Concealed Rights

In what’s seen as a blow to gun rights activists, a U.S. District Court judge said Washington state’s new assault weapons ban will move forward. A lawsuit challenged House Bill 1240, but Court Judge Robert Bryan ruled in favor of Attorney General Bob Ferguson as the case failed to show “enough possible irreparable harm.” “Considering

Former Vice President Mike Pence is an official Republican 2024 presidential candidate, setting up a showdown with his old boss former President Donald Trump. Pence jumped into the race to challenge Trump for the nomination with a campaign speech in Des Moines, Iowa, home to the GOP first-in-the-nation caucuses and a crucial early nominating state.

Last night, the Alabama Legislature adjourned sine die from its 2023 legislative session. This session saw scheduled hearings for a few anti-gun bills, but the NRA, along with our members and Second Amendment supporters, was successful in making sure these bills did not progress in the legislative process and were defeated this session. NRA will

Our readers share their opinions on a variety of topics Letter writers  |  Fort Myers News-Press Affordable housing in Collier My sincere thanks to Collier Commissioner Dan Kowal (District 4) who made the following comment in a recent interview: “Even in projects that aren’t required to have (affordable housing), we’re asking for it, that’s the

ATLANTA — Within hours of a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Texas lawmakers announced plans to implement a strict voter ID law that was blocked by a federal court. Lawmakers in Alabama said they would press forward with a similar law that was on hold. The ruling

Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears spoke out Tuesday after a high school graduation ceremony in Richmond ended in a shooting that killed two people, injured others, and left one suspect facing murder charges, remarking, “This is not about law-abiding gun owners, this is about gangs.”  “The people that I represent are not safe. They’re not

The National Rifle Association on Wednesday moved to intervene in a legal challenge to the pistol brace rule being implemented under the Biden administration by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). The Second Amendment rights organization filed a legal brief in a pending case in Texas to shield NRA members from the

Firearms have been a source of debate in the United States for decades due to the abnormally high amount of gun violence in the country. Recently, the New York Times reported guns surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for American children, with at least 145 mass shootings in 2023, as of April 11. Utah has

Today, the Maine Senate officially killed Legislative Document 1000, which would have established a firearm range safety group within the Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife. This legislation would have been the first step in undermining Maine’s strong range protection laws. Thanks to the strong response of NRA members and Second Amendment supporters, the bill

California’s Unsafe Handgun Act effectively bans the sale of almost all semiautomatic pistols that were designed beginning in 2007, and all such pistols introduced in 2013 and thereafter.  As explained in a previous post, in March, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney of the Central District of California issued a preliminary injunction in Boland v.

Florida’s war on “woke” got the most attention during the last legislative session as GOP lawmakers took on drag queens and diversity initiatives. But several issues that received less attention are still worth noting — including favors lawmakers did for Elon Musk and other private-sector space entrepreneurs who wanted protection from lawsuits and for Major

Dear Texas Senate District 5 NRA Member: The Texas Legislature adjourned last week from its 2023 Regular Session after having passed a number of pro-Second Amendment bills, including House Bill 2837, sponsored by your State Senator, Charles Schwertner.   HB 2837 prohibits financial institutions and credit card companies from requiring licensed gun dealers to use a firearms-specific merchant category code (MCC) to categorize retail gun purchases, rather than using a general merchandise retailer

On Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley went on CNN to appear in another of the network’s now infamous “town halls.” The kind of town hall that promises the sort of kid-glove treatment that can only be delivered by a network in free fall. It was the same town hall at which Haley spent a