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SD: What will legislature do on gun rights?
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Though the new President will be decidely pro-Second Amendment, that doesn't mean gun issues are going away.
Rep.-elect Kevin Jensen (R-Canton)--a certified firearms instructor--says "Constitutional" (permitless) carry will probably come up in the legislature, which convenes next week in Pierre.
He also says you'll probably see a move by Congress to have reciprocity among states that grant concealed carry permits, but that could get complicated by states with strict gun laws like New York, California, and Illinois. |
NY: Democratic Lawmakers Send Gun Show Ban Bill to Full Board
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Citing a national rise in gun violence over the years, outraged Democrats on the Board of Legislators on Tuesday moved a bill to ban a gun show scheduled at the County Center for later this month.
The Northeast Gun Show would take place on Jan. 21-22 at the White Plains venue but the Legislation, Labor/ Parks/Planning/Housing and Public Safety & Social Services committees are sending a measure to the full board for its next meeting this Monday, Jan. 9 that would prohibit gun shows at all county-owned property, including the County Center. |
Urge Your Senators to Confirm Jeff Sessions
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Dear Second Amendment Supporter,
I need your help. President-elect Trump has nominated Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as Attorney General of the United States! That's great news for all of us who cherish our right to keep and bear arms. But Sessions is being attacked for his support of the Second Amendment and law enforcement.
Please contact your U.S. Senators—urge them to support your firearms freedom by voting for a true defender of our right to keep and bear arms! |
TX: Not all Texans on board with eliminating open carry permits
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Not everyone is on board with the idea of eliminating permits for open carry of handguns, even here in Texas.
But that may soon become a reality in our state.
This idea is called constitutional carry and is legal in 11 other states.
Republican State Representative Jonathan Stickland has filed a bill to make constitutional carry legal in Texas for this coming legislative term, and is confident it will pass.
But some Amarillo residents are not on board with getting rid of gun permits.
If constitutional carry is approved, the state will no longer require any training, licensing or fees to openly carry a handgun. |
Farenthold introduces bill protecting gun rights for military families
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Congressman Blake Farenthold introduced a new bill on Capital Hill to protect Second Amendment rights for military families.
The "Protect Our Military Families' Second Amendment Rights Act" allows spouses of active-duty service members to purchase firearms in the state where they live due to military orders.
Currently, the Gun Control Act of 1968 mandates that citizens can legally purchase a handgun in the state where they are considered residents. Exceptions were made for active-duty military members, but not their spouses. |
Nearly One Billion Dollars: One Volunteer, One Community at a Time
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Friends of Freedom is a nationwide, multi-media, mission-based campaign highlighting the dynamic faces behind our mission – those who push forward with tireless energy to protect our Second Amendment freedoms and those who are impacted by that fearless drive to foster the future of the shooting sports on local, state, and national levels.
Building something of national impact and from the ground up takes time. But wow… those years have flown by! Looking back over 25 years of the Friends of NRA grassroots fundraising events, I stand with all of the dedicated volunteers and staff to give hearty congratulations for all the great work and critical funds that have been raised. |
Colt Revives The Gold Cup National Match .45 ACP
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Nostalgia or practicality? I’m certainly not sure which one but my shooting spirit is happy to see many old classics have come back. Colt in recent years has brought back the New Frontier which had not been seen since 1982 and now they offer the 1911 Gold Cup National Match.
In the early 1960’s, a time which found me spending my days at the university and my nights in a tire factory to support my family consisting of the young girl who would someday be known as Diamond Dot and three pre-school age children, I lusted, really lusted after a New Frontier and the Gold Cup. |
OH: Ohio State student shot dead near campus
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Tarak Andrew Underiner wanted OH college students to have the right to carry guns on campus so they could defend themselves in risky situations - say, leaving the library late at night and traveling home alone.
WSYX, Columbus' ABC affiliate, reported that officers responded to 28 E. Northwood Avenue around 12:30 a.m after someone called 911 saying a friend was shot. Underiner was pronounced dead before 1 a.m.
A person inside the building reported the shooting and stated that someone ran out the door after multiple shots were fired. |
New Year’s Resolutions, Carry Life Style
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On to 2017! We hope all Carry Lifers had a fine Christmas (or Hanukkah, or holiday) and are into a happy, healthy, hopeful New Year. Certainly, the thought of four years without a Sword of Damocles hanging over the Second Amendment is a very welcome prospect for the coming months at least.
We reveled in some great traditions through our holiday, and now invoke, or at least recommend, another—some resolutions for the New Year, vis a vis the Carry Life. |
MN: Story on 'gun rush' by minorities lacked evidence
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The only evidence of a “rush” on guns by Somalis and other minorities is the word of gun lobbyist Andrew Rothman and the existence of one minority gun group.
There may or may not have been any such rush on guns. You’ve got to hand it to Rothman, however. He scored, with no proof, a front-page story normalizing gun carrying for a market the gun lobby has been unsuccessfully pursuing for years. |
New Reciprocity Bill: Gun Rights Shouldn't End At The State Line
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An important national Right-to-Carry reciprocity bill has been introduced in the U.S. Congress, and the measure is receiving whole-hearted support from the National Rifle Association.
Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., introduced the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 on Tuesday, Congress’ first day in session for 2017. The measure, officially known as H.R. 38, would eliminate the current confusing patchwork of state carry laws by allowing individuals who possess concealed-carry permits from their home state or who are not prohibited from carrying concealed in their home state to exercise those rights in any other state that does not prohibit concealed carry. |
TX: Road Rage In Dallas Leads To Punch, Stupid Shooting
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Oh, dear.
I’m expecting both men to end up being charged here.
The driver who had the gun was relatively safe inside his vehicle as he traveled on the expressway. His decision to pull over onto the shoulder of the expressway so that he and the man following him directly contributed to the confrontation.
The idiot who pulled over behind him is culpable for turning a driving dispute into a criminal assault. |
Sen. Jeff Sessions will fight for the Second Amendment
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For the last eight years, Americans who care about the Second Amendment and our right to self-defense have faced an administration intent on dismantling those freedoms. The gun control lobby, funded by billionaires like Michael Bloomberg, tried to turn the 2016 election into a referendum on the Second Amendment — and they lost. Now, due in no small part to the efforts of the National Rifle Association and our members, law-abiding gun owners can look forward to a president who respects our rights. In that regard, we should all be happy about President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions to be the next attorney general.
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) Wants to Repeal Gun-Free School Zones Act
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has relaunched the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus, as I reported last month. Today he announces the re-introduction of an old Ron Paul bill to further the Caucus' goals, this one to repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 (as amended after aspects of the original bill were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court under the Commerce Clause in U.S. v. Lopez. The usual handwaving about how the guns affected by law must have moved in or just "affected" interstate commerce was added in 1996.). |
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Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. — James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46 |
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