The Legislature has adjourned from its 2021-2022 session. This session, the legislature passed three pro-gun bills that will soon go to Governor Tony Evers for his consideration. Please continue to contact Gov. Evers and ask him to sign Senate Bill 570, Assembly Bill 518 and Assembly Bill 495 into law. Senate Bill 570, sponsored by Senator
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Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont’s proposal to expand Connecticut’s gun control laws received pushback Monday from some opponents who argue it’s a “kneejerk” reaction to combatting crime – a key issue in this year’s election. During a daylong public hearing on Lamont’s bill, numerous gun rights advocates and supportive state legislators argued more needs to be done
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed a bill on Monday that permits residents to carry a concealed firearm without a permit. Senate Bill 215 permits individuals aged 21 or above to carry a concealed gun unless the state or federal law prohibits them from doing so. As per National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, DeWine’s
Today, NRA-ILA filed an amicus curiae (or friend of the court) brief in a case pending before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals concerning how the police may respond when presented with a concealed carry permit. This case began when a Connecticut police officer approached a man who pulled over to fix his phone’s GPS.
It’s a path the supporters of so-called “constitutional carry”—particularly the Second Amendment absolutists of Gun Owners of America as well as the National Rifle Association (NRA)—have been treading state by state for the past 13 years with tremendous success despite the NRA’s recent financial and legal troubles. Even if the court chooses a more narrow ruling, it
This week, the New Hampshire House is expected to hold floor votes on two anti-gun bills. Please act now and urge your State Representative to OPPOSE House Bills 1096 and 1668! House Bill 1096 imposes bans on the open carry of firearms within 100 feet of a polling place. These arbitrary bans are simply anti-gun
Tomorrow, the Senate Committee on State, Veterans, and Military Affairs is scheduled to consider “The Vote Without Fear Act,” House Bill 22-1086. Please contact committee members and respectfully ask them to OPPOSE this unnecessary measure. House Bill 22-1086 “The Vote Without Fear Act” – The title itself is enough to know that sponsors and supporters of
A fanny pack is one way a handgun can be concealed. Gus Chan / The Plain Dealer COLUMBUS, Ohio—Gov. Mike DeWine on Monday signed Republican-backed legislation to allow people in the state to carry a concealed handgun without a permit or training and no longer require them to proactively tell law enforcement during traffic stops
Tomorrow, the Assembly Committee on Public Safety will hear Assembly Bill 1869, to impose excessive penalties for violating California’s law regarding firearm markings. Please contact Members of the Assembly Public Safety Committee and urge them to oppose AB 1869. Assembly Bill 1869 increases penalties for violating California’s law on serializing home-built firearms and buying, disposing, possessing, etc., any firearm
At a legislative hearing last month, something so unusual happened some in the room joked it should go down as an important moment in history: The NRA and gun-control groups agreed a Democratic gun bill was good enough to make it through a Republican committee. “So Jesus is coming any minute,” quipped Del. Nick Freitas,
After extending the session to complete the budget, the Florida 2022 Legislative Session finally adjourned sine die today, March 14. We are glad to report that 2022 was a major disappointment to anti-gun supporters as all gun control bills were defeated. The NRA would like to thank Senate President Wilton Simpson, Speaker of the House
Fairfax, Va. - The NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) applauds Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine for signing Senate Bill 215, NRA-backed legislation that allows law-abiding gun owners to carry a firearm without a permit from the state. “Any right requiring a fee or government permission slip isn’t much of a right at all. That’s why the
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Today, Governor Mike DeWine signed Senate Bill 215 into law. This makes Ohio the 23rd constitutional carry state, and the second to join that group in 2022. Constitutional carry empowers law-abiding citizens who are already otherwise eligible to obtain a carry permit to exercise their right-to-carry without having to go through government red tape and delays. NRA
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
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