Gun reform advocates, frustrated that President Joe Biden has put on the back burner his campaign vow to finally address America’s gun violence epidemic, are calling for the creation of a new top-level office to spearhead the issue. That would be an appropriately high-profile approach to a national crisis that has been allowed to fester
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Dear Texas House District 65 Member: As NRA-ILA reported to you earlier, a dozen new pro-Second Amendment bills take effect TODAY – September 1. Your State Representative, Michelle Beckley, voted against ELEVEN of them. She voted: AGAINST Constitutional Carry; AGAINST allowing victims of abuse aged 18-21 to apply for a License To Carry to protect
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Dear Texas House District 113 Member: As NRA-ILA reported to you earlier, a dozen new pro-Second Amendment bills take effect TODAY – September 1. Your State Representative, Rhetta Bowers, voted against NINE of them. She voted: AGAINST Constitutional Carry; AGAINST allowing victims of abuse aged 18-21 to apply for a License To Carry to protect
Dear Texas House District 135 Member: As NRA-ILA reported to you earlier, a dozen new pro-Second Amendment bills take effect TODAY – September 1. Your State Representative, Jon Rosenthal, voted against NINE of them. He voted: AGAINST Constitutional Carry; AGAINST banning banks with policies that discriminate against the firearms industry from doing business with the State of Texas; AGAINST prohibiting anti-gun politicians from halting
NRA-ILA Texas State Director Tara Mica presented State Rep. Matt Schaefer (R-Tyler) with NRA’s Defender of Freedom Award this week at the Texas Capitol. Rep. Schaefer authored and passed House Bill 1927, the landmark Constitutional Carry bill, during the 87th Regular Session. This is a massive victory for Texas gun owners! Dear Texas House District 6 NRA Member:
NRA-ILA Texas State Director Tara Mica presented State Rep. Cole Hefner with NRA’s Defender of Freedom Award this week at the Texas Capitol. Rep. Hefner authored and passed HB 1500, protecting the operations of firearms manufacturers and retailers during future emergencies or disasters. He also sponsored SB 20, prohibiting hotels in Texas from adopting “no firearms”
NRA-ILA Texas State Director Tara Mica presented State Sen. Brandon Creighton with NRA’s Defender of Freedom Award this week at the Texas Capitol. Sen. Creighton sponsored HB 1500, protecting the operations of firearms manufacturers and retailers during future emergencies or disasters, and was an early and vocal advocate of HB 1927, the landmark Constitutional Carry
NRA-ILA Texas State Director Tara Mica presented State Sen. Charles Schwertner with NRA’s Defender of Freedom Award this week at the Texas Capitol. Sen. Schwertner authored SB 19, legislation prohibiting corporations which discriminate against the firearms industry from obtaining contracts with Texas governmental entities. He also sponsored HB 1927, the historic Constitutional Carry bill, in the Senate. Dear Texas
Gabriela Pesqueira When the coronavirus pandemic struck last year, people throughout the developed world raced to buy toilet paper, bottled water, yeast for baking bread, and other basic necessities. Americans also stocked up on guns. They bought more than 23 million firearms in 2020, up 65 percent from 2019. First-time gun purchases were notably high.
Let’s start with the obvious: “Basket of deplorables” is a weird turn of phrase. There are baskets and there are deplorable people, but pairing the two is the oddest of linguistic odd couples. Hillary Clinton said those three words in the final months of her 2016 presidential campaign, making rhetorical and political history. There were
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! After this giant mess in Afghanistan – what’s the response from the White House? Boy did we screw up! But look how we fixed it! Talk about fixed: this is a mess so screwed up it will have reverberations for many years. Which means, the person responsible
On May 11, 2021, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Harlin Hale of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a decision dismissing the Chapter 11 case of the National Rifle Association and certain of its affiliates. The high-profile New York-based non-profit sought bankruptcy protection in Texas on Jan. 15, 2021 and immediately faced
Governor Roy Cooper, who is no friend to the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, also ignores the recommendations of law-enforcement. Today, he vetoed House Bill 398, NC Sheriffs’ Association-backed legislation to repeal the pistol permit in favor of the federal NICS background check. This is the second piece of pro-Second Amendment legislation Gov. Cooper
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Former Indian River County Hospital District TrusteeTracey Zudans wants to follow in her husband’s previous footsteps. Zudans, wife of former Mayor Val Zudans, is among three candidates who has have filed to run for the Vero Beach City Council. Two seats, currently held by Vice Mayor Rey Neville and Dick Winger, are up for
Sport shooters and hunters have seen ammunition prices skyrocket over the last year, and it’s about to get worse thanks to the Biden administration’s recent actions. The White House’s newly-announced sanctions against Russian firearms and ammunition manufacturers are part of the U.S. response to the poisoning and imprisonment of Aleksey Navalny, a sharp critic of
Not every Texas school district can mandate masks, judge rules — but some can Aug. 27, 2021 at 6:03 p.m. A court order that temporarily blocked Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates in Texas public schools is set to expire Friday — but a group of school districts made headway in their bid to
As part of the campaign to stigmatize firearms and legitimate firearm owners, gun control advocates and their allies on the left have targeted anything that resembles or is used as a proxy for a gun – partially chewed pop tarts, fingers (a “level 2 lookalike firearm”), Halloween costume props, and ordinary toys. There are more examples than we could possibly list in