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[From the editor: I’m delighted to report that Stephen Halbrook will have a new column here on the blog, Second Amendment Roundup, which will offer a technical focus on recent Second Amendment cases. Halbrook is both a prominent gun rights lawyer and a leading legal scholar: He argued Printz v. United States (the anti-commandeering case) in

President Joe Biden thinks it is unfair that people convicted of simple marijuana possession face lingering consequences for doing something that he says should not be treated as a crime. Biden cited those burdens last October, when he announced a mass pardon of low-level federal marijuana offenders, which he said would help “thousands of people

Dear NRA Member, The General Assembly in Virginia has recently convened, and this session proved we must elect a pro-gun majority in the State Senate this fall, and maintain it in the House of Delegates. Elections are right around the corner, and we want to ensure that NRA members are kept up-to-date on what’s going

An Alabama House legislator has filed a bill that would make it a state crime for an immigrant in the country illegally to possess a firearm. HB 64, sponsored by Rep. Ron Bolton, R-Northport, would make it a Class C felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, for immigrants living in the country

click to enlarge Screen Capture: YouTube / Julie Clark Medina County Republican Party Chairwoman Julie Clark wants to make sure you know she can handle a military-style assault rifle. One South Texas conservative is wasting no time capitalizing on San Antonio Congressman Tony Gonzales’ recent censure by the Republican Party of Texas. With nearly a year

Senate Passed Legislation (SB 428) Encouraging Junk Lawsuits Against the Firearms Industry Over Weekend IT IS CRICIAL THAT YOU CONTACT YOUR STATE SENATORS BEFORE NOON TODAY and urge them to OPPOSE Senate Bill 427 by Sen. Joseph Cervantes (D-Las Cruces), legislation which imposes a 14-day waiting period on firearm purchases. This measure will add nothing to the existing FBI background check process and will only delay your ability to

La-la land: palm trees, swimming pools, movie stars, and hotbed of the “follow- home crime surge,” in which victims in elite commercial and entertainment areas are tracked by criminal gangs to their homes or businesses.    An analysis using publicly-available Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) data concluded that last year, overall crime in the city increased

There are myriad lessons to be learned from how gun owners are treated in other countries. Perhaps the most important one is: We must always be thankful our nation’s Founders had the foresight to recognize the importance of enshrining the protection of our right to arms in the Second Amendment. Afghanistan gives us the most

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A bill that would ban state and local law enforcement, governments and their employees from enforcing federal gun laws or regulations in Kentucky advanced from a Senate committee Thursday morning.  House Bill 153, sponsored by Rep. Josh Bray, R-Mount Vernon, would prevent local law enforcement, employees of public agencies and local governments from assisting or

Sharon Kourous  |  The Monroe News AR-15 lapel pins were worn by several Republican congresspersons during the State of the Union Speech.  Nobody goes around wearing a nuclear bomb mushroom cloud lapel pin. No one puts a pro-chemical weapons sticker on their car or truck. So who wears an AR-15 pin?  Some kinds of murder

Jeronimo Yanez remembered smelling “the odor of burning marijuana” as he approached the white Oldsmobile sedan he had stopped near the intersection of Larpenteur Avenue and Fry Street in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. It was a little after 9 p.m. on a Wednesday in July 2016, and Yanez, who worked for the St. Anthony Police Department,

Virginia lawmakers agree they want to reduce gun violence, despite a divergence in schools of thought about how to get it done. Legislators reviewed a limited number of gun-related bills during this year’s legislative session and most of them succumbed to partisan gridlock. Virginia’s Democrat-controlled Senate passed several bills that later were defeated in the

To hear critics tell it, the Saudi-owned LIV Golf startup is a devious scheme. Instead of being about athletics, they say, the new league is really about shamelessly deploying the likes of Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson in order to make Americans see Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a cheerful golf caddy rather than

On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing and sent House Bills 4138, 4142, and 4143 straight to the floor. The House then voted 56-53 to pass them. These further criminalize private transfers of firearms by expanding Michigan’s permit-to-purchase and registration system to all firearms. The committee once again suppressed opposition by only allowing

Florida’s independent and state colleges say there are additional solutions to the state’s looming nursing shortages that could be undertaken by state legislators. A statewide nursing advisory council formed by Keiser University in July 2022 released its recommendations to increase the state’s nursing workforce and some of the suggestions include child care assistance for nurses,

FARGO — The Fargo Police Department has closed its murder investigation into the May 2022 shooting at a Mexican restaurant, but they’re still trying to determine exactly how the killer got the gun. Malik Lamar Gill, 24, was a convicted felon prohibited from having the semi-automatic 9 mm Ruger pistol he used to fatally shoot