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Rounds, Johnson re-introduce “Traveler’s Gun Rights Act”
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U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) and U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) have re-introduced the Traveler’s Gun Rights Act. The legislation strengthens Second Amendment rights to allow law-abiding RV-ers, active-duty military, military spouses, and others who rely on a P.O. Box for their primary mailing address to obtain a firearm. |
TN: Controversial gun bill may lower age for permitless carry to 18 years old
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Wednesday a vote on HB1005 that would expand permitless gun carrying to 18 years olds was delayed.
It’s a momentary pause that’s giving the bill’s opponents some breathing room.
“They just ran out of time in committee," Linda McFadyen-Ketchum with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense TN said. "It’ll be back on Wednesday. So, what we are doing is making sure everybody in our network knows that this is going on.” |
FL: Florida Law Requiring Gun Buyers to Be 21 Is Upheld
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“Tragically, under-21-year-old gunmen continue to intentionally target others—now, with disturbing regularity, in schools,” Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum wrote on March 9 for a mostly unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta. “So along with math, English, and science, schoolchildren must become proficient in running, hiding, and fighting armed gunmen in schools. Their lives depend upon it.” |
MI: Gun rights supporters plan nonpartisan protest at State Capitol
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Second Amendment advocates in Michigan are planning a protest against firearm restrictions outside the State Capitol in Lansing this weekend. The organizer wants the event to remain nonpartisan.
Last month’s deadly mass shooting at Michigan State University has spurred many Democratic lawmakers into action. They’ve introduced legislation to implement universal background checks, extreme risk protection orders and safe storage requirements in an effort to curb gun violence. |
IL: Naperville Gun Shop Owner Appeals Ruling On Assault Weapon Ban
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The owner of a Naperville gun shop is appealing a judge’s decision earlier this year that will allow the city’s ban on semi-automatic assault weapons to go into effect, which has a direct bearing on business owners who deal in firearms.
Robert Bevis, who owns Law Weapons & Supply, filed an injunction pending appeal on Tuesday that seeks to have the city’s ordinance and a statewide ban on certain weapons blocked until lawsuits regarding the constitutionality of the law can be settled in the courts. |
CO: Colorado Republicans’ all-night filibuster sought to stall gun reform, safe drug-use site bills
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More than 16 hours after they entered the House chamber, Colorado lawmakers advanced two controversial bills regulating guns and drug use in the early morning hours Friday, ending a marathon session of often emotional debate about how to best save lives amid dueling public health crises.
House Republicans had pledged to fight the Democrat-backed bills, one of which would enact a minimum three-day waiting period for buying a gun, and the other would allow local governments to open safe-use drug sites. They made good on those threats Thursday: Debate on the gun measure began at 1:30 p.m. and ended at 2:30 the next morning. |
CO: Committee Advances Three Anti-Gun Bills to Senate Floor
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On Wednesday, the Senate State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Committee voted to pass three anti-gun bills and sent them to the Senate floor. They expand Colorado’s “red flag” gun confiscations, deny Second Amendment rights to young adults, and seek to bankrupt the firearms industry. The Senate will hold floor votes on them today.
In the early AM hours of Friday, the House held a second reading for House Bill 23-1219, to allow for indefinite delays of firearm transfers, and voted in favor of it. It can now advance to a third reading and vote for final passage. |
Why This Bank CEO Likes the Gun Code That Is Making Credit Card Companies Skittish
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On March 9, the major U.S. credit card companies, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express, announced that they were not going ahead with implementing a new code that identifies purchases from gun stores as different from purchases from big-box or other outdoor stores. The code, approved in September 2022 by the International Organization of Standardization (ISO), which regulates the international protocols by which credit companies abide, has been the subject of intense criticism from Republican lawmakers. |
WA: Critics warn of firearms database if Washington House bill becomes law
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The Washington House has passed a bill that would create a 10-day waiting period for firearm purchases and tasks the state Department of Licensing, or DOL, of collecting data on every firearm transfer.
While supporters view it as a way to prevent mass shootings, critics warn this it actually undermine public safety while creating what amounts to a government database on firearm ownership managed by a state agency with a recent history of cybersecurity issues. |
CO: Bill to raise age limit on firearms purchases gets major rewrite
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The state Senate is on Friday debating three gun bills that cleared committees this week, and one is set to get a major rewrite.
Senate Bill 169 is the measure that would raise the age limit for purchasing most firearms from 18 to 21.
The bill as introduced spelled out what kinds of firearms someone under the age of 21 would be prohibited from either buying or possessing. |
FL: Florida Legislature’s wrong priorities for 2023
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Despite a series of mass shootings in recent years, lawmakers are fast-tracking a bill to enable more Floridians to carry concealed weapons. House Bill 543 is only steps away from becoming law even before the session begins, with only one additional Senate committee stop before a full floor vote, and no other committees to move through in the House.
The legislation would allow qualified Floridians to carry a concealed weapon without a permit and without training (though it does not go so far as to allow open carry of guns). |
MI: Michigan police claim man who fatally shot intruder was acting in self defense
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Police in central Michigan say an apartment resident acted in self-defense when they fatally shot a man breaking into their apartment.
A person made a distress call about the break-in about 9:40 p.m. Wednesday from the Georgetown Estates Apartments in Battle Creek, police said.
The intruder, Donald Richard Guthrie, 40, of Fulton, was taken to Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo where he was pronounced dead, police said. |
‘Legal Lynching’: ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Reflect Legacy Of White Supremacist Vigilantism In Deep South
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Krista Dolan, senior supervising attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Criminal Justice Reform Project, said SYG laws are consistent with the country’s racist criminal justice system and the legacy of Jim Crow.
“The discriminatory impact of ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws on Black victims exacerbates a legal system that is already wrought with racial inequity: Nonwhite people are stopped, racially profiled, searched and arrested by police at higher rates than white people and more likely to be sentenced to greater terms than white people,” Dolan said. |
WV: West Virginia Ends Session With Bills on Education, Guns, PFAS
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Education, guns and distracted driving were among the topics in legislation advancing on the West Virginia Senate floor on Thursday, March 9, as the 2023 legislative session heads to its close on Saturday.
The Senate took up HB 3035, dealing with "high-quality education programs " and create a "multi-tiered system of support intervention for grade-level literacy and numeracy by the end of the third grade." |
MN: Gun control is an attack on Constitutional rights
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Democrats at the Capitol are once again working to strip Minnesotans of their Constitutional right to arm and defend themselves.
The Second Amendment is clear: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Yet despite this clear right and the fact that the Supreme Court has upheld it for many years, Democrats are trying to limit access to firearms for law-abiding gun owners. |
TN: Bill aims to rename state’s handgun carry permit
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House Bill 1005 would change “handgun” to “firearm” in Tennessee Code.
“Basically three different things, by changing our language, not creating any new crimes or relieving any crimes that we currently have on the books, but relieving that infringement on the Second Amendment, allowing 18 to 20-year-olds to carry Constitutionally and with permit as we have been ordered by court,” said Rep. Chris Todd during the Civil Justice Committee on Wednesday. |
CT: ‘Expansive’ Connecticut Gun Control Bills Would Do Nothing to Deter Criminals
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NSSF’s President and CEO Joe Bartozzi had a few words for Connecticut lawmakers considering Gov. Ned Lamont’s gun control proposals. Bartozzi testified and used every second of his allotted time to explain how wrong the governor’s proposals are and how they would only severely penalize law-abiding residents in the Constitution State.
Bartozzi was joined by NSSF’s Jake McGuigan, Managing Director for Government Relations – State Affairs. McGuigan focused on the folly of considering unworkable microstamping requirements for handguns sold in Connecticut. |
MD: Federal appeals court skeptical of Maryland handgun rules
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A federal appeals court appeared skeptical during an argument Friday that Maryland's rules for purchasing handguns could survive a legal challenge in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year expanding gun rights.
The argument, before a three-judge panel of the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is one of many disputes over how to apply the Supreme Court's sweeping decision last year in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen to state laws regulating gun ownership. |
NY: No charges will be filed in stabbing death of Buffalo State student Tyler Lewis
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The Erie County District Attorney said Friday that no one will be charged in the death of Buffalo State student Tyler Lewis because the grand jury ruled his killing as justifiable.
“It makes me sick to my stomach,” Lewis’ mother Roquishia Lewis said. “There's no justification for murder.”
John Flynn said at least four people involved in the incident were planning to rob a marijuana dealer by making a deal with counterfeit cash on the night of October 14, but then it went wrong. A fight apparently broke out between Lewis, his four friends, and the dealer. |
TX: Texas bill requiring 10-year prison sentences for gun felonies faces opposition
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A Texas bill that would require a 10-year prison sentence for people who use a gun while committing a felony has drawn concern from two groups that aren’t usually on the same side of legislative debates: criminal justice reform advocates and gun rights groups.
Senate Bill 23, filed Thursday by state Sen. Joan Huffman, would also bar judges from sentencing those convicted of using or brandishing firearms during felonies to community supervision or parole in lieu of a decade in prison. |
West Coast, Messed Coast™: the Left's Unconstitutional Assault on Guns
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Now, Leftist lawmakers, perhaps upset over the Supreme Court decision aborting the Roe and Casey decisions, are actively defying the Bruen decision affirming citizens’ rights to keep and bear arms, an explicit right found in the U.S. Constitution.
I reported at the time that Justice Clarence Thomas clarified that the Second Amendment is not a “second-class right.” |
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