Gun Rights

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The first major Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate for 2024 told News 8 that Republicans’ primary pledges have left them unable to address serious policy issues. Marc Carmichael, a retired lobbyist who also served two terms in the Indiana House of Representatives, announced earlier this month he will run in 2024

Gov. Newsom showing courage to raise issue Finally, a politician with guts to bring some reality to the table. I, for one, am genuinely thrilled that our governor has taken the steps that should have been taken years ago. The madness of guns being so available to practically everyone without restrictions is abhorrent. Citizens can’t

Like Joe Biden’s ascent to the White House, Donald Trump’s indictment for unlawfully holding classified documents and obstructing justice offers a partial answer to one great question of American politics: can the country’s institutions contain his excesses? The backlash that the indictment has prompted highlights another: what happens when they do? When the Democrat defeated

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Heinrich pushing bill to ban bump stocks Levi Hill/News-Sun U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., has joined a bi-partisan group of lawmakers in submitting a new bill aimed at banning the ownership of bump stocks for firearms. The new bill, which follows both House and Senate bills filed earlier this year to ban assault weapons, aims

The South Carolina 2023 legislative session has informally adjourned without a sine die resolution and has no plans to return this calendar year. Despite the adjournment, both NRA-backed Constitutional Carry bills, S. 109 and H. 3594 are still alive and will be pending on the Senate floor when the legislature returns in January 2024.  As

by Jeff Gross, contributing writer After a severe rash of rainy weather in New England, the good weather arrived. Rain over the weekend dampened many a fishing trip to even a large family get together when a good storm hit in Smithfield. The rain was so heavy in Maine that the chipmunks were running around the

Senate Democrats on Thursday rejected a Republican-led resolution that would have overturned a Biden administration ban on pistol brace stabilizers. The vote effectively stopped a bill that shut down the House floor last week after House Freedom Caucus members brought proceedings to a standstill. What You Need To Know Democrats plan to use gun safety

The Moses Lake Police officer credited with bringing down the suspect in last weekend’s Gorge Amphitheater shooting is also a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging Washington’s new assault weapons ban (HB1240).   Officer Edgar Salazar is one if seven residents in a suit being heard Friday who are seeking to have the assault weapons ban

Social scientists are just beginning to understand who is purchasing firearms and how gun ownership may alter behavior. In 2020, while many communities were under Covid lockdowns, protesters were flooding the streets and economic uncertainty and social isolation were deepening, Americans went on a shopping spree. For firearms. Some 22 million guns were sold that

Yesterday, the House voted 34-14 to pass House Bill 2005, which the Senate previously amended following a deal to end a walkout. It will now go to Governor Tina Kotek’s desk for her consideration. Please click here to contact Gov. Kotek and ask her to VETO HB 2005. House Bill 2005, as passed, restricts private

Democrats clearly want to change Vice President Kamala Harris’ public image from being aloof and present her as someone who would be a champion of the issues that Democratic voters and Democrat-leaning Independents care about. Eighty-six percent of Democrats recently said recently they would support Harris if she became president in the event Joe Biden dies in

Article 0 Comments New You can now listen to Insurance Journal articles! A federal appeals court has temporarily agreed to keep part of New Jersey’s handgun carry law in effect as court proceedings play out. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday granted the state attorney general’s request to keep part of the law

In the Cultural District, near the entrance to the Fort Worth Community Arts Center, a green spherical polyhedron sits covered with messages etched on several of its panels, one of which reads, “About one in four women (24%) will have an abortion by age 45.” Created by Fort Worth’s Sarah Ayala last year, “F**k the

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading anti-vaxxer and son of the slain U.S. senator, is running for president. | Evan Vucci/AP Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of assassinated Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, is leveraging his father’s image and name to score publicity for his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. In the

Better Uses of Money Than Oconee Library Although Clarke County is in dire need of funds, state Rep. Houston Gaines acquires monies for his rich Republican-held counties. See $2.8 million in state funding [for a new library]. I am a reading mentor in Clarke County, and I know the teachers in Clarke County could use

Meanwhile, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is using the awesome power of the state to threaten disinformation researchers with jail if they don’t drop what they’re doing and submit to onerous subpoenas for correspondence and testimony. These demands cost them time and money while elevating them into the crosshairs of rightwing trolls and lone-wolf

After taking a brief pause last week to celebrate one year since the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, a group of gun safety advocates from Connecticut quickly returned to Washington, D.C., to push for more change. They took a moment in West Hartford to acknowledge what they had been fighting for alongside hundreds