This was originally published in The Daily Brief, our Maine politics newsletter. Sign up here for daily news and insight from politics editor Michael Shepherd. The Legislature is defined in part by bills brought back every two years with little chance of passage. For a long time, repealing Maine’s ban on Sunday hunting was one of those
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On Saturday night, the Legislature adjourned sine die from its 2022 session. During this session, they passed House Bill 4048, the WV Keep, Bear and Drive with Arms Act, and sent it to Governor Jim Justice for his signature. On March 9th, Governor Jim Justice signed HB 4048 into law. It will go into effect on
On Nov. 3, 2016, we answered, affirmatively, the question of whether a modern democratic republic like the United States could actually choose a psychopath as the head of the government, as Germany had in 1933 when it installed Adolf Hitler as chancellor. On Jan. 6, we answered — negatively, one hopes — the second question,
American gun sales regularly follow a boom and bust cycle, and a pandemic boom was predictable. The people buying were not. A December 2021 study found about half of the new gun owners were women and half were a racial minority. Second Amendment activists have welcomed the added diversity as an expansion of their cause. But guns mean
Eastern Europeans are increasingly exercising their natural right to keep and bear arms. In late February NRA-ILA noted the Ukrainian government’s plans to arm ordinary citizens as part of the national defense against the Russian invasion. This week came news of soaring guns sales in the nearby Baltic state of Lithuania. According to a report
As we reported last week, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”) denied approximately 850 Form 1 applications for prospective makers of suppressors on February 28. These denials were apparently made due to a change in ATF policy regarding certain devices that ATF claims are in reality suppressor “parts kits.” The Form 1
According to several media reports, on March 3 California Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-09) was traveling through a security checkpoint at Sacramento International Airport when the Transportation Security Administration found a loaded gun in his baggage. The Sacramento Bee reported that the firearm was detected by an X-ray screening machine in what was described by Cooper’s
It’s a well-known fact: NRA’s formidable power comes directly from its committed members and supporters, working on the FrontLines to protect and promote our Second Amendment! There are, however, special, dedicated patriots that go well beyond the call as grassroots warriors: Meet Lisa Bingenheimer of West Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Lisa has served at the very tip
Mar. 12—ST. PAUL — Bids on a project to replace the Drayton Dam on the Red River at Drayton, North Dakota, with a rock-riffle structure that accommodates fish passage and is safer for recreational users opened Wednesday, March 9. Prospective contractors must submit their bids to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ St. Paul office
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday signed a constitutional carry bill into law that allows permitless concealed carry in the Yellowhammer State. Alabama House Bill 272, also known as the Constitutional Carry Bill, eliminates certain restrictions on concealed carry of pistols and transporting a handgun in a private vehicle. The bill also established a $5
On Thursday, March 17, the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee is scheduled to consider a pro-safety and hunting measure, House Bill 22-1168. Please contact committee members and ask them to SUPPORT House Bill 22-1168. House Bill 22-1168 allows local education providers, upon entering into an agreement with an individual or entity that offers hunter education courses
Eleven years ago, Gabby Giffords was a popular U.S. Congressman visiting constituents in Arizona when she was shot in the head. Six people died and 19 were injured at the hands of a mentally ill gunman in a parking lot outside Safeway, while Giffords sustained severe brain injuries that left her with aphasia, a condition
The 2022 Florida Legislature is going into an extended session to finish the budget. They are currently scheduled to end at 11:59 pm on Monday, March 14th. Bills that did not pass in the 60-day allotted session are not scheduled to be heard during the extension. We will continue to monitor the 2022 Florida legislative
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On Monday, March 14th, the Joint Committee on the Judiciary will be holding a public hearing at 10:00am, to discuss numerous pro-gun and anti-gun bills. Please contact committee members and ask them to SUPPORT S.B. 388, H.B. 5412, H.B. 5415 and to OPPOSE S.B. 16 and H.B. 5416! Pro-Gun Bills: Senate Bill 388 strengthens the right to
Non-gun owners were predictably less interested in and less likely to use smart guns than their gun-toting fellows, but the results weren’t necessarily black and white either. Nearly half (40%) of non-gun owners said they would feel comfortable firing a smart gun while 46% said they support further development of the technology Advertisement For context,
An Assembly Committee is meeting Monday, March 14 to do what New Jersey politicians do best, pass more gun laws. The world might be turned upside down with record high gas prices, inflation and war, but topping the agenda for Trenton Democrats is yet another gun law. The Garden State has some of the toughest