Partner News Feeds

The law, pushed through by Republicans two years ago over a governor's veto and objections from law enforcement, allows people to use deadly force to defend themselves any place they have a right to be without having a duty to retreat. The Democrat controlled House voted 189 to 184 earlier in the session in favor of repeal.

Hundreds and hundreds of gun rights supporters filled the steps of the Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday, vowing to keep up their fight over the Second Amendment a week after a gun control proposal lost a critical vote in Congress.

Today, the Colorado House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee considered and passed House Bill 1306 by a 6-5 party line vote.  HB 1306, introduced by state Representative Beth McCann (D-8), will create a task force to review mental health issues as it relates to the possession of firearms.

Today, the Maine House of Representatives passed important Concealed Handgun Permit (CHP) confidentiality legislation, Legislative Document 345, by a 106-40 vote.  This measure will now be sent to the state Senate for consideration.

Last night, the Missouri Senate unanimously approved House Bill 8, a funding measure that transfers to Missouri sheriffs the authority for issuance of Right-to-Carry permit certificates and the permits themselves from the Missouri Department of Revenue (DOR).  As previously reported, there have been several reports that the DOR was collecting and sharing personal documents from individuals receiving a concealed carry endorsement with third parties, including the federal government. 

A safe turkey hunter, like a safe driver, is defensive minded. Below are tips to help you enjoy a safe, successful hunt.

A Guilford High School student says he disagrees with school officials who made him change out of a shirt that has a picture of a gun on it.

A West Virginia teen who was arrested and suspended for wearing a National Rifle Association T-shirt to school returned to class Monday wearing the same shirt that got him into trouble.

The U.S. Senate's rejection last week of tougher gun laws showed how custom and local sensibilities continue to drive the politics of the issue, even in the charged national atmosphere.

Recently, state Representatives Jacqueline Schaffer (R-105) and Justin Burr (R-67) introduced House Bill 937, and they have been working with members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee A on amendments to this critical Right-to-Carry reform bill to ensure that it enhances our right to personal protection.

As previously reported, Charleston Mayor Danny Jones has been actively opposing important firearms preemption legislation throughout this year’s legislative session.  There are now reports that he is pressuring Governor Earl Ray Tomblin (D) to veto Senate Bill 435.

Senate Bill 876, important firearms preemption legislation, has been introduced by state Senator Richard Alloway (R-33).  If passed and enacted into law, this measure would strengthen Pennsylvania’s firearms preemption law to further ensure firearm and ammunition laws are consistent throughout the state.

Recently, some Republican and Democratic Senators have begun to discuss and consider exempting Chicago and Cook County from the “shall-issue” portion of the concealed carry law that a federal court has ordered be adopted by June 9.  Such an exemption would allow Chicago and Cook County authorities to deny a concealed carry permit to an applicant even if that person meets all of the statutory requirements.  The rest of the state, however, would be required under law to grant concealed carry permits to anyone who meets the requirements.

Tomorrow, April 23, the House Commerce and Small Business Committee will hold an important public hearing on Senate Bill 286, a critical omnibus firearms bill.

This Thursday, April 25, the state Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on anti-gun bills that will do nothing but criminalize law-abiding citizens.  This hearing will take place in Room 313 of the Statehouse after the Senate session concludes for the day.  If you are able to attend, please make every effort to join a strong showing of gun owners at the state Capitol for this committee hearing.  Contact members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and urge them to oppose all attacks on our Second Amendment rights.   

No decision was reached last week by the conference committee tasked with reconciling the House and Senate versions of Senate Bill 69 after the Senate rejected House amendments (previously reported here).

With a bill imminent for the governor to sign which will narrow the definition of an assault weapon and require more stringent background checks, gun shop owners are experiencing high sales and waiting for what could happen to their shops come October.

As Democratic legislators search for a path forward, however, gun advocacy groups are zeroing in on the next phase of their campaign: Getting the gun bill "no" votes voted out of office in 2014.

A walk in the woods challenges a soldier’s rights

Congress has decisively rejected the politics of cynicism and exploitation, the use of Newtown as a political opportunity to crack down on law-abiding gun owners. Congress has rejected the malicious demonization of the National Rifle Association and Second Amendment supporters. Attempts to teach civil society that continued resistance to Obamaism is futile, so everyone might as well begin negotiating terms of surrender, have failed. Today is a good day to begin what should have begun on December 15, 2012: the search for genuine reforms that could help prevent another Newtown.