgia Republican, expressing the sense of Congress that the approximately 40,000 active-duty military personnel who live in or are stationed in Washington should be exempt from local firearms restrictions. While the amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act would not be binding, it adds to the mounting pressure on the liberal D.C. Council to consider allowing carry rights.
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May 17, 2012
The governor and other state officials would be prohibited from banning or confiscating firearms during a state of emergency under a bill signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin.
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May 17, 2012
House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, urged President Barack Obama on Wednesday to tell Attorney General Eric Holder to cooperate with the congressional investigation relating to the now defunct Fast and Furious gun walking operation.
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May 17, 2012
Legislation that would grant concealed carry rights to law-abiding gun owners could be called for a vote by the Illinois House of Representatives this month. State Representative Adam Brown (R-Decatur) is urging concerned citizens to sign a petition supporting passage of House Bill 5745, the Family and Personal Protection Act. Brown is a co-sponsor of HB 5745, which establishes statewide standards for the issuance of licenses to carry concealed firearms in Illinois.
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May 16, 2012
Gov. Mary Fallin signed into law Tuesday a measure that allows Oklahomans to openly carry handguns.The measure, Senate Bill 1733, allows those who are licensed to carry a firearm under the Oklahoma Self Defense Act a choice: to openly carry a weapon or conceal it.
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May 16, 2012
The state will begin offering permits for game hunters to use silencers on their guns, effective Sept. 1.The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission adopted rules in March that permit the use of silencers for the hunting of alligators, game animals or game birds. Such devices already were legal for the hunting of exotic animals, including feral hogs.
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May 16, 2012
The province of New Brunswick announced Tuesday that it will adhere to the federal government's wishes and no longer require gun dealers to keep records of sales of long guns and who purchased them.
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May 16, 2012
Local law enforcement officials say the signing of a bill allowing Oklahomans to openly carry firearms won’t create problems in Muskogee.
The bill was signed by Gov. Mary Fallin on Tuesday. Oklahoma will become the 25th state in the nation with “permissive open carry” laws or “licensed open carry” laws.
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May 15, 2012
Gun owners would have to report stolen or missing firearms to authorities within 48 hours of discovering them missing under a bill approved by the state Senate.
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May 15, 2012
After being injured on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, Lt. Augustine Kim spent the night in a D.C. jail for possessing unregistered guns. Mr. Kim was transporting his firearms from his parents’ house in New Jersey to South Carolina when he stopped at Walter Reed in Washington for a medical appointment in the summer of 2010.
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May 15, 2012
The RCMP should waltz into gun shops across Canada and confiscate back-door long-gun registries, if necessary, one of Canada's premier gun law experts says.
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May 14, 2012
Montana's Congressman, Denny Rehberg, today praised the U.S. House for standing up for Second Amendment rights in the face of ongoing anti-gun efforts on the part of President Obama and his allies in the House and Senate. Language, which Rehberg included in the Fiscal Year 2013 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Bill, drew an Obama Veto threat but the House stood behind Rehberg and refused to remove it from the underlying bill.
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May 14, 2012
Washington gun owners’ rights are, once again, getting blown off by city leaders. While the city council voted unanimously on April 17 in favor of a bill to ease restrictions on Second Amendment rights, Mayor Vincent Gray has not signed the bill into law.
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May 14, 2012
Gov. Mary Fallin said Saturday she will sign a bill into law that will allow Oklahomans with concealed handgun permits to carry their weapons in the open.
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May 14, 2012
Spotsylvania County gun owners who live on more than an acre may soon be able to shoot on their property.Residents currently face misdemeanor charges if they fire guns in any subdivision, regardless of how many acres their lots are.
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May 14, 2012
RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson has instructed chief firearms officers to ensure that any conditions they impose on gun store owners do not facilitate the creation of a long-gun registry.In a letter sent Thursday, Paulson doesn't explicitly tell the CFOs that gun store owners should not keep ledgers that record the names and licence numbers of customers, but he carefully reminds them that Public Safety Minister Vic Toews doesn't want any records kept.Paulson tells the CFOs that the passage of C-19, the bill that abolished the requirement for unrestricted long guns to be registered, "leaves no doubt that Parliament has sought to eliminate any form of a long-gun registry."
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May 11, 2012
A Suffolk University/WSVN-Ch. 7 poll released Thursday shows 50 percent of Florida voters support the law that allows people who feel threatened in the street or most other public places to use deadly force to defend themselves. Just 32 percent oppose the law and 18 percent are undecided.
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May 11, 2012
A bill to allow Oklahomans with a concealed-carry permit to openly carry their handguns is headed to the governor, who is expected to sign the legislation that passed the state Senate on Thursday.
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May 11, 2012
OSU student group Buckeyes for Concealed Carry, held a forum Thursday night to encourage discussion on allowing concealed handguns on OSU's campus. Currently Ohio law and university law prohibit that.
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May 11, 2012
Congress has a constitutional responsibility to exercise oversight over the Executive Branch, and for more than a year we’ve been attempting to fulfill that with respect to the Justice Department’s “Fast and Furious” scandal.
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May 11, 2012
Congressional Democrats are abandoning their party line en masse to support efforts to hold the administration accountable for Operation Fast and Furious.
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May 10, 2012
On May 1, the New Mexico Department of Public Safety updated its concealed-carry reciprocity list. DPS determined that just six other states meet all of New Mexico’s requirements for reciprocity, despite the fact that it currently recognizes a total of 19 states’ concealed-carry permits.
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May 10, 2012
Local stores don’t plan to waste much time in placing orders for Tasers on the heels of legislation legalizing the item for Michigan residents with concealed pistol licenses.
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May 10, 2012
The House Wednesday evening voted overwhelmingly to prevent the Justice Department from using taxpayer funds to lie to Congress. The vote came in a Wednesday evening series of amendments to a bill, H.R. 5326, funding the Justice Department for 2013. Members approved the language in a 381-41 vote; all 41 "no" votes came from Democrats, although 142 Democrats voted with Republicans in support of the amendment. The vote reflects the ongoing frustration Republicans — and apparently some Democrats — have with Attorney General Eric Holder.Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) offered the novel funding limitation amendment earlier in the day. The amendment was a reaction to arguments that Justice lied when it told Congress in February 2011 that it had no involvement in a gun-walking program called Operation Fast and Furious.
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May 10, 2012
Unless public sentiment has been misread, police forces across Canada have a tough slog ahead if they hope to restore both their collective image and the confidence of those they serve and protect.
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May 9, 2012
Give the Council of the District of Columbia some credit. They're actually responding to criticisms about how the city's gun laws are being implemented.The council's Judiciary Committee chairman, Phil Mendelson, used his oversight powers to force the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to make changes over the past two weeks so that officers would properly explain and enforce the three year old firearms' laws.
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May 9, 2012
Gov. Rick Snyder has signed legislation allowing Michigan residents with concealed pistol licenses to carry a Taser as a nonlethal form of self protection.
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May 9, 2012
House Republicans, accusing President Obama of waging a war on gun owners, plan to cut off funding for an administration rule requiring firearms dealers in border states to report multiple sales of certain rifles.
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May 9, 2012
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has threatened bring the law down on any provincial or territorial chief firearms officer who insists on setting up a backdoor long gun registry.
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May 8, 2012
Gun toting residents of other states will be allowed to carry concealed weapons in Oklahoma under a bill signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin. Fallin on Monday signed the bill, which allows gun owners from states that don't require a permit to carry a concealed weapon in Oklahoma. Under the bill, the firearm must remain concealed and the person must have a valid identification to prove that he or she is a legal resident of a non permitting state.
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May 8, 2012
Pennsylvania gun customers won't be able to buy a firearm for three days later this month because the state's instant check system will be down. State police said the automated fingerprint identification system, known as AFIS, will be replaced.
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May 8, 2012
A spokeswoman for House oversight committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa told The Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric Holder could still avoid the contempt of Congress proceedings on the horizon -- if he cooperates with the congressional subpoena he's thus far failed to comply with.
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May 8, 2012
Media Matters’ Founder David Brock showed no shame when he was caught illegally using guns for his own personal protection. Indeed, Media Matters’ continues to lash out at others who own guns or support letting individuals use guns for the own protection, even increasing their attacks.
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