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MI: Michigan House OKs expanded background check mandates for rifles, shotguns
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The Michigan House approved bills late Wednesday that would require a criminal background check and registration for any firearm purchase, expanding the requirements currently limited to handgun sales to also include rifles and shotguns.
The Democratic-led House passed the bill 56-53 along party lines.
Passage of the so-called universal background check legislation marks the first gun regulation policy to move through one of the Michigan Legislature's chambers since the Feb. 13 mass shooting at Michigan State University that left three students dead and five wounded.
Two other policies — red flag legislation and a safe store requirement for firearms in homes — remain in committee.... |
Canada: Black Man Dodges Jail Time After Killing 'Racist' Attacker In Self-Defense
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Judge Alison Weaver of the Ontario Court of Justice handed the 21-year-old a conditional sentence, citing the role of systemic anti-Black racism.
“Black Canadians face discrimination in every important sphere of life, including the justice system,” Wheeler said, adding that the attack inflicted a "significant moral harm" on Roberts. She explained that such harm was "compounded by the laying of the murder charge when in fact Mr. Roberts was the victim in those events." |
WA: Shawn Kemp booked into Pierce County Jail for drive-by shooting investigation
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Police said nobody was hurt in the shooting, and that the suspect initially identified as a 53-year-old man was detained at the scene.
Multiple sources confirm to FOX 13 News that Kemp is the suspect.
Sources close to Kemp told FOX 13's David Rose that he had property stolen from his car on Tuesday, tracked his iPhone to Tacoma on Wednesday and when he approached the vehicle, a suspect shot at him. He fired back in self-defense. |
CA: School Safety Concerns Aired After California Fatal Stabbing
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A Northern California school district heard concerns about campus safety Tuesday from students, parents, teachers and community members in the wake of a fatal stabbing at a high school, a day after the teenage suspect made his first appearance in court.
The 15-year-old freshman fatally stabbed one classmate and injured another last week in self-defense during a fight inside a classroom, prosecutors said. The attack stunned Santa Rosa, a city of about 175,000 residents in wine country 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of San Francisco. |
FL: SRSO offering free, 4-hour gun safety, maintenance and marksmanship course
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Do you have a gun and want to learn basic gun safety? Do you need to fulfill your firearms safety training to apply for a concealed carry permit?
The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office is offering a Citizens Firearm Safety class for anyone interested in learning about basic gun safety, and the four-hour class is free.
“I would recommend the class to anyone who is a first-time or novice shooter that wants to develop their fundamental skills,” said SRSO Capt. John Scholl. |
CA: Thanks to the Supreme Court, California gun cases hinge more on history than modern threats
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However, in the high-stakes legal battles currently being waged over California's bans in federal court — where decisions are anticipated soon — America's gruesome modern history with the powerful weapons hasn't been the focus. Instead, lawyers for the state and gun rights groups seeking to overturn the bans have been arguing over the relevance of much older laws governing very different weapons.
In the case over the assault weapons ban, recent filings have focused on a New Jersey law enacted in 1771 that prohibited people from setting up "trap guns" to fire at animals or intruders who tripped a rope. |
MN: Gun lobby flexing in greater Minnesota
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Here’s how the gun rights lobby is shrewdly working to shore up local opposition to gun control bills making their way through the DFL-majority Legislature.
Last month, newly elected Itasca County Board member John Johnson requested that a pro-Second Amendment resolution be added to the consent agenda. That was on a Saturday. The meeting was on Tuesday.
The consent agenda is typically used for ordinary, small-bore issues — an equipment purchase needed, an employee retiring, an undisputed land transaction, etc. |
WA: House Passes Waiting Period & Training Mandate Bill
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Late last night, after midnight, the House voted 52-44 to pass House Bill 1143, to impose a waiting period and training mandate for acquiring firearms, with an amendment to drop the permit requirement in earlier iterations of the bill. It will now move to the Senate, where the NRA will continue to adamantly oppose it, for further consideration. Please contact your state senator and ask them to OPPOSE HB 1143. |
OR: NRA Testifies Against Anti-Gun Propaganda Bill
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This bill requires school districts to provide specified information related to secure storage of medications and firearms, but it tasks the Oregon Health Authority to make this “information” available to school districts. They are not a subject matter expert on firearms and nothing in the bill prevents them from simply distributing anti-gun propaganda to impressionable young children. In addition, the bill requires that such “information” must be provided on social media. As social media platforms are known to censor or throttle anything firearm related, this presents an avenue for them to impose their biases on what sort of “information” parents and students receive. |
CO: Gun bills likely to face legal challenges if passed
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Not one, not two but three gun measures were in committee on Wednesday. Although the bills are moving through the Capitol, several are already facing questions about their legality.
Families of gun violence victims came out in handfuls Wednesday to testify on bills in committee, calling on lawmakers to do something. Some experts on constitutional rights say the bills may face a tough time outside the Capitol. |
MI: Committees Hearing Radical Gun Control Schemes Again
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Today, starting at 3:00PM EST, the House Judiciary Committee will hold another hearing for three gun control bill packages corresponding with the bills in the Senate. Tomorrow, starting at 11:00AM EST, the Senate Civil Rights, Judiciary and Public Safety Committee will hear their three gun control bill packages. These criminalize private transfers, require firearms be made unavailable for self-defense, and allow Second Amendment rights to be suspended without due process.
It remains unclear if Second Amendment supporters will finally get a chance to express their views and testify against these bills. Last week, the committees suppressed opposition. |
NM: Anaya acquitted of murder in DJ's death; jury deadlocks on manslaughter
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After spending the prior evening listening to music, drinking and smoking marijuana, Anaya testified, he went to sleep on Gurule's couch. He woke up later to discover the friend was sexually assaulting him, he said.
When he asked Gurule to stop, Gurule became even more sexually aggressive, Anaya said.
The encounter led to a fight that left Anaya beaten so badly, he said, that after several attempts to escape a headlock that was suffocating him, he grabbed a gun out of a pocket and shot Gurule.
"I felt at the time that I exhausted all of my options. I tried everything — I couldn't breathe," Anaya told the court Monday. |
NM: Bill to help stop minors from accessing firearms heads to NM governor
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Gun safety legislation is on its way to the governor’s desk for a signature.
Bennie’s Bill, which would make it a crime for allowing a firearm to be accessible to a minor, passed with concurrence through the House by a vote of 34-28 on Wednesday evening.
The bill was named after Bennie Hargove, a middle school student whose classmate fatally shot him in 2021 using his father’s gun.
This bill would make it a misdemeanor for anyone to negligently have a firearm be accessible to a minor, and a fourth-degree felony if the minor who uses the gun significantly harms another person or themself. |
LA: New Orleans homeowner arrested after allegedly shooting at suspected car thieves
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Instead, it will come down to whether or not Peters was threatened or had reason to fear for his life before opening fire.
"And really, that turns on these facts, whether he believed that the offenders here were armed and dangerous -- and apparently they were guns in the car, but whether they brandished the guns or he otherwise saw them possessing the guns remains to be seen," Ciolino said.
Officers searching the stolen vehicle later found glass breakers, gloves, ski masks, burglary tools, IDs belonging to other people, two stolen guns, ammunition, knives and equipment used to steal Hyundais and Kia vehicles. |
MD: After High Court's action, a MD bill to tighten our concealed carry law
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Today on Midday, a closer look at efforts in the Maryland legislature to rewrite state regulations governing the concealed carry of firearms in public.
The move in Annapolis comes in response to last year's controversial 6-3 ruling by the US Supreme Court striking down New York’s restrictions on concealed-carry gun permits.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the majority opinion that the state requirement for individuals to show “proper cause” to get concealed-carry gun permits violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments. |
IL: Bid to block Illinois' new assault weapons ban now before federal appeals court
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The federal appeals court in Chicago has its first opportunity to weigh in on Illinois’ controversial assault weapons ban, as challenges to the law continue to advance.
Naperville gunshop owner Robert Bevis asked the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an injunction against the law late Tuesday. He wants the order in place while he appeals a recent ruling from U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall who found the law to be "constitutionally sound."
Bevis asked that the injunction, if granted, apply to everyone affected by the state law.
The case appears to be the first to challenge the ban in the federal appellate court. |
The New Foldable Smith & Wesson FPC 9mm Folding Pistol Carbine
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Compact 9mm Carbines are insanely popular for a number of reasons. For outdoorsmen and ranchers, they are great tools to have as part of your toolset for hunting, post control, and even self-defense should the need arise. Smith & Wesson has just announced their own addition to the category with the introduction of the new M&P FPC or Folding Pistol Carbine. The FPC is a 9mm blowback PCC that takes standard Smith & Wesson M&P magazines and will also come complete with its own carrying case, two 23-round magazines, and an additional 17-round magazine. |
WA: Second Amendment essay left out important part of amendment
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Further, let’s not forget the racist origins of this amendment. It was the southern slave owning states that wanted this provision, as they were not confident the federal government would help them keep their slaves in order so felt it necessary to have state militias to do so. Finally, in all the talk of the need for “originalism” as a means to interpret the Constitution, something Branthoover didn’t explicitly mention, lets consider that, at the time the Constitution was written, there were only muskets. |
MO: Federal judge rules Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act unconstitutional; AG to appeal
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“As Attorney General,” Bailey wrote in promising an appeal, “I will protect the Constitution, which includes defending Missourians’ fundamental right to bear arms. We are prepared to defend this statute to the highest court and we anticipate a better result at the Eighth Circuit. The Second Amendment is what makes the rest of the amendments possible. If the state legislature wants to expand upon the foundational rights codified in the Second Amendment, they have the authority to do that. But SAPA is also about the Tenth Amendment. It’s about federalism and individual liberty, so we will be appealing the court’s ruling.” |
MO: Why it matters that a federal court rejected a Missouri GOP gun law
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It was a couple of years ago when Missouri’s Republican governor, Mike Parson, appeared at a gun store to sign a bill designed to discourage enforcement of federal gun laws. In fact, the state measure empowered private citizens to sue local police departments for $50,000 for incidents in which the police enforced laws that allegedly infringed on the Second Amendment.
The same GOP law said the state wouldn’t enforce federal gun laws that exceed state gun laws. |
FL: Florida GOP leaders make it clear that they don’t support ‘open carry’ legislation this year
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made it clear once again on Tuesday that he would sign legislation including what’s called “open carry” — the practice of carrying openly visible firearms in public — but he also added that it would be up to legislative leaders to send him such a bill.
Currently, lawmakers are pursuing a permitless or “constitutional” carry proposal that is making its way through the GOP-controlled Legislature.
“Now I’m going to sign what they do,” DeSantis said to reporters. “So if they do a permitless bill and that gets to my desk, you know I’m not going to veto that because it didn’t necessarily have everything I want.” |
WA: House Passes Assault Weapons Ban
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A bill to ban the sale of assault weapons is moving forward in the Washington Legislature after years of being stalled.
The House passed the measure 55-42 largely on party lines, with all four Republicans representing Chelan and Douglas counties voting against it.
Seventh District Representative Jacqueline Maycumber took issue with language stating the gun industry marketed the weapons as "hyper masculine." |
Why Black people own guns
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Maj Toure gets straight to the point. “Does anyone have any gun trauma?” he asked. “Anyone have any PTSD with guns before I take mine out?”
He stood before three slightly damp people who were shaking their heads no. Two women and a teenage boy had arrived at Toure’s Solutionary Center, a nonprofit focused on combating crime, during a downpour on a Saturday afternoon in December for a private class on guns and the Second Amendment. |
AZ: Republicans push to allow concealed guns onto Arizona school campuses
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A trio of GOP gun measures won approval from lawmakers Wednesday, including a measure that would allow people with concealed weapon permits to bring firearms onto Arizona school campuses.
The Judiciary Committee in the state House of Representatives passed three bills put forward by pro-gun advocates. The committee is chaired by Rep. Quang Nguyen, R-Prescott Valley, who works as a volunteer coach for the Arizona Scorpions Junior High-Power Rifle team and also serves as president of the Arizona State Rifle and Pistol Association. |
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