http://www.nraila.org/News/60http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3917As we reported last week, the U.S. Department of the Interior has issued a proposed rule to eliminate the prohibition on Right-to-Carry in national parks and wildlife refuges. The National Rifle Association led the effort to change this policy and we are very close to winning this important battle.Legislative AlertsFri, 09 May 2008 19:01:20 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3916A story in today’s New York Sun, (http://www2.nysun.com/new-york/gag-on-2nd-amendment-is-citys-aim-in-guns-suit/) demonstrates that gun-hating Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s disdain for the Constitution isn’t just limited to his abhorrence of the Second Amendment. Legislative AlertsFri, 09 May 2008 18:58:57 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3915Starting Friday, May 9, the NRA will begin collecting applications for specialized NRA license plate for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The Kentucky Department of Motor Vehicles will only produce the plates if they receive at least 900 applications for the NRA license plate.Legislative AlertsFri, 09 May 2008 15:11:50 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3914Three threats to our Second Amendment rights are still pending action in the California Legislature and we must take action today to preserve our freedoms. Legislative AlertsFri, 09 May 2008 13:43:09 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3913This past week, the Senate approved Senate Bill 142, sponsored by State Senator Stephen Scalise (R-9). SB 142, the NRA-backed concealed carry permit confidentiality bill now heads to the House for consideration. Please keep checking your email and www.NRAILA.org for further updates on this legislation.Legislative AlertsFri, 09 May 2008 13:21:18 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3912Tuesday, May 20 is Primary Election Day in Arkansas. Please be sure to go to the polls and “Vote Freedom First.” Legislative AlertsFri, 09 May 2008 11:37:40 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3911Tuesday, May 20 is Primary Election Day in the Bluegrass State. Please be sure to go to the polls and “Vote Freedom First.” For candidate ratings and endorsements, please call the NRA-ILA Grassroots Division at (800) 392-VOTE (8683) or visit www.NRAPVF.org. Legislative AlertsFri, 09 May 2008 10:48:46 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3910The Connecticut Legislature adjourned Wednesday, May 7 after an unusual legislative year. Legislative AlertsFri, 09 May 2008 10:39:10 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3909The House could take up Senate Bill 1007, which would ban the manufacture, possession, delivery, sale, and purchase of standard capacity ammunition magazines capable of holding more than ten (10) cartridges. Legislative AlertsFri, 09 May 2008 10:36:17 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3908House Bill 2453, sponsored by State Representative Eric Swafford (R-25), would create a National Rifle Association license plate allocating 50% of the funds toward hunter education.Legislative AlertsFri, 09 May 2008 10:33:33 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11025Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during the upcoming trial of a gun shop owner who was sued by the city. While trials are often tightly choreographed, with lawyers routinely instructed to not tell certain facts to a jury, a gag order on a section of the Constitution would be an oddity.NewsFri, 09 May 2008 10:22:31 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11024If you doubt the transformational power of Barack Obama, consider the change that he’s affected on Hillary Clinton. The New York Senator came into the 2008 race with a nearly perfect anti-gun rights voting record, following her White House tenure on behalf of the most aggressively anti-Second Amendment administration in American history.NewsFri, 09 May 2008 10:22:00 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11023By the time Hillary Clinton figured out how to beat Barack Obama, it was too late. When she began the race in 2007 thinking she was in for a coronation, she claimed the center in order to position herself for the real fight, the general election. She simply assumed the party activists and loony left would fall in behind her.NewsFri, 09 May 2008 10:21:24 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11022Postcards with a picture of a handgun and children as targets started appearing in mailboxes and on windshields in a few central Lake County towns this week. The postcards, distributed by representatives of the Brady Campaign, a national gun control advocacy group, criticize Republican state Rep. Sandy Cole of Grayslake for voting against legislation that would require background checks on all handgun sales.NewsFri, 09 May 2008 10:20:34 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11021In a sad effort to exploit the death of a police officer to advance their anti-gun agenda, Mayor Nutter and Gov. Rendell called upon Congress to enact a new bun ban. But the most important thing for residents in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania is to ask their governor and their mayor why career criminals are on the streets.NewsFri, 09 May 2008 10:16:36 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11020The Metropolitan Police Department has joined other major U.S. cities in arming patrol officers with assault rifles to protect them against criminals with high-powered weapons, weeks after being released from a federal program that monitors the use of excessive force.NewsFri, 09 May 2008 10:16:02 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3684Continuing concern about the treatment of firearm dealers by BATFE has caused members of the U.S. House of Representatives -- with NRA-ILA’s full support -- to push for new and improved reform legislation. That push has taken the form of H.R. 4900 -- the "Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Reform and Firearms Modernization Act." Legislative AlertsFri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11019"Ohioans should have the ability to use force and, if necessary, deadly force to defend themselves and their family against a violent intruder in their home, writes Senator John Carey. "That belief is the genesis behind an important bill passed by the Senate in recent weeks. Senate Bill 184, legislation I am proud to cosponsor, would establish Ohio`s `Castle Doctrine.`"NewsThu, 08 May 2008 10:07:31 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11018Demand for concealed handgun licenses has risen nearly 40 percent in Texas in a year, an increase being attributed to many factors, even presidential politics.NewsThu, 08 May 2008 10:07:01 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11017Right now Illinois and Wisconsin are the only two states in the U.S. that entirely outlaw citizens carrying concealed firearms. But two Winnebago County board members are pushing a proposal to change that, starting with Winnebago County.NewsThu, 08 May 2008 10:06:16 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11016The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is forging ahead with its "Hunting with Hounds in Virginia: A Way Forward" study designed to examine the issue of hunting with dogs.NewsThu, 08 May 2008 10:05:42 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11016Hunting and ConservationThu, 08 May 2008 10:05:42 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11015A measure supporting residents` right to own guns is under consideration in some area counties. A group of gun-rights advocates is bringing the non-binding resolution before county boards across the state. The measure would affirm citizens` Second Amendment protections in order to send a message to state lawmakers.NewsThu, 08 May 2008 10:03:51 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3907Legislative AlertsWed, 07 May 2008 15:04:09 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3906Assembly Bill 2948 is en route to the Assembly floor for deliberation and could be voted on as soon as TOMORROW, Thursday, May 8. Sponsored by State Assembly Member Mark Leno (D-13), AB2948 would ban the sale of firearms and ammunition on the property or inside the buildings that comprise the Cow Palace.Legislative AlertsWed, 07 May 2008 14:52:31 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3905The House Administration of Criminal Justice Committee was scheduled to hear arguments for House Bill 68 and House Bill 78, both sponsored by State Representative Cedric Richmond (D-New Orleans).Legislative AlertsWed, 07 May 2008 13:43:55 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11014Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, will address the National Rifle Association`s annual convention at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville on May 16.NewsWed, 07 May 2008 10:33:42 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11013Even with their flawed assumptions exposed, what is especially insidious is that gun control does not work. The results of their policies are abject failures. Whether in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, New York or Chicago, gun control does not work.NewsWed, 07 May 2008 10:32:59 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11012With the other party still waist-deep in its presidential nomination fight, John McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, has been quietly courting the white working-class Democrats who have proved elusive for Barack Obama, his most likely rival in the fall.NewsWed, 07 May 2008 10:32:28 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11011John McCain steps out of his comfort zone Tuesday to address his judicial philosophy, a hot-button matter for social conservatives that encompasses abortion, guns and gay rights -- all topics on which Sen. McCain has rankled the right.NewsWed, 07 May 2008 10:31:57 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=11010Hunting and ConservationWed, 07 May 2008 10:31:15 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/Releases.aspx?ID=11009Hunting and ConservationTue, 06 May 2008 16:26:59 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3904On Monday, May 5, the Oklahoma Senate passed Senate Joint Resolution 38, a measure authored by State Senator Glenn Coffee (R-30) and State Representative Randy Terril (R-53), by a vote of 46 to 0!Hunting and ConservationTue, 06 May 2008 16:24:44 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3904On Monday, May 5, the Oklahoma Senate passed Senate Joint Resolution 38, a measure authored by State Senator Glenn Coffee (R-30) and State Representative Randy Terril (R-53), by a vote of 46 to 0!Legislative AlertsTue, 06 May 2008 16:24:44 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3901On Monday, May 5, by a vote of 30 to 4, the Missouri Senate passed House Bill 2034, authored by State Representative Brian Munzlinger (R-1). Hunting and ConservationMon, 05 May 2008 22:40:03 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3899On April 30, the U.S. Department of Interior, through the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, issued a proposed rule to amend the current strict regulations on firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges.Hunting and ConservationFri, 02 May 2008 19:17:49 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3896NRA moved today with other sportsmens’ organizations to intervene in a federal lawsuit with significant implications on the hunting community.Hunting and ConservationFri, 02 May 2008 19:15:58 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3891On Wednesday, April 30, the Senate Agriculture, Conservation, Parks & Natural Resources Committee passed House Bill 2034, authored by Representative Brian Munzlinger (R-1). Hunting and ConservationFri, 02 May 2008 15:09:13 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3887Thanks to your calls and attendance at last weeks meeting of The Colorado Wildlife Commission in Junction City, the Prairie Dog Hunting Ban was defeated.Hunting and ConservationFri, 02 May 2008 13:36:18 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=10991Hunting and ConservationFri, 02 May 2008 09:53:16 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=10990Hunting and ConservationFri, 02 May 2008 09:43:41 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3879On Friday, April 26, the Iowa General Assembly adjourned for the 2008 legislative session. Unfortunately, with this being an election year, legislators chose not to move forward on two important pro-Second Amendment and hunting-related bills. Hunting and ConservationTue, 29 Apr 2008 15:52:36 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3876Slowly but surely they’re going after all hunters -- This time local politicians are responding to the anti-hunting crowd that will try anything to shut down hunting. IF THEY PICK US OFF ONE AT A TIME, soon there will be nothing left for sportsmen. If you can't hunt alligators with an airboat, how long will it be before they won't let you hunt with live ammunition? Hunting and ConservationSat, 26 Apr 2008 14:59:48 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3870The Charles City County Board of Supervisors voted 2 to 1 to ban the use of centerfire rifles for deer hunting throughout the county.Hunting and ConservationFri, 25 Apr 2008 12:33:34 GMThttp://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3867By an overwhelming bipartisan by a vote of 97 to 2, the House of Representatives approved SJR38, authored by Senate Co-Pro Tem Glenn Coffee (R-30) and State Representative Randy Terrill (R-53).Hunting and ConservationFri, 25 Apr 2008 12:28:53 GMT