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Yesterday, House Bill 533 passed in the Missouri House of Representatives by an overwhelming 126-25 vote.  Sponsored by state Representative Jeannie Riddle (R-49), HB 533 would protect the right of a state employee to store a firearm in his or her private vehicle on state property as long as the vehicle is locked and the firearm is not visible.

Pro-gun legislation that would prohibit government-sponsored destruction of seized or surrendered firearms will be voted on next week by the Arizona Senate.  House Bill 2455, introduced by state Representative Brenda Barton (R-6), is an important pro-gun reform and your state Senator needs to hear from you TODAY that you support this much-needed improvement in the Grand Canyon State.

Next Wednesday, April 17, the House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice will have its first hearing this legislative session at 9:30 am in House Committee Room 6 of the Capitol Building in Baton Rouge.  This Committee will consider a host of firearm legislation, including three egregious anti-gun bills.  Please contact members of the House Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice TODAY and urge them to OPPOSE House Bill 4, House Bill 141 and House Bill 366.

House Bill 24, common sense self-defense reform legislation, passed in the state Senate yesterday by a 15-4 vote after receiving overwhelming approval by the House of Representatives in a 29-4 vote last month.  HB 24 now goes to Governor Sean Parnell (R) for his consideration.  Please call and e-mail Governor Parnell today and respectfully urge him to sign HB 24 into law.

On March 22, Governor Gary Herbert (R) vetoed House Bill 76, sponsored by state Representative John Mathis (R-55).   Your immediate help is needed to save this important right to carry reform bill that received overwhelming approval in the state House by a 51 to 18 vote on March 1 and in the state Senate by a 22 to 7 vote on March 13.  Legislative leadership has set April 19 as the deadline for your state lawmakers to decide whether or not they will vote to override the Governor’s veto of HB 76. 

House Bill 35, legislation to criminalize private transfers of firearms, has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee and is scheduled to be heard next Wednesday.  However, HB 35 has ALREADY been placed on the Senate floor agenda for next Thursday.  Even before the committee hearing, anti-gun legislators hoping to force their agenda through the state Senate are treating passage of HB 35 as a foregone conclusion.  Call your state Senator and Senate Judiciary Committee members to express your outrage that Delaware’s legislative process is not being respected and being compromised.  

On April 11, by a vote of 68-31, the U.S. Senate voted to move forward with debate and votes on a variety of gun control proposals. 

This week, PoliceOne.com released the results of an extensive online survey of about 15,000 active and retired law enforcement officers of all ranks and from departments ranging in size from less than 25 to more than 1,000.

On Saturday night, millions of NASCAR fans will tune in to Fox to watch the NRA 500 NASCAR race.  NASCAR fans are a natural audience to support NRA's message of safety, responsibility, and freedom and we are proud to sponsor this fantastic sporting event.

This week's outrage comes to us from the state of Connecticut--the "Constitution State"--where   a father says his son's middle school curriculum is teaching that Americans don't have the right to bear arms.

A day after the Senate voted to begin debate on new gun control measures, the Supreme Court is expected to consider a new appeal aimed at loosening state restrictions on firearms. The justices are meeting in private Friday to discuss adding new cases for the term that begins in the fall. Among them is an appeal of a federal court ruling that upheld New York’s strict licensing scheme for carrying concealed weapons in public.

The Senate's dramatic filibuster-busting vote Thursday to move forward on a gun-safety bill is being cast as a historic breakthrough, testing the strength of the gun lobby and opening a door to the first major gun-control law since 1994. But it's just the first step in what could be a weeks-long saga fraught with procedural battles and subject to a barrage of amendments from both sides.

Two days after a knife-wielding attacker wounded more than a dozen people on a Texas college campus, a state House panel voted to allow concealed handgun license holders to carry weapons into college buildings and classrooms.

Gun rights activists showed up in force Thursday at the State House to support a bill that would overturn a 96-year-old Maine requirement for people to obtain a permit if they want to carry a concealed weapon.

Today, important progress was made in the Tennessee General Assembly in order to protect the privacy of all Handgun Carry Permit (HCP) holders when the state House concurred with the state Senate’s technical amendment to House Bill 9.  This critical confidentiality protection legislation now goes to Governor Bill Haslam for approval.  Please contact Governor Haslam today and ask him to sign House Bill 9 into law.

Yesterday, House Bill 3822, introduced by state Representative Mike Pitts (R-14), was reported in the House Judiciary Committee's General Laws Subcommittee.  H 3822 seeks to make several reforms to the current Concealed Weapons Permit (CWP) system.  

Today, the West Virginia House of Delegates approved the amended version of Senate Bill 435, sponsored by state Senator Herb Snyder (D-16), by a 95-3 vote.  As amended, SB 435 requires Charleston and three other cities that currently have and enforce local gun control ordinances to be consistent and uniform with the rest of the state.  This is a step in the right direction to eliminate the remaining patchwork of misguided firearms laws that are unfortunately still on the books in certain localities.

Today (April 11), by a vote of 68-31, the U.S. Senate voted to move forward with debate and votes on a variety of gun control proposals. The underlying bill that will be considered by the Senate is S. 649, the so-called “Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013”.  This bill would criminalize the private transfer of firearms by law-abiding citizens, requiring friends, neighbors and many family members to get government permission to exercise a fundamental right or face prosecution. 

Many anti-gun bills are scheduled to be heard in committee next Monday and Tuesday.  Call AND e-mail your state legislators urging them to OPPOSE the bills listed below.  Remind them that a criminal by definition does not obey or respect the law and any legislation infringing on gun owners will do nothing to affect criminals or their access to and misuse of firearms.  Instead, urge them to focus on meaningful legislation relating to school safety, mental health issues, marketing of violence as entertainment for our children and the collapse of federal prosecutions of violent criminals.  

Gun control efforts in Congress cleared a significant hurdle Wednesday as the Senate prepared to open what could be a weekslong debate, even as opponents plotted a shift in strategy aimed at undermining a comprehensive package of legislation.