Last week the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to direct the county attorneys to determine if the county can legally pass additional infringements upon Second Amendment rights, including age discrimination, additional background checks, court orders to suspend Second Amendment rights without due process, and banning arbitrary categories of firearms. The Board approved a similar proposal in 2018,
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Good Tuesday morning. Time again to listen up! Two new Florida Politics podcasts have dropped, and there’s a bit of catching up. After an extended hiatus, “Hunkering Down” returns with a deep dive into the end of the qualifying week — as the 2022 state races start to firm up. Who made it, and who
WASHINGTON — Jeered at the Texas Republican convention for his role in Senate gun talks and drowned out by chants of “No red flags,” Sen. John Cornyn dismissed the booing GOP delegates as a “mob.” That did not go over well with some gun owners. On Monday, one hard-line gun rights group demanded his apology
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For nearly a decade, America’s satirical “The Onion” publication has run a headline that’s come to epitomize the futility many people feel in the wake of yet another US gun massacre. “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” reads the title, which the outlet published on Wednesday for the 21st
The California Legislature continues to fast track firearm related legislation, making bills eligible for floor votes as early as this week. Additionally, the legislature is continuing their underhanded tactics of “gutting and amending” bills. This means they replace the entire text of a bill with new language picking up in the process wherever the bill
Facebook removed a campaign advertisement released by Missouri Senate candidate Eric Greitens that called out “RINOs,” or Republicans in name only. “We are sick and tired of the Republicans in Name Only surrendering to Joe Biden & the radical Left. Order your RINO Hunting Permit today!” Greitens, a Republican, wrote in a Twitter post. The accompanying
AR-15 style rifles are displayed for sale at Firearms Unknown, a gun store in Oceanside. REUTERS/Bing Guan As a student in California my entire life, I have always thought that gun violence was an outside issue that did not pertain to my communities. I believed that our largely Democrat lawmakers, government officials, and the general
As Senate negotiators continue work on fine-tuning concepts for a gun control “framework” announced last week, one issue that has received surprisingly little attention is the potential inclusion of juvenile records in federal firearm background checks. “Who could argue with that?” one might say. “The more records available for review, the better.” The truth, as
Solar energy policy is joining two perennial far-right planks — absolutism on abortion and guns — in Republican Drake Wuertz’s Republican Primary campaign against House District 38 incumbent Rep. David Smith. Wuertz is plugging into a relatively new-rising conservative view on Florida solar energy: that it’s a free enterprise being thwarted by big business utilities that
GRAHAM, N.C. — Members of Congress are working to find an agreement on bipartisan gun reform legislation after a number of deadly mass shootings. Senators wrapped up their in-person negotiations last week without striking a deal because of a few sticking points, such as how to handle red flag provisions, stricter background checks and potential
The Georgia NRA State Conference is this Saturday, June 25th, 2022, in Atlanta—Register Now! Hosted by NRA-ILA, this important meeting in support of the Second Amendment will feature various speakers, including Aurelia Skipwith Giacometto, former Director of U.S. Fish & Wildlife, your Georgia state legislators, and other dynamic speakers, as well as other coalition partners
It seems after every gun massacre we are subjected to National Rifle Association sloganeering: The only answer to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Maybe they should amend that bumper sticker to say … with a bigger gun. When these massacres occur, my question is always this: Where
People wait in line outside to buy supplies at a gun store, in California’s Culver City, in March 2020. | Reuters “To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment… would result in the demolition of society,” warned political economist Karl Polanyi in his book
Four Republican Congressional runoffs in Georgia on June 21 could contribute to swaying the balance of power on Capitol Hill this November. Under Georgia law, the top two candidates advance to a runoff if nobody surpasses 50 percent in the primary election. The June 21 runoffs feature two Donald Trump-endorsed candidates—Vernon Jones in the 10th Congressional
The Assembly Judiciary Committee is scheduled to meet on Wednesday morning to consider five new gun control bills, which Gov. Phil Murphy proudly refers to as gun package 3.0. Wait, what happened to the previous two gun control packages? You mean they didn’t work? Legislative Democrats and the Governor told us how great these bills
Former US President Donald Trump’s heroic effort to seek re-nomination from the Republicans for the 2024 presidential elections seems to be on the razor’s edge as aide after aide has testified as to how he tried to coerce his Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 verdict electing Democrat Joe Biden to the White
By Darrell Ehrlick This commentary, shared by Colorado Newsline on June 20, 2022, originally appeared in the Daily Montanan. No organization should be more excited to support the measure that the Senate is contemplating than the NRA. It’s a bill that is all hype, no substance and won’t affect gun owners, gun safety or the