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When Portland Mayor Sam Adams recently proposed three new city gun laws and two changes to existing city code, he joined several mayors across the country who are trying to pass gun control laws that state lawmakers would not or could not. Establishing such gun laws is probably a tall order. Firearms advocates are quick to challenge proposals that limit guns, and some already are calling Adams' effort "laughable" and a publicity stunt.

San Francisco, where plastic bags, soda drinks and mishandled recycling cause health hazard panic, the reopening of a totally legit gun store was bound to catch some neighborhood flak. These aren't gangbanger street guns but licensed firearms, complete with background checks and more official limitations than we put on torture. Still, the Northwest Bernal Alliance and three other local groups are urging authorities to deny a permit to High Bridge Arms gun store on Mission Street after a brief closure because its members don't want such a place "near our homes and/or schools."

Canada's police chiefs are conducting a full court press to preserve the long gun registry, the dismantling of which could begin with a vote in Parliament next month. At their annual meeting here in Edmonton last Monday, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) insisted the registry was an invaluable police investigation tool and voted unanimously to recommend its preservation. In doing so, they trotted out the usual canard about how police access the registry 11,000 times a day. No, they don't ... at least they don't do so knowingly or deliberately.

Responding to a grassroots outcry from gun owners, the Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it has denied a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity and other radical groups that had sought to ban the use of lead in ammunition.

Last week, the NRA-backed “Firearms Excise Tax Improvement Act of 2010” (H.R. 5552) was signed into law.

The U.S. Supreme Court says Americans have an individual right to keep and bear arms. The EPA says the bullets for those guns may be banned as an environmental hazard. The endless power grabs by the federal leviathan know no boundaries of law, science or even common sense. The Environmental Protection Agency of Lisa Jackson is seriously considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity, a leading anti hunting group, to ban all traditional lead ammunition under the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) of 1976.

Gun enthusiasts say Davis County commissioners overstepped their bounds this week by enacting a ban on the discharge of firearms on its now populous east bench. "They chose to do something they don't have the authority to do. The state code is clear on that," said Brent Tenney, a Salt Lake County resident who actively fought a concealed carry ban on the University of Utah campus.

Chester City Council passed an ordinance requiring firearm owners to report lost or stolen handguns or face possible fines and/or imprisonment Wednesday.

On August 24, 2010, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in the case of Millender v. County of Los Angeles, et al. (07-55518), affirmed that a search warrant requesting the seizure of "all handguns, rifles or shotguns of any caliber, or any firearms capable of firing ammunition..." was unlawful, when the deputies who sought the warrant were aware that they were searching for one specific firearm. This opinion confirmed the position advocated by the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the California Rifle and Pistol Association (CRPA) Foundation in their amicus (friend of the court) brief filed in support of the Millenders on October 22, 2009.

After the passage of constitutional carry in Arizona, gun ranges and stores have seen a rise in sales.

Seventeen year old home school student Julia Parker, of Merrimack, has grown up learning the importance of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights -- especially the right to bear arms. "Our parents have always tried to give us that love of the Constitution to help us understand so we can be forces for good in our country and in our lives," Parker explained. To prepare for her political science minor at Brigham Young University this fall, Parker was searching around for political conferences when she came across the National Rifle Association's National Youth Education Summit in Washington, D.C., and found it tailor made to her interests and hobbies.

Portland Mayor Sam Adams, a self-described "founding member" of the anti-Second Amendment group Mayors Against Illegal Guns, is circulating a 12-page draft city gun control plan, the likes of which Oregonians haven't seen since the days of former mayor and gun ban advocate Vera Katz.

A new, voluntary gun registration program in the state’s capital concerns a statewide gun rights group. The program is designed to help track down stolen weapons.

Handguns and cigarettes were two hot topics addressed by the Flint City Council on Monday. A split city council voted 7 2 to change a local ordinance so the city law on the carrying of firearms doesn't conflict with the state's open carry law, which allows people to openly carry a handgun in public.

Davis County commissioners unanimously approved an ordinance Tuesday banning the discharge of firearms in the area east of Highway 89 and up to 7,000 feet in elevation.

The gun registry has been a controversial and costly political issue since it was first debated 15 years ago. Global News takes a look at the evolution of the federal government's long gun registry.

Less than a month from now, the heated battle over the nation's long gun registry could come down to the voting decisions of 12 NDP members of Parliament. Will they vote to keep the registry, or to kill it?