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AZ: Gun rights advocates and lawmakers meet to highlight firearm legislation
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“Gun-free zones may sound nice in theory, but they’re extremely dangerous,” she said. “As a gun owner, I’m confident in my ability to protect myself, and I know I’m an asset in protecting my family, because I’m always armed. I’m not scared, I’m prepared.”
SB 1012, sponsored by Republican state Sen. Janae Shamp, would allow people to carry a concealed handgun on retail premises, with the caveat that at restaurants, the carrier cannot consume “spirituous liquor.”
On Thursday morning in the Senate Majority Caucus room, lawmakers and advocates met to highlight SB 1012 and other firearms bills that have been introduced in the state Legislature. |
IL: Lawyers say D.C. court’s decision striking down large-capacity magazine ban should be applied to Illinois
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A recent decision from a local appellate court in Washington, D.C., striking down a ban on large-capacity magazines could have an impact on a pending case challenging a similar ban in Illinois.
In a memo filed March 11 with the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, lawyers for the gun industry asked a three-judge panel hearing the Illinois challenge to consider the case of Tyree Benson. His conviction for violating a local ordinance banning large-capacity magazines was recently overturned by the Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals on Second Amendment grounds. |
PA: Men found not guilty after claiming self defense in shooting that left one dead outside Allentown supermarket
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Two men charged in the shooting death of a man outside an Allentown supermarket nearly three years ago were found not guilty last week in Lehigh County Court.
Following a five-day trial, Adalberto Morales Ortiz, 48, of Bethlehem and his nephew, Axel Gadiel Fontanez-Morales, 24, of Whitehall Township, both were acquitted March 13 of homicide in the May 14, 2023, killing of Jose Tirado-Ramirez. Attorneys for the men contended that they acted in self-defense during the shooting that happened outside the C-Town Market on Tilghman Street. |
IL: 27-Year-Old Chicago Concealed Carrier Fatally Shoots 16-Year-Old During Armed Robbery
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The broad daylight of a Wednesday afternoon was shattered by gunfire in Chicago’s West Pullman neighborhood. At approximately 3:36 p.m. on March 18, 2026, Chicago Police Department (CPD) officers were dispatched to the 11700 block of South Normal Avenue following reports of a person shot.
According to investigators, a 27-year-old man was walking when he was approached by a 16-year-old male. The teenager allegedly pulled out a handgun and attempted to rob the man. However, the older man—who was also armed with a handgun—managed to draw his own firearm and shoot the teenager in the chest. |
CA: California Concedes: Sportsmen's Alliance Wins Major First, Second Amendment Victory
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The bill passed, and Sportsmen's Alliance Foundation, Safari Club International, Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, and So Cal Top Guns, with support from the National Rifle Association, immediately sued, alleging that the law violated the First, Second, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments. It took nearly two years and an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals before we were able to get a preliminary order enjoining the state from enforcing the law.
"The First Amendment provides different levels of protection to all forms of speech," said Michael Jean, Litigation Counsel for Sportsmen's Alliance Foundation. |
Nearly 30 million acquire guns amid pandemic, including 11 million first-time owners
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Although an early-pandemic surge in the number of U.S. adults who purchased firearms subsided after several years, there were still nearly 30 million people who acquired guns between 2021 and 2024—and more than 11 million of those were first-time gun owners, according to a new study. Further, a disproportionate share of the new gun owners were members of subgroups that typically hadn’t owned guns in the past, including women, Hispanic people, and people of color. |
LA: ‘A little frightening’: LSUA students react to proposed bill to allow guns on campus
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A bill that would allow guns on Louisiana college campuses is drawing strong reactions from students at Louisiana State University of Alexandria.
Republican lawmaker Danny McCormick filed House Bill 99, which would let anyone 18 or older who can legally own a gun carry one on campuses and inside school buildings.
Some students at LSUA said the idea makes them uneasy.
“I’d say it’s a little frightening, a little scary, just for my own safety,” Breanna Toups said. “It’s definitely a little surprising considering how many school shootings we have.” |
KY: 18-year-old Kentuckians could carry concealed guns under bill moving toward final passage
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But Republican Rep. Savannah Maddox from Dry Ridge says that by not allowing 18-year-olds to carry concealed weapons, Kentucky law creates a “dangerous inconsistency.”
She spoke before a Senate committee on her bill to allow 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds to obtain a license to carry concealed firearms.
“Citizens who are aged 18, 19, or 20 can legally vote, sign contracts, join the military, serve in combat, start a family, own a business and possess a firearm,” Maddox said. “Yet under current law, these adults are prohibited from carrying that same firearm concealed for self defense.” |
CA: Victory: California Concedes Youth Firearms Marketing Law Unconstitutional
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A four-year legal battle that saw the entire gun industry bend over backwards to comply is over, and California is on the losing side.
You know how most gun websites around lately have suddenly started asking users to verify they are over 18 years of age? The reason for that was just zapped by a federal court as being unconstitutional.
California Business and Professions Code Section 22949.80, passed as AB 2571 by the Democrat-controlled state Assembly and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in June 2022, provided for a civil penalty of $25,000 for any and each instance of firearm-related marketing to persons under the age of 18. |
Outing a psychiatry professor as anti-gun
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No one who truly values their Second Amendment rights should be worried that University of Michigan psychiatry professor Brian M. Hicks, PhD, is gaining fame and making money by passing off anti-gun propaganda as legitimate research, right?
After all, it’s a free country. Professor Hicks can make a dollar and a name for himself however he sees fit, right?
If the good professor twists some questionable data and bizarre opinions together and then calls it legitimate research, that too shouldn’t matter, right? |
WY: Governor's veto holds, spelling end to controversial Wyoming gun law changes
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Lawmakers failed to override Gov. Mark Gordon's veto of controversial changes to a Wyoming gun law that restricts enforcement of federal gun orders.
The override of Senate File 101, "Second amendment protection act amendments," failed Wednesday in a 12 to 18 Senate vote. The Senate needed 21 votes to override the governor's veto. There was no further debate on the bill itself.
Gordon vetoed Tuesday amendments to Wyoming's Second Amendment Protection Act that would have added a possible $50,000 penalty and civil option for challenging alleged violations of the law. |
How SBRs and SBSs Got Trapped in the NFA’s 1934 Gun Control Scheme
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Intense lobbying and public criticism forced a retreat. By May–June 1934, the handgun provisions were stripped from the revised bill (H.R. 9741). Congress concluded that ordinary citizens needed pistols and revolvers for home defense and should not be treated like gangsters. The NRA scored a major win here: handguns were exempted.
But the short-barrel provisions added only to plug a loophole around the now-deleted handgun ban stayed in the final law. No serious debate targeted them for removal. Sawed-off shotguns carried the stigma of crime; short rifles were lumped in as an afterthought. |
MN: Bill in MN Legislature would allow police to enter your home to inspect how guns are stored
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Gun rights advocates push back on a bill in the Minnesota Senate that would ban semi-automatic guns and large capacity magazines.
DFL State Senator Doctor Matt Klein’s legislation would have people who own those guns get them certified from the BCA and allow law enforcement to come into their home to make sure the guns are stored correctly.
“We know that guns are still the number on killer of children in America. In my days as a doctor at Hennepin County Medical Center, I saw those wounds firsthand,” Klein said. |
AZ: Arizona legislators promote new gun rights and safety bills
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Women supporting gun rights and safety – self-described “warrior women” – spoke in favor of three new Arizona bills Thursday morning during a news conference in Phoenix.
“I want to be very, very clear. The Second Amendment is not a suggestion. It is a promise carved in stone: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” state Sen. Janae Shamp, R-Surprise, told reporters as she discussed Senate Bill 1012, her legislation to remove unnecessary notification requirements for gun owners.
Shamp and the bill’s supporters say those requirements treat gun owners like suspects. |
FL: Why Florida law allows people to shoot guns in the backyard
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When someone started shooting guns in a suburban Hillsborough County backyard last fall, neighbors called law enforcement convinced there was no way that could be legal.
They learned how far off their assumptions were. Sheriff’s deputies visited and left, satisfied there was nothing to be done. The target practice continued.
Lawyers specializing in property law and gun rights told the Tampa Bay Times about three Florida laws that come into play in the situation, all of which developed during a time of heightened gun lobbying and legal changes in the 1990s and 2000s. |
IL: Illinois bill could ban sale of DIY machine guns
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A new bill in Springfield could ban the sale of DIY machine guns in Illinois.
The proposal would prohibit the future sale of semi-automatic handguns that can be easily converted into fully automatic weapons using switches.
Switches are illegal under state and federal law, but the devices are still widely available and found at many crime scenes.
Sponsors and advocates said it is time to close the loophole and hold gun manufacturers accountable. |
MO: St. Louis fights in court for the right to regulate how guns are stored in parked cars
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A Missouri appeals court is weighing whether the City of St. Louis can require gun owners to lock up their firearms if they want to leave them in an unattended parked vehicle.
The city approved its lock-up requirement in 2017 in response to a rash of cases in which guns stolen from cars were later used in crimes. In 2024, St. Louis resident Michael Roth's gun was stolen from the middle console of his locked car while he attended Mass at the Cathedral Basilica in the Central West End. When he reported the theft to police, he was cited for failing to keep the weapon in a locked box. |
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